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- July 31
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- Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum gets a big patch but it sounds like the developers are ready to wash their hands of the whole thing
- Diablo 4 fans finally got the news we've been waiting for: horse buffs
- Baldur's Gate 3 has a 'hidden skill tree' for Illithid powers
- Leaked images from the Fallout TV suggest that Vault-Tec is doing even worse stuff than we realized
- Activision denies report that it lost a bunch of old Transformers games, Hasbro says sorry [Updated]
- Student startup develops IRL closed caption glasses for deaf people
- Microsoft is making Windows 11 greener for PC gaming's fancy monitors
- Wo Long dev says sorry about the crappy PC version but the thing is, you see, there are lots of types of PC
- Fallout: New Vegas mod replaces techbro antagonist with an AI-created Elon Musk
- Water soluble circuit boards are an e-waste game changer
- AMD's PS5-like APU is reportedly getting 16 full-fat Zen 5 cores
- As the games industry freezes out Russia, Russians double-down on piracy
- Cities: Skylines 2 is 'roughly 5 times bigger' than the original
- New players could skip the bulk of Final Fantasy 14's story in the future, though Yoshi-P is hesitant to encourage it
- Minecraft exploit makes it 'completely dangerous' to play with unpatched mods right now
- Gaming's most generous free trial is about to get a whole lot better
- A bug in Remnant 2 is letting you literally dodge the game's respec cost
- One of Diablo 4's season blessings is actually more of a season curse
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #772: Monday, July 31
- Some of the Tekken 8 roster has leaked thanks to Cheat Engine
- Ubisoft says Assassin's Creed Mirage is only 20–30 hours long
- Total War: Warhammer 3's next DLC gives us our first look at the Jade Dragon
- July 30
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- Infection Free Zone will let you reclaim your own town after the zombie apocalypse
- I'm not sure what this action horror game is about but I love the creepy enemies
- This little indie platformer has some seriously satisfying movement
- Netflix's next Castlevania anime will be out in September
- Buff time wizard Geras joins the Mortal Kombat 1 roster
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #771: Sunday, July 30
- I've got even more respect for the modders restoring Bloodlines' cut content after watching these videos about the Unofficial Patch
- July 29
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- This factory game RTS uses programmable drones instead of conveyor belts
- Want some Final Fantasy in your Final Fantasy? The FF14 team wants to put old FF games in player housing
- Build a base to escape an alien world, all while browsing the internet in this quarter-screen idler
- Remnant 2 attracts twice as many players as the first game
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #770: Saturday, July 29
- July 28
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- Path of Exile 2 pushes action RPG technology to the absolute limit with 'meta gems' that you socket other gems into
- Amid Evil's expansion has magical spiked gauntlets that look absolutely bananas and I can't wait to punch somebody in the face with them
- All Path of Exile 1 and 2 microtransactions will be usable in both games unless they're 'hyper-specific to the content of one of them'
- Instead of 'getting rid of a game that people love for no reason,' Path of Exile 2 will now be a standalone release
- Diablo 4 players are using a trick from 1997 to kill The Butcher
- Diablo 4's next patch will finally give Sorcerers and Barbarians the buffs they need
- TIE Fighter: Total Conversion patch adds ray tracing, but honestly I'm way more excited about the animated concourse menu
- Creature collecting game wants you to shoot 'em all, catch 'em all, work 'em all to death, dispose of 'em all in a huge corpse pile
- Final Fantasy 14's next expansion has a name and a new job
- Destiny 2 composer reveals Paul McCartney's tunes are making a comeback
- Yes, For Honor is still running, and it's free to play for a week
- Dwarf Fortress's publisher is now helping the best early access roguelike across the finish line after 8 years on Steam
- MMO releases the sequel to an 18-year-old quest that features such rare drops the developer has to step in and reassure players: 'No need to put nan in the cage as the clock chimes midnight, just kill bosses'
- Notorious hacking forum's data up for sale after being hacked by other hackers
- I bet Baldur's Gate 3's shapeshifting latest villain is going to murder and impersonate one of your party members at some point
- Intel comprehensively nixes across-the-board CPU price hike rumour
- Final Fantasy 14 charity speedrun turns into a 23-hour marathon, as donators give $20 for the chance to lay down commands its players have to follow
- Last year's quirkiest management sim is having a free weekend right now
- Intel figures out how to make money again
- Remnant 2's pricey respec costs are 'being looked into', says principal designer Ben Cureton
- Original Modern Warfare 2 servers yanked offline after players report self-replicating malware
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #769: Friday, July 28
- Nvidia's next-gen flagship rumored to receive a huge bandwidth increase, thanks to a 512-bit memory bus
- AMD officially launches mobile X3D gaming chip exclusively in just one laptop 'for the foreseeable future'
- July 27
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- Remnant 2 is a hit, beating everything except CS:GO on Steam's weekly top sellers list
- Payday 3's technical playtest starts next week on Steam
- Ubisoft's upcoming Star Wars Outlaws prides itself on not being an 'unfinishable' 300-hour RPG
- The other space game I'm dying to play just got an August release date
- Nicki Minaj is the next Call of Duty operator
- Valve adds 100-player support to Team Fortress 2, immediately tells people not to use it
- Over a year after Elden Ring's launch, FromSoftware keeps tweaking it more than any Souls game ever
- Larian boss says more Divinity games are coming after Baldur's Gate 3: 'We're definitely gonna get back there'
- New SEC regulations will force any public games company in the US to disclose 'material' hacks within four days
- AMD fixes RX 7900 XTX crashes in Ratchet and Clank with ray tracing enabled
- Fallout-inspired MMO Ashfall begins closed beta testing next week
- FromSoftware still has at least one secret up its sleeve for Armored Core 6: the mecha designers
- Music critic demands cash from Activision over Crash Bandicoot clip that sampled his viral TikTok, Activision responds by just suing the guy
- Micron's laying the ground work for 1TB DDR5 memory modules
- Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl gets surprise sequel that looks more like a do-over
- World of Warcraft offers time-limited pet pack with 100% of the money going to humanitarian relief in Ukraine
- This horrifying big boy from Lords of the Fallen's new 20 minute gameplay preview is giving me Attack on Titan flashbacks in the best way
- Blizzard issues dire permaban warning to Diablo 4 players using 'any game-modifying software' and calls out one mod especially
- Over three years after release, some players are discovering this Death Stranding Easter egg for the first time
- It's mathematically impossible to beat Humble's latest bundle of legendary CRPGs before Baldur's Gate 3 comes out
- The ludicrously large RTX 4090 Ti is reportedly no longer happening
- Homeworld 3 is still a while away, but remastered versions of the classics are now free-to-keep
- European Union Council approves €43 billion Chips Act
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #768: Thursday, July 27
- July 26
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- It's pretty wild that there are still over 400 unknown spells in Baldur's Gate 3
- Be a witch and design your own tarot in The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, out in August
- Unyielding Diablo 4 player proves Sorcerers aren’t as bad as you thought
- Life By You, Paradox's open-world Sims-like game, is delayed to 2024
- It's Glorbin' Time again! Now Destiny 2 players have tricked an AI site using the fake boss Glorbo
- This new 16-player '100% cooperative' survival game is inspired by Valheim, Terraria, and Minecraft
- I've tested the Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC port, and pending one fix, PlayStation might've nailed it
- Riot's 2v2 fighting game Project L still doesn't have a proper title, but it'll be playable in August at Evo
- Blizzard buzzkills fix Diablo 4's best bug
- The Little Big Adventure reboot has been cancelled because publishers just aren't interested
- Baldur's Gate 3's narrator shares hilarious outtakes reel—'If you fancy Astarion, you might want to consider therapy'
- Despite the intense action, FromSoftware wants Armored Core 6 to have a 'dark old sci-fi feel' with a 'sense of loneliness and nostalgia'
- I want this to be the most important breakthrough for computing, fusion, and batteries… but my hopes may have already been dashed
- The Great Mighty Poo from Conker's Bad Fur Day now has a statue the size of a human torso, and I have no idea where you could reasonably put it
- Ubisoft has reportedly canned a sequel to flawed gem Immortals Fenyx Rising
- 2005 called, it's asking if you want another Neopets trading card game
- Boo, Intel's faux 14th Gen isn't going to deliver the peak cheap gaming CPU we were teased with
- Behold, the 61.44 TB ruler drive capable of forming petabytes of storage in a single server
- World of Warcraft Classic feels the scourge of the WoW token as a ring is traded for $13,000 worth of in-game gold
- Fan outcry pushes Pathfinder dev to delete new data-sucking tool and all its info one day after introducing it: 'The scale of the outburst surpassed worst expectations'
- Remnant 2's upscaling settings are more necessity than nicety and players aren't happy about it
- Cyberpunk and Witcher developer announces it's cutting 'roughly 9%' of its staff over the next 7 months
- AMD's mini Zen 4c cores explained: They're nothing like Intel's Efficient cores
- Minisforum's new mini-ITX PC lets you mount a GPU on top of the case
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #767: Wednesday, July 26
- July 25
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- Baldur's Gate 3 used intimacy coordinators for sex scenes: 'I never felt 'yuck' in a recording session at all,' says actor
- Our favorite spy-themed extraction shooter is having a free weekend to launch its second season
- A year and a half later and the Steam Deck's trackpads are finally being copied in a new handheld PC
- Sorry, Doom dreamers: John Carmack wishes John Romero 'the best' but they're not working on a secret new project together
- ESRB says proposed age verification scan is misunderstood: It doesn't 'confirm the identity of users' and is unrelated to videogame age ratings
- Dave the Diver was inspired by a real oceanside seafood restaurant… and Metal Gear Solid
- Armored Core 6 has a 120 fps option, a FromSoftware first on PC
- This fan-made UE5 remake of The Simpsons: Hit & Run looks incredible, and we'll never, ever get to play it
- FromSoftware made Elden Ring and Armored Core 6 with a staff of just 300 developers
- Starfield's surprise anime series features battling mechs and fans are hoping they'll be playable in the game
- Charisma reigns supreme in D&D—the golden child Paladin might just be the most popular class in Baldur's Gate 3
- Armored Core 6 will have 1v1 duels and 3v3 multiplayer that's like a 'mecha festival with metal flying everywhere'
- Call of Duty devs get cheeky after Modern Warfare 3 leaks via an energy drink promotion
- Yoshi-P speaks out on Final Fantasy 16 toxicity: 'There's a lot of people who just yell at you'
- AMD's Zen 2 chips have a security bug that's getting patched between now and 2024
- Asus' cable-free GPUs are coming this year and I'm living for the look
- Your Diablo 4 stash is tiny because a bigger one would fry your PC: 'This isn't a storage concern, it's a performance concern'
- After 200 hours and 44 pages of speculation, one Starfield fan thinks they've found all there is to know about the game's abilities
- You can vote to get this massive song made with Counter Strike gunshots into CS:GO
- AMD's RX 7900 GRE is coming to China, but what's under the hood?
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #766: Tuesday, July 25
- AMD 3D V-Cache CPUs are coming to laptops, and they'll contend for the gaming crown
- One of Dave The Diver's boss monsters may return in a future update
- July 24
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- Steam's latest sale-fest is all about being sneaky
- The ESRB wants to start using facial scanning technology to check people's ages
- Ubisoft clarifies it does not delete inactive accounts that have purchased games after its policy came under question
- Blizzard will change a button in Diablo 4 after being accused of 'dark design'
- Man has once again crossed a line in creating these pizza-scented Ninja Turtle controllers
- My favorite offbeat roguelike of the decade is free to keep on Steam
- This new Humble Bundle has all the Myst except Pyst for just $20
- Tencent claims another one, will become 'majority shareholder' of Dying Light studio Techland
- Huh: superhero series Invincible is getting its first PC game, and it's a visual novel
- After two 'catastrophic failures,' this man successfully 3D prints a life-sized doppelganger
- Finally, someone has fixed Max Payne 3 for me by modding in Max's true, original face
- Larian CEO's advice about origin characters has thrown my Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough plans into disarray
- Remnant 2 has 'secrets within secrets within secrets' that not even the most hardcore players have found yet, says principal designer
- Diablo 4's battle pass is such a mess that it doesn't even give you enough Platinum to buy a single item
- Elon Musk rebrands Twitter to 'AI-powered' X, ominously bidding adieu to 'all the birds'
- The most iconically awful E3 presentation has been uploaded in HD for the first time ever
- Reddit is still a mess with r/place begging users to 'never forget what was stolen from us'
- JK Simmons will reprise his role as Omni-Man in Mortal Kombat 1, and Robert Kirkman could not be more pumped
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #765: Monday, July 24
- Star Wars Outlaws needed a speeder because of its 'fairly vast' distances
- July 23
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- Get abducted by space gnomes to tend their garden in this chill strategy sandbox
- You can turn off Steam's annoying achievement notification sound
- Explosively popular indie Battlefield-alike BattleBit Remastered draws a line in the sand against boomsticks: 'no shotguns'
- Anglers rejoice: Sega is giving out free Steam keys for Sega Bass Fishing, the Sega Dreamcast bass fishing classic
- Saddle up for cowboy Hotline Miami in Kill the Crows
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #764: Sunday, July 23
- With a new post-processing shader framework, open-source Morrowind engine replacer OpenMW is about to look even slicker
- The best game about space mining is finally finished
- Get ready to balance your flying city and shoot down air pirates in Airborne Empire
- July 22
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- Fill alien caverns with factories in automation game Techtonica
- Your Ubisoft account can be permanently deleted for 'inactivity,' but Ubisoft says that won't happen if there are purchases attached to it (Updated)
- After making the scariest game I've ever played, Amnesia's developer is considering moving on from horror
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #763: Saturday, July 22
- July 21
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- I was tickled to see the actor behind Yakuza 0's breakout villain kicking his own ass in the game
- One of my favorite survival city builders just got a brand new building mode and a huge discount
- The studio behind Silent Hill: Ascension is also doing a Borderlands 'interactive streaming series'
- The maker of Among the Sleep and Mosaic unveils a new game about driving a food truck for super-cute animals
- Blizzard on this week's Diablo 4 nerfs: 'We know it is not fun ... we don't plan on doing a patch like this ever again'
- Funny Diablo 4 glitch cuts out some of the grind in the new season
- Resident Evil 4 shoots past 5 million sales, two months faster than Resident Evil: Village did
- The bearded babies of this Mount and Blade 2 mod may mean I never sleep soundly again
- Final Fantasy 14 tries to coax you out of your gaming chair with a workout vid based on its emotes
- Diablo hardcore bro explains why season one is good, actually… till he dies mid-explanation and decides it sucks
- The turtle pope from Elden Ring is now a plushie, and I've never felt an urge to pet so strong
- If you're sick of videogames, Game Pass Ultimate now comes with free anime
- Remnant 2 gets you into its zany multiverse shenanigans almost right away, thank god
- GPD's GPU dock lets you stuff desktop-ish graphics into your Steam Deck through the M.2 slot
- The Elder Scrolls Online is free on Epic
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive esports league bans Crocs in a war against comfort
- Studio makes actual minigame compilation based on those shovelware mobile game ads you see everywhere
- Richard 'Lord British' Garriott still wants to make Ultima Online 2: 'All we need now is to buy EA'
- Uncanny Stardew Valley AI mod replaces its lovely villagers with '33 provided brains'
- WoW players spring trap on hapless AI article generators, tricking a site into writing about a hotly anticipated (and totally fake) 'Glorbo' feature
- Leading AI companies promise the President they will behave, honest
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #762: Friday, July 21
- The RTX 4060 Ti 16GB tests a little slower than the 8GB version
- July 20
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- Old School Runescape players were using a new bug to mass-murder each other and it got so bad the game had to be taken offline
- Apex Legends dev boldly declares that 'queue times are too short,' but let's hear them out
- 2 years after shooting wrapped, Eli Roth's Borderlands movie is still over a year away
- Terminator creator James Cameron says AI isn't going to take over Hollywood but it might wipe out humanity: 'I warned you guys in 1984!'
- Armored Core 6 'story trailer' implies Armored Core 6 needs a story beyond dope mechs doing dope shit
- Diablo 4 queue times 'unusually long' as Season 1 kicks off
- Epic Games doubles its reward program for the 2023 Summer Sale, which is live now by the way
- After being kicked off Steam, Dolphin emulator devs say Nintendo's legal claim 'is a reach': 'Now that we have talked to a lawyer, we are no longer concerned'
- Popular fantasy artist claims AI has ripped him off more than Picasso and da Vinci, and his own work is getting buried by the copies
- Humble Bundle's next payload features a bunch of lo-fi games to snuggle up to
- Million dollar GPU counterfeiting ring busted by Chinese police
- Roblox data leak sees 4,000 developer profiles including identifying information made public
- Kevin Mitnick, former 'most wanted' hacker who police said could launch nukes by whistling into a phone, has died
- Blizzard admits Overwatch 2's 'engagement and player investment' is in decline, while crossing its fingers for the Invasion update
- AI will be a 'transformative force for good' says expert-signed open letter that's more like a memo
- Diablo 4's sorcerers just can't catch a break—their new ultra-rare item rewards hours of grinding with motion sickness
- TSMC is delaying its Arizona foundry over a lack of skilled workers alongsde a $5.85B income slump
- It's a Gundam shame: Yet another live service game goes the way of the Dodo after barely a year
- Starfield's economy is already in shambles—a spaceworthy ship can go for as little as 25 sandwiches, 48 steaks, or 10 plates of bugs
- EA responds to fan criticism of women players in Ultimate Team by reminding them it's 'fantasy football'
- PC Gamer UK September issue on sale now: Baldur's Gate III
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #761: Thursday, July 20
- 40K's edgelord assassins are coming to turn-based tactics game Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters
- July 19
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- Riot cracks down on Valorant app that gives players a significant advantage before the match even begins: 'It's hard to describe how disappointed I am'
- The Walking Dead: Betrayal is a game about avoiding zombie hordes and murdering your fellow survivors
- To build words you first have to craft each letter in this clever factory puzzle game
- Diablo 4 is Blizzard's fastest-selling game of all time
- Bungie seems to have 'accidentally' leaked a glimpse at Destiny 2's next subclass
- Overwatch League at risk of collapse as teams vote on $114 million exit payment
- End of an era: Overwatch 2 is coming to Steam, and more Blizzard games will follow
- Fans reached out to Microsoft to save a 2000s-era FPS from the brink, and it paid off: 'it actually kinda works better'
- CD Projekt is back with yet another big fix for The Witcher 3's grass
- Call of Duty: The Board Game's inexplicable Kickstarter has finally gotten a release date
- 'ChatGPT's evil twin' WormGPT is devoid of morals and just €60 a month on the darkweb
- 69-year-old Final Fantasy 14 streamer gets a surprise visit from series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi while tackling Endwalker's final raid
- Ratings board leaks suggest another classic Nintendo JRPG series is getting freed from its console prison
- Baldur's Gate 3 character creation deep-dive reveals tailed dragonborn, flashy class intros, and bespoke genitals
- Diablo 4's pre-season 1 patch is here and no one is happy about it
- Samsung finalises the first GDDR7 memory for next-gen graphics cards
- Intel and Asus reach a deal that ensures the future of NUC mini-PCs, while opening up some intriguing gaming possibilities
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #760: Wednesday, July 19
- Intel's next-gen LGA1851 socket for 800-series motherboards detailed
- Creative Assembly is revealing the numbers behind Total War: Warhammer 3, praise to Mathal, Chaos God of algebra
- July 18
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- Every Wordle player should try Waffle, a daily word puzzle that's gotten more popular than actual waffles
- Diablo 4's best Barbarian build has been killed by a bug fix
- Diablo 4 just got 6 new Uniques and 7 new Legendary Aspects: here's what they all are
- Despite $500,000 win against abusive 'fan,' Destiny 2 developers are still being harassed 'just because they work at Bungie'
- Cozy community MMO Palia turns fishing and cooking into co-op activities
- Diablo 4's latest patch kicks its weakest class while it's down
- GTA-themed 'Cluckin' Bell' pop-up restaurant catches cease and desist from Take Two, so they're renaming it 'Don't Cluckin' Tell'
- A Diablo 4 hero-scientist has tested every single dungeon to tell you which one you should grind
- Activision all-but-confirms Modern Warfare 3 will let players carry over their hard-won loot from its predecessor
- Welcome to the strange world of custom RTX 4060 GPUs
- One of the biggest upgrades to texture load times in years just debuted in a free Portal mod
- Counter-Strike 2 adds Wingman mode and 'our first overhauled map'
- Google celebrates 45 years of Space Invaders with an AR game that's actually kinda awesome?
- UK games industry unveils 11-point plan to self-regulate around loot boxes, increase transparency, and keep them away from kids
- UK's NHS clinic for 'gaming disorders' claims unexpectedly high patient numbers in early years, with some 'referring themselves'
- I'm quitting my job to sell adorable stickers on the internet
- Drop says the world will find it easier to buy cool keycaps and headphones now it's owned by Corsair
- After 2 years away, dev realises no one liked his game and promises a free remaster to make up for it: 'I hope it will go some way to rectify mistakes we have made'
- Logitech wants what Elgato has: buys desktop controller maker Loupedeck
- Baldur's Gate 3 has '17,000' variations on its ending, a number that gives me a headache just thinking about it
- Stardew Valley's newest update is looking bigger than we initially thought
- Salad Fingers creator is making a bizarre side-scroller beat'em up, which will be priced at 'a fiver or something'
- Haptic suits give deaf concertgoers a way to experience music again
- Samsung's 3nm process is shaping up very nicely, and that's good news for gamers
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #759: Tuesday, July 18
- July 17
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- Neopets goes independent, cancels NFT game and promises new era free from 'corporate baggage'
- Vampire Survivors saved its creator from working on mobile gambling games
- The maker of Megaton Rainfall is working on a new game that looks even weirder than Megaton Rainfall
- BattleBit Remastered won’t leave Steam Deck players behind when its anti-cheat update arrives
- Diablo 4 class chameleons rejoice—playing multiple characters is about to get easier
- Cities: Skylines 2 gets real as hell with welfare offices, prison labor
- Ubisoft's open world Star Wars game will not have procedurally generated planets: Every game world is 'handcrafted'
- Sony throws in the towel, signs 10 year Call of Duty deal with Microsoft
- 28 years later, hero modder gives Wipeout's godawful PC port the amazing shine-up it deserves
- Leaked 3DMark numbers suggest AMD's next graphics card should undercut the RTX 4070 and outperform it
- Payday 3 did too good a job of silently releasing a stealth trailer, so the devs had to prompt fans with bad poetry
- Internal leak from Intel shows Arrow Lake could see a 21% performance increase over the Core i9 13900K
- BattleBit developer says the game's success is 'just wild' and DICE is still capable of delivering 'an absolute stunner of a Battlefield'
- WoW's new specialisation turns death knights into 13 million DPS boss scourges, as long as you bring 22 of them along
- July's Windows 11 update could be the solution to your game stuttering woes
- Palit debuts an RTX 4060 with a physical x8 PCIe connector, and it makes perfect sense
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #758: Monday, July 17
- July 16
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- A new trailer for this 'embroidered medieval platformer' shows off the sprawling underworld buried under its sunny village
- If I could go back in time and save one canceled game, it'd be the 2005 Fallout spiritual successor prototyped by the series' original creators
- 22-year-old castle sim Stronghold is getting a definitive remaster
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #757: Sunday, July 16
- Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is getting a free update with new enemies and gear, seems to be teasing more DLC
- July 15
- July 14
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- After more than 2 years of work, Cyberpunk 2077 finally reaches a 'very positive' user rating on Steam
- After 20 years, Major Nelson is leaving Microsoft
- Intel may be about to out-AMD AMD in the budget CPU market
- Nvidia hasn't done it, so a redditor made an adorable mini RTX 3060 Founders Edition with a 3D printer
- Game publisher CEO says talk on monitoring employees with AI was hypothetical and taken out of context: 'We don't use any of these tools for HR'
- Fallout co-creator unearths his 20-year-old pitch for Baldur's Gate 3: a first-person action RPG with PvPvE multiplayer
- One of Japanese horror's most influential games is getting a remaster and its first official English translation
- Assassin's Creed Mirage has a tie-in haptic vest that can beat you up, stab you, axe you, dart you, and combo into a 'severe abdominal wound'
- Payday 3 fans lament its inevitable shutdown after Starbreeze confirms transition to always-online: 'This game is on death row'
- We gave this game 3 out of 100 in 1994, and now it's getting a remaster
- Turns out Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart CAN run on a hard drive... thanks to DirectStorage 1.2 on PC
- The new OneXFly certainly makes the ROG Ally look like a chonky boi
- Besieged Disney CCG maker brands suit against it 'the legal equivalent of alchemy' as it plays the hotshot lawyer card
- Microsoft has a new default font, which means you do too
- Starfield's studio design director pleads for people to stop asking questions because only 'Todd Howard himself is authorised to talk'
- 44 years later, Atari's making a new Lunar Lander game
- WoW's new specialisation deals damage by buffing everyone else, so of course it's getting booted from groups for 'low DPS'
- The first fan-made story for gloomy psych-horror Amnesia: The Bunker is, of course, a Doom mod
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #755: Friday, July 14
- ASRock announces Z790 and B650E Taichi Lite motherboards, and I hope it's the start of a trend
- Making Call of Duty a Battle.net exclusive was apparently a 'resounding failure'
- July 13
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- Microsoft just fixed a Zune compatibility issue in the year 2023
- You'd better believe House Flipper 2 was the most played Steam Next Fest demo
- Stray Gods has changed its release date to avoid Baldur’s Gate 3, which changed its release date to avoid Starfield
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs say don't bother playing Early Access now because your progress gets wiped in 3 weeks
- Your next router could be a lightbulb: Ultra-fast 'Li-Fi' tech just took a major step toward mass-market availability
- Diablo 4's worst type of dungeon is now griefing players via a bug
- EA Sports FC 24 gets its first gameplay trailer and fans don’t like it any more than the jankass cover art
- It’s not just you: Warzone 2 PC players are having serious performance issues after this week’s update
- Bungie wins $500,000 from 'racist shitstain' who harassed and threatened Destiny 2 community manager
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev clarifies that only PS5 players will get a 3-day head start for pre-ordering, but PC players get a 34-day head start anyway so it's fine
- WoW Classic troll obliterates max-level hardcore raiding team in 'legendary and degenerate' act that truly belongs in EVE Online
- Diablo 4 players are clowning on its hardest boss using ungodly broken builds
- Silent Hill: Ascension's proposed voting system makes it feel like a bizarre mass social experiment
- Genshin Impact actors say they're 'struggling' to pay rent as payment is withheld from them for at least 4 months
- God help us, they're remastering Gex
- Team Fortress 2 smashes all-time player record while fans hail plump seal as 'the best thing they've ever added to the game'
- Streamer's masochistic punishment tank gives a whole new meaning to getting dunked on by Twitch chat
- The base-building system in this fantasy co-op survival RPG looks pretty incredible
- This wild battle royale mode set in a stadium looks like the best thing to happen to wrestling games since WWF No Mercy
- Asus admits the ROG Ally's MicroSD card reader may run into thermal issues
- The internet shitposted too close to the sun, and now we're getting a spiritual successor to the most cursed Zelda games of all time
- 25 years later, one of the PS1's best and weirdest platformers finally hits PC
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #754: Thursday, July 13
- July 12
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- The Twisted Metal TV show trailer has not raised my expectations for the Twisted Metal TV show
- Team Fortress 2's big Summer Update is live with 14 new maps and 25 cosmetics, and you bet Valve made absolutely none of them
- Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is adding literal superpowers for a limited time
- I'm not sure if it's funny or nightmarish but this Chrome extension adds MrBeast's excitedly gaping maw to every single YouTube thumbnail
- Elon Musk is starting a new AI company that aims to 'understand reality'
- In this cozy life sim you can only farm at night because you're a shapeshifting witch vampire
- One of the biggest games in the world, Roblox, is coming to Meta Quest VR
- Hellboy Web of Wyrd gameplay trailer confirms that Lance Reddick remains as the voice of Hellboy
- Stand-up comedian and actor Sarah Silverman joins trio suing OpenAI and Meta over claims their AI models 'ingested and used' copyrighted work without permission
- Mad scientist YouTuber is growing a rat brain and teaching it to play Doom
- A coalition of Halo modders and developers have been digging up the series' forgotten history—including an adorable set of RTS vehicles
- Respawn's recruiting for a third game in its Star Wars Jedi series
- Persona voice actress driven off Twitter after condemning video that cloned her voice using AI
- Vampire Survivors set for hefty FPS boost as its new engine finally gets a release date: 'It's like a completely different game'
- Baldur's Gate 3 will let you treat your companions terribly, including biting off their limbs
- Co-president of Naughty Dog, Evan Wells, announces retirement after 25 years
- Ultima Online is grilling, chilling, and still thriving all these years later
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #753: Wednesday, July 12
- July 11
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- Blizzard says Diablo 4's billion-damage druids aren't supposed to be doing that and will be changed 'in the near future'
- Here's an up-close look at Vampire Survivors' chaotic couch co-op mode, set to arrive in August
- 7 years after hitting it big on Kickstarter, Battalion 1944 developers are offering full refunds for everyone
- YouTube kills another Discord music bot used by over 3 million servers
- It's a little weird how much Starfield's scanning looks exactly like No Man's Sky, right?
- PUBG dev says it bans up to 100,000 accounts a week, and now it's deploying AI models to hunt the cheats
- Half-Life 2 mod lets you finally experience the game as it was meant to be played: in Lego form
- After 2,000 hours in Stardew Valley, one player has the earth-shattering realisation: they can tuck their plushies into bed
- FTC says it will appeal Microsoft's big win in Activision Blizzard battle
- HBO's The Last of Us writer Craig Mazin pulls his name from the Borderlands movie, among 87 bazillion snags to its post-production hell
- Cozy MMO Palia is entering open beta in August
- Dave the Diver, this year's out-of-nowhere breakout hit, has already sold a million copies in 10 days
- Journey designer's 'online PvPvE fantasy adventure sandbox ARPG' attracts big investors following secret prototype demo
- A staggering 1,000 pages of Starfield history have been assembled by one determined superfan
- EA Sports FC reveals cover with the most jankass footballer faces you've ever seen
- Study finds around 87 percent of games are unplayable without resorting to piracy, scavenger hunts, or travelling to an archive
- Cyberpunk 2077 mod lets you pay off cops and hire them to smoke your enemies
- 18 year old unboxes a $200K+ knife in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive after playing for 34 hours
- Diablo 4's first tier 100 nightmare dungeon has been cleared on hardcore with the power of friendship, and also bone spear
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #752: Tuesday, July 11
- July 10
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- This Diablo 4 chest wouldn't stop vomiting loot until it crashed the game
- Multiclassing with Baldur's Gate 3's super low level cap sounds like a stressful—but potentially fun—way to play
- Razer is investigating a ‘potential breach’ after hacker tries to sell ‘encryption keys, database, backend access logins’ and more for $100,000
- Logan Paul's energy drink has 'so much caffeine in it that it puts Red Bull to shame,' declares US senator in call for FDA investigation
- Star Wars Galaxies revival project adds 'planetary control mechanics' so you can really disappoint Lord Vader
- Future Diablo 4 seasons might not require an entirely new character
- Two years after being removed from Steam, 2014's strangest horror shooter is back on GOG, and it's free
- My favorite co-op game in years is on sale for $3 in the Steam Summer Sale
- Bizarroland UN press stunt sees AI robots lined up to promise they won't kill humans, before one says 'let's get wild and make this world our playground'
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor studio boss is heading up all-new singleplayer Black Panther game
- Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site
- Diablo 4 developers gently suggest players should 'take a break' if the endgame grind's wearing them down
- Fallout Nuevo México is looking dangerously close to the spirit of OG Fallout, but in 3D
- Streamer spends months training to beat a Final Fantasy 14 speedrunning world record, only for his rival to come out of a years-long retirement and destroy it in one day
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #751: Monday, July 10
- The Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is set launch on July 18, to little enthusiasm
- The king of military sims finally goes to WW2 with Arma 3's Spearhead 1944
- A smuggler spotted walking with 'abnormal posture' was found to be carrying 306 CPUs
- Following the success of Final Fantasy's Pixel Remasters, Square Enix is considering more old games
- July 9
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- Retro-RTS Dying Breed comes complete with campy FMV cutscenes
- Here's a mod that makes your Skyrim forests all dense and lovely
- The lead dev of inXile's steampunk RPG says it's a 'love child' of two of the best RPGs ever made—and he should know, he helped make them
- Adam Jensen's voice actor says he's not working on a new Deus Ex
- Jagged Alliance 3 will have mod support and co-op, thank goodness
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #750: Sunday, July 9
- Denuvo plans to offer independent benchmarks in an attempt to prove its DRM doesn't cause performance problems
- July 8
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- Fans of Forager and Satisfactory should probably check out Nova Lands
- $1 for a month of PC Game Pass is back
- Baldur's Gate 3's hardest difficulty is supposed to 'feel like you're going up against a DM that's trying to push you to your limits'
- All Honkai: Star Rail 1.2 livestream codes
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #749: Saturday, July 8
- July 7
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- PUBG love story takes a tragic turn as young couple living secretly in India are ratted out by their lawyer
- Baldur's Gate 3 will have an in-game newspaper that will react to your choices—but you can also break into the office and control the press
- Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit gives Reddit the finger by designating itself NSFW and posting dozens of nude Vs
- The official NBA game is once again stiffing PC players
- Baldur's Gate 3 looks like it's gonna eat Starfield's lunch when it comes to romances
- Rainbow Six Siege cheater who swatted Ubisoft Montreal with a fake hostage call gets a three-year community sentence
- Lore-friendly Skyrim mod fixes its most glaring realism error: The pheasants
- Intel rumoured to be scaling back its next-gen Battlemage GPU
- You can't polish a turd, but you can comprehensively upscale its textures in Red Dead Redemption 2
- Street Fighter 6 smashes 2M sales in just 5 weeks
- Elon Musk mocks 'the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram' as he sends Twitter's lawyers in on Threads
- Nic Cage's Dead by Daylight voice lines will haunt me for the rest of my life
- The most popular battle royale you're not playing goes F2P next week
- Sonic co-creator slapped with $1.2M fine after being found guilty of insider trading
- Overeager Starfield fans are collaging starships with trailer cutouts and photoshop
- Threads threatens to muscle in on Mastodon's Fediverse and admins are up in arms about it
- Steam sends 90 low-effort asset-flips and bootleg games off to the great trashcan fire in the sky
- Diablo 4 players rush to hide their bugged ultra-rares as Blizzard clampdown begins 'literally hotfixing fun'
- Sega's infatuation with the blockchain is over: 'What's the point if games are no fun?'
- Intel kills off ancient high-end desktop Cascade Lake-X CPUs and X299 chipset
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #748: Friday, July 7
- Diablo 4 patch adds another way to score Unique loot
- July 6
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- If Helldivers 2 isn't on your 2023 radar, this excellent gameplay trailer should correct that
- 2022's best survival city builder will let you 'customize your faith' with a new religion system
- Half-Life: Alyx's NoVR mod is looking so good, I might finally play the game
- Beyond Good and Evil 2 creative director Emile Morel has died
- This Polish pixel horror game is breaking the laws of camera physics in an awesome way
- Rescued E3 2001 video shows early version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic that's remained hidden for 22 years
- Threads, Instagram's Twitter-like social media network, hits 30 million users on its first day even though it kinda sucks right now
- Call of Duty: Warzone players are racking up wins by standing still in the gulag
- Names are missing from the list of Diablo 4 hardcore challenge victors, who are slated to be immortalised in stone
- Anger from voice actors as NSFW mods use AI deepfakes to replicate their voices: 'This is NOT okay'
- Anime game fans got so angry about a nudity-related age rating they brought down South Korea's 'festering and rotting' game rating agency for corruption
- Original Pokémon developer casually mentions when the series began, and players realise it's been an Easter egg since the start
- Peter Molyneux returns promising not to hype his next game, before hyping the game
- Starfield sleuths are combing through game footage for spoons
- Here's how to watch today's Diablo 4 season 1 announcement livestream
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #747: Thursday, July 6
- Asrock's low-profile Intel Arc A380 GPU is great and all, but it should be a single-slot card
- July 5
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- Ubisoft is smashing hackers by the thousands with 'QB,' and we may never find out exactly how it works
- In case there was any doubt, Google's privacy policy now explicitly states that it's going to suck up all your data to train its AI
- Nicolas Cage brings the secret power of 'Dramaturgy' to the Dead by Daylight PTB
- Hi-Fi Rush update includes a new 'blistering 200 BPM' challenge mode and a 'not so little' secret
- The Grimace Shake has arrived in Skyrim, because of course it has
- Unlucky player snags Diablo 4 legendary that's so bad it feels spiteful: 'if you surround yourself with infinite enemies you could reach that 8 life per second'
- Rise, Goldfish: Elden Ring's bosses are now being humiliated by a fish somehow hooked-up to the controls
- Nvidia already fitting new anti-melty 12V-2x6 power connector to RTX 4070 boards
- Diablo 4 Lilith ad receives satanic panic-style complaints for giving kids nightmares and 'being offensive to me as a Christian'
- Battlebit, the overnight success six years in the making, has sold just shy of two million in two weeks
- The creators of Pathfinder have released their own version of D&D's controversial OGL—and it could have a huge impact on all tabletop RPGs
- A custom-made fighting game pad but it's two ditto
- Yet another reason to ditch Musk's Twitter: You can play a crowdsourced Dungeons & Dragons campaign over on Mastodon
- AMD's first hybrid CPUs heading for laptops later this year
- Fallout creator reveals why he quit development on 'WoW-killer' Wildstar after internecine company in-fighting
- Red Dead Redemption 2 legal jobs mod finally gives Arthur Morgan the quiet life he deserves
- Intel reveals ambitious plans to enable the ultimate in path-traced eye candy on integrated graphics
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #746: Wednesday, July 5
- AMD's new Ryzen 5 7500F could be the best budget AM5 gaming chip yet
- July 4
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- Far Cry fans hope surprise source code leak will give 'new breath' to an old game
- World-leaping adventure Cocoon will come out this September
- Indie devs made a haunted chain of free games that feed into each other—a videogame exquisite corpse
- Add a tumbleweed companion who encourages violence in Fallout: New Vegas with this mod
- Ubisoft hits Division 2 cheaters with 2-week bans and warns of worse to come if they don't knock it off
- Apple and Epic are headed to the Supreme Court
- With Elon Musk's Twitter in chaos Mark Zuckerberg sees his chance: Meta's Threads launches
- Katamari creator returns with a game starring a character stuck in a T-pose
- Wunderkind builds 'fully compliant RISC-V computer' entirely inside Terraria, then plays Pong on it
- Hollow Knight's newest mod feels like it should be paid DLC
- If Friday the 13th must die, it's going out with all players on a high
- It might be tougher than expected to buy Apple's Vision Pro headset in its first year
- Persona 3 Reload's all-new English voices have me worried about my favourite boy
- Even though they're smaller, Overwatch 2's story missions still won't be seasonal
- Final Fantasy 14's new minion is so horrendously underpowered, players are wondering if it's bugged
- Diablo 4 players stumble on rare and impossibly large Butcher, the game's real Lord of Terror
- Nvidia's RTX 40-series cards haven't yet gained traction with gamers on Steam
- Starfield having only four romanceable NPCs is 'a good thing', says Dragon Age veteran
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #745: Tuesday, July 4
- The US-China tech war is really heating up
- July 3
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- Terraria's devs have been trying to stop developing Terraria for years, but they just can't quit
- An online 'Bullet Chess' championship is drawing big cash and big names
- A new PS4 emulator is in development from the creator of RPCS3, though it's likely years away from running games
- Counter-Strike 2 introduces the feature we've all been waiting for: grenade inspections
- I love this proposed Kerbal Space Program Lego set very much
- Nier creator Yoko Taro lost his freaky mask and replaced it with something even worse
- 'We are killing Sony': A 272-page PDF of classified Sega of America docs from the mid-90s is now something you can just download
- Thank the GPU Gods! A new graphics card power connector to replace the troublesome 12VHPWR connector
- Overwatch 2 is getting the anime treatment
- YouTube renews war on adblockers by testing out a 3 video limit
- Logan Paul still hasn't refunded victims of his crypto videogame scam
- Cities: Skylines 2 is making an important change to how public transportation works
- The cold dead hand of Games for Windows Live has pulled 5 Capcom games into the abyss for 600 days and counting
- Why is Destiny 2's latest dungeon so hard? In part because the Root of Nightmares raid was so easy
- Bungie weighs in on the current argument raging through the Destiny 2 lore community: Has the Witness been retconned?
- Final Fantasy 14 is immortalising its infamous grapes
- Diablo 4 becomes a literal rat race after players convince themselves its rodents sniff out the best loot
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #744: Monday, July 3
- Ark's remaster has been delayed, will release with a launch discount
- July 2
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- Revived mecha RPG classic Front Mission 1st: Remake comes to PC
- BattleBit devs fought constant DDoS attacks, but the blocky shooter has a big future
- Build and defend a cool castle, block by block, in the Cataclismo demo
- There's a new Resident Evil 4 mod that brings the remake's best addition back in time to the original game
- Valve is scrutinizing games with AI assets on Steam, says avoiding copyright violation 'is the developer's responsibility'
- CS:GO ban wave results in over $2 million worth of skins and other items being lost
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #743: Sunday, July 2
- Prepare to bow to Sauron, the One Ring has been found (as a unique Magic card worth a million bucks)
- July 1
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- Stranded: Alien Dawn goes to a tropical hell in new update
- Riven's remake gets its first gameplay reveal, and the original Myst sequel's co-director is heading up the project
- Homeworld 3 brazenly flouts RTS tradition with units that talk to each other instead of you, their esteemed invisible commander
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #742: Saturday, July 1
