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- July 6
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- Arkane Studios founder slams Microsoft for its Game Pass focus: 'At some point reality has to hit'
- Warren Spector was so desperate to make Deus Ex that it almost became a Command & Conquer RPG: 'I was going to find a way to make it one way or another, even if it meant making another damn sci-fi game!'
- Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is gearing up for launch, literally—adding a fully-fledged gear system when it hits 1.0 in September
- Preservationists discover a 'nearly complete' build of a lost Animaniacs game 22 years after it was cancelled, and you can play it right now
- Rust's developer is overhauling the survival sim's mission system so it can create in-game quests faster and more easily: 'The process to create new missions internally is quite cumbersome and error prone'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 6
- Mount & Blade 2's naval expansion will have complex sailing with wind, currents, and respect for a boat's draft
- July 5
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- Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day over the last few years remains completely unchanged'
- Academics critique Farming Simulator's portrayal of 'good farming' and praise modders for agro-ecology add-ons
- European game publisher group responds to Stop Killing Games, claims 'These proposals would curtail developer choice"
- Former Forza dev says original Motorsport series died in Microsoft's cuts, but Forza Horizon lives on
- After nearly 4 years, Windows 11 is finally more popular than Windows 10
- Even the beginner zone in Dune: Awakening isn't safe from sandworm-manipulating griefers anymore
- Runaway city-building success Manor Lords is getting a major overhaul to its systems: 'It's not just a new feature or two. It's a full rework'
- Chaotic destruction sim Teardown breaks cover on its multiplayer update, revealing 8 player team deathmatch and support for modded servers
- RoboCop: Rogue City's expansion will let you play as ED-209, but I'm more excited about having some guns I might use instead of the Auto 9
- Here's a mod that puts Halo's multiplayer into Half-Life, which to me feels like putting tea in your coffee
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 5
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime so good it made Cyberpunk 2077 cool again, is getting a sequel
- July 4
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- Deep Rock Galactic board game Kickstarter pulls in nearly $1 million in 1 day for a trio of new expansions
- Ratatan, the new rhythm game from the designer of Patapon, delays early access release in response to negative demo feedback
- In the wake of Perfect Dark's cancellation, Joanna Dark's voice actor urges fans to help save the series: 'Agent Dark doesn’t give up and neither should any of you'
- Hideo Kojima's mysterious OD reportedly escapes the cancellation axe at Microsoft
- CWA union derides Microsoft layoffs when ‘the company is prospering’: 'We are living through a moment of profound corporate consolidation and disruption'
- Perfect Dark dev shoots down claim the ace-looking reveal was fake: 'It's probably more real than you think'
- Fortnite hints at making its hottest new mode permanent by asking fans what they want next
- Michael Madsen, the voice of Dishonored's supernatural assassin Daud, has died
- I don't need 64 GB of RAM but I am tempted when prices are as low as they are right now for genuinely speedy sticks
- Marvel Rivals players may soon be able to vote on what heroes they want added: 'We will use them as an important factor in our planning'
- Picking the best GPU of 2025 has been the biggest challenge of my near 20-year PC gaming tech testing career. Now my brain hurts
- The Silksong subreddit is conducting elaborate ritual ban sacrifices in an attempt to cure 'silksanity' and secure the game's release
- Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand
- A 'little educational game for middle-schoolers' left DayZ's creators obsessed, inspired, and embroiled in a contentious presidential campaign: 'It's 4.5 years later, and I'm still talking about this story'
- Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now
- Tech billionaires including Palmer Luckey set up dumb new bank for those who didn't get burned enough in the 2022 crypto crash
- Rematch plans to add an in-game report system, punish own-goal griefers with 3 days in the slammer, and slap cheaters with indefinite bans
- Peak re-releases its next update aimed at improving stability and reassures players 'we don't have any issue with sharing video content, including modded stuff'
- OLED is the must-have gaming monitor tech and I've got some great early Prime Day deals for you
- Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to 'reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss'
- Steam's Hardware Survey continues to prove gamers don't have much free storage, and I am unfortunately among them
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 4
- July 3
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- Surprise! The Anthem servers are still running—but they won't be after January 12
- Stop Killing Games surges past its goals, but a possible signature spoofing campaign could cause trouble: 'This is not a Change.org petition. This is a government process'
- Before cancelling ZeniMax's Destiny-style MMO shooter, Xbox executives reportedly enjoyed early demos so much that the controller had to be pulled from Phil Spencer's hands
- 'There has to be a better way than this': Game developers call Microsoft's latest layoffs 'a colossal waste of talent' from a publisher that seems like it's in 'a death spiral'
- MindsEye boss reportedly blames its failure on 'saboteurs' and says a re-launch is in the works, even as the entire development studio is at risk of layoff
- Brace yourself: Hades 2 just got what 'will likely be our final patch' before full release
- Founder of world's biggest mod site hits back at fans angry about upcoming age verification for NSFW mods: 'The law is the law and Nexus Mods will, and must, follow the law'
- Rematch's developers expected players to develop new tech fast, but 'not nearly as fast as it is going right now'
- I've just noticed Zalman is spinning up a new line of circular tower coolers that look a lot like itty-bitty jet engines
- Marvel Rivals' updated hero hot list reveals the most-played and highest win-rate characters, and it's good news for Support players
- The European Commission wants Europe to become the world leader in quantum computing within the next five years
- Romero Games' new shooter loses funding, the studio may be closing, and it looks like Microsoft is to blame
- This whack-a-mole with floppy disks running on an Amiga looks equal parts hilarious and surprisingly difficult
- No PC gamer actually needs this 3000 W power supply unit but like Gollum and the one ring, I wants it
- Neil Druckmann leaves The Last of Us HBO, alongside Part 2's co-writer Halley Gross, despite there still being 2 more seasons to go
- Google Veo 3 users long to immerse themselves in the worlds of their AI-generated videos, seemingly forgetting entire videogame genres already exist
- Peak devs accidentally released a patch that 'made a number of players totally unable to play' so now there's a new public beta Steam branch for everyone to mess around in safely
- As fans lose it over sanitised nudity and violence, Ready or Not devs promise they haven't changed their 'creative vision': 'We’ve only made changes where absolutely required'
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Sentient Pest is the second Everdark boss to fall short of expectations set by Gaping Jaw: 'There's almost no challenge'
- Capcom's financials show that embracing Steam has paid off handsomely: It now accounts for a third of all the publisher's revenue
- Hyte's iconic new Wing Gundam Zero case is going to grab your eyeballs first, but it's these fresh-looking keycaps I really want
- Bankrupt supplier with unsold TTRPG and D&D books files to move its inventory without paying publishers—which is 'a giant pain' if you're anyone but Hasbro
- The Arctic P12 Pro has earned my vote as the best replacement for ageing radiator fans—here's why
- This B860 motherboard is what I'd pair with a Core Ultra 265K to make a powerful pairing for about $500
- 2023's true GOTY has had its name and assets jacked by 'some kind of crypto scam,' while bootlickers assure the dev it's actually great publicity
- This designer has created a Frankenstein's monster by strapping two Nintendo Joy-Cons onto the Framework 12 and they're letting you do the same too
- The Legion Go S SteamOS is completing the Steam Deck's mission to make handheld PC gaming genuinely convenient
- X's latest terrible idea allows AI chatbots to propose community notes—you'll likely start seeing them in your feed later this month
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 3
- July 2
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- Today's Dune: Awakening patch notes are as long as a sandworm, with more than 300 changes, bug fixes, and squashed exploits
- Blizzard ends new content development for Warcraft Rumble and lays off staff: Former employee says 'most' of the team has been let go
- Phil Spencer retirement rumor is made up, says Microsoft
- EA reportedly expects Battlefield 6 to bring in 100 million players, a number that even DICE devs don't think is feasible
- French court finds 3 former Ubisoft executives guilty of workplace harassment
- The Elder Scrolls Online director Matt Firor, who helped launch ZeniMax Online Studios in 2007, is leaving the company
- Microsoft cancels the Perfect Dark reboot that blew us away last year, closes developer The Initiative
- A new MMO in development at Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax has been cancelled as Microsoft puts thousands more people out of work
- 'Instantly lost all desire to even start': Mecha Break's Steam rating lands at an early 'Mixed' as players realize the beta's customization options have been turned into MTX fodder
- Rare's Everwild has been cancelled amidst Microsoft's enormous cuts to staff and studios
- Amazon will soon deploy more bots than it employs people now that it has a million robots
- AT&T says 'um actually' to President Trump after he blames the internet provider for conference call woes
- Palworld's Terraria update lands it back in Steam's Top 10 with over 120,000 players coming back, but its community manager is just waiting for people to brand it a 'dead game' again
- 'It's not like we applied for the award ourselves': Dave the Diver director reminds people that 'there's nothing indie' about his game and the controversial indie nomination was out of his control
- I've finally found a budget Gen 5 SSD I can recommend, a cool, calm, and collected drive available for a very reasonable sum
- OpenAI execs whine about the New York Times lawsuit and user privacy during live NYT event, get roasted by NYT journalist: 'It must be really hard when someone does something with your data you don't want them to'
- Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time: 'What I think is the right future for humanity is irrelevant. It's all about what each player thinks'
- Videogames on the scale of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 could be on the way for other World of Darkness TTRPGs, including Mage: The Ascension and Changeling: The Dreaming
- Fresh zero-day vulnerability in Chrome found to be actively exploited by hackers in the wild
- Final Fantasy 14 is fast-tracking one of my most-anticipated fixes, releasing an entire month earlier than expected
- Persona 5: The Phantom X has blessed the community with a new sh**posting mascot so corny it eclipses the nuance around the real-world issues he represents
- Phil Spencer says Microsoft's gaming business has 'never looked stronger' as the company announces yet another round of mass layoffs
- 'We need to do a better job': FBC Firebreak devs are revamping progression after finding out that just 5% of players own a level 3 perk
- All change at the top: Corsair's founder and long-running CEO steps down after 31 years as former company president Thi La takes over the reins
- Human spirit triumphs as the Croc devs announce they want to remaster Buck Bumble and the greatest main menu theme song of all time
- The game that would become Deus Ex originally starred Jake Shooter, supercop
- Introducing the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct—coming from the Tokyo Game Show
- Turns out you can transform your very ordinary car into an actual Mario Kart controller (but you probably shouldn't)
- AMD offers an update on Project Amethyst, a Sony collaboration that's already 'delivered smarter, more efficient solutions like Super Resolution in FSR 4'
- After more than a year of conflict woes between Bigscreen Beyond VR headsets, Nvidia GPUs and Linux, there's good news at long last as a fix is nearly in sight
- To the surprise of nobody, sales of the 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti at retailer Mindfactory outstrip the 8 GB version by a factor of 16
- Minecraft is bringing back the copper golem from the mob vote graveyard, igniting my hopes for a Moobloom comeback
- Subnautica studio leadership gutted by Krafton, which outright says that Subnautica 2 needs 'renewed energy and momentum'
- Intel's ex-CEO said he bet the company on the 18A node but now a new report claims Intel is pushing customers to next-gen 14A instead
- When Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 its successor will be four years old, and for three of those, it was never the OS of choice amongst Steam users
- Cloudflare will block AI web crawlers by default, and introduces new Pay Per Crawl scheme that means AI companies will have to fork out for the privilege to scrape
- Free-to-play mech brawler Mecha Break has attracted 50,000 players within 10 minutes of launching, proving our appetite for giant robots remains insatiable
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 2
- July 1
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- Destiny 2 just got weird: Launch trailer leans hard into time travel and looks more like a Control crossover
- A new WoW event boosts ultra-rare item drop rates tenfold, which admittedly isn't a huge difference when the starting number is 0.5%
- Hideo Kojima goes in hard on AI and is worried we'll all 'be unknowingly led into a predetermined lifestyle'
- 'It makes me cringe every time': 25 years after Diablo 2 reshaped the RPG landscape, Diablo creator David Brevik still thinks its stamina bar sucks
- A 'big beautiful bill' provision to prevent states from regulating AI for 10 years got nixed by the US Senate
- 'Give me more of that': Monster Hunter Wilds players have discovered its returning monsters got hands, and they're thrilled to be getting clobbered
- Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'
- Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam
- Phoenix and Blade headline the new Marvel Rivals season, and it starts next week
- 'It took a while to get there, but now we feel we're in a good place': Fatshark's design director talks doing years of repair work on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Get an entire tabletop role-playing library for the price of one book, thanks to what might be the most impressive bundle of RPGs I've ever seen in my 22 years in the hobby
- Nexus Mods will soon require age verification for UK and EU users looking for its treasure trove of adult mods
- Deus Ex was a hard sell because, among other things, the Thief devs thought 'if you give players a gun, they won't sneak'
- The US claims $81.5 billion bonus revenue from Trump tariffs but that's a drop in the ocean compared to its spending deficit
- 'Xbox hardware is dead' and 'there's literally no reason to buy' the ROG Xbox Ally handheld says founding member of the OG Xbox team
- Commodore's been bought by a YouTuber who's re-assembling key execs and already teasing new hardware
- Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis
- Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it's a 'mistake' for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy 'sweaty boy' systems in favour of a 'one size fits all' game, since easier difficulties aren't too hard to make
- Bing Bong is talking to you: Peak players are getting jump-scared by what seems to be the developers possessing a little green plushie
- BG3 might be the last hurrah for the era of the Hexblade, as D&D's 2024 rules revamp tries to dethrone the king of multiclass dips
- Anker recalls a number of power banks amid safety fears, though it says that 'the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal'
- Good guy GSC wordlessly deletes ads in Stalker remaster menus with itsy-bitsy new patch
- Steam adds an in-game performance monitor so you can brag about hitting 900 FPS in Deus Ex
- The end is probably nigh for full Windows driver support for GTX 10, 9 and 7 Series graphics cards as Nvidia announces that its next major Linux driver fork will be its last for those GPUs
- Right to repair bill in Texas has been signed into law after winning by a landslide victory, with not a single vote against it
- Incredible neural implant translates neural activity into speech almost instantly by focussing on sound production instead of word choice
- Massive Ahold Delhaize data breach sees 2.2 million people's data exposed in ransomware attacks against major US food retailer
- Trump claims to have found a buyer for TikTok, but won't say who yet: 'I'll tell you in about two weeks'
- Author's petition requesting publishers swear off AI recieves over 1,000 signatures in first 24 hours
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 1
- The first autonomous robot football match happened in China and it's like watching drunk toddlers with fewer ethical setbacks
