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- January 31
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- RIP moon: an elegy for the big rock videogames love to blow up
- World of Warcraft's orcs and humans will soon be able to fight together in raids and dungeons
- Original voice of Shadow Warrior's Lo Wang, John William Galt, has died
- Wordle sells to the New York Times for a seven figure sum
- PC Gamer is hiring an Associate Editor in the US
- World of Warcraft clamps down on boosting but players doubt it will stop
- Totally Accurate Battlegrounds, the gag game that become a hit, is ending content updates
- So if it's not about exclusivity, why exactly did Sony buy Bungie?
- Sony strikes back, acquires Bungie for $3.6B
- Risk of Rain 2's March expansion is adding a horde mode and an FPS sniper hero
- Artist uses AI to design terrifying, faceless, Bosch-style tarot cards. You okay, hun?
- Halo fans are divided over the TV show's Cortana redesign
- MSI MAG B660M Mortar WiFi DDR4 motherboard review
- Resident Evil 4 VR improves controls for lefties and promises Mercenaries as a free download later this year
- Apex Legends introduces control points and a killer Kiwi ahead of next season
- Nvidia is in a trademark clash for its next-gen GPU name, Hopper
- Voice actor Troy Baker cancels voice NFTs partnership after backlash
- Square Enix says Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 2 will be revealed this year
- A new single-player Gwent game is in the works
- Worms emerges from the mud to issue NFTs
- The guy who cut his mouse in half also has a floor keyboard
- Linux users running Intel Arc GPUs will benefit from FPS-boosting Resizable BAR
- Your graphics card could be used to track you across the web regardless of cookie consent
- Riot apologises for DMCA takedown on artist for use of the word 'arcane'
- 343 reckons it's fixed Halo Infinite's Big Team Battle matchmaking problem (again)
- Elden Ring isn't the first time a series has pivoted to open world
- Former Valve economist calls Facebook's metaverse 'a Steam-like digital economy' with Zuckerberg as its 'techno-lord'
- Warframe's next expansion is Angels of the Zariman
- January 30
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 31, 2022)
- George R.R. Martin may be 'shocked' by how his Elden Ring lore has been twisted
- Halo TV series' first full trailer shows off Cortana, High Charity, and other Spartans
- A Star Wars Galaxies revival celebrates 7 months of success
- Microsoft Flight Simulator devs outline plans for helicopters, historic planes, and Australia
- This week in PC Gaming: Life is Strange Remastered, The Hundred Year Kingdom and Dying Light 2 Stay Human
- Players in The Anacrusis have killed about a billion aliens already
- Open-world snowboarding in Shredders hits pretty soon
- January 29
- January 28
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- DisplayPort vs HDMI
- Luckitown is a cute and cruel blend of tower defense and Yahtzee
- Flashy ARPG Lost Ark details pre-load times and servers for February launch
- Elden Ring has multiple poison swamps because 'I can't help myself,' Miyazaki says
- Microsoft will soon begin automatically cancelling dormant Game Pass subscriptions
- Current and former Blizzard employees are hyped about its new survival game
- Elden Ring director Miyazaki says he doesn't want new players 'to stress about difficulty'
- System Shock show to be written and directed by Mortal Kombat scriptwriter
- The best builds for Ganyu in Genshin Impact
- Evil Dead: The Game is delayed again
- Intel's $1.2B fine for antitrust, anti-AMD practises has been overturned in Europe
- Ubisoft VP says players 'don't get' NFTs, but can't explain what there is to get
- Here's some more Austin Powers in Mass Effect, baby
- Here's every forbidden and limited card in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel
- Valve's tweaking Linux drivers to squeeze more battery life out of the Steam Deck on SteamOS 3.0
- 2D survival horror Hidden Deep creeps into Steam Early Access
- New Mortal Kombat game teased, movie sequel confirmed, and creator Ed Boon gets a gong
- Netflix begins production on The Witcher season 3
- TeamGroup unveils the first blisteringly fast PCIe 5.0 SSD ready for our gaming PCs
- Steam your own hams, LucasArts style in this fan-made Simpsons adventure game
- Two Point Campus pencils in May launch
- This Dark Souls mod puts everything into a blender and it works
- How to get Green Goblin in Fortnite
- January 27
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- Holocaust education program examines the portrayal of Jews and the Holocaust in videogames
- Valorant's Killjoy briefly enjoyed an NFT, but Riot says it was a 'whoopsie'
- Hitman 3 goes on sale, then off sale, in Epic's Lunar New Year Sale
- Hitman VR turns master assassin Agent 47 into a bumbling doofus
- Here are the things that actually make your Buddy Meter move in Hearthstone Battlegrounds
- The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle explores 'The Legacy of the Bretons'
- You too can be chased by a possessed pirate cannon in this weekend's Midnight Ghost Hunt beta
- Hyper Scape, Ubisoft's forgotten battle royale, is shutting down
- Guy cuts his mouse in half: 'I don't need the f***ing back'
- Path of Exile's new expansion lets you build your own endgame
- The Epic Store will keep giving away games in 2022
- Where to destroy different types of cactus plants in Fortnite
- Death Stranding Director's Cut PC release date set for March 30
- The Steam Lunar New Year Sale 2022 is live
- Magic: the Gathering's newest set brings the cyber half of cyberpunk
- Rainbow Six Siege adds in-game memorial to caster and ex-pro KiXSTAr
- Win this SteelSeries headset and Neverwinter goodies on the PCG forums
- What is micro stutter and how do I fix it?
- IO Interactive offers free Hitman 3 upgrades on Steam after ugly launch
- Mod makes Kratos the God of dad jokes
- Apex Legends' flying city is getting a violent relocation next season
- How to get into PC gaming without actually having a PC
- Hello Games returns to Joe Danger for the ultimate feelgood moment
- Nurgle brings death and disease to the Warhammer universe—and does it with a smile
- NVIDIA GeForce NOW lowers the barrier to entry for high-quality gaming on any device
- The best God of War mods
- An open letter to Intel: Help, you're our only way out of the GPU crisis
- How to solve the lantern riddles in Genshin Impact
- Is liquid-cooling your PC safe?
- Taiko no Tatsujin is finally out on PC, but it's currently unplayable
- Why haven't we moved on from battle royale?
- Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel is kicking ass on Steam
- Marvel's next game should be about Jessica Jones
- Has the crypto crash had any effect on GPU availability?
- Letterle is Wordle without the 'word' bit
- Resident Evil 4 HD Project releases next week after 8 years of work
- G.Skill announces a low latency DDR5-6400 CL32 memory kit
- Intel made more money than ever last year
- Future Nvidia GPUs could be 20% better at Ray Tracing
- Windows 11 update is bringing support for Android apps
- New AMD Radeon RX 550s are selling for $155 USD in Japan
- Razer and Cariuma release sustainably made Sneki Snek sneakers
- The state of Overwatch in 2022: Waiting for more
- January 26
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- The best games like Pokémon on PC
- Today's big Discord outage has mostly been resolved
- Call of Duty Warzone 2 rumors: Will the battle royale get a sequel in 2023?
- Windjammers 2 review
- Publisher apologizes for 'lack of research' after releasing an obvious Unpacking clone
- Half-Life 2's UI is being quietly redesigned
- Steam Deck will begin shipping on February 28
- This mod lets you play Dark Souls as Hidetaka Miyazaki
- FF14's new Oceania server is free real estate for the best and worst usernames imaginable
- Everything we know about WoW Shadowlands 9.2: Eternity's End
- New World aims to improve its endgame with 'mutators'
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 review
- Crysis 4 has been announced
- A week after launch the Radeon RX 6500 XT is still in stock, but nowhere near launch price
- Elgato releases the Stream Deck Pedal
- Intel's $64 Pentium G7400T Alder Lake CPU overclocked to 5.8GHz
- G.Skill hits DDR5-8888 with its Trident Z5 memory
- Activision Blizzard chooses not to voluntarily recognize Call of Duty QA union
- YouTube CEO says NFTs and crypto present a 'previously unimaginable opportunity'
- Cantina Manager, Jawa Simulator, and other pitches for our perfect Star Wars games
- January 25
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- YouTube gaming head who swiped Twitch stars like DrLupo is leaving for a crypto company
- Hearthstone's Battleground Buddies have arrived
- Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon showing off their NFTs is the longest 77 seconds ever
- Overwatch's Lunar New Year 2022 event is light on skins this year
- Blizzard is making a survival game
- Here's every horadric cube recipe in Diablo 2: Resurrected
- Nvidia could be ready to abandon its Arm acquisition
- Little Big Adventure is being rebooted for the series' 30th anniversary
- Elden Ring will take about 30 hours to finish
- Fun-hater makes Twitter bot to spoil future Wordle puzzles, gets suspended
- 3 Star Wars games on the way from Respawn
- Intel Core i5 12400 review
- The Vulkan 1.3 roadmap could change the very silicon it runs on
- Final Fantasy 14 is back on sale after 6 weeks
- Final Fantasy 14 director says he wants to work on the game for the next 10 years
- The best starter deck to choose in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel
- Steam Deck will let you suspend play and continue on another device
- There's hope that GPU shipments will soon increase as ABF substrate shortages ease
- Nvidia and Facebook's Meta to build AI research supercomputer
- Intel's Arc Alchemist mobile GPU specs detailed in leaked slide
- GPUs are already getting cheaper in 2022
- Dying Light 2: Everything we know about the zombie parkour game
- Major esports host ESL Gaming is now owned by Saudi Arabia
- New Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin trailer combines fantasy violence with Frank Sinatra
- Here's everything that's happened since Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard
- A '90% complete' fan-made PC port of Zelda: Ocarina of Time could be ready by April
- January 24
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- Outerverse developers say 'con artists' are using their game for an NFT scam
- Elden Ring has officially gone gold
- What to actually expect from NFTs in games this year
- Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat system will work on Steam Deck, after all
- The State of Fortnite in 2022: Pretty epic
- Battlefield 2042's 'Zombie Survival' mode pulled after it immediately turns into an XP farm
- Save up to $300 on these RTX 3060 Lenovo laptops right now
- Buying a house in Final Fantasy 14 left me a broken woman
- Quitting live service games is like trying to dump a friend
- Apex Legends' next hero is tooth-spitting freedom fighter Mad Maggie
- US court permabans Roblox troll who made 'terrorist threats'
- Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5-5200 memory review
- Yakuza creator announces new studio where 'the scale of the game will be bigger'
- Good news everybody: Nvidia's RTX 3050 appears to be rubbish at mining
- Heck Deck asks: what if Superhot was a deck-building shmup?
- Teamgroup T-Force Delta RGB DDR5-6400 C40 memory review
- Stardew Valley mod adds farming bots
- Intel begins outfitting its state of the art Irish production facility
- Musk's brain chips heading for human trials
- Won't somebody think of the poor scalpers? Argues scalper service provider
- Intel Arc Alchemist GPU compared to the RTX 3070 Ti in new benchmark
- January 23
- January 22
- January 21
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- Will Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard go through? We asked a lawyer
- Hitman 3 launches to 'mixed' Steam reviews because it's $60
- Call of Duty QA workers form landmark game industry union
- Perfect password primer: upgrade your security
- How to get Hawkeye and Kate Bishop in Fortnite
- Why your next gaming keyboard could be electro-capacitive
- Here's Grand Theft Auto 5 on an original Game Boy, somehow
- How do I apply thermal paste?
- The best Crusader Kings 3 mods
- No biggie, just charging my laptop faster than I can drain it with this graphene battery pack
- Intel Xe Alchemist: Everything we know about Intel's gaming GPU
- God of War Valkyries: Locations and tips for these tough endgame bosses
- How to quickly and cleanly remove thermal paste
- The best Minecraft castle ideas
- Pupperazzi, reviewed by an actual puppy
- Blizzard head outlines what 'we are doing to rebuild your trust in Blizzard'
- Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB SSD review
- Microsoft's big acquisitions aren't likely to hold PC gaming back
- January 20
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- Mech brawler Daemon X Machina is free to keep next week
- The best detective games on PC
- Phil Spencer wants to bring back the Activision Blizzard games he loved as a kid
- The state of Valheim in 2022: Still the Vi-king of co-op
- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga developers say crunch was a 'soft-spoken blackmail'
- Microsoft wants to 'keep Call of Duty on PlayStation,' Phil Spencer says
- Hearthstone's next big patch will add 75 'Buddies' to Battlegrounds and nerf a bunch of cards
- Shenmue: The Animation drops a violent new trailer to reveal February debut date
- Twitter has hexagonal NFT avatars now, and there's already a way to mass-mute everyone who uses them
- How to enable two-factor authentication (or 2FA) in Fortnite
- Where are the klombos and klomberries in Fortnite?
- Steam games are finally starting to get their 'Deck Verified' status
- How to party up with pals in Rainbow Six Extraction
- This Cyberpunk 2077 mod turns it into a survival game
- Expeditions: Rome review
- Khorne is the raging musclehead of Warhammer's Chaos gods
- One-netbook Onexplayer Mini review
- Strange Horticulture review
- A quarter century later, Final Fantasy 7 is no longer locked to 15 fps on PC
- Lord of the Rings' Merry and Pippin can't stop talking about League of Legends
- Guild Wars 2 is betting on bite-sized raid encounters with End of Dragons
- Creator of PlayStation 'can’t see the point' in the metaverse
- Intel's excellent Core i5 12600K is already $25 cheaper than at launch
- Google is testing a Windows app that lets you play Android mobile games on PC
- PC hardware's best trade-show is 'confident' it will return to Taipei this year
- Intel is set to to produce a Bitcoin mining chip
- Nvidia compares RTX 3050 to GTX 1050 on product page graph
- Metaverse advertising could involve tracking your eyes and more
- New hybrid particle could lead to smaller magnetic semiconductors
- AMD announces the Radeon Pro W6400 workstation graphics card
- Here's Wordle, except for rude words
- January 19
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- Halo Infinite hotfix did not fix the Big Team Battle matchmaking problem
- How to overclock your graphics card
- Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific season 2 delayed so Activision can fix more bugs
- What happens next for Activision Blizzard's biggest games?
- Microsoft's on-again off-again affair with PC gaming is finally the real deal
- 28 things that are possible once Microsoft owns Activision Blizzard
- Battlefield 2042 is getting a new scoreboard next month
- The Monster Rise event quests you should play now
- Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV show gets an official subtitle: The Rings of Power
- What to do when a helicopter appears in Project Zomboid
- How to make an Estus Flask cocktail
- Victrix Gambit wireless gaming headset review
- AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT review
- XCOM 2 art director's new studio aims to spark 'a golden age of turn-based games'
- God of War's Kratos has some epic and slightly muddled origins
- AMD's RX 6500 XT falls foul of its own anti-4GB GPU marketing
- The state of World of Warcraft in 2022: There's a lot of work to do
- Playing Total War: Warhammer 3 as the series' weirdest, most ambitious faction
- Make Kratos a good clean-shaven boy with this God of War mod
- Take Two boss says GTA Trilogy's issues merely a 'glitch' and it's 'done just great' anyway
- The Sims 4 is getting customisable pronouns
- Razer Seiren V2 Pro microphone review
- Xbox Game Pass surprise drops Danganronpa Anniversary Edition and shows Taiko no Tatsujin hitting PC
- Japan's graphics card loot boxes offered a 70% chance to 'win' a pre-2015 GPU
- Rainbow Six Extraction review
- Chinese residents can win this Matrix themed Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti
- CPUs and GPUs are going to get even more expensive in 2022
- Come enjoy the Nvidia GT 1010's puny benchmark score
- Crypto.com reportedly suffers hack, losing more than $15 million in Ethereum
- For a limited time these Epos|Sennheiser headsets are around 25% off
- January 18
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- Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah says 'BioWare magic is bullshit'
- Every game and studio Microsoft now owns
- Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is reportedly planning to step down after Microsoft acquisition
- Here's when Rainbow Six Extraction unlocks in your timezone
- Italian senate meeting interrupted by Final Fantasy hentai
- The Cuphead Show gets a rowdy new trailer ahead of February premiere on Netflix
- The gaming industry reacts to Microsoft's megaton acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- Xbox Game Pass breaks 25 million subscribers
- Fortnite update reintroduces Tilted Towers, dope dinosaurs
- What does Nvidia's PhysX engine actually do?
- How Microsoft acquiring Activision will affect PC gaming
- The best Final Fantasy 7 Remake mods
- The Witcher books reading order: where to start with the short stories and novels
- Here's why Ninja and Jessica Blevins are threatening to sue Pokimane
- OlliOlli World is a stylish reinvention for the side-scrolling shredder
- This person fully automated their $90K IT job and the boss still hasn't noticed
- Nvidia creates new CPU engineering unit in Intel's Israeli backyard
- Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
- Nobody Saves the World review
- Turn your Wordle results into fun Townscaper buildings
- Rumours suggest AMD preparing an RX 6000-series graphics card refresh
- Velocity Micro Raptor Z55 gaming PC review
- An overclocker acheived almost DDR5-8000 with ASRock’s Z690 Aqua OC Motherboard and Teamgroup memory
- Intel CEO says AMD is in the rearview mirror and 'never again will they be in the windshield'
- This peanut butter made for gamers actually sounds delicious
- Samsung finally introduces AMD RDNA 2-powered Exynos 2200
- Biostar 700 series motherboards have been listed by the EEC
- Companies are spending millions on virtual real estate in the Metaverse
- Shadow Warrior 3 will release in March, according to Microsoft
- January 17
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- God of War hotfix takes aim at 'out of memory' errors
- DICE is working on a fix for Battlefront 2's invincibility glitch
- Phil Spencer thinks Sony's rumored Game Pass equivalent is a good idea
- Fortnite teases the return of Tilted Towers on Twitter
- Blaseball is being made into a two-player competitive card game
- Logistics players in MMO wargame Foxhole 'go on strike'
- Activision Blizzard denies report that CEO Bobby Kotick blocked release of internal discipline report
- What are Minecraft Realms and how to create one
- The best Minecraft custom maps
- Awesome Games Done Quick raises a record $3.5 million for charity
- You can snag 1TB of NVMe SSD for just $90 right now
- Older game called Wordle hits the jackpot, creator donates the windfall to charity
- Humble begins a shift away from Mac and Linux support
- How to find and open every Nornir chest in God of War
- God of War is Sony's biggest PC launch to date
- Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Pro motherboard review
- Andaseat Na'Vi Edition gaming chair review
- Fable art director Paul McLaughlin dies at 57
- Nvidia said to have delayed RTX 3090 Ti GPU launch for the moment
- 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs could feature significant cache size increases
- North Korea stole a lot of crypto in 2021
- Micron's new NVMe M.2 SSDs can pack 2TBs into 2230 form factor
- Real CPU overclocking is possible on Non-K Alder Lake CPUs
- Intel 11th and 12th Gen chips can't play 4K blu-rays
- Ubisoft is making a VR game where you're a firefighter in Notre-Dame
- Konami made over $150,000 from that bloody Castlevania NFT auction
- Blindfolded Sekiro run at AGDQ demonstrates the true way of the shinobi
- January 16
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- The state of Hearthstone in 2022: So many things at once
- Desolatium is pulpy point-and-click goodness with Cthulhu flair
- Halo Infinite's cosmetics are about to get cheaper
- This week in PC gaming: Pupperazzi, Expeditions: Rome and Rainbow Six Extraction
- Digital board game Pandemic has been delisted from Steam because it's too old
- Dune: Spice Wars details hybrid 4X/RTS gameplay and Early Access features
- Techland promises five years of updates for Dying Light 2
- January 15
- January 14
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- Tabletop Simulator studio kills global chat for good, makes $10K donation to trans advocacy group
- Halo Infinite devs plan to roll out a fix for Big Team Battle matchmaking next week
- Stardew Valley speedrunner starts by blowing up his farm and trashing his tools
- Krafton sues Google, YouTube, and Apple over alleged PUBG clones
- Icarus softens its stance on permadeath with mission insurance
- God of War's Cory Barlog says PlayStation studios convinced Sony to put games on PC
- Try these four fun weapons in Monster Hunter Rise
- GTA: San Andreas cheats – every vehicle, weapon and stat boost code
- Troy Baker faces powerful backlash over AI voice NFT promotion
- How to access Northri Stronghold in God of War
- Windows 11 is finally getting a volume pop-up to match its sleek aesthetic
- Sega files trademark for Sega NFTs
- How to get the best armor in God of War
- God of War runs so well on PC we didn't even need a graphics card
- Where to find every treasure map in God of War
- How to hotwire a car in Project Zomboid
- Project Zomboid: what to do if you get bitten
- Nvidia expects graphics card supply to improve in the second half of 2022
- Robots are getting stronger muscles and explosion-proofing
- How to get to Veithurgard in God of War
- Final Fantasy 14 will return to sale soon as director Yoshida chides abusive fans
- Four washers could help drop Intel Alder Lake CPU temps by up to 5°C
- Tweak these God of War settings for divine performance and visuals
- Analysts think GTA 6 likely to launch in the fiscal year 2024
- Final claim in CS:GO skin gambling lawsuit dismissed because plaintiffs never actually used Steam
- Crytek forces Patreon-supported Crysis Remastered photo mode mod offline
- January 13
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- Valve has shipped 'hundreds' of Steam Deck dev kits in the last month, remains on track for February launch
- Fortnite returns to Apple devices via GeForce backdoor
- Dungeon Encounters finds depth in stripping the JRPG down to its essentials
- Fortnite: Where to find a malfunctioning vending machine
- Huge changes coming to Destiny 2's masterwork armor and weapons
- Absurdle is like Wordle but it fights back
- God of War PC's new accessibility features 'laid the groundwork' for God of War Ragnarok
- City-building RTS The Settlers launches in March, closed beta next week
- Valve and Geico team up for a Portal-themed insurance ad
- Everything you need to know about armor in Monster Hunter Rise
- God of War has 10 different motion blur settings and you shouldn't use any of them
- The best way to beat Dark Souls is with a crowd
- Hitman 3 is getting a new roguelike game mode
- Halo Infinite is great, but I can't stand playing it
- The Settlers hands-on: Building cities and burning them down in Ubisoft's rebooted RTS
- 6 tips for getting started in God of War
- Warhammer Age of Sigmar has been delayed into late 2023
- Keychron K2 Version 2 review
- Cooler Master MM731 review
- Cloud Imperium starts referencing Star Citizen spinoff sequels
- Gigabyte M28U review
- AMD's Zen 4 CPUs will use a 'highly optimized' 5nm process, but don't be blinded by node numbers
- The baby of the 12th Gen range, the Celeron G6900 can match the i9 10900K in single threaded performance
- Nvidia Shield Android 11 update brings improved 4k streaming and gaming
- Samsung's AMD RDNA 2-powered Exynos 2200 reveal mysteriously delayed
- The best Mass Effect Legendary Edition mods
- The best Wordle starting words and other winning strategies from expert nerds
- Here's 15 minutes of 4K God of War PC gameplay
- Watch these guys speedrun planet earth
- January 12
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- Tabletop Simulator caught up in competing review bomb campaigns over transphobic moderation complaint
- You can pick up 16GB or 32GB DDR4 RAM sets pretty cheap right now
- God of War's no-cut camera made adding ultrawide support surprisingly challenging
- Valve cancels Dota 2 Winter Major and pisses off pretty much every pro in the scene
- It's been nearly a month and you still can't buy Final Fantasy 14
- When does God of War on PC unlock in your time zone?
- Minecraft cabin ideas: 6 builds for sprucing up your snowy escape
- Become a plant detective in this occult botany shop puzzle game next week
- The free-to-play Forza game is shutting down in the spring
- Mini Maker is a chaotic sculpture workshop for anti-perfectionists
- Akko Prunus Lannesiana 3098B gaming keyboard review
- God of War PC review
- Stalker 2 delayed to December
- Sony is making more PS4s in response to PS5 shortages
- This Half-Life mod replaces Gordon Freeman with Spyro the Dragon
- PUBG: Battlegrounds is now free-to-play
- All the fearsome beasts you'll be fighting in Monster Hunter Rise
- What happened to autobattlers?
- Finally, Libre Office adds Klingon language support
- Up to 256GB/s bandwidth is possible for PCIe 6.0 devices, including GPUs and SSDs
- Semiconductor supplier ASML suffers a factory fire in Berlin
- BMW shows off colour shifting car at CES
- Michelle Johnston Holthaus to replace Gregory Bryant as Client Computing GM at Intel
- Nvidia Announces AI-Powered Dynamic Super Resolution image scaling technology
- Easy Anti-Cheat implementation on Steam Deck may not be as easy as first thought
- 12th Gen DRM issues are a thing of the past
- Riot will pay employees 25% of their salary to quit if they aren't convinced by its new direction
- January 11
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- Guy brags about ripping off Wordle and charging for it, gets blasted off Twitter
- HP Omen 45L gaming PC review
- LA cops get fired for ignoring a robbery so they could play Pokemon Go instead
- How Blizzard failed the women who worked for it, according to three who left
- Leap is a 60-player FPS that looks like Tribes with hoverboards and a robo-moose
- Where to destroy and collect telescope parts in Fortnite
- Razer Kraken V3 HyperSense review
- Hitman 3 year 2 reveal coming later this week
- Fortnite update finally adds crazy tornadoes and lightning
- Lego halts Overwatch 2 set while it re-evaluates partnership with Activision Blizzard
- EA confirms FIFA accounts were hijacked because of 'human error'
- 7 tips to get you started in Monster Hunter Rise
- Northstar didn't just save Titanfall 2, it completely transformed it
- Move over toasters: Here's Doom played via rotary telephone
- The RTX 3080 12GB is real and listed for more than the launch price of an RTX 3090
- If one Wordle a day isn't enough, try the infinite Wheeldle
- The queen of hot tub streams has bought an inflatable pool toy company
- Stop boasting about the length of your game
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer wants your banned players list to follow you everywhere
- Corsair One i300 gaming PC review
- Yes, I wore the Razer Zephyr mask out in public and no, I don't think I can pull it off
- Razer rows back after Zephyr face mask safety rating confusion
- Halo Infinite's busted Big Team Battles getting a hotfix 'soon'
- When will Monster Hunter Rise on PC unlock in your time zone?
- Elden Ring overtakes Dying Light 2 as Steam's most wishlisted game
- Phil Spencer on dealing with harassment and bad actors: 'We’re not a free speech platform'
- AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 5800X3D may end up as a limited edition
- Apple's upcoming AR headset may limit users to short bursts
- Google to downgrade existing smart speakers after losing Sonos patent case
- GPUs stolen in California truck heist turn up in Vietnam retailer
- Norton subsidiary Avira will introduce a crypto mining app that will take a big chunk of your profits
- Duncan Jones wants to make a Full Throttle movie, and he needs your help
- Microsoft doesn't see Game Pass as a replacement for game purchasing
- Rainbow Six Siege creative director departs for 'other opportunities' at Ubisoft
- January 10
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- The best laptop games
- Nvidia argues it should be allowed to buy Arm because Intel and AMD are really, really good
- Monster Hunter Rise review
- A new Armored Core is apparently in the works
- Save $150 on this 240Hz Samsung Odyssey curved gaming monitor
- Serious Sam is seriously going to Siberia
- Nvidia was approached by SoftBank to buy Arm, not the other way around
- The best Valheim mods
- Nvidia says it buying Arm will 'spur competition' in consoles, not hinder it
- Take-Two Interactive is buying Zynga for $12.7 billion
- AMD's $199 RX 6500 XT doesn't look so appealing at these inflated prices
- How to get the Divine Bridle in Genshin Impact
- Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Apex review
- Steam smashes 28 million concurrent users—nearly 3 million more than last year
- 3D-printed bendable OLEDs could one day mean cheaper OLED gaming monitors
- I can't get excited for an RTX 3080 12GB, even if Nvidia announces one tomorrow
- The state of Apex Legends in 2022: Brilliant, but sometimes broken
- This Minecraft map turns the blocky builder into a rad Doom game
- GPU shipments are expected to rise 10% in 2022
- HP's new Victus 15L Desktop courts gamers on a budget
- Alienware's Concept Nyx game server box software to aggregate and stream from all stores
- Norton installs an Ethereum crypto miner with its 360 security suite
- The Troop is a promising new small-scale World War 2 wargame
- Rust has now sold over 12 million copies
- January 9
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- Elden Ring character creation leaks
- Here's a big update on Gloomwood, that neo-Victorian stealth horror game
- The developers of The Blackout Club are working on a South Park game
- Here's Half-Life with ray tracing
- Sega will not proceed with NFT plan 'if it is perceived as simple money-making'
- See Final Fantasy 7 Remake with the original's fixed camera
- January 8
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- Netflix is developing a Scott Pilgrim anime
- Here's gameplay of a dude fighting a cyber-dragon in soulslike Bleak Faith: Forsaken
- Did you get any gaming presents last year?
- Dying Light 2 will take 500 hours to 'fully complete' says Techland
- For over a decade, Sierra published its own quirky games magazine called InterAction
- Lost Ark gameplay video delivers a crash course in the hit Korean ARPG
- Thanks to Final Fantasy 7 Remake I finally appreciate Final Fantasy 7
- January 7
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- Awesome Games Done Quick kicks off this weekend
- New World aims to improve its endgame with quests and rewards that change every week
- It looks like a new Serious Sam game is coming later this month
- In just 2 hours, If On a Winter's Night, Four Travelers tells one of the best adventure game stories I've ever played
- The best builds for Xiao in Genshin Impact
- Best and worst of CES 2022: gaming laptops, cutting-edge monitors, and broken dreams
- Roccat Pyro review
- E3 should never be in-person again
- Amazon's Fallout series begins production this year
- Minecraft build magnificently recreates Genshin Impact's Mondstadt
- Rainbow Six Extraction is a pleasant surprise, but is that enough?
- The $199 RX 6500 XT looks worse on paper than AMD's $199 GPU from six years ago
- Bioware GM looks back on 2021 and 'rebuilding our reputation' with the next Dragon Age and Mass Effect games
- Intel gut-punches Apple by hiring engineer that 'led transition' from Intel-based Macs to Apple Silicon
- Phison's next-gen PCIe 5 SSD controller is nearly twice as fast as the best PCIe 4 drives at 13.5 GB/s
- Apex Legends emerges from the deep with a nautical new Arenas map next week
- Usborne's 1980s range of childrens' coding books released as free PDFs
- CES 2022 attendee photographs every weird use of 'metaverse'
- I had to rebuild my PC for Asus & Noctua's beautifully brown RTX 3070 and I love it for that
- Reddit learns you can shoot down Skyrim's beehives to get honey
- Our boldest predictions for PC gaming in 2022
- Following developer harassment, Battlefield 2042's toxic subreddit may go on lockdown
- January 6
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- The Pope started 2022 by blasting a song from hit RPG Undertale
- E3 is online-only again in 2022
- Project Zomboid's new roadmap includes ambitious plans for NPCs
- 2022 will be the year of the Steam Deck
- Bungie will reward Destiny 2 players who tank their level to help noobs trapped in 'burning hell'
- Stewart Gilray, a veteran game developer behind the Oddworld remasters, has died
- Where to knock down Timber Pines in Fortnite
- Quantum Dot OLED gaming monitors aren't just sci-fi nonsense, they're the future
- Castlevania gets bloody NFTs
- NZXT Capsule USB microphone review
- Razer's modular desk concept looks like a massive gaming laptop with legs. And I've got to have it
- Rainbow Six Extraction getting a day-one release on PC Game Pass
- Indie store Game Jolt's porn ban has hit games with no sexual content
- Nvidia's upgraded AI art tool turned my obscure squiggles into a masterpiece
- These are the gaming laptops I'm looking out for after CES 2022
- Razer's new haptic gaming chair will kick your ass
- HP's new cases have a separate 'Cryo Chamber' for cooling
- AyaNeo Next handheld gaming PC to compete with Steam Deck
- AMD details its next gen AM5 socket
- Intel confirms the i9 12900KS CPU
- 2021 was such a bad year for budget hardware, even the LowSpec Gamer gave up on it
- Mass Effect's 'Happy Ending' mod is now available for the Legendary Edition
- January 5
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- The Elder Scrolls Online is going to a 'never-before-seen world' in 2022
- Activision Blizzard shows no sign of giving in as Raven QA strike enters third week
- How to get the Crescent Shroom pickaxe in Fortnite
- Dead by Daylight drops Leatherface masks over blackface complaints
- Nvidia and AMD are in an upscaling arms race and this is just the beginning
- The best builds for Yun Jin in Genshin Impact
- Microsoft is now selling Halo nail polish with matching in-game items
- What are your 2022 gaming resolutions?
- Apex Legends' new Bangalore skin is crashing the game
- Over a decade after release, Project Zomboid attracts an astonishing horde of players
- Someone should tell Alienware its CES 2022 concept products are already a reality
- The best builds for Shenhe in Genshin Impact
- CES 2022: everything from the tech show that PC gamers should care about
- Playground Games co-founder and studio director steps down
- Welcome to the high-end VR party, PS5 console owners
- Where to find key sigils in Genshin Impact
- Somehow Razer is jamming an RTX 3080 Ti into the ickle new Blade 14
- The HP Omen 27u could be a great PC and console gaming monitor
- Corsair launches its ONE i300 mini PC with a Core i9 12900K and up to an RTX 3080 Ti
- HyperX's new Cloud Alpha Wireless gaming headset battery lasts up to 300 hours
- Foldable laptop screens are coming in 2022
- Activision has filed a lawsuit against cheat site EngineOwning
- Samsung's new curved gaming monitor has some tricks up its screen
- This PC case features vents that open and close as its internal temperature changes
- January 4
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- A broken Call of Duty: Warzone skin is turning players invisible (again)
- Halo Infinite lead narrative designer leaves 343 Industries for Riot Games
- Where to find a shield keg in Fortnite
- Rainbow Six Extraction system requirements probably won't force you to upgrade your PC
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake modders put clown makeup on Sephiroth, let Cloud wear a dress for the whole game
- What did you play over the holidays?
- Turkish police arrest 40 in Twitch money laundering scandal
- Death Stranding Director's Cut coming to PC this year (updated)
- EVE Online is doing a Doctor Who crossover
- Minecrafter builds a giant Halo ring that actually freaking spins
- Intel claims 'world's best mobile gaming platform' with Alder Lake H-series
- Intel's latest 12th Gen chips make Alder Lake way better on a tight budget
- Intel is shipping new high-performance Arc Alchemist GPUs to PC and laptop makers right now
- Intel Alder Lake gaming PCs could get a little cheaper with these three new chipsets
- Nvidia's new RTX 3080 Ti gaming laptops are launching Feb 1 and faster than a desktop Titan RTX
- The Yakuza series reaches 2.8 million sales on PC
- New HDMI 2.1 monitors from Asus offer the latest 4K capabilities for gamers and creators alike
- AMD unveils new Radeon RX 6000S and RX 6000M GPUs for gaming laptops
- Tales of Arise owl locations
- Nvidia has announced the RTX 3090 Ti, 'a monster of a GPU'
- Nvidia announces budget RTX 3050 graphics card arriving this month from $249
- AMD shows off future Zen 4 Ryzen CPUs and they look absolutely wild
- AMD has just announced the $199 RX 6500 XT graphics card coming January 19
- AMD launches Radeon Super Resolution upscaling that'll work across 'nearly every game you own'
- Ian Livingstone, creator of countless fantasy worlds, becomes a proper knight
- AMD's 3D V-cache coming to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D this Spring, beating Intel's 12900K in gaming
- AMD brings serious RDNA 2 graphics power to its new Ryzen 6000 mobile CPUs
- How to watch AMD's CES 2022 live stream: the latest on team red's Ryzen CPUs and more
- The complete guide to mechanical keyboard switches for gaming
- Intel's Arc A380 entry level GPU performance gets leaked
- Netgear's new Wi-Fi 6E Nighthawk router is $200 cheaper than last years'
- Intel teases a highly binned Core i9 12900K CPU
- LG announces biggest and smallest OLED gaming TVs yet
- January 3
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- Be-the-bad-guy Darkest Dungeon-alike Iratus: Lord of the Dead is free on GOG
- Elden Ring's graphics team felt pressured by the Demon's Souls remake
- Resident Evil Village wins Game of the Year in the 2021 Steam Awards
- Veronica, Rose, and other New Vegas followers modded into Fallout 4
- Ken Levine's new game may still be years away
- Why I'm thrilled Starfield is coming out before The Elder Scrolls 6
- New Haunted Chocolatier screenshots show off ghosts conducting sweets science
- Where is the last present in Fortnite Winterfest?
- Steam starts 2022 with a new concurrent user record of 27.9M
- The EVGA Kingpin RTX 3090 Ti may feature 1275W of power inputs
- Company behind gamer bed releases desktop hand massager
- Alienware's Concept Nyx aims to be four gaming PCs in one
- Intel is set to disable AVX-512 on its 12th Gen CPUs
- Samsung shows world's first 4k 240Hz gaming monitor before CES
- Asus develops a DDR4 to DDR5 adapter card
- January 2
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- Witcher season 2 created another big spike in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt players
- Rogue Fable is a traditional roguelike you might ever actually finish
- George R.R. Martin thinks Elden Ring 'looks incredible'
- Kingston explains why DDR5 costs so much, and when it will be the dominant memory tech for PCs
- Great moments in PC gaming: Screwing around with physics objects while you wait for a match to start
- 2021 delivered some big twists to the familiar survival game formula
- Surreal visual novel 'milk inside a bag of milk' has a sequel now: 'milk outside a bag of milk'
- January 1
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- Square Enix president knows people who 'play to have fun' dislike NFTs, but he wants them anyway
- Here's an atmospheric look at gameplay in first-person horror shooter ILL
- Accessibility was more visible than ever in 2021, but not always in a way that's helpful
- Why 2021 was the worst year for PC gaming
- I wish Microsoft had been brave enough not to release Windows 11
- Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, the game that almost killed the series
- The 22 most anticipated PC games of 2022
