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May 31
- Elden Ring secretly made its twin boss fights easier
- This man built a $30K gaming room modeled after a Star Citizen spaceship
- These classic adventure games just got updated 25 years later
- V Rising mods let you zoom all the way in and hide the UI
- This itty bitty toaster is the perfect place to store your SD cards
- Monument Valley is finally coming to PC
- AMD's budget laptop chip might not be game-ready on its own
- Final Fantasy 14's director apologises for making his main class broken in PvP
- This summer's Future Games Show will be hosted by The Witcher 3's Geralt and Yennefer
- France bans English gamer slang in favour of much wordier French alternatives
- Modder brings Super Mario 64's timeless platforming to Garry's Mod
- Zotac is still making even weirder VR PC backpacks
- PS5 shortages to ease up and sales to overtake PS4 by 2024, Sony says
- MSI is set to introduce affordable 12th Gen BCLK overclocking
May 30
- Iron Harvest, the 1920s mech RTS, is getting a free 'World Map Campaign' update
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 studio drops Heart of Russia DLC over Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Use musical scales and magical melodies to solve puzzles in Sonority
- V Rising developers talk about the 'journey' to full release
- Valorant's 'consecutive map streaks' problem is finally fixed, Riot says
- Diablo Immortal reportedly won't be released in Belgium or the Netherlands because of loot boxes
- After a year of silence, Blizzard president says Warcraft 3: Reforged info is coming 'soon'
- They're doing a Lego kit of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order droid BD-1
- Stardew Valley fan ditches crops for bops with these rad musical farms
- This adorable WIP project is like Townscaper with castles
- V Rising's latest patch makes it easier for vampires to find stairs
- Assassin's Creed player beats all 12 mainline games without taking damage
- Dr Disrespect's Fortnite tournament had some janky rules for Twitch streamers
- Microsoft rumoured to be making dongle for game streaming
- Here's a look at the canceled Marvel MMO's hero creator
- Steam Deck's refresh rate can now be adjusted on the fly
- Phison demos a PCIe 5.0 SSD and it's shockingly fast
May 29
- Free fan game Pocket Crystal League offers up Pokémon by way of Inscryption
- Crystal Project is a love letter to JRPGs and job systems
- Phasmophobia's got a couple new ghosts on the way
- City builder Kingdoms and Castles gets AI factions in free expansion-sized update
- Now you can play Fallout 3's Point Lookout DLC in Fallout 4
- Crafting sequel My Time at Sandrock off to a strong start
- Get World War II FTL-like Bomber Crew free on Steam for a limited time
May 28
- Yager's latest will hit full release in June with a proper first season
- The Embracer Group is now collecting historical games in addition to developers
- Overwatch and CoD teams reportedly owe Activision Blizzard up to $420 million
May 27
- Investors group urges shareholders to vote out Activision Blizzard directors
- Watch Tokyo come alive with this real-time map of its transit system
- EA officially unveils sequel to Jedi: Fallen Order
- Ace Combat 7 takes the Hiiiiighway to the Danger Zone
- Guild Wars 2 players can't stop winning a group event they desperately want to lose
- Hearthstone's newest mini-set arrives next week
- Elden Ring's co-op overhaul mod is now playable in open beta
- Ransomware group forces victims to 'pick any 5 poor children' and buy them KFC
- Destiny 2's new Duality dungeon is a 'daring mind-heist' of a corrupt space emperor
- Pulling apart Hardspace: Shipbreaker's ships looks even more satisfying in Lego
- FromSoftware finally, officially confirms that Dark Souls servers are coming back
- PlayStation's making God of War and Horizon Forbidden West TV shows
- Valve says it sees 'how large' Team Fortress 2's bot problem is, and will actually do something
- PC Gamer UK July issue: How you dune?
- Details from a Cyberpunk 2077 expansion may have leaked
- The next Pathfinder RPG might actually be a Starfinder RPG
- Apparently it's easy to mod the Quest 2 with prescription lenses
May 26
- After a 2 year delay, Ubisoft's free-to-play Roller Champions is painfully bland
- Glen Schofield's new horror game The Callisto Protocol is now not set in the PUBG universe, for some reason
- Phil Spencer reaffirms that Microsoft will not oppose the Raven QA union
- Mafia 3 studio undergoes new layoffs following leadership change
- Let's Build a Zoo expansion adds dinosaurs, 'Caveman Meat'
- Get all three BioShock games for free this week
- Minecraft's much-awaited Wild Update arrives in June
- Ray Liotta, star of Goodfellas and GTA Vice City, dies at 67
- The Witcher 4 is now in pre-production
- Hatsune Miku Project Diva MegaMix just landed on Steam and you should all play it immediately
- Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2 ends with a 'one-time in-game event' next week
- Returnal could be the next PlayStation exclusive heading to PC
- Hype around the launch of its new GeForce graphics cards is going to cost Nvidia
- Laptop RTX 3070 GPU spotted inside a desktop graphics card, and of course it's for mining crypto
- Windows 11 will soon let you restore apps to a new PC
- Batman got given the Yoshitaka Amano treatment and it's gorgeous
- Counter-Strike's first Brazilian major sells out instantly, pros and fans demand venue change
- AMD has actually created only one chipset for Zen 4, not three
- Miyazaki's favourite Elden Ring boss is Radahn
- Meta is 'making good progress' on removing the Quest 2's mandatory Facebook login
- Game Grumps is working on a new psychological horror game
- This tiny PSU makes even small-form factor units appear massive
- Steam Deck hits 3,000 verified or playable games
- Sony expects to earn $300 million from PC games in the next 12 months
May 25
- Microsoft Flight Sim's Top Gun tie-in teaches you how to fly like a skillful maniac
- I regret to inform you Ni No Kuni's cute new MMO has blockchain crap up its sleeve
- Stalker-like online FPS Survarium is closing next week after 7 years in early access
- Just when you thought you've seen it all, here's some DDR5 RAM with teeny tiny RGB fans
- Cyberpunk platformer Replaced is delayed because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- World of Warcraft finally lets Horde and Alliance players get along
- New dinosaur named 'dragon of death' even though it doesn't look like one
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt ranked mode paused because PS5 owners keep getting wrecked
- SEC fines broker $125,000 for halting GameStop trades for 10 minutes, then denying it happened
- CD Projekt Red pulls the plug on real-life Witcher school
- Counter-Strike's first-ever Brazilian major happens this November
- You're not ready for this 'CNC machinist pornography'
- The Marvel MMO project at Daybreak Games has been cancelled
- Dune: Spice Wars roadmap teases multiplayer, a mystery faction and whole bunch more
- New No Man's Sky expedition adds a time loop, 'space whales'
- Don't worry, AMD is still supporting overclocking across all AM5 boards
- 'Fixed' Chrome extension flaw could allow hackers to record both your webcam and desktop feeds
- Vampire survival game V Rising sells a million and adds offline mode
- You can customize your Sims' pronouns now
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters update gives wounded Grey Knights more grit
May 24
- Battlefield 2042's take on Hunt: Showdown is 'winding down'
- Twitch may finally start telling people why they've been banned
- I am once again reminding you that Farming Simulator is a shockingly good esport
- Elden Ring's sexy wolf man Blaidd reads horny tweets from thirsty fans
- This compact MSI PC looks like an Xbox One S
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum finally arrives in September
- Behold the Skyrim mod you didn't know you needed: 4K cages
- This Chinese indie RPG brings 'wuxia games of the MS-DOS era' to Unreal Engine 4
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gets an October release date
- How to banish those irritating pictures from your Windows search bar
- Here's when Sniper Elite 5 unlocks in your time zone
- 'Ideally it melts your face off' says Destiny 2 dev about Solar rework
- GameStop launches digital wallet for trading crypto and NFTs
- They flew a freaking Kerbal to the International Space Station
- The first SSDs to run at ultra-rapid 13,000MB/s break surface at Computex
- Take-Two and Zynga merge in the biggest deal in gaming history
- Hitman 3, F1 2022, Deep Rock Galactic, and more to get RTX On
- Nvidia announces Asus Rog Swift 500Hz gaming monitor at Computex
- Nvidia's Computex 2022 keynote focused on AI and Cloud services
- Dragon's Dogma 10th anniversary website raises a lot of questions
- Destiny 2 Season 17 trailer confirms the Season of the Haunted
May 23
- The quest to make a great PC hockey game continues
- Once upon a time, the Deus Ex studio almost made Final Fantasy 15
- Vampire Survivors' 0.6.1 update adds a bonus stage and two new mechanics
- Stab sinners for the glory of Mean Jesus in this gnarly alt history RPG
- Rainbow Six Siege will now remember if you're a bad teammate
- Raven Software QA testers become first union at a major US developer
- iFixit's Steam Deck line officially launched following accidental leak
- This van Gogh Minecraft build belongs in a museum
- Asus's new X670E motherboard for Ryzen 7000 is so extreme they named it twice
- You can now play through Team Fortress 2's Meet the Spy short
- AMD confirms first PCIe 5.0 SSDs will launch alongside Zen 4
- Celebrate Pac Man's birthday by power-pilling some demon face in Doom 2
- AMD SmartAccess Storage is built to rival Nvidia's own DirectStorage-based technology, RTX IO
- AMD is exclusively powering the first Corsair Voyager gaming streaming laptop
- The Steam Deck APU gets a 6nm refresh to power AMD's best-in-class budget laptops
- AMD demos an unreleased 5.5GHz Ryzen 7000 CPU smashing Intel's Core i9 12900K
- PS2 emulator PCSX2 gets a user-friendly UI at last
- The latest Windows 11 preview feature is a Bing and Edge exclusive search box on your desktop
- Colin Cantwell, designer of the X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and other iconic spaceships, has died
- A brand new sidescrolling shmup just surprise-launched on Steam
- Work on Stalker 2 is once again underway
May 22
- Kiryu finally gets a gun in new Yakuza Rainbow Six Siege crossover skin
- Rainbow Six Siege's next operator takes a page out of Valorant's playbook
- Solaire goes X Games mode in Firelink Shrine thanks to Tony Hawk's Underground mods
- Evil Dead sold over half a million copies in five days
May 21
- Final Fantasy 14 now works on Steam Deck
- Get honey, get paid in charming beekeeping sim Apico
- YouTuber indulges in Steam Deck destruction to demonstrate device's durability
- Prolific Studio-buyer EA is reportedly looking to be bought in turn
May 20
- Halo co-creator reacts to TV series: 'Not the Halo I made'
- Embracer Group wants to make a lot of Deus Ex and Tomb Raider stuff
- 500,000 vampires have already sunk their fangs into survival game V Rising
- The FTC looks to crack down on influencers and platforms over 'fake and manipulated reviews'
- Finally, Sonic has teeth again
- Stardew but potions game Little Witch in the Woods is now in early access
- Scratch that post-Elden Ring itch with sci-fi soulslike Dolmen
- New Wordle game lets you compete with your friends and family head-to-head
- US Department of Justice will no longer prosecute 'good faith' hackers
- Paradox's sci-fi epic Stellaris is free to play this weekend
- Dr. Lisa Su is teasing AMD Zen 4 CPU details on Monday and Gigabyte is promising AM5 boards
- After ambition and bankruptcy, the best PC streaming service has finally gotten its hardware upgrade
- Halo support studio will pay for staff to move out of anti-trans and anti-abortion states
- Norman Reedus confirms Death Stranding sequel, Kojima Responds
- Become more powerful than you can possibly imagine with Fortnite's latest skin
- Genshin Impact's 2.7 update gets a name, date and trailer
- Ace Combat scores the dream collaboration with Top Gun
- Steam Deck beta update includes more fan curve improvements
- TikTok's trying to get into games in a big way
- RTX 3080 12GB and RTX 3050 crypto-mining limiters unlocked to 90% efficiency
- Darktide will have a playable psyker class
- It's World Bee Day, so let's marvel at AI hives that know exactly what bees need
- Check out this cute circular screen terminal DIY using a Framework Mainboard
- SpaceX allegedly paid $250K to cover up Elon Musk sexual misconduct claim
May 19
- Blizzard nerfs $25 Hearthstone card
- Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown crashes into 2023
- People can't explain what the metaverse is but are very excited for it
- EVE Anywhere is taking space spreadsheet gaming to the cloud
- The mad lads at Bungie are finally giving Destiny 2 players more storage space
- Here's 18 cracking minutes of Fallout: London gameplay
- Borderlands 3 goes free on the Epic Store
- An Arizona dad is suing Blizzard over his kid's $300 Hearthstone bill
- The Future Games Show returns in June
- Hedge fund that got wrecked by the GameStop stock surge to close
- The Witcher 3's next-gen upgrade is finally back on the calendar
- Marvel Snap is the first game from former Hearthstone director Ben Brode's new studio
- 'Security researchers' aka hackers make $800k in prize money for exploiting Windows 11 and Teams
- Exclusive Magic: The Gathering card reveal: Karlach, Fury of Avernus
- The Iron Giant fights in MultiVersus because it's an 'alternate universe' director says
- Sherlock Holmes studio Frogwares is making a new game, despite the war
- Home worker gets verbal warning for gaming on break despite switching to their own PC
- Framework's 12th Gen Intel upgrade kit is a welcome first for laptops
- EA's customer support studios in Austin and Galway face layoffs
- Last year's best strategy game finally comes to Steam
- Discord, Twitch, 4Chan and more to be investigated in wake of Buffalo terror attack
- Crypto energy usage has barely dropped, even with market crashes
- These inverted solar panels can generate power from almost any heat source
- V Rising developers will make offline mode available 'as soon as possible'
- AI robot painter holds an exhibition and her art is really cool
- Could Tether be the catalyst of a crypto apocalypse?
- Pentagon shows off cool new UFO footage, but still says it's probably not aliens
- DICE is removing Battlefield 2042's 128-player Breakthrough playlist, says 64 players is 'more tactical'
May 18
- There's Warzone XP in King Kong's crown jewels
- Hearthstone pro suspended after Blizzard becomes aware of 2019 sexual assault conviction
- Apple is no longer the world's most valuable company
- Amanita Design's next adventure will playfully explore 1984-style propaganda
- Konami unbans Yu-Gi-Oh! card that's been in the doghouse for 17 years
- Greedfall 2: The Dying World is coming in 2024
- Meta Quest 2 resolutions per eye are lower than previously stated
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands did a lot better than Take-Two expected
- YouTuber tries to sell his 11.2M subs channel following abuse allegations
- Acer's new 4k gaming laptop serves up glasses-free 3D stereoscopic tech, for some reason
- Amazon Games says it's 'fighting a war' against the bots infesting Lost Ark
- Apex Legends' newest legend isn't coming to PC
- The passwords most used by CEOs are startlingly dumb
- Somehow there is Iron Giant discourse thanks to his MultiVersus appearance
- Sherlock Holmes studio Frogwares relocates out of Kyiv with help from Epic Games
- EzBench is a new and free Unreal Engine 5 benchmark
- Asus's new ROG gaming laptop beast hides secret messages
- Nvidia is reportedly preparing the entry level GTX 1630
- Total War: Warhammer 3's 1.2 update means more siege defences, less towers, free mounts
- Vampire survival game V Rising is out now
May 17
- It's really starting to look like Bloober Team is making a new Silent Hill game
- Blizzard's next Overwatch 2 event will take place in June
- Bungie boss says Sony acquisition won't 'muzzle' the studio's political opinions
- The team that brought us sexy Colonel Sanders is working on a Dead by Daylight dating sim
- Techland is finally focusing on its open world fantasy action game
- The new Magic: The Gathering set takes up residence in Baldur's Gate
- Arma Reforger is a $30 appetizer for Arma 4, and it's out today
- xQc pops off on gambling critics—'Get a grip of your own life before fixing mine'
- Silt is Limbo for people who need the extra terror of the deep sea, and arrives next month
- Indie darling Cave Story is now a roguelike
- Scavengers studio sold to Dead by Daylight dev
- Thermaltake's new gaming chair is giving us peak Porsche marketing
- While you wait for Dark Souls to be fixed, here's a mod with 200+ community soapstone messages
- Sabrent make RAM now, launches with DDR5 sticks
- Excitement builds as new RTX 4090 specs emerge
- Nvidia's moved most of the code to firmware before releasing Open-Source Linux drivers
- Discord's new Party Mode may take a slice of your CPU
May 16
- Kerbal Space Program 2 is now delayed to 2023
- This modder added VR support to Resident Evil Village when Capcom refused
- MIT names nanoscience building after AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su
- New York governor demands social media platforms do more to stop terror attack livestreams
- Insomniac 'fought hard and did not win' argument with Sony to publicly support abortion rights
- Mysterious doorway found on Mars isn't an alien's house, say killjoy geologists
- Bugs Bunny gets what he deserves in this new MultiVersus trailer
- Fall Guys goes free in June
- Skyrim's iconic starting village just hits different in Unreal Engine 5
- IT admin gets 7 years for wiping his company's servers to prove a point
- Square Enix made $394 million profit last year, and continues to bang on about the blockchain
- Elon Musk accuses Twitter algorithm of manipulation as U-turn speculation mounts
- Please pet Call of Duty: Vanguard's very polite gun dogs
- Meta blurs out upcoming VR headset in hands-on hype video
- Latest Intel beta drivers confirm upcoming Arc GPU models
- Say hello to my little cancelled Scarface 2 screens!
- Nvidia's RTX 40 series is set to launch as soon as July
- Rumor: Gears of War series to get remasters in the vein of the Master Chief Collection
May 15
- Strategy JRPG Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia is now on PC
- Here's a demake of Portal... for the N64
- Build broken combos to gun down cosmic horrors in 20 Minutes Till Dawn
- This algae-powered computer probably can't run Crysis
- Pippin's actor from Lord of the Rings joins the cast of The Elder Scrolls Online
- Unofficial patch for Mass Effect Legendary Edition addresses bugs in Mass Effect 2
- Overwatch creators explain they didn't use King's 'creepy' diversity charts
May 14
- Go adventuring with your favorite Elden Ring NPCs and Bosses with this mod
- Lawsuit against videogame grading service Wata alleges manipulation of retro game prices
- Leak alleges Arma Reforger will be next game in series and a bridge to Arma 4
- After 40 years, the creator of one of gaming's first female protagonists has been found
- Robocop—the original, good one—comes to Fortnite
May 13
- Texas law allows users to sue Facebook and Twitter for 'censoring' their views
- Company creates, then deletes NFTs of retro games it didn't own the rights to
- This gamer true crime show featuring Discord sleuths is certainly a way to spend 2 hours
- Former eBay exec pleads guilty to mailing critics live insects and a funeral wreath in bizarre harassment campaign
- Konami just had its best-ever year, thanks to games you've never heard of
- Genshin Impact maker reveals its new game, beta signups are now open
- Repair your escape pod or die trying in this tense space survival sim
- Datamined content suggests Elden Ring almost had Covenants like Dark Souls
- Rockstar is remaking Max Payne 3's soundtrack
- AMD's top next-gen GPU may not be a multi-chiplet compute monster but that's better for everyone
- Deathloop now has a photo mode and better accessibility options
- Silent Hill leak seems all-but-confirmed by Konami DMCA strike
- Elon Musk puts Twitter deal 'temporarily on hold' because of bots
- PlayStation president faces backlash after refusing to take a stance on abortion rights
- 5.2GHz AMD Zen 4 test CPU pops up in database and then vanishes
- AMD's bringing its friends to Computex but Jen-Hsun's nowhere to be seen
- Overwatch 2 beta will make a 'secret' Mercy ability easier to trigger
- Magic: The Gathering's Warhammer crossover includes Blood Bowl and Age of Sigmar cards as well as 40K
May 12
- Eric Barone says he 'can't believe' Stardew Valley has sold 20 million copies
- El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is looking like a disaster
- Mr Bean NFTs launched at the same time as the crypto crash: coincidence?
- Alan Wake 2 is 'going well' but Remedy won't be showing it off this summer
- Master Chief had sex
- The Dead Space remake is coming in January
- Use nukes and airstrikes to protect your keyboard in Keymasher Ultimate
- This 29-year-old pro football manager trained on Football Manager
- This Destiny raid boss body pillow is here to give you comfort in the Darkness
- Arkane's brilliant immersive sim Prey is free for the week on the Epic Store
- Dying Light 2's first major story DLC is delayed
- Netflix reveals Resident Evil series trailer
- Epic is going to release the Unreal Editor for Fortnite in an attempt to out-Roblox Roblox
- The new Need for Speed is coming from a racing development dream team
- The unthinkable has happened: Nvidia has finally embraced open-source GPU drivers
- Starfield and Redfall have been delayed
- Gunbrella seamlessly combines exactly the two items you'd think
- Meta needs AMD's help to make the metaverse work
- Steam Deck update adds per-game performance settings
- Intel showcases upcoming processors at its Vision 2022 event
- The cryptocurrency market is experiencing an unprecedented crash
- John Romero will publish a memoir next year
May 11
- Google Maps' new Immersive View will let you soar, drone-like, through cities
- Ubisoft CEO on buyout rumors: "We have everything we need to remain independent"
- Tesla has to patch 130K cars because their Ryzen APUs are overheating
- Card Shark, the game about cheating, social mobility, and getting stabbed by peasants, arrives on June 2
- Let Me Solo Her's glorious 1000th battle was a nail biter
- A composer remixed Elden Ring's theme song in 15 styles and they all rock
- Elden Ring player spends hours hiding in a bush to hose an AFK farmer
- The antitrust lawsuit against Valve is back on
- Intel Arc is launching soon, but only in China
- Cute crab game gets a trailer and coins the term 'Shellslike'
- FIFA declares that whichever game is called FIFA will be 'the best'
- Metroid 64 fan project is coming to PC
- Epic defeats Fortnite cheat seller, donates settlement to kids' hospitals
- The leaked 2001 Duke Nukem Forever build can now be downloaded
- Elden Ring sold over 13M copies in its first month
- Core Keeper gets dedicated servers, teases first big content update
- Intel shows off its Arctic Sound-M datacentre GPU
- Razer's new wireless Viper V2 Pro mouse is lighter than ever
- Mass Effect store listing that mentioned Shepard was a mistake, apparently
- Former 3D Realms owners clash over Duke Nukem Forever blame
- AMD reveals the first games to support its FSR 2.0 upscaling tech
- Microsoft announces heaps of specially designed accessibility accessories
- Gwent's first two seasonal journeys are back, without the time limits
- iPods are officially dead
May 10
- Battlefield 2042 is using the 'Vince Zampella-slash-Respawn model' now, EA CEO says
- Riot sues Mobile Legends: Bang Bang maker for reasons you can probably guess
- Your motherboard can't handle Samsung's chonky new 512GB RAM modules
- EA blows the final whistle on FIFA
- Gabe Newell once wondered if Left 4 Dead really needed zombies
- Gotham Knights could use another delay, judging from this gameplay demo
- Intel's latest HX chips bring desktop-grade features to gaming laptops
- This UE5 train station scene makes me fear the future of horror games
- Western Digital's newest hard drive is a 26TB monster
- Final Fantasy 14's director says there's a distinct difference between MMOs and the metaverse
- AMD unleashes the RX 6950 XT, costs $100 more than RX 6900 XT
- Ghostwire: Tokyo's director is interested in making DLC and sequels
- Now Bandai Namco says it's 'actively working' on fixing the PC Souls games
- Oh the irony, Facebook shifts to Meta then opens up a store in the REAL WORLD
- 25 years later, this museum figured out how to stop screen cheating in GoldenEye
- Costa Rica declared national emergency after massive hack
- E-waste is an untapped source of rare Earth materials
May 9
- MGS5 players tried to disarm the nukes and give peace a chance, but Konami said 'no'
- First trailer for the esports mockumentary from the creators of American Vandal is perfectly cringey
- Tech YouTubers are stepping up a war against Indian scam call centers
- Summer Games Done Quick features back-to-back Elden Ring runs
- White House announces a deal that will provide low-cost, high-speed internet to millions of American households
- Overwatch 2 pro team punished for 'illegal' maneuver that even Blizzard admits was fun
- Indie dev is releasing an official pirate version of his upcoming game, 'no strings attached'
- Western Digital's new drive promises to be every gamer's dream SSD
- Today's Wordle was going to be 'fetus,' but then the US Supreme Court happened
- China announces new restrictions on youth livestreaming and tipping
- Elden Ring legend Let Me Solo Her will livestream 1,000th Malenia victory tomorrow
- Hitman 3 delays roguelike mode so it's 'as close to our ambitions as possible'
- Weird West patch means guards will think KO-ed NPCs on beds are just sleeping
- Oh great, hackers found a new way to sneak malware into your computer
- Hunt: Showdown was targeted by malicious attacks, devs reveal
- Final Fantasy 14 director tackles the hopeless task of trying to get MMO players to uninstall UI mods
- The leaked 2001 build of Duke Nukem Forever is actually real
- Apex PC cheaters are somehow getting into console lobbies and wrecking face
- Nvidia's GPU mining limiter has been fully unlocked for the RTX 3080 Ti
- Asus and Noctua's latest project could be an RTX 3080 with a mighty cooler
- Finally, keyhole-peeping comes to Skyrim
- Intel Arc desktop cards face more delays
- This iMac to monitor conversion is almost as good as the Studio Display
- Scientists add mouth haptics to VR, complete with spiders
- Asus is set to enter the high performance SSD market
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters giving Twitch drops to everyone after players threw a tantrum
- This modder is bringing the long-dormant dream of Voxel Doom to life
- Neon boomer shooter Reaver lets you sail through the air with weapon recoil
May 8
- Mining sandbox Hydroneer now has multiplayer, vehicles, and an optimized code rework
- Vampire Survivors gets heavy metal in 0.5.2 update
- Modders are turning Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord into an RTS
- D&D board game Tomb of Annihilation is being pulled from Steam
- Lost Ark is getting its first legion raid and more modern clothes this month
May 7
- Indie roguelike Shotgun King takes chess and adds hot lead and a grudge
- Brutal survival RPG Outward has a definitive edition this month
- There was only one person in the world playing Babylon's Fall on PC earlier this week
May 6
- Double Fine joins Bungie in standing up for women's healthcare rights, calls for donations to pro-choice orgs
- MSI is the latest company to bless our wretched Earth with Neon Genesis Evangelion PC components
- Star Citizen is doing 'bedsheet deformation' physics now, because of course it is
- WWE is working on something 'in the roleplaying game space'
- I think we have to talk about this $730 twerking Tifa statue
- A roboticist built a hardware aimbot that could outperform the pros, until it aimed so hard it died
- Sony says it won't make Bungie games exclusive, but the FTC may not be convinced
- Nvidia fined $5.5M for failing to mention crypto miners were some of its biggest customers for gaming GPUs
- Former Blizzard and Riot developers tease 'whimsical, pop-apocalyptic fantasy' MOBA
- Game developer says Apple's M1 Silicon is a 'big step up' in power over Intel
- CCP is still trying to make the EVE Online FPS happen
- Corsair expects GPUs 'will be back to MSRP in the near term, perhaps discounted below'
- EVE x Microsoft Excel is probably the least surprising collaboration in history
- Kanye West once pitched Miyamoto a videogame
- Halo Infinite's Season 2 launch has been 'bumpy' admits creative lead
- Outriders hasn't made a profit, and may never
- This RTX 3090 Ti running at an extreme 890W is one of the thirstiest GPUs yet
- Overwatch 2 patch gives Zenyatta a badass round-house kick
- Devolver's latest Steam sale includes some steep discounts
- Morrowind modder whose kids hate mudcrabs added the family cat to protect them
May 5
- Someone tweeted at Microsoft to release the 27-year-old source code to 3D Movie Maker, so they did
- Dying Light's final update gives everyone a free Enhanced Edition upgrade
- The Naga are coming to Hearthstone Battlegrounds on May 10
- Path of Exile's new expansion lets you build your own bite-sized hard mode
- A new Mafia game is reportedly in development under new studio leadership
- Xbox has helped Fortnite sneak its way back onto iPhones
- Bill Gates on Musk, Twitter, and the conspiracy theorists that shout at him in public
- GeForce Now's best feature is finally available for PC and Mac users
- Margit's Shackle in Elden Ring has a strange second purpose
- Summer Game Fest is coming on June 9
- Steam's most wishlisted game is delayed by nearly a year
- District 9 director's game is a battle royale where 150 players fight on a constantly evolving map
- A school choir has created a BioShock musical, and it's pretty great
- Halo Infinite removes weird melee quirk that didn't make much sense
- NetEase launches its first US-based studio, led by former Daybreak Games chief
- Intel acquires Finnish graphics tech company Siru Innovations
- Boot your Oculus headset directly into SteamVR with this free tool
- Windows 11 preview update will break Microsoft Store apps
- AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT beats Nvidia's RTX 3090 Ti in new 3DMark leak
May 4
- Bungie tells critics it will 'never' avoid politics as it declares support for Roe v. Wade
- The Stanley Parable developers highlight its new ultra deluxe accessibility options
- New York City sues Activision Blizzard, says Bobby Kotick is 'unfit' to negotiate the Microsoft buyout
- Halo Infinite's Warthog just put on 170 pounds
- Here's a full hour of Arkane's canceled Half-Life game
- Firefox turns 100, does not break the internet
- Check out this neat Elden Ring map in the style of World of Warcraft
- DDR5 is finally relevant for PC gaming
- Elden Ring Darth Vader mod is impressive... most impressive
- Microsoft's neglected baby boy Clippy is in Halo Infinite
- Streamer xQc admits to $2 million in gambling losses last month, gets told off by his dad on stream
- AMD confirms exciting new Dragon Reach and Phoenix APUs for next-gen laptops
- Blizzard knows it's not much fun to be a support main in Overwatch 2 right now
- Intel's Arc scavenger hunt gives us some hints about the cards' pricing
- Latest RDNA 3 rumors dial back on the excitement a little
- Hitman 3 game director will lead Crysis 4 development
May 3
- Blizzard's new mobile game announcement didn't piss everyone off this time
- Loot River, the 'Diablo and Tetris had a baby' game, is out today
- Wrecking Ball benched in Overwatch 2 beta for literally wrecking servers
- Activision says Call of Duty: Vanguard did not meet expectations 'due to our own execution'
- The original studio behind Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is now in charge of its remake
- I would actually put these vintage comic book and videogame mashups on my wall
- Activision urges shareholders to vote against proposed misconduct report
- Wikipedia won't take crypto anymore
- Warcraft Arclight Rumble squeezes Blizzard's classic RTS into a mobile puzzle game
- The Sims 4 drops a teaser for even more damn kits and a game pack
- The Blade Runner tabletop RPG looks great and only took 3 minutes to get funded
- Monkey Island creator is seriously pissed off at people telling him how to make a new Monkey Island
- Titanfall 2's best mode comes to Northstar's fan-run servers
- Spotify has launched its own island in Roblox for reasons
- Fortnite's having a fortnight of Star Wars celebrations
- USB Type-C cables capable of charging an RTX 3080 Ti gaming laptop are here
- VESA to release an adaptive sync compliance program for monitors
- Windows 11 gets new Auto HDR sliders and game profiles
- These XR glasses could be the answer to portable gaming woes
May 2
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt proves vampires are more fun with AK-47s
- These Elden Ring double-bladed lightsaber mods are not canon
- Russian esports team booted from Dota 2 qualifier after player draws Z on the minimap
- Riot wants to 'slow the pace of combat' in League of Legends
- Seattle judge dismisses part of Bungie's case against cheat developers
- There's no escaping the metaverse: Meta is reportedly releasing four new VR headsets by 2024
- Finally, someone turned 'inventory tetris' into an entire videogame
- The 'souls-very-like' Thymesia drops a demo on Steam
- Start your own Human Instrumentality Project with this Evangelion-themed RTX 3090
- Steam has a new hub for roguelikes, roguelites, soulslikes, and metroidvanias
- Intel CEO now thinks chip shortage will last into 2024
- Razer co-founder and champion of the gaming mouse Robert 'RazerGuy' Krakoff has died
- A hardware hacker turned that horrid toy controller into a working one
- Here's adorably delightful metroidvania Haiku, the Robot
- Embracer Group to acquire Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, and Square Enix Montréal
- The Chonky Palmtop is one of the cutest DIY Pi machines yet
- Pimax's 5k and 8k VR Headsets are going cheap in this flash sale
- Next gen GPUs are set to offer dramatic compute performance gains
- Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting FSR support along with DLSS
- Dead Cells is getting accessibility features, including an assist mode
- Now you can play Morrowind multiplayer and in VR
May 1
- Megachill tile-placing game with a weird name, Dorfromantik, is out now
- Sentry is an upcoming wave defense FPS about alien hordes invading your spaceship
- Genshin Impact 2.7 is indefinitely delayed
- This D&D campaign has been running for 40 years
- LudoNarraCon, the online convention for story-games, returns on May 5
- The Long Dark's getting paid DLC updates for survival mode