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- February 29
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- Camelot Unchained, the MMO that raised more than $2.2M on Kickstarter in 2013, actually has a release target
- Diablo 4's strongest builds won't be enough to prevail in its new 8-minute speedrun dungeon with leaderboards
- Destiny 2 is adding Back to the Future-style hoverboards and I doubt I'll ever ride a boring old Sparrow ever again
- Helldivers 2 players become part Automaton by mapping stratagems to a Stream Deck
- The open-world Terminator survival game is headed to Steam in October
- Embracer Group will reportedly sell Space Marine 2 studio Saber Interactive for $500 million
- RuneScape gets not one but two tabletop adaptations on the same day
- Over 180,000 Helldivers 2 players are storming a single planet and are on track to liberate it in under 24 hours—unless Arrowhead's devious DM gets mean again (Update: He did)
- A security robot has been hired to monitor a Texas airport's doors and looks more than a little miffed about the whole ordeal
- Aspyr admits 'mistake' of using uncredited mod in a trailer for its Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, swears to the internet that the final game won't have any of that
- Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix stops Minthara from just doing whatever the heck she wants
- Counter-Strike pros write open letter to Valve asking for default female skins, histrionic reaction shows why that's probably a good idea
- Old School RuneScape icon emerges into the light after 8-month, 2,500-hour grind of killing a mole to acquire a mole
- This AI tool creates singing, rapping, talking avatars from a single image and even the Mona Lisa isn't safe from spitting bars
- WoW Classic's Season of Discovery devs announce plans to slash mount prices in half, ramp up XP gains to 100%, and create an eventual 20-player Molten Core
- Honda reckons its Segway-like wheelchair can deliver 'the peaceful feeling of floating in the sky' when paired with VR and isn't just for people with mobility issues
- Microsoft confirms DirectSR is the 'missing link', an API designed to ease the introduction of Nvidia, AMD, and Intel upscalers into DirectX games
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Parcel Corps
- Helldivers 2 looks a lot like Metal Gear Solid 5 sometimes, but devs and fans alike agree that's great: 'More games should directly copy stuff'
- Helldivers 2 CEO describes the 'War Room' atmosphere on launch day, as a server-breaking tidal wave of unexpected divers came flooding in: 'We saw the graph, just—players rising and rising'
- IBM's AI assisted SSD gives the middle finger to ransomware attackers
- The PC market is looking increasingly healthy as GPU shipments rise on the back of surging notebook demand
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, February 29
- HWInfo finally introduces on-screen display functionality, making one of my all time favorite apps even better
- Arrowhead CEO says the 'live service' aspect of Helldivers 2 has to be secondary to delivering a 'full experience' for $40: 'We view ourselves as a live service game because it's unfair to say anything else'
- Respawn's Star Wars FPS has been cancelled, Battlefield campaign studio Ridgeline Games is being closed
- February 28
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- 'We have an actual person with the title of Game Master': A single Helldivers 2 dev named Joel is pulling the strings on its galactic war like an all-powerful D&D dungeon master, war will become 'more and more sophisticated over time'
- Electronic Arts is laying off 5% of its workforce
- Leaked Helldivers 2 video shows multiple mechs in live combat
- The Palworld breeding bug that was causing all Cattivas to be born cowards, and other species trait dominance, has been fixed in a new patch
- Last Epoch director assures fans it's 'here to stay' despite a rocky launch and flood of negative Steam reviews
- Remedy takes control of Control in €17M deal with publisher 505 Games that 'gives us the freedom to decide the best path forward'
- Call of Duty veteran David Vonderhaar wants to make a 'more intimate and relatable' game, so he named his new studio BulletFarm
- Excellent multiplayer pirate FPS Blackwake's first update in 4 years makes it free to keep
- RuneScape's official Twitter account unbanned after proving that, no, the game wasn't secretly an 8-year-old child
- Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu doesn't 'have the physical and mental strength' to create full game soundtracks anymore: 'I'd rather use the time I have left to work on other projects I love'
- Screens? Where this new AMD-powered handheld PC is going we don't need screens. Just silly Cyberpunk glasses
- Tomb Raider Remastered 1-3 devs downgrade strangely-superior Epic Games version, saying it had 'work-in-progress materials that do not represent our final quality expectations'
- 'Doom runs on everything' goes corporate as pricey lawnmower company sets up its army of grass-guzzlers to mow down hell
- WoW unveils 8 new hero tree previews before The War Within, one of which makes you 5% taller than everybody else at all times
- Alright, which of you scurvy dogs is averaging 'over 4 hours' of daily Skull and Bones playtime?
- Intel CEO admits 'I've bet the whole company on 18A'
- Nier: Automata sells 8 million as Tencent cancels mobile game and Yoko Taro says you've already had the third one anyway
- Life is Strange: True Colours developer becomes the 3rd studio this week to suffer layoffs
- A new frontier of immersion awaits you with a device that fires the smell of games into your home
- Palworld's devs are very sorry for deploying a patch that 'inadvertently fixed a bug'
- Helldivers 2 community briefly mourns the loss of Malevelon Creek, a gloomy jungle planet that's fast become the holy grail of the playerbase
- Nvidia will soon be showing adverts to calm queue rage for free tier users of GeForce Now
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 28
- MalwareBytes recommends using USB condoms with USB vibrators to avoid nasty infections
- Diablo 4 sorcerer build vomits up so many fireballs you need the minimap to see where you're going
- February 27
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- Persona 3 Reload is almost certainly getting the classic 'The Answer' expansion at this point
- Nintendo is suing the makers of the Switch emulator Yuzu, claims 'There is no lawful way to use Yuzu'
- After 8 years, the Genshin Impact developer is revitalizing its first hit RPG with a massive update aimed at new players
- Side-scuttling strategy game Crab God will let you amass a crustacean congregation
- Warren Spector hails Epic Mickey as 'a real labor of love', says he's got an idea for the third entry but the day job makes that 'impossible'
- 'The largest esports company in the world' is laying off 15% of its workforce
- Didn't see this one coming: Roblox has an official Jaws game
- Helldivers 2 devs say no, farmers aren't handing planets to the Automatons on a silver platter—they just aren't helping
- Today's big Guild Wars 2 update may add new weapon proficiencies and a new legendary armour set, but what I really care about is this adorable cat tree
- Elon Musk finally says something we can all agree on: No one wants to have to log in with a Microsoft Account on Windows 11
- Italian soulslike drops 'suicidal' June release date after realising it was set to come out the same day as Shadow of the Erdtree
- Baldur's Gate 3 player proves that fate is a skill issue, custom-orders a mod without 'a tiny bit of logic' behind it to turn all their rolls into 1s and beats the game anyway
- The Future Games show is returning next month and has a special guest: Karlach, who is helping to reveal 'over 40 games'
- Skyrim finally truly beaten as fanatical player does 'everything that can be done' in the game, nabbing every item and perk in quest to hit level 1,337
- Absolute masochist uses a mismatched pair of old iPods to game on their Steam Deck
- Sony planning to lay off 900 employees, CEO calls the decision 'inevitable' and says 'several PlayStation Studios are affected'
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake's final scene gets a script change 2 days before its sequel drops, and it's going down about as well as you'd expect
- Windows Copilot gets its artificial tendrils deeper into the OS settings in a new beta update
- SSDs are getting more expensive again because the biggest NAND supplier has throttled production to half its previous output
- Palworld's latest patch fixes bugs, buffs the letter F, leaves the nail economy in shambles, and lets you generate volcanic heat with 4 campfires
- After 1,200 hours and '6,000-7,000' Malenia kills, Elden Ring's greatest guardian angel is thinking about hanging up his jar hat: 'I've had my fill of fighting Malenias'
- US White House: The responsibility of cybersecurity should be tech companies' and the Federal government's, not the individual
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 27
- According to experts on kernel level anticheat, two things are abundantly clear: 1) It's not perfect and 2) It's not going anywhere
- Cities: Skylines 2 boss says lack of mod support is the 'biggest regret we have'
- February 26
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- The makers of the excellent Half-Life remake Black Mesa are teasing something new
- Rainbow Six Siege's next operator brings back a classic Rainbow Six character nobody's heard from in 20 years
- Narrative game studio Die Gute Fabrik has 'halted production' because it can't find funding for a new project
- Elden Ring director says Shadow of the Erdtree will have a Sekiro-like leveling system so you can't just steamroll it
- Say farewell to Starfield's cockamamie distance measurements with a mod that replaces astronomical units with light years
- Stardew Valley's long-awaited 1.6 update is coming to PC in March
- The Dark Pictures Anthology developer Supermassive Games confirms layoffs are happening
- Alan Wake 2 speedrunner is possessed by the spirit of dance, sacrifices a whole minute to rock out to the game's best song via audience flash mob
- One person's journey to jailbreak a second-hand prison laptop is the most compelling read I've had in absolutely ages
- Epic's thrown a giant bag of money at Lady Gaga to do the next Fortnite festival, but the main thing is she no longer spells it 'Fortnight'
- AMD, Microsoft, and Nvidia are getting cosy at GDC 2024 to tell us all about the new DirectSR upscaler
- A quarter century after its release, Age of Empires 2 is still getting DLC
- Helldivers 2 CEO talks DLSS and FSR: 'When you are in a prio meeting and it's more awesome content vs more tech the decision is easy…'
- Helldivers 2 finally liberated from the bulk of its server issues as Arrowhead CEO celebrates having 'time to focus on improvements' like rad mechs and (probably) stealth gear
- Here's the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer perfectly recreated in Minecraft
- 'Please stop that': In the run-up to Baldur's Gate 3 modding support, Larian's head of publishing speaks out against 'threats and toxicity against our devs and community teams'
- Dev who created Zip file support in Windows is part of the shadowy cabal of people who have actually paid for WinRAR
- Do you hate being forced to reboot your PC every time a new Windows update drops? If so, there's a welcome change in the works.
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 26
- Here's an indie tactics game inspired by X-Com, Rebelstar, and Laser Squad
- Dwarf Fortress adventure mode preview shows off menu for grabbing enemies by their teeth
- MSI releases Intel BIOS with support for 256GB of RAM, just in case 192GB isn't enough
- You can punch a tank in retro beat 'em up G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra
- Here's a blocky voxel RTS from the studio that made the Command & Conquer remasters
- February 25
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- 'Lore-accurate' Dawn of War 2 mod lets you make it more like Dawn of War 1
- Baldur's Gate 3 has been nominated in five categories at this year's Gayming Awards
- A Halo co-creator who was working on the next Battlefield has seemingly left the franchise and EA
- Everybody loves the goofy glowing worm guy coming in Elden Ring's DLC, but we're also terrified something bad will happen to him
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 25
- Skyrim mod lets you match the pace of NPCs so you can more easily follow them around
- Games Workshop has no plans to bring Cathay and Kislev armies to Warhammer: The Old World 'for the foreseeable future'
- February 24
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- Yet another great-looking Final Fantasy game has come out before we even have a PC release date for the last big Final Fantasy game
- Etsy is already overrun with bootleg Helldivers 2 merch
- In true D&D fashion, you can bypass Baldur's Gate 3's most notorious dungeon with a single, simple spell
- Civilization 6 is free to try, 90% off to buy this weekend
- Rainbow Six Siege director says making a sequel after 9 years would be a mistake: 'I'm not going to name names, but you see games go through sequels and just completely drop the ball'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, February 24
- February 23
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- Get The Talos Principle, The Witness, Superliminal, and other 'mind-bending masterpieces' for just $10
- Fans of Pokémon-inspired MMO Temtem are arguing with the developer about what MMO means after Crema CEO says it's 'not feasible' to keep adding content forever
- Finally, a farm sim that will let me date hot demons and also collect capybaras
- If you like collecting critters in Palworld, how about collecting zombies in this co-op survival game?
- Two years after release Miyazaki says Elden Ring's world still has 'a small element that I feel has not yet been discovered'
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League 'has fallen short of our expectations,' Warner says
- Age of Mythology: Retold's developers are going 'way beyond' the definitive editions for Age of Empires: 'We want to build the game in your head'
- Google's long-teased new sign-in page is absolutely the least exciting upgrade ever
- An anonymous modder has brought one of the best mobile games, Infinity Blade, to PC 5 years after it left the App Store
- Some Helldivers 2 players are inexplicably killing each other for resources, despite a dozen different UI elements telling you they're shared
- You can turn Baldur's Gate 3 into Arduous Gauntlets Done Quick, speedrunning its most gruelling dungeon using a basic 2nd-level spell
- A Tomb Raider tabletop RPG wasn't an announcement I expected, but the more I think about it, the more I think it's a perfect combo
- Researchers have figured out how to hack a wireless charger to fry your phone and heat objects around it to 280°C, so that's just wonderful
- Nvidia's RTX HDR filter will soon be able to turn SDR games into HDR games for multi-monitor maniacs
- 'We love you, we hate money': Ultrakill and Gloomwood developer New Blood is offering discounts on all its games (and some body pillows) for its 10 year anniversary
- Overwatch fans call for boycott and recast after Pharah voice actor calls to 'free Palestine from Hamas'
- Helldivers 2's community manager gets mistaken for an automaton by Discord, gets locked out of account for over 40 hours due to 'sending too many DMs too fast'
- Paradox's toe-to-toe bout with Sid Meier scheduled for March as Millennia gets a release date
- Think great SSD deals are a thing of the past? We've spotted this speedy Nextorage 1TB drive for $75
- Intel explains why making GPU drivers is so hard but isn't giving up
- Vindication for Dark Souls 2 defenders as Hidetaka Miyazaki says many of its ideas 'carried the rest of the series'
- Helldivers 2's CEO deletes sleep-deprived tweet forged 'at 2 am' implying the login woes are over—clarifies 'we don't yet know if we can support everyone this weekend'
- Researchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storage
- Helldivers 2 maximum player cap has been increased, but Arrowhead still expects queues
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, February 23
- February 22
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- Elden Ring director says the expansion's new weapons are 'a main selling point,' including double-bladed shields, reverse-grip ninja swords, and acrobatic martial arts
- Sons of the Forest 1.0 launches with creative mode, a new ending, and an answer to one of the game's biggest mysteries
- Larian is working on official mod support for Baldur's Gate 3 and it'll be cross-platform: 'We love our modding community and we want to support them'
- Yes, Team Fortress 2 players recently did a big trade involving an IRL dog and, no, they're not monsters and it's quite above-board and sweet actually
- Palworld has achieved more players in 2 months than Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy managed in a year
- Last Epoch director admits his optimistic launch expectations 'aged like milk' as its servers struggle under the weight of 160K players
- Solo survival players, rejoice: Nightingale is 'prioritizing and developing an offline mode'
- Another wall crumbles in the console exclusivity war: Sony is bringing official PSVR2 support to PC
- Paragon can't catch a break: Less than two years after being brought back to life, it's closing again
- Nobody likes the new name for Riot's fighting game, but we're all having fun arguing about how to pronounce it
- Grocery delivery service Instacart has been using AI to make up impossible recipes and generate images of horrifying and hilarious food
- Miyazaki says Bloodborne is 'a title we hold very dear' but remains maddeningly vague about whether it'll ever come to PC
- I didn't have System Shock Pinball on my 2024 list but I'll take it
- Old School RuneScape players revolt after new big money owners say bots are fine, actually, devs furiously walk it back and say they banned 7 million bots last year
- Riot's Project L fighting game finally gets a proper title, will hopefully be out sometime in 2025
- Karlach teams up with Baldur's Gate 3's sex noise man to raise money for a good cause: SpecialEffect, which helps create kit and software for physically disabled gamers
- This co-op looter shooter where you scavenge from corpses 'under the shadow of terrifying and gargantuan war machines' looks rad as heck
- One of the the largest ransomware outfits in the world has been magnificently trolled by the Swedish police and Europol
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is over double the price of previous FromSoft DLCs, and is it weird that excites me?
- Nvidia's new desktop app doesn't require you to login: 'your identity isn't essential to this experience'
- Nvidia's game filter for RTX GPUs lets you enable HDR in games that never supported it
- Shadowplay can now capture games at 120 fps and gets a new look in the Nvidia App
- The new Nvidia App killing GeForce Experience: new overlay, system monitoring, 120fps capture, and lets you add HDR to any game
- Amidst dire industry layoffs, FromSoftware's Miyazaki says his studio is 'very blessed' to have long-term hires now taking director roles: 'games can be directed by others, not only myself'
- AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su to deliver the opening keynote at Computex 2024
- Deep Rock Galactic auto-shooter nixes upsetting 'die like your mother did' voice line so as to not 'remind some players of tragic events in their life'
- Helldivers 2 finally adds a much-requested AFK kick timer, stopping undemocratic glory hounds from twiddling their thumbs in perpetuity
- Apple issues rice advice, saying it's not the way you should dry out your wet iPhone
- Nvidia rakes in more than $22 billion in a single quarter on the back of surging AI demand
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, February 22
- Shin Megami Tensei 5 breaks Switch exclusivity for an expanded PC release, and it's coming sooner than previously announced
- Intel announces new 14A node at IFS Direct Connect 2024, and its aggressive 'five nodes in four years' roadmap remains on track
- Cozy MMO Palia is threatening players with an increasingly enormous stuffed frog if they keep wishlisting it on Steam
- February 21
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- Helldivers 2 was built on an obscure Swedish engine discontinued in 2018: 'Our crazy engineers had to do everything with no support'
- The Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection is coming to Steam in March
- Shadow of the Erdtree is the only DLC planned for Elden Ring, but 'there might be more ideas in the future,' Miyazaki says
- Nightingale is off to a strong start but it's also got a 'mixed' user rating on Steam, and once again server problems are largely to blame
- Malenia was only the beginning: Shadow of the Erdtree will have optional bosses 'tuned in a similar way' to Elden Ring's toughest foe
- The first Borderlands movie trailer is here, and it looks—drumroll—pretty alright
- MrBeast spent 15 hours making Walmart and Target stores restock his chocolate bars
- Asymmetric horror game Level Zero has been 're-announced' as a 'multiplayer extraction survival horror' shooter
- Final Fantasy 14 is giving you another chance to nab one of the coolest mounts in the game for the first time in over 2 years
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree will be FromSoftware's 'largest expansion to date in terms of overall volume'
- Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor sells half a million copies in its first week of early access as developer Funday Games reveals plans for the future
- This chill city builder lets you create buildings, farms, and fields simply by drawing shapes
- Bohemia Interactive reveals plans for DayZ in 2024, building toward 'a colossal milestone and an exhilarating moment you won't want to miss'
- Meta's experimental 'neural' wristband controller will be a real product that lets you type just by thinking because Zuck doesn't want 'a chip that you jack into your brain'
- Tekken 8 director is looking into a crackdown on rage quitters: 'You know, obviously we want to ban these people from the game'
- FSR 3 and XeSS now available in Starfield, bringing upscaling and frame gen boosts to all space farers
- Tekken 8's unexpected introduction of paid cosmetics is splitting fans, while producer says players should 'update their thinking to the current environment of game development'
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's reveal trailer is finally here, release date set for June
- Sony engineers are being drafted into the Helldivers 2 server war effort, though Arrowhead's CEO says to 'get it later' if you're strapped for cash
- In the weirdest pitch for a buddy movie this year Samsung and LG are getting together to stop China taking over the OLED panel market
- Temtem: Swarm is a mashup of Pokémon and Vampire Survivors in which you blast cute critters by the hundred, if you're looking for a post-Palworld slaughterfest
- The CPU Cooler Wars saga continues, as Cooler Master sues a bunch of other manufacturers over all-in-one patent infringements
- This real-world Angel Lamp from Alan Wake 2 actually works to make you feel like you're stuck in a horror novel of your own creation
- Patch 6 of Baldur's Gate 3 opens a Pandora's box of glitches for some players, while a hotfix leaves modders scratching their heads: 'the .exe got completely reorganised again'
- There are increased reports of crashing in Unreal Engine games, etc. and Epic is blaming Intel chips
- A decade since it was announced, the elusive Little Devil Inside resurfaces with a new 6-minute gameplay video and an apology from its developers
- Elon Musk says the first Neuralink patient can already use brain implant to control a mouse cursor
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 21
- DPS heroes rule Overwatch 2 now, but Blizzard isn't ready to nerf their controversial new ability quite yet
- February 20
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- Finally, a game that lets me time travel to medieval Europe with an AK-47 and a pickup truck
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC will be officially revealed in hours
- 6 years after it closed for good, a free-to-play hero shooter is making a comeback as a paid game with 'zero microtransactions'
- Minecraft just launched add-ons, which are mods, not to be confused with the previous add-ons that were also mods, and won't replace mods for Minecraft Java
- Sony isn't happy with Bungie: PlayStation boss wants more 'accountability' from the studio on money and deadlines
- Helldivers 2 patch 'tunes' those civilian extract missions that were murdering everyone as Arrowhead continues to manage login queues
- Borderlands movie teaser gives us our first look at Cate Blanchett and the gang in action
- Enshrouded hits 2 million players, and those players have over 2,600 new feature requests
- Dead by Daylight's next killer is 'an evil so heinous that investigating it almost immediately invites death'
- Game devs commiserate with the Helldivers 2 team by sharing their own server launch horror stories: 'You can only attempt to prepare for scale'
- Modders are achieving justice for Persona 3's missing female protagonist in a way that's only possible on PC
- 2023's GOTY becomes Baldy's Gate 3 with mod that parts Astarion's hair like Moses did the Red Sea
- Assassin's Creed Mirage adds a permadeath mode that deletes your save file if you die or commit crimes
- The Steam Deck gets a 3D printed ergo keyboard dock thanks to some creative modification and a clever clip-on hinged design
- Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader gets a 'gargantuan' patch that makes over 1,800 changes to the game, in an overhaul so drastic it gives you a free shot at respeccing your party
- A new Fallout anthology stuffed inside a mini-nuke is set to drop the day before the Fallout TV series on Amazon
- AI kill switches have been proposed by several academic institutions to prevent that whole Skynet thing from playing out
- Baldur's Gate 3's most beloved voice is joining Fallout 4's most ambitious mod as Astarion actor Neil Newbon bares his fangs on the streets of London
- You can chokeslam Post Malone in WWE 2K24 while listening to his curated soundtrack for the game
- Cult of the Lamb developer would 'love to' add multiplayer, so it 'isn't off the table'
- Get every Rocksteady Arkham game for the price of a takeout as Steam celebrates Bruce Wayne's birthday
- Update your spreadsheets, CDPR is out talking about the genres its mysterious non-Witcher, non-Cyberpunk game isn't going to be
- D&D Lego comes full circle by rendering the tabletop game's deadliest block in brick form: The dreaded gelatinous cube
- Reddit's set to rake in $60M per year in a deal with an unnamed AI company to train future models on its 20 years' worth of user generated content
- Helldivers 2 lead says the game's farcical comedy was inspired by tabletop games like D&D—and he's nowhere near the first dev to worship at the altar of pen and paper
- Deep Rock Galactic just got a prop hunt minigame triggered by drinking transmutative beer
- Helldivers 2 drops to Mixed reviews on Steam, but more people than ever are playing
- Kioxia aims to sweet talk SK Hynix into letting the Western Digital merger go ahead, with a new manufacturing deal as the carrot this time around
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 20
- February 19
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- Capcom celebrates the 8th anniversary of Street Fighter V by saying sorry for Street Fighter V
- Sega's upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot will be a 'triple-A' game
- Please behold the glory of the PowerWash Simulator x Warhammer 40K DLC trailer, with release to follow this month
- Here's a soulslike with the flashy, colorful outfits and neat folklore of renaissance Italy
- Helldivers 2 help is coming: Updates focused on fixing 'login, matchmaking, and server load' problems will begin rolling out tomorrow
- Free sequel Please, Touch the Artwork 2 is out today, inviting you to poke a pile of paintings for hidden things
- US Dept of Justice used existing router malware to quietly purge a Russia-backed 'vast spearphishing' botnet from devices in peoples' homes
- Stormgate developer Frost Giant Studios is now asking fans to invest in the company
- Open world Terminator survival game set for full reveal at Nacon's Connect event later this month
- Baldur's Gate 3 player beats the game in Honour Mode by exclusively casting one of the worst spells in D&D 2,469 times
- Helldivers 2 players are staying logged in overnight to dodge queue times and clog servers, Arrowhead's CEO agrees that an AFK time-out is due
- Turns out speedrunning Windows installs is a thing, so why not spare 106 seconds to watch the world's most 'heart-pounding' record attempt?
- Intel is asking for an additional $10 billion from CHIPS act subsidies because the chip giant feels it deserves more cash for investing in US developments
- A Dragon's Dogma 2 demo may be on the way, if the prophecy foretold by SteamDB proves true
- Helldivers 2 had a disastrous weekend, but it didn't stop hordes of players from diving in, with countless more stuck in queues
- Deep Rock Galactic studio head reveals he's been approached for a TV adaptation, says it's 'definitely viable', though he 'would want to be involved as well'
- Helldivers 2 patch makes its absurdly hard defence events easier, but ups the challenge at higher difficulties
- The server tech that saved WoW 10 years ago is causing problems for Classic's Season of Discovery, dev reveals: 'a layer is actually just sharding with a lot of sticky tape'
- AMD's Zen 5 chips will reportedly hit mass production at TSMC in the summer
- FSR 3 removed from Nightingale's launch plan with 'a significant number' of game crashes blamed on the AMD tech 'whether or not users had the setting turned on'
- Intel Lunar Lake CPU with a curious configuration spotted running Windows
- A New Vegas mod that added Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit was thought lost for 7 years—until someone finally found it on their hard drive
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 19
- Intel Core i9 14900KS shows up at multiple EU retailers, indicating its launch is imminent
- SimCity 4 modders are cracking its deepest recesses in ever greater numbers, enabling extensive new changes
- February 18
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- Be a fantasy god smashing an army of terraforming robots in Gods Against Machines
- Acid Planet looks like a cross of Vampire Survivors and They Are Billions
- Helldivers 2 studio continues to wrangle its servers like a bucking bronco, capping player count at 450K to avoid instability
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 18
- SpellRogue is a dice-tossing take on the Slay the Spire format
- Creative Assembly shows off hag lore, three-headed heroes, and other additions coming to Total War: Warhammer 3's DLC
- There's a proper, official Dungeons & Dragons live stage show now
- February 17
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- Bandai Namco has canceled 'at least five' games following a drop in sales, would like to remind everyone it still has 'large-scale downloadable content for Elden Ring' on the way
- You can nab Respawn's singleplayer catalogue—including the Jedi: Fallen Order series—for just $45 on Steam right now
- Helldivers 2 player counts more than double launch weekend, 300K and climbing, as the co-op shooter goes viral
- If you've gone Hollow waiting for Elden Ring's actual expansion, tide yourself over with with this expansion-sized mod that transforms the entire game
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, February 17
- February 16
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- Disco Elysium studio laying off nearly 25% of its staff—including the final remaining writer from the original game's credits
- You'll get extra Helldivers 2 XP this weekend to make up for a bug
- A group of Diablo 4 masterminds made a sorcerer build that zooms through dungeons in under 2 minutes
- An old BioWare RPG just got a big new community patch
- The robots are winning: Helldivers 2 players are convinced those new planet defense missions are so difficult they must be bugged
- Rocksteady says addressing Suicide Squad server issues is its 'top priority,' but it's 'not an easy nut to crack'
- Want more skateboarding and laser pistols in your D&D campaign? This year's ZineQuest is offering up a feast of weird and wonderful new adventures for tabletop RPG fans
- The Epic Games Store gave away nearly 586 million games in 2023, as 40 million new PC users joined the platform across the year
- If you don't want to pay $60 for Skull and Bones, you can play it 8 hours for free instead
- AMD's Anti-Lag+ looks to have been rehabilitated after the previous version gave some players a nasty case of the bans
- Palworld says public server problems are 'due to cheating and the influence of fraudulent activities', outlines plans to add anti-cheat software to nip it in the bud
- If you're wondering why Diablo 4 has a horse for sale with $65 of premium currency stuck to it, let me introduce you to 'price anchoring'
- Lara Croft modding maestro reveals he's been missing because Saber nabbed him for the Tomb Raider 'dream team', assembling a crack squad 'of crazy people' to put together the remasters
- An AI-generated image of a rat with unfeasibly large genitals made it into a peer-reviewed article, along with the caption 'dck'
- Top Call of Duty esports players sue Activision for $680M in damages, alleging the publisher has an unlawful monopoly on the game's esports scene
- Helldivers 2 roadmap is 'very out of date in comparison to what we now want to do' according to Arrowhead's CEO, as the game's stratospheric launch brings new ideas and ambition to the studio
- 'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate
- Palworld players have found an ingenious bug that lets them infinitely mount and butcher the same pal for parts
- Alan Wake 2 battles through the Dark Place to become Remedy's fastest-selling game with over 1 million copies sold, although a happy ending remains unwritten as it is yet to turn a profit
- The next Xbox will be the 'largest technical leap' yet but Microsoft is still planning to release exclusive Xbox games on other platforms
- After a week of teasing, Patch 6 of Baldur's Gate 3 is now live—adding randomised smooches, camp animations, and scary new Honour Mode legendary actions
- PSA: There's an incredible XP and Medal farm in Helldivers 2 right now—all you've got to do is mortar some robots
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, February 16
- OpenAI unveils powerful, creepy new text-to-video generator that it calls 'a foundation for models that can understand and simulate the real world'
- February 15
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- For the five people in the world who thought Malenia was too easy, a new mod turns Elden Ring's toughest boss into a 4-phase marathon ordeal including cut attacks and dialogue
- Diablo 4 dataminer finds out why its most powerful items are impossibly rare and how little Blizzard's recent fix did to change that
- Metro Exodus has now sold more than 10 million copies, 4A Games teases the next game in the series 'when it's ready'
- Helldivers 2 abruptly presses pause on its war on bugs, urges players to go kill millions of robots instead
- The creator of Hello Neighbor is making a Home Alone-inspired PvP heist game and you can sign up to test it on Steam now
- The first Activision Blizzard game on Game Pass will be Diablo 4
- Tomb Raider fans are very excited about new art that seemingly reveals long-awaited 'Unified Lara' design
- Calm down, console warriors: A few Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5, none of them are Starfield or Indiana Jones
- A game pretending to be The Day Before has appeared on Steam, and yeah, it's a scam
- Embracer reveals it laid off around 1,400 people in 6 months last year, but don't be a bellyacher—this is all about 'maximising shareholder value'
- Payday 3 is finally getting an offline mode as Starbreeze CEO admits sales and player numbers are 'significantly lower' than he would like
- Gaming's legendary comeback is now free until Monday: No Man's Sky's next big update lets you join its Omega community expedition without spending a cent
- Nightingale's system requirements reveal it offers an upscaler for every GPU but it'll gobble up 70GB of storage space
- Ultra niche Skyrim mod lets you become the most potent mage of all: the fist wizard
- Helldivers 2 studio boss says it will 'never' add PvP, and for anyone looking for it 'I recommend Tarkov'
- Even the US Department of Defence is not immune to data breaches as 20,000 individuals are notified of a Microsoft cloud email leak
- Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting a 'competitive multiplayer fighting game' in 2025
- PlayStation bosses say they want to work more 'proactively' on PC releases, and it sure sounds like Sony is gearing up for more simultaneous debuts like Helldivers 2
- A leaked Lenovo laptop comes with a transparent display and I can't get my head around why anyone would think that's a good idea
- Baldur's Gate 3 players collectively hallucinate a Valentine's Day release for Patch 6, despite Larian's chaotic Pingu posting
- Gamers report aptly named fire ants are causing their PCs to overheat
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, February 15
- Microsoft really wants you to upgrade to Windows 11 by touting its start menu as a 'game changer'
- Some things never change: In under 12 hours, there's already a nude mod for Tomb Raider Remastered
- February 14
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- Fake 'Valve Prism' VR headset website is a prank based on an extremely specific joke from the 2023 Midwest Furfest furry convention
- Remember that Silent Hill 2 remake trailer in January that fans didn't like? Bloober Team didn't like it either
- 'Aiming is optional now': Overwatch 2's bigger bullets divide players as they adjust to Blizzard's season 9 rework
- Homeworld 3 studio Blackbird Interactive confirms layoffs 'due to economic pressures outside of our control'
- In case you don't have enough survival games this month, Sons of the Forest leaves early access next week (and it's getting raccoons)
- Suikoden creator Yoshitaka Murayama has died
- Palworld dev says talk of player dropoff is 'lazy' and 'it is fine to take breaks from games'
- Round three of Reddit versus the movie industry ends in yet another win for the social network site, because the First Amendment didn't suddenly change overnight
- Football Manager players are exploiting a bug in its naive AI to buy the best players in history for less than 1% of their value
- Flatout, the no-seatbelts racing game with ragdoll physics for when your driver smashes through the windshield, is free on GOG
- These wretched bootleg Palworld costumes looks like they just shambled out of a Junji Ito nightmare, and they're not the only knock-offs making the rounds
- Forget Skull and Bones, there's another pirate game out on Steam this week that's plundered my heart with turn-based naval combat and pirate presidential campaigns
- My favourite game of 2023 that gave me all the feels is trying to give me, uh, different feels with its giant cosmic dildo
- You can pick up 5 years of Destiny 2 content at $4 per inscrutable proper noun on Humble Bundle right now
- Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner beats Ketheric Thorm to death with 11,000 pounds of invisible bear, shaves another 2 minutes off her Honour Mode world record
- You can run Nvidia CUDA applications natively on Radeon GPUs thanks to ZLUDA, the open-source project that AMD once funded
- Against literally nobody's expectations Mark Zuckerberg says his Quest 3 headset is better than the Apple Vision Pro
- Deep Rock Galactic's first spin-off is out now in Early Access, and it's the best auto-shooter since Vampire Survivors
- Microsoft Flight Sim's free DLC finally adds what we've all wanted: giant mechanical dragonflies, decolonisation, and the chance to win a magical floating Xbox controller
- Helldivers 2 starts recruiting more devs for the war effort after its galactic success, aims to 'accelerate and beef up [its] content plans'
- Corsair's coffers cop a load of cash: 'The gaming hardware market in the United States and Europe is now at a level between 30% and 50% bigger than pre-pandemic years'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 14
- February 13
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- The patch Diablo 4 players hoped would fix its worst endgame grind hasn't fixed its worst endgame grind
- Hearthstone is celebrating 10 years of RNG mayhem with free cards for everyone and a new nostalgia-themed expansion
- More than 20 years after its debut, revered sci-fi adventure The Ur-Quan Masters is finally coming to Steam next week
- World of Warcraft's lead storyteller quietly left Blizzard last fall: 'I've felt the itch to stretch my creativity in new directions'
- Hasbro has made about $90 million by letting Larian make a D&D game
- This week's Baldur's Gate 3 patch will fix its most annoying little party management inconvenience
- The Sims 4 free update adds vitiligo skin details in continued effort for more inclusive character creation
- You can pick up Dead Island: Riptide free to celebrate Dead Island 2's inevitable hop to Steam
- Twitch suspends Aussie prankster for 'self-harm' after he pretends to stick forks in toasters with silly FX and a Rickroll
- Intel Core i9 14900KS surfaces ahead of release with claims to a 6.2GHz Turbo and peak wattage to make your graphics card jealous
- Unions call for strikes at Ubisoft studios in France to protest wages: 'We cannot tolerate being treated as expendable to mitigate their bad decisions'
- World of Warcraft's subscription is about to get almost 3,000% more expensive in Argentina—and it'll 'only get worse with inflation'
- Deus Ex seems deader than ever as Adam Jensen actor reveals Eidos asked him years ago 'to stop talking about Adam Jensen'
- EA and a studio reportedly invested $125 million making a new singleplayer IP with zero microtransactions, no grind, a shorter running time, and guess what: 'No one bought it'
- Granblue Fantasy: Relink is February's surprise banger, shifting 1 million copies in under 2 weeks
- The majority of non-LGBTQ+ gamers don't care if a main character is trans, according to GLAAD Gaming's debut report
- After years of anonymity, gaming's least famous but most recognisable voice has broken cover to chat PEGI 18, AI acting, and his €200 paycheque
- Helldivers 2 rolls back a patch intended to fix servers and progression after it causes 'significant degradation' in performance
- A classic RPG Maker engine, the same one used to create Pokémon Uranium, is completely free on Steam this week
- I created a highly personalised large language model with Nvidia's entertaining Chat with RTX app but at 60GB+ I'm now beginning to wonder if it's worth keeping around
- The future is here whether you want it or not as AI briefly makes Nvidia the 4th most valuable corporation on Earth with a $1.83 trillion market cap
- Some class-locked portal reskins? That'll be $20, please—Diablo 4's hellish microtransactions continue to sting
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 13
- Amid big rumors, Phil Spencer will discuss 'the future of Xbox' in a podcast this week
- February 12
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- Just in case you don't have enough Steam sales already, the Steam Remote Play Together Fest is here to continue the assault on your finances
- Baldur's Gate 3 hits half-a-million Steam reviews, and reading them has been 'pure joy,' says Swen Vincke
- The Thaumaturge, an RPG from the studio that's also working on The Witcher remake, is delayed because February is just too crowded
- Rocksteady applauds players for 'breaking' Suicide Squad with infinite damage scaling bug, but decides to fix it and start a new leaderboard
- D&D reveals September 2024 release date for the start of its big rules revamp, sheds light on two multiverse-hopping campaigns, and promises the launch of its shiny virtual tabletop
- GPU leaker is claiming RDNA 4 engineering samples are boosting between 3 and 3.3GHz. Remember when AMD said that about RNDA 3?
- Dead Cells' designer livid at former studio for ending support for the game in 'worst a**hole move imaginable'
- Football Manager 2024 is the best-selling entry in series history with 7 million gum-chewing devotees, studio pays tribute to 'incredible community of players'
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director wants series vets and newbies alike to be surprised by its twist and turns, seeing the remake as more than 'just a callback'
- One memory to rule them all? New 'superlattice' material promises an efficient world of universal memory
- Helldivers 2 creative director argues games should 'earn the right to monetize', says its only pay-to-win item is a revolver that'll get you gold in a 'cool gun competition'
- AMD isn't alone in the Easter egg silicon doodle market, chipmakers have etched hamburgers, zombies, Smurfs, and even Groucho Marx onto their products in the past
- A native AI assisted Super Resolution feature is coming to Windows 11
- As if it didn't dominate the AI market already, Nvidia is gearing up to go after the custom AI chip market
- Helldivers 2 is too successful for its own good, problem with rewards not unlocking 'was mitigated but not resolved'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 12
- Delidding a Ryzen 7 8700G APU allows it to run up to 25 degrees cooler
- February 11
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- Fans of Stacklands and Cultist Simulator should check out this cute little game about witch covens
- Slime Rancher 2 adds a pile of new gadgets to play with in a chunky new update
- Watch a retrospective of classic 1983 CRPG Ultima 3: Exodus
- A giant snake monster ruined my apple-fueled medieval utopia in the Steam Next Fest demo for this settlement sim
- Helldivers 2 is now PlayStation's biggest PC launch by a factor of two
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 11
- This game wants to blend survival and tycoon games in a race to build a moon colony
- February 10
- February 9
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- Ark: Survival Ascended devs made a 'Super Steamboat Willie' platformer in the survival game to demonstrate new mod tools
- The makers of Palworld are desperate to hire more developers: 'We are overwhelmingly short of people'
- Sit back down, Tarnished: FromSoftware's parent company has poured cold water on an imminent Elden Ring DLC release
- Hideo Kojima says Physint's happening because you lot just wouldn't stop asking for 'a new Metal Gear' and, after a brush with death, he's decided that's not a bad idea
- Blizzard finally has a solution for the unlucky Diablo 4 players with Uber Uniques they don't want
- In a targeted attack on phone spammers, the FCC just outlawed AI voice generation for robocalls
- The 10 most popular Steam Next Fest demos include 2 RTS games and a 4X grand strategy
- Lethal Company is one of the top games on the iOS App Store, but there's just one problem: It's 'not real,' developer says
- Take-Two CEO says the goal with Grand Theft Auto 6 is simple: 'We're seeking perfection'
- Helldivers 2 blasts to the top of Steam's global top sellers chart, becoming Sony's biggest PC release as it launches alongside PS5
- Ubisoft is 'disappointed' by sales of the Assassin's Creed VR game, will not increase investment in future VR development until the market 'grows enough'
- Global ransomware payments topped $1B last year with Russia-based groups blamed for a resurgence in attacks as they stop focusing on Ukraine
- Larian knows its audience, promises 'improved smooches' in Baldur's Gate 3
- Dead Cells is calling it quits 7 years after its meteoric early access release
- Data strings in the latest Counter-Strike 2 update hint at two new Valve games, and one of them might just be Half-Life related
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake director would give an emphatic 'No!' if someone asked him for an FF8 remake, and FF8's original director isn't keen either
- New report predicts 60% of PCs sold will be AI-capable by 2027 and I just died of not surprise
- Diablo 2 speedrunner effortlessly trolls audience by breezily selling ultra-rare rune it's taken others 20 years to find
- Former Overwatch 2 artist alleges shocking mistreatment by Blizzard management: 'I spent most of a year stressed out of my mind'
- Tekken 8's leaderboard is being dominated by cheaters and boosters but bans are being handed out soon
- Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi and a bit of braininess
- Creative Assembly begs Total War: Warhammer fans to come back with upgraded DLC that adds a giant terracotta warrior
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, February 9
- ASRock's latest 600 and 700-series BIOS updates deliver an optional boost to your 14th Gen non-K CPU
- February 8
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- Diablo 4's forgettable XP boost event has me crossing my fingers that its upcoming leaderboards won't be as dull
- Helldivers 2 kept its most exciting feature secret until launch: human dungeon masters 'responding in real time' and messing with players
- Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones' $70 price tag, says it's 'a quadruple-A game'
- Take-Two Interactive says in-game currencies are 'fictions' that players can't actually own
- Discworld rerelease is 'on the cards' according to the original game's director, but is 'a complicated process' because King Charles may own 50% of the IP rights
- Helldivers 2 studio in 'crisis mode' as servers buckle under the weight of a popular launch, first hotfix out now
- Subnautica 2 studio reassures fans that it's not a live-service game: 'No season passes. No battle passes. No subscription'
- Blizzard reveals a new era of Overwatch 2: Bigger health bars, self-healing, and a reworked Competitive mode
- Premier League footballer subs in for his pro Counter-Strike team at the last minute and turns out to be extremely legit
- An experimental AI wearable recognises objects and tells visually-impaired users details of what they're holding
- YouTuber recreates GTA 6 trailer shot-for-shot in Miami, Florida
- Audacity now has a free AI-powered noise suppressor but the machine isn't going to replace a sound engineer anytime soon
- Jagged Alliance 3 promises to let you 'rebuild most aspects of the game' using all-new rulesets and mod tools
- The world's biggest mod site pops the cork on 10 billion downloads and $7 million-worth of payouts: 'If every download were a footstep, you could walk to the Moon 11 times'
- Anime more powerful than ever as Persona 3 Reload becomes the fastest selling game in Atlus' history
- Starfield's latest update will end the scourge of vibrating clouds
- Palworld's latest patch stops its capture chance boosting items making capture chances worse, and prevents your breeding Pals from being sent to a farm upstate forever
- The quality of USB drives is getting worse thanks to re-used and often defective NAND chips including some from known brands
- Baldur's Gate 3 player completes the game while playing as a party of cats
- Nvidia's AI is helping its engineers to bring better AI to the market faster
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, February 8
- AMD makes further CPU market share gains with signs pointing to a recovery in the overall PC market
- February 7
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- The guy who made Daggerfall Unity is working on his own original Daggerfall-style RPG with a custom engine
- Disney invests $1.5 billion in Epic, announces new 'entertainment universe' in Fortnite
- FTC hits Microsoft with federal complaint over game division layoffs
- Homeworld 3 delayed until May, as the developers make 'the final tweaks needed to deliver at the level of quality that we strive for and you deserve'
- Deus Ex actor Elias Toufexis bids a heartfelt farewell to Adam Jensen and thanks fans for their support: 'I asked for this'
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has a free trial starting tomorrow, which is probably the best way to play Activision's underwhelming sequel
- A wargame experiment pitting AI chatbots against each other ended exactly how you'd expect
- Paralives will enter early access in 2025 and will never have paid DLCs, only free expansions
- Counter-Strike 2 adds fan-favourite mode, its first weapon skins, custom sticker placement, and something a little shocking
- Celebrate Valentine's Day the traditional way, by grabbing Lies of P's crossover DLC with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
- Ex-Star Wars actor Gina Carano wants courts to force Lucasfilm to give her job back using Elon Musk's money, praises Twitter as 'one of the last glimmers of hope for free speech in the world'
- An old AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas etched onto the chip. They don't make em like that anymore, eh?
- RuneScape developer Jagex is being acquired by a private equity fund
- Opera buys its own Nvidia H100 mini-supercomputer, just so you can have a spot of AI in a web browser
- Palworld players stumble on cunning new strat to defeat bosses in one hit: a literal 'stairway to heaven'
- Former Infinity Ward dev says Activision told staff to 'take the money and get over it' after 'cold-blooded' canning of studio heads West and Zampella
- AMD's RX 7900 XT GPU hits its lowest ever price at $699 and that's right where it ought to be
- Machine learning means we can read a 2,000-year-old carbonized scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius and turns out it's all about the pleasures of stuffing your face
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 7
- WWE 2K24 will include casket matches, ambulance matches, special guest referees, and apparently Muhammad Ali
- February 6
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- Game designer Laralyn McWilliams, known for army training-sim-turned-game Full Spectrum Warrior and innovative F2P MMO Free Realms, has died
- Modders resurrect first party PlayStation RPG with a PC port that's already better than the original and promise 4K and 60 fps 'in the next few months'
- There's so much cool stuff coming to Crusader Kings 3 this year that I'm not sure what to be most excited for
- Surprise! Steam's Lunar New Year Sale is back
- Brainiac himself seemingly leaks a future Suicide Squad playable character
- Enshrouded's first big patch kills bunny-hopping and bed-flying exploits, nerfs superpowered Wolverine-style healing
- Atlus was 'extremely careful' about Persona 3 Reload changes: 'Good things do not get old with time, and greatness does not fade away'
- Cyberpunk 2077 sequel announces new lead writer, design director, and executive producer: 'It's like renaissance but with laser katanas,' creative director says
- Square Enix plans to oust outsourcers as it reviews the company's development process 'from scratch'
- You can nab a trove of Cyberpunk RPG books for a few eddies on Humble Bundle right now
- Konami's barebones Metal Gear Solid collection gets further unofficial support, as modders enable a 'widescreen hack' for MGS 1
- Roblox introduces real-time AI chat translation, says the next frontier is seamless voice translation including the 'tone, rhythm, and emotion' of its users' lil voices
- Mod to add HDR to non-HDR games on RTX GPUs is built out of hidden settings in Nvidia's latest drivers
- This Quake level pack transforms iconic multiplayer maps into thrilling singleplayer death mazes
- Obsidian says combat in Avowed will be good, actually, following criticism of battles shown in last month's game overview trailer
- Spendthrift gooners left deeply frustrated their new $3,500 Apple headsets don't support existing VR smut, damn the tech as 'worse than PSVR2'
- Viral clip of Tesla driver wearing Apple Vision Pro leads US gov to remind everyone 'self-driving' cars don't mean you can take your eyes off the road
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 6
- This Townscaper-like building game on 'the dark side of cozy' is the perfect lock screen photo designer
- This cozy cooking platformer is so sweet that I went back for seconds of the demo
- February 5
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- Henry Cavill says heading up the Warhammer 40,000 cinematic universe is 'the greatest privilege of my professional career'
- Assassin's Creed Origins voice actor says heading up his own studio has been 'terrifying' but the Steam Next Fest demo for its first game is pretty great
- This Enshrouded spell is so ridiculously OP I've been one-shotting bosses with it—and I'm not even a wizard
- Amid mounting rumors of Xbox games coming to PlayStation, Phil Spencer announces a 'business update' for next week
- Blizzard dares its richest World of Warcraft players to pour 70K gold down the drain for a meager achievement
- A year after Dark and Darker became one of the biggest games on Steam, a newcomer is trying to steal its thunder
- South Korean man jailed for refusing military service after admitting he loves PUBG: Battlegrounds, which 'makes the court question whether his conscientious objection is authentic'
- Cyberpunk's latest patch means the cops now care if you kill drunk NPCs
- This year's 'Windows 12' might just be nothing more than a large update for Windows 11, rather than a whole new operating system
- Former Skull and Bones director says making a separate solo campaign 'would have prevented the team from creating a really deep open world'
- Ambitious Fallout 2 fan remake emerges, blinking into the light through Fallout 4's engine
- Financial worker attends company meeting with AI deepfakes of senior 'colleagues' and is duped into transferring the scammers $26 million
- Apex Legends is making its biggest change since launch: an upgrade tree for every legend that adds 120 new variables to every match
- Apex Legends is getting rid of some of the 'randomness' in battle royale, starting with a massive shields overhaul
- Resizeable BAR mod for older gaming PCs, said to deliver up to 12% more performance, could breath a little more life into systems as old as Sandy Bridge
- Radeon graphics cards maybe aren't as popular as AMD might like us to think they are, at least according to the Steam HW Survey
- The Last Of Us co-creator and director teases a potential third entry: 'there's probably one more chapter to this story'
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor force pulls the Grammy for best video game soundtrack
- AMD's top Zen 5 motherboards will reportedly come in a triple-chip configuration for guaranteed USB4 40Gbps support
- Nvidia's 'new' RTX 3050 6G gets benchmarked, and it ain't great, but it's not all bad
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 5
- Windows 11 gains traction with gamers according to Steam's latest Hardware Survey
- This browser-based 'endless crafting game' starts you off with fire and water, but it quickly escalates to God, the Big Bang, and 'Yin-Yoda'
- February 4
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- Resident Evil 4 remake sold well over 6M copies, comprehensive gold edition coming this week
- Hellcard brings its chunky co-op deckbuilding to a full release
- A group of modders have spent 10 years honing a remake of StarCraft 1 and Brood War in StarCraft 2, complete with remastered cutscenes and custom unit models
- Seeing a video of Elden Ring maps loaded into Armored Core 6 makes me think an AC would just dominate the Lands Between
- Survive a harsh world in the demo for a city builder that looks like a Moebius drawing come to life
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 4
- The original tabletop deckbuilder Dominion is free-to-play on Steam, with AI powered by neural networks
- The T'au are coming to Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
- February 3
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- Moonbreaker, the digital miniatures game from Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds, has released
- Gloomwood developers exploring new advances in rat behavioral AI
- 26 years after Thief's release, one of its programmers is streaming the game's most ambitious mod
- Satisfactory will have its 1.0 release this year
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #959 for Saturday, February 3
- Fallout: New Vegas mod turns power armor into the beastly tank suit it was meant to be, might finally get me to play something other than a sneaky sniper
- February 2
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- Catapult your Diablo 4 character straight into godhood with Blizzard's bonus XP event next week
- Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what'
- Crypto hocus-pocus sees $6.5 million go 'poof' from Abracadabra thanks to a Cauldron problem that let a user exploit Magic Internet Money (I swear)
- Schitt's Creek star Catherine O'Hara joins HBO's The Last of Us in an 'undisclosed role'
- Skate developers confirm a Steam release is coming, console testing will begin this year
- Sims competitor Life By You delayed to June to refine gameplay and 'add more life' to character faces
- Starfield will get official FSR 3 support in a Steam beta update coming next week
- The brothers who founded Until Dawn studio Supermassive step down together after 16 years
- Turns out AMD's 'Compressonator' tool for artists and devs was named after The Governator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger
- God's own operating system continues the hurtle to oblivion as even Rockstar abandons Windows 7
- Steam bullied into adding a dwarf tag by the short king tag team of Deep Rock Galactic and Dwarf Fortress
- Google says per-transistor chip costs stopped getting cheaper 10 years ago, but how is that right?
- The solution to space junk might be space lasers because lasers solve everything obviously
- Atlus pinky swears that 'fans can rest assured knowing that Persona 3 Reload offers a complete experience,' so you won't be buying Persona 3 Reload: Royal years from now
- Infamous swatter-for-hire Torswats likely arrested after a private investigator worked with a WoW Twitch streamer and the FBI to take them down
- Here's path tracing running on the Steam Deck at 30 fps thanks to some settings tweaks
- Free GOG keys for the objectively best Fallout game are on Twitch Prime right now
- Palworld could have a major problem with an item that's meant to boost your chances of capturing pals, but lowers it instead
- Yo dawg, I heard you like screens, so I put a screen on your CPU fan
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #958 for Friday, February 2
- February 1
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- Inkle reveals a surprise collaboration with Google in The Forever Labyrinth, 'an art-filled quest through time and space'
- Devolver Digital's new CEO is its old CEO
- Passively cooling an RTX 3080 FE with 10 CPU coolers makes it look like a steampunk spaceship, and I'm a fan
- Gary Bowser, charged with paying Nintendo a sum he'll never be able to afford, talks about his life after prison: 'The sentence was like a message to other people'
- Fake Palworld mobile apps could lead to data leaks or fraud, Pocketpair warns: 'There is no Palworld application for phones'
- Palworld has now got a staggering 19 million players, an unstoppable rise that means it's got a bigger population than the Netherlands
- The Day Before was an even bigger disaster than you thought: devs reportedly made to pay fines for bad work, learned it was an MMO from the trailers, and no one's sure where the bosses are
- Dredge dev says a mechanic that killed NPCs without warning if you let them go hungry lasted for about 3 days after the game's launch before they patched it out, because 'people f*cking hated it'
- Avowed's game director says Obsidian's choice to limit players to just two races is partially down to its first-person camera
- City-wide Wi-Fi networks spanning literal miles could soon be possible thanks to 'HaLow' devices
- Palworld glitch lets you carry 9,999 of anything like a legally distinct Sisyphus hauling pal spheres up a mountain
- Palworld update fixes save-bricking capture bug, permanently-nerfing respec juice, and Pals randomly levitating or dying to 'unexplained falling damage'
- Kurt Russell gives thoughtful and nuanced answer about why he wouldn't voice Snake in Metal Gear Solid 3, also seems to think the character is actually Snake Plissken
- Deep Rock Galactic and Dwarf Fortress call on their fans for a Steam revolution: a new dwarf tag to unite the games under one label
- This 9.5g gaming mouse is so small I'd be worried about inhaling it, cable and all
- Wizards of the Coast dispels rumours that Tencent wants to gobble up D&D like a tarrasque: 'To be clear: We are not looking to sell our D&D IP'
- Redditor who posts 'I've got everything I need' alongside bare room with mattress and gaming PC ends up on CBS panel show: 'Come on, we've all dated that guy'
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: League of Legends
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #957 for Thursday, February 1
- Wayfinder studio Airship Syndicate says layoffs are necessary to ensure it 'can continue to operate and deliver great experiences'
- Diablo 4's little robot spider is actually an apex predator who can solo bosses, and it's about to get even stronger
- Pokimane's main reason for leaving Twitch: 'So much manosphere, red pill bulls***'
