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- September 8
- September 7
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- GTA 6's Criminal Profile system sounds pretty interesting, includes a 'shattered' state for players who DGAF
- Capcom expresses continued interest in 're-activating IPs' as the first new Onimusha game in 20 years surpasses 1 million sales on launch day
- OpenAI publicly acknowledges the German 'wiki incident' weeks after first finding out about it
- Riot MMO's future is 'incredibly bright' despite co-founder likening its development to the grail: 'Many a brave knight are going to die'
- Jensen Huang says 100,000 Nvidia GPUs were used to train OpenAI's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, and there's already plans to bring quadruple that amount of hardware online
- Riot co-founder doesn't think 2XKO was 'a mistake' but perhaps a tough sell: 'You're not just competing against games, you're competing against everything'
- Square Enix wants Final Fantasy 7 to be an 'IP with an ever-evolving future', which is strange to say about a franchise that's already ever-evolving
- New DLSS 5 mod offloads Neural Rendering to a second card massively cutting the AI filter's performance hit
- Once again, it is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to PAX West and track down Nvidia's 'GeForce Evangelist' rather than buy the RTX 5090 anywhere else
- September 6
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- The Tetris Company confirms it had nothing to do with the White House's racist rip-off: 'we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them'
- A hobby dev built a free, 3D galaxy map for Warhammer 40K that loads like lightning in your browser
- 18 years after Metal Gear Solid 4 first launched, a modder has shown off its first custom map, MGS3's Groznyj Grad
- The Blood of Dawnwalker sold 1 million copies in just 3 days
- 'There is absolutely no generative AI in Space Marine 3' promises Saber Interactive executive
- Saber CCO Tim Willits is still bullish on AI, but concerned about its environmental impact: 'Elon wants to put servers in space. That could be the answer, right?'
- Do you ever listen to videogame music in your day-to-day life?
- GSC Game World says there's a reason it didn't give Stalker 2 more time in the oven: 'To make something better, you need to receive feedback, and this feedback should be fresh'
- The Halloween game has a sex minigame in it, except no it doesn't, because it was apparently removed
- Blending Deus Ex with Escape from Butcher Bay, Deficit is one of the best-feeling indie immersive sims I've played—even if the stealth system needs serious work
- Here's 10 more minutes of the most interesting game shown at this year's Opening Night Live
- Civilization 7 will finally enter the atomic age in 2027, via a free update Firaxis says will be 'even bigger in scope' than last year's Test of Time
- Ex-BioWare designer says doom and gloom about the next Mass Effect is overstated: 'I think that they can do it'
- September 5
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- Peak studio Aggro Crab is publishing a sick-looking platformer about a blue collar guy doing dirty work on an alien world
- Saber CCO says the studio isn't changing up its comms strategy after recent controversies: 'There's always some dust up'
- Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams was amazed other devs had heard of his game the first time he went to a convention: 'I didn't know that anyone knew what we were doing'
- Go grandmaster becomes first human to win series against advanced AI engine in 3-hour match
- 8-year Old School RuneScape saga comes to a close with former dev sentenced for stealing $400K in gold and items from players
- Saber CCO Tim Willits blames layoffs on games industry overspecialization: 'Studios that have a couple hundred employees that work on one game are going to struggle'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance director says DLSS 5 does right by KCD 2, 'people are crazy' for thinking it's AI slop
- This free lockpicking puzzler you can play in your browser is unexpectedly one of the most thrilling games I've encountered this year
- Grand Theft Auto 6's controversial refuelling action reportedly takes about 10 seconds to perform, which Rockstar's co-studio head says is 'pretty fast for a fill-up'
- Left 4 Dead 2 writer says Valve intentionally 'leaked' its cinematic trailer to get around ESRB rules: 'I think we can't get trouble for that now'
- September 4
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- As Wardogs blows past 200k Steam concurrents, its developers are prepared for the day 'hype dies down'
- Celebrate Labor Day by playing Civilization 7 for free
- 'Grand Theft Auto is a videogame franchise built around criminal activity': Miami-Dade County Sheriff comes out hard against a proposed GTA 6 collab with Rockstar
- After a massive 2021 office expansion, Bungie is now trying to sublease its 211,000 square foot headquarters
- The White House launches online 'arcade' with its own takes on Tetris and other popular games, and it's as rotten as you'd expect
- Me: You can now run DLSS 5 on AMD GPUs. My RX 9070 XT: Please stop, it hurts us
- A popular streamer turned down a 6-figure deal to play Arc Raiders because 'the game frustrated me so much'
- D&D is getting a Netflix series about Strahd, involving the director of The Prisoner of Azkaban, and I honestly think this could work great
- Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%
- 'That criticism is justified': Gamescom apologizes for its callous response to developer hardware thefts
- Arc Raiders' executive producer admits its developers 'couldn't keep pace with the players' and their need for content, but promises Frozen Trail as the answer
- The Blood of Dawnwalker's mods immediately scrap the time pressure mechanic, which is apparently a dealbreaker for some people
- Nvidia puts its money where its mouth is on open weight AI, moving to buy Hugging Face for $13 billion
- September 3
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- It's really starting to look like a new StarCraft game will be revealed at BlizzCon
- Microsoft announces cap on Xbox Cloud Gaming hours for Game Pass subscribers, admits most aren't using it much anyway
- Owner of nearly decade-old Dell laptop reportedly wore through the wrist rest and is 'being stabbed by carbon fibers'
- A multi-month delay for Deus Ex turned into a huge payoff for one of its best characters, says designer Harvey Smith
- Guild Wars 3 is a lot smaller scale than Guild Wars 2 because of the new approach to combat and movement: 'You would probably see about 20 players in a large combat scenario'
- Zach Cregger doesn't want to get bogged down in 'the wild aspects' of Resident Evil's lore: 'I'm not going to have a gigantic jacked dude in a trench coat'
- Stalker 2 studio is raffling keychains made from a shot-down Russian helicopter to raise funds for mine removal in the real-world Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
- Both Microsoft and Sony say they're under no obligation to pass tariff refunds on to customers
- Crimson Desert's upcoming DLC decides it's The Sims now, I guess
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation gets a release date and a proper look at its airship overworld, which is cool, if in danger of inducing open world fatigue
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword has a hard mode, but it isn't unlocked from the start
- Acer's bizarre hybrid handheld/laptop concept is way more interesting than what is actually getting released this year
- New Final Fantasy 14 site update stabs the final pin into my conspiracy board, leaving me 99.9% sure I know what the new physical ranged job is
- Dave Bautista is reaching unprecedented levels of buff for his role as Kratos: '2 more months to get to where I need to be'
- CD Projekt Red isn't 'planning to rely on AI making complete games', and will still be 'predominantly using people' for The Witcher 4 and beyond
- September 2
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- CD Projekt mystery games update: Yes, they're still happening, and no, not any time soon
- CD Projekt says it never considered charging Witcher 3 owners for the remastered edition: 'It was never a question we asked ourselves'
- 'Can I cry?': Stalker 2 devs say its 2.0 update's engine overhaul was a nightmare—but worth the effort
- 30,000 people line up 24 hours early to play the final Wardogs closed beta, developer responds: 'YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY'
- Double Fine's famous game jam returns with 26 new ideas and a promise to make Brutal Legend 2, if its Kickstarter stretch goal is met
- Dwarf Fortress co-creator says his life as a millionaire is 'basically like reattaining what my parents could do with regular jobs'
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance's new combat gimmick is putting some Devil May Cry stink on hitting dinosaurs with hammers
- Doug Cockle believes Dandelion is Geralt's real soulmate in The Witcher 3, but 'in a very platonic way'
- OpenAI head Sam Altman says 'people hate data centers,' but the company still plans to invest $50 billion more in AI infrastructure this year alone
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000's Space Marines will have to keep the Imperium happy and avoid looking too heretical
- SteamDB changes hands to Nexus Mods, which means it 'needs to make money' now—but there won't be ads or paywalls
- Award-winning presenter Frankie Ward is hosting the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, showing off over 35 games and a bunch of world premieres
- Zach Cregger is going to bring the 'resource management aspect of the games' to his Resident Evil movie
- Was Geralt's voice actor inspired by Henry Cavill's take on him in The Witcher series? 'No, because we were first'
- Resident Evil 2's director believes Capcom has become 'completely numb to how scary' recent games have been and wants a 'non-horror mode'
- 30,000 games are either Steam Deck verified or at least 'playable' on Valve's handheld
- Alienware aims at 'more price points people can actually reach,' announces a tandem OLED gaming monitor at a much lower price than our current top pick
- Former id Software producer says the team faced the 'worst crunch' in the series' history on Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations: 'There were days where I didn't see my son'
- September 1
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- Good reviews are a 'great relief,' says Blood of Dawnwalker director, as former CD Projekt coworkers line up to offer congratulations
- That Grand Theft Auto 6 exclusive reveal worked out pretty well for Netflix: It was the platform's biggest show last week
- The future of GTA roleplaying remains in GTA 5 for now, as Rockstar touts new invite-only Nopixel V RP server
- Sick: Ace Combat 8 has online airbase lobbies where you can bum around as your own bespoke pilotsona
- Ken and Ryu work things out in a new trailer for Street Fighter
- GTA 6's story is too important for Rockstar to let you swap between Lucia and Jason whenever you want
- No Rest for the Wicked, which was slated to hit 1.0 a month before Grand Theft Auto 6, is delayed into 2027
- Dwarf Fortress creator says we can learn something from simply walling up dwarf nobles to maintain an equal society—but notes you have to abolish the dwarf cops, too: 'Another lesson to be had there'
- Despite horrendous layoffs, obscene hardware prices, and everything else, Saber Interactive exec says 'this is a great time to be in the industry'
- Windows keeps telling people it has turned off anti-virus even though it hasn't
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is a sandbox that Creative Assembly will keep adding to rather than making sequels: 'The true experience is the sandbox'
- This video of a power supply blowing up shows why you should never cheap out on your PSU
- Oops, looks like the Logitech X3 Superstrike has leaked on Amazon and the rapid trigger gaming mouse will have +50% battery life
- Dwarf Fortress creator says we have a natural lean towards human-made stories, 'but we're all going to be very sorely tested in the coming years' by AI
- No Half-Life 3 for the Steam Frame, so it looks like this six-year-old game might be the key launch offering instead
- The Witcher 3 Remastered should run just fine on the Steam Deck, say devs
- DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement
- Linux manages to avoid the age verification apocalypse, but SteamOS isn't in the clear yet
- Persona 4 Revival won't finally realize Yosuke's gay romance because Atlus thinks it'd have to let you kiss every other guy, too
- Dwarf Fortress creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'
- Fable system requirements seem reasonable but with a 30 fps target and no mention of upscaling it's hard to say for sure
- The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff
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