News archive
September 2025
Filter
736 articles
- September 30
-
- Team Fortress 2 Classic, the throwback version of Valve's famed team-based shooter, is having an open beta on Steam in October
- The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski says one of CD Projekt's big story points is actually based on a mistake, but 'videogame people have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity'
- A surprise Steam update for Prototype broke the mods making the 16-year old game playable on modern systems—but could hint at a potential remaster
- 2 months after halting work on its latest project, Just Cause developer Avalanche is closing its Liverpool studio and laying off employees in Malmö and Stockholm
- 'Survival-climber' Cairn is delayed into 2026, but the demo on Steam is getting a cool new feature in October
- Ken Levine says Judas might look a bit like Bioshock, but it's 'really radically different'
- The Star Trek: Voyager survival game will let you murder Tuvix all over again—so I don't really care that it looks a little rough
- Cities: Skylines 2 latest region pack heads to the Netherlands, 'the land of windmills, clogs, and stroopwafel,' and includes new hospitals, fire stations, and hyperrealistic cemeteries
- The gamers have done it again, this time building a functional ChatGPT in Minecraft—but before you get too excited, it takes literally hours to provide a response
- This Energizer-branded laptop has a massive 192 Wh battery with up to 7 days standby time, but you won't technically be able to take it on your next flight
- Battlefield 6 season 1 roadmap finally tells us how big its Call of Duty-like seasons will be: two maps, five guns, modes, and attachments
- After months of complaining that Monster Hunter Wilds is too easy, Omega Planetes is here to tip every hunter upside down and shake out all their lunch money
- Fallout: London's first DLC could be just around the corner, but brace yourself to roll a fresh save
- Pax Dei, the fantasy alternative to EVE Online, is leaving early access and introducing a subscription model that sounds a lot like paying a landlord
- SteelSeries unveils new high-end wireless gaming headset with a price tag that might be too dear for even my audiophile ears
- EA's new owners are leaning heavily on AI to make some money and its huge debt go away, which seems like one helluva gamble to me
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is 'building toward the most advanced and robust anti-cheat', requiring players to enable Secure Boot for the beta
- Fancy some unorthodox, techy ASMR? Try the soothing sound of 12 dial-up modems all trying to connect to the internet at once
- Summer Eternal, one of the most exciting studios to come out of the Disco Elysium fallout, will announce its first game exclusively through 'the analog medium' of a vinyl record and a book of art, essays, and dev diaries
- Yakuza's all-new bonus Gaiden game was almost an mp4 bundled on the Kiwami 3 disc before RGG figured fans might wanna play it
- Borderlands 4 dev clears up the difference between Skill Damage and Action Skill damage, and I feel like a combat log is in order so I didn't have to find this out on a Reddit thread
- Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme early tests beat out AMD, Intel, and Apple as the most powerful mobile chip on the market but price uncertainty still remains a sticking point
- 'We don't know if something's scary': Resident Evil Requiem director reveals the trials of creating the next scariest Resident Evil game, 'We talked ourselves down a little bit'
- Morrowind gets way easier to play on your Steam Deck or sofa thanks to a new OpenMW release candidate that's all about gamepads, baby
- Saved you a click: The latest Windows 11 24H2 Insider preview build offers internet speed check right from the taskbar
- 2XKO is going offline for a few days to prep for its early access launch before returning with an utterly demonic Teemo
- Critical Role's new DM wants you to know he's absolutely fine running a D&D game for 13 people and 3 groups: 'This is my favorite thing in the world'
- $6.7 billion in bitcoin scored in 'single largest cryptocurrency seizure in the world'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 30 (#1564)
- September 29
-
- EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm
- Writer Andrew Dice, whose work helped popularize Japanese indies like Recettear in the West, has died
- Control is 90% off in the Steam Autumn Sale, meaning you can read some of the finest redacted documents in videogames for just $4
- Diablo 4 player harnessed the power of an infinite damage exploit to breeze through an impossible dungeon 48 hours before Blizzard took it away
- This year's biggest surprise co-op hit is 30% off in the Steam Autumn Sale
- Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop
- Terminator 2D: No Fate is delayed because of 'global trade and tariff changes'
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says he didn't write any of GTA 6: 'The world's probably had enough GTA from me'
- Two months earlier than usual, the Steam Autumn Sale is here
- If you're a House Flipper or PowerWash sicko you've gotta check out The Lift, a game about being a space-repairman in a spooky faux-Soviet research base
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US needs to 'go compete' with AI chips against China because 'they're nanoseconds behind us'
- The AI industry's latest curse on humanity is a fake 'actress' it wants to turn into 'the next Scarlett Johansson'
- 'Much of the value creation in the semiconductor industry is occurring outside the EU' says EU member states, and they want a fresh plan to claw some chips back
- Monster Hunter Wilds is the latest game to announce an 'End of support notice for Windows 10', as developers prepare for the final days of the soon-to-be-dead operating system
- Almost 90 years old, Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry says she's retiring from the adventuring life: 'I'm tired, I'm not having fun anymore'
- Final Fantasy 14's upcoming Monster Hunter collaboration will 'feel more like 14' compared to its more unorthodox Rathalos encounter
- EA strikes a $55 billion deal to go private in a Saudi-backed buyout just a week before the launch of Battlefield 6
- Fortnite quickly pulls Peacemaker emote while it figures out 'our partner's creative intentions' after the show's huge twist gives it a whole new meaning
- Battlefield 6 makes fun of CoD: Blows up Zac Efron and a load of other celebs while players whoop and cheer
- Heroic tinkerer revives Windows 7 and gets Steam and Silksong running on it, so take that Microsoft and your constant nagging to upgrade to Win11
- There's a sidequest in Borderlands 4 based on a meme making fun of Soulsborne games and it's great
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 29 (#1563)
- Next year Magic: The Gathering will return to Lorwyn, Strixhaven, Middle-earth, the Marvel Universe—and space, with a Star Trek set
- September 28
-
- Ryu Ga Gotoku boss credits PC gamers' love of Yakuza 0 with taking the series worldwide: 'I truly believe we are where we are today because of them'
- It's possible to get Silksong's double jump in Act 1 well before you're supposed to, you just have to be enough of a platforming god to prove you don't need it
- Scalpers are already selling the promise of an Asus ROG Xbox Ally X for over $2,000 when it's still available for pre-order at half the price
- After stumbling out of the gate with poor sales as a PS5 exclusive, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth director says it's 'doing very well on both PS5 and PC,' while 'a lot of the content is already playable' in the upcoming third game
- There's a Silksong mod to double every boss in the game, in case it was getting too easy
- 'Something we try might go wrong or it might not be good, but we'll address it': 2XKO director promises the team is committed to the new League of Legends fighting game
- 'The team wanted to present more than a postcard or a backdrop': Forza Horizon 6 devs credit road trips and Hot Wheels DLC for upcoming racer
- Don't Lie is a freaky new horror game about a reclusive 'hikikomori' trapped in liminal spaces with terrifying hallucinations and so very many eyes
- New party game Task Time promises 'unlimited chaos' with over 500,000 task variations and the instruction to 'do what it takes' to win
- Absolum's newest trailer teases killer music from the composer behind Elden Ring and Sekiro
- Will you lead your foxfolk to war or peace in 4X kingdom builder Raev: Kingdom on the Distant Shores?
- Huntsman is like Alien: Isolation but with massive spiders instead of Xenomorphs, and its demo is coming next month
- Don't lie: You've always wanted to be a djent-fueled shapeshifting robot samurai, and Morbid Metal's imminent playtest will finally deliver the goods
- Oku lets you live out life as a serene wandering poet who helps talking cats, tea ladies, and disgruntled fishermen
- D-topia is about a city where 'life is curated by artificial intelligence to maximize happiness,' which actually sounds like something the tech industry is on the verge of pitching
- Create your band in People of Note, a turn-based RPG musical that feels like the Kpop Demon Hunters tie-in game I wished for
- Demi and the Fractured Dream brings a Zelda-like action adventure game to PC with stylish combat and mysterious characters
- House Flipper 2 brings back the pets in an upcoming DLC that will add dozens of cats and dogs as well as hamster, bunnies, snakes, and a bunch of other cute critters to adopt
- Outward 2 opts for immersion over power fantasy, but the RPG gives you all the tools you need to survive in its harsh world
- Reach combines the best of Mirror's Edge and Prince of Persia in a sleek VR package
- Soulmask, the survival game that's basically Palworld but with people, is finally leaving early access, and it's coming with an ancient Egyptian DLC
- Dawn of War 4's 'guiding star' was the first in the series, but 'you're not trying to recreate the old game, you try to recreate the feeling'
- If the average JRPG moves too slowly for you, keep an eye on Threads of Time, which gets through 12 million years and an apocalypse in one campaign
- In co-op open world survival game Join Us, you run a doomsday cult whose belief system is like 'a dynamic skill tree that evolves as the game goes on'
- 'Planet Earth is about to be recycled': Join Us is a multiplayer game about leading a cult into doomsday and, apparently, riding grizzly bears
- When you lose in this 'haunted board game', your builds become opponents for other players to fight asynchronously
- 'Liars must be punished': Dyping Escape looks creepy as hell, pitting you against a pair of eyes that seem to be taking over your PC
- Descend into the murky depths of memory in Mind Diver, a trippy puzzle game set in an ocean of remembrance
- MotionRec is a puzzle platformer where you can record your movements and then play them back
- Stylish combat, tragic bosses, and a world inspired by Asian folklore combine to make The Relic: First Guardian one of the most exciting upcoming action RPGs
- Doomspire combines lots of my favorite things: deck builders, roguelikes, and fantasy, and it's out now
- Farmbotic mashes up Stardew Valley and Satisfactory in a cross-platform farming sim where little robot buddies help grow your crops
- Killing Floor 3's Rearmament update drops this Halloween, bringing new weapons, a revamped perk system, and loads of bug fixes and performance improvements
- Cyberpunk roguelike Clawpunk's new trailer has a release date and more chainsaw cats than any other game I've seen, well, probably ever
- If humans ever live on Mars, will they 'bend the knee to Earth's institutions' or turn the Red Planet even redder? Mars Tactics puts the answer in your hands next year
- Hotel Barcelona's 'hardcore spirit' is inspired by the tough action games creator Swery65 worked on at the start of his career
- Kaiju Cleanup sees you mopping up monsters from the inside out in a satirical blend of PowerWash Simulator and Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Extraction shooter Gravebound's bullet hell action adds an exciting twist to the genre, and you can try it out in an open play test right now
- BMX delivery, sumo-wrestling, fishing: Cozy gaming gets a little Crazy Taxi, as a treat, in Tanuki: Pon's Summer
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 has 'completely revamped' action that lets you you fight with Ryukyu weapons and ninjas inspired by the Okinawa setting
- Bully 2 never happened due to 'bandwidth issues' according to Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser: 'You just can't do all the projects you want'
- A singing axolotl and a magical bunny team up in Billie Bust Up, a retro platformer with rhythmic boss battles and witchy movement abilities
- I'm convinced dungeon crawlers have always needed skiing physics after Awaysis' newest trailer
- Explore a winter wonderland in Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth as you rescue animals in this cozy puzzle game
- Play as the infamous Minotaur of Greek mythology in Minos, an Orcs Must Die-like roguelite where you build a deadly labyrinth full of dastardly traps
- Earth Must Die looks like a sci-fi Monkey Island, with an extremely British cast that includes names from Taskmaster, Game of Thrones, and Doctor Who
- Nightdive's remaster of Blood is getting an overhaul with built-in mods in Blood: Refreshed Supply
- Stario: Haven Tower is yet another vertical city-builder, but this one has magic, space whales and flying delivery turtles
- 'Overwhelmingly positive' rover-building sim Mars First Logistics rolls out of early access with a new automation system and a 40% discount
- Senior Treyarch developer says he'd be 'dead lying' if he claimed not to be worried about series fatigue with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
- The first DLC vault hunter in Borderlands 4 will be a robot cowboy gambler named C4SH who throws playing cards
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 28 (#1562)
- Magic: The Gathering cards featuring Dwight from The Office are a step too far for some, though others think they're 'so bad its circling back to being funny'
- September 27
-
- Over half of Japanese game companies are using AI in development according to a new survey, including Level-5 and Capcom
- Hyper Light studio Heart Machine's next singleplayer game is launching in November, no early access, just a year and a half after it was announced
- Konami accidentally handed out goodies from Silent Hill f's $80 digital deluxe edition to $70 normies on Steam, but will snatch them back shortly
- Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 gets Tokyo Game Show sign of life: 'Since we called the first instalment Vol. 1, it’s only natural to expect a second one'
- After four long years, Mojang is finally making copper useful in Minecraft in its big September update
- Supergiant director says the studio is fully focused on Hades 2, doesn't 'secretly know' what it'll do next and Hades 3 is 'not preordained'
- This browser game transforms the reviled reCAPTCHA into a delightfully silly puzzler
- The Witcher's forgotten minigame gets a grisly revival where you bet your own digits trying to roll high-scoring poker hands against demonic billionaires
- 4 years after launch, card-based brawler Fights in Tight Spaces gets an expansion that adds a canine companion and an 'all new assistant system'
- Remedy's bold gambit to save FBC: Firebreak arrives on Monday, in the form of a massive update that aims to 'improve everything' about the underwhelming coop shooter
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 27 (#1561)
- September 26
-
- EA is reportedly about to be sold in a record-setting $50 billion buyout to an investor group that includes private equity and Saudi Arabia
- Silksong player uses every speedrunning trick in the book to lock poor Hornet in bug jail forever: 'I don't know why anyone would want to do this, but I have done it anyway'
- REPO devs are adding a new mechanic that'll let you grab things while tumbling and—more importantly—kill things with butt physics
- Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law
- Path of Exile 2 is making a surprise Atlas overhaul next week to liberate its players from tower tyranny
- Worst people alive hack nursery chain and start posting pictures and personal info of literal toddlers on the dark web
- End of an era as Bowser (no not that one) retires from Nintendo
- Someone made the Metal Gear Solid 4 channel-surfing section into a game and it's absolutely perfect
- Diablo 4 is crossing the streams with Starcraft cosmetics, and honestly? A Terran marine makes a better Barbarian than I'd have expected
- In Falsus is the exact kind of mega-anime rhythm game I've been desperate for on PC
- Turns out, Microsoft will offer Windows 10 security updates for free until 2026—but unfortunately not in the US or the UK
- While we're still waiting for games to use Nvidia's RTX IO tech, data centres get another bit of hardware to remind us they've been using it all this time
- Silksong's Any% speedrun is already below 1 hour, in case you were worried this game would be too hard to clown on
- 'Are we going to bet the company's road map on chiplets?' AMD's CEO Lisa Su reminds us how fortunate it was that its executives all said yes
- Nexus Mods' premium sub now has a free trial system, and it only took a brisk 18 years
- FTC settles with Amazon for a whopping $2.5 billion over alleged deceptive practices: 'A record-breaking, monumental win for the millions of Americans who are tired of deceptive subscriptions that feel impossible to cancel'
- Jagex CEO says he's happy to take revenue hits to fix RuneScape 3's microtransaction and 'integrity' problem
- Trump administration is reportedly planning to tariff US tech firms that don't source equal numbers of imported and American chips
- Habbo Hotel's answer to WoW Classic is coming to Steam
- Rematch is free to play for a long weekend after its Season 1 launch—and I'm currently torn between saving Olympus and having a kickabout
- New Virtua Fighter presentation takes a lot of time to say not very much aside from a short teaser and a brand-new battle system
- Tired of shader compilation screens? Microsoft is rolling out its own solution, but we won't feel the benefits immediately
- Forza Horizon 6's Japan map is mondo-huge, Playground's 'biggest map yet' and also its 'most full'
- Silksong's criminal lack of 'Shaw!' fixed by heroic modder
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 26 (#1560)
- The ROG Xbox Ally X priced at $1,000 and available to preorder in October, making it officially the most expensive 'Xbox' ever
- Microsoft wants to sell you a Steam Deck in 2025 for $600 as Xbox Ally pricing unveiled
- September 25
-
- The surprise Witcher 3 patch adding cross-platform mod support is delayed until 2026
- While Deus Ex's confounding remaster is $30, the entire series is on sale for less than $10 on Steam
- 9 months after cancelling Transformers: Reactivate, Splash Damage splits from Tencent and is now owned by private equity investors
- This $2 coin flipping 'non-idle clicker' is a one-button labyrinth of probability paranoia
- Borderlands 4's latest patch triggers a flurry of performance complaints, but Gearbox says new stuttering problems 'should resolve over time as the shaders continue to compile'
- Metal Gear Solid Delta's multiplayer mode—the first properly new Metal Gear experience since 2018's Survive—releases October 30
- Battlefield 6 devs are 'putting the final touches' on a blank slate map for its Forge-like Portal mode
- Microsoft blocks Israeli military from some services after investigation finds 'evidence that supports' allegations of mass surveillance in Gaza
- Corsair announces Vanguard 96, a line of 96% gaming keyboards with Hall effect switches and, for some reason, Stream Deck integration
- Apparently someone decided it was a good idea to make a Let It Die sequel in the year 2025, and God bless them
- Raspberry has only just launched its new Pi 500+ but one modder has already improved it, making it support an external RX 7900 XT graphics card for top-tier gaming
- Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect
- Starbreeze says sorry, reverses price increase on Payday 2 DLC bundle: 'We definitely didn't handle this right'
- PuffPals: Island Skies, a cosy game that earned $2.5 million on Kickstarter, has been slammed with refund requests after its website and online store disappeared
- Intel's 13th and 14th Gen chips will reportedly see a 10% price hike soon, partly in response to 'the lackluster performance of AI PCs'
- PlayStation announces new Pulse speakers but pitches them as perfect for 'desktop gaming'
- AMD wants to patent a new DDR5 memory standard with double the bandwidth but we're not expecting to see it in PCs any time soon
- Remember that great Friday the 13th game that got shuttered? The same studio is doing it all again, except this time it's Halloween
- Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2, the first 5 GHz Arm CPU, its 'biggest advance in PC gaming' and the chip that might finally make gaming on Arm an actual thing
- Code Vein 2's release date reveal means you'll be starting 2026 off by hunting down vampires (but don't call them vampires), which really should be a new year tradition
- The Xbox TGS stream's most exciting reveal was just a bunch of licence plates, teasing Forza Horizon 6's Japanese setting
- Despite all appearances, upcoming F2P open-world RPG Ananta isn't a gacha game—only charging for cosmetics and furniture
- Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'
- German drivers remotely control cars via impressive racing rigs—and they may even take their wheels to public roads from December 1
- Intel has reportedly approached Apple for an investment, after CEO Tim Cook said 'we'd love to see Intel come back'
- Crimson Desert's release date trailer bravely makes it through 1 minute of serious fantasy exposition before showing you its cool clockwork dragon and mech, and I love it for that
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 25 (#1559)
- September 24
-
- Mod maker brings Skibidi Toilet to Borderlands 4 for one simple reason: To spite the narrative director who said he'd 'cry real tears' if the game shipped with it
- PSA: Don't turn off motion blur in Silent Hill F unless you want some weird visual glitches
- We finally saw ZA/UM's Zero Parades in action and even though it's extremely Disco Elysium, the protagonist couldn't be more different
- Wolverine claws more people in the head in the new Marvel's Wolverine trailer than I think he did in all the comics I read as a kid
- 25-year-old PC classic Deus Ex is finally getting an official remaster
- 'Unauthorized' AI-generated voices in Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered have been removed
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs 'straight up turned down' skin deals with 'big, big brands' following Tactical Beavis backlash
- Pokémon Company says Homeland Security's use of its property in disturbing promotional video was unauthorized, but DHS doesn't seem to care: 'To arrest them is our real test, to deport them is our cause'
- How to watch today's Sony State of Play, which will feature 'anticipated third-party and indie titles' and updates from first-party studios—but probably not Marathon
- Monster Hunter Wilds' FF14 crossover update and Omega hunt lands on Monday, but we're still waiting until December for those much-needed performance improvements
- Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters
- Cloudflare mitigates yet another record-breaking DDoS attack—which, at 22.2 Tbps, makes it nearly twice as big as the last hyper-volumetric attack
- Payday 2 gets a new DLC subscription service, and it's a pretty good deal but a lot of players are mad anyway
- 'The future of GTA roleplaying' announced in collaboration with Rockstar Games
- Google and Qualcomm are prepping 'desktop' Android to enable 'mobile and PC' in one device, but should Windows and x86 be afraid?
- A zero-water, zero-emissions, off-grid AI data center sounds like science fiction, but it's actually real and already running
- A modder has already removed all the fog from Silent Hill f and it makes Ebisugaoka look like quite the vacation spot
- Helldivers 2 devs say players are 'absolutely right to expect better' after latest update's crashes and stumbles—promise mid-October patch and 'better communication'
- Microsoft is resorting to laser etching AI-designed cooling channels directly into data center chips to tame their massive heat
- How To Watch the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2025
- Counter-Strike 2 invents a new way to monetise guns and, hoo boy, people seem to hate it even more than crates and keys: 'I'm not paying 1000+ bucks for a skin!'
- After it accidentally leaked it, RGG unveils a full-on Kiwami remake of Yakuza 3, plus a whole new bonus Gaiden game where you play its main bad guy
- Despite its $1,000+ price tag, Lenovo Legion Go 2 pre-orders have 'substantially exceeded' expections, resulting in cancellations and delays
- Logitech announces a solar keyboard powered by 'any light source'—yes, even your dingily lit gamer den
- Steam's new store look is out and is earning a mixed response: 'Thanks Valve I am a grandma using Steam on a giant old touchscreen Samsung tablet'
- Valve has just dropped the Steam Deck LCD to $319 / £279 making it a stellar deal for entry-level portable PC gaming
- Steam now lets you check if you have Secure Boot enabled: the security feature we're all going to have to get to grips with for Battlefield, Call of Duty and more
- Yes, one line in a config file for Intel's graphics software really does say 'multi frame generation' but we probably shouldn't get our hopes up
- Nioh 3 is coming to PC and PS5 in February, according to an Amazon slip up
- Ananta says hey, we can do a Spider-Man/Yakuza/Sifu/Batman: Arkham/GTA—but we'll put an anime bunny girl in our one
- Peak's dillydally update has added new activities to the airport, giving your friends more reasons to put off actually climbing the damn mountain
- Maxsun's latest RTX 5070 comes with improved thermals and even more anime cat girl than before
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 24 (#1558)
- I wish I'd known this one stupidly simple trick when I started Baby Steps—it makes some of the harder early climbs much easier
- September 23
-
- Baby Steps review roundup: 'Is it possible to love and hate a game at the same time?' (The answer, clearly, is yes)
- 'It doesn't feel like they've tried to copy and paste the game onto the screen' says star of Ubisoft's upcoming Watch Dogs movie
- EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?
- Steam celebrates all things boomer shooter with 'Boomstock 2025,' blasting up to 80% off the very best in retro-inspired FPS
- A week after saying it was going quiet for the rest of the year, Palworld announces a crossover with the brilliant and bloodstained shooter Ultrakill
- Baldur's Gate 3 now runs natively on Steam Deck thanks to a single Larian engineer who started the project after hours because he 'really wanted a smoother version of the game on Steam Deck'
- Painkiller is coming in October with a new co-op roguelike mode that does not look very Painkiller-ish to me
- Get started in pretty much every current Warhammer tabletop RPG at once for just $25 with this gloriously grimdark bundle
- X-COM's creator wants to make a sequel to his spiritual successor, despite it being a 'very difficult project'
- Folks falling for LLM chatbots often end up with AI girlfriends 'unintentionally,' claims new study
- Pocketpair announces Palfarm, a Palworld 'cozy life' farm sim spinoff where you can still give a monkey an assault rifle, but like, cozily
- DreamScene is back: Microsoft's resurrecting video wallpapers, a Windows feature last seen in 2007
- Hideo Kojima presents a Hideo Kojima credit card, fans immediately dub it 'debt stranding'
- Fortnite's latest proximity chat-based mode saw thousands banned last weekend over slurs and toxic behaviour
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirms the upcoming N1 APU that's heading for the PC is indeed the same as the GB10 'Superchip' in the DGX Spark AI box
- Stalker 2's 1.6 update brings with it nighttime fun and a bit of heat
- It's Alchemist, Battlemage or nothing: Intel driver support for every other GPU from the past four years moves into legacy mode
- Former Blizzard president criticises Microsoft for two Xbox price hikes in one year: 'Console price increases are not tariff issues, they are profit issues'
- 2XKO is coming out of closed beta much sooner than expected, opening the floodgate for PC players next month
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's newest free update is coming next week, and will take us back to one of my favourite realms
- Borderlands 4 player finds bugged interaction that can cause 'Total Existence Failure' damage to endgame bosses without a proper build—and no legendary items or crit knives to be seen
- With this HDD mashing machine, you can watch your old hard drive being squished in half and then wonder if the spooks could still get at your data
- Here's what to expect from the World of Warcraft: Midnight alpha, kicking off on October 2
- Silksong's new patch delivers bug fixes and a soft nerf to everyone's beloved Cogfly—plus a vow to fix the awful Simplified Chinese translation with 'A new script, by a well-regarded team' in 3-4 weeks
- If claims about TSMC's prices for its next-gen process node are even only half right, then the best CPUs and graphics cards are going to become a lot more expensive
- Another malware masquerading as a Steam game took tens of thousands from streamer's cancer recovery donations
- Nvidia plans to splash OpenAI with cash, pouring out $100 billion for ChatGPT's creator and making last week's Intel investment look like a drop in the money bucket
- An original Apple I PC just sold for $500K and now I'm frantically ransacking boxes of old PC and Apple kit for my retirement fund
- PC component maker Maxsun decides the time is right for a new motherboard format, by taking a hacksaw to an mATX circuit board
- Borderlands 4 is focusing on buffs, not nerfs—opting to 'start with underperforming gear/skills first' rather than its infinite-bleed god-knife
- Physint, Kojima's forthcoming 'tactical espionage action game', gets a poster and an early cast list
- Death Stranding Mosquito is the inevitable Death Stranding anime
- Kojima's OD just got 3 minutes worth of in-engine footage, and it's definitely following in the footsteps of P.T.
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 23 (#1557)
- September 22
-
- Ready or Not studio fires community manager for saying 'nothing of value was lost' following Charlie Kirk's shooting
- Eric Barone says he doesn't want 'too much hype' for Stardew Valley's 1.7 update, which is a bit like showing the internet a big red button marked DO NOT PRESS
- Henry Cavill's new photos on Instagram probably aren't teasing anything about his new Warhammer 40,000 cinematic universe—but they might be
- Dying Light: The Beast mod nerfs the biggest annoyance in the game: how often zombies grab you
- Arc Raiders is opening its doors to everyone in a final 'Server Slam' playtest coming in October
- You can technically play Doom on a $30 vape and it just needs 'that last bit of RAM' to run natively
- GPD's Strix Halo handheld has finally seen some testing, and $2,200 still seems like a tough sell even if it blows today's handhelds out of the water
- Yoko Taro wanted Nier: Automata to be 'a story I'd have trouble grasping myself,' so job done, then goes on amazing extended digression about cubes and 'aspiring to perfect' them
- One UK national arrested in joint-US operation is accused of being part of Scattered Spider, a group involved 'in a sweeping cyber extortion scheme' that resulted in over $115,000,000 in ransomware payments from victims
- Milling the SSD back into sand is one way of upgrading your iPhone 17's storage and it makes a laptop upgrade look like a four-piece jigsaw puzzle by comparison
- YouTuber makes a 'portable monstrosity' Xbox using a handsaw, hot glue, and eight disk drives: 'It's working. It's actually working!'
- GTA 5 Trevor actor feels 'nothing inside' for GTA 6, challenges gamers to read Crime and Punishment: 'Books are my thing'
- It's going to be raining dollars over at Samsung: A stamp of approval by Nvidia, plus an incoming price hike for DRAM chips, has lifted shares out of the doldrums
- Konami tempts fate by asking players what Metal Gear they want remade next, and bizarrely enough includes MGS5 among the options
- Sucker Punch confirms it fired artist for joking about Charlie Kirk shooting: 'Making light of someone's murder is a deal-breaker'
- One mad lad is trying to play Hollow Knight and Silksong at the same time with one controller
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 22 (#1556)
- September 21
-
- The 16+ year-old original Stalker games have Nvidia DLSS support now, which isn't as crazy as it sounds
- Thumper, one of the best rhythm games we've ever played, has a follow-up and you can try the demo immediately
- UK politician says Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams 'is being pushed to financial ruin' by Meta after publishing her exposé
- Silksong has the most insane secret bragging rights reward I've ever seen: A special red or purple inventory icon for beating at least half of the game without a map
- Battlefield 6 devs say that remastering old maps is harder than you might think
- Japan's space agency officially ends decade-plus mission that carried Hatsune Miku into space one year after losing probe somewhere above Venus
- Remember Boaty McBoatface the polar research vessel? Now we have Ctrl Alt Deleaf the leaf cleaning train
- Internet Archive settles two-year lawsuit with record labels over music preservation program
- Goofy open world sim Wobbly Life launches into space for its 1.0 update, adding rescue missions, asteroid mining, and the chance to be a space detective
- The Sims 4 gets a much-needed update to the increasingly buggy base game, as EA assures players that 'your concerns are heard' over issues like deformed pets and missing ghost children
- Mercenary RPG Wartales' latest DLC adds one of its most hotly-requested features, fief management
- Shadows of Doubt's hilarious new modifiers let you play as a wall-crawling rat detective and evade a killer snail
- There's a fan patch for FEAR if you want to play the classic FPS with a scalable UI, controller support, and other modern conveniences
- Developer of NSFW games says Valve won't let them add adult content in updates, now it has to be DLC
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 21 (#1555)
- Silksong sickos have already painstakingly determined the DPS of every crest in the game, and you might want to switch off Reaper
- September 20
-
- One of my favorite shooters of the 2020s—a sleeper 'Overwhelmingly Positive' on Steam—just got a second episode that more than doubles its length for $10
- Microsoft's new Gaming Copilot AI tool promises to be 'your personal gaming sidekick' but it mostly seems to do the work of a Google search, with the potential for 'hallucinations'
- FromSoftware is showing a sliver of mercy with a new QoL patch for Nightreign's super hard Deep of Night, but it hasn't gotten any easier
- 2 years later than planned, Arctic Awakening arrives to pull the walking simulator out of its Edith Finch-shaped grave
- This Doom mod based on ye olde Flash animation series Madness is, fittingly, way slicker than it has any right to be
- This 'supernatural handyman simulator' is House Flipper for Abiotic Factor sickos, a first-person restoration sim about fixing up a gigantic research facility
- Monastic brewing sim Ale Abbey hops out of early access with eight new beers to quaff and a 35% launch discount
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 20 (#1554)
- Weeks after Silksong's launch I can't stop thinking about this streamer's masterful troll campaign against its fans: 'They made a whole game about getting to your car but you don't have car keys, and you're excited for that?'
- September 19
-
- FF14 is getting a baby Seikret minion as part of its Monster Hunter Wilds collab, and I will fistfight Arkveld alone for it
- 'There is a chance that they will stay in Roblox': Gen Alpha is into PC gaming, but one industry analyst isn't so sure they're going to age out of their favorite haunt
- The studio behind award-winning Umurangi Generation is reimagining Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness from the perspective of a penguin, and it's brought the voice of Disco Elysium onboard to do it
- 'You wouldn't believe how much stupid s**t is in this giant world': The Baby Steps devs want you to know as little as possible before you play their walking sim
- 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game
- However many nu metal songs you think are in Battlefield 6, I promise you there are more
- Ninja says 'the last couple of years have been rough' because 'the Internet and trolls' are obsessed with the fact he's not as big as he once was
- Jump Space, the co-op spaceship crew-'em-up we warned you was fun, just launched in early access and it's already turning heads
- The adaptation you've been waiting for since 1996 is finally here: Bop It! is now a videogame
- Pope Leo refuses to authorise an AI Pope and declares the technology 'an empty, cold shell that will do great damage to what humanity is about'
- Team Reptile announces Hyperfunk, a Bomb Rush Cyberfunk follow-up that's '2 seconds per second of evolved funkstyle'
- Jensen Huang says Intel and Nvidia 'have been discussing and architecting solutions now for coming up to a year' and 'kept it really quiet'
- Multi-button gaming mice aren't just for MMOs as Corsair's latest rodent shows, knocking Razer off its historic perch as best MMO gaming mouse
- Now that 4K/1080p dual-mode monitors are officially a thing, it's the perfect time to play a game of guessing what madcap tech monitors will next sport
- The Subnautica 2 lawsuit is getting even messier, with Krafton doing a massive U-turn, confusing both the ousted founders' lawyer and the judge: 'This is a little bit bewildering'
- Fortnite will soon let creators earn money peddling items straight from their islands, throws a tomato at Roblox by comparing cuts for good measure
- Steam announces end of support for Windows 10 32-Bit, saying only 0.01% of PCs are still running it
- End of Windows 10 support might mean a sizeable shrink in the entry-level PC gaming market according to new research
- I am so terribly glad I've learned you can easily reset all your cooldowns in Borderlands 4 before starting my shotgun grind
- The Trump administration may have had a hand in the Nvidia/Intel partnership, whether directly or indirectly, despite Jensen's claims to the contrary
- Intel's future might be rosier now that Nvidia is partially on board but at this moment in time, AMD rules every roost in the CPU coop
- Intel says Arc GPUs aren't going anywhere just yet despite the new Nvidia collaboration
- Critical Role's new D&D campaign trailer has given me unshakable faith that whatever Brennan Lee Mulligan does with his galaxy brain and 13 players is going to be great
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 19 (#1553)
- September 18
-
- Weapons director says his Resident Evil movie will leave everything 'intact' from the games: 'I'm not gonna steal Leon and put him in an original story'
- Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit
- US agents are investigating the Charlie Kirk murder suspect's Steam account, but I'm not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us
- A hardcore Souls player already soloed Elden Ring Nightreign's max-difficulty Depth 5, but he doesn't recommend it
- In yet another victory lap for Hazelight Studios, Split Fiction just became the first videogame to get a design award from Swedish royalty
- If you use inverted camera controls, you might rotate shapes in your mind more slowly—but more accurately!—according to a recent neuroscience study
- 'We're going to build revolutionary products' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his newly-announced collaboration with Intel: 'Nothing of its kind has ever been built before'
- Team Cherry explains Silksong is more lethal because players are too: 'Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight … the base level enemy had to be more complicated, more intelligent'
- Borderlands 4 performance patch out now with PC 'our top priority'
- Microsoft's Paint now lets you save projects as layered files in the latest Insider build, as part of its continued efforts to make the default image editor great again
- A casting call for the Mass Effect TV show is out there, and if you're 'A young Colin Farrell-type male', then do I have great news for you
- If you're wondering what those newly announced Intel-Nvidia PC chips might look like, there's already an Nvidia 'Superchip' that could provide the answers
- Asus ROG says it is 'actively investigating' gaming laptop stuttering issues after a user apparently identified a 'cascade of firmware design failures'
- Casio has unleashed its AI Tribble with 'emotions like a living creature' on the US and UK, complete with a Mogwai-like warning that you can't get it too hot, too cold, or too wet
- Sam Altman says ChatGPT won't talk to teens about suicide any more, as bereaved parents testify to the US Senate about what's going wrong: 'This is a mental health war, and I really feel like we are losing'
- Congress calls Gabe Newell, Twitch and Discord CEOs to testify in wake of Charlie Kirk shooting
- You can install the new Xbox Full screen experience mode for Windows on handhelds but whether it will work is another question entirely
- I've not been this smitten over a gaming mouse since the G Pro X Superlight: The wireless Corsair Sabre V2 Pro weighs just 36 grams
- Intel and Nvidia announce stunning plans to combine their CPU and GPU products for both consumer PCs and AI servers, with Nvidia taking a $5 billion stake in Intel
- 'It's all good, it's all good' says Mark Zuckerberg as his catastrophic live demo of Meta's new smart glasses goes horribly wrong: 'You spend years making technology and then the Wi-Fi on the day catches you'
- The best weapon in Borderlands 4 isn't a legendary—it's some random purple shotgun that wipes out bosses in one shot
- Disco Elysium successor XXX Nightshift is sick of your jokes about its name, announces it's called Tangerine Antarctic and it's a 3rd-person RPG now
- This mouse has no wires, no battery, and even no optical sensor. Could it be the future of gaming?
- Hades gets its 'biggest sale ever' at 75% off as it celebrates 5 years since 1.0, ahead of Hades 2's launch later this month
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 18 (#1552)
- September 17
-
- After disappointing fans with a time-grated grind in beta, Blizzard turned WoW Legion Remix around just in time for its October release
- Helldivers 2's new bugs are bugged, so Arrowhead's turning them off for 5 weeks to debug its bugged bugs' bugs
- Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK: 'Talking with partners who do not share our democratic values does not mean abandoning them'
- Logitech has announced an affordable 8 Nm direct drive racing wheel setup with full TrueForce support, along with some fancy trick pedals I want to try for myself
- A more expensive rapid trigger version of Logitech's G515 gaming keyboard has just launched and it's for low-profile fans
- The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike brings analogue tech to a gaming mouse for the first time and uses haptic feedback to replicate the feel of a mouse click
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's DLC clans are no longer DLC clans: 'Lasombra and Toreador belong in the base game, so that is what we are doing'
- Battlefield 6 has done away with Levolution events in favour of 'tactical destruction' because all-out annihilation 'wouldn't be fun'
- Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October—and it seems like there's no way for personal users to opt out
- Yakuza fans smell blood in the water as RGG studio accidentally puts the words 'Kiwami 3' on its website
- Researchers argue that 'at least 40%' of the bloated x86 ISA could be removed and emulated to improve CPU efficiency
- Subnautica 2 devs reveal the latest horrifying Leviathan to grace the deep sea: 'It has 4 tentacles to grab, crush, swat, and terrify players'
- I now know what my life has been missing and it's a set of rotary encoders sunk straight into the top of a mechanical-keebed Framework laptop, for some reason
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake reaches unprecedented levels of leaked, despite Ubisoft's best efforts to stomp on yapping actors
- AMD says its next-gen FSR 'Redstone' AI upscaling tech can run on Nvidia GPUs
- 'I'm disappointed with what I see' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, amid reports that China has banned some of the country's biggest tech companies from buying its AI chips
- We Brits are finally getting a slice of Nvidia pie as up to 60,000 Blackwell GPUs will be heading to the UK as part of $42 billion deal with the US
- Huzzah! Microsoft no longer makes the best PC controller and it's been dethroned by a brand you may not have heard of
- Gearbox breaks out some free loot because Borderlands players have already looted over 750 million items, half a million of which were from trash cans
- The Sims movie is still happening for some reason, and it's gonna be 'somewhere in-between both The Lego Movie and Barbie'
- Someone ran Doom to see how long it takes to crash out. It took 2 and a half years—roughly the same timeframe required to break many a retro game
- Good news for Windows handhelds: Microsoft is now letting you launch installed Steam, Battle.net, and other storefront games from the Xbox app
- A Californian company wants to sell you an outrageously expensive $8,000 keyboard supposedly inspired by a Roman philosopher, but did the Stoics really go in for conspicuous consumption?
- You can now explore a bitesize chunk of the Necropolis thanks to the Little Nightmares 3 demo
- Rejoice, Counter-Strike's grenades now sound crisp and clear as a chorus of angels—plus subtick shooting is either better or the fanbase is experiencing a shared delusion
- Don't get stuck grinding in Borderlands 4's version of the Hinterlands—in fact, you're screwing yourself out of EXP if you try to do every sidequest before beating the main campaign
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 17 (#1551)
- The next Silksong update helps the bosses but does little to allay our own, interminable suffering
- September 16
-
- The Valve rumor mill goes into overdrive as VR influencers travel to Seattle for what seems likely to be the imminent reveal of the Steam Frame
- [UPDATED] Destiny 2's latest game-breaking bug: Players can no longer respawn in solo activities... Like, at all
- Escape from Tarkov owners will have to buy it again if they want to play through Steam, and the Steam version will require a Battlestate account anyway
- TikTok users in the US will reportedly have to move to a new app with new American owners when Trump deal takes effect
- The new Splinter Cell: Deathwatch trailer is action-packed, but there's a Michael Ironside-shaped hole
- Diablo 4's new 'Chaos armor' is a card game-inspired response to criticisms over boring seasonal powers
- One of the most beloved hardcore board games of all time is getting a Steam version
- The Elder Scrolls Online studio head says Microsoft's brutal cuts were 'super emotional… it was awful'
- Old School RuneScape says no more Mr Nice Guy, it's time for permabans and confiscations if you're caught buying black market gold
- This redditor has discovered a higher-specced engineering sample of the RTX 2080 Ti, with more shaders, ROPS, TMUs, and VRAM than the release version
- 15 ransomware gangs announce mass retirement so they can enjoy 'golden parachutes' worth millions and 'go gentle into that good night'
- Nvidia is rumoured to be first in line to use TSMC's ultra-advanced A16 chip node, although it's AI GPUs that'll likely see the benefit first
- MindsEye's response was so mindblowingly negative its star thought 'I might never work in another game again'
- The creator of X-COM isn't worried about old fans not vibing with his new game: 'It's successful for people who have maybe not played any strategy at all'
- This spicy leverless DIY kit has tiny circuit boards under each button so you can create your own rapid trigger Hitbox
- I don't want to give horror game devs any ideas but this chilling 'sphere o' mouths' lip-syncing robot is haunting my dreams and I want it to stop
- This entire website is hosted on a disposable vape so think twice before throwing one in the trash
- If you bought Corsair PC memory after 2018 you might be entitled to a share of $5.5 million from a class action over advertised DDR4 and DDR5 speeds
- Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski gets gold Polish culture medal, accepts it with face like he's just had his Switch 2 pre-order cancelled
- Palworld is going quiet as Pocketpair takes an iron to its 'quirks and jank,' with full release planned for 2026
- AI cloud companies have guzzled up so much HDD storage that they might be coming for our SSDs next
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 16 (#1550)
- Those years of Silksong memes were no joke: Even Borderlands 4 can't escape its shadow after their first weekends on Steam
- September 15
-
- Hollow Knight: Silksong player melts its hardest bosses with an endless fountain of tools: 'I think I unlocked easy mode'
- Silksong has sold more than 3.2 million copies on Steam in less than 2 weeks, industry analyst firm estimates
- I just found out I've been using Silksong's powerful Thread Storm ability wrong this entire time
- 'What a publisher should do is, first of all, make genuine games': Vampire Survivors creator says he started his own publisher because too few 'try and let the developer realize their vision'
- Nothing is safe from Borderlands 4's 'infinite damage' build that wipes out bosses in less than 10 seconds
- Silksong players are leaving condolences for the family of a late Hollow Knight fan who created a boss for the game before dying of cancer in 2020
- Mad-lad fans have revived The Crew after Ubisoft killed it: 'No one will ever be able to take this away from you now'
- I can think of few things more ridiculous than a tiny OLED screen slapped on the side of some DDR5 RAM, but here we are
- I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford's chronic tweeting syndrome strikes again, says 'less than 1% of 1%' of players are filing tickets about performance so clearly the internet's overblowing it
- Who needs Silent Hill? The 'anxiety horror' game I'm most looking forward to is this freakish, grotesque thing about who you let stay at your house in the apocalypse
- 'We are subservient to the players': Battlefield 6 ditched 128-player matches in favour of classic 64 players after it 'didn't catch on' in Battlefield 2042
- You can finally scream at your friends once you've died in REPO thanks to one of the most requested features being added in its upcoming update
- This tiny version of Windows 11 fits into just 2.29 GB and is 'extremely aggressive' in removing bloat such as Xbox, Solitaire and Defender
- 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'
- Rockstar is already calling GTA 6 'the largest game launch in history' 7 months out from release, counting a few hundred million chickens before they've hatched
- 'Ya jackass!' Europe's Pro golfers are wearing VR headsets that shout insults at them as they prepare for the American Ryder Cup crowd
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 15 (#1549)
- 'Because no one was paying attention we could just put anything into the game,' says the writer responsible for sneaking The Lusty Argonian Maid into Morrowind
- September 14
-
- Saints Row 2's Juiced Patch makes the PC port so much better it's criminal
- It only took a week for the ultimate Silksong sicko to beat every boss in the game without getting hit
- Netflix released another Witcher teaser showing off Liam Hemsworth as Geralt, and I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised
- In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller
- If you can't get enough of precious Sherma in Silksong, a true Shermaniac uploaded a 10-hour cut of his sweet little song
- Conan O'Brien played Borderlands 4 for charity, but somebody should have told him about the Claptrap mute button: 'He's my least favorite trash can'
- This Quake 2 mod bridges the gap between the original game and its sequel, with hybrid enemies including dog-headed parasites and rocket-blasting shamblers
- Inevitably, someone has made a cooperative take on A Game About Digging a Hole, where you play as burly shirtless men whose hands swell up when they flip each other off
- Get Arma 3 for less than the price of a coffee in Bohemia's Interactive's publisher sale
- X4: Foundations' massive diplomacy update adds an actual embassy room to your HQ, where you can entreat with aliens from across the galaxy and establish yourself as space Machiavelli
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 14 (#1548)
- Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly, which is apparently the good one, is getting remade and coming to PC
- The Danganronpa 2 remaster also includes a remake or maybe a stealth-sequel, honestly it's hard to tell
- Dying Light: The Beast's release date has been moved forward by one whole day
- September 13
-
- Randy Pitchford challenged players to break the Borderlands 4 servers over the weekend, offering free DLC for anyone who takes part
- Final Fantasy composer shares concern about 'stagnation' in game music: 'Frankly speaking, there’s less weird things now'
- Blood Bowl 3 has vampires now, and Eternal League continues improving
- The BioShock movie is still in the works, but scheduling conflicts mean it likely can't come out before 2027, maybe even later
- A Silksong gumshoe meticulously pixel counted both games to directly compare the size of their worlds, and Pharloom looks twice as big as Hallownest
- Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor are just $25 bucks together on Steam right now, letting you become Cal Kestis on the cheap
- This physics platformer about a wiggly worm that travels into space has even got Tim Schafer excited: 'It looks super cute and fun'
- If you were hoping to see Sly Cooper on PC for some reason, think again: Ghost of Yōtei dev says 'it's been a long time' since the series' heyday and nobody at Sucker Punch wants to make those games anymore
- One of the best wargames on PC is currently 85% off
- This surprisingly great Arthurian Elder Scrolls clone just got a huge update that adds new game plus, extra dungeons, and tons more loot
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 13 (#1547)
- September 12
-
- 'Players ended up just shooting Doritos': Battlefield 6 is toning down its aggressive ping ability after open beta feedback
- [UPDATED] Bungie responds to outrage over its microtransaction rug pull by giving players the chance to earn what would have been paid cosmetic armor in-game
- Battlefield 6 is 'secretly console first,' says half-joking dev who has bravely risked resurrecting 2000s-era console vs PC bitterness
- Battlefield 6 devs knew 'everything' would leak from playtests but said the risk was worth it to get feedback from players: 'That had to come at any cost'
- Borderlands 4 has a volume slider specifically for muting Claptrap—if you're a coward
- As Call of Duty flips a U-turn on goofy skins, Battlefield 6 devs are making their stance clear from the start: 'We're not chasing trends. We're not chasing other products'
- Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'
- 'We understand the disappointment': Funcom apologizes for Dune: Awakening DLC's 'building set' that's actually just four pieces
- Activision says CoD's anti-cheat system is catching more miscreants than ever, and permits itself a chuckle about dolts who 'promptly tell on themselves across social media, asking 'Why did this happen?''
- Everyone is rushing back to Fortnite's Blitz Royale mode for a weekend of Iron Man-fuelled mayhem
- Stalker remasters hit 1.3 as GSC back-ports quick-inventory slots from Call of Prypiat to all 3 games
- Europe's first exascale supercomputer is now up and running, using 24,000 Nvidia GH200 Superchips to perform more than one quintillion operations per second with nearly 1,000,000 terabytes of storage
- Balatro's big 1.1 update is delayed to 2026, for a very good reason: 'I'm slow'
- The deflating realization that a neat little game was AI all along
- Borderlands 4 takes a shot at Embracer Group by naming a town filled with trash and an AI talking toilet after it
- Intel has rebranded the dusty old Core i5 10400 as the Core i5 110, presumably because it found a bunch of them tucked down the back of the couch
- What does OG Fallout's co-creator want to see in the series? An 'actual good faction, like 100% good'
- September becomes an even more ridiculous month for releases as Hades 2 announces it's dropping in 2 weeks
- 'Microsoft has become like an arsonist selling firefighting services to their victims' says US senator, referring it to the FTC for a cybersecurity flaw, though Microsoft says it has a plan
- Satellite snaps Starlink passing underneath while taking candid shots of Chinese airbase: 'a very rare instance, but not impossible!'
- Some Silksong players are clinging stubbornly to its release version as the 'first major patch' kills a secret technique and makes bosses a smidge easier
- 'Even with a 9800X3D and a 5090 it runs like absolute buttcheeks': 2K Games posts Nvidia's Borderlands 4 optimised settings guide, but the community is already in open revolt
- Silksong players have uncovered yet another secret—a little Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 easter egg
- AI, take the wheel: Gigabyte's latest motherboards will 'intelligently dynamically' improve performance of Ryzen chips by up to 25% in games through a built-in AI model
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 12 (#1546)
- GOG wants to revive more classic Japanese games on PC: 'Working with Japanese partners often requires demonstrating both technical capability and cultural understanding'
- September 11
-
- Holiday gaming plans in shambles as Slay the Spire 2 gets delayed to March 2026
- French Lara Croft actor issues C&D to Tomb Raider Remaster studio as multiple foreign dubs of the game are accused of adding AI voiceovers
- Gearbox responds to worries about Borderlands 4's terms of service: 'Take-Two does not use spyware in its games'
- Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they: 'I wish Nintendo and Pokémon good luck when the first other developer just entirely ignores this patent'
- FTC targets Google, Meta, X, and others with inquiry into AI chatbot safety: 'Protecting kids online is a top priority'
- Borderlands 4 launches to 'mostly negative' reviews on Steam thanks to widespread performance problems and crashes
- US DoJ puts $11 million bounty on ransomware king allegedly responsible for stealing $18 billion
- Our most anticipated kei truck delivery game featuring depressed Animal Crossing-esque gig workers is launching on September 18
- Gabe Newell waxes poetic about his love for the Dota 2 community in a special message for The International: 'People talk s**t at me in chat' and tell him to uninstall the game on a weekly basis
- Upgrading an RTX 4090 to 48 GB of VRAM is (slightly) easier than I thought, thanks to a custom PCB, some second-hand GDDR6X, and a leaked Nvidia BIOS
- CDPR returns to the fridge for one more Cyberpunk patch, somehow makes its autodrive less berserk while also making it ignore traffic lights
- Elden Ring Nightreign's latest patch has made it impossible for greedy teammates to farm extra runes after the second-day boss, which is music to my ears
- Oracle's $300 billion deal with OpenAI briefly knocked Elon Musk off the world's richest person spot, replaced instead by the company's head honcho, Larry Ellison
- Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a cat dressed like Ezio and its coolest weapon yet: A large stick
- Microsoft's big Windows 11 25H2 update is now available to download but in terms of new features it's a total nothing burger
- Help! I've been transported back in time to the days of Flash, Miniclip, and Adventure Quest by this charming little '90s-inspired RPG
- Borderlands 4 review round-up: 'The best Borderlands game I've ever played—but with a small hitch'
- This humanoid robot is playing ping pong better than most amateur players I've seen
- Silksong too easy for ya? Here's a mod that increases 'boring double damage' to triple for the true sickos
- Swen Vincke had to tell Baldur's Gate 3 writers to tone it down with the poop-based insults, which is saying a lot, since I still count at least 17 scat-based Vicious Mockery voicelines
- Apple's new A19 Pro iPhone chip has posted a genuinely astonishing score on Geekbench, and if it was a new gaming CPU we'd all be losing our minds
- This YouTuber added over an hour's worth of battery life to their Switch 2 with a pair of scissors and a weeb-themed 8,000 mAh pack
- You can make Silksong's terrible Bilewater boss 100 times easier by simply surrendering yourself to the maggot bath
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 added a new secret happy(ish) ending for people who straight-up solo an entire enemy army
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds has delayed its major 0.9 update: 'We've encountered some bugs we are simply not happy shipping the update with'
- Hyte says all Thicc Q80 Trio users should 'remove the cooler from their system immediately' and get a refund after internal fault found
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: 007 First Light
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 11 (#1545)
- Finally, someone's making an RPG about managing your own restaurant
- If you're desperate for Rosaries in Act 1 of Silksong, there's a place where you can rack up 300 per five minutes
- September 10
-
- Bloodlines 2 narrative director tries to get players to lower their expectations, patiently explains it's not going to have the scale of Baldur's Gate 3 or Grand Theft Auto
- The Battlefield 6 battle royale ring will instantly kill anyone caught in it: 'There's no jumping in and out of it, no using it for cover, no walking through it'
- 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'
- Paradox apologizes for botching yet another DLC release: 'It hurts so much when we f**k up like this'
- The 'Phunky Physics' bundle is cooler than it sounds, with 9 great games including Hardspace: Shipbreaker and What the Golf? for just $13
- Former Anthem lead producer says flying in BioWare's doomed live service shooter is proof of the dysfunction in its development: 'It's Anthem's worst feature, because the consequences of flying aren't adequately taken into account'
- Producer says the Bioshock movie is 'definitely going to be based on the first Bioshock game'
- The US government is 'looking at' the connection between videogames and gun violence, because what else could it possibly be
- Peak dev says the 'tornado hell' of its newest biome wasn't actually a bug: 'We really did just make it that evil'
- With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I'll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks
- Suffering with Silksong's hard-as-nails High Halls gauntlet? Fret not, there's a way to get some help
- Borderlands 4 now has updated minimum system requirements for an eight-core 'or equivalent' CPU, which leaves six-core CPU owners none the wiser
- In tribute to a player's departed baby son, Old School RuneScape players turn out in 'hundreds' to pay respects to his namesake: 'It was so overwhelming seeing so many people at Zeke's shop'
- 'This is an Xbox', Microsoft claims over an image of a car that will soon offer cloud game streaming
- Helldivers 2 won't be getting Fortnite victory royales for the democracy anytime soon, but Arrowhead certainly isn't shelving the idea entirely
- The creator of Dead Space 'would love to make an Alien game'
- Get those Steam Decks and Legion Go S handhelds updated because Valve's just released a metric ton of fixes in the latest client
- I bet Return of the Obra Dinn looks perfect on this open-source 75 Hz e-paper display kit—and it's compatible with a whole bunch of existing panels, too
- Red Dead Redemption 2 modder says to hell with your realistic western cowboy fantasy, get horse girl pilled instead
- Hideo Kojima relatably says job-hunting made him 'feel like I was a Showa-era detective trying to solve a murder,' and he almost became a no-name pharma guy but for some kind words from a HR person
- AMD candidly admits 'we charge more for our CPUs than our competitor' and that 'customers feel good about the price'
- Someone hacked AI into Animal Crossing to give villagers even more to gossip about, including Tom Nook's evil empire and Trump
- After 18 months and over 4,000 hours of brutal 'worst case' monitor usage, independent testing finds OLED burn-in is only just beginning to get 'annoying'
- Steam mega-update ends our long national game-sorting nightmare, adds CPU temp measuring, and a gajillion other bullet points
- One lucky Redditor has bagged a second-hand $8,000 RTX 3080 Ti Threadripper PC for a mere $32
- 'We're all still hungover': Ghost of Yōtei devs celebrated GTA 6's delay, which freed them from impending doom—'That was a great day'
- I nearly gave myself blisters playing Silksong, so I've taken a break to be a mail delivery turnip with a 'big juicy bum'
- Intel promises 'leadership across the board on desktop' when its next-gen Nova Lake CPU launches in late 2026
- AMD reckons its next-gen GPUs will beat Nvidia at 'any sort of AI workload' and we're praying that rubs off on the company's gaming graphics cards
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 10 (#1544)
- September 9
-
- Battlefield 6 producer acknowledges vehicles were underpowered in the beta, but says it's better than the alternative: 'Rather have too weak vehicles over too powerful'
- Watch: Destiny 2's next Star Wars-themed expansion has a Sarlacc pit, twirling light sabers, AT-ST walkers and—oh boy—Han Solo's blaster
- OpenAI is backing a new animated feature film 'made largely with AI' to prove it can make films 'faster and cheaper' than Hollywood
- The indie horror game that fought back against Monster Energy trademark trolling (and won) is now being made into a movie
- Silksong Easter egg hides a secret, super-hard permadeath mode, for those who want to suffer even more
- Maybe release a game in May sometimes? 'Fixation on the holiday window' is hurting game publishers, says industry analyst Newzoo
- Helldivers 2 isn't getting a social hub, Arrowhead CEO says it's 'on the feature list for the next one,' but the studio's next game is not Helldivers 3
- Halls of Torment's DLC is the only expansion I care about this year, and it's now got a release date
- 'The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline,' says Google in court, then quickly rows back on that statement
- Microsoft Azure services experiencing latency to traffic through the Middle East due to undersea fibre cable damage in the Red Sea
- XFX says its 'V3' Radeon RX 9060 XT GPUs with Samsung GDDR6 run much cooler and quieter than previous models with SK Hynix memory
- Pacific Drive's first major expansion leans heavy into horror by introducing a cult of 'anomaly-obsessed fanatics'
- The impossibly-cool-looking Pocket Scion is a 'biofeedback instrument' that connects directly to plants, bathing you in the electronic sounds of, err, nature
- In a world of cursed videogame collaborations, Genshin Impact being in Among Us might be a top contender
- Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya throws down the gauntlet, says if Hideo Kojima doesn't make another PT, 'Maybe I'll give it a go'
- The world's first 'true 8K' ultra-wideband gaming mouse is here, complete with a glowing dongle that's supposedly less prone to unwanted interference
- If Microsoft wins this UK court case it might spell the end of second-hand Windows licenses
- 'What a slap in the face': Battlefield 2042 players are raging about the 'Road to Battlefield 6' battle pass after a purchasable tier skip function is added
- Watch The PC Gamer Streamer Showdown live today on Twitch
- Take-Two tries to hide GTA 6 websites behind its back after fans uncover them, achieving nothing but fuelling the fire
- Intel reshuffle puts engineering and 'a new custom silicon business' in the spotlight but also ends a 30-year career at Intel for Product CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus
- 'The shining star of losers everywhere' who inspired one of Umamusume's most popular horse girls has passed away
- Nvidia's CFO says there's still 'a little geopolitical situation that we need to work through' before shipping its AI GPUs to China, but it's 'a $2 billion to $5 billion potential opportunity'
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P says the long-awaited job redesign will change things, but also won't—which doesn't clear much of anything up
- Loot boxes could be coming to Marvel Rivals as a dataminer finds evidence of 'multiple references to mystery box logic', and like always, players are divided
- Upcoming Silksong patch will make the early game easier and the mid-game cheaper—nerfing 2 bosses and shoring up its stingy rosary economy
- Silksong already has 2 multiplayer mods, and we're not even a week in yet
- Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT
- Packaging for Intel's high-performance Battlemage gaming GPU has popped up in a shipping manifest but I'm not sure I dare to hope it will really launch or actually be any good
- The latest AMD Adrenalin driver lets you turn FSR 4 on in a bunch more games but OptiScaler might still come in handy for older titles
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 9 (#1543)
- Tee Lopes has turned Silksong's Sherma and Shakra into vocalists for unbearably cute club bangers
- September 8
-
- Former Xbox VP says Game Pass creates 'weird inner tensions' because a game's popularity can actually damage sales: 'The majority of game adoption on GP comes at the expense of retail revenue'
- 'Do you think there would be a problem if we see Hitler's penis?' MachineGames considered having a full frontal Fuhrer in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
- WotC president says he'd 'love to have' a new Dungeons & Dragons MMO, but it would have to 'rethink what an MMO is in this day and age'
- If Silksong's corpse runs and double damage hits are too demanding, here's a pair of mods to tone down the difficulty just a notch
- Keanu Reeves would 'love to play Johnny Silverhand again' in Cyberpunk 2—but that'd be a tough needle to thread with how the first game ends
- Catholic church canonises its first gamer saint, and one of his favourite games was Halo
- Gearbox boss says Borderlands 4 day-one patch 'does a lot' but warns that players should have 'realistic' expectations about performance: 'Older hardware may not provide buttery smooth performance'
- I've found a safe Silksong Rosary farm that nets 3,500 an hour—basically enough to buy anything in the game
- 'The game is ass on anything else but a 9800X3D': Esports players are complaining about using Intel CPUs at sponsored tournaments rather than AMD X3D chips, with multiple claims of crashing and significantly worse performance
- A week after removing special status from two Korean memory manufacturers to use US tech in China, the US government is thinking about letting them go for it again, with a caveat
- PC Gaming Show will be broadcasting a new dedicated direct during the Tokyo Game Show 2025
- Working out how to fix the Sinner's Road bench in Hollow Knight: Silksong has convinced me that Team Cherry just doesn't want me to sit down anywhere
- Nvidia has reportedly asked Samsung to double its production of GDDR7, possibly for AI GPUs to China—although we're hoping for some more VRAM-stacked RTX 50-series Super cards
- 'What we're building is a city': Take a tour inside TSMC's Arizona chipmaking fab and marvel with me at the vast scale and science fiction-like goodies inside
- Silksong players are wrestling with the game's 'stabs you and kicks you for crying about it' difficulty
- 'It has to be 100 percent safe because I cannot escape it': Study finds people are unsurprisingly creeped out by humanoid robots despite the industry's obsession
- These stunning new Xbox Wireless Controllers use transparencies and reflections to create a shattered depth visage
- Rather than buy a brand new PC case, one Redditor elects to make their own out of Lego-style bricks
- Semiwork gets all mysterious about REPO's new monsters ahead of the next update
- Acer announces mini Blackwell powered AI supercomputer, adding to Nvidia's lineup of partnered DGX Spark copies
- SK hynix claims world's first High NA EUV machine for 'mass production' of cutting edge chips, beating Intel to the punch
- Monster Train 2 update details and Q&A: developers share info on 4 new cards
- Razer upgrades its kitty eared headsets with a fancy wireless Kraken Kitty V3 Pro and a surprisingly affordable Kraken Kitty X
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 8 (#1542)
- With Silksong in our hands, Steam's new reigning wishlist kings are both kind of basket cases: The partially-released Deadlock and lawsuit lightning rod Subnautica 2
- Adding controller support to the System Shock 2 remaster meant re-recording decades-old voice acting
- 'Solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain': Hackers reported 'catastrophic' cybersecurity flaws at Burger King before the fast food giant nuked their criticism off the 'net via DMCA
- September 7
-
- Stuck on Silksong's obnoxious big bug boss Moorwing? There's a cheeky way to kill him in 30 seconds—or skip the fight altogether
- After Indiana Jones, it sounds like MachineGames is ready to make another Wolfenstein game: 'We have always seen this as a trilogy'
- The $500,000 robot servant Elon Musk claims will sell 10 billion units by 2040 can barely walk and struggles with questions like 'where can I get a coke?'
- All of Silksong's top mods make the game easier, including a returning Hollow Knight QoL favorite: An always-on compass without wasting a tool slot
- If you've ever wanted to defuse a bomb with your friends, your chance is here with upcoming Werewolf-style co-op puzzler Cut That Wire
- Nightdive Studios says System Shock 2's multiplayer was 'so hard to get working' for modern platforms, but you should still 'probably play it in singleplayer first to get the true experience'
- Star Trucker celebrates a year of space haulage with an anniversary update and a half-price discount
- RoadCraft introduces a free hard mode for all you SnowRunner sickos, adding limited fuel, more challenging convoy simulation and realistic gearboxes
- Bigger guns are louder and therefore riskier as of Rust's latest update, with other players able to hear you from 'much further away'
- The next Resident Evil movie is being directed by Zach Cregger of Weapons fame, who played 'thousands and thousands of hours of Resident Evil' but hasn't seen any of the movies
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 7 (#1541)
- September 6
-
- Paradox refunds PlayStation Store preorders of Bloodlines 2 in preparation for 'adjustments' to its reviled $30 DLC to be revealed later this month
- Update: Hollow Knight: Silksong sinks to 'Mostly Negative' Steam review status among Chinese gamers over its bafflingly bad translation, with Team Cherry promising to improve it
- Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to authors whose work trained AI in priciest copyright settlement in U.S. history
- Life is Strange is finally getting the streaming TV show treatment a decade after it came out
- This Australian puzzler that took seven years to make is basically Myst with endearingly naff FMVs and music composed by a 10-year-old
- Stellaris' Shadows of the Shroud DLC will make communing with cosmic entities more rewarding later this month
- Command & Conquer successor Tempest Rising gets a big new update next week, adding massive 3v3 multiplayer matches and active pause to singleplayer
- This brilliant boomer shooter inspired by Blood gets a whole new campaign and a free update later this month
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 6 (#1540)
- Now that the wait for Silksong is over, gamers can get back to their true calling: asking for Half-Life 3 in the chat
- September 5
-
- Former Bethesda marketing VP says he fought against reusing the Prey name for Arkane's 2017 immersive sim: 'I definitely pissed some people off internally over that'
- Borderlands 4 global release times mean some of you can play a day earlier than expected
- Silksong players stuck in Far Fields: Here's how to get out
- Starfield fans are pretty sure Bethesda just dropped the first teaser for the game's second expansion: 'We look forward to the adventures yet to come'
- Randy Pitchford shares thoughts on the Stop Killing Games campaign, gets very existential: 'It's so sobering to think about the fact that everything will end. Not just us, but literally everything, and I kind of hate that'
- Steven Spielberg reportedly wanted to direct the Call of Duty movie, but Activision didn't want to give up creative control: 'Imagine turning down the guy who made Saving Private Ryan'
- Missed a map in Silksong? Don't worry, there's an easy way to grab it
- Somehow, MindsEye is not dead: A new update promises to improve performance by removing 'ambient rubbish'
- Deus Ex's influence on Elon Musk 'may be its longest, worst legacy,' says its writer
- Asus says its Intel 800-series motherboards are approved to run DDR5-7200 without an XMP profile, pointing to a RAM speed boost for an Arrow Lake refresh
- Fallout 76's great canvas bag debacle marked 'the dumbest thing I ever did at Bethesda,' says its ex-marketing VP Pete Hines
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater sells over a million at launch
- OpenAI boss Sam Altman dons metaphorical hot dog suit as he realises, huh, there sure are a lot of annoying AI-powered bots online these days
- OpenAI has teamed up with Broadcom to make its own AI processors, according to a report, possibly as part of a long-term plan to move away from Nvidia's GPUs
- Former Call of Duty director stopped making foreign countries the enemy because he wanted 'to go to these countries' without needing a bodyguard
- Battlefield 6's Assault Class is finally getting a signature gadget that can rival the motion sensor and blowtorch: A ladder
- Microsoft has blown the dust off the source code for a version of Bill Gates' first-ever operating system
- Google now lets you choose who you trust for your gaming news—here's how to support PC Gamer and other human-made content
- God help us all, GTA 6 may be a 'AAAAA' game, says Devolver co-founder, and that's why the entire industry is taking cover from it like it's a nuclear blast
- Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg. No, not that Mark Zuckerberg, an entirely different Mark Zuckerberg. Although the one being sued is that Mark Zuckerberg
- Yes, there's a bench in Hunter's March, Silksong's first real nightmare area
- Coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb comes to Marvel Rivals: They just buffed Scarlet Witch's ult damage from 800 to 9,999
- Silksong's speedrunning community is already at it: Dismantling the game's mechanics like mad scientists less than a day after release
- The minimum PC requirements for Football Manager 26 start so low that 15-year-old CPUs are good enough, though your graphics card will need to be a tad newer
- Cult of the Lamb's Woolhaven DLC will be 'almost the length of the original game' because the developers 'flew a little too close to the sun'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 5 (#1539)
- 'PLEASE DON'T NERF COYOTE': The new Helldivers 2 warbond has a fire-breathing rifle so good that players are begging Arrowhead to leave it alone
- September 4
-
- Silksong newcomers, I can't stress to you enough that you should buy all of Shakra's map items ASAP
- Stardew Valley's Eric Barone is in the Hollow Knight: Silksong credits for voicing a mystery character
- Midjourney's troubles get worse as Warner Bros Discovery sues the AI image generator for copyright infringement
- Silksong is so popular, even people in the Piracy subreddit are encouraging others to just buy it: 'If we can afford to support them, we should'
- The Silksong subreddit spent launch day sharing boss strats for Steam's 'cart phase', banishing each other to the Skongless year of 2019, and—let's see—posting hole
- Dune: Awakening will be on sale for the first time next week, along with a 'zero restrictions' free weekend
- One of my favorite puzzle games ever is free for the week on the Epic Games Store
- Lawsuit over Roblox emote of Charli XCX Apple dance is 'amicably resolved'
- Silksong already has the 18th highest all-time peak player count in Steam history as it draws over 500,000 concurrent players in its first 4 hours
- Civilization 7 studio Firaxis confirms layoffs as it 'optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity,' which is somehow even worse than just saying 'agility'
- Noctua's all-in-one liquid cooler has finally received a release window in 2026, but a few fans, cases, and mice have been pushed back in the latest roadmap
- Upcoming PowerToys utility will finally let you set light and dark mode to cycle on a schedule in Windows 11
- Silksong achievement suggests it'll take at least 10 hours longer to 100% complete compared to Hollow Knight—even for the fastest players
- Tech firms in China are reportedly still patiently waiting to buy Nvidia's AI chips, even though the Chinese government would prefer they didn't
- MindsEye's messy launch shenanigans has IO Interactive hesitant to play publisher for more games in the future: 'That remains to be seen'
- Forget Silksong, it is my earnest belief you should play like 17 Lego games
- 'Let the criers cry': 42,000 Pokémon TCG Phantasmal Flames products have been swiped by a scalper group thanks to a 'massive error' on the Pokémon Center
- After 1,693 days of daily Silksong news, its skeletal host signs off with heartfelt thanks: 'We have finally reached an end. So let's do this one last time'
- Silksong crashed Steam the nanosecond it released, but checkout is finally working
- Fill your entire field of vision with this ridiculous ultrawide handheld gaming PC
- 2 of Deadlock's 6 new heroes are running over low-skill matches—I'd know, because they've been stomping me flat into the sidewalk like a chump
- Critics claim the latest judgement against Google is a 'feckless remedy to the most storied case of monopolisation of the past quarter century' while the US DOJ says 'we're not done'
- Valve applies to use 'Steam Frame' as a trademark for a new console as speculation over a mythical next-gen Half-Life game continues
- The next two heroes coming to Marvel Rivals have officially been announced, and I only know who one of them is
- RuneScape boss says he killed new Pride events to keep things going 'as apolitically as possible,' which doesn't sound very apolitical to me
- Hacker jacks into Nexon game, causes a 'Koyuki apocalypse' by copy-pasting their favourite anime girl everywhere, forces 6 hours of emergency maintenance
- 'It's been out for years!': 11 years in, people are still asking Bethesda when The Elder Scrolls Online is coming out
- Cloudflare mitigates biggest ever DDoS attack, which tried to pelt its target with 11.5 Tbps of data in less than a minute
- On the eve of Silksong, ultrawide monitor support is confirmed, and the soundtrack looks to be double the size of the original
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 4 (#1538)
- September 3
-
- Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime announces layoffs at his new company Dreamhaven
- Roblox to begin using 'facial age estimation technology' on its users, promises to 'limit communication between adults and minors unless they know each other in the real world'
- Cronos: The New Dawn reviewers say it's an 'atmospheric and uniquely introspective' survival horror outing—but it's held back by 'run-of-the-mill combat'
- As bugs and bad performance spoil an otherwise excellent Helldivers 2 update, Arrowhead CEO says its 'technical debt is crippling'
- Amazon's live-action Tomb Raider series names Game of Thrones actor Sophie Turner as its new Lara Croft
- You can finally ride a horse in Disney Dreamlight Valley thanks to its new expansion coming this November
- 007 First Light is the first time IO Interactive has taken on an outside project, but CEO Hakan Abrak isn't worried: 'We're able to stand on the shoulders of ourselves'
- IO Interactive stuck with a young Bond for 007 First Light because it wanted to make 'something for the gamers'
- David 'Solid Snake' Hayter found out Raiden was replacing him in Metal Gear Solid 2 'in the booth while we were recording, and I'm like: 'What the hell?''
- Leaked Prey 2 development footage shows scifi bounty hunter gameplay that our cold and uncaring universe continues to deny us
- Jetrunner is a great little 'Trackmania meets Titanfall' speedrunning platformer I had to peel myself away from to write this headline
- Acer shows off the very first Intel Panther Lake laptop with what's claimed to be the world's biggest haptic touchpad
- Obsidian promises 'No dictates' from its capitalist Microsoft overlords while making The Outer Worlds 2, but yes the devs appreciate the irony
- Yes, Stardew Valley's newly announced update will probably slow down work on Haunted Chocolatier, 'but not as much as you might think'
- Ex-Skyblivion dev says it 'was never in the state that the videos would show off' as they claim it's crunching on a 'pointless and unachievable' 2025 release goal—but remaining devs seem optimistic
- A last-ditch attempt to save the Perfect Dark reboot fell through because Take-Two and Microsoft couldn't agree who'd own the IP
- This new Japanese consortium wants to develop a novel method for making the next generation of interposer layers for multi-chiplet mega-processors
- This Kickstarter-backed battery maker claims you can smash a nail through its solid-state USB-C pack and it will still work
- The latest Lenovo leak reveals what looks to be a new long boi laptop concept—though this one is ever so slightly less ridiculous
- After a tease drove fans mad, Cyberpunk 2077 sheepishly warns that tomorrow's news will be quite boring, actually
- This RPG lets you enable (or disable) the Oxford comma, despite there being just 15 of them in the entire game: 'He added the setting when nobody was looking'
- $350 collector's editions, an 8-billion all-time peak, and fake thank-you letters: Silksong's finest meme merchants enjoy one last bout of Silkposting before the curtain call
- Nova Lake shipping manifest confirms rumours that Intel's flagship CPU will be packing up to 52 cores, but more cores aren't all Intel needs
- Big updates are coming to player housing in Guild Wars 2's next expansion
- Intel spent so much cash on research and development last year that it outspent Nvidia by 28% and AMD by a whopping 156%
- TSMC, the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world, has special export privileges revoked as US continues to crack down on Chinese importers
- AMD's PC graphics card market share falls to a worrying 6% according to the latest analyst data putting Nvidia at 94% and probably an all-time high
- One of Stalker's most legendary mods has joined GOG's one-click install program, making it easier than ever to die horribly in Chornobyl
- Google will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct'
- Borderlands 1's artstyle overhaul filled Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford with dread because he thought he'd 'Have to go in and look at what they did' and 'shoot it in the head'
- The PC hardware requirements for Dying Light: The Beast are heavy on the CPU side, but they're all over the place when it comes to the GPU
- Gigabyte have finally released its RTX 5090 external GPU—but it's calling it an 'AI box'
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 3 (#1537)
- Blood Bowl's getting a new edition with teams for Bretonnians and Tomb Kings in the box
- September 2
-
- The Crew is set to spring back to life as fan-made server emulator project prepares to launch later this month
- Randy Pitchford says the Borderlands film would've sucked a whole lot more if he'd directed it: 'It would have been way worse'
- How to watch the 30-minute 007 First Light gameplay 'deep dive' at Sony's State of Play
- Final Fantasy Tactics remaster devs built a replacement for its lost source code from fansite downloads, director says: 'I do want to thank all of the fans for all of their help in keeping that information archived'
- Left 4 Dead lead Mike Booth is making a new 'four-player co-op shooter built on the foundations of what made L4D special'
- Call of Duty movie confirmed: Activision and Paramount promise 'an authentic and exciting experience for longtime fans and newcomers alike'
- This 3D-printed mini arcade cabinet turns the humble Lenovo Legion Go into a bartop Street Fighter machine
- A laptop brand I've never heard of beat Razer's Project Valerie to the market with a three-screen laptop
- Google's self-loathing Gemini chatbot admits to being wrong 'every single time' and offers to pay software developer to fix the bad code it wrote
- You can pick up literally 382 games for $8 on Itch right now, with proceeds going 'directly to Palestine aid and relief'
- Tired of jiggling your GPU to get it to fit in a small form factor PC? Maxsun reckons it has the answer to that problem around the back
- Capcom president says PS5 prices are why Monster Hunter Wilds' sales aren't doing so hot, and we're trying not to take that personally here at PC Gamer
- Tesla claimed to have lost key evidence in wrongful death suit, right up until a hacker found it
- There are 3 dream remasters Atari's CEO wants to work on, but he has no idea if they'd actually 'do well'
- 'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun
- If this report about 2nm silicon from Japanese chip manufacturing start-up Rapidus beating TSMC is true, there might just be hope for GPU prices
- Silksong's onslaught claims another head—Dorfromantik team's next game gets punted to escape the 'hype-supernova': 'Both games deserve their moment to shine'
- Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's biggest makers of DRAM and flash memory chips, have potentially lost the right to buy US equipment for use in their China-based factories
- Oscar-nominated actor and Red Dead Redemption 2 performer Graham Greene dies age 73
- We're teaming up with Blumhouse to give away 500 Steam keys for co-op horror Eyes of Hellfire
- What if modern PC gaming were just a little more Nintendo? Kazeta, a Linux-based OS, aims to find out with plug 'n' play SD 'carts' and by going all in on retro simplicity
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 is the most popular current-gen GPU in the latest Steam hardware survey but AMD's RDNA 4 cards don't even make the top 100
- GPD shows how its Strix Halo handheld gaming PC battery fits in your pocket, but I'm still not convinced it's portable enough
- Intel's patent for 'software defined super cores' probably won't make an appearance in CPUs any time soon but implementing the tech could spell the end of the P-core
- Final Fantasy 14's latest patch makes surprise nerf to an arduous 9-year-old dungeon grind, and I hope there's more like it to come
- We're never getting another Deus Ex, but we can relive the glory days with all this new unused music from Mankind Divided
- Nvidia says AI models lack 'common sense' so it's drafting in good old fashioned human beings to give them a pop quiz
- A former mayor in the Philippines may have got a majorly bad deal on computing tech, reportedly paying $175,000 for 16 Intel 11th Gen machines
- Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man set is full of Spider-Verse Spider-Folk including the superhero identities of Peter Parker's alternate-universe wife and daughter
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 2 (#1536)
- September 1
-
- Blizzard filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against one of World of Warcraft's biggest private servers, but the team behind it is putting on a brave face: 'Challenges come to us often, and each time we are prepared to face them'
- AI chatbots can be manipulated into breaking their own rules with simple debate tactics like telling them that an authority figure made the request
- Crusader Kings 3 players have struck out on nearly 5 million seduction attempts, but we still don't know how many Popes have been kidnapped
- Meta to take 'extra precautions' to stop AI chatbots talking to kids about suicide, which makes you wonder what it's been doing until now
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P daydreams of more crossover events with Evangelion, Gundam, and especially Diablo: 'I love it so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself'
- 'Gooning has been vaulted in Fortnite'—Epic stops certain emotes being used in proximity so that horny teenagers can no longer mock-hump each other
- 2024's true GOTY was a Diablo-flavoured Vampire Survivors-like, and it just announced a big free update and an enormo-DLC
- AntGamer is releasing a 1,000 Hz gaming monitor next year, with a helping hand from AMD, though the chances are you really don't need it
- Something Cyberpunk 2077 is happening on September 4 and that's all I can tell you because CDPR is a gold-medal vague-poster
- TSMC hits record 70% foundry market share, making a synapse singeing $30.24 billion in revenue last quarter alone
- 'Legality is not the defining factor': Anti-porn group that pressured Steam and Itch.io adult game delistings says it goes after games it doesn't like 'even when they are not illegal'
- I've tested the simple config file tweaks to improve Metal Gear Solid Delta's ray tracing and add frame gen, but the mod to ditch the 60 fps cap is what you really need
- 'Magicka scares me', says Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt, since it was made at a time where Arrowhead was much smaller—but he'd still like to revisit the series 'at some point'
- Age verification legislation is tanking traffic to sites that comply, and rewarding those that don't
- Escape from Tarkov finally puts on the big boy pants and announces a Steam release as it gears up for version 1.0
- 'We wanted to focus on performance': Battlefield 6 developer explains why EA is skipping ray tracing at launch
- Hero ports entirety of Morrowind into Elden Ring, thumbs nose at 'Bethesda lawyers' as steam presumably shoots out of their ears
- Even after performance fixes and price cuts, Intel's CEO admits that it 'fumbled the football' with Arrow Lake CPUs but claims that Nova Lake will fix everything
- 'Min spec is certainly one of our most important': Battlefield 6 dev says low-end build players were a 'meaningful percentage' of the beta, and he aims to keep it that way
- REPO has announced its next update, but we actually have a date this time, rather than a series of videos to slowly announce it
- 'The Copper Age' marks the 3rd game drop for Minecraft this year, and according to the announcement post 'It's almost like we're entering a new Minecraft era'
- The Blood Ravens' Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos won't be in Dawn of War 4 so it can focus on relatively 'normal' heroes instead
- Team Cherry confirms Silksong price and launch times—it's definitely $20, and it won't be releasing at the stroke of midnight on Thursday
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 1 (#1535)
- See the remade version of Oblivion's tutorial dungeon in the first 15 minutes of a Skyblivion playthrough
