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February 28
- GTA trilogy remasters get enormous patch with a focus on texture fixes
- World of Tanks studio fires creative director who voiced support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- Euro Truck Simulator studio is 'racing' to release DLC to support Ukrainian charities
- The Steam Deck had some wild prototypes
- Gabe Newell isn't losing sleep over Microsoft and Sony's big acquisition sprees
- Tennis champ Naomi Osaka joins Fortnite as the latest Icon Series skin
- You can finally pause Elden Ring with this simple mod
- Elden Ring's multiplayer servers will briefly go down for maintenance tonight
- Harvest, craft, and avoid 'old-timey diseases' in this medieval city sim from the makers of Grim Dawn
- Hacker group threatens to release bypass of Nvidia's hash rate limiter
- Forza Horizon 5 is adding American and British Sign Language this week
- Elden Ring is even more chock-full of Berserk references than usual for the Souls series
- MiHoYo's spending that Genshin cash on an experimental fusion reactor
- Gabe Newell is playing 'a ton' of Final Fantasy 14 on the Steam Deck
- Gigabyte 500 & 400 series AM4 motherboard BIOS' add support for the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU
- Samsung's Galaxy Book2 Pro is powered by Intel Arc graphics
- The attack on Ukraine is not expected to have a significant impact on global chip supply
- Global tech industry begins halting sales to Russia
- Elden Ring players are celebrating its sublime hitboxes with gifs
February 27
- Konami let the silenthill.com domain expire and some joker bought it
- Gabe Newell seems to be hand-delivering signed Steam Decks
- Valve is fixing Elden Ring's 'heavy stutter' on Steam Deck
- Elden Ring creator feels 'apologetic' to anyone frustrated by his games
- Elden Ring accounts for 4 of the top 5 best-selling games on Steam last week
- Total War: Warhammer 3 data miners find voice file for Chaos Dwarfs
- Robert Pattinson on Tifa vs. Aeris: 'This is how every guy figures out what love is'
- A Game Award trophy that's been missing for four years turned up on eBay
- Nobuo Uematsu explains the vocals added to Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster's opera scene
- Factorio is experimenting with controller support and Steam Deck optimizations
February 26
- Ransomware group claiming responsibility for Nvidia attack is hacked in turn
- New-and-improved Witcher 3 first-person mod includes full combat functionality
- '50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments, says Gabe Newell
February 25
- Discord bans 'anti-vaccination content' and 'misleading' Covid-19 information
- Valve has no plans for a 'Steam Pass,' but would help Microsoft put Game Pass on Steam
- Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama answers questions about his new game, Slitterhead
- An early Elden Ring chest is sending players straight to hell
- DICE disables Battlefield 2042's Russian attack helicopter weekly mission reward
- Here's the official Steam Deck Dock in all its rendered finery
- Fortnite item shop: X-Men's Gambit and Rogue join the battle royale
- Valve 'put as much battery as we possibly could' into the Steam Deck
- Gabe Newell: 'Most of the people talking about metaverse have absolutely no idea what they're talking about'
- Destiny 2 PSA: Stop what you're doing and buy this gun from Xur right now
- Explore the legendary region of Cantha in Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons
- Surprise! Valve is releasing a new game set in the Portal universe
- Intel's promised 'day-0 graphics driver' for Elden Ring is MIA
- This 1440p Asus gaming monitor is £170 off right now
- After 13 years' development, Half-Life mod about a marine assault on Black Mesa launches to rave reviews
- Valve is already planning a Steam Deck 2
- It Takes Two gets crowned Game of the Year at the DICE Awards
- Arma 3 clips masquerading as footage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine amassed more than 110,000 views before being removed
- Epic Games makes hundreds of temp staff full-time workers
- FromSoftware 'constantly working to improve' Elden Ring's performance issues
- Despite critical acclaim, Elden Ring is currently 'mixed' on Steam
- Lost Ark players are reporting large numbers of gold spammers and farming bots
- Elden Ring controller not working? Try this fix
- Adults only horror game Agony Unrated offered at a discount to players whose copies went missing
February 24
- #FuckTheWar: Game studios pledge support for Ukraine as Russian invasion continues
- Elden Ring has already more than doubled Dark Souls 3's peak Twitch viewership
- EA executive says industry leaders who allow toxic workplaces 'must go'
- Elden Ring's day-one patch fixed the worst stuttering issues but some persist
- Knockout City is leaving Electronic Arts behind and going free-to-play
- Elden Ring day one patch notes promises better stability and performance
- The biggest news about Street Fighter 6 is in Ryu's pants
- Elden Ring's Deluxe Edition is a sad little package
- A Steam sale for JRPGs is coming next month
- Stalker studio asks for donations to Ukrainian army, laments 'inhuman cruelty' of Russian invasion
- No GPU, no worries with AMD's Ryzen 5 5600G now under £200
- Lost Ark players from Australia and New Zealand are begging Amazon for Oceania servers
- Watch PC Gamer die over and over in Elden Ring live on Twitch
- EA CEO goes in on FIFA: 'four letters on the front of the box'
- Elden Ring has unlocked on PC
- Get 21 games, including Civilization 6, in the Sid Meier's Ultimate Collection Humble Bundle
- Lots of Lost Ark players are losing out on a 'premium account benefit' they purchased
- That tool that was supposed to unlock the full hash rate of Nvidia LHR cards is actually malware
- Qualcomm reportedly chooses TSMC over Samsung for 3nm chip production
- Nvidia's next generation Ada Lovelace GPUs are rumored to consume scary amounts of power
- Intel Alder Lake comes to lightweight little laptops
- Zotac releases three RTX 3060 Ti's with Ampere GA103 GPUs
February 23
- Stardew Valley mod adds viral kitty stars Jean and Jorts as NPCs
- Tesla wants its cars to be Steam compatible
- Research shows overall GPU shipments increased by less than 1% from last quarter
- Steam Deck email day approaches: Here's how Friday's 'launch' will work
- Elden Ring is already one of the best-reviewed games ever
- Rogue Arm China CEO says failed Nvidia buyout bid 'could be a better path for Arm'
- Dragon Age 4 executive producer has left BioWare
- Elden Ring preloading is live
- Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod set to launch 'by the end of this week'
- QuestCraft makes Minecraft: Java Edition playable on Quest 2
- Join us bounty hunting in Hunt: Showdown with lead designer Dennis Schwarz
- Nier Automata is getting an anime adaptation
- AMD talks about its upcoming 3D V-Cache design at ISSCC
- Skill shortages may further fuel semiconductor shortage
- Nvidia CEO talks Omniverse, metaverse, and autonomous vehicles
- Check out this innovative M.2 screw three-pronged solution
- You can now check your Steam library for Steam Deck compatibility
- House Flipper 2 will bring more zen home renovation in 2023
- Total War: Warhammer 3's first hotfix should arrive this week
February 22
- Call of Duty may be skipping 2023, but Warzone 2 will fill the gap
- The Elden Ring launch trailer is here
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 is coming to PC this year
- Two years later, Fall Guys now has crossplay
- World of Warcraft's last major Shadowlands patch is out today
- Aaryn Flynn's Inflexion studio is now owned by Tencent
- Destiny 2: The Witch Queen patch notes are live
- Just when you thought it was over, Windows 12 rumours surface
- Bethesda is dropping its launcher in favor of a return to Steam
- Here's one last Destiny 2 trailer before The Witch Queen launches
- The next big thing coming to PS VR2: vent
- Square Enix claims Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy has 'undershot' sales expectations
- Ubisoft drops plan to hold Rainbow Six Siege major in United Arab Emirates
- Nvidia's RTX 30-series ethereum mining limiter might've just gone up in smoke (updated)
- Even more Persona bangers have landed on Spotify
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla update adds a new difficulty mode and tweaks stealth
- Yikes, Street Fighter 6's awful new logo looks just like an $80 Adobe stock image
- Euro Truck Simulator 2's next update will put hidden roads on the map when you discover them
- Intel works with MIT to design impressive high resolution image scaling chips
- Intel poaches lead GPU architect from AMD
- Facebook has lost $500 billion since rebranding to Meta
- Gigabyte launches a PCIe 5.0 PSU that's ready for power guzzling next-gen GPUs
- Microsoft initiated Activision purchase just after saying it was 'deeply troubled' by scandal reports
February 21
- Fallout 76 will be invaded by aliens this spring
- Megami Tensei spinoff Soul Hackers 2 is coming to Steam at release
- Steam Next Fest kicks off with more than 600 demos and developer livestreams
- Quake 4 in Quake 2 does exactly what it says on the tin.
- Increasing Lost Ark's EU server capacity is 'not possible,' Amazon says
- Update your motherboard with caution: AMD's latest BIOS is causing trouble for some users
- Elden Ring, latest in an infamously vague RPG series with few definitive answers, warns players about spoilers
- Destiny 2's latest bug was caused by a ship that Bungie can't stop spawning in a rock
- AI gets a free pass for another year as EU and US stall on regulation
- Valve targets dodgy discounts in new rules for Steam game sales
- Street Fighter 6 is coming, with incredibly detailed toes
- Nvidia is set to spend at least $10B to secure its share of limited 5nm chip supply
- Check out this retro Pokemon style demo on this Raspberry Pi Handheld
- Coal fired power station given new lease of life by crypto company
- Windows 11 Pro will soon force you to have a Microsoft account for installation
- OpenSea phishing scam swindled millions in NFTs
- This mod adds a sci-fi city to Skyrim Special Edition
February 20
- Doom Shinobi turns Doom into an acrobatic action game where you're a ninja
- Rainbow Six Siege is getting three new maps in Year Seven
- Tactics RPG Battle Brothers gets a free DLC with dissection and praying
- Final Fantasy 14 won't have NFTs, is getting a graphical upgrade
- Here's a new overview trailer for Elden Ring
February 19
- Dip into hardcore space combat tactics in NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
- Cyberpunk's 1.5 update includes the beginnings of a transmog system
- Henry Cavill spotted at Games Workshop Headquarters
February 18
- Mad Max 2 may have been in development before the pandemic
- Valve is testing native Linux ports for the Steam Deck in addition to Proton
- Call of Duty: Warzone is nerfing cheaters' guns so they can't kill anybody
- At least one Cyberpunk 2077 NPC now sends nudes
- New Intel CEO blames 'a decade of bad decisions and poor execution' for company woes
- Walton Goggins signs up to star in Amazon's Fallout series
- Intel publicly shows off Arc Alchemist GPU running Tomb Raider
- Elden Ring's final class reveal is the Wretch, a 'poor, purposeless sod' with a club
- Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I. is a spoof noir mystery where you play as a cat
- Starfield aims for a 'NASA-punk' visual style
- President Biden wants to know more about cryptocurrencies before creating a digital dollar
- Valheim opens up its new frost caves to the Viking public
- Minesweeper player clears 1500 mines off 'nerve-wracking' board
- Most of the UK games industry is watching planes land in a storm today
- Square Enix promises it'll learn to suplex a train properly for Final Fantasy 6's upcoming remaster
- Skull & Bones still exists, Ubisoft insists
- Google plans privacy change that could once again kick Facebook's business model
- Intel lays out its CPU roadmap to 2024 and beyond
- Don't panic, but DeepMind has trained an AI to control nuclear fusion
- What is Intel's Project Endgame
- EA denies blaming Halo Infinite for Battlefield 2042's problems
- Lost Ark's new servers are now online
February 17
- Paradox accepts finding of independent audit, vows to 'leave no stone unturned'
- Lost Ark is getting a new region to deal with lengthy queues for EU players
- Dead Island 2 might actually be out by early 2023
- Amazon signs deal with studio producing Disco Elysium and Life is Strange shows
- Look out, the Elden Ring leaks have begun
- Cyberpunk 2077's 1.5 patch nerfed the hell out of crits without telling you
- Bungie is finally clamping down on AFK farming in Destiny 2's 'Thrallway'
- Intel's plan to stack an Arc GPU on its Meteor Lake CPUs will form 'a new class of graphics'
- McPixel 3 is a game about saving the day in the stupidest way possible
- Your Halo Infinite rank is probably going to be lowered by a full tier
- Firefox and Chrome plan to lie about their age to not break the internet
- Intel wants a piece of the $1,000 GPU market, targeting the ultra-enthusiast segment with Celestial
- Intel promises to ship more than 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022
- This rather large 38.5-inch 165Hz gaming monitor is down to £390
- Hello Games on No Man's Sky: "We're not done yet by a long shot"
- Female Tekken player says men under 170cm don't have human rights, gets fired
- With RDNA 2 in super thin laptops the Steam Deck isn't your only mobile gaming option
- Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting review bombed on Steam by Chinese players
- AMD's 'fundamental' 6nm Ryzen upgrade promises 'massive increase in yield'
- Various Halo Infinite Forge leaks show it sure looks like Forge mode
- Hell yeah, drag and drop into taskbar is finally in Windows 11
- New Windows 11 Task Manager lets you put greedy programs in eco-jail
- Star Wars: The Old Republic's Legacy of the Sith expansion has gone down like the Holiday Special
- Windows 11 improves windowed gaming experience for cursed gamers who shun fullscreen
- Intel has some grand plans that may shake up the CPU industry as we know it
- Celebrate 20 years of regular AMD driver updates with this new driver update
- Eve Spectrum gaming monitor going glossy due to popular demand
- Check out this PC gaming keyboard with a palm controller
- The Crucial Ballistix memory brand is no more
- This digital book and machine learning helps people with Motor Neurone disease find their voice again
- Nvidia's latest earnings report contains some good news for gamers
- Activision Blizzard lawsuit inches closer to trial with judge's decision to include temp workers
- Nacon acquires Daedalic Entertainment for $60 million
February 16
- Sea of Thieves kicks off its new 'Adventures' live events tomorrow
- Developer cancels crowdfunded MMO and disappears amid fraud allegations
- The Sims 4: My Wedding Stories will be released in Russia after all, 'unaltered and unchanged'
- Sorry, Re-Logic isn't teasing Terraria 2, it's just 'good fun' banter with fans
- No Man's Sky overhauls combat, adds a massive flame-throwing sentinel
- The Cyberpunk 2077 patch finally delivers: there's now an in-game benchmark
- Cyberpunk 2077 quietly drops support for older graphics cards and Windows 7
- With 9 days until release, the Elden Ring subreddit is trying very hard not to die
- The Nvidia-powered Nintendo Switch might be getting an unlikely performance boost from AMD
- Witcher 3 director and Cyberpunk 2077 veterans announce new studio and 'AAA dark fantasy' RPG
- Clever Steam Deck battery saver feature should be ready by early summer
- If Roblox's daily users were a country, it would be bigger than Canada
- Get your PC ready for Elden Ring with Nvidia's new driver
- MSI to omit manuals and papers from its motherboards in environmental gesture
February 15
- Knuckles is getting a TV series, and yes, Idris Elba is Knuckles again
- Baldur's Gate 3 has barbarians now, but Larian expects it won't leave Early Access till 2023
- Destiny 2 players are ruining the final mission of the season for each other by skipping the big cut scene
- These RGB panels let you build 3D light sculptures inside your PC case
- Ubisoft employee group calls out company leadership for failing to address demands
- Netflix is making a BioShock movie
- Discord went down again today, but only very briefly
- Meta dev blog may have accidentally leaked body-tracking support for the Quest 2
- 14 months later I can finally change my nail polish in Cyberpunk 2077
- Valve is partnering with iFixit to sell Steam Deck replacement parts
- Elden Ring reveals the Confessor and Samurai classes
- Find out when Total War: Warhammer 3 unlocks in your time zone
- Assemble a crew and rip off the king in this new Thief-style stealth adventure
- Enormous Cyberpunk 2077 patch tweaks almost everything about it
- Destiny 2: The Witch Queen launch trailer is here
- AMD's targeting 'more than our fair share of capacity' to ease graphics card crisis
- If someone's spamming !!!!! in Lost Ark, they might just be buffing themselves!!!!!
- Elden Ring's system requirements are here and they're beefy
- Save over £300 on this RTX 3060 MSI gaming laptop
- This miniature ethernet cable fad raises so many questions
- Newegg apologises for well-documented customer service fail, says it has enacted better policies
- Intel to seriously step-up chip production with $5.4B foundry acquisition
- AMD's RDNA 2 refresh is on track to launch before June
- Intel's Core i9 12900KS carries a hefty price premium
- Qualcomm looking past Wi-Fi 6E to Wi-Fi 7 for higher throughput and lower latency
- Nvidia is giving away RTX ON keycaps, sadly not actual GPUs
- Alienware's 34 inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is set to cost an entirely reasonable $1,299
- Worldle is Wordle, except for geography
- Star Trek: Bridge Crew has been suddenly delisted
February 14
- Dear Esther: Landmark Edition is free to keep on Steam
- A new report on Roblox reveals how hackers and scammers are continuing to rip off kids
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre game studio says it doesn't want to 'make the same game twice'
- Unofficial Magic: The Gathering NFT project interrupted as WotC summon lawyers
- These T-Rex keycaps look like they would bite off a finger
- Capcom is counting down to a possible Street Fighter 6 announcement
- Wordle, inevitably, has been turned into a battle royale
- UK authorities seize NFTs as part of £1.4M fraud investigation
- Dr. Lisa Su assumes her final form as ultimate head of AMD
- There's actually some good graphics card news for a change: they're getting cheaper
- Surprise! We're getting some Cyberpunk 2077 news tomorrow
- Nvidia could use a more efficient GPU in the RTX 3050 if supply runs dry
- UK retailer Game does edgelord Valentine's ad 'joking' about domestic violence, immediately withdraws it
- Devious malware hosted on Discord pretends to be Windows 11 installer
- Napoleonic shooter Holdfast gets a free total conversion to WWI
- There's a free visual novel based on Magic: The Gathering's new cyberpunk setting
February 13
- Amazon is working on a Blade Runner TV series with Ridley Scott producing
- Dying Light 2's first free DLC is Peacekeeper-themed
- A Babylon's Fall demo will hit Steam after launch in March
- Here's a look at the Harkonnens in Dune: Spice Wars
- Valve bans Cities: Skylines modder accused of hiding malicious code in mods
- NFT marketplace halts transactions due to 'rampant' counterfeiting
- Lost Ark breaks a million players, becomes today's top Steam game by concurrents
February 12
- Final Fantasy 14 has more Deep Dungeons on the way
- This YouTuber turned '90s Hot Wheels and Barbie pre-built PCs into gaming monsters
- Insurance company's VR-related claims rose by 31% in 2021
- Lost Ark rockets onto Steam's all-time concurrent player list after delayed launch
- Dying Light 2 has a hidden Star Wars blueprint that lets you Force Choke fools
- Bobby Kotick's long litigious history includes scraps with employees, contractors, a flight attendant, and a ska band
February 11
- The white Razer Viper Ultimate wireless gaming mouse is back at a solid price
- Ubisoft's latest effort to convince employees that NFTs are good falls flat
- You can now download the CAD files to 3D print your own Steam Deck
- Wordle streak glitch fixed after move to New York Times website
- Lost Ark servers are now online after last minute delays
- Elden Ring system requirements appeared on Steam but were quickly taken down
- Rust is (probably) getting pets
- Elden Ring reveals the Bandit and the Astrologer classes
- XCOM 2 is having a free weekend, and it's super cheap too
- Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is real, and it's developed by Infinity Ward
- Dying Light 2 update aims to free players from infinite deathloops
- This mini PC's solution to chonky graphics cards is both brilliant and ridiculous
- The Chinese roguelite no-one's talking about but everyone is playing
- Best Buy's latest batch of GPUs were behind a $200 paywall and you're right to be mad
- Get hype, the Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster releases later this month
- Lost Ark is limiting new character creation to address long queue times
- Halo composers suing Microsoft for two decades of royalty payments
- Battlefield 3 lead designer speaks on Battlefield 2042, and he's not impressed
- This Blast Corps-channelling wrecking sim looks absolutely smashing
- Nier Automata's new lofi album brings some chill beats to the apocolypse
- The people are revolting over Crusader Kings' most expensive expansion yet
- Unlock Dying Light 2's hidden FSR Ultra Quality for better visuals
- Nintendo hacker Gary Bowser sentenced to 3 years in prison
- Gravity Rush creator wants to see the series on PC
- Total War: Rise of Mordor mod removed after copyright strike
- Disgaea 6 brings more colorful turn-based tactics to PC this summer
- This dungeon crawling take on Wordle is filled with secret rules and treasure
February 10
- Microsoft is watching Activision Blizzard to ensure 'the right people' are in charge when it takes over
- Salt and Sacrifice locks in a May release date
- Twitch tightens up username rules, will now ban references to hard drugs or sex
- World of Warcraft: Eternity's End goes live on February 22
- Dying Light 2 has another way to open locked doors: bash through 'em
- Riot will start eavesdropping on toxic Valorant players to issue bans
- Minecraft's new frogs were briefly swallowing goats whole
- Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds has a new game coming later this year
- Wordle foils naked kidnapper
- Blizzard is selling an all-Golden version of Hearthstone's new mini-set for $70
- Half-Life Decay: Solo Mission restores the series' forgotten campaign, with a twist
- One of the greatest 90s console shooters arrives on PC today
- The Sims 4 wedding expansion won't release in Russia because of anti-gay law
- Celebrate the release of the Mask of the Rose demo with a chance to win $100 in Steam credit
- A gaming laptop was 'light at the end of the tunnel' for child with Crohn's disease
- Staff turn on Team17 in the wake of its calamitous NFT u-turn
- First a geomagnetic storm and now NASA is causing a headache for SpaceX's satellite internet
- We can forget about Ind, Nippon and Khuresh for Total War: Warhammer 3
- A Highland Song looks like the most serene kind of survival game
- The desktop Intel Arc GPUs we really want might not show until Q2
- Dying Light's latest patch means it's safe to turn on DLSS again
- This is the cheapest 1TB NVMe SSD you can buy right now
- Hearthstone streamer Alliestrasza and family cuffed during mid-broadcast swatting
- More people are using AMD CPUs than ever before
- Klonoa 1 and 2 are getting remastered, and they're coming to PC
- Come watch us play the new Apex Legends season on Twitch!
- Toshiba to release 26TB HDDs this year, 30TB to come later
- Contamination leads to the loss of over 6.5 Exabytes of WD and Kioxia 3D NAND
- Asrock adds Ryzen 5000 series support to more of its X370 range
- Portal Companion Collection marks Valve's first foray into Nintendo territory
February 9
- Chrono Cross is being remastered and my heart is full
- Minecraft is experimenting with frogs ahead of the next update
- Elon Musk's SpaceX loses 40 Starlink satellites in one day
- Soviet-era sci-fi shooter Atomic Heart will release near the end of 2022
- It's possible to kill some of Sifu's toughest enemies in a single hit
- Gameplay video of canceled Boba Fett game surfaces after a decade
- Elden Ring's Prisoner class is the weirdest one of the bunch (so far)
- PUBG studio to use NFTs in 'UGC-driven open metaverse,' whatever that means
- The Wolf Among Us 2 trailer takes us back down to Fabletown
- You can now be a wookiee in Fortnite, but not Chewie
- Microsoft tries to pre-empt the regulators by guaranteeing COD will stay on PlayStation
- Esports tries out becoming real sports at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- An Assassin's Creed spinoff game could be out later this year
- It's official: Nvidia is now worth more than Meta
- This Dying Light 2 mod fixes the awkward physics and death animations
- MSI's $2,099 motherboard is out now, but it's as exclusive as it is absurd
- Security exploit will keep Dark Souls PC servers offline until after Elden Ring launch
- This Minecraft replica of Final Fantasy 14's Sharlayan is so good I thought it was an in-game screenshot
- Pokimane re-signs with Twitch and takes a cheeky swipe at Ludwig while doing so
- Take-Two CEO doesn't want GTA 6 to stay stuck in the past
- You're going to want to update your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth drivers today
- Blizzard's hiring for a new entry in an 'established IP'
- Capcom 'resolves' lawsuit over images used in Resident Evil 4
- Nvidia's next generation Lovelace architecture may not differ all that much from Ampere
- Intel creating $1B foundry business to support disruptive tech
- Chrome's new search tool groups your history into categories
- Intel's Optane business is hurtling towards an unglorified end
- Europe sets sights on global semiconductor domination
February 8
- America's Army is finally closing for good
- A blockchain hustler and a cringey rapper have been charged with laundering $4.5B in stolen bitcoin
- This joker makes actively hostile keyboards and has no plans to stop
- Steam is hiccupping as everyone rushes to preload Lost Ark
- Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific season 2 adds poison bombs that bring the circle to you
- Elden Ring's open world 'took a lot more effort' than previous Souls games
- This Asus TUF gaming laptop with an RTX 3060 is surprisingly only £800
- Guild Wars 2's new Jade Bots could be the best feature of the next expansion
- Guy fails to rob a bank while wearing Sonic the Hedgehog's face
- Windows 11 update will suggest ways to make your gaming PC more eco-friendly
- The Large Hadron Collider is sucking in graphics cards at a rapidly increasing rate
- Watch the new 15 minute vidoc for Destiny 2's The Witch Queen expansion now
- PlatinumGames wants to resurrect lost action game Scalebound
- Resident Evil 4 remake needs to improve the story, says Mikami, mainly because we only had a fortnight to write it
- Age of Empires 3's historical battles get co-op support
- The Quest 2 is now the headset of choice for 46% of Steam VR users
- Nvidia calls Arm 'most important CPU architecture of the next decade' as it officially ends buyout bid
- These Epos headsets are over 33% off for Valentines
- An Intel Arc Alchemist card smiles for the camera
- Nvidia driver update could help fix stuttering in Final Fantasy 7 Remake
- Nvidia's upcoming GeForce MX550 mobile GPU struggles to beat AMD Vega integrated graphics
February 7
- Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy is a big sales hit despite being a mess at launch
- This hidden Dying Light 2 blueprint gives you a literal finger gun
- BioShock Infinite's Bread Boy proves game development is a fathomless mystery
- Dying Light 2's dropkick is exactly as overpowered as it should be
- The Steam Deck can drain its battery in 90 minutes if you don't cap your fps
- Tim Sweeney says Epic won't support Fortnite on Steam Deck
- First tests show Steam Deck SD card speed rivals the SSD
- Halo Infinite fans buy nail polish for Halo Infinite skin, get Forza Horizon 5 skin instead
- Bandai Namco's anime brawler Jump Force disappears from Steam today
- One of the best PCIe 4.0 SSDs is now as cheap as a last-gen drive
- Bowser should be put in jail for five years, say the US government
- Intel bug report points finger at AMD for a chunk of GPU vulnerabilities
- Dark Souls roleplaying game makes players respawn at bonfires, just like the video game
- UK politicians want Arm to be listed in London if Nvidia's bid to buy fails
- Hidetaka Miyazaki reveals the Souls boss he's most proud of
- eFootball and PES remove Mason Greenwood following sexual assault allegations
- Google updates Chrome logo after 8 years, still isn't shiny and chrome enough
- Check out what the Hubble space telescope saw on your birthday
- AMD's upcoming RX 6950 XT could boost to 2.5GHz out of the box
- This gadget by ex-Razer designer replaces your gaming keyboard
- AMD engineer confirms RDNA3 multi node GPU designs
- Shortages are hampering Wi-Fi 6E adoption. But wait, here comes Wi-Fi 7
- This ASUS keycap looks like a ROG GPU with spinning fans
- More Dying Light 2 fixes are incoming
- Path of Exile: Siege of the Atlas expansion sets new peak concurrent player record
- 'NFTs are a scam', says indie game marketplace itch.io
- Feel very justified in excessive xenocide with Rogue Invader
- Players of recently launched MMO Mortal Online 2 have been waiting in 24-hour queues
February 6
- It Takes Two has sold 5 million copies
- Left 4 Dead creator on the boom in co-op games: 'There still aren't enough'
- Explore frozen wastes and cozy fixed-camera interiors in indie RPG Mortal Crux
- God of War patch lets you opt out of mouse acceleration
- The Factorio expansion will be as large as the main game
February 5
- Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters has eight classes of tactically murderous space marines
- Ultima Online is still receiving updates as it celebrates its 25th anniversary
- Dying Light 2 has a hidden fully rideable bicycle
February 4
- Humble's newest bundle pays tribute to Starbreeze CEO who died of cancer
- Hideo Kojima has a new podcast, but you may have a hard time listening to it
- BioShock fan film makes living in Rapture seem like a pretty bad time
- Genshin Impact players are losing it over update 2.5's new characters
- Google's next move to keep Stadia alive: license it to anyone with cash
- Meta's solution to VR creepers: a four-foot zone of personal virtual space
- The Sims 4 is having a free weekend to celebrate the series' 22nd anniversary
- Steam will now tell you how much space a game requires before you try to install it
- Square Enix says Final Fantasy 14 is a huge reason behind financial success in 2021
- Ignore the presets in Dying Light 2: everyone should turn on DX12 for a frame rate boost
- Skate 4 may arrive sooner than expected
- Forget stonks, GameStop's all about those NFTs now
- Twitch punishes Minecraft streamer for reporting a fraudulent donation
- It's finally official: Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming
- Come watch us stream Dying Light 2 on the PC Gamer Twitch channel
- EU orders all personal data collected through ad consent pop-ups be deleted
- PC Gamer UK March Issue: Welcome to the PC's new golden age
- Microsoft's Phil Spencer gets a lifetime achievement award, to be presented by Microsoft's Todd Howard
- Nvidia's tiny, bus powered RTX A2000 pro graphics card delivers RTX 3050 level gaming performance
- Microsoft reportedly cans Hololens 3 in direction kerfuffle
- Chrome extension cuts the browser's greedy RAM demands
- The Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti is still missing in action
- If Dying Light 2 is crashing when you start a new game, here's a fix
- Warzone devs revert unpopular change, streamer gets Raven logo tattooed on his butt
- Blizzard is working on a Warcraft mobile game
February 3
- Looks like the next Baldur's Gate 3 update is coming this month
- Infinity Ward is the lead studio on this year's Call of Duty
- Dragon Age's lovable tank Iron Bull is back—as a $160, eight-pound statue
- Ghostwire: Tokyo release date confirmed for March
- Guitar Hero to Guitar Zero: YouTube's best plastic guitarist actually cheated for years
- Sony spent $1.2B to retain key Bungie talent as part of acquisition deal
- Meta Quest store revenue quadrupled in the last three years
- Double Fine head Tim Schafer says its next game won't be a sequel or adaptation
- Star Citizen is reworking its roadmap to avoid 'distractions' caused by unhappy players
- Bungie reveals big changes to Destiny 2 weapon perks and an absurd buff to Exotic primaries
- Battlefield 2042's scoreboard update has been delayed until March
- Absolute legend gets Counter-Strike 'Door stuck!' meme tattooed on his body forever
- RX 6900 XT pushed to an immense 3.3GHz, steals my heart and top spot in Fire Strike hall of fame
- Bruno Mars joins Fortnite, because why not?
- CS:GO's next major is being hosted by PGL, and fans do not like that
- Miners say Nvidia's cryptocurrency limiter hasn't deterred them from buying GPUs: 'LHR was pointless'
- Dying Light 2's day one patch has more than 1,000 fixes
- It seems like Destiny is going to get a movie or TV show in the future
- Puzzle Quest 3 arrives next month to steal all your free time
- Hacker magics $300M worth of crypto out of thin air in fourth largest blockchain heist ever
- AMD rakes in the cash in its latest earnings report
- Experts are warning of a 'quantum apocalypse'
- These EVGA GeForce RTX 30 bundles are great value
- Human reinforced learning could mean 'more truthful and less toxic' AI
February 2
- Red Notice director takes on Dungeon & Dragons TV show
- Stardew Valley's biggest mod is complete, but now it's heading for version 2.0
- The BFG-10000 gaming PC can run Doom because it is Doom
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League reportedly delayed until 2023
- Battlefield 2042 'did not meet expectations,' EA boss says
- Windows 11 update might finally make the new OS worth it for gamers
- This is when Dying Light 2: Stay Human unlocks in your time zone
- AMD could follow up the unloved RX 6500 XT with an even lower spec GPU this May
- Valheim is one year old, and here's a big bug to celebrate
- Intel, AMD, Microsoft and others could be at risk if UEFI flaw is left unpatched
- Folks are 'saving' six years of Wordle before the NYT messes with it
- Saucy Cyberpunk 2077 visual novel released with CDPR's blessing
- Shovel Knight devs' next game is a gothic Link's Awakening
- Destiny 2: The Witch Queen is getting a grenade launcher that yeets worms at your enemies
- A working Intel Larrabee graphics card prototype just sold for $5,000
- AMD confirms RDNA 3 GPUs this year and is spending big to 'to satisfy the demand out there'
- Electronic Arts is having second thoughts about NFTs
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands details the Graveborn and Spore Warden classes
February 1
- Resident Evil 4 HD Project is an impressive fan remaster, and it's out now
- Shadow Warrior 3 confirmed for March 1, with a new voice for Lo Wang
- Team17 cancels NFT plan after one day because of pushback from studios and fans
- Steam reveals 2022 sale dates and discount policy changes
- Modder says Elden Ring may be vulnerable to the same security flaws as Dark Souls
- Techland asks Dying Light 2 fans not to play the game early, please
- Mason Greenwood removed from FIFA 22 following arrest over rape allegation
- Popular Final Fantasy 14 streamer prepares to flee Ukraine over threat of Russian invasion
- Why Henry Cavill likes 'crying all day on set' of The Witcher
- Valve's Steam Deck now comes with AMD FSR upscaling as standard on any game
- Apex Legends says hello to a bigger Olympus and a better Crypto
- Battlefield 2042's first season delayed to focus on addressing player criticism
- Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons release date announced in new trailer
- Discord integration for PlayStation is out which is great for our cross-play pals
- Sony boss says to 'expect more' studio scoop-ups in the future
- Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard to be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission
- Solid Snake is writing an American McGee's Alice TV series
- The elusive GeForce GT 1010 graphics card has been tortured by 3DMark's 4K benchmark
- The world's fastest gaming monitor sports a 500Hz refresh rate
- Bloodborne comes to the PC in the form of a fan demake
- Oscar-hating director of It Takes Two is helping make it into a movie