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- August 31
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- Starfield doesn't have Nvidia's DLSS at launch, but there could be hope for it in the future
- Medieval MMO Gloria Victis and its developer are shutting down because of financial pressure and burnout
- Hours before Starfield officially launches, it's already the top game on Twitch with 350K viewers
- Human drone racing champs get demolished by an AI
- Bungie is determined to bribe me into running Destiny 2's new raid this weekend
- Star Citizen studio denies reports of layoffs as crowdfunding campaign sails past $600M
- 3500 people had a massive firefight in EVE Online out of 'boredom' (and because they had dreadnoughts)
- Baldur's Gate 3's monster second patch is live, serving up justice for our favorite character and letting you stuff your friends in a closet
- Saints Row studio Volition has been closed 'immediately' as part of Embracer's restructuring plan
- One of our favorite detective games drops its final DLC and a free browser-based demo
- I sincerely thought this 'zero gravity ergonomic workstation' was a weird sex thing
- Getting ready to play Starfield on an AMD GPU? New drivers offer big performance boost and warning to players with ultrawide monitors
- Save $8 on a Starfield Premium Edition Steam code if you’re buying today
- League of Legends' latest character trailer for Briar makes me far hungrier for more Arcane than the summoner's rift
- Grim Dawn, a classic ARPG, is getting its first expansion pack since 2019
- CD Projekt casually mentions that, after Phantom Liberty, it's done with Cyberpunk 2077
- The Suikoden 1 and 2 remasters have been delayed with no new release date given
- Starfield subreddit goes mildly berserk as Todd Howard drops in to say 'we can't wait for you to play'
- WoW Classic Hardcore hosts a dramatic duel to the death with dozens of bloodthirsty spectators—and of course it's because a hunter stole a belt
- 15 years after announcing the sequel, Ubisoft is gonna try to remember how to release a Beyond Good and Evil game with a new edition of the first one
- Succession writer says she's considering a return to games because they're 'genuinely, massively exciting in a way that other forms aren't'
- This 24 karat gold Razer gaming mouse is giving off major Scrooge McDuck vibes
- Intel shows off a maths defying 8-core chip with 528 threads and optical interconnects
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #803: Thursday, August 31
- August 30
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- Five Nights at Freddy's movie trailer finally introduces the gang: Freddy, Foxy, Bonnie, Chica, and Mr Cupcake, who eats a guy's face
- Space Marine 2 extended gameplay trailer showcases huge environments and hordes of enemies, but somehow it's not as violent as I expected
- Palia's first seasonal event adds exactly the kind of communal minigame I was hoping for
- Call of Duty enlists AI to eavesdrop on voice chat and help ban toxic players starting today
- Bethesda commissioned an official Starfield song from Imagine Dragons and if you guessed that it rhymes 'high' with 'sky,' you are correct
- Google begins trialling tool that adds a watermark to AI-generated images
- Dwight from the Office advertising Armored Core 6 is the future mech fans dreamed of
- ChatGPT maker OpenAI acquires open-source Minecraft clone which I found out about from an article written by ChatGPT
- AMD regains (a tiny bit of) GPU market share from Nvidia
- One terrifying Baldur's Gate 3 player has crafted a 'darkest timeline' playthrough which gives everyone the worst ending—except the puppy
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is out of 'pre-production' but Pete Hines says it will be 'years' before we start hearing about it
- Oops they did it again: War Thunder player posts NATO restricted military manual for what feels like the hundredth time
- No ammo, 40 seconds, all fury—series vet earns the title 'The Fireworks of Shibuya' at an Armored Core 6 preview event when he punches an airship out of the sky
- Baldur's Gate 3 will soon let you ditch your friend's abandoned co-op character
- Remnant 2 player loses hardcore character to the game's most annoying ledge, which is becoming condemned territory for permadeath runs
- A 1/500 limited edition Starfield graphics card and CPU bundle is up for auction
- A Baldur's Gate 3 bug is cutting off 1,500 lines of evil companion content, but the next patch will bring them back
- Cable-free GPU power connector could deliver up to 900W and have a longer lifespan than 12VHPWR
- Baldur's Gate 3 player one-shots Act 2's final boss by smuggling 15,000 gold into his pocket
- Obsidian's RPG design expert reckons he knows why no one's maining Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3, and it's the same reason no one plays them in his games either
- Farewell AMD RX 6600-series. AMD pulls the plug on Navi 23 chip production.
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #802: Wednesday, August 30
- PSA: Starfield preloads are now live on Steam
- August 29
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- Larian responds to Baldur's Gate 3's 'cut content' theories, says next patch will give Karlach 'the ending she deserves'
- In the run-up to the official Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal, Rockstar may have lost one of its most senior writers
- Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 are on sale for just $5 each right now
- Ben Affleck said he wasn't happy about recent Jett nerfs at the 2023 Valorant Champions event, and I think he's serious
- League of Legends is ditching Mythic items and players are happy to see them go: 'The only sad part was that it took 3 years of asking'
- Travel back to 1990 with this glorious SNES-inspired dock for the Steam Deck
- Baldur's Gate 3's next big patch is 'around the corner,' promises lots of fixes and better 'Origin Character epilogues'
- Armored Core 6 player surveys its incredible arsenal of guns, bazookas, missiles, and swords, says 'nah' and beats it with punches instead
- GeForce Now is shutting down in Russia
- Huge chess scandal ends with begrudging agreement as one grandmaster threatens to 'name names' regardless
- Shadow Tactics developer Mimimi Games shutting down: 'Working on increasingly ambitious games took a heavy personal toll on us and our families'
- Wipeout's now remastered and playable in a browser, coder tells Sony to 'either let it be, or get a real remaster going'
- Starfield's design director says the game nearly had a voiced protagonist, but they dropped it: 'It was a AAA thing'
- WoW Classic's hardcore mode was only out for a few days before this frost gnome hit max level
- Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer says Act 2 is deliberately lighter on exploration for pacing's sake
- Armored Core 6's mech editor has already been used to make some cursed (and blessed) creations
- Modern Warfare 2's Lara Croft crossover has me yearning for an original Tomb Raider remake
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #801: Tuesday, August 29
- August 28
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- Some of Steam's best strategy games are on sale right now
- GOG starts its Autumn Sale with a free game about rescuing your sister from bloodthirsty pirates
- Diablo 4 will boost XP and gold gains this weekend, which is your chance to change things up
- $1 Game Pass deal vanishes ahead of Starfield launch
- Starfield 'boundary reached' leak leaves some worried Bethesda's planets have more limits than anticipated
- Dark and Darker wiped player progress today due to an influx of cheaters
- A 17-year-old Arkane gem's modders got 'completely blank check' approval from Ubisoft to add co-op, mod tools, and ray tracing
- Anime girls can web-swing like Spider-Man in this open world RPG that's aiming for Genshin Impact's crown
- Following a trademark dispute with a calendar, beleaguered zombie survival game The Day Before looks like it's getting a new name, but this one might already be in use too
- Chirper might actually be useful for keeping track of your citizens' 'Lifepaths' in Cities: Skylines 2
- Robocop: Rogue City is part man, part machine, and delayed until November
- Deep sea deception game Underlab is Among Us but with flamethrowers
- The time of Warhaven is almost upon us
- David Gaider says Baldur's Gate 3 is a 'monumental achievement'
- Intel 14th Gen CPUs are set to receive a price hike
- You can run Linux on a Commodore 64 if you really want to
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #800: Monday, August 28
- August 27
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- Diablo 4's toning down monsters' power to slow, stun, chill and otherwise cramp your style
- The mod that saves one of the best RPGs ever made quietly added a mini-campaign where you play as the 'good guys'
- Soulframe's shaping up to be a slower-paced, more grounded fantasy from Warframe studio Digital Extremes
- All the Warframe news out of TennoCon 2023, like about that guy that lives in your wall
- Elon Musk appearance at Valorant Champions tournament met with boos, crowd chanting 'bring back Twitter'
- Blasphemous 2 lands with yet more disturbingly Catholic horrors to kill
- Here's a really weird puzzle platformer where you're a hand
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #799: Sunday, August 27
- That stylish-looking Hellboy roguelike will release on October 4th
- August 26
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- Baldur's Gate 3 used motion capture from 248 actors to bring its NPCs to life: 'You’re not only hearing the actors' voices, but you’re also seeing their physical performances'
- Baldur's Gate 3 already has a ton of custom dice mods—here's 8 of our favorites so far
- Factorio's giant Space Age expansion is coming in 2024
- The Starfield Constellation Edition came with a nifty little smartwatch, and people seem to dig it
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #798: Saturday, August 26
- Chrome got rid of the downloads bar: here's how to defy the cruel whims of Google and get it back
- August 25
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- Now here's a Gamescom trailer no one will accuse of looking like other Gamescom trailers
- Killing Floor 3's gruesome art was inspired in part by a Thanksgiving dinner: 'My wife was like, please just cook the turkey already'
- This Wordle-like game makes you catch and guess Stardew Valley's fish
- Notorious Starfield leaker has been charged with stealing 67 copies of the game
- Baldur's Gate 3 players continue to find little surprises: Astarion the vampire has rare voice lines if you nuke him with a sun ray
- AMD says Bethesda can add DLSS support to Starfield anytime it wants: 'They have our full support'
- It took modders less than a day to add CJ from GTA: San Andreas to Armored Core 6
- 7 years after launch, No Man's Sky adds its first new race in its biggest update of the year
- Lawyer wails that jailed crypto king is 'subsisting on bread and water', judge says she's 'reasonably confident' that's not the case
- Bandai Namco reckons Armored Core 6 will do well because after Elden Ring, FromSoftware's name is 'a guarantee of quality'
- Final Fantasy 14's first shapeshifting mount will let you blow yourself up, and it's free until October
- AMD finally unleashes new 7700 XT and 7800 XT mid-range GPUs
- The first major Baldur's Gate 3 patch is absolutely massive, making it easier to friendzone Gale and letting short kings smooch Karlach
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is coming to Game Pass on day one, and will be inspired by Cowboy Bebop and Firefly
- Cherry's new MX2A mechanical keyboard switch is good for 100 million mashings
- The Baldur's Gate Gazetteer lets you continue your Baldur's Gate 3 adventures in tabletop D&D—and you can grab it for free right now
- WoW Classic's hardcore servers have launched, giving Blizzard fans a whole new way to punish themselves
- MSI accidentally releases next-gen Intel Raptor Lake CPU specs and performance
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #797: Friday, August 25
- Gigabyte's new Z790 X motherboards are all about speed
- August 24
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- Todd Howard kinda wishes he hadn't announced The Elder Scrolls 6 the way he did
- You can launch Starfield as early as August 31, its global release times confirm
- There's another new dinosaur game coming, and this one asks: 'How about a co-op Alien: Isolation with velociraptors?'
- Our Xbox friends will get to play Baldur's Gate 3 after all
- I don't like RTS games but I loved Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, and you can get it for free right now
- Dark and Darker makes a deal with PUBG publisher Krafton for a mobile release
- Pete Hines can't even put a number on how long Starfield takes to complete: 'I'm at 150-160 hours on my current playthrough and I haven't even come close'
- Starfield has a New Game+ mode with 'unique and exciting twist,' in case the sheer size of the game isn't enough to keep you playing for hundreds of hours anyway
- The BioWare layoffs include the writer responsible for Dragon Age's best character
- Starfield's starter ship has been tested in Kerbal Space Program, and the poor thing won't stop exploding
- Survive a zombie outbreak and screw over other players in The Walking Dead: Betrayal's open beta
- Skateboarding roguelike Helskate shows off damage-buffing barrel rolls, and I'm stoked to shake off the rust
- Stalker 2 looks great but, thanks to the situation in Ukraine, is delayed into early next year
- Qualcomm's new gaming handheld chip has Steam Deck and AMD in its sights
- D&D's favourite spellblade subclass has been modded into Baldur's Gate 3, along with its much-desired 'blade' cantrips
- Nvidia's record-breaking profits are unsurprising but still outrageous
- Here's when Armored Core 6 unlocks in your time zone
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #796: Thursday, August 24
- August 23
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- The Lord of the Rings game we're actually excited to play is coming in October
- My favorite plane of all time is now in Microsoft Flight Simulator and oh I think I've got something in my eye
- Bethesda exec's 'one piece of advice' for Starfield players: don't skip 'amazing stuff' because it doesn't seem like a real quest
- BioWare lays off roughly 50 employees: 'We must shift towards a more agile and more focused studio'
- Move over every other 2024 game, the next great mud trucking sim just shot to the top of my wishlist
- Amazon's Fallout TV show is coming in 2024 and will be set in Los Angeles, 'where dreams come true' even after a nuclear war
- Beware the corpse nuke that can end your Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough with a bang
- Epic goes on the hunt for even more exclusives with a new program offering bigger payouts to smaller studios
- Teenager found liable for GTA 6 hack did it in a Travelodge where police put him after he was arrested for another hack
- Place your order for Samsung's absurdly awesome dual-4K $2,000 mega-monitor
- Lords of the Fallen's latest story trailer gives me hope for its shamelessly heavy metal album cover setting
- Cult of the Lamb gets a cool crossover with one of our favourite survival games
- Monitor start-up Dough promises full and fast refunds
- Typical Valve: Left 4 Dead 2 gets a 'minor update' with notes as long as your arm, and names an alligator
- Lone wolf destroys Baldur's Gate 3's toughest boss in two turns with nothing but a bow, a bag of busted magic items, and D&D's least flashy class
- Stunning 240Hz 32-inch 4K OLED monitor is star of Asus's Gamescom product splurge
- Classic '90s shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces is getting the Nightdive remaster treatment
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #795: Wednesday, August 23
- August 22
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- Killing Floor 3 is a 'gruesome graphical vision' in Unreal Engine 5
- Cyberpunk 2077 'Update 2.0' looks so big that you should probably just start a new game
- Medieval skydiving is not even the weirdest thing Crimson Desert crammed into this exhaustive new trailer
- How to watch the Future Games Show at Gamescom livestream
- Forza Motorsport's 'ideal' system requirements demand an RTX 4080 and an NvME SSD
- Modern Warfare 3's gameplay reveal was dull, but it also teased something legitimately exciting
- Diablo 4 Season 2 revealed: It's about vampires, and will include some much-requested updates
- I'm begging MiHoYo to show me more Zenless Zone Zero than this
- One of our favorite action RPGs of 2019 shows off 4 years of updates at Gamescom
- Assassin's Creed Mirage showcases 'full Arabic voiceover' in a new trailer at Gamescom
- Destiny 2's The Final Shape expansion will add new Arc, Solar and Void supers
- Starfield has 'a lot of surprises that we haven't talked about,' Todd Howard says at Gamescom
- Geoff Keighley keeps his cool as Opening Night Live stage crasher closes in: 'That's just so disappointing'
- Destiny 2 is scrapping its current seasonal model in favour of three 'episodes' per year
- Konami confuses things further, now says Metal Gear Solid collection will run at 1080p and 60 fps
- Valheim celebrates the launch of 'hard mode' by offering up a custom-made viking tankard for the fastest and hardest speedrunner
- Diablo 4's long-desired loot filters are 'definitely part of our backlog', says general manager
- Microsoft rejigs $69B Activision Blizzard deal to placate UK regulators, offers all cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft for 15 years
- WoW's UI arms race rages on as Blizzard says they'll crack down on sparkly new combat overlays
- The inevitable Half-Life 2 RTX remix is being made without Valve
- Nvidia's imminent DLSS 3.5 update will improve ray tracing and performance across all RTX GPUs
- D&D's clunky exhaustion rules are in Baldur's Gate 3, but they only apply to one unlucky (and very tired) bird
- It's-a not me: Voice actor of Mario retires after 27 years
- Shirtless halfling legend blows up Baldur's Gate 3's entire goblin camp with hundreds of explosive barrels to classical music
- How to watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #794: Tuesday, August 22
- August 21
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- Baldur's Gate 3 modder enchants Gale's underwear with one of the most devastating spells in Dungeons & Dragons
- Why people are talking about Starfield's start screen: Gaming's latest Twitter dust-up, explained
- Forget movie night, Samsung is making the first portable projector with built-in cloud gaming
- Slime Rancher is becoming a film
- You'd be forgiven for thinking this gorgeously-animated Elden Ring lore video was official
- Leaked Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 mouse sheds even more weight
- Dark and Darker pledges to fight back against cheaters with a Discord bot with a 30-day lifespan
- 'Absolute Evil' simulator Dungeons 4 is coming in November, here's our first look at gameplay
- Desperate GTA fan erupts onto unrelated TV show in quest for GTA 6 info, gets doused by a water bottle
- Konami ties itself up in knots trying to clarify whether the Metal Gear Solid collection will have mouse and keyboard support, but it seems like a yes
- Elon Musk says blocking, a feature both Apple and Google require on social apps, 'makes no sense'
- Fresh off a fantastic Quake 2 remaster, Nightdive would once again like Tim Sweeney to know it's ready and eager to do the same to Unreal
- The next game from the Battle Brothers devs is a sci-fi tactical RPG that 'takes everything beloved' about their last game and 'improves it tenfold'
- Astarion's voice actor directed Baldur's Gate 3's infamous bear scene: 'I did not know they were gonna use Astarion as the model'
- AMD preps RTX 4060-slaying 6750 GRE graphics card for $299 according to report
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #793: Monday, August 21
- Sling cards to save the planet in this free ecological strategy game
- August 20
- August 19
- August 18
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- Overwatch 2 director opens up about having the worst-reviewed game on Steam: 'Being review-bombed isn't a fun experience'
- Watch this Diablo 4 Barbarian deal 7 billion damage to Uber Lilith while she's already down
- Dave the Diver gets a major quality of life update and the players love it: 'Tears in my eyes,' one dedicated fan says
- Razer's first hot-swappable mechanical keyboard will let you mix and match switches
- Declutter your Baldur's Gate 3 inventory with either of these wonderful autosort bag mods
- One of Call of Duty's best-known developers has left Treyarch after nearly 20 years
- Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer on romances: 'sex is not the goal, it's just sex'
- Tencent is bringing back Delta Force as a 'large-scale multiplayer PvP' shooter with a singleplayer campaign based on Black Hawk Down
- This ambitious RTS/RPG mash-up from Starcraft pro players draws inspiration from 'games like Mass Effect or Baldur's Gate,' and it's on Kickstarter now
- Superfan rebuilds several fully-functioning slices of Destiny 2 in Minecraft—complete with two working Strike missions
- Star Wars Outlaws aims to recapture that Imperial Agent storyline magic by keeping the fate-of-the-galaxy stuff at arm's length
- Baldur's Gate 3 Collector's Editions are so in demand resale prices are now exceeding $2,000
- ULTRARAM's inventor tells us why the revolutionary RAM replacement could slay dumb memory DIMMs
- Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC is getting more expensive and the community is rebelling: 'Remember they need us more than we need them'
- Starfield's preload files suggest there is no sign of DLSS or XeSS support amid AMD sponsorship
- Daredevil Elden Ring challenge run ends in tragicomedy as player spends days farming 10 million runes 'for no specific reason' before losing them to cruel gravity
- Baldur's Gate 3 minmaxer finds terrifying 240 damage-per-turn Monk build, carrying on D&D's long tradition of rules-based ultraviolence
- PC Gamer UK October issue on sale now: Starfield & Top 100 PC Games 2023
- The AI hype means Nvidia is making shiploads of cash
- ASRock confirms key Intel 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh details and gives some performance info too
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #790: Friday, August 18
- August 17
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- This free Vampire Survivors clone has one thing nobody knew it needed: Vtubers
- You'll finally have a chance to try Sega's extraction shooter Hyenas for yourself at the end of August
- 'I don't think players expect this': Warhammer 40K: Darktide is adding RPG-style skill trees full of new abilities to its 4 classes
- Believe it or not, Ubisoft is doing another Skull and Bones closed beta later this month
- This adorable Bluetooth controller could be just the thing for people with itty bitty baby hands
- Modern Warfare 3 is bringing back Warzone's most beloved map, but not in the way you're hoping
- Baldur's Gate 3's chaotic Dark Urge origin is 'potentially the most heroic playthrough,' says lead writer
- Hitman's latest update frees a whole bonus campaign from PS4 purgatory after 7 years and intentionally restores an old exploit
- Modder accuses Take-Two of hypocrisy after lawyers obliterate all trace of their GTA 5 AI mod: 'Rather than chasing small mods, perhaps they should focus on creating proper remakes with better pricing'
- 'We owe them a huge debt': Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer hopes they did '90s BioWare proud
- Lenovo's new handheld will smush together our favorite bits of the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch
- Alan Wake 2 is delayed by 10 days because there are just way too many games coming in October
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World's upcoming animated series just dropped an explosive new trailer
- This free, PS1-style Twin Peaks demake absolutely nails the dreamy vibes of the show
- Sign me up for Starfield's snake worshipping death cult, which communes to its god via cool low-grav jumps
- Starfield will tantalise you with a bunch of mechs you can't use
- Magic: The Gathering returns to fairytales for Wilds of Eldraine
- All recent AMD CPUs are affected by the 'Inception' vulnerability
- AMD to announce its new graphics cards at Gamescom
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #789: Thursday, August 17
- Linus Tech Tips temporarily halts production, releases apology video: 'Linus made a clear and egregious judgment error'
- Starfield won't support full pacifist runs, but 'there are some good non-lethal options,' says quest designer
- August 16
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- Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix 4 is live again, Larian explains what went wrong and promises it won't happen again
- Stardew Valley is getting a cookbook co-authored by creator Eric Barone
- Diablo 4 player casually dropped 30 billion gold for a crossbow before Blizzard disabled trading
- Starfield has gone gold, preloads are coming
- Activision pushes back on rumors that Modern Warfare 3 is a glorified expansion: 'Our vision to deliver back-to-back Modern Warfare games has been years in the making'
- More than 10 years after it began, To the Moon's story is ending with a 'Beach Episode'
- IBM is developing an analogue AI chip that might just save our GPUs for gaming
- Steam's cheapest games are getting pricier outside the US
- We're teaming up with Modiphius for an epic Skyrim board game giveaway!
- Short kings face another injustice as Baldur's Gate 3 size differences stop them macking on their love interests properly
- Dell walloped with $6.5M fine for fake monitor discounts
- Intel's next-gen Battlemage GPU could take the fight to Nvidia's RTX 4080 after all
- Microsoft's new online rules give cheaters and trolls 7 second chances before banning them for a year
- A mod has fixed Baldur's Gate 3's most annoying quirk—NPCs running away in fear from your pets
- The new 3DMark benchmark lets you test the ray tracing performance of your Android phone
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #788: Wednesday, August 16
- Sex% is now an official Baldur's Gate 3 speedrun category and someone already did it in under 8 minutes
- What's next for Baldur's Gate 3: over 1,000 'fixes and tweaks,' official mod tools, requested features
- August 15
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- 4 ways to clean your bloody, muddy, disgusting face in Baldur's Gate 3 without long resting
- Bungie goes into damage control mode as game director admits the State of the Game update 'wasn't up to our standards for what you all expect'
- The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained
- LG just went ahead and put an entire smart TV in a briefcase, effectively ruining all of my future family vacations
- Diablo 3's final season adds a solo play mode that fans have wanted for years
- This Baldur's Gate 3 cheat mod delivers every weapon and armor in the game right to your camp
- You can change the look of your Baldur's Gate 3 dice with an easy-to-miss setting
- Armored Core 6 system requirements are pretty much the same as the Elden Ring system requirements
- Indie action RPG Hammerwatch 2 is more like A Link to the Past than Diablo 4, its developer says
- Sorry, how many chiplets were AMD trying to jam into that cancelled next-gen GPU?!
- Baldur's Gate 3 modders have added WASD controls, letting you jog around the Sword Coast like it's an MMO
- Activision quietly and permanently drops entire legal case against TikTok meme maker it previously alleged had tried to shake it down for an 'extortionate' fee
- Nvidia's allegedly cutting desktop GPU supply in favor of gaming laptop chips
- Diablo 4 tries turning trading off and on again in response to bug that let dupers amass cloned gold and items
- This debuff in Remnant 2 keeps catching players off guard by making them rip out their friends' throats
- Australian Senate committee warns TikTok and WeChat could be the country's biggest security risks
- AI chatbots and large language models are little more than 'glorified tape recorders'
- Intel retakes some CPU market share from AMD as CPU shipments tick upwards
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #787: Tuesday, August 15
- August 14
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- Wondering where your drive space is going? Check your Baldur's Gate 3 save folder
- Baldur's Gate 3 modder haphazardly adds lone wolf mode inspired by Divinity 2: 'I have not playtested this mod for more than an hour'
- Larian boss says we should think of Baldur's Gate 3's entire first act as the tutorial
- The events leading up to Starfield include a war, the founding of a space detective agency, and another war
- Ubisoft's exciting Assassin's Creed throwback game is launching a week early at just $50
- Thank God, Baldur's Gate 3 will eventually let you change your character's looks
- ULTRARAM may be a silly name but it's the holy grail for memory tech and means your PC could hibernate for over 1,000 years
- Gallowspire Survivors, a mash-up of Pathfinder and Vampire Survivors, comes to Steam Early Access on September 14
- Baldur's Gate 3 has a new Gale-centric speedrun category that lets you 'beat' the game in 10 minutes by blowing yourself up
- Intel's next-gen CPUs could deliver a 75% increase in L2 cache, which would be big news for gamers
- Hamilton Simulator in Roblox lets you sing enemies to death with characters from the musical
- Rumoured Nvidia Blackwell GPU codenames could skew the RTX 50-series more towards the mainstream
- This owlbear orbital strike in Baldur's Gate 3 can deal 1,170 points of bludgeoning damage, which is enough to kill an adult red dragon four times
- Next gen Intel LGA1851 desktop CPU pictured
- Rainbow Six Siege is getting a new operator
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #786: Monday, August 14
- Writer of the best Saints Row games is now IP director of Far Cry
- Intel 'Downfall' CPU vulnerability exposes sensitive data
- The latest Windows 11 update kills Cortana
- August 13
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- PSA: You can trade with lots of Baldur's Gate 3 NPCs who aren't traders
- Here's a free shooter for fans of Vampire Survivors and Brotato
- There are remasters of the Strong Bad games from 2008 and you can play them now
- Get your speedrun marathon fix with Flame Fatales 2023
- Check out this goofy, heavy metal indie RPG
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #785: Sunday, August 13
- If you like the way D&D's eldritch blast works in Baldur's Gate 3, now you can blast away in Skyrim too
- That one FPS with the chainsaw leg dropped and people are loving it
- Shadowrun 2007 almost had a System Shock-style singleplayer campaign
- Here's the trailer for Titan Quest 2, a mythological action RPG sequel 17 years in the making
- August 12
- August 11
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- A single Diablo 4 dungeon is so stuffed with monsters you can gain 40 levels in under 2 hours
- After 25 years this strategy city builder series is finally getting official mod support
- A new South Park game is coming in 2024 and this time it's not an RPG
- Only a few hundred people finished Baldur's Gate 3 in its first weekend
- I can't believe 35% of Baldur's Gate 3 players already took the evil route
- Baldur's Gate 3's biggest hotfix yet addresses more than 200 issues and makes your dog a better digger
- Nice to smite you: Paladin is Baldur's Gate 3's most popular class
- PSA: You can improve DLSS in Baldur's Gate 3 with this easy 3 minute tweak
- Rockstar buys the makers of the GTA Online FiveM mod it banned 8 years ago
- Don't worry if you don't have a house big enough for LG's $30K 97-inch OLED TV—it's wireless so you can just stick it in the yard
- Zealous save scumming in Baldur's Gate 3 could wipe your saved games on GeForce Now
- AMD's answer to Nvidia's Frame Gen graphics tech will finally arrive in September according to report
- This 'Cooler Karlach' mod lets you make your big demon wife even better with added scars and demonic grit
- If you're stuck in the middle of Baldur's Gate 3's karmic dice debate, Larian says you should think of it like 'a friendly DM'
- AMD rolls out limited edition Starfield 7800X3D CPUs and 7900 XTX GPUs but you can't buy one
- Tekken director warns fans not to make 'silly threats' over their favourite characters even in a joking way, saying that everybody suffers for it
- The Lollipop Chainsaw remake finally has a name, just in time to get delayed a year
- How to connect 127 USB devices to your PC. Kinda...
- Roblox wants you to interview inside Roblox to work at Roblox
- Bionicle is so back, baby—this fan made game released a new trailer with its own banging soundtrack, and it's a complete nostalgia blast
- Larian's had to patch Baldur's Gate 3's save files to be infinite size, 'to account for the sheer amount of things you’re all doing on your journeys'
- Grab Nvidia's new Baldur's Gate 3 driver for your GeForce GPU
- Now's the time to remind everyone there's a Baldur's Gate board game and no I'm not talking about D&D
- PCIe 5.0 SSDs with 14GB/s speeds are coming, and more importantly, with lower power consumption too
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #783: Friday, August 11
- Overwatch 2's Steam release means players can finally review it, and it's an absolute mess
- August 10
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- Papers, Please celebrates 10th anniversary with a retro LCD demake, merch, and a big donation
- Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- Baldur's Gate 3 transmog mod won't make you choose between armor and drip
- Blizzard just dumped buckets of demons on Diablo 4 to make the endgame grind way less miserable
- Kai Cenat finally addresses New York City giveaway riot: 'I'm being hit with multiple charges'
- Apple books exclusive access to TSMC's 3nm chipmaking capacity for a whole year
- After battling server issues, cozy MMO Palia enters open beta today
- The 26-year-old Quake 2 just got the remaster of my dreams, plus a big expansion
- Escape Simulator gets official Portal DLC
- Bungie confirms Commander Zavala is staying in Destiny 2, with Keith David taking over the role from the late Lance Reddick
- Amazon joins Nvidia and Intel as it plans to spend billions on chip designer Arm once it goes public
- Furore over dodgy AI-enhanced D&D art sees book revised and WotC swear off AI art for now
- Darkwood studio releases new game's alpha then promptly says it's going on hiatus but may return 'in 5-10 years when we get our s*** together'
- Remnant 2's about to make it way easier to unlock its sneakily hidden archetypes on your alts
- Destiny 2's most overpowered ability is being nerfed because it was 'a skeleton key that solves combat problems against all combatant types'
- God help us: The Pope suits up to go to war on AI
- Huge respect to the creator of the EVO 2023 fightstick so unwieldy they had to carry it around on their back
- A quarterly uptick in CPU shipments provides a spark of optimism for the PC market
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #782: Thursday, August 10
- August 9
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- Larian founder responds to debate over Baldur's Gate 3 'raising the bar' for RPGs: 'this is videogames, standards just die every day'
- Electronic Arts is closing the servers for even more old games, including Dead Space 2, Crysis 3, and Mirror's Edge Catalyst
- Baldur's Gate 3 wizard accidentally breaks the game by learning too many spells
- Oops, a Diablo 4 bug fix just gave Barbarians the power to deal 1 billion damage in seconds
- It's taken more than 30 years, but Flashback 2 finally has a release date
- In the face of player backlash, Dark and Darker developers say they may stop selling character classes
- For the first time in Call of Duty history, everything you unlocked in last year's game will carry over to Modern Warfare 3
- Baldur's Gate 3 localization studio apologies for missing credits, says they'll be added 'in an upcoming patch'
- Author of Tetris book sues Apple and the Tetris Company for allegedly ripping off his work to make the Tetris movie
- GTA 5 AI mod lets you use voice chat to converse, arrest, and extort the NPCs of Los Santos
- Double your Steam Deck's RAM to 32GB with this (not very) simple soldering hack
- Avowed was going to be multiplayer till the devs realised they wanted to make 'an Obsidian game and not something different'
- The artist behind Fallout 3's Deathclaw is both awed and terrified by the 'sheer tonnage of Deathclaw porn out there'
- New research shows bots beat people at convincing computers they're not bots
- Harada says Tekken 8 won’t have Denuvo, tells whining fans to 'stop your tedious allergic reactions to every single thing and sit quietly'
- Remnant 2 dev tells players moaning about Apocalypse difficulty that the mode's not called 'I get 3 orange slices and a medal for participation'
- AMD's upcoming Zen 5 CPUs predicted to be the biggest upgrade since the original Zen chips
- Take-Two CEO says the $50 price tag on the multiplayer-free PS4 and Switch port of Red Dead Redemption 1 is 'commercially accurate' actually
- New Gigabyte RTX 4060 card is half the height but all the fun
- ASRock RX 7700 XT confirmed via EEC listing
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #781: Wednesday, August 9
- Total War Warhammer 3's Changeling campaign sounds like a game-changer
- August 8
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- Don't expect a Red Dead Redemption movie anytime soon: Take-Two boss says the film industry is 'a really hard business' and he's not looking to rush into it
- Valve releases Dota 2 patch notes written entirely in emojis
- Consider getting this Baldur's Gate 3 mod that makes Wizarding less annoying early on
- 'Dad, people are sending me pictures of bears': Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke 'wasn't ready' for the bear sex scene to go so viral
- Overwatch 2's new healer has a giant railgun powered by the sun
- Baldur's Gate 3 patch fixes githyanki penises, gnome underwear, and some funky dialogue issues
- NASA discovers giant question mark where universe failed to render correctly
- Hitman's first elusive target in two years lets you drop the beat on an IRL DJ
- Not even Baldur's Gate 3 is safe from Final Fantasy 14 as fans spot a reference to one of its most heartbreaking moments
- Nvidia announces 'the most powerful single slot GPU on the planet' but it's a workstation card so naturally costs $1,250
- Pro wrestling RPG WrestleQuest delayed thanks to heel interference in the final minutes
- Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya sticks up for the term JRPG after controversy: 'These are RPG games that, in a sense, only Japanese creators can make'
- Your pixel perfect 4K OLED gaming monitor is coming in April
- MrBeast Burger bites back with $100M+ lawsuit against MrBeast
- Red Dead Redemption fans turn their ire against Rockstar after bewildering PS4 port choice: 'Rockstar is Dutch and we've all become Arthur'
- Valve confirms plan to sell 'certified refurbished' Steam Decks
- Colorful is set to launch the cutest little RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #780: Tuesday, August 8
- August 7
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- Baldur's Gate 3's first big penis mod makes you the 'pride of the orcs'
- Larian's boss worried Baldur's Gate 3 had peaked in early access, so its massive 800K concurrent player launch was 'way, way beyond' expectations
- The new Street Fighter 6 character is really into nail art
- Blizzard bans Diablo 4 exploiters for intentionally unplugging their internet
- 'We haven't started on an expansion' to Baldur's Gate 3, Larian says, but it's not completely off the table
- Modern Warfare 3 coming just a year after Modern Warfare 2 has me worried it's gonna be an awkward year for Call of Duty
- Surprise! PvP dungeon crawler Dark and Darker is out in early access now
- 'Unpatchable' vulnerability in Tesla's AMD chips allows free access to the cars' paywalled features
- Rockstar snubs PC with baffling Red Dead Redemption 1 port that's only coming to Switch and PS4
- BattleBit Remastered hits 2.0 with universal healing, community servers, and a nerf to the most fearsome gun in the game
- Opera GX assumes you're dead after 14 days 'or using a different browser. In that case, you'll just be dead to us'
- Mortal Kombat 1 is bringing back Havik, the guy who tears his own arm off and hits you with it
- Baldur's Gate 3 FSR 2.2 upgrade likely to drop 'closer to September 6'
- Hundreds sign up to ponder OpenAI founder's eye-scanning crypto orb despite data concerns
- You can get some free Baldur's Gate 3-themed goodies on D&D Beyond right now
- Baldur's Gate 3 is now fully ✅Verified for Steam Deck
- NASA shouts at space, reestablishes contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft
- Tekken 8's EVO trailers confirm entire roster leak is actually real
- This AI can steal your data by listening to your keystrokes with 95% accuracy
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #779: Monday, August 7
- AM5 motherboards are about to receive support for much faster memory
- Play the demo of this cyberpunk vampire RPG
- August 6
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- Valve cracks down on 'wild west' of 3rd party battle passes and other real-money transactions for custom Dota 2 game modes
- Draft up an autobattling army in the roguelike Tales & Tactics this week
- Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, and it's all thanks to the Steam Deck
- Build and defend a nice little kingdom in microstrategy game Thronefall
- Scope out some new stories, try a few demos, in Steam's visual novel fest
- Magic: The Gathering's next crossovers include Fallout and Final Fantasy
- On the off-chance anyone still cares, Overwatch 2 story missions begin soon
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #778: Sunday, August 6
- The Metal Gear series has sold 60 million copies
- Darktide promises shared wallets and other welcome quality-of-life changes in next patch
- August 5
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- Check out the demo for this 4X where killer robots fight eldritch aliens on apocalyptic earth
- Baldur's Gate 3 enters top 10 all-time peak Steam games, knocking Apex Legends out
- Broforce is 80% off to celebrate its inexplicable, free Broforce Forever update
- Remnant 2 update ditches some grinding and makes respecs easier
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #777: Saturday, August 5
- Narrative cooking game Venba may cause biryani cravings, tears
- August 4
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- You can get a 'happy' ending in the first minutes of Baldur's Gate 3, sort of
- Of course Baldur's Gate 3 lets you stack dozens of crates and stand on top of them so you can teleport over the wall of a keep
- New York City's Union Square overrun with fans, chaos ensues as 'King of Twitch' Kai Cenat announces impromptu giveaway
- Baldur's Gate 3 has a voice actor dedicated to making sex sounds and he has a message for players: 'you little horny perverts ... you think of me'
- Baldur's Gate 3's first hotfix addresses more than 150 issues including that nasty savegame bug
- Increase your Baldur's Gate 3 party size to 8 characters with this mod
- Baldur's Gate 3 smashes 500,000 concurrent users on Steam
- Larian slipped an Eldritch legal clause into Baldur's Gate 3's ToS
- Streamer deals himself so much psychic damage grinding Jedi: Survivor's tutorial for hours in a no-death run that he later declares defeat without actually dying
- Devilish Baldur's Gate 3 bug prevents players save scumming like god intended
- Fortnite's adding a museum about the Holocaust
- Microsoft accused of 'negligent cybersecurity practices' that 'enabled Chinese espionage against the US government'
- Baldur's Gate 3's first background mod lets you play a character that was trapped in a goat's body for a decade
- If you're done with Netflix's Witcher, Andrzej Sapkowski is writing the first new book in 10 years
- One of our favourite games of 2021 is free, so I just spent an hour playing it rather than writing this
- Someone's designing a gorgeous CPU cooling water block that lets you completely hide the tubes
- Next-gen AMD RDNA 4 GPUs reportedly won't compete with Nvidia at the high end
- D&D rival Paizo has no plans to follow in its virtual tabletop footsteps with Pathfinder and Starfinder, says they're prioritising 'the VTTs our fans choose'
- All Genshin Impact codes from the version 4.0 livestream
- Flush with the Baldur's Gate 3 vibes, Larian CEO tells acquisitive corporations to take a hike: 'I'm getting older, but I'm certainly not done yet'
- Alienware's new Aurora R16 desktop PC is a deeply disappointing square box
- PowerColor listing confirms the RX 7800 XT, complete with full specifications
- Get free World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes DLC to celebrate Wargaming's 25th birthday
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #776: Friday, August 4
- August 3
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- The top Baldur's Gate 3 Twitch clips are streamers discovering it features full nudity
- There's another Future Games Show this month, with '8 world premieres'
- If you're not on the Baldur's Gate 3 hype train, this new extraction shooter is having an open beta you can play instead
- Steam's newest showcase event is all about games that make me feel like an absolute dummy
- Valve resets the rules on pro CS:GO tournaments: 'we've seen professional Counter-Strike drift away' from its ideals
- There's already a Baldur's Gate 3 mod that lets you multiclass on Explorer difficulty
- Baldur's Gate 3 launch slams into Steam like a rogue iceberg, but the servers refuse to sink
- Bungie's vast new State of the Game blog touches on every aspect of Destiny 2—but they had me at saving my favourite shaders
- After inflicting them with hallucinations, vanishing guns, and 'quicksand', Call of Duty will now name and shame banished cheaters mid-game
- Twitch bans 'promotion or sponsorship' of CS:GO skin gambling
- Musician organises a 200-person musical cover of Final Fantasy 14's greatest hits for its 10th anniversary, and yes, La Hee is in there
- Stop what you're doing and revel in the heavy chiptune virtuosity that is Master Boot Record
- Don't worry, your Baldur's Gate 3 sex scenes are hidden from co-op players by default
- YouTuber makes viral video about why Hades' hardest playthrough is basically impossible, then a speedrunner comes along a week later and beats it for the first time in history
- The best gaming laptop form factor gets another player in the Legion
- Potential Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 leak shows Plankton piloting a giant mech Ratatouille-style and I'm obsessed
- Baldur's Gate 3 issues a 6-step pre-launch to-do list for early access players, and is once again strongly recommending you put it on an SSD
- GameStop drops cryptocurrency wallet support due to the 'regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space'
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #775: Thursday, August 3
- August 2
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- Bungie warns Destiny 2 cheat makers: Your days of operating 'without fear of consequences are over'
- We're not sure what went wrong with Reddit, but it's fixed now (Updated)
- Diablo 4's next patch ignores what Sorcerers and Barbarians needed most and targets their weakest builds instead
- The Callisto Protocol studio lays off 32 employees
- The Witcher producer blames Americans and impatient young people for the Netflix show's simplified plot
- Skanky old DDR4 server chips reportedly sold in new RAM kits but really don't panic
- MrBeast Burger says MrBeast's a no-good bully who's 'elevated greed over his word and the truth', and it'll see him in court
- Modern Warfare 2 now canonically features an indestructible dog named Merlin who lives on your belt
- This completely submersible RTX 4090 PC is slightly silly but totally awesome
- Remnant 2 devs revealed a secret class only datamining could uncover, only for a guy with no coding experience to find it in less than a week with AI and 15 cans of Red Bull
- Starfield's sandwich-hoarding producer says she's building a big spaceship called The Griller
- Disco Elysium for $12 may be the best $12 you ever spend on games in your life
- Street Fighter 6 tournament accidentally broadcasts Chun Li nude mod to the world
- It looks like D&D 5th edition's worst subclass will be saved by Baldur's Gate 3
- RX 7900 XTX finally appears in new Steam hardware survey but AMD's overall market share is still horrible
- Post Malone succumbs to the lure of power, purchases one-of-a-kind Ring of Sauron Magic: The Gathering card valued at $2 million
- Sony and Microsoft really are propping up AMD's beleaguered GPU business right now
- AMD confirms imminent launch of 'new enthusiast-class Radeon 7000-series cards'
- That 4K 32-inch OLED gaming monitor you've been waiting for will finally arrive in summer 2024
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #774: Wednesday, August 2
- Fallout 4's best mod is coming to a dramatic conclusion
- August 1
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- This intensely weird indie game can only be replayed once a year, and only if you beat a once-a-year challenge
- Strange Diablo 4 glitch has players unplugging their internet to create a portal between realms
- Baldur's Gate 3 may not have Golden Pantaloons, but you can get purple underwear by watching some Twitch streams
- Let the ear collecting begin: World of Warcraft Classic's Hardcore servers open soon
- Larian tells Baldur's Gate 3 players to delete early access saves and uninstall the game to avoid 'unintended conflicts' with the full launch
- Tekken director busts into seemingly illegitimate stream, threatens to 'SHOW my power' with a lifetime ban, then realises the dude's innocent
- Alien is coming to Dead by Daylight and fans are absolutely screaming in space and everywhere else
- It took the first Remnant months to sell a million copies, but Remnant 2 did it in 4 days
- It only takes 32 AMD GPUs and 33 hours to run a 40 billion cell simulation of the Concorde supersonic plane
- MrBeast is trying to sue his own 'raw' 'revolting' and 'inedible' burgers out of existence
- Elden Ring streamer collapses in joy after finally completing no-hit saxophone 'doot run' in apparent world first
- Lenovo reportedly reviving plans for a handheld PC after ditching the Android-based Legion Play
- Sin: Reloaded 'isn't dead' but sure sounds like it's on ice
- Path of Exile devs 'feel very bad' for their Diablo 4 counterparts, but that's live service for you and why they're 'going more in the Elden Ring sort of direction'
- NES inspired mechanical keyboards with massive matching A and B buttons are a vibe
- NASA mistakenly nudged Voyager 2 spacecraft's antenna causing the mother of all network connectivity issues [updated]
- Intel's next-next gen Lunar Lake architectural details surface
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #773: Tuesday, August 1
