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March 31
- US Senators call out 'unacceptable' lack of accountability for Bobby Kotick in Microsoft buyout
- Players are finding guns they can't shoot in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
- Hyper Light Drifter follow-up is a gorgeous 3D roguelite with co-op
- Twitch halts paid channel boosts after people pay to get porn on the front page
- E3 2022 is cancelled, but a comeback is planned for 2023
- Overwatch's Anniversary Remix brings back old skins, replaces old events
- This music for 'maximum hacking' is actually pretty chill
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt battle royale launches in April
- Meta hired a GOP firm to talk up the threat of TikTok to America's teens
- PC Gamer UK May Issue: Shell Yeah!
- Vampire Survivors didn't rip-off Castlevania sprites after all
- Paralysed former firefighter beats Elden Ring by blowing into tubes
- I hope Dell brings this speedy multi-networking tech to gaming laptops
- Crush Chaos in Warhammer 40,000: Darktide this September
- Dell's cam-based privacy feature watches you so you don't get watched
- Crypto-hackers have to play 'capture-the-flag in the cloud' to exploit victims' servers
- Elden Ring Tekken 7 mod is too good, director asks players to 'plz stop'
- Dead Cells gets free Break the Bank DLC all about loot, loot, and more loot
- Take an extra 10% off this Asus RTX 3060 gaming laptop, now down to £810
- Happy 100th version update, Google Chrome
- SK Hynix considering consortium to buy Arm
- Windows 11 update to fix DirectX blue screen of death, hopefully
March 30
- This cool hybrid of 4X, RPG and card game is free in GOG's latest giveaway
- Game immediately review bombed on Steam after crypto company buys it
- Devolver 'fully supports' Loop Hero studio as it encourages piracy in sanctioned countries
- Amazon's Fallout series adds Arcane voice actress Ella Purnell
- Vacuum cleaner company makes air-purifying headphones, for real
- Become a sci-fi superhero fighting for corrupt corporate overlords in this new ARPG
- Like a blast from the past, Epic is facing a new Fortnite emote lawsuit
- Chips from broken PlayStation 5 consoles might be showing up in crypto mining rigs
- The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe will mess with your mind in new ways this April
- Intel is promising 1080p gaming, at 60 fps for its low-end Arc 3 laptop graphics cards
- Here's our first look at Intel's Arc A-Series desktop GPU, coming this summer
- Guild Wars 2 bug turns players into ridiculously long cats
- Intel has launched its first wee discrete Arc GPUs, but desktop graphics cards are still a way off
- Tune in here as Intel reveals its new Arc GPUs for gaming laptops
- Activision Blizzard settles one sexual harassment lawsuit for $18M
- Dead by Daylight has fifty million players and now a boardgame adaptation
- Modder improves Intel's Alder Lake stock cooler with a strip of paper
- These new Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti GPUs are absolutely enormous
- Windows 11 is getting lovely useless UI animations
- NASA plans to have boots on Mars in 2040
- Samsung sued over HEVC video codec patents
- Scott Bennie, writer on Interplay's Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Fallout, and others, has died
- 343 Industries spent hundreds of words explaining why Master Chief took his helmet off in the Halo show
- Game developers in Ukraine hope Steam will be able to pay them soon
March 29
- Every time a player pulls this sword from the stone, it gets heavier
- Two weeks after workplace abuse allegations, Funomena may close its doors
- Oops, Elden Ring accidentally made a dog stronger than 11 Radahns
- Call of Duty player tries to prove he isn't cheating, accidentally proves he's cheating
- Crypto thieves rob adorable digital animal game for more than $617M
- Steam Simfest: Hobby Edition offers great deals on games that are like jobs
- Wordle in Minecraft took some wild math to pull off
- Overclocked Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti benchmarked: just 14% faster than Founders RTX 3090. At best
- Fortnite's new no-build mode has neither Fort nor Nite
- Sony reinvents PlayStation Plus, offers PC streaming exclusively at Premium price tier
- China's Fenghua No.1 GPU could rival the Nvidia RTX 3060
- Nvidia's new ultra-enthusiast RTX 3090 Ti graphics card is out now
- Why do Mortal Kombat 3 players still insist on keyboard controls 27 years later?
- Wordle creator says selling to the New York Times was 'a way to walk away'
- Speak friend and this RPi box will reveal its precious treasures
- US removes tariffs on many imported components from China
- Nvidia RTX 4080 / 4090 leaks point to extremely power hungry cards
- In addition to fast load times, Microsoft's DirectStorage can free up your CPU while gaming
March 28
- The Forest sequel delayed until October
- Rain World is getting 5 new Slugcats in surprise Downpour DLC
- Humble's Stand With Ukraine bundle raises more than $20M in just one week
- Bungie slams YouTube for DMCA 'security loophole' and lousy customer service
- Elden Ring 'Terminator' build obliterates other players with non-stop fire
- Terraform a planet in this survival game that looks like Subnautica on Mars
- Warframe's anniversary event offers 5 weeks of free stuff for everyone
- Elden Ring speedrunner slashes world record to 19 minutes, as community split over patches
- You get a whole lot of gaming PC for £860 with this RTX 3060 build
- One Piece is getting a JRPG adaptation this year
- Intel officially enters the discrete GPU game with Arc on Wednesday
- SSD coolers to become new norm as Phison says future drives will run hot
- Why this browser is valued at $1.3 billion
- Asus says it's 'reducing MSRP aggressively' for graphics cards 'across all SKUs'
- Windows 11 update will help your PC prioritise renewable energy
- Epic and Fortnite is now the single biggest corporate donor to Ukraine
- Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky added to US national security blacklist
- Coffee Talk creator Fahmi has died at 32
- Intel and Micron pushing hard for subsidies from the US government
- A Morrowind streamer is making a podcast series and book to celebrate its 20th anniversary
- Wardens turn the recent Minecraft beta into survival horror
March 27
- Politics streamer Destiny receives indefinite ban from Twitch
- Among Us servers taken offline after DDoS attack
- IGDA under fire over botched handling of harassment controversy
- This Week in PC Gaming: Weird West, Abermore and Death Stranding Director's Cut
- Portal 2: Desolation is giving the classic puzzle game a huge graphics overhaul
- Halo TV premiere broke Paramount+ viewer record
- Vampire Survivors will get 9 more characters, 5 new stages, and 16 new weapons before release
March 26
- This Elden Ring player punked an endgame boss with a starting item
- Amazon Games boss Michael Frazzini resigns
- Be the monsters in Slay the Spire fan expansion Downfall, out now
March 25
- The coolest thing I saw at GDC: software that animates anything
- These real-life Halo boots can be yours for $225 and a lot of luck
- Call of Duty: Warzone can't have more maps because install sizes are 'f**king crazy'
- GTA Online is getting a new monthly subscription service, but only on consoles
- Elden Ring's bugged PvP shield spell is mightier than any sword
- Dying Light 2 devs are working on new game difficulties, a photo mode and new game plus
- PlayStation's Game Pass-style service will reportedly be revealed next week
- Elden Ring message system modded into Fallout: New Vegas
- Valheim's new Mistlands concept art has my Spidey-sense tingling
- The Witcher: Ronin manga free preview showcases Geralt's troubles in Japan
- Nvidia's new GPU is so chonk its interconnect is almost the size of an RTX 3090 chip
- Seagate's new hard drives show it's on track to deliver 50TB HDDs by 2026
- Forza Horizon 5 update adds PvP progression system and custom races
- Retro computing museum in Ukraine destroyed by Russian bomb
- Has Nvidia just become the good guy in the whole DLSS vs FSR vs XeSS debate?
- Konami's Crimesight is anime Sherlock meets Clue, and looks kinda great
- Elden Ring speedrunners laugh in the face of a mere patch to their exploits
- From the creators of Bloodborne PSX, comes Bloodborne Kart
- Intel releases the ATX 3.0 power supply spec
- If Activision Blizzard recognizes a union, Microsoft 'will not stand in the way'
March 24
- Latest Microsoft Flight Simulator world update fleshes out Spain, Portugal and more
- Sierra founders tried to make a game with Stephen King 'many times' before creating Phantasmagoria
- The Halo TV show has a cheeky Mass Effect easter egg
- LEGO Bricktales is a kiddy Kerbal Space Program
- The Cub channels Another World in a big way
- Forever Skies is a post-apocalyptic survival game with a blimp as your base
- Fortnite's 'No Building' mode will be made permanent, dataminers say
- The Time I Have Left is a 'time-driven escape adventure' with a lot of style
- Sci-Fi thriller Deliver Us Mars looks bleak, but comes with a robot buddy
- Midnight Ghost Hunt will start haunting computers March 31
- Gun Jam is a rhythm FPS where the note highway is your weapon wheel
- Bungie says last week's Destiny 2 video takedowns were 'fraudulent'
- A new Activision Blizzard sexual misconduct lawsuit calls for Bobby Kotick's termination
- This Windows 1.0 easter egg managed to stay hidden for nearly 37 years
- Skyblivion modders continue to torture us with incredible footage of their progress
- Jamie Lee Curtis will lead her daughter's wedding in World of Warcraft cosplay
- Medieval spaceships battle with swords and axes in this action RPG
- Seven UK teens have been arrested over Lapsus$ hacks on major tech companies
- Hunt: Showdown Traitor's Moon event intros four new guns you can unlock early
- Apex Legends' best mode is coming back next week
- Shinji Mikami wants to make more non-horror games
- FIFA 22 benches Maradona thanks to intractable rights dispute over his likeness
- Thanks to DirectStorage, Forspoken loads in only one second
- AMD doesn't recommend using a GTX 1060 with frame-rate boosting FSR 2.0
- Halo Infinite is introducing ranked requirements to combat cheaters
- Souls dataminer shows why Elden Ring's asset re-use is actually awesome
- AMD FSR 2.0 upscaling is tuned to run faster on RDNA 2-powered graphics cards
- 'Netflix of games' isn't likely, says analyst
- Future Nvidia GPUs could be manufactured by Intel
- AMD's mid range Navi 33 GPU could beat out the 6900 XT
March 23
- GIF creator Stephen Wilhite has died
- One of PC's best new technologies, FidelityFX Super Resolution, is headed to Xbox
- Core Keeper blasts past half a million downloads on Steam
- John Romero recalls the time Sierra almost bought id Software: 'I was dumbfounded'
- Nvidia's next-gen GPUs show up in HWiNFO's release notes
- Co-op castle escape puzzler We Were Here Forever launches in May
- Gnome-lovers rejoice: they'll be playable in Baldur's Gate 3
- League of Legends is getting its first novel
- This Wordle game for movie buffs challenges you to spot the film
- CDPR confirms Witcher medallion is a lynx
- Here's when Tiny Tina's Wonderlands unlocks in your time zone
- Kickstarter CEO quits but claims it has nothing to do with blockchain backlash
- You now get 3 months of Marvel Unlimited with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
- This RTX 3080 powered Asus gaming laptop is £222 off right now
- You can play Far Cry 6 and its Stranger Things crossover for free this weekend
- G2 Esports sues NFT organisation for $5.25 million
- Just when you think you've seen it all: gamer slippers appear
- Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has been delayed to 2023
- Warzone adds famous soldier Snoop Dogg and overhauls Rebirth Island
- New Witcher game's director addresses crunch: 'Never on my watch!'
- Elden Ring patch stops hackers putting players in an infinite death loop
- Noctua 'aims to create' even more absurd graphics cards with Asus
- Massive Apex Legends leak supposedly reveals over two years' worth of new maps and legends
- Microsoft confirms Lapsus$ hackers stole important Bing & Cortana source code
- Nvidia unveils its Hopper data centre architecture
- Zelda: Ocarina of Time fan-made PC port is out now
March 22
- Elden Ring's latest glitch lets the horse take flight
- An alpha version of Steam will be coming to a select number of Chromebooks soon
- Former Mass Effect boss Casey Hudson is working on a new 'triple-A' sci-fi game
- Chess Grandmaster suspended by Twitch for streaming Dr Disrespect playing chess
- Minecraft Preview is the new standalone beta application for Bedrock
- EA's new PGA Tour game is delayed by a full year
- Ubisoft shows off ZooBuilder, a prototype AI designed to animate animals
- This beautiful mountainside city builder has a devastating twist: avalanches
- OBS on Steam makes updating a breeze
- Cyberpunk 2077's latest patch is a bug-squisher, including one wall that instakilled V
- Watch Elden Ring's meanest bosses fight amongst themselves
- This RTX 3070 gaming PC is down to just £1,399 right now
- Valve says it will fulfill remaining Q1 Steam Deck orders just in time
- Ghostwire: Tokyo reveals full system requirements for PCs from low-end to 4K
- Guild Wars 2's number of active players has more than doubled in the last 3 years
- The future of Guild Wars 2: ArenaNet announces return of Season 1, and teases next expansion
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin's luscious hair is ruining the game
- Mod makes Arkham Batman fight like Nolan Batman
- This is the second time a third-party patcher has stepped in to fix the same Windows security issue
- Fortnite raised $36M for Ukraine relief in under 48 hours
- Microsoft will bug Windows 11 users with watermarks if they bypass system requirements
- World of Warcraft's Mage Tower is returning, for good this time
- Starship Troopers: Terran Command gets delayed to June
March 21
- Sierra founders got 'bored' in lockdown so they're making their first new game in more than 20 years
- Sony acquires Jade Raymond's new Haven studio
- CD Projekt says new Unreal Engine 5 Witcher game won't be 'exclusive to one storefront'
- George RR Martin didn't hide his initials in Elden Ring on purpose, apparently
- Fired LoL coach 'literally asked everyone for money' says former pro
- Quest 2's new feature aims to make wireless VR less vomit-inducing
- Unity's 'Enemies' tech demo isn't quite the checkmate it should be
- 'Sputtering' atom-thick copper could give us cheaper PC chips
- A new Witcher game is in development
- How to watch the Future Games Show: Spring Showcase
- Overwatch League doesn't have a single sponsor less than two months before its fifth season
- Auction over Steve Jobs' Atari job application stopped amid disarray
- No seriously, Internet Explorer really is being retired on June 15, warns Microsoft
- Let's hope these sub-MSRP GPUs in Germany are a sign of things to come
- Apple's M1 Ultra absolutely dwarfs your CPU
- Tekken is getting a rad-looking anime adaptation on Netflix
- Your Asus router may require an urgent update to protect against sticky botnet
- There's a Witcher 3 easter egg that takes 7 in-game years to reveal
- Devotion studio's next game looks like Hollow Knight crossed with Sekiro
- Fortnite has turned off building in its default mode
March 20
- A Plague Tale: Innocence is going to be a TV series
- Free-to-play MMO Lord of the Rings Online is getting more generous
- The next Stellaris expansion is Overlord, and it's all about being in charge
- 'There are no plans to reduce the scale of development on Babylon's Fall', says dev team
- No one is safe from Destiny copyright strikes, not even Bungie
- Elden Ring players are already tearing through the game without leveling up
- Epic, Xbox contributing Fortnite proceeds to humanitarian relief in Ukraine
- Revived Skyrim mod lets you explore Morrowind in the Fourth Era
March 19
- Game Pass is on Steam Deck using an Edge browser beta
- Vampire: the Masquerade – Swansong promises a Telltale-style take on the World of Darkness
- PSA: Elden Ring hackers are locking players in infinite death loops
- Here's a look at devilish cowboy tactics in Hard West 2
March 18
- This 50-hit Elden Ring illusory wall is probably a bug
- Humble's Stand With Ukraine bundle raises over $2M in less than a day
- Two reports paint a troubling picture of workplace abuses at acclaimed indie studios
- Leaked Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti pricing shows up at an unbelievable $4,000
- Russian warehouse heist of $38,000 in GPUs ends badly for thieves
- New World 2022 roadmap revealed
- Doomfist is a tank in Overwatch 2, Blizzard confirms
- Overwatch 2 beta officially set for April 26
- Nvidia reportedly tells partners it's lowering manufacturing costs up to 12%
- Big surprise, Apple's new M1 Ultra isn't actually faster than an RTX 3090
- Indie heist sim Monaco is getting a 3D sequel
- Roller Champions, Ubisoft's Rocket League-meets-roller derby game, is delayed again
- AMD is 'evaluating' whether to enable Radeon Super Resolution on older GPUs
- Street Fighter 5 receives 'definitive update' featuring cel-shaded visuals
- Valve addresses Elden Ring's Steam Deck performance issues
- Big changes are coming to Total War: Warhammer 3 in the 1.1 update
- Surprise surprise, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin's PC port kinda sucks
- Itch's massive charity bundle raised over $6.3 million for Ukraine
- AMD confirms the Ryzen 7 5800X3D won't support overclocking
March 17
- Hogwarts Legacy gameplay video confirms a holiday 2022 release window
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone hosts a mini-AMA on Twitter
- Teamgroup announces a liquid cooler that cools your CPU and M.2 drive at the same time
- Amazon Games says it 'made a mistake' with Lost Ark's March update
- Thomas the Tank Engine is in Elden Ring now
- Elden Ring speedrunners won't be stopped by a nerf to their favorite exploit
- Elden Ring dataminer reveals what NPCs are hiding under their masks
- Hearthstone's next expansion will take players on a Voyage to the Sunken City
- McLaren's new Google Chrome wheels make it clear F1 cars need RGB lighting
- This frantic co-op spaceship game mixes the best parts of FTL and Overcooked
- David Gaider's musical RPG appears on Steam with a new title
- Huge Elden Ring update adds new quest phases, NPCs, nerfs, and more
- Fortnite gets Doctor Who's TARDIS and a bundle of themed modes
- The evolved form of my most beloved gaming headset is £45 off
- Netflix's Resident Evil live-action series debuts in July
- Supermassive's next game is a summer camp nightmare starring Scream, Aliens and A Nightmare on Elm Street actors
- Modder drastically cools a blazing hot RTX 3070 Ti using cheap copper shims
- Elden Ring's latest patch is not the fix for stuttering you're looking for
- Fly me to the Mun with these adorable Kerbal Space Program artisan keycaps
- The heart of Google's Stadia tech is now being licensed out
- WrestleQuest turns '80s and '90s WWE into a JRPG starring Macho Man Randy Savage
- Elden Ring players are recreating everyone from Keanu Reeves to Ringo Starr as their Tarnished
- AMD says its upcoming FSR 2.0 upscaler will offer 'similar or better than native image quality'
- Your RDNA GPU just got the power to upscale nearly any game with Radeon Super Resolution
- Save £45 on this Noblechairs Epic gaming chair right now
- Rainbow Six Siege's new Operator could change up the meta forever
- Listen to two devices simultaneously with these wireless earbuds
- Nvidia's Big Accelerator Memory: An SSD for your GPU
March 16
- Sniper Elite 5 targets May release date
- Sam Barlow reveals the first trailer for his new 'interactive movie trilogy'
- Russian esports teams banned from Apex Legends, FIFA, and Rainbow Six Siege pro leagues
- Fortnite leak says Doctor Strange is joining the battle royale
- Calls for Valve to ship Steam Deck in more discreet packaging after apparent thefts
- The first Minecraft 1.19 snapshot adds the Deep Dark biome and frogs
- Wordle Archive taken down at New York Times' request
- XDefiant drops Tom Clancy branding as public testing signups open
- Todd Howard says Starfield is channelling 'older hardcore RPGs'
- There's an annoying catch with AMD's cheapest Zen 3 CPU
- The Sims 4 is giving NPC households the ability to make major decisions
- Games Workshop suspends all Warhammer sales in Russia
- Betrayal at Club Low is another mini immersive sim from The Norwood Suite's Cosmo D
- Study confirms Computer Science as the least popular UK science
- Elden Ring has sold 12M copies in just 3 weeks
- Windows Insider gets shown ad in Explorer but Microsoft says it was a mistake
- Intel's 12th Gen Core i9 12900KS flagship is out in the wild
- Arm to layoff hundreds of employees after the plug was pulled on Nvidia's buyout
- Micron CEO warns the chip shortage is set to continue
- Asus slashes 25% off RTX 30-series in Australia as global GPU prices continue downward trend
- Intel's Project Endgame could be a PC streaming service beyond just gaming
- PC Game Pass gets Weird West and Shredders in March
March 15
- EA isn't doing an E3-style show this year
- Mods transform Sifu into the best Matrix game
- This Minecraft 3D graphing calculator is hypnotic and beautiful
- Dr Disrespect is selling NFT beta access to his game that does not exist yet
- Moonlight in Garland is basically Stardew Valley in a big city
- Hideo Kojima awarded Japan's highest cultural prize
- Monster Hunter Rise's first expansion is arriving this summer
- CS:GO meets Wordle in this gun skin guessing game
- Sebastian Vettel's new F1 simulator puts my ramshackle setup to shame
- Here's everything you need to know about the new Rainbow Six Siege season - Demon Veil
- Future Games Show's Spring Showcase announces hosts and details content
- Square Enix wants to know how to make Babylon's Fall a better game
- Intel's building a new €17B cutting-edge chipmaking fab in Germany
- AMD's fastest ever gaming CPU is launching April 20 for $449
- AMD finally delivers budget Ryzen 5000 and 4000-series CPUs
- Own an X370 or B350 motherboard? You can now upgrade to AMD's best CPUs
- Riot buys a chunk of the animation studio behind breakout hit Arcane
- $1 million clipart rock NFT accidentally sold for less than a cent
- Microsoft introduces its DirectStorage API which promises to reinvent game storage
- First Intel Arc GPUs to launch in laptops this month
- Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs hit by new Spectre vulnerability
- Nvidia to give away 8 RTX 3090s during GTC
March 14
- Elden Ring Deathblight builds are ruining PvP
- Elden Ring gets 'easy mode' mod, another modder makes 'hard mode' mod in protest
- 70% of Elden Ring players have conquered the first tough boss
- Chinese customs arrests man dubbed the 'walking CPU' for smuggling 160 CPUs taped to his body
- China is expanding online gaming limits to include livestreaming and social media
- Elden Ring cheater goes on murderous PvP rampage with hacked spells
- More hate raids strike Twitch as white supremacist takes credit
- Steam's latest hit is a co-op survival game blending Stardew Valley, Terraria, and Valheim
- Major chipmakers could weather neon shortages as result of war in Ukraine for 'two months or more'
- Stalker 2 renamed Heart of Chornobyl to reflect Ukrainian spelling
- China's Silicon Valley is shutting down for a week due to Covid-19 restrictions
- Dark Souls completed by throwing literal crap at bosses
- Star Wars: The Old Republic – Legacy of the Sith's final boss is still broken a month after launch
- Journey, once called Dragon, was almost rated Teen for being too bloody
- Amazon warns Lost Ark players not to 'expend valuable time or resources' on broken Tytalos raid
- $3M worth of AMD graphics cards seized by Chinese authorities
- Elden Ring speedruns are already under the 30 minute mark
- All of Elden Ring's demigods have names from George R.R. Martin's initials
- Splatterpunk horror FPS Golden Light leaves Early Access
March 13
- The next Warframe is Gyre, a ballerina full of electricity
- Warren Spector confirms Otherside last worked on System Shock 3 in 2019, and that 'NFTs are ridiculous'
- Perfect Dark reboot director leaves studio
- Former Division studio head leaves Ubisoft for good
- Here's what it takes to get one of Warhammer 40,000's space marines ready for a fight
- Bots remain one of Lost Ark's top issues
March 12
- Dune: Spice Wars' Smugglers let you use your enemies' strengths against them
- Indie gladiator game faces Steam review backlash over anti-mask patch notes
- Ukrainian esports team Na'Vi says it is 'not going to leave the country'
March 11
- Hunt: Showdown's disappearing dirt man will finally be visible in upcoming patch
- The Gold Box D&D games are coming to Steam
- Roach has nothing on this adorable robot horse that can deploy an aerial drone
- Electronic Arts, Gearbox, and Microsoft speak out against anti-trans directive in Texas
- Dead Space reboot will be out in early 2023
- This immersive Skyrim mod gives bandits 500 more things to say
- Sifu's incredible Batman mod is just the tip of the iceberg
- Ubisoft says 'cyber security incident' last week shows no evidence of data breach
- Final Fantasy 7 remake mod restores Cloud Strife's OG dress
- Six years on, the free DLC keeps coming for tactics RPG Battle Brothers
- Halo games don't run on Steam Deck
- Motherlode of new AMD Ryzen CPUs could be on the way according to retailers
- OperaGX is bringing Logitech LightSync to the browsing experience, because why not
- Humble Bundle pulls sales from Russia and Belarus, will launch a Ukraine support bundle
- Razer launches new streaming hardware including RGB key light
March 10
- Biden orders the government to study cryptocurrency and 'explore' a US digital dollar
- PC Building Simulator 2 promises even more components and a 30-hour career mode
- Lost Ark's March update just added a grand prix race and new skins
- Seagate is selling Star Wars SSDs that look like beskar ingots from The Mandalorian
- DrDisrespect settles his lawsuit with Twitch
- You can now install Windows on the Steam Deck
- Elite Dangerous console development halted so developers can focus on PC
- Ghostwire: Tokyo gameplay shows it's more of a magical brawler than a horror game
- Overwatch 2's first PvP beta kicks off in April, here's how to sign up
- Georgia man jailed after spending $60K of covid disaster relief on a Pokémon card
- Nvidia's one-month GeForce Now RTX 3080 membership could tide you over until GPU prices drop
- PC builder that drew fury of small Twitch streamers shuts down indefinitely
- Atari buys videogame database MobyGames for $1.5 million
- Actual human being beats Elden Ring in under an hour
- The Cowabunga Collection brings back 13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games
- Sony halts all PlayStation sales and blocks store access in Russia
- MSI is recalling MAG CoreLiquid 240R/360R AIO coolers for hitting abnormally high idle temps
- Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti will reportedly launch on March 29th
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R is confirmed for PC
- AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D is reportedly not overclockable
- It's $500 USD more to make Apple's $1,600 monitor height adjustable
- The Dying Light 2 item that makes weapons unbreakable got nerfed, and players want it fixed
March 9
- Bungie stops selling Destiny 2 in Russia, makes a free emblem for the rest of the world
- Exoprimal is Capcom's new 'exofighters versus dinosaurs' online shooter
- Square Enix is making a new strategy RPG, but it's not Final Fantasy Tactics or Ogre Battle
- Russia considers legalizing software piracy to combat tech bans
- Steal VCRs and cassettes from the 1980s in this open world thief sim
- 4 years after its final patch, Chrono Trigger on PC is getting a new update with 21:9 support
- Miyazaki likes to play a 'tough' Elden Ring character that can trade blows
- Russian invasion of Ukraine forces FPS studio to stop work and flee Kyiv
- Electronic Arts gets $11M loot box fine overturned
- Believe it or not, Ubisoft is looking for Skull and Bones testers
- Only around 10% of Steam gaming sessions are played with a controller
- 'Lucky' Activision stock purchase that led to $60M profit under investigation
- Aperture Desk Job code references unannounced Valve projects, including Half-Life: Alyx 2
- Gotham Knights is finally releasing in October
- Steam had 69 million daily users in 2021
- When does Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok unlock in your time zone?
- Cloud Strife's modded abs have Final Fantasy 7 players in a tizzy
- Apple's new M1 Ultra chip isn't a PC killer, it's just a sign of great things to come
- Intel's Arc Alchemist cards slip to a May-June release timeframe
- Our favourite Secretlab gaming chairs have a rare discount right now
- The GeForce GTX 1060 is still the most popular GPU in Steam's latest hardware survey
- Lost Ark now has over 20 million players globally
March 8
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin system requirements are very forgiving
- K/D ratios are back on display in the new Battlefield 2042 scoreboard
- Lost Ark is getting more multi-gender class options and less revealing armor
- The Bundle for Ukraine raises over $1.6M in less than a day
- Crypto exchange Coinbase blocks 25,000 Russian-linked crypto addresses
- Elden Ring speedrunner tears through the game in 2.5 hours without dying
- There's an easy way to pause Elden Ring without mods
- Spock takes the spotlight in the first Star Trek: Resurgence gameplay trailer
- Discord is coming back online after nearly 3 hours
- Get this RTX 3060 gaming laptop for just £720 right now
- John Romero's new Doom 2 level raises over $29,000 for Ukraine
- Corsair's released a rival to PCPartPicker that completely misses the point
- ASRock is making an NFT motherboard and it's as chaotic as it sounds
- Watch this Elden Ring player batter Godrick with a controller made of bananas
- Ex-Amazon developer claims 'it was pretty apparent' Crucible would fail
- Future Spring Showcase brings a raft of new announcements in late March
- Final Fantasy 14 was broken for many Steam users for the silliest reason
- AMD's random performance issues pinned on fTPM with a fix still two months away
- Nvidia may keep shipping Ampere GPUs even after it launches Lovelace
- This Chinese motherboard supports DDR4 and DDR5 RAM
- Chinese RTX 3060 cards are using a mobile GPU to bypass Nvidia's hash rate limiter
- Itch.io's 'Bundle for Ukraine' fundraiser offers nearly 1,000 games for your donation
- Bethesda is working on a 'five-year roadmap' for Fallout 76
- Take-Two is facing a lawsuit over NBA 2K loot boxes and microtransactions
March 7
- Nintendo 64 platformer Glover is getting a PC reissue next month
- A God of War TV series may be coming to Prime Video
- Another peek at the Dead Space remake is just around the corner, gurgling
- Snoop Dogg joins Faze Clan
- World of Warcraft's next expansion will be revealed in April
- You can now check to see if your Steam Deck will ship in Q3
- Take-Two and Ubisoft suspend sales in Russia over Ukrainian invasion
- All-women speedrunning event Frost Fatales raises $132,000 for charity
- Ambitious action-RPG Forspoken has been delayed by five months
- Bethesda re-ups trademark for unannounced project called Spyteam
- Heardle is Wordle for music, and it's my favourite spin-off yet
- 23 years later, someone made the game from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Californication video
- Nvidia's stolen data is being used to disguise malware as GPU drivers
- Whisper it, GPU pricing could drop down to 'normal' by the summer
- Halo Infinite's lead multiplayer designer leaves 343 Industries
- Intel kills Alder Lake AVX-512 support for good
- Mysterious, inaccessible Elden Ring building explored in out-of-bounds video
- AMD prepares Ryzen 5 5500, 5600 and Ryzen 7 5700X CPUs to combat Intel's 12th Gen threat
- Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines fan patch has hit version 11.1
- Here's a new trailer for gorgeous spaceship RTS Falling Frontier
March 6
- Destiny 2 clan wins two world's first raid races in a row
- Classic dating sim Tokimeki Memorial available in English for the first time
- Weird West's playable Pigman is feared and hated, has to risk death just to turn in quests
- PSA: Your Elden Ring save might desync from Steam cloud, so look carefully
- RimWorld has been removed from Steam in Australia after all
- Halo Infinite co-op coming some time in Season 2, other fixes much sooner
March 5
- Activision Blizzard and Epic join the list of publishers halting sales in Russia
- Elden Ring nears a million concurrent players on Steam, placing 6th all-time
- Cyberpunk 2077 mod adds vehicle combat and intense police chases
- Nvidia hackers target Samsung, release 190GB of sensitive data
- Lost Ark is banning 'over a million' accounts for using bots
- Garry's Mod and Rust prices are going up in Russia to help support Ukrainian charities
March 4
- Elden Ring's photo mod lets you take selfies with scary bosses
- Humble's Boomer Shooter bundle is one of the best FPS collections I've seen
- Nvidia hackers leak employee credentials, threaten to release 'Nvidia's most closely guarded trade secrets'
- Hearthstone director announces his exit and says new card types are coming
- Elden Ring players are buying millions of runes on eBay
- Russian esports team Virtus.pro blames ESL suspension on 'cancel culture'
- Italy plans to invest $4.6 billion to tempt chipmakers like Intel into building more fabs
- Electronic Arts halts all sales in Russia and Belarus
- Save £60 on this speedy PS5-ready 1TB SSD right now
- Intel's new mining chip should tempt miners away from gaming GPUs
- New World suspends Russian localisation amidst Ukraine invasion
- Russia won't be kicked off the internet for invading Ukraine
- Microsoft suspends sales of products and services in Russia
- Game Dev Story leads Kairosoft's irresistible sim-lite games onto Steam
- New Haven update lets you play as a same-gender couple
- 13 year-old girl rescued after being kidnapped by man she met on Roblox, police say
- Steam Deck enthusiasts are booting SteamOS 3.0 up on random devices, but no toasters yet
- The impact of Denuvo on Total War: Warhammer 3 is still being investigated
- Star Trek Online ships now canon after Picard Season 2 reveal
- Madmind Studios says anyone whose copy of Agony Unrated was taken away will get it back as free DLC
- Lost Ark endgame nerfs detailed in full
March 3
- Thailand got a four minute Elden Ring soap opera and it's a masterpiece
- Twitch targets misinformation, bans high-profile QAnon streamers
- Ubisoft postpones city-building RTS The Settlers once again
- Samsung's Game Optimization Service might be throttling the performance of over 10,000 apps
- Observer developer halts sales in Russia and Belarus
- Here, have a Ryzen-based RTX 3060 gaming laptop for under £900
- PC Gamer UK April Issue: The Steam Deck is here
- CD Projekt halts all sales in Russia and Belarus in support of Ukraine
- Kojima says Bowie song holds the key to understanding Metal Gear Solid V
- Elden Ring has Bloodborne's facial deformation sliders hidden in its character creator
- Battlefield 2042 gets antsy about whether 128 players is a good idea after all
- AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPUs see huge price cuts
- Nvidia's RTX 40-series GPUs look set for a big increase in shader count and L2 cache
- Steam Deck support improvements delayed for Rimworld due to ongoing Ukraine conflict
- The most requested features for the Steam Deck after one day
- Intel pushes motherboard makers to drop DDR4 support from 700 series motherboards
- John Romero has released a new Doom 2 level to raise funds for Ukraine
March 2
- Nexon founder Jung-ju Kim has died
- Lost Ark is getting its first big update, and some endgame nerfs
- Three Resident Evil games are getting official ray tracing patches
- Optical disc drives are back in the year 2022
- Warren Spector is working on a brand-new immersive sim
- ESL suspends Russian esports teams and competitions over invasion of Ukraine
- Epic Games buys Bandcamp, says 'fair and open platforms are critical'
- New World is getting a blunderbuss
- The future of processor technology could see AMD, Intel, & Arm all share a common connection
- Russia and Russian clubs removed from FIFA 'in solidarity with the Ukrainian people'
- Stalker 2 development paused: 'We are striving to help our employees and their families to survive'
- Ukraine pleads for the games and esports industry to pull all support from Russia
- Elden Ring's latest PC patch fixes a game-killing fire giant
- Streamer tells custom PC builder to stuff their free PC after CEO's condescending comments
- Bungie will ban Destiny 2 players trying to bypass Steam Deck incompatibility
- Dungeon Siege is back and has joined the metaverse, for some reason
- Nvidia's DLSS source code leaked by hackers
- Micron boasts world's most advanced SSD for data centers
- Steam Deck stick drift is a software problem, and a fix has already rolled out
- These IHS replacements for Intel and AMD CPUs are pure-copper DIY kits
- AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D is set to launch in March
- XCOM 2 is losing multiplayer and challenge mode on PC
- Amazon Prime members can now play Devil May Cry 5 in their browser
March 1
- Guardians of the Galaxy is among March's PC Game Pass arrivals
- Ghostwire: Tokyo's free visual novel introduces KK and his supernatural detective squad
- Back 4 Blood's first expansion is coming in April
- Ubisoft provides emergency housing and funding for employees fleeing Ukraine
- Weaponize toilets in Valve's hilarious short game Aperture Desk Job
- Elden Ring speedrunners are summoning old Souls glitches to cheat death
- Twitch chat is playing Elden Ring and it's a beautiful mess
- It looks like Assassin's Creed's Ezio is coming to Fortnite
- Steam Deck repairs should be 'left to professionals,' Valve says
- Bungie will increase Wellspring weapon drop rates in Destiny 2 next week
- Twisted Metal is getting a live-action TV show with Anthony Mackie
- Valve says Steam Deck production will 'be in the hundreds of thousands' by next month
- Watch Gabe Newell deliver Steam Decks and recall his days as a telegram boy
- Nvidia hack reportedly leaks six next-gen GeForce GPU names
- This guy built an adorable PSP out of Lego and now we want a brick-built Steam Deck
- George R. R. Martin hails Elden Ring as a 'landmark megahit'
- Sid Meier says monetisation causes some games to 'stray a little bit further from the path'
- Alice: Madness Returns is back on Steam after a 5 year absence
- Windows 10's latest update is outpacing Windows 11 adoption right now
- A new 3DMark GPU benchmark is coming later this year
- Lenovo announces new ThinkPad and IdeaPad Gaming line up
- RimWorld is officially banned in Australia, but it probably won't affect PC
- Starlink terminals deliver much needed internet access in Ukraine
- Cherry MX low profile switches have had a sneaky upgrade
- This mod unlocks Elden Ring's 60 fps cap at your own risk