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- November 14
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- Resident Evil Village harkened back to Resident Evil 4, but what about Resident Evil Requiem? 'Resident Evil 2', says producer
- Players flood back to co-op survival RPG Enshrouded as the new 'Wake of the Water' update gets everyone wet
- The Witcher 3 didn't originally make you choose between romancing Yennefer or Triss: 'This decision was made pretty late'
- Even the developers of Steam fave Deep Rock Galactic feel the heat from this year's popular multiplayer games: 'Competition is fierce'
- This Rust 'Blood Club' lures an entire server inside before pulling the literal floor out from under the party and exploding
- November 13
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- As Krafton evolves into an 'AI-first company', the boss of the recently acquired Last Epoch studio says he doesn't think the 'doom and gloom' is warranted
- Alien: Earth renewed for Season 2, which is a great opportunity to make up for the disappointing end of Season 1
- 'Do people even go to the main menu anymore in their games?' The Outer Worlds 2's player-roasting main menu was almost sunk by console gamer habits
- For the third time this year, Crystal Dynamics is making layoffs: Nearly 30 people are being put out of work 'to optimize the continued development of our flagship Tomb Raider game'
- Russia unveils humanoid robot to the Rocky theme and it immediately faceplants on-stage: 'At first there was a moment of silence'
- Rockstar is now under pressure from UK Parliament as protests grow and 220 employees demand fired workers be reinstated
- World of Warcraft director 'doesn't expect blind faith' in its plans to unshackle the MMO from popular combat mods: 'We take none of this lightly'
- A short history of John Romero wishing Sandy Petersen well before nuking his Doom tweets from orbit with ruthless precision
- One of our favorite 4X games is holding an extra-long free weekend starting today
- Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading
- Embark stealthily nerfs Arc Raiders skill everyone was using to farm legendary loot: 'We’re exploring the possibility of adding a skill reset mechanic'
- The Turnip Boy devs just announced a sudden left turn into horny territory: A dungeon crawler where you 'rizz up' monster girls
- Krafton launches voluntary resignation program weeks after declaring its 'AI-first company' future
- FPS ship battler Wildgate has struggled to find players on Steam since launch, but its next update could give it a second chance
- Fallout Season 2's latest trailer includes New Vegas easter eggs like Dinky the T-Rex and the enigmatic head honcho, Mr House
- AMD's FSR 4 Redstone Ray Regeneration update finally arrives in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which is better late than never
- New Arc Raiders patch makes crafting cheaper, Arcs scarier—and fixes one of the worst PvP issues
- The best store-brand Breath of the Wild-like on PC is free to keep this month, as long as you can stomach Ubisoft Connect
- Deep Rock Galactic's roguelite spin-off is delayed, but in the meantime it's getting another season of new stuff including a 'tomb-like' biome
- Bethesda is 'actively investigating' the Fallout 4 problems that Bethesda caused with its latest Fallout 4 update
- Task Manager can no longer become immortal after the most recent Windows update and I'm unreasonably sad about it
- Nell's Diner is the best Phasmophobia has ever looked, setting up Tanglewood for a promising rework: 'We're gonna make sure we do it justice'
- Godzilla is stomping his way into the world of tabletop RPGs, with a new game from three legendary Warhammer designers
- If you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that 'may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access'
- AMD's graphics driver discovered making 'hundreds' of SSD writes for every mouse move, but it probably isn't actually a problem
- Dbrand has teased a render of a Portal companion cube Steam Machine case, so you can... put a case around your case?
- Sony says Marathon will still release by March 2026, pinky promise, and 'as needed, we will make corrections'
- Someone needs to take my wallet away because Once Upon a Katamari has revealed its first two DLC's and one is launching this month
- Arc Raiders devs just made the Stella Montis community event harder after players donated way more than expected: 'We had no idea all of you would be so altruistic'
- Here are the nominees for PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted Powered by Xbox Game Pass
- Someone has to challenge Meta for the VR throne and I really hope Valve has the guts to with its new Steam Frame
- Valve says a next-gen Steam Deck 2 still isn't possible, two years after it last said exactly the same thing
- There is no stopping Hideo Kojima: Yet another Death Stranding adaptation has been announced, before either of the existing two have been released
- Silent Hill f just became way easier as a new patch adds casual difficulty, sped up NG+ runs, and reduces forced combat areas
- Apple's $230 iPhone-carrying 'sock' looks like something you could buy from an Etsy seller for $20, and it's already splitting the room like a busted seam
- Valve recommends sharing your game library on microSD card between Steam Deck, Steam Frame, and Steam Machine: 'They're fully interoperable, just bring it along with you'
- Horizon: Steel Frontiers is an MMO based on the PlayStation series, and it's coming to PC and mobile (but not PS5)
- Looks like it's Tencent's turn to start turning off the money faucet for Western studios, as Bloodhunt developer Sharkmob says layoffs are coming
- November 12
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- Over half of Arc Raiders players on Steam have barely engaged with PvP, and 19% have never even killed another player
- Rockstar faces legal action from UK union after firing more than 30 employees last week: 'We are confident that what we’ve seen here is plain and simple union busting'
- 'If I see this skin, I shoot first': Arc Raiders players insist anyone wearing this 'sweaty' outfit cannot be trusted
- Mark your calendars: World of Warcraft will finally have player housing after 21 years when The War Within's final patch arrives next month
- Steam Machine will start shipping to Australia on the same day as the rest of the world, marking a brave new era for Valve
- Valve on viral marketing and leaks: 'Everybody assumes we have some sort of like grand plan... and it's literally just somebody fat fingering something'
- RuneScape fans have spoken: 'Treasure Hunter' microtransactions will be scrapped in January as 'part of a wider transformation across Jagex'
- Foveated streaming is the genius tech behind Valve's Steam Frame and its seamless wireless gaming performance
- Phil Spencer reminds everyone that Xbox is 'one of the largest publishers on Steam' as he congratulates Valve on its new hardware with all the enthusiasm of a man paying his taxes
- Valve is all over Arm: SteamOS launching for Arm alongside the Steam Frame, new FEX translation layer for x86 and Arm, and Arm games are coming to Steam
- How gyro support was added to the new Steam Controller is a 'typical Valve story' involving a passionate employee moving desks
- Valve believes its new Steam Machine could open up a whole new world of SteamOS desktops: 'Put it on, say, something that's running an RX 9070 XT, you would be good to go'
- Valve wants you to know that the Steam Frame is not the Index 2: 'we're trying to do something new with this'
- Sorry PC gamers, Valve isn't announcing Half-Life 3 today
- Responding to problems in a live-service game is like having a 'big clock,' says Battlefield 6 director: 'You measure and value your time to the player' so they know you're paying attention
- Valve's new Steam Machine is a SteamOS-powered mini PC over six times faster than a Steam Deck
- Valve announces the Steam Controller and it's genuinely good: 'we knew we needed to make this controller'
- Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller
- Valve announces the Steam Frame: 'a new way to play your entire Steam library'
- CD Projekt Red was considered the 'ugly child' of CD Projekt as a whole before the first Witcher became a hit: 'They will never earn any money here'
- SanDisk has launched the world's teeny-tiniest 1 TB USB-C drive, which looks to be one sneeze away from total oblivion
- Today I learned that the curvy lithography masks used by TSMC to make next-gen GPUs are 'alien', 'psychedelic' and look nothing like chip circuits
- SoftBank just sold its entire $5.83 billion stake in Nvidia but I'm sure it'll all feed back into Team Green's pockets before long
- 'We would rather cut off our own arms': Demonschool developers dispute Nexon CEO's claim that 'every game company is now using AI' in response to Arc Raiders backlash
- Bloodlines 2 just got a new roadmap with Christmas-themed goodies, as well things that probably should have been there from the start like an FOV slider and motion blur toggle
- Someone's finally making a spiritual successor to Bully, but I wish it wasn't inspired by some of the worst comedies ever made
- I've never been so happy to be wrong: Marvel Rivals has turned Gambit into a Strategist that's focused on utility rather than just healing
- WhatsApp is reportedly becoming a dreaded web app again on Windows 11, with RAM usage increasing to a claimed 2 GB under the weight of all your spicy group chats
- I've never been as excited by a social media website as much as I am by this solo dev's 'cyber-vibe text-only' site that is 'how the internet was supposed to be'
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is 'weeks away from completing animation' as the Italian plumber prepares to shoot into space next April
- A multiplayer wuxia RPG releasing this week has a whopping 10 million pre-registrations, and it might just fill that hole in your heart where a new MMO ought to be
- This new Mac Pro-inspired motherboard standard banishes all power cables for a single connector rated at over 2,000 W
- Far-right Polish politician tries to score points by addressing GTA 6's delay in parliament: 'This is a huge scandal'
- Arc Raiders has been testing duo matchmaking, cosmetics are getting their prices slashed, refunds are being doled out and more free raider decks are on their way
- Embark is about to drop a new Arc Raiders map, but first we have to unlock it together in a Helldivers 2-style community event
- You can slot a Switch 2 into this CRT-equipped retro console like a games cartridge, which sounds like the most satisfying use of a Nintendo product ever
- Former Bungie director thinks the term extraction shooter is 'so dumb' that he wanted to work with Marathon's marketing team to 'create a different genre name'
- This Minecraft mod lets you command Steve to do whatever you want, which means no more strip mining or wood gathering ever again
- InKonbini, the third-person Japanese convenience store sim, changed my perspective on customer service, and you can join me stacking shelves in the free demo
- An Arc Raiders player crawled for 15 minutes to an extraction while downed, all thanks to the best game-clutching MK3 augment
- AMD confirms next-gen Zen 6 CPUs to launch in 2026 and 'Medusa' APUs to launch in 2027
- Monster Hunter Wilds' first Elder Dragon is finally landing in December along with some much-needed optimisation focused on reducing the game's ridiculous load on our poor CPUs
- Sony's new 'PlayStation' gaming monitor is a relatively unexciting 27-inch 1440p model but it does have a DualSense charging hook
- Coffee Talk will open the doors to its next instalment on March 5, taking us to the series' most exciting location yet
- You can farm Arc Raiders' toughest robot with just a single blue grenade for easy endgame gear and 50,000 XP each time
- During Microsoft's peak-anti piracy era in the early 2000s, it awkwardly got caught shipping Windows XP with audio files made using pirated software
- November 11
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- FromSoft has finally plundered its work from 2012 to put the best Dark Souls boss in Elden Ring Nightreign
- For the first time since 2012, we're getting a new Silent Hill, Fatal Frame and Resident Evil within a 6 month window
- Elden Ring Nightreign DLC is hot dropping with new bosses and characters right before the end of the year
- Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI voice debate with an imaginary scenario predicting 'infinite, context-sensitive, personality-reflecting dialog based on and tuned by human voice actors'
- 'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting
- Marvel Rivals is adding a 'non-combat map' where players can 'hang out, dance, watch videos, read books, and let your imagination run wild'
- Keep up to date with the PC memory and SSD supply crisis as we track prices and the latest news
- Welp, says Sony, sure looks like buying Bungie didn't work out
- Arc Raiders sells 4 million copies, making it 'the most successful global launch in Nexon's history'
- CD Projekt 'hacked time and space' to cast Charles Dance in The Witcher 3, because they needed an announcement before the countdown on their website reached zero
- As Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's latest DLC launches, Warhorse reveals its grand plan for the future: 'We want to establish ourselves as the new kings of RPGs'
- We've reached unprecedented levels of cooked: The Mega Gengar Pokémon TCG is selling for $800 even though it doesn't actually exist yet
- Creative is on an absolute tear right now with its value gaming speakers, hogging fully half our top recommendations
- 'Every game company is now using AI': Nexon's CEO defends the use of generative AI in game development in the wake of Arc Raiders' controversy
- Flash storage has doubled in price over the last few months, says Phison: 'All the capacity is sold out'
- CD Projekt was worried people wouldn't really 'get' dark fantasy as a concept, and then Game of Thrones became the biggest franchise on Earth
- Phasmophobia's latest update introduces a spooky diner, bringing the game one step closer to its 1.0 launch
- Minecraft's Mounts of Mayhem update will include Netherite horse armor, which still won't convince me to take my noble steed to the Nether but is a nice touch
- 'No one truly knows what kind of game will succeed': Former PlayStation boss says that bigger companies should 'invest in smaller, experimental projects' to promote creativity
- I've been playing Arc Raiders for over a week and just discovered you can ride the Arcs
- Firefox is rolling out new privacy features to stop sites from giving you a hidden digital ID by fingerprinting your system
- 'We want skate to be great': Full Circle is handing out condolence rewards to players affected by game-breaking bugs, but still hasn't actually fixed them
- CD Projekt Red just bagged one of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's lead designers for The Witcher 4 and suddenly I'm far more interested in Ciri's upcoming adventure
- CD Projekt's co-CEO says The Witcher 2's momentous midgame choice was an 'experiment' and now regards it as a 'waste of resources'
- Hideo Kojima outdoes himself once again with an IRL Death Stranding exoskeleton that claims to make your steps 50% more powerful and costs thousands of dollars
- CD Projekt struggled to sell partners on The Witcher 3 because its gameplay was 'pretty standard' and they didn't believe it could combine storytelling with a cinematic open world
- CD Projekt joint CEO Adam Badowski made everyone's life miserable when he pointed out if the The Witcher 3 had water, they had to add swimming and create completely new underwater locations
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is bringing back some iconic maps from Black Ops 2 for Endgame: 'You might even find a little piece of Hazard'
- You need to lug back 1,195 items in Arc Raiders to level up everything, so good luck finding space for it all
- Ex-PlayStation boss reckons 'growing confidence' of Korean developers 'owe something to Stellar Blade's influence'
- Bandai Namco leads the way in game and entertainment patents in Japan, taking the crown from Sony Interactive Entertainment
- A Japanese retailer is now restricting PC memory purchases, so is it time to properly panic?
- Fallout 4's Creations Bundle stumbles from the Vault to Mostly Negative reviews, as players lament the pack 'does not work' and 'made the game buggier'
- I've found another great loot spot in Arc Raiders—all you have to do is look up
- Frankenstein's monster actor Jacob Elordi passed the time in the SFX seat by whipping out a custom-shell Steam Deck
- Arc Raiders players crack its 'movement tech' wide open by mastering the ledge grab
- November 10
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- Tavern Keeper's item design tool is so good one player made a tabletop D&D set where you can actually read the stats on the character sheets
- Fully recovered from a messy year, Path of Exile 2's next update is still on track to fix its most glaring issues and, if we're lucky, debut a new class
- Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post
- Silksong's disastrous Chinese translation has received an official fan-made overhaul, and it's just been pushed live on PC with Patch 4
- Diablo 4 devs refuse to hint at the next expansion but urge fans to watch The Game Awards this year: 'Everyone should be watching it'
- Battlefield 6's worst bugs are finally getting the boot this week: Say goodbye to drone hammer flight and unstoppable lock-on missiles
- Arc Raiders surpassed 700,000 concurrent players across all platforms this weekend, and you better believe that most of them were on PC
- The Metal Gear resurgence continues with a Hayter-voiced Naked Snake coming to Delta Force
- A new Baldur's Gate 3 mod restores cut dialogue where Withers gets gently bullied by a child
- A Dispatch sequel is a whole lot more likely now that Dispatch season 1 is such a big hit: 'We're going to have to at least think about season 2 now'
- Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim kicks off Steam Animal Fest by announcing a winter release date and full mod support alongside a warm demo that's available to play now
- Grand Theft Auto 5 has now sold an incredible 220 million copies, with roughly 20 million in the last year alone
- PC gaming's best free multiplayer shooter continues to be preposterously generous, with its latest update adding 50 new maps, custom music and more: 'We definitely want Straftat to live as long as possible'
- Intel is suing an ex-employee of 11 years alleging the engineer downloaded nearly 18,000 files, many of which being top secret or confidential
- Modder builds Windows 98 handheld gaming PC with Intel Pentium inside
- A few Redditors faked the recent Ryzen 7 9700X3D benchmark leaks and explain 'why you can't trust online bench databases'
- Todd Howard says that Fallout 4's cinematic dialogue system 'really did not resonate' with players, even though Bethesda 'spent forever' working on it
- 'He was scared s***less': Baldur's Gate director was so panicked after playing Final Fantasy 7 that it changed the entire shape of Baldur's Gate 2 (and nearly every RPG since)
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is 'Still a long ways off' says Todd Howard, but the slyboots says the Oblivion shadowdrop was 'A test run' and a select few have already played it
- Modder hero makes GTA 5 NPCs commit insurance fraud, ends up getting taken to court where he has to play 'Shag, marry, avoid' for his freedom
- Only in Arc Raiders could you find players kind enough to reverse extraction camp: 'Any violence brought to my extraction point will be met with severe force'
- 'The unimaginable has happened'—Dune: Awakening's player count drops below Funcom's other survival game released eight years ago, as engagement with Arrakis dries up
- Xpeng CEO demonstrates the company's latest sashaying robot is in fact not a person in a morph suit by cutting off its flesh live on-stage
- Planning for REPO's next update is underway, but the developer is taking a break for the time being: 'Frankly, my brain is a bit mushy'
- At a company sports day, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang acknowledges 'without TSMC, there is no Nvidia today' and says thank you to the 'pride of the world' company
- Leaked PlayStation store files suggest that Sony could be exploring cross-buy between PC and PS5
- Larian publishing director says Steam is dominant because 'It isn't providing a s*** service defined by public shareholder KPIs,' but concedes 'A post-Gabe world is a terrifying one'
- Unsurprisingly, players have already found a way to use parts of Peak's newest biome to fire themselves into the stratosphere
- This bright spark built a 90 KB Minecraft server and got it running on a Wi-Fi-equipped lightbulb
- Arc Raiders is taking over Steam with a new all-time concurrent player high of 462,488, surpassing Helldivers 2
- November 9
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- I've already been getting my hopes up for The Expanse game from RPG factory Owlcat, and its main theme just skewered my Mass Effect-loving lizard brain
- This mad lad got Battlefield 6 to run on a 12-year-old AMD CPU, circumventing its stated anti-cheat requirements
- Before Titan Quest 2 gets a permanent price hike, you can grab the rare singleplayer-friendly Diablo-like on sale
- Mick Gordon is asking 'how heavy can we get it?' in his first full game soundtrack since Doom Eternal: 'I'm really exploring the extremes of distortion with this project'
- Microsoft Flight Simulator isn't just for nerdy dads anymore: Boeing will start using its tech to train actual pilots
- The best playable game documentary on Steam is getting a Namco-centric DLC this week, including the worst version of Pac-Man
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, one of the PC's best spaceship strategy games, 'will no longer be available for purchase on any platform' as of next week
- No Man's Sky is rerunning all of its expeditions from 2025, while also giving players another chance to add Mass Effect's Normandy to their spaceship collection
- Terminator 2D: No Fate has been pushed back a second time, as its publisher scrambles to assemble physical copies after tariff-induced shipping woes: 'We are sincerely sorry for the repeated delays'
- Rust doubles down on its 'controversial' meta changes by wiping everyone's crafting blueprints to 'bring back that sense of discovery', and it might become a regular thing
- This point-and-click horror adventure where you play a boy with a lightbulb for a head is currently free to keep on Steam
- Fresh from Space Marine 2, Titus gets promoted to captain in a slick animation that blesses an ad for toy soldiers with all the gravitas of a new Dune movie
- November 8
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- Stalker dev GSC Game World DMCA'd a Stalker-inspired indie off Steam, and the devs are crying foul: 'This is an abuse of power against small independent developers by a large corporation'
- FromSoftware's parent company let it slip that we'll get Elden Ring Nightreign DLC by March at the latest
- To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub
- Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor'
- Arc Raiders briefly overtakes Battlefield 6's concurrent player count on Steam as it proves to be one of the hottest PC games this fall
- NetEase racks up its third studio casualty in one week, kneecapping dev working on a Warhammer MMO: 'Devastated doesn't even begin to cover it'
- The weirdest FPS of the decade just got a free, standalone PvP mode that's a blast if you can keep your lunch down
- After Helldivers 2 stole its thunder, Starship Troopers: Extermination is now cribbing from Arrowhead's worksheet by adding airstrikes in its next update
- The roguelike's unstoppable conquest of gaming continues with Age of Empires 4's latest DLC, and players declare the invasion successful: 'It may be my new favourite way to play'
- Underrated avian action adventure The Falconeer just got a free remaster that overhauls 'literally everything' about it: 'I hope and pray this remaster shows the dedication I have for my games'
- 'Roblox must do more to protect kids from sick and twisted freaks,' Texas attorney general says as he sues Roblox 'for putting pixel pedophiles and profits' ahead of safety
- OG Fallout artist Leonard Boyarsky says The Outer Worlds 2 almost had its own 'old school Obsidian' evil ending, but it took too much effort for too little payoff: 'I love making these types of games, but it is very stressful'
- My new favorite deep Windows lore: Microsoft once broke its Bluetooth driver code by sticking a ® symbol in the name of its own mouse
- November 7
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- Steam's wider store pages are now live, and Valve says it tested them on 'a tiny old iPod' to make sure they'd still work on narrower screens
- Halo Infinite is entering maintenance mode: 'With multiple Halo titles in development, we'll need our whole team's combined focus'
- The Mass Effect TV series will 'explore a brand-new story within the universe’s timeline,' BioWare exec says: 'It won’t be a retread of Commander Shepard's story'
- A new Arc Raiders update just fixed a bug where an otherwise underwhelming item could glitch you through walls, so I guess it's back to being underwhelming
- Mass Effect boss Mike Gamble slips a hidden message into his N7 Day update, asks fans to stop yelling at him for not sharing more info about the new game
- Attention parents of Roblox kids: I regret to inform you they are making a Grow a Garden movie
- World of Warcraft: Legion Remix players discover infinite power farm that's so broken it's lagging the servers
- Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix's push to replace QA workers with AI: 'The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check'
- One techie has built a camera out of an old Logitech gaming mouse, and it's inspired by the Game Boy Camera
- 'Once gamers try it, they won’t want to go back': The curse of wonky high-FOV graphics may be a thing of the past with this single plugin
- Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been delayed again, and it no longer has a clear release window: 'The team is working hard to create something truly special'
- Palworld community manager points to a new problem with GTA 6's delay: 'Expect to see many games swerve to avoid the 2027 awards season'
- There's a bug in Arc Raiders that's causing the sound to drop out for some players—here's how to fix it
- Take-Two's big boss Strauss Zelnick says it got the 'perfect result' from slimmed-down mob tale Mafia: The Old Country, so I'd brace for more games like that if I were you
- 23 years later, Morrowind on controller and Steam Deck just got a million times better: The latest version of OpenMW is out now
- Windows 'really does suck for some people': Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer explains how he would fix the popular OS
- 'This is cool and everything, but don't do it.' Sage advice for anyone hoping to copy the success of one Redditor's attempt at using Nvidia's $4,000 DGX Spark AI box to play Cyberpunk 2077
- If you think 2025 couldn't get worse, Collins Dictionary awards 'vibe coding' the word of the year
- CD Projekt Red tells Rockstar not to make the same mistake it did—posts a self-burn over Cyberpunk 2077's historically bad launch to support GTA 6's delay
- Arc Raiders players are finally revolting over expensive skin prices: 'How are you gonna just shrug at $25 skin bundles in a $40 game?'
- PC repair shop discovers Corsair is selling Intel 14th Gen gaming rigs without all of the instability and voltage fixes, and there's no way around the problem
- OpenAI's Sam Altman is not looking for government rescue if things go bad: 'Taxpayers should not bail out companies that make bad business decisions'
- Arc Raiders clears up the mystery of Trials, explaining the challenges are unfortunately harder than they first appear: 'Here's the 101'
- The objectively 13th best game you can play right now is free to play until November 10, so you're officially out of excuses buddy
- Borderlands 4's sales were 'a little softer than we would've liked' due to PC performance issues, says Take-Two CEO, but he's confident it'll have a long tail
- A rumour that Nvidia will cancel the RTX 50 Super cards because of RAM is almost certainly nonsense but everything won't be fine, either
- Creative Assembly has revealed unique mechanics for the armies in Total War: Warhammer 3's Tides of Torment DLC, and their unit rosters too
- Don't sleep on the new solarpunk colony sim from devs behind Firewatch, Mini Motorways, Gone Home and more
- Despite another big delay, Devolver is still hell-bent on releasing a game on the same day as Grand Theft Auto 6: 'you can't escape us'
- November 6
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- Well, PC gamers, time to make peace with the fact that we probably won't be playing GTA 6 until, like, 2028 unless we cave in and buy the console version
- Blizzard's reason for adding premium currency to World of Warcraft after 21 years of doing just fine without one has everyone worried about player housing
- It took a staggering 28 days, but DICE has finally disabled the bugged lock-on missile that broke Battlefield 6
- Take-Two boss says 'we've never regretted' delaying a game following the Grand Theft Auto 6 pushback, says other studios might have better luck if they did the same thing once in a while
- I just learned that before the internet, 'online' actually meant 'offline' and it's turned my world upside down
- Square Enix aims to have AI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027, which seems like it'd be hard to achieve without laying off most of your QA workers
- Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed to November 2026: 'These extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve'
- Things are so bad for Payday 3 at this point, even Crime Boss: Rockay City is making fun of it
- NetEase closes a fifth Western studio: Just two years after it was founded, Bad Brain Game Studios will shut down for good next week
- Netflix is reportedly turning the best cooking game, Overcooked, into a reality competition, and if it doesn't get Nicole Byer from Nailed It! to host, I will riot
- 'I briefly burst into tears': After 11 years of work, the dev of this fantasy sim is 'elated and grateful' to reach Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam only 3 days after launch
- Is this puny Arm-powered PC with a desktop graphics card slot a glimpse of the future of gaming?
- The age of beige is back! SilverStone's new case is a glorious nod to PCs of the 1980s and 90s
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser wanted to kill Niko Bellic at the end of GTA 4, and only stayed his hand because the studio was 'Full of fear' and the game didn't quite work with it
- No more hiding the impact of AI: The US government is looking to force companies to report how many folks have been fired because of artificial intelligence
- I'm sorry to break the bad news, but you need to gather a truly massive amount of items and hundreds more in donations before you can reset your skill tree in Arc Raiders
- Ubisoft CEO claims it just stopped feeding the trolls when it came to Assassin's Creed: Shadows, which 'very quickly eliminated the fights, which were just fake fights'
- PewDiePie creates an AI council, appoints himself supreme leader, and wipes out members who underperform—only for his 'councillors' to collude against him
- Arc Raiders' latest update will finally add the best and most terrifying map condition: 'Prepare yourself for the weekend'
- This bizarre but apparently usable RTX 5080 skateboard mod is kinda cool but surely if you wanted a mobile GPU there's a better way
- 'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting
- Rockstar co-founder says he's 'less scared than a lot of people' of AI: 'If you use it to try and substitute for creativity, it's going to be really generic'
- WoW's game director says they don't want combat AddOns to do anything the base UI doesn't: 'The overarching goal of the changes in Midnight is to level the playing field'
- Peak's new update added a ridiculously powerful enemy which was swiftly nerfed after being labelled 'too much of a constant run-ender'
- Great, now even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google, as it documents new phase of 'AI abuse'
- You can watch RAM prices going up almost in real-time on Amazon and it's only likely to get worse
- Marvel Rivals subtly teases the arrival of two X-Men in the background image of the latest patch notes
- In a true nightmare scenario, this anticipated indie has been delayed only hours before launch for a 'boring and frustrating' reason
- Ball x Pit just got a Bug x Fix and all the icons in the encyclopedia are full-color now
- Rockstar says the employees it fired were leaking information, but it's not going to escape union busting accusations that easily
- November 5
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- Jennifer Hale did not see KOTOR's twist coming: 'Knights of the Old Republic really showed me the level of writing, storytelling, and surprise that was possible in games'
- Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98's infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never happen again
- Battlefield 6 lead producer comes back from vacation and immediately addresses a storm of feedback: 'Need to go action on a bunch of this now'
- Battlefield 6 players says they got banned from Steam forums for sharing a config tweak that lets PC players disable crossplay, and yes, PC players can disable crossplay
- Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted patch brings back the dynamic audio so many players were missing from the original game
- 'You can have the loot. My reward is justice': Arc Raiders players are appointing themselves Topside Sheriffs to dispense vigilante vengeance on raiders who don't play nice
- Sorry, Fallout fans, but Obsidian isn't really interested in making New Vegas 2: After years of working on other people's games, the studio is finding 'joy' in doing its own thing
- Discord is preparing to sell you skins for your favorite games now that it's monetized just about everything else it can
- 6 years after the original, Planet Zoo 2 is finally happening and may be out next year
- An extremely distracting horse forced Koei Tecmo to crop a game's box art before release, artist says: 'People's eyes were drawn to the horse rather than the character'
- One of the biggest streamers on Twitch is trying to take Asmongold and Emiru to court over defamation claims
- Veteran game developer Scott Miller explains why it took 3D Realms so long to get PC gaming's most ambitious but ultimately flawed sci-fi FPS game over the line: 'Let's just put all our eggs into the Duke Nukem basket'
- OneXPlayer's new OneXFly Apex uber handheld gaming PC starts at a ridiculous $1,599 when powered by AMD's top Strix Halo APU and goes all the way to $2,299
- Our national nightmare is over: Battlefield 6 challenges just got 100 times easier
- Now we've had Doom in space, it seems that data centers and even chip foundries might be next in line to orbit the Earth
- Counter-Strike 2 has a fancy new feature that makes demo playbacks 'match the player's original experience much more closely'
- This week, Blizzcon 2026 tickets go on sale almost a year in advance—so what exactly is Blizzard going to bring?
- Revenge of the Savage Planet director isn't happy with the sequel's revenue, despite it bringing in millions of players on Xbox Game Pass: 'If you give stuff for free, what you've done is told people not to pay for it'
- 'I was single and miserable': Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser admits that his life in New York is why GTA 4's story was so dark
- Rockstar co-founder moved to New York to help create GTA, in part, because he got chased by a guy with a machete: 'I thought—this is not good—and I ran off'
- That guy from The Big Short movie who correctly predicted the World Financial Crisis has just placed a billion-dollar bet against Nvidia (and AI specialist Palantir)
- YouTuber salvages 500 disposable vapes to not only power his gaming PC, but take his entire house and workshop off-grid
- Most of Arc Raiders' Mobility skills don't work how you think they do, so I guess it's time to start building your Expedition caravan to respec
- Amazon threatens legal action against Perplexity over claims of 'illegal conduct' and it's all because of an AI shopping agent
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance lead says Obsidian should use its Microsoft fortune to make games more like Kingdom Come: Deliverance—'Give me something more than... level grinding in a static scripted world'
- This new leaked AMD Strix Halo variant could be the ultimate chip for handheld gaming PCs
- Football Manager 26 launches straight into a relegation battle as Steam reviews plummet to Mostly Negative: 'Been playing since 1993 and this is the worst one'
- Raising a digital digit to Nvidia, China reportedly set to ban foreign-made AI chips from state-funded data centers
- Electronics researchers have developed a new way to stack transistors in a die, to keep Moore's law alive for as long as possible
- EA's bug-blasting mission in The Sims 4 continues, with its latest patch preventing Sims from WooHoo-ing in broken steam rooms and rampaging werewolves from getting distracted by Tiktok
- Bethesda just can't help itself: It's gearing up to break some Fallout 4 mods one last time for the road—but at least it's just the main menu ones this time
- AMD posts record profits but it's not just all about endless chips for generating AI slop, gaming CPU and GPU sales are booming, too
- Final Fantasy 14's voice actor for beloved catboy G'raha Tia gets crowned sexiest man alive, entirely vindicating my taste in fictional men
- Warhammer's ridiculous new Christmas merch lets you dedicate your tree to the Chaos gods with a set of evil baubles
- Minecraft's DLC crossovers never fail to impress me, and the new Dragon Ball Z collab changes the experience entirely
- Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer says 'SD cards are lame!' and opts to rescue a 200 lb 14-inch magnetic disc drive from the '80s with just 622 MB of storage
- Apple's new web store looks all spiffy, but its devs forgot to do something kinda important: Disable the sourcemaps
- Tiny PS5 build reduces size of original console by 60%, making it look like a mini PC while slashing its power draw and temps too
- MindsEye loses its free-roam mode, gains a dodge roll, and rebrands itself as 'Powered by Arcadia' whatever that means
- 'In a true RPG, you need to think about what is happening': RPGs have been coddling us, says Outer Worlds 2 director, who's glad to see games like Baldur's Gate 3 let players make mistakes
- Blizzard doesn't intend to rework Diablo 4 over and over again, but it also doesn't want to leave behind 'stuff that no one wants or cares about'
- November 4
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- If you don't already own XCOM 2 or Midnight Suns for some reason, they're part of a big Firaxis Steam sale right now along with a bunch of other strategy greats
- Finally! The Steam Deck can now download games in a new 'display-off, low-power' mode before automatically going to sleep
- Telltale-style adventures are back: Dispatch has sold more than a million copies in 10 days
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says there's a reason the Grand Theft Auto games are always set in US cities: 'Guns'
- Bend fire and lightning with Avatar's Azula in Magic: The Gathering
- My favorite genre of Arc Raiders videos so far is people discovering why Leapers are called that
- Balatro's new merch is just as unhinged as we've come to expect
- Director Paul WS Anderson says you can blame Metal Gear Solid for the Monster Hunter movie, because juxtaposing machine guns and monsters is simply 'great imagery'
- One of the studios NetEase killed earlier this year is back from the dead as an 'independent production company,' but its original boss is nowhere to be seen
- World of Warcraft director says it's not getting easier in Midnight because it's coming to consoles: 'There's no reason for us to hide anything about this'
- I think I've found the best early loot spot in Arc Raiders and nobody seems to know about it
- Lord of the Rings Online player accurately recreates Frodo's journey to Mount Doom in 10-hour YouTube video: 'When I saw how perfectly the game followed Tolkien's imagination, I decided to do it properly'
- 'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is
- Study says only 72% of game developers reckon that Steam has a monopoly on PC games, and even with some big caveats, it makes me wonder what the other 28% are thinking
- Japan's biggest publishing house and one of the world's largest manga producers takes aim at OpenAI, accusing it of 'trampling on the dignity of artists'
- Give it up for the MCHOSE Ace 68 Turbo, the world's first 16 kHz keyboard and surely the last word in technological overkill
- If Microsoft can't source enough electricity to power all the AI GPUs it has, you have to wonder how Amazon is going to cope in its new $38 billion deal with OpenAI
- Toasty CPU? This microwave PC build demonstrates that you ain't seen nothing yet
- Approximately 2,555 days after a 'day one' giveaway, people are finally receiving copies of a game they won 7 years ago
- British MPs are comparing one another to Cliff Bleszinski's dead live-service FPS LawBreakers to score points as videogame debate comes to UK Parliament
- Civilization 7's latest update brings a sweeping balance pass and a broadside of naval mechanics, while Firaxis offers Blackbeard for free as a 'special thanks' to players
- 'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'
- I've been playing with the 'world's first' glasses-free 3D handheld PC and my early impressions are that the $1,500 Abxylute 3D One is absolutely huge, annoyingly clunky and a little bit silly
- 'Gamers deserve clarity': UK Parliament debates videogame ownership while also beating the dead horse named Concord
- The 25th anniversary of the ISS operationally in orbit reminded me the ESA once challenged an Assassin's Creed and Far Cry dev to get DOOM running on a satellite
- EA pinky promises to 'maintain creative control' in its post-buyout era, but the list of 'cultural values' it plans to keep doesn't mean much at all
- I was fighting my inventory more than enemies in Arc Raiders until I discovered the magic space-saving button
- Stellar Blade studio swears it wasn't doing anti-small-penis 'hate speech' in art that had men in a tizz, and promises it won't ever 'tolerate' it in future
- Dwarf Fortress' Siege Update is out now, renewing Bay 12 Games' quest to create a simulation more complex than life itself
- This new Warhammer roguelike from the developer of Boltgun is also the official next game in the Vampire Survivors series
- Windows 'update and shut down' reboot glitch finally fixed, saving tiny gaming laptop batteries everywhere
- Creepers have no power over you now, someone has made a mod which forces them to ask you for permission before they explode
- Ayaneo is teasing a 'mobile phone truly made for gamers' and I hope it keeps its promises
- Technology IP firm files lawsuits against AMD for 'its extensive and unauthorized use of our semiconductor portfolio,' citing the move as a 'business highlight'
- 2025's best survival game just got a huge update that adds an ultra-hard mode and one of the community's most requested features
- I was baffled when I found out Minecraft's most popular Marketplace mod just adds owls—but now I've tried it, I can't live without it
- The Golden Joystick Awards has published its shortlist of 12 games that could take home its Ultimate Game of the Year trophy, and voting's open now
- Legendary FPS maker John Romero delivers the objectively correct answer when voting for the most satisfying weapon in gaming history: 'I strongly agree, Mr Romero'
- 'One of the chillest communities I’ve ever encountered': Arc Raiders solos are choosing love over war, and it's beautiful
- November 3
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- Arc Raiders studio is returning loot to players who get hosed by cheaters: 'We're committed to building an environment where gameplay is about skill, teamwork, and fun'
- Post-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre's video surveillance was 'Louvre,' and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd
- It sure looks like World of Warcraft is getting its first premium currency after 21 years to monetize player housing in its next expansion
- Sure, there might as well be a 'World Solitaire Championship' and it might as well be hosted by Stephen A. Smith
- Pillars of Eternity's 10-year anniversary turn-based mode will sidestep the biggest issues I was worried it would have, and you can try it this week
- The MMO being led by former WoW designer Greg Street looks to be dead as his studio officially closes after NetEase ends funding: 'While we'd love to make our game, our first priority is to help our developers find employment'
- Redditors painstakingly measure Battlefield maps to prove BF6's biggest battlefield is only the 26th largest map since Battlefield 3
- I'm dying way less in Arc Raiders now that I know how healing actually works
- Arc Raiders gives free money to everyone to say sorry for the weekend server struggles
- Samsung and other memory manufacturers reportedly leave DDR5 buyers hanging as prices expected to surge 30–50% every quarter from the end of 2025 through the first half of 2026
- Trump says that nobody 'other than the United States' should have Nvidia's Blackwell AI chips
- Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't
- Just Cause 5 would be a 'no go' according to the series' creator, as 'extremely few from the original team' remain at Avalanche Studios
- The most dangerous thing in Arc Raiders is a ladder that leads to nowhere: 'My whole squad was wiped'
- After the Saudi-backed EA buyout, OG Sims director says diversity isn't just 'critical,' it's 'existential for the business': 'Love is love and people are people'
- It looks like a NUC, it smells like a NUC, but this is not a NUC: Asus ditches the Intel naming for new AMD-powered mini PC, but restricts its GPU choice
- Lethal Company developer says the freedom afforded by text adventure design is why his latest game took 10 years to make: 'That made it very easy for this project to spiral out of control'
- Windows 11 insiders can now share Bluetooth LE audio over two pairs of headphones, so now you and your bestie can both sob over K-Pop Demon Hunters on the plane
- Saints Row 1's director is pitching a prequel that gets 'back to the roots of what made SR 1 entertaining,' but I mostly want to know what became of the Saints Row 2 PC patch whose developer died
- REPO's monster update has arrived, and it is so much scarier than I thought it would be all because of one beast
- Starfinder: Afterlight snags Red Dead Redemption 2's Roger Clark to voice its narrator, and he's just as Arthur Morgan about it as you'd expect
- Schedule 1's Halloween update arrived two days late because the developer thought he should 'probably play it safe' and test it first
- The MSI Claw handhelds are the first non-Xbox devices to get the Windows Full Screen Experience, with more said to arrive 'in the coming months'
- Lone developer shrinks Windows 7 down to 69 MB, claims 'virtually nothing can run' but that it does actually boot
- As players debate whether to purchase Possessor(s) after Heart Machine lays off staff a week before launch, its creators and publisher respond: 'As a developer who is slated for lay off—please buy this game!'
- Cyberpunk creator says 'Contact me' after Keanu Reeves said he wants to be Johnny Silverhand again, then tries his luck and tells Scarlett Johansson, 'I have roles for you. You can do anything'
- Battlefield 6 is introducing a casual Breakthrough mode 'to create a more relaxed way to play', making it easier to progress and complete challenges
- Our pick for 2024's best tactics game just got a community pack of featured levels—which ignore the dev's difficulty balance goals because 'our community, god bless em, have no such qualms'
- A new biome is coming as an alternative to the Tropics in Peak, but the only downside is you might be attacked by spiders
- November 2
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- 'I've fixed the sun': Heroic modder finally deals with 20-year-old bug in Street Racing Syndicate
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection launches to mixed reviews on Steam
- Loot envy is at an all time high in Path of Exile as lucky players print the rarest items in the game while everyone else sifts through trash
- Arc Raiders players stuck in login queues and long matchmaking times as it blows past its Steam player peak of 330,000
- PSA: Look out sweaty PvPers, Arc Raiders' foliage looks a little different depending on your graphics settings
- Game developers have suddenly become obsessed with eggs for some reason, and you can play two ovoid games for free right now
- That VR Thief game will slip from the shadows in December, and I'm beginning to think it might be good, actually
- Remedy is 'not satisfied' with its Q3 results after FBC: Firebreak's flop, and has 'moved development resources' to other games in production
- 'I sometimes lie in bed thinking about it': Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser explains why open world spy game Agent never worked out
- Doom designer Sandy Petersen alleges former Xbox boss Don Mattrick killed Ensemble Studios and its Halo MMO to protect his personal stock bonus: 'Don started as an EA hatchet man so what would you expect?'
- Reliably good puzzle game-maker Draknek and Friends just released a spooky new game
- November 1
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- Andrzej Sapkowski say these days 'it's so rare' for CD Projekt Red to ask him about Witcher lore
- 'Skinballs,' a Saints Row test NPC that looks like four floating scoops of ice cream, has been preserved as part of a museum collection
- Build and defend your little time-looping castle town in Super Fantasy Kingdom
- Beloved boomer shooter Dusk celebrates coming to Xbox with new 'Dusk Gulch' level riffing on Halo's best multiplayer map
- Beaver-themed city builder Timberborn will leave early access soon, and while there's no specific date yet, you can try out some of its new features right now
- GOG's preservation program now includes Splinter Cell, Resident Evil HD and, er, Spore, while you can also get 95% off XCOM 2 in its Autumn Sale
- This wildly ambitious Bully mod adds online multiplayer, racing minigames and even a rat-based deathmatch, but the modders' demand for lunch money has fans worried about Rockstar's response
- Brendan Greene's open-world survival roguelike hikes into early access later this month, and it'll actually let you save your run through its brutal wilderness
