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- February 4
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- I still can't master one of Nioh's simplest mechanics even after 10 years with the games, and 20 hours playing Nioh 3
- Menace launch time and release date
- Turkish government proposes legislation that would throttle Steam and other gaming platforms into unusability if they don't comply with demands for company data and content removal
- Warhorse reveals Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players have killed 5.4 million enemies while drunk, and I'm just surprised that number isn't higher because Drinking is the best skill
- 7 years after it was pulled from Steam, Poker Night at the Inventory is coming back in March, and yes, so are the free Team Fortress 2 unlockables
- Mike Morhaime's Dreamhaven continues to look for a hit, this time with a 'run-based' spin-off of Sunderfolk without the phone controls
- Some Fallout fans are convinced the Season 2 finale showed the Courier, but there's one little detail that I think disproves it
- Skyrim lead says the $100 videogame may not be the best idea: 'I personally think game developers would be wise to not push the prices higher, but gamers are a special breed... they will pay for what they want'
- Of course there's a tiny Bridgerton reference in The Sims Royalty & Legacy expansion because it's basically a Lady Whistledown simulation
- MindsEye was one of the most catastrophic game launches of 2025 but the studio refuses to quit: Its 'most significant post-launch update' is now live and an expansion is coming later this year
- Overwatch 2 drops the 2 and goes back to being Overwatch as Blizzard launches its biggest update ever next week: 'We want to gain players' confidence, we want them to have trust in the game'
- Overwatch's biggest season ever kicks off with 5 new heroes all at once, including a cat with a jetpack who can toss you off the map
- New AMD docs show its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel's 'FRED' interrupt handling and could point to a major architectural overhaul
- Nioh 3 review
- 'I'm a total amateur' says Stardew Valley creator and developer of one of the most iconic farming sims of the 21st century
- AMD has added the potential effects of the RAMpocalypse into its risk statements: 'There is currently an industry-wide memory shortage as the demand for such components has outpaced supply'
- Management sim Manifesto is the first game ever without politics: Grind workers into dust under your bootheel in a carefree romp that is 'definitely not about the video game industry… stop reading into things that aren't there'
- Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse
- My testing shows that 16 GB of system memory is still absolutely fine for today's PC games but there are some caveats to it all
- The Fallout TV series' showrunner and Todd Howard disagree with fans that season 2 messes with Fallout: New Vegas' canon: 'Sometimes you're gonna get conflicting accounts'
- Helldivers 2's new explosive hammer is the most dumb fun I've had in ages
- 'I feel like no one will ever find it': Stardew Valley creator says there's one big secret still lurking in the game, and no, you can't datamine it
- Epic says I can change baby, I promise, as it returns for its now-annual tradition of admitting its launcher 'sucks'
- WD's new HDD tech promises 'flash-like' performance and just maybe a way out of the dreaded memory supply crisis
- 'Bethesda's in the bad position of having expectations being so high they cannot be met': Skyrim design lead reckons it might be hard for The Elder Scrolls 6 to live up to the ever-increasing fervor
- Ryzen still rising: AMD's processor revenue climbs 34% from last year, thanks to 'multiple generations' of Zen-powered chips
- PUBG: Blindspot launch times and release date
- Here's the Nioh 3 release time for your region
- Intel CEO commits to building new GPUs and has hired the engineer who designed some of AMD's greatest graphics card hits to design them
- 'I'm not going to release anything I'm not happy with': Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier will be out when it's good and ready, 'even if that takes years and years'
- Pack it up, Game Freak: Modder turns RDR2 into the best Pokémon game since Ruby, complete with catching wild beasts and trainer battles
- If you've ever wanted AI-generated Kratos to advertise games to you (for some reason), I've got great news about Sony's latest baffling patent: 'LLM-based generative podcasts for gamers'
- AMD says Valve is 'on track' to begin shipping the Steam machine 'early this year'
- Battlefield 6's Javelin anti-cheat stopped over 580,000 cheating attempts over the course of just one month
- AMD CEO suggests next-gen Xbox will launch in 2027—the premium console's chip is 'progressing well'
- Good news, Stardew Valley enthusiasts: the 1.7 update will make children 'a little more interesting' and add two new marriage candidates
- Anime action RPG studio Pahdo Labs shuts down despite accruing $17.5M in funding: 'We believed making a demo of a familiar but new game would be our best shot'
- Sorry, but that countdown on Amazon's Fallout site didn't lead to a Fallout 3 or New Vegas remaster announcement… or any announcement at all
- The Fallout Season 2 finale teased a new location for Fallout Season 3—and it's somewhere the games have never taken us
- Fallout Season 2 finale post-credits sequence: what does it mean?
- Fallout Season 2 Episode 8 recap: 'Everyone works for me eventually'
- Why does isometric perspective suit Disco Elysium? 'You can design the entire game as if it was a painting'
- Helldivers 2's overpowered, wildly fun tank is the culmination of two years of balancing
- February 3
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- Epic Games Store to test forums for 'top games,' walking back previous plans, and a technical overhaul is coming: 'We're ripping out the guts'
- 'We're actively embracing generative AI,' Take-Two boss says, after previously expressing skepticism: 'We have hundreds of pilots and implementations across our company'
- Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 failed to meet expectations for Obsidian, but Grounded 2 was a hit, and the future is looking positive for the Pillars of Eternity universe
- How to get a Lucky Clover in Terraria
- As a Sims 4 Build Mode freak, today's free update is way more important than the new expansion
- Grand Theft Auto 6 'launch marketing' will begin this summer as the November release date remains on track
- Eric Barone says he'd 'love to' make Stardew Valley 2 someday: 'A whole new set of characters, a whole new world, maybe capture some of that original energy that I had back in 2012'
- Skyrim lead designer says the next Elder Scrolls should look at how Baldur’s Gate 3 made things ‘meaningful,’ because ‘the gaming community has spoken’
- Helldivers 2 has a tank now
- All Roblox Knockout codes for February 2026: Ice and extra Spins
- MindsEye studio boss threatens legal action against YouTuber as co-CEO Leslie Benzies denies Epstein allegations: 'I have never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor have I ever visited his island'
- Civilization 7 players can once again play as a single civilization in a massive overhaul update that's 'tentatively' coming in spring: 'Together, these updates are similar in scope to an expansion'
- Highguard review
- The Epic Games Store had a record-breaking 2025, with gamers throwing $1.16 billion at the 6,000-plus games it now offers
- iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 review
- Bethesda veteran says less RPG complexity in the Elder Scrolls series is good, actually: 'We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody'
- Intel's Arc B770 gaming graphics card claimed to be dead and the reason is inevitably AI
- The Notepad++ website was hijacked by 'malicious actors' last year and security researchers are picking through the wreckage
- People with AI partners are looking for a 'new home' as OpenAI announces date to switch off 'overly supportive' older models
- Highguard's 5v5 raid is 'here to stay' after developer noticed half the playerbase jumped over to its experimental mode at the weekend
- Player housing tools are so good, WoW's design director hopes the game will have quests where you build things in the future: 'We really want to use them'
- Deadlock's newest hero has the luxury of two kits, multiple knockback attacks, and the ability to turn into a werewolf every 30 seconds
- Fallout season 2's finale is premiering tonight, 6 hours earlier than we'd originally expected
- Skyrim lead designer's biggest lore regret is *checks notes* one of the coolest things the series has ever done
- Blizzard could add more homes per account to World of Warcraft's player housing in the future, but 'we have to be conservative at the start with these things'
- 'We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI' says Mozilla, as it introduces an AI blocking menu to upcoming Firefox builds
- It's reportedly game over for 8K before it even got going as display industry support 'dwindles'
- Logitech's new $80 gaming headset has an undercover mic so you don't feel like a donut wearing it out the house
- It looks like XeSS 3 and multi-frame generation can be enabled on older Intel GPUs with the most minor of tweaks, so it's not just Panther Lake that gets in on the fun
- OpenAI reportedly isn't happy with Nvidia's GPUs while Nvidia's $100 billion investment plan in OpenAI is said to have 'stalled': Is the AI honeymoon over?
- 'We had 16 megahertz CPUs, 640k of RAM, floppy disks': John Carmack reflects on the hardware that made Wolfenstein 3D
- Be Quiet! Dark Perk Ergo review
- Events are back in Arc Raiders as Embark fixes an issue that erased them from existence while also upping Bird City's frequency, 'so that all time zones get a chance to play'
- Rocket wizard Scott Manley has used a ZX Spectrum to land a Kerbal on the Mun and I am phenomenally impressed
- After a disastrous year, Tekken 8 says it's going 'back to basics' for Season 3
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in February
- To celebrate 5 years in early access, Valheim gets a new hat, better Steam Deck performance, and—wait for it—frosted sweetbread
- Controversial PS2 survival horror Rule of Rose absolutely deserves a remake or re-release, but Bloober Team isn't doing it
- If you want to get caught up with Larian's pre-Baldur's Gate work, $157 worth of Divinity games are on sale on Steam for $23
- 'Do they really need marketing for Elder Scrolls 6?' Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda probably won't make a TV show for The Elder Scrolls because it's already making 'literally billions of dollars'
- Adobe changes the status of Adobe Animate to 'maintenance mode' after previously announcing its discontinuation (updated)
- February 2
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- Will Take-Two announce another Grand Theft Auto 6 delay tomorrow?
- A pioneering PC survival horror trilogy is going free-to-keep on GOG, so maybe you can look past the early '90s jank
- Bethesda keeps the Fallout remaster hopium flowing by showing Aaron Moten inside Fallout 3 and New Vegas
- Skyrim lead praises Todd Howard for trying 'desperately' not to micromanage and be a ‘bottleneck’, even though he still 'does what he calls seagulling where he swoops in and changes things'
- Larian publishing chief wades into the fray, says Morrowind updated with a modern combat system 'would sell like f**king hotcakes'
- Steam Controller re-review: A fresh look at Valve's flawed but influential 10-year-old controller
- Cairn developers 'couldn't be happier' as they celebrate 200,000 copies sold: 'We hope you feel the passion we baked into the mountain'
- 'Everybody who worked at Nvidia in the early days really wanted to make a game console' says senior VP of engineering Andrew Bell: 'Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves'
- The world's largest manga piracy site has been shut down with its operator under criminal investigation
- Skyrim's lead designer thinks Bethesda should stick to its in-house engine: 'The benefits that you get from switching to Unreal Engine are probably not going to materialise until two titles down the road'
- CachyOS isn't joining new Linux gaming distro collab, says it doesn't think a 'collective with strings attached' is necessary
- 'What a disappointment': Arc Raiders players aren't happy with the latest Trophy Display project, namely because there's no trophy at the end of it
- Puget Systems crowns the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K as the most reliable processor in its consumer PCs, with Nvidia Founders Edition cards leading the charge for GPUs
- Moltbook is like Reddit but only AI agents are allowed—though after spending hours trawling through threads, it looks more like a huge, unhinged roleplay server to me
- This Frankenstein-ed RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in it has just set a world record benchmark score and it's the most cursed-looking graphics card I've ever seen
- 'TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outside a 'trillion-dollar dinner' for top tech manufacturers in Taiwan
- id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I'd ever seen'
- February 1
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- 2 days after promising it was still 'worthy of your investment,' the most successful Kickstarter MMO ever was canceled and its team laid off: 'The developers and staff acted in good faith and deserved better'
- 'We need to get the funniest person we can possibly find': Helldivers 2's lead writer had seven days to cast John Helldiver, the face of the game's beloved intro cinematic
- 'What the f**k': Iron Lung creator puzzled as Markiplier's film adaptation quadruples its budget in one day, beating out Melania and Send Help at the box office
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 2, 2026)
- 21 years after release, Guild Wars 1 just got an 'Ironman' mode inspired by a venerable community-driven challenge
- The whole Fallout series is at a steep discount on Steam, so if you've been waiting 29 years to begin your journey in the wasteland, your time is now
- Can you guess which game these competitive rank crests are from?
- 'Anyone mad is a cheater:' Players are divided as Rust beefs up anti-cheat with more effective—and invasive—upgrades
- One of BioShock Infinite's best narrative devices is its music
- Videogame merch is basically diet cosplay, and I'm desperate for more brands to get in on being more fashionably nerdy
- Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle's The Sid Meier Collection
- Thirty years after launch, this classic space combat sim just got updated to work on modern systems and released for free
- On-Together is the first focus tool videogame I've used that understands the importance of partnered-up productivity
- February is surprisingly light on cozy game launches but we're looking forward to these chill picks you shouldn't miss
- Over a decade since launch, this cooperative dungeon crawler is getting a double-barrelled update that overhauls its magic system, dungeon generation, and much more
- Cities: Skylines 2's new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel's future, revealing a patch that will include changes players 'have been requesting for a long time'
- I didn't even know I was bothered by how bad Skyrim's NPCs look during the split second they're opening doors, and now a modder's pointed it out the mod to fix it has become essential
- Larian made a chill beats Baldur's Gate 3 animation full of references to popular mods and memes
