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- May 4
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- Star-trekking sandbox roguelike Approaching Infinity launches after more than 12 years in development
- Doom mod Blitz: Race Against Time only gives you half a minute per map, so it's a good thing Doomguy runs at 50 mph
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 4
- Bungie's attempt to dismiss the Destiny 2 copyright case using YouTube videos describing 'vaulted' elements of the game has been shut down by a judge who is not going to sit through a 10-hour lore explainer
- Fallout 1 and 2's source code isn't lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: 'I made it a quest to snapshot everything'
- May 3
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- EVE Online studio CCP is making a medieval-style tome of epic poetry inked with the blood of players to commemorate the game: 'It turns out, to store information, a really good way is to take blood and write on calfskin'
- Blizzard accidentally left a placeholder item in Diablo 4 and a couple of lucky players went god mode with it
- Once hidden in a Friday Night Funkin' fangame, surreal free exploration sandbox Garn47 gets a major makeover with the 'Glorgle update'
- Sea Of Stars' 8-hour epilogue expansion won't cost you a penny when the circus comes to town on May 20th
- Oblivion isn't enough? Morrowind just got a whole lot bigger, as community mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt adds the sprawling metropolis of Narsis
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 3
- May 2
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- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor celebrates the Grand Theft Auto 6 delay: 'WE'RE IN WITH A SHOT! GOTY!'
- This 'narrative simulator' about a delivery driver in deeply rural Russia is giving me serious Mudrunner meets Disco Elysium vibes
- Lead Diablo artists say the best way to design endless spiky armor sets is to go look at anything that isn't Diablo: 'You can come back with a fresh mind and create new things'
- Elden Ring Nightreign's overview trailer lays it all out for the quirky co-op spinoff
- Following its huge win over Apple, Epic says it will take even less money from developers who use its store
- The Breach update for No Rest for the Wicked is an overhaul so massive that old save files just won't cut it
- Nvidia denies 'tall tales' that chips are being smuggled in fake baby bumps and alongside live lobsters
- AMD has released the slightly underwhelming official specs of the RX 9070 GRE, y'know, the card you probably can't buy anyway
- Fanatical's running a $3-a-pop Bethesda bundle, so it's time to finally put down Oblivion Remastered and play Morrowind, the actual best TES game
- Parts for that high-performance Intel Battlemage gaming GPU have been spotted again and I still want it to teach Nvidia's RTX 5070 a $400 pricing lesson
- 'I'd say chances are good': While the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team is still figuring out where to go next, DLC is likely
- Microsoft says it wants to completely ditch passwords as it makes passwordless login the default for all new accounts
- Mod adds Dark Souls-style player messages to Oblivion Remastered so you can write 'Try finger but hole' in front of Patrick Stewart
- There's another Pathfinder 2e bundle on Humble with nearly $700 of books for $57, including an adventure that'll let you go full Mortal Kombat with your friends
- Take-Two shares tank after GTA 6's delay, CEO Strauss Zelnick assures panicky investors it'll still make more money than god and it's 'steadfast in our commitment to excellence'
- US federal judge on Meta's AI copyright fair use argument: 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work'
- Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed until May 2026: 'We need this extra time to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve'
- Meta's AI app wants to 'get to know you' and can warn you if you should be 'worried about bears'
- Intel's all-important Panther Lake mobile chip rumoured to launch later this year with just one model and it won't be getting the exciting graphics option
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's publisher says Oblivion Remastered 'didn't seem to harm us at all', in fact, it may have helped: 'Everybody was thinking and talking about the genre'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 2
- May 1
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- DrLupo admits to cheating in $100,000 online chess tournament, faces brutal backlash from Reddit: 'Dude went from 'what's a horsey?' to 'I can see 15 moves ahead' in 2 minutes'
- Stadium's roadmap for Overwatch 2 is planned out for the next three seasons, with more heroes, maps, and custom games on the horizon
- 'Stadium is Overwatch 2's most-played mode': Blizzard confirms Stadium's success with 7.8 million hours played across 2.3 million matches in the launch week alone
- French President Emmanuel Macron gives a shout-out to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Instagram: 'You are a shining example of French audacity and creativity'
- Gaming website Polygon lays off union staff, editor-in-chief departs following sale to Game Rant owner Valnet
- Bethesda gives full-throated shout-out to Skyblivion fan remake after giving the whole dev team free Oblivion Remastered keys: 'I think what they're doing is very special'
- Original Oblivion developers gather to watch the 2006 documentary on the making of the game, and Todd Howard sums up the feeling: 'This is going to be really f**king awkward, watching this'
- At 34 seconds, Jack Black's chicken song from A Minecraft Movie just became the shortest ever to crack the Billboard Hot 100
- Amid tariff woes, 8BitDo stops shipping product from China-based warehouse to US customers
- League of Legends world champion Shushei dies at 36: 'One of the first greats of our game'
- Skyrim lead designer makes it sound like there's gonna be loading screens in Bethesda games for years to come yet, bucko: 'We just didn’t have a choice, really'
- Silksong got a release date for an Australian museum exhibit before anything else, and I wish I was kidding
- The RX 9060 XT rumour mill flip-flops again: we shall have an 8 GB version of AMD's card after all
- Foundry VTT creator does what Hasbro won't with D&D, trashes the idea of AI in tabletop roleplaying game industry as a 'betrayal'
- Modding turf war erupts as 'notoriously controversial' dev puts out an Unofficial Oblivion Remastered Patch one week after the game came out
- LG's new 'Hybrid Tandem' tech apparently solves the blue light problem which could mean near-flawless OLED gaming monitors
- This colour E-ink monitor is very pretty but the price means you may be better off strapping 7 Kindle Colorsofts together
- Oblivion Remastered contains an incredibly neat easter egg to one of the nerdiest viral videos of the early 2010s
- 'We as the developers do not feel like we are being robbed by anyone': Drug Dealer Simulator developer says it 'would not pursue any legal actions against Schedule 1 in any shape or form' if it had its way
- Nobody told me you could cheese the hell out of Oblivion Remastered's lockpicking minigame and I've only broken 3 lockpicks since discovering it
- Turns out that the earliest versions of Windows 7 took longer to load depending on your choice of desktop wallpaper
- Assassin's Creed Shadows announces more difficulties, more immersion options, more Jesuits, and a bo staff in its year 1 roadmap
- PC gaming can't stop getting Ws, as Microsoft shares it's being weighed down by console and hardware revenue woes
- 'China is right behind us': Jensen Huang says we need to 'accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world'
- I spent the day using GameSir's new GameHub app, potentially corrupting my phone and gaming PC, so you don't have to
- More Intellimouse than eXtreme gamer, Cherry's new wireless gaming mice give understated office chic in the best possible way
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 1
- US court slams Apple for 'obvious cover-up' in major Epic victory that could see Fortnite return to iOS soon
