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- September 30
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- Fallen Aces looks like pulp comics Dishonored in a new extended gameplay trailer
 - Carrion meets Castlevania in Necrofugitive—a 2D stealth-action game where your enemies can set traps and learn from your slaughter
 - Our favorite mini-Morrowind is adding a mysterious realm ruled by a clockwork god in its next update
 - Prodeus' new expansion hands you a spear and a grappling hook before sending you to attack and dethrone god
 - One of the best shooters of 2022 just surprise dropped its first new level since launch
 - Twisted Tower takes BioShock and turns it into a deadly game show run by a disturbed toymaker
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 30 (#111)
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #833: Saturday, September 30
 
 - September 29
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- Call of Duty continues aggressive Fortnite-ification with new skins from Diablo, Spawn, and He-Man
 - Justice for melee weapons: a Cyberpunk 2077 modder has rectified the game's biggest oversight for stealth play
 - Warzone 2's coolest gun ever is a low-framerate recreation of a super classic we all know and love
 - Craft-your-own-guns shooter United 1944 is having a three-day playtest that's live right now
 - If the phrase 'open world survival shopkeeping game' intrigues you, let Saleblazers take over your weekend
 - Cyberpunk 2077's next patch promises to fix the 'Johnny vision' bug and other in-game headaches
 - Cyberpunk 2077 director says studio's switch from REDengine to Unreal Engine 5 'isn't starting from scratch'
 - Last chance: Marvel's Avengers is on sale for one more day before being delisted forever
 - Peter Molyneux is ready to disappoint us again with his latest game, a blockchain-based business sim
 - DeepMind's Chinchilla AI toasts FLAC and PNG at lossless data compression despite essentially being just a large language model
 - Van Gogh Museum's event gets gatecrashed by Pokemon TCG scalpers in a prime example of 'why we can't have nice things'
 - EU court rejects Valve appeal against €1.6 million fine for 'geo-blocking' Steam games, says policy existed to protect publisher royalties and 'the margins earned by Valve'
 - Baldur's Gate 3 dataminer discovers the most gut-punching ways to upset your companions, if you're into that sort of thing
 - Larian's shared the most-played multiclasses in Baldur's Gate 3—and one of D&D's favourites is somehow second-to-last
 - Final Fantasy 7's gacha game is making its way over to PC
 - AMD Zen 5 and 6 CPU details and performance 'leak' and slightly disappoint
 - Starfield's cursed rain orb lifts the veil on an old game design trick: 'pack it up boys, it's over'
 - The Knights of the Old Republic Remake is either dead or about to become more powerful than you can possibly imagine
 - Nvidia's French offices raided by antitrust authorities following suspicion of 'anticompetitive practices'
 - AMD FSR 3 and frame generation support is debuting in two games this week
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 29 (#110)
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #832: Friday, September 29
 - Thanks to a bug, players have found a 'realm of naked men' in Baldur's Gate 3
 - 12 years since release, The Binding of Isaac is getting proper online co-op soon
 
 - September 28
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- Intel begins high-volume production of Intel 4 node chips this week
 - Want to try a new playstyle in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty? Here's the director's 'warlock netrunner' build
 - Bethesda just released a new Elder Scrolls mobile game that's basically Fallout Shelter meets Skyrim
 - Cyberpunk 2077 player finds a Witcher 3 easter egg by calling a phone number scrawled on a dingy sticky note
 - The Talos Principle 2 is coming in November, and this time there's a whole gang of robots to deal with
 - Restricted military info is being posted on the War Thunder forums so much these days, nobody really cares anymore (except War Thunder moderators)
 - Even with its Warhammer 40K RPG coming in hot, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' developer is cranking out yet another big DLC
 - Oh dear, ChatGPT can once again browse the internet
 - Dispel Magic who? A Baldur's Gate 3 player depowered a climactic necromancer boss by smuggling an anti-magic flower for dozens of hours across two whole acts
 - Cyberpunk 2077 director says CD Projekt never considered walking away at any point over the last 3 years: 'it was all culminating in 2.0'
 - As PC gaming's war on cheating rages, EA explains why it's making its own anticheat: 'Cheat developers have increasingly moved into the kernel, so we need to have kernel-mode protections'
 - Valve issues day-one warning to Counter-Strike 2 cheaters: we're coming for your accomplices, too
 - xQc nabs around $30K of rare Counter-Strike 2 skins in buckwild run of luck on the game's first day
 - These Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses want to turn us all into IRL streamers
 - Epic Games is laying off more than 800 people: 'We've been spending way more money than we earn'
 - Cities: Skylines 2 has been delayed until 2024, but only on consoles
 - Astarion can literally get blood from a stone in Baldur's Gate 3
 - The Netflix Devil May Cry anime that Adi Shankar is working on 'so the jabronis in Hollywood don't f*** this one up too' finally has a teaser
 - Take all those damn pencils out of your Starfield inventory, Todd Howard tells overencumbered pack rats
 - A Snoop Dogg AI named 'The Dungeon Master' joins Meta's new fleet of bots, which you can 'invoke' in your group chats at-will
 - Mortal Kombat 1 planning to fix bug that was unintentionally making Player 1 way stronger
 - Another console dad hangs up his spurs as PlayStation boss Jim Ryan announces he's retiring from Sony next year
 - Starfield players are finding a use for all their junk and plundered sandwiches: Rube Goldberg machines
 - Sega abruptly scraps extraction FPS Hyenas inches from the finish line
 - Hackers could steal your data via an unpatched GPU pixel-stealing attack. Though that 'could' is doing some real heavy lifting
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 28 (#109)
 - Stardew Valley's 1.6 update was supposed to be for modders, but it's adding 8-player support, three festivals, over 100 lines of dialogue, and more
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #831: Thursday, September 28
 - Cyberpunk 2077's core mods have been updated to support 2.0
 - MSI's green themed RTX 4060 NV Edition graphics card is perfect for showing the world just how much you love Nvidia
 
 - September 27
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- Starfield's infinite weapon glitch is your path to farming epic guns
 - Activision cites 'organizational changes' as the reason for Hearthstone layoffs
 - A new age dawns: Counter-Strike 2 is live on Steam, replaces CS:GO
 - CD Projekt removes consequences for punching Cyberpunk 2077's most punchable character in the face
 - EA Sports FC 24 isn't even out yet and FIFA 23 has already been removed from Steam and other storefronts
 - Some Starfield players are trying to solve a mysterious puzzle that might not actually be a mysterious puzzle
 - Meta Quest 3 is coming on October 10 promising 'double the GPU processing power' of the Quest 2
 - Yes, Phantom Liberty and patch 2.0 really are Cyberpunk 2077's 'last big updates' and it's finally time to start the sequel, director confirms
 - Like a telecommunications policy-focused Justin Timberlake, the FCC is bringing net neutrality back
 - The next game from Dave the Diver studio Mintrocket is… a 16-player PvP zombie survival game?
 - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 ollies its way onto Steam after 3 years in the Epic Games slammer
 - Nvidia was born in Denny's and now a booth in the East San Jose restaurant has been dedicated to the trillion-dollar company
 - Team Fortress 2 voice actors go for the Oscars with recreation of its most iconic fan skit
 - Starfield DLSS3 mod creator threatens Patreon pirates with 'hidden mines' in monologue: 'They will never know if they have found all of them'
 - Horizon Forbidden West becomes a lot less forbidden to PC users next year
 - Cyberpunk 2077 has a new Doom easter egg loaded with hints for the game's oldest mystery, like a QR code repaired using real-world maths from 1960
 - Huzzah, the new anti-melting 12V-2x6 GPU power connector duly doesn't melt in initial testing
 - Cyberpunk 2077's redemption arc leads to the highest Steam player count since its disastrous launch
 - Remnant 2 devs did no-hit runs to test their bosses 'if you could beat it the first time, it was too easy'
 - Once, finally and for all Intel's Meteor Lake is not coming to the desktop CPU sockets
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 27 (#108)
 - Newegg announces a hassle-free GPU trade-in program
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #830: Wednesday, September 27
 - Ahead of update, Vampire Survivors creator insists 'graphically ugly third person devoid-of-narrative single player games will continue to be the foundation of our business'
 
 - September 26
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- George R.R. Martin and other authors say OpenAI stole their books to train ChatGPT: 'We are here to fight'
 - This pitch perfect Baldur's Gate 3 fan edit of the Friends opening has me trying to match up each companion
 - Chris Metzen returns to Blizzard full-time to create 'the next generation of adventures' in World of Warcraft
 - Baldur's Gate 3 voice actors playing D&D as their characters is as fun to watch as you'd hope
 - Voice actors vote overwhelmingly to approve a strike: 'It’s time for the videogame companies to stop playing games'
 - Todd Howard says Starfield's planetary survival systems were originally 'very punitive' but 'we just nerfed the hell out of it'
 - EVE Online director wants players to be able to download its grandest battles as replays and do post-match analysis like football
 - Ransomware group claims to have hacked 'all of Sony systems,' Sony is investigating
 - Todd Howard says that Starfield's ship AI sucks on purpose so players can actually hit stuff: 'You have to make the AI really stupid'
 - Kerbal Space Program 2 has been spamming your Windows registry with junk since launch, but a fix is being tested right now
 - Capcom stirs the pot, saying 'game prices are too low'
 - Baldur's Gate 3's latest patch has introduced a 'very frustrating, borderline unplayable' glitch that makes companions dump their inventories on you
 - Cyberpunk 2077 2.0's new Edgerunners easter eggs just hit me with an existential crisis all over again
 - Samsung's new low power, high performance memory range could be a serious boon for compact gaming laptops
 - Mario 64 speedrunners have cracked a 10-year-old problem, turning it from a Twitch chat meme into a must-use strat using algorithms and raw determination
 - CD Projekt is putting your Cyberpunk 2077 mods on ice to make sure they don't wreak havoc with Phantom Liberty
 - Bayonetta creator and co-founder Hideki Kamiya to leave Platinum: 'Keep your eyes peeled'
 - Valve launches SteamVR 2.0 beta with 'goal of bringing all of what's new on the Steam platform into VR'
 - ChatGPT update gives it eyes and ears
 - Radeon boss Scott Herkelman will leave AMD at the end of the year
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 26 (#107)
 - Microsoft's data centers of the future could be nuclear powered
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #829: Tuesday, September 26
 
 - September 25
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- CCP knows Dust 514 should never have been a console exclusive: 'If we had been on PC the whole time the game would literally be alive'
 - CD Projekt apologizes for anti-Russian dialogue and images in Ukrainian version of Cyberpunk 2077, says it was added without permission
 - Starfield mod lets you zip between planets seamlessly
 - Leaked email reveals Phil Spencer's damning verdict on AAA games: 'Most publishers are riding the success of franchises created 10+ years ago'
 - A nasty Johnny Silverhand bug nearly derailed my Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough, but this mod came to the rescue
 - Starfield update patches out loot exploits, 'larger update' with DLSS support, FOV slider still in the works
 - Payday 3's launch has gone so badly that Starbreeze says it's now 'looking at the possibility of some sort of offline mode'
 - Detroit: Become Human dev's take on Star Wars is still cooking, and it'll have the studio's usual storytelling quirks: 'There's no game over. Anyone can die'
 - Starfield glitch sees players followed by rocks, forests, and the entire city of New Atlantis
 - PSA: You can lock yourself out of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's main questline early on
 - US to introduce 'guardrails' to ensure that companies benefitting from CHIPS Act funding spend it where they should be
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 25 (#106)
 - A lost first-person Pokémon browser game has been found and restored
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #828: Monday, September 25
 - This shooter's CoD Zombies revival is a blast in co-op, but its funky Frankenmodes are what I'm really craving to play
 - Intel's Meteor Lake chips are coming to desktops after all
 
 - September 24
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- Third Star Wars: Jedi game confirmed by Cal Kestis actor Cameron Monaghan
 - Here's when Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty unlocks in your time zone
 - The three-year quest to solve a cryptic puzzle spanning Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 has been turned on its head by new clues and controversial datamining
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 24 (#105)
 - No, that wasn't Elon Musk in Cyberpunk 2077, says senior quest designer
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #827: Sunday, September 24
 - D&D's next book is about Planescape, and 'fans of the Planescape: Torment videogame will see all sorts of nods'
 - 26 staff have been laid off at Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition studio Beamdog
 
 - September 23
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- Defend your interstellar factory when Dyson Sphere Program gets combat this December
 - The ambitious mod to recreate a 23-year-old vampire RPG in Skyrim shows off its take on medieval Prague
 - Updated Dwarf Fortress comes to Linux, fixes those pesky marksdwarves
 - Work an office job keeping sinners in hell via tower defense in Heretic's Fork
 - GOG is celebrating 15 years with a big sale and free adventure game for all users
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 23 (#104)
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #826: Saturday, September 23
 
 - September 22
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- Payday 3 slammed on Steam by players forced to wait in server queues just to play by themselves
 - EVE Online's next expansion finally lets players buddy-up with the pirates
 - Unity makes big changes to the install fee that pissed off just about every game developer last week
 - Watch out, Dark and Darker: Suddenly there's another dungeon extraction game hitting PC, Project Crawl
 - Health items and grenades are so much better in Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 update
 - EVE: Vanguard is CCP's latest attempt at a shooter, but don't call it Dust 2
 - Baldur's Gate 3's third patch just dropped and it's over 20,000 words big—fixing small holes, thieving skeletons, and counterspelling a nuke
 - Someone put the Armored Core 6 maps in Elden Ring, for reasons
 - Aww, Starfield players are making the dinkiest little ships
 - Nvidia calls time on native-res gaming, says DLSS is more 'real' than raster
 - You can do sick motorcycle rocket jumps in Cyberpunk 2077 with a gun that takes 5 minutes to find, and it's nearly impossible to control
 - Starfield beards just got a whole lot more detailed with this mod
 - The official Lord of the Rings special effects studio is making a cozy hobbit game
 - Microsoft finally lays UK regulators' cloud gaming fears to rest—new consultation suggests an end to the drawn-out Activision Blizzard acquisition saga
 - Steam Deck 2 is at least two years away
 - Valve preps SteamVR overhaul as excitement grows for rumoured headset
 - Cities: Skylines 2's newest road tool has me way too excited
 - The EU says 'prove it' to companies that are dubiously claiming their products are environmentally friendly
 - Assassin's Creed Mirage will support DLSS and FSR after all
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 22 (#103)
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #825: Friday, September 22
 
 - September 21
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- Keanu Reeves looks more like Keanu Reeves now thanks to Cyberpunk 2077's latest update
 - Modder Dav0r, creator of the iconic Garry's Mod toolgun, has died
 - The next big Windows 11 update comes with a new AI-powered assistant but I'm more excited about the update to Notepad
 - Here's our first good look at Dragon's Dogma 2 gameplay
 - DDoS attacks were the source of Destiny 2's server troubles this week
 - Razer finally just went ahead and started making 'gamer' lamps
 - I can't believe my eyes! Razer Synapse is getting a much-needed quality-of-life update
 - Razer is teaming up with Lamborghini to make an absurdly expensive and slightly orange gaming laptop
 - Here are the full patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077's huge 2.0 update
 - Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 sneakily adds a 'look at your cool gun' button
 - Ubisoft casually announces The Division 3
 - You should delete your Cyberpunk 2077 mods ahead of update 2.0, and you may need to do a clean reinstall of the game
 - Baldur's Gate 3 is finally getting an appearance-changing 'magic mirror,' praise Mystra
 - Final Fantasy 14 is getting the D&D treatment with its very own TTRPG
 - You can prep for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and get a preem free gun on launch day—all you have to do is download Gwent
 - Wake up, Samurai—Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Nvidia GPU driver just dropped
 - Baldur's Gate 3's next 'big' patch has been slightly delayed
 - The RX 7800 XT is an undervolting champ: matches the RTX 4070 in games for much lower power demands than normal
 - Cooler Master's flat-packed PC cases are here and not a day too soon
 - Baldur's Gate 3 has some utterly heartbreaking voice lines for throwing a ball when there's no one there to catch it
 - OpenAI's new DALL-E 3 AI image generator isn't allowed to copy a living artist's style by name
 - Dead Space creator leaves The Callisto Protocol studio to 'pursue new opportunities' after its sky-high ambitions fall through
 - Asus' 135-inch Micro-LED display is utterly ridiculous yet utterly lustworthy
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 21 (#102)
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #824: Thursday, September 21
 
 - September 20
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- Here's when to expect the Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 patch to release in your time zone
 - Trailer for disastrous Mortal Kombat 1 Switch release contains a Steam achievement popup
 - Counter-Strike 2 probably releases next week
 - RIP to hard drives: SSDs only for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
 - Terraria developer sticks it to Unity with $200K donation to open-source competitors, doesn't even use Unity itself
 - Bethesda finally put proper ladders in a game, so of course players have dedicated themselves to designing Starfield ships without any
 - iFixit says Apple's iPhone 14 is 'literally not repairable' due to strict parts validation rule
 - This charming magic zoo game is all about keeping misbehaving critters in check long enough to help them
 - Intel's next-gen Lunar Lake CPU demo poses more questions than it answers
 - CD Projekt recommends starting a new game when Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0 drops: 'starting fresh will enhance your overall gameplay experience'
 - Microsoft's next all-new Xbox console could have Arm not x86 CPU cores
 - Microsoft dreamed up a next-gen Xbox, powered by Zen 6 and Navi 5, and 'performance beyond the capabilities of the client hardware alone'
 - Elon Musk demanded a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 while wielding a 200-year-old gun: 'I was armed but not dangerous'
 - Creator of radical Starfield stealth kill montage talks virtual choreography and Cyberpunk 2077—'regarding combat and stealth … Cyberpunk takes the cake'
 - Starfield player cobbles together an industrial factory with over 3,000 placemats—and that's just to get the floor level
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #823: Wednesday, September 20
 - Stacked 3D cache is coming to Intel CPUs, and gamers should be excited
 - A new survey finds the public are growing increasingly wary of AI
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 20 (#101)
 - FTC says Microsoft leaked its own stuff, Phil Spencer downplays relevance of confidential docs
 
 - September 19
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- Assassin's Creed Mirage has very reasonable system requirements, thank god
 - Microsoft dismissed Baldur's Gate 3 as a 'second-run Stadia PC RPG' before it released—Larian doesn't blame them
 - Microsoft would buy Valve 'if opportunity arises,' said Phil Spencer in leaked email
 - Microsoft leak reveals new Xbox controller with an accelerometer and DualSense-style haptics
 - Starfield hero adds New Atlantis map to New Atlantis
 - Tekken 8 is getting another bigger, better beta next month
 - Dishonored 3, Oblivion and Fallout 3 remasters appear in leaked list of unannounced Bethesda games
 - Elon Musk potentially eyes locking Twitter behind a paywall to combat 'vast armies of bots'
 - Ed Boon wanted every fighter in Mortal Kombat 1 to be played by a famous actor, with Keanu Reeves as Kenshi
 - Could we see an Intel Meteor Lake powered PC handheld? 'It's really just up to the OEMs'
 - Intel's commitment to building GPUs is 'pretty self evident' as Arc lands in Meteor Lake
 - I didn't need a graphics card to play Dying Light 2 on Intel's new laptop chip
 - Here's why Intel's Meteor Lake laptop chips are actually interesting for PC gamers
 - The Elder Scrolls 6 is at least 3 years away, probably more, and there's bad news for PlayStation fans
 - Logitech finally assimilates Blue Microphones with a new lineup of Yeti mics under its own name
 - Diablo 4 continues to walk back changes from its fiendishly unpopular 1.1 patch, boosting XP gain on World Tiers 3 and 4
 - Stadia's death spiral, according to the Google employee in charge of mopping up after its murder
 - One of the best Lovecraftian tabletop RPGs ever is ridiculously cheap right now
 - Whether or not Nvidia really has a chiplet-based RTX 5090 'under investigation' its GPU future has to be multi-chip
 - Mortal Kombat 1 may be facing some PC performance issues, but hey, at least it's not the terrifyingly hilarious Switch version
 - Vaguely threatening Final Fantasy 14 KFC crossover confirms the Colonel's canon job, and I'm scared for the local chocobo population
 - This Starfield tribute to Metal Gear Solid's awfully long ladder scene would keep even the most determined space pirate away from your loot
 - Oops, Microsoft left 38TB of sensitive data exposed for 3 years including internal Teams chats
 - UK market authority lays down guidance for principled use of AI
 - Intel quietly launches its speedy Wi-Fi 7 chipsets
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 19 (#100)
 - The Baldur's Gate 3 cast will play their characters in a D&D livestream this week
 
 - September 18
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- They just won't stop: War Thunder has deleted yet another military manual from its forums
 - Former BioWare manager wishes Dragon Age had kept a 'PC-centric' and 'modding-driven' identity like Neverwinter Nights
 - I want this prototype modular handheld gaming PC so badly
 - This week is an excellent time to watch the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime
 - Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell GPUs rumored to be chiplet-based
 - DC Comics adamant The Wolf Among Us' source material is not in the public domain, as its creator calls them 'thugs and conmen' and insists it is
 - Microsoft's product chief for Windows 11 is leaving after nearly 20 years at the company
 - Just in case you murder everyone, Baldur's Gate 3 has back-up NPCs—and even back-ups for its back-ups
 - Premier League superstar 'shocked' about how poorly EA Sports FC rates his abilities
 - The ROG Ally gets a new Zen 4c chip and a worrying price tag
 - Intel is making progress on a handy new material for building even bigger computer chips: glass
 - Game that raised over $1.5 million on Kickstarter defends its use of AI art: 'It's certainly going to hurt people [but] I don’t think this is going to go back in the bag'
 - My new greatest fear is meeting the two-faced monster from this survival horror game that combines retro pixel art with FMV
 - PC Gamer UK November issue on sale now: MechWarrior 5: Clans
 - Mjolnir, bi-planes, and a big gun: Starfield players keep building anything other than spaceships
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 18 (#99)
 - Unity apologizes for controversial new pricing scheme, 'will be making changes to the policy'
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #821: Monday, September 18
 - Brazen Blaze is a VR Smash Bros. where you can punch people into space
 
 - September 17
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- Enjoy minimalist stealth-action, Splinter Cell and MGS style, in No Sun to Worship
 - Armored Core 6's biggest boss is so huge, it'd be its own landmark on Elden Ring's world map
 - I am mesmerized by the impeccable vibes of this trippy twin-stick shooter
 - Here's a puzzle game about a small dog with a very long stick
 - Watch a Baldur's Gate 3 character break right through the fourth wall like the Kool-Aid Man
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 17 (#98)
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #820: Sunday, September 17
 - 6 million people played Ghostwire: Tokyo
 - World's biggest mod site bans pronoun-removing Starfield mod: 'We stand for diversity and inclusion'
 - Out of the blue, seven-year-old FPS Titanfall 2 has fully working multiplayer again
 
 - September 16
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- Update: 'Frankengun' Destiny glitch has been patched, hope you had your fun
 - If you like inventory grids they've made an action roguelike specifically for you
 - Spider-Man 2's open world will be twice as big as the first games
 - SteamOS 3.5 brings more warmth, vibrancy to the Deck's colors
 - NYT Connections hint and answers today: September 16 (#97)
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #819: Saturday, September 16
 
 - September 15
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- Helldivers 2 has a cool new gameplay trailer, but it's delayed to 2024
 - Payday 3 developer drops Denuvo from the game before it's even out
 - The next League spinoff is a farming sim from the Graveyard Keeper devs
 - Iconic mechs return as Mechwarrior 5: Clans invites you to be the bad guys
 - Creator of The Wolf Among Us' noir fantasy universe declares it's now in the public domain
 - Lies of P's deluxe edition early access release hit a Steam hiccup, but it's live now
 - Looks like Nvidia has effectively cut the RTX 4070 price to $550 in response to the RX 7800 XT
 - Get the full lowdown on Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin in its latest trailer
 - Digital Eclipse is remaking the original Wizardry, and you can play it right now
 - Starfield modder plans to improve Inner Monologue mod with custom personal commentary
 - Amnesia: The Bunker's Halloween update plans to make this year's scariest game even more terrifying
 - All Genshin Impact codes from the version 4.1 livestream
 - Baldur's Gate 3 lead character artist reassures amateurs it's 'in the artists' nature to doubt ourselves'
 - Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+L is the most cursed Windows 11 shortcut combo
 - Stig Asmussen, director of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Respawn Entertainment
 - This JRPG with the Persona devs backing it was the coolest Nintendo Direct announcement that could actually come to PC
 - NYT Connections today: hint and answers for September 15 (#96)
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #818: Friday, September 15
 - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC version might release within months of the PS5 version
 
 - September 14
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- Every Starfield player should use these 3 essential mods
 - Hades 2 launches in early access in 2024, will aim to repeat what made the first game a surprise hit
 - Immortals of Aveum studio lays off nearly half its staff less than a month after releasing the game
 - Decorate the inside of Starfield ships to your heart's desire with one simple console command
 - The original Tomb Raider trilogy is being remastered for real and coming to PC just in time for Valentine's Day
 - A surprise sequel to my favorite co-op game just launched and you have a month to claim it for free
 - Steam Decks are on sale for Steam's 20th birthday
 - Destiny 2 is going to delete one of its main currencies because players used exploits to stockpile too much
 - Unity temporarily closes offices and cancels CEO meeting after receiving 'potential threat'
 - Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader's release date is an appealing invitation in a post-Baldur's Gate 3 world
 - Plan B: After the failed Nvidia sale, Arm goes public for $54.5B
 - Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update goes live on September 21, five days ahead of Phantom Liberty
 - Dogs biting staff, obscene sums spent on rappers, and eye-popping losses: How FaZe Clan was 'building a mythology,' bro
 - Armored Core 6 player builds 'Rust Bucket', an anti-meta mech that's been ripping apart shotgun spammers with a massive chainsaw and bazooka blunderbusses
 - Baldur's Gate 3's third patch has a release date, will bring the RPG to PC gaming's black sheep—the humble Mac
 - Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill
 - Valve said Counter-Strike 2 would be out this summer, now says it 'launches soon'
 - A Starfield fan has created Chunks' baked beans, and I don't want to go to space anymore
 - FF14 releases a paid cosmetic you can recreate for free in-game, and oh boy are people unhappy about it
 - Phanteks denies it copied Lian Li in PC fan row set to go to California court
 - A Dreamcast rail shooter from 2000 that never released in the west is coming to PC
 - AMD's next gen Threadripper Pro 7000-series chips come with up to 96 cores, and I long for consumer versions
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #817: Thursday, September 14
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answers for Thursday, September 14 (#95)
 - Starfield modder adds dark mode to its terminal screens, which is also something a modder in 2330 would do
 
 - September 13
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- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a total nostalgia play, but dammit, it's working
 - The creator of Fallout 4's best settlement mod says Starfield's outpost system 'basically makes the people meaningless'
 - Islands of Insight is a shared-world puzzle game that's like The Talos Principle crossed with Myst, and I'm having a great time with it
 - Why every game developer is mad right now, explained
 - Starfield's first hotfix is live: 'Our priority initially is making sure any top blocker bugs or stability issues are addressed'
 - Ayaneo's new handheld gaming PC looks like a souped-up Nintendo DS
 - Bethesda says Nvidia DLSS support will come to Starfield in a 'regular interval of updates that have top community requested features'
 - Starfield player spawns thousands of milk cartons in space and smashes into them, resulting in one of the most majestic scenes I've ever witnessed
 - Garry of Garry's Mod says 'Unity can get f*cked' and in-passing mentions Rust 2
 - Nvidia's DLSS upscaling really does need those AI-accelerating Tensor cores after all
 - 14 years later, the Deus Ex mod that's a better sequel than Invisible War gets a massive overhaul
 - Diablo 4 stats boffin grinds over 400 Nightmare dungeons in 18 days for science, proves higher tiers mostly aren't worth the headache
 - No Man's Sky is enjoying its 'biggest month in the last few years', coinciding with the launch of Starfield
 - Old School RuneScape punishes innovation, prevents player from using their own severed toe to skirt anti-botting rules
 - Mortal Kombat 1 won't have crossplay at launch, and it's unclear whether it'll eventually come to PC at all
 - I spent 10 minutes in Starfield bludgeoning a UC officer with a dumbbell in the middle of the street, to death, and no one batted an eye
 - Apple's new iPhone chip has us worried about TSMC's 3nm silicon and next-gen GPUs
 - New iPhone 15 Pro goes full Nvidia with ray tracing and upscaling
 - Starfield bug means you can just take this entire store's inventory out of a muddy puddle in the middle of a road without any skill or repercussions
 - We thought AMD's RX 7000-series was complete, but now the RX 7600 XT has broken cover
 - PAX Australia's turning 10, and putting on a big birthday show for the occasion
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #816: Wednesday, September 13
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answers for Wednesday, September 13 (#94)
 - Australia's answer to Fallout, Broken Roads has a release date
 - Nvidia driver update should improve Starfield performance for many
 
 - September 12
 - 
- 'An astonishing scumbag move': Indie developers react to surprise Unity engine pricing changes
 - Don't waste your time in Starfield's first city, visit these ones instead
 - I'm digging Abriss, a physics puzzle game like Besiege set in a brutalist sci-fi dimension with rockets and lasers
 - Following Skyrim tradition, Starfield already has an alternate start mod that lets you skip the intro and begin in cooler parts of space
 - Speed up Starfield's annoyingly slow sitting and climbing animations with a quick mod
 - Bethesda 'talked about' using the Fallout version of Earth in Starfield, Todd Howard says
 - Lian Li is suing Phanteks for alleged patent infringement on daisy-chained fans
 - Steam reverts to original 'army green' for 20th anniversary
 - The next Sims game will be free to play without a subscription or energy mechanics, EA confirms
 - Apple finally put USB-C in the new iPhone, and now we know why it's limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
 - You can mine ore twice as fast in Starfield just by holding one button, and yes I just realized this 40 hours in
 - Cyberpunk 2077 dev warns PC gamers to 'check conditions of your cooling systems' before trying to run the Phantom Liberty expansion
 - Starfield's space shanties are sung by the viral sea shanty man
 - WD's tiny 2TB SSD looks like the drive to buy for a handheld PC storage upgrade
 - Todd Howard blames the pandemic for Starfield delays: Working from home was 'very, very slow'
 - Starfield's NPCs keep procedurally jumpscaring players mid-conversation, and now I live in fear
 - Blizzard bans 250,000 Overwatch 2 cheaters, says its AI that analyses voice chat is warning naughty players and can often 'correct negative behaviour immediately'
 - Ubisoft's sweatier Call of Duty-like has been pushed to an uncertain date after failing console certification: 'Like a lot of things with this game, we have not chosen the typical route'
 - Starfield's space map has a handy UI element it never tells you about for unknowable reasons
 - Intel predicts 'a resurgence' of external GPUs because of Thunderbolt 5's huge bandwidth increase
 - The Starfield Upscaling Fix mod follows forgotten AMD recommendations to improve texture quality. Modder hopes 'this prompts Bethesda or AMD to fix their implementation'
 - If you find Starfield's NPC walking speed as infuriating as I do, try these mods
 - Canadian police find drugs, firearms, and the dread blade of the Lich King in raid—which they underwhelmingly describe as 'a sword'
 - You have nothing to fear from CO2 in Starfield: no matter how much you sprint or how much you're carrying, it'll never kill you
 - Twitch Streamer scores clutch kills in Overwatch 2, Valorant, and Halo using mind control
 - Start saving, because Intel's 14th Gen CPUs are reportedly launching in just a few weeks
 - Nvidia owners can get a big FPS boost in Starfield with this manual ReBAR tweak
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #815: Tuesday, September 12
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answers for Tuesday, September 12 (#93)
 - Pizza chef stopped playing Starfield on his day off to turn his breakfast into cubes
 
 - September 11
 - 
- Baldur's Gate 3 has a secret, brutal game over scene for players who somehow overcome every safeguard to permanently lose a critical item
 - Can't shoot in Starfield? Cure this bug with some plastic surgery
 - Pinocchio-meets-Dark Souls game Lies of P cut 'ACAB' reference to avoid controversy: 'We respect everyone who might want to play this game'
 - Starfield NPCs have those uncanny smiles because they're not using every face muscle
 - Cheating out of my ship to do a spacewalk in Starfield left me wishing there was something to do out here
 - Heck yeah, this Starfield mod lets you craft your own ammo
 - Starfield blasts past Skyrim's peak player count on Steam, but it's still well behind Fallout 4
 - The 'world's smallest VR headset' is finally shipping out pre-orders in the US
 - This custom Starfield spaceship would make Mario Andretti proud
 - Gearbox rumored to be up for sale as Embracer continues to try to bounce back from a failed $2B deal
 - I never wanted the RTX 3090 Super but I'm gutted to miss out on the cancelled prototype's stealthy all-black aesthetic
 - Armored Core 6 players have exploded this poor student pilot so many times for a quick buck he's become a meme
 - Kurt Cobain's $20 headphones have been bought for $70,000
 - Sony Japan is launching a 'foster care program' for its Aibo robot dogs
 - Star Destroyers in Starfield are cool and all, but Star Wars fans recreating their less-obvious faves is far more exciting
 - Dying Light 2 adds a premium currency, cue the Steam review bomb
 - Atari acquires massive Atari archive after revealing a 'new' 2600 that takes cartridges
 - AMD says it's aware of Starfield's Ain't No Sunshine bug but currently has no timeline for a fix
 - Epos Gaming to 'wind down' but some employees have already lost their jobs
 - FromSoftware mercifully spares Armored Core 6's most busted shotgun in latest balance patch, despite community memes
 - This Act 3 Speak with Dead scene in Baldur's Gate 3 has worrying implications, given the spell's D&D roots
 - Microsoft Paint is getting updated with one of Photoshop's most commonly used tools
 - AMD's upcoming hybrid APU smiles for the camera
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #814: Monday, September 11
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answers for Monday, September 11 (#92)
 
 - September 10
 - 
- Todd Howard mentions that the official Starfield mod tools are coming in 2024, with the DLC's release still TBA
 - Payday 3 reveals two new characters and a year of post-launch DLC
 - And just like that, there's a Starfield mod that replaces all the cops in its first city with Star Wars Stormtroopers
 - Dune: Spice Wars launches this week
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #813: Sunday, September 10
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answers for Sunday, September 10 (#91)
 - Astarion's voice actor is doing a let's play of Baldur's Gate 3
 
 - September 9
 - 
- Sifu's final content update lets you customize your arena fights
 - I look away for ten seconds and Starfield's modders have already pumped out way too many meme flashlight mods
 - Stalker 2 developer's latest setback is a fire gutting a third of its office, but it insists the team's 'dealt with worse than that before'
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #812: Saturday, September 9
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answers for Saturday, September 9 (#90)
 
 - September 8
 - 
- 'I'm sorry you're like this, I wish you weren't': Starfield voice actor reacts to console war discourse busting down his digital door
 - Runescape community claims 'supreme victory' as developer apologizes and cuts pay-to-win features from hated battle pass
 - I'm finally enjoying Starfield's combat after giving guns a giant buff
 - Fortnite creative boss Donald Mustard retires
 - 10,000 milk cartons descend on Starfield's biggest city in newest physics benchmark
 - Bethesda commissioned the internet's rotoscope jokester to get goofy with Starfield
 - Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag was pulled from sale on Steam and everyone got excited because they thought a remake was going to be announced, but Ubisoft says no, something's just broken
 - The maker of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 HD Reworked mods is now working on one for Starfield
 - Here's why Venus is the best place to chill out in Starfield
 - Crypto baron behind $2.5B rug-pull declares 'I am smart enough to lead any institution on Earth' as court sentences him to 11,196 years in jail
 - Men of War 2 will now deliver men and war too in 2024
 - It took more than 30 years but it's finally happening: Jean-Claude Van Damme is coming to Mortal Kombat
 - AMD rumoured to favour future AI chip production over GPUs but it's probably no reason to panic
 - Caffeinated RGB gamer noodles now exist, and I'm getting indigestion just thinking about them
 - Player acquires a massive faction stronghold in Starfield and lands it on a planet, 'still not really sure' how it happened
 - D&D's latest beta rules tinker with its classes and give Fighters the power to clobber fools real good with a chair
 - E3 somehow gets even deader as event organiser departs by 'mutual consent', ESA says no no it's still alive we promise
 - Got a weird PC project in mind? Framework uncovered a hoard of old mainboards in an old factory and is selling them off cheap
 - Starfield player uses laundry basket to pull off the casino heist of the century
 - New mystery Valve hardware device certified in South Korea
 - This summer's hottest streamer game appears to be gone for good
 - D&D's new playtest canonises a subclass rename from Baldur's Gate 3, lead rules designer 'worked with Larian'
 - Final Fantasy 14 won't be going free-to-play anytime soon
 - New Intel driver gives Starfield its eyebrows back
 - Worried about missing companion chats in Baldur's Gate 3? This mod aims to fix that
 - Early numbers indicate AMD's 7800 XT GPU is a hit. The 7700 XT not so much
 - Toyota factories grind to a halt after its servers run out of disk space
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #811: Friday, September 8
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answer for Friday, September 8 (#89)
 - Nobody asked, but this Starfield modder delivered—here's the most innocent companion as Thomas the Tank Engine
 - Watch the animated adventures of Baldur's Gate 3 continue as they travel from the land of 'Earlay Axes' to the region of 'L'awnch'
 
 - September 7
 - 
- Asked about Starfield ground vehicles, Todd Howard points out that there are spaceships and jetpacks in the game
 - Starfield mod turns space travel into an actual series of loading screens by getting rid of all the ship landing and take-off scenes
 - Rust adds attack helicopters, homing missiles to blow up attack helicopters, parachutes to escape exploding attack helicopters
 - Inspired by Starfield food physics, I have run my own tests to determine that cuboid foods rule
 - Starfield breaks 1 million concurrent players across all platforms: a 'great milestone,' Phil Spencer says
 - Starfield player tricks AI with 'unbeatable ship' made only of corners
 - Starfield mod enables Starfield achievements that were disabled by Starfield mods
 - Baldur's Gate 3's NPC painter has a mysterious mind: I asked for a portrait of myself and he gave me 9 paintings of my jacked druid companion instead
 - RuneScape developer firefights desperately as new battle pass leads to player revolt and review bombing: 'They've gone too far down the rabbit hole'
 - Okay game marketing, you win this round because this custom Starfield PC is stunning
 - Japanese court throws the book at YouTuber who uploaded copyrighted game clips and spoilers: Two years in the slammer and ¥1m fine
 - Larian Studios' Swen Vincke is loving players' systems-based hijinks in Baldur's Gate 3: 'everybody knows about the Owlbear now'
 - Nintendo Switch 2 reportedly uses Nvidia's DLSS to boost frame rates
 - No one say the 'S' word: Google's trying out gaming again, this time with bite-sized games on YouTube
 - If you've ever wanted Megan Fox to literally kick your skeleton out of your body, then boy does Mortal Kombat 1 have a fighter for you
 - Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC'
 - Starfield's ungodly hallway spaceship has already been dethroned by the Borg cube, which hangs in the air the same way bricks don't
 - Intel follows Apple's lead with Meteor Lake chip with on-package memory
 - Gen Con's card heist suspects have been charged and could face a $10,000 fine with prison time, after their $300,000 haul likely sold for just $4,000
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #810: Thursday, September 7
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answers for Thursday, September 7 (#88)
 - They found him: Bethesda's most prolific voice actor returns in Starfield
 
 - September 6
 - 
- Boundary broken: Starfield sleuths bypass invisible walls, prove planet tiles are connected like No Man's Sky
 - 'Personality-driven' influencer esports league revealed, immediately implodes over NFT controversy
 - The most interesting game I've played this week is an indie puzzle-adventure about a giant tower filled with people I can't understand
 - Starfield ship bug launches player into space without most of their ship
 - Starfield lets you be a total faction flip-flopper, so don't worry about pissing anyone off
 - AITA: My Starfield wife wants a divorce and all I did was chuck one grenade into a crowd of bystanders
 - Baldur's Gate 3 crossplay is on the way, but Larian says 'we don't want to put a date on it until we're sure'
 - Starfield speedrunner engages ludicrous speed, completes New Game+ in under an hour
 - Starting next month, Steam will tell you if a game has native PlayStation controller support
 - Windows users in the EU freed from forced Edge browser links
 - Armored Core 6 PvP evolves into its true form as players drop their weapons and fistfight to the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance soundtrack
 - Starfield player can only watch in stoic horror as every ship in the system attacks a staryard, which is probably invincible
 - Runescape developer shutters sci-fi looter-shooter and issues refunds across the board
 - This dual-OLED Lenovo could be the future of laptops
 - Even Baldur's Gate 3's lead gameplay programmer had a hard time describing D&D's spell slots to their engineer, who has a PhD
 - Baldur's Gate 3's narrator was once going to be much harsher—'The direction I was given was Scar from the Lion King'
 - Rejoice, there's already a Starfield interface overhaul called StarUI
 - Remnant 2 will get a 'potato mode' soon, alongside other quality of life improvements
 - Blizzard bigwig seems to offhandedly confirm Diablo 4 is adopting Destiny's expansion model
 - Dungeons & Dragons' latest sale offers cheap ways to get into the game—here's what I recommend picking up
 - Starfield players are using its character creator to fulfil mankind's historic dream of sending Tony Soprano to space
 - Baldur's Gate 3 devs tried to make D&D's Dispel Magic work for a long time, but they had to can it: 'it would've doubled the size of the game'
 - Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 wireless mouse upgrades include better sensor and USB-C
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #809: Wednesday, September 6
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answer for Wednesday, September 6 (#87)
 
 - September 5
 - 
- What do the names of bestselling Steam games have in common? Words like Manager, Tycoon, Remastered, and HD
 - Starfield player stuffs thousands of potatoes into a room to marvel at how much better Bethesda's physics have gotten
 - Starfield errors like 'you're too early' expected at launch, Microsoft says 'please be patient'
 - Stray is being made into an animated film that Annapurna hopes will be 'the first and greatest hopepunk movie that's ever been made'
 - Starfield player builds ungodly spaceship entirely out of hallways: 'I was bored with quests and decided to dedicate time to this'
 - Stardew Valley creator ignites new fan theories with five simple words: 'Here's a Haunted Chocolatier screen'
 - If you're not having sex in Starfield daily, you're missing out on a massive XP buff
 - Three men arrested for stealing thousands of dollars by hacking into ATMs with a Raspberry Pi device
 - The new Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix brings proper romance to the game's most evil companion
 - Classic Bethesda bug sees Starfield crew members riding on the outside of your ship in deep space
 - Guys, someone trapped Sonic the Hedgehog inside a controller
 - Swen Vincke says Baldur's Gate 3 devs created Karlach's new epilogue after post-launch feedback, with actress recording new lines 'within the week'
 - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor continues its long road to redemption with a patch that brings DLSS support and good old 'Various bug fixes'
 - Overcrowded October forces another big-name game delay all the way into 2024
 - Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it
 - Starfield has already got a 'potato mode' mod to help you run it on machines from 1969
 - Charles Martinet, former voice of Mario, isn't quite sure what being Mario Ambassador actually means: 'we'll all learn exactly what that is'
 - Starfield's speedrunners are cooking already with a sub-3 hour run, teleporting punches, and cramming NPCs into filing cabinets
 - True to FromSoftware's creative vision, Armored Core 6 now has a mech that's CJ riding Thomas the Tank Engine
 - A $5 Starfield mod to enable DLSS Frame Generation has been cracked to remove modder's DRM
 - Massive Baldur's Gate 3 mod adds playable kobolds, minotaurs, FF14 races, and D&D's rage-inducing kenders
 - Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because 'when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there' but 'they certainly weren't bored'
 - Starfield bug means you can just stroll up and take one of the best spacesuits right at the start of the game with no skill or repercussions
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #808: Tuesday, September 5
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answer for Tuesday, September 5 (#86)
 
 - September 4
 - 
- This Contra-like is a celebration of spread guns and gnarly flesh
 - Check out the demo for this slimy survival horror and its reckless disregard for the rules of game point-of-view
 - Item description reveals Starfield as a dark future without Labrador retrievers
 - The Last Exterminator calls on the obvious person to fight an alien cockroach invasion
 - There's an invincibility exploit in Diablo 4's PvP zones
 - Drunk with power, modders have started putting Armored Cores in Elden Ring
 - Starfield gets the mod of mods, the granddaddy of them all: script extender
 - Neglect Gale for too long in Baldur's Gate 3, and you'll receive gaming's saddest resignation letter
 - President of Blizzard Mike Ybarra casually sinks hopes of a pirate themed WoW expansion with a two-word tweet
 - China's gaming restrictions are an 'ineffective policy' that hasn't cut playtime
 - Turns out Baldur's Gate 3's companions weren't supposed to be such horndogs: "It was a bug"
 - Intel's new Starfield GPU driver hotfix still has a host of problems
 - Armored Core 6's talented fan artists keep reimagining its faceless characters as hot dating sim options, distracting me from mecha ultraviolence
 - So, guess I'm building my next gaming PC from Colorful's new MEOW range then
 - The Ayaneo Kun has a mode that delivers near twice the power of the ROG Ally handheld gaming PC
 - WoW Classic hardcore player feigns death for so long they actually die
 - Streamer sets sail for the surface of Pluto in Starfield—and spends 7 hours to reach a cursed orb she can just fly through
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #807: Monday, September 4
 - NYT Connections puzzle hint and answer for Monday, September 4 (#85)
 - After 28 years of service, Microsoft is killing WordPad
 
 - September 3
 - 
- Starfield fans are already recreating some classic sci-fi ships
 - Baldur's Gate 3 speedrun brought under 5 minutes thanks to 'Shadowboxing,' a trick where you kill Shadowheart and stuff her in a box to skip Act 2
 - 60 hours in as Baldur's Gate 3's nasty Dark Urge and I'm kicking myself for missing a load-bearing early cutscene with unique dialogue for every race and class
 - SAG-AFTRA is holding a vote to potentially strike against major videogame publishers
 - Man up all night playing Starfield saves his family from an apartment fire
 - Japanese PC gaming saw another year of explosive growth
 - Final Fantasy 16 is officially coming to PC
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #806: Sunday, September 3
 - Bethesda hired a noted modder to help with Starfield's clutter and lighting
 - PSA: Shut down Armored Core 6 before putting your PC to sleep or risk your saves
 - Valve banned 90,000 smurf accounts from Dota 2—then got the main accounts too
 
 - September 2
 - 
- There's a way to steal things with a bucket in Starfield after all
 - Starfield's name-remembering robot buddy can't do 'Glenn' or 'Greg,' but it will call you 'Captain Assface'
 - Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been quietly rebuilt by Dear Esther developer The Chinese Room with 'different gameplay mechanics and RPG systems'
 - One mad modder has already gotten Baldur's Gate 3's semi-secret 'evil' companion working in good guy playthroughs
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #805: Saturday, September 2
 - Starfield players agree that its first dozen hours are its weakest: 'OK, 12 hours in, and I love it'
 - Nope, not a bug: Starfield's city maps just look like that
 
 - September 1
 - 
- PowerWash Simulator is going Back to the Future in its latest weird crossover
 - Surprising no one, Starfield players are already filling their ships with junk
 - Tragic: Skyrim's ultra-sneaky bucket trick doesn't work in Starfield
 - Here's what's free in Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 update (car chases, yay), and what requires the $30 Phantom Liberty expansion
 - September is the biggest gaming month of 2023
 - Turns out your abyssal tattoos in Baldur's Gate 3 are the D&D equivalent of accidentally getting 'egg drop soup' inscribed in Chinese characters
 - GOG's next free Autumn Sale game will let you marry a demon, a zombie, or a frog, if that's what you're into
 - You should beat Armored Core 6 three times—both NG+ and NG++ have new missions, parts, and some of the game's spiciest twists
 - Valve announces two big changes to Counter-Strike 2: shorter matches, and a new map-specific ranking system
 - The indie game's indie game is free on Epic
 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden's new extended gameplay trailer is giving me the ethical sweats
 - Crusader Kings 3 celebrates 3 years with stats showing we're 45% more likely to do a murder than fall in love
 - Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB prices tumble in response to AMD's new graphics cards
 - The first of what will one day be thousands of character presets to hit Starfield's Nexus Mods page is, naturally, George Costanza
 - AMD's universal Fluid Motion Frames technology could be headed for older graphics cards
 - Final Fantasy 14 player loves their Warrior of Light so much that they built a life-sized bronze statue to immortalise them
 - A PC parts company is dumping golden tickets across the UK from space in a bizarre competition to celebrate Starfield
 - Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT pricing 'super aggressive' according to AMD
 - Pete Hines on Starfield: 'We could make a safer, less buggy, less risky game if we wanted to'
 - Starfield has a short, sweet tribute to one fan who didn't live to see launch day
 - Todd Howard reflects on Starfield's development, says there were times he thought 'we had certainly bitten off far more than we could chew'
 - The artwork for this Japanese-inspired TTRPG gives me shivers
 - Intel promises fix for Arc graphics driver borkage in Starfield
 - There's already a Starfield mod that swaps FSR for DLSS
 - Today's Wordle hint and answer #804: Friday, September 1
 - Starfield is out now
 
 

