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- May 31
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- Riot threatens to cancel the entire League of Legends summer season in North America if a deal with players isn't made
- AI industry begs someone to please stop the AI industry before all human life is extinguished by the AI industry
- Start your tiny engines, a Hot Wheels Unleashed sequel is on the way
- The best legendary aspects in Diablo 4
- Stardew Valley's developer tweeted 'iridium scythe' and everyone is losing it
- Diablo 4 dev corrects day 1 patch statement, says the launch version will have 'very few' changes from the Server Slam build when it goes live
- Diablo 4 stats and status effect terms explained
- Activision Blizzard CEO audaciously claims that sexism and harassment problems were made up by an 'aggressive labor movement' trying to 'destabilize the company'
- This lo-fi, PS1-style horror is like a campy Saw escape room, and I'm definitely getting the bad ending
- Play a city builder above ground and Dungeon Keeper below simultaneously in this brilliantly creative game
- Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear Solid 2 had to make 300 changes and was almost cancelled in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks
- Witcher 3 director and Cyberpunk producer launch a new studio: 'After working for years in an increasingly conservative industry, we’re ready to make bold, impactful projects'
- Intel could match TSMC for chip transistor density later this year
- AMD joins in the AI war with on-chip inferencing demo
- Immortals of Aveum hands-on: If boomer shooters are '90s, does that make this a Gen-X shooter?
- Putin orders creation of annual esports 'cyberchampionship,' where CS:GO is banned because of 'one-sided coverage of political events'
- Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People is becoming Strong Bad's Abandonware For Licensing Reasons
- Ex-BioWare dev says no-one there believes in 'BioWare magic', Anthem 2 'was really fun ... when EA canned it'
- Wage psychological warfare behind enemy lines in this XCOM-like World War 2 turn-based strategy game
- Konami is officially doing the most boring thing possible with the MGS3 remake's voice acting
- The perfect PSU for your silent gaming PC build just became a reality
- The Diablo 4 community is printing t-shirts, baking cakes, and buying chicken on other continents in advance of the game's launch
- Fractal Design's gorgeous new Terra PC case vindicates my disdain of the cyberpunk aesthetic
- Gigabyte's RTX 4090 Gaming Box wants to turn your ultrabook into an absolute monster of a gaming PC
- I'm so ready for flat-packed PC cases
- Yeah, I spent my time at Computex stroking a $600 DIY Ducky keyboard, what of it?
- The HyperX Cloud III would be a superb mid-range gaming headset pick if the best weren't so cheap
- A $4 tweak to Noctua's AMD Ryzen cooler bracket lowers CPU temperatures by up to 3ºC
- I didn't know I need a gaming chair with a wiggly backrest but now I've tried it, it makes so much sense
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #711: Wednesday, May 31
- May 30
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- The farm sim series that started it all just teased two new games and one is multiplayer
- Solarpunk is a co-op 'cozy survival game' set in a world of airships and floating islands
- Computex 2023: all the biggest stories from the Taiwan tech show
- Deep Rock Galactic studio remakes cosmetic DLC after fans complain: 'You’re putting down good money for these items, and you want them to stand out—we hear you!'
- Diablo 4 bags multiple perfect review scores—here's what critics are saying about Blizzard's 'return to darkness'
- How to earn Diablo 4 Twitch drop cosmetics
- A lot of Diablo fans got really mad about Blizzard's 'Hardcode Mode' statue contest
- Diablo 4 Whispers of the Dead: Collect Grim Favors to earn rewards
- Overwatch 2 is having an in-game Pride event for the first time: 'We're here to be authentic to these characters and true to them for Pride'
- Silent Hill Ascension's first trailer promises your choice of redemption, suffering, or damnation
- Aragorn, but in card form: Magic: The Gathering and Lord of the Rings are a fated crossover
- After two decades, Ratchet & Clank finally come to PC this summer
- Nvidia briefly joined Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet in the $1 trillion club. But please don't forget us PC gamers, Jen-Hsun
- MMO scientists reckon the end of the world will be mostly unremarkable, apart from the 'relatively few' who go on a killing spree
- Diablo 4 guide: Everything you need to survive Sanctuary
- Diablo 4 gems guide: How to unlock the Jeweler
- Where to find waypoints and how to fast travel in Diablo 4
- Diablo 4 review-in-progress: The transition to live service buries what makes it great
- How to get a mount in Diablo 4
- Diablo 4 item enchantment: How to improve your gear
- Diablo 4 level unlocks: Here's when you can access different systems
- How to use the Faded Plaques in Diablo 4
- How to solve the cellar puzzle in Diablo 4
- 3D print your own DDR5 (kinda) with Corsair's new Dominator kit
- MSI has tweaked the notorious 16-pin GPU power cable so it's more obvious when it's not properly plugged in
- Varmilo wins my best dressed award for its incredible keyboard designs over at Computex 2023
- Diablo 4 launch: early access start time and launch date
- The Sims is getting rid of a photo bug but players just want the photo bug left alone: 'Who snitched?!?'
- Asus shows off RTX 4070 GPU running with no power cables
- Holy moly SSDs need serious cooling now
- Venerable Minecraft server gets shuttered, before the old guard got back together to save it
- AI-generated story and dialogue is not going to work, says Dragon Age creator David Gaider: 'A lot of effort is going to be wasted on this'
- The ultimate McDonald's tie-in toy has arrived, a McNugget that plays Tetris
- MSI's new line of Gaming X Slim graphics cards has made me irrationally angry
- After a full Computex day in 32 degree heat I've never been happier to sit in a gaming chair with a fan in the backrest
- Hyte has officially won my best name of Computex prize with the THICC AIO cooler
- MSI prototypes for the future of graphics card cooling look impressive and expensive
- Former DICE dev says Battlefield 2042 had a hard deadline and 'never stood much chance being great at launch'
- Intel demos Stable Diffusion running locally on its new AI-accelerated Meteor Lake CPU
- Jen-Hsun says Intel's process tech is looking so good Nvidia's open to using its fabs for future GPUs
- Street Fighter 6 review
- Apparently PC building is about slapping 'brains' on all your components now
- Nvidia's made a better motion blur busting technology for competitive gaming monitors
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #710: Tuesday, May 30
- May 29
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- More than a year after launching into early access, the 'tiny MMO' Book of Travels is just about ready to starting releasing new content
- Here's a fascinating video about robotic mice solving mazes
- This sci-fi RTS gameplay trailer is so good it sparked an argument about realistic deep-space combat on Reddit
- Why did the PC gaming community learn to hate prebuilt computers?
- Darktide brings in the Chaos Spawn and two new levels
- CD Projekt shoots down Sony acquisition rumor: 'CD Projekt is not for sale,' CEO says
- The Witcher 3 has sold 50 million copies
- League of Legends pro players vote to strike over Riot's rule changes
- Nightdive on the System Shock remake: 'Even though we're changing and we're updating it, it's still part of the System Shock pedigree'
- Valheim developer believes paid mods are 'against the creative and open spirit of modding'
- Command or conquer armies of Strogg in this ambitious Quake RTS mod
- I attempted to build one of every building in Cities: Skylines and its expansions—it ended in disaster
- System Shock review
- Crowdfunding website Fig is no more
- Bandai Namco officially announces Bryan Fury for Tekken 8, after accidentally announcing Bryan Fury for Tekken 8
- How to restore an old PC: Top tips and the biggest mistakes to avoid
- Nvidia's massive AI GPU has enough memory to make a gamer weep and even Jensen Huang's wondering 'if this could play Crysis?'
- Nvidia's bringing its AI avatars to games and they can interact with players in real-time. With voiced dialogue. And facial animations
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #709: Monday, May 29
- The Witcher has been renewed for a fifth season
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 29, 2023)
- Fallout: New Vegas mod gives your eyebot companion an upgradeable sombrero, mustache
- May 28
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- Forget tempered glass and RGB, witness the fruits of a cross-country effort to save a 20-year-old Teddy bear PC
- New fanmade Quake map pack turns the classic shooter into a pacifist platformer fueled by vibes
- Knights of the Old Republic Remake shows faint, flickering sign of life in publisher report
- Sons of the Forest has hard mode now just in case you hate joy
- Prehistoric farming RPG Roots of Pacha returns to Steam following development dispute
- Great moments in PC gaming: Giving up on a pacifist run
- Sacrifice was a visionary strategy game, too great to be forgotten
- Total War: Warhammer 3's latest free hero is Warhammer's original posterboy
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #708: Sunday, May 28
- May 27
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- Gold Rush! was one of Sierra's odder adventures, but what made it so strange?
- They're finally doing a game where the Warhammer 40K Orks go full Mad Max
- Have you ever made a friend through a videogame?
- One of my favorite D&D videogames is still getting beefy updates after 21 years
- The first 1,000 Diablo IV players to Hardcore level 100 get their name on a statue
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #707: Saturday, May 27
- All Honkai: Star Rail 1.1 livestream codes
- Original Fallout co-creator finally explains what made him leave the sequel: 'I made an IP from scratch that nobody believed in except the team, and my reward for that was more crunch'
- May 26
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- Nintendo blocks Steam release of Wii emulator Dolphin
- My favorite Elder Scrolls-like RPG ran bafflingly badly on Steam Deck, but a small, surprising tweak has doubled its performance
- The Last of Us multiplayer development reportedly slowed as Naughty Dog says the project needs 'more time'
- A magical Windows XP activation tool has been hiding in plain sight on Reddit for the last year
- Lionsgate really wants to make a big-budget John Wick videogame: 'There's a ton of energy around it'
- Fairgames promises 'emergent sandbox gameplay' in competitive PvP heists
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum studio says sorry for The Lord of the Rings: Gollum game
- Oh good: Elon Musk's Neuralink gets FDA approval to put microchips in human brains
- Monoprice Dark Matter GT
- Big Dolph Lundgren says he's in The Witcher show
- Playseat Trophy Logitech G Edition
- Minecraft 1.20 Trails & Tales update is launching on June 7
- Thrustmaster T128
- After playing F1 23 I dare say the cars feel much grippier than last year's
- Nvidia's shiny new RTX 4060 Ti GPU is already selling below MSRP
- When it comes to white PC components, the sun is both your friend and your enemy
- Thermaltake CTE C750 Air
- Thrustmaster T818
- The Metal Gear Solid collection will also include the first two Metal Gear games
- Freaky visuals and pixel-perfect metroidvania gameplay make the second outing of The Penitent One a cult classic in the making
- To celebrate Diablo 4's impending launch, Lilith is selling chocolate, including life-sized human skulls, for some reason
- Alone in the Dark is coming in October, but you can play the prologue right now
- Bungie's Marathon ARG is gorgeous, extensive, and how the hell do people work this stuff out anyway
- Before you even got a chance to try 8K here's the first 110-inch 16K TV
- PC Gamer UK July issue on sale now: Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #706: Friday, May 26
- Get two Warhammer 40,000 strategy games free for a limited time
- May 25
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- Somebody check if hell's frozen over, because 2010s voxel RPG Cube World is back
- Yet another battle royale shooter bites the dust: Super People is super over
- There's a live-action Diablo ad from the director of Marvel's Eternals that's way too serious for its own good
- Travel back in time to fight zombies and tyranny in this upcoming survival shooter that's looking for beta testers right now
- Rising Storm studio Antimatter Games is being closed
- Homeworld 3 is delayed to 2024
- 'Marathon' this, 'Spider-Man' that, as far as I'm concerned the real PlayStation Showcase showstopper was the years-in-the-making follow-up to the most autumnal game of all time
- Will Smith finally picked a game to star in, and... it's a free-to-play survival shooter?
- My highlight of Sony's PlayStation showcase is, you guessed it, coming to PC
- There's no greater shame in an RPG than leaving character creation and finding out you're accidentally hideous
- There's a slim chance Alan Wake 2 could get a physical release after all: The original Alan Wake PC publisher wants to make it happen
- With 2 new missions, I'm ready to jump back into Warhammer 40K: Darktide
- Realms of Ruin is a fast, accessible RTS that wants to bring Warhammer's newest setting to PC gamers: 'It's about getting in there and sticking your axe into the guy's face'
- Fallout: New Vegas is free on the Epic Store for the first time ever
- Best footballer in the world says it's 'embarrassing' but he relaxes by playing Minecraft
- Lego 2K Drive review
- The best RPGs on PC
- WoW Classic players furious at addition of controversial item, Blizzard says it's a necessary evil in the 'unwinnable war' against bots, scammers, and RMT workshops
- Sony's upcoming game streaming handheld looks like someone stretched a Dualsense controller out with a rolling pin
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review
- The only racing game series I've ever cared about has hit the 5 million player milestone, now bring on the dubstep
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is being brutally panned by critics
- Just one person showed up to buy an RTX 4060 Ti for its late night Akihabara launch
- Nvidia doesn't care if you don't like its new graphics cards, AI is going to make it $11B in just 3 months
- Take-Two CEO says GTA 6 'needs to be something you've never seen before' a year after leaks where it looked like something we've seen before
- How to watch Warhammer Skulls 2023
- Computex is a different beast to E3 and it's back for real in 2023!
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #705: Thursday, May 25
- Every PC game announcement from PlayStation's 2023 summer showcase
- How is AI going to change game development?
- Metal Gear Solid 3's remake announcement can't hold a candle to one of the best game trailers of all time
- May 24
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- Alan Wake 2 will have no physical editions, and people are pissed about it
- Dead Island 2 breaks 2 million sales, is now 'the biggest launch' in Deep Silver's history
- OK, I'll play this open world settlement builder that's got sky whales, ridable mice, and Link's glider
- Cayde-6 returns in Destiny 2: The Final Shape, Nathan Fillion reprising role
- PlayStation drops a huge 11 minute Spider-Man 2 gameplay reveal
- Bungie is bringing Marathon back as an extraction shooter
- First Dragon's Dogma 2 gameplay sure looks like Dragon's Dogma
- Alan Wake 2 is out in October, adds a new protagonist: Saga Anderson
- The next gorgeous adventure from Gris' developers is going to make me cry again
- Assassin's Creed Mirage gameplay trailer delivers pole vaulting, finger-blades, and an October release date
- The Talos Principle 2 is coming this year
- The Metal Gear Solid 3 remake is coming to PC
- Finally, a sequel to one of my favorite co-op shooters: Helldivers 2 is coming to PC and PS5 simultaneously
- Become a hotel tycoon in Cities: Skylines' final expansion
- Stunned Embracer CEO has to deliver financial report right after $2 billion mystery deal falls apart: 'It's been a rough night'
- Move over, modern technology: Here's Doom running on the teletext TV information service
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake is starting over from scratch
- We need to talk about all the fans, hard drives and boxes we're hoarding
- Prison Architect's final update gives the first glimpse of a 3D sequel
- The RTX 4060 Ti highlights where the limitations lie with Nvidia's Frame Generation technology
- Nvidia's RTX 4060 Ti and AMD's RX 7600 highlight one thing: Intel's $200 Arc A750 GPU is the best budget GPU by far
- Destiny 2 Deep Dive secrets and how it works
- Former DC Universe Online chief is heading up the creation of a brand-new Warhammer MMO
- How to craft Blood Merlot in V Rising
- The meeting to decide Fallout's name had candidates like 'Radstorm' and others that are somehow even worse
- This Diablo IV-themed PC gear reminded me how much companies love slapping a fan tax onto existing products
- How to fish in Destiny 2's Season of the Deep
- Left 4 Dead creator says they got it right in the end because 'Gabe dragged it out of me'
- AMD Radeon RX 7600
- How to get Pollen in V Rising
- Witcher showrunner says they had the choice to end the show after Cavill's departure, but there were 'too many stories left to tell'
- Bill Gates reckons AI spells the end for Amazon and searching for stuff on Google
- Microsoft's upcoming desktop AI is a pop-up away from becoming an even more annoying Clippy
- As someone who grew up playing Doom and Quake, Warhammer 40K: Boltgun is like returning home
- Apple owning microLED monitor manufacturing has us worried
- How to get Epochal Integration in Destiny 2
- Activision Blizzard fined 0.00007% of one year's earnings for not disclosing loot boxes to Europe's game ratings board
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #704: Wednesday, May 24
- It's real: Windows 11 will soon let you control RGB gear without those annoying apps
- May 23
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- League of Legends pros may go on strike over proposed rule changes
- Up to speed - AMD’s latest CPUs and GPUs pair for performance 4K gaming
- RIP Cortana: Windows 11 is getting a new AI 'personal assistant'
- Company of Heroes studio Relic Entertainment lays off over 100 employees
- The global release of Bandai Namco's new MMO has been delayed to 2024, but a beta is still coming later this year
- Thanks for everything, WinRAR: Windows is finally getting native RAR support
- Summer 2023 showcase schedule: Every gaming publisher livestream and Summer Game Fest event
- Photoshop's new AI features look like magic
- The gamer lawsuit against the Microsoft-Activision deal suffers another blow
- Japanese YouTuber might be the first in the world arrested for posting gameplay clips
- DICE's former 'Mr Battlefield' has a new studio working on a 'next-generation online shooter'
- Oh snapper, fishing is coming to Destiny 2 later today
- How to unlock the Ancestral Forge in V Rising
- It's Gaming Week at Amazon. Please don't buy a graphics card
- War Thunder fans organise extraordinary review bombing campaign over reverted economy changes, studio pleads: 'If your goal is not to hurt the game, please use other, less destructive ways'
- Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun review
- Conquer Egypt and survive natural disasters in Total War: Pharaoh this October
- Props to this decade-old fighting game for moving to new servers instead of shutting down in 2023
- Check it, a fully-specced, no-compromise RTX 4060 gaming laptop that's only just over $1,000
- F1 Manager 2023 is packed with upgrades, and offers a level of fidelity that rivals Codemasters' F1 series
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
- The best Honkai: Star Rail Jing Yuan build
- This ridiculous shoe PC went from a 10-week mod project to a $6,000 custom Cooler Master gaming PC you can actually buy
- In an act of auteur megalomania, Yoshi-P made the Final Fantasy 16 core team buy and watch Game of Thrones
- Blizzard execs sound very excited about AI, want to use it for level design, coding, and 'anti-toxicity'
- Samsung is making the QD-OLED ultrawide panel of my dreams
- Exoprimal is a throwback to weird, experimental early 2000s Capcom
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #703: Tuesday, May 23
- Ashfall is a Fallout-inspired MMO set in 'a whole new kind of wasteland'
- May 22
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- I'm getting some tasty Skyrim and Dark Messiah vibes from this first-person action RPG
- Don't you dare drop the number from the next Final Fantasy name, Square Enix
- Activision Blizzard says it's 'committed to the Chinese market' following China's approval of Microsoft acquisition
- Hrot review
- This cozy farm sim lets you raise dozens of adorable animals and then become one
- Activision nukes another Call of Duty fan project from orbit: 'Thank you all for your support over the years'
- Star Trek: Resurgence review
- How to get Radium Alloy in V Rising
- SSD pricing is so ludicrously low that one of the best PS5-compatible 2TB drives is just $110
- Diablo 4 players have started calling people who didn't earn the horse cosmetic in the beta 'bare-mares'
- Alan Wake himself says Alan Wake 2 is 'supposed to come out in October'
- Victoria 3's latest DLC adds a whole bunch of historical figures including Lenin, who'll agitate for a bit of revolution
- CliffyB might not be done with making games after all, says 'my LA lawyer' is on the case for a LawBreakers revival
- Enough with the cyberpunk aesthetic, bring back retrofuturism
- Halo Infinite gets around to adding classic MP mode a mere 18 months after launch
- Intel proposes x86S, a 64-bit CPU microarchitecture that does away with legacy 16-bit and 32-bit support
- Sony's Access controller for PS5 looks like a hot swappable dream
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #702: Monday, May 22
- Mortal Kombat 1 system requirements show it'll be another 100GB install
- California takes big step in bringing right to repair to Silicon Valley
- Indie studio warns other developers after being unable to claim its own name on Discord
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 22, 2023)
- Modders have remade the entire Fallout: New Vegas world map in Minecraft
- May 21
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- Filename forensics suggest there has always been a PC version of Bloodborne—but that doesn't mean we can ever play it
- The Dead Cells board game is off to a promising crowdfunding start
- I could barely keep it together in this free game where you're the president trying to hide that he's an alien
- Here's the first trailer for System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition
- Great moments in PC gaming: Reaching Warrior rank in Tekken 7
- Mass Effect: Andromeda's creative director still wishes it had got a sequel
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #701: Sunday, May 21
- Peter Molyneux's Magic Carpet was a game of violent chess, and a true one-off
- Despite being dead for 10 years, Warhammer Online is hosting a live event on a private server
- May 20
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- Is life with multiple monitors actually better?
- Before Doom, before Wolfenstein 3D, why does nobody remember one of the first first-person shooters?
- Aww: These dark fantasy warriors have the cutest widdle kitty faces
- Check out the grim vibes on this monochrome dungeon crawler
- Elden Ring wins the Nebula award for Game Writing
- 2023's best gaming soundtrack was co-created by a high school student and a first-time composer
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #700: Saturday, May 20
- May 19
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- 'Overwatch 2' is a failed idea
- Crypt of the Necrodancer studio confirms layoffs, as many as half its employees may be gone
- This 1960s-style adventure about a fallen 'AI god' in humanity's distant future is exactly my kind of sci-fi
- Everyone should use this Stardew Valley portrait creator immediately
- Terrified of leaks, Apple is banning employees from using ChatGPT and other AI tools
- A fight in the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mod scene has revealed the ugly side of emulation fandom
- A singleplayer Dead by Daylight game is coming from the makers of The Dark Pictures Anthology
- Skyrim modder squashes boring vegetation with cornucopia of alarmingly realistic, 3D-scanned gourds
- And now it's official: Nicolas Cage will play Nicolas Cage starring as Nicolas Cage in Dead by Daylight later this year
- Overwatch 2 director says canceled PvE mode was part of an ambitious plan to one day make an Overwatch MMO
- Samsung is buying OLED panels from LG but it probably doesn't mean much
- I love that Honkai: Star Rail lets me be the goblin texter I've always longed to be
- If you own a CPU or GPU, it was made in one of these fab locations
- Sony boss says we're gonna be waiting 'two or three years' before PlayStation games hit PC
- Norse mythology-inspired RPG Viking Rise is out now on mobile
- You can't buy Dark and Darker yet, it may not ever release, but they will sell you some coffee and a tankard
- Corsair Xeneon 27QHD240
- After Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy, PowerWash Simulator's gonna hose down SpongeBob Squarepants
- Platinum just dropped free DLC for a decade-old game
- I can't get enough of this railroad sim's cute and cosy vibes
- Marvel's Midnight Suns deserved better than its terrible DLCs
- Alienware 34 AW3423DWF
- Pico 4 VR headset
- The 'world's smallest' external GPU would make for a super portable laptop power-up alongside a pair of generous cargo shorts
- Fans mourn as Activision stomps COD mod project two years in the making: 'Any chance we had of feeling that arcadey style of Call of Duty again is gone'
- Take-Two CEO says AI-created hit games are a fantasy: 'Genius is the domain of human beings and I believe will stay that way'
- This AR laptop gives you infinite screens while having none
- You'll be able to finish post-apocalyptic CRPG Broken Roads as a pacifist
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #699: Friday, May 19
- Following reports of chips burning out, Gigabyte says its AMD Socket AM5 SoC voltage levels are safe
- Lords of the Fallen releases in October and new footage is unashamedly Soulslike
- May 18
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- Metro: Last Light, one of my favorite shooters ever, is free on Steam
- Diablo 4 has a two week-early 'launch trailer' set to a Billie Eilish song that is remarkably not 'Bad Guy'
- Fortnite has dropped Trios mode with zero explanation, and fans aren't happy
- The horniest Stardew Valley player has married 63 people and she refuses to stop there
- Give your Steam Deck a serious upgrade with this super cheap 1TB NVMe SSD
- The first aftermarket Steam Deck screen upgrade is here, but it sure seems like a bad idea
- System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition shows off a major visual upgrade in new screens: 'All cinematics, textures, characters and weapon models have been updated'
- Co-op survival game Nightingale delayed again
- The Diablo 4 Demon 'Meat' Shake finally let me know what Hell tastes like, and it's very chunky
- The Matzah brawl: Jewish moms judge The Sims' latest culinary addition
- Developer of The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story reveals new base building RTS
- Stray Gods is a musical RPG where your choices also change the chorus
- An environmentalist brawler is the second Black Game Developer Fund game that Humble will publish
- Creator of defunct skyship MMO Worlds Adrift is trying again with a co-op survival game where 'your skyship is your home in the clouds'
- Wizard of Legend is getting a sequel with 'improved 3D graphics, an expanded storyline, and even online multiplayer'
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 12: Tropes, tropes everywhere!
- The Epic Store's 2023 Mega Sale kicks off with a free copy of Death Stranding for everyone
- Hawken Reborn isn't a comeback for the brilliant mech FPS, it's a total disaster
- You're going to start getting 'Epic Rewards' on the Epic Games Store
- UK chancellor wags his finger at CMA after Activision acquisition block, urging it to 'understand its wider responsibilities'
- Mortal Kombat 1 is both a reboot and a sequel, and it's coming in September with 'a new fighting system, game modes and fatalities'
- Journey developer's cozy MMO is finally flying onto PC
- Saudi Arabia now owns 10% of Electronic Arts
- Nvidia's $299 RTX 4060 means we're finally getting a next-gen GPU that costs less than the graphics card it's replacing
- Firmament review
- Google released a .zip web domain and people can't decide if it's the phishing apocalypse or just as bad as any other dodgy link
- Lord of the Rings Online 'is not going away' just because Amazon's making a Lord of the Rings MMO: 'It is beloved, it is sixteen, it is evergreen'
- Logitech's new mouse repair partnership with iFixit isn't for gamers, yet
- NASA's working on a wiggly snake-like autonomous Rover alternative to 'boldly go where no robot has gone before'
- You can buy the (wrong) photo of Tali from Mass Effect on the BioWare store
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #698: Thursday, May 18
- Hogwarts Legacy almost had a morality and reputation system
- May 17
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- There's good reason to believe that GTA 6 will release next year
- ChatGPT can pass college entrance exams, so why can't it solve Skyrim's easiest puzzle?
- Doom co-creator John Carmack is headlining a 'toxic and proud' sci-fi convention that rails against 'woke propaganda'
- One of Destiny 2's legendary weapons was doing 40% extra damage for weeks and nobody noticed
- BlizzCon is coming back as an in-person event in November
- Early MMOs came up with the most painful game mechanic of all time, and it's somehow still in use today
- This Fable-inspired hybrid of RPG and farm sim is trying to cram in combat, crafting, and commerce
- Google will start deleting inactive accounts if they haven't been used in two years
- Greedventory is like Dark Souls meets Monkey Island, and it's out now
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor gets a new patch on PC today
- When beat 'em ups were practically unheard of on PC, this 1993 rebel broke all the rules
- I seduced Joe Biden easily in Steam's newest dating sim, then he said I was too old for him
- AMD is quietly smashing Intel in the mobile chip game
- Diablo 4 is proof that your in-game fashion doesn't have to be huge or complex
- Hit zombie survival game Doomsday: Last Survivors shambles to PC
- Nicolas Cage is coming to Dead by Daylight, don't ask why
- How do you move your MMO character, and are you doing it wrong?
- This 34-inch MSI ultrawide gaming monitor is just $280 and comes with Assassin's Creed Valhalla
- Hands-on test: Philips Evnia gaming peripherals
- Five Nights at Freddy's movie gets first trailer after 8 years of rumours, restarts, and leaks
- EU passes the world's first regulatory framework for crypto
- Crusader Kings 3's Tours & Tournaments DLC looks like a minor expansion but is actually one of the series' best, and close to essential
- Sega would like $70, please
- Microsoft president clarifies EU cloud agreement, popular games will be 'automatically' licensed to competitors and 'this will apply globally'
- Notoriously litigious haptics company tries to shakedown Valve
- Steam just quietly added a new free trial system
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #697: Wednesday, May 17
- Fast food chain Wendy's is planning to trial an AI chatbot in place of human staff
- May 16
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- How to co-stream the PC Gaming Show on June 11
- Ubisoft is jumping into AI, with 'developers of all levels experimenting with the technology'
- Steam is ditching a Google tool that Valve says 'doesn't align' with its customer privacy approach
- Here's your short Diablo 4 lore primer before launch
- Lawmaker asks ChatGPT if the government should regulate AI, and the answer won't surprise you
- My most anticipated co-op shooter just pivoted to an extraction shooter, and playtest signups are live
- ChatGPT boss calls for a new government agency to keep AI companies in check
- Blizzard is scrapping Overwatch 2 hero missions and progression: 'It's clear that we can't deliver on the original vision for PvE'
- NFT cockfighting game canned, but will buy back your cocks
- Surprise, Skull and Bones won't actually be out 'early' this year after all
- Are Zelda players okay?
- Advertising watchdog slams Roblox because of paid-for influencers shilling Robux without disclosure 'children can understand'
- Ubisoft wants to sell you Ezio's 'digital soul' and yes, it's an NFT
- How to defeat Darth Vader in Fortnite
- UK MPs question why the CMA blocked Microsoft's $68.7B Activision Blizzard deal, CMA says it won't be 'turning a blind eye to anti-competitive mergers'
- The first computer to sing a song sounds more adorable than GLaDOS or HAL would have you believe
- Under $900 for one of the best gaming laptops ever made? Okay, you have my attention, and probably my cash. And my axe
- Framework 13 Intel 13th Gen mainboard
- Call of Duty's 'worst map in all of videogames' is only there by mistake
- Player trash talks 15-year-old opponent at fighting game tournament, the kid's mom incinerates this 'loser', and he backs off while apologising
- Riot Games announces new CEO as it emerges the company will pay out over $100 million to 1,548 women to settle gender discrimination case
- Age of Empires 2's new DLC adds all of the first game's civs today
- I'm a VR evangelist and even I baulk at the rumoured price of Apple's 'so good' VR headset
- WoW 10.1.5: Everything we know about World of Warcraft's next update
- You can grab 500 hours of Mass Effect and Dragon Age for 20 bucks right now
- Asus extends AM5 motherboard warranty to cover beta BIOSes and memory overclocking presets
- Windows 10 users are getting pushy upgrade ads from Microsoft
- Nvidia is set to retire the venerable RTX 3060 Ti
- Fully unlocked RX 7900 XTX very nearly matches RTX 4090 performance
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #696: Tuesday, May 16
- May 15
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- Good luck with that: Twitter's new CEO starts in 6 weeks
- Steam Sports Fest sale features birds, racoons, pro wrestlers, and the lowest price ever on FIFA 23 on PC—but sorry, no race cars
- This ridiculous deep cut mod adds guns from Bethesda's forgotten Terminator FPS to the biggest (and most frustrating) Elder Scrolls game
- The latest NBA 2K game always gets a huge Steam discount in May, and this year is no exception
- CD Projekt confirms layoffs at the Witcher spinoff studio it acquired just a year ago
- Sailor Moon and Harvest Moon converge in this 'spiritual successor' to '90s farm sims
- After a week-long race, Team Liquid secures world's first completion of WoW's Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible raid
- One of the coolest upcoming city builders now has a free demo on Steam, and you should try it
- You're telling me Fortnite is just now getting a ranked mode?
- Blizzard congratulates Diablo 4 player who finally soloed world boss Ashava after two heartbreaking kill steals
- Our 'never buy a full-price Alienware' mantra has never rang more true than when looking at the $700+ discounts it offers right now
- Google won't tell anyone why its withholding Bard AI from the EU
- This sucks: A month after I discover Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt, they're killing it
- How to complete the Unyielding Flesh quest in Diablo 4
- Amazon is making another Lord of the Rings MMO, despite cancelling the last one
- Class balance is still an absolute joke in Diablo 4—but the game has far bigger problems
- EU approves Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- Five years later, a new Hawken is coming to PC
- G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-7200 48GB
- The Counter-Strike moment so good even Valve said 'put this play in the Louvre', which someone then literally did
- I have serious regrets about wasting my weekend fighting the Diablo 4 beta's awful world boss
- 'Britain's Bill Gates' finally extradited to California to face charges in 'one of the largest frauds ever prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice'
- Fablecraft's virtual tabletop combines the best parts of D&D and videogames—this is the future of TTRPGs
- Dark web crypto-drug traffickers 'can try to hide in the furthest reaches of the internet, but the Justice Department will find you'
- Handhelds like ROG Ally and Steam Deck have 'changed the way Microsoft thinks about the Windows experience'
- Cut content mod restores Skyrim's vampires to their former glory
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang takes a $2.5 million pay cut after disappointing sales
- A simple $5 hack triples the wireless range of this Corsair gaming headset
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #695: Monday, May 15
- Tekken 8 is bringing back a character first seen in Tekken 3, and one who debuted in an add-on
- Fortnite is adding ranked play in case you need another way to find out you're not good enough
- May 14
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- A co-creator of the original Fallout says he modified his criminally underrated D&D videogame to work with a Department of Defense AI project in 2005
- WoW Classic is getting official 'hardcore' mode servers
- One of our favorite Stardew Valley-alikes has been delisted from Steam over a messy dispute between developer and publisher
- One day post-launch, the developers of Switch emulator Yuzu announce that Tears of the Kingdom is playable 'full speed on most hardware' with 'no hacks needed'
- Here's an hour of discussion on Jagged Alliance 3's combat
- Goths rejoice: partway through the 'Server Slam' Diablo 4's nerfed Necromancers got a little boost
- A Remedy dev modded native HDR into Control, along with a heap of other graphical improvements
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #694: Sunday, May 14
- System Shock was the FPS that changed PC games forever
- Check out the destructible terrain in this tactical combat game set on Mars
- Before Unreal or Gears of War, a young Cliff Bleszinski made a shareware game called The Palace of Deceit
- Tim Cain reveals proposed sequels to Vampire – Bloodlines: 'We were planning a trilogy, which I forgot'
- May 13
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- Valve makes Steam beta participation easier because it wants more Steam beta participants
- That movie where Russell Crowe plays an exorcist might have mixed up the Spanish and Dragon Age Inquisitions
- Which is better, switching weapons with number keys or the scroll wheel?
- Diablo 4 seems to be enduring its self-inflicted 'Server Slam' like a stoic Barbarian, and players are digging it
- Vice City turns 20 on PC—here's our original 93% review from 2003
- All Genshin Impact codes from the version 3.7 livestream
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #693: Saturday, May 13
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mods have already unlocked the framerate to 60 fps—but you shouldn't use them just yet
- May 12
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- The era of 100GB games is upon us, and the average PC gamer is underprepared
- Holy cow, Germany hands out serious cash to its homegrown game award winners: Signalis won €60,000 for 'Best Debut Game'
- Rainbow Six Siege is so consistently buggy that I can't even be mad anymore
- They're remastering Söldner: Secret Wars and I'm not sure anyone really knows why
- The race to perfectly emulate Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is on, and already extremely promising
- The final Diablo 4 open beta is live, with no queue so far
- YouTuber is facing 20 years in prison for intentionally crashing his plane in a real-life GTA stunt and then lying about it to the government
- The Mercenaries mode has been my one big disappointment with the Resident Evil 4 remake
- You've probably committed at least one of the 11 sins of PC building
- Our favorite gruesome Sovietcore boomer shooter is leaving early access next week
- A Sims 4 war has broken out between goth kids and pastel lovers on Twitter
- The Asus ROG Ally may be the best handheld gaming PC but the Steam Deck's not finished yet
- Despite BioWare's efforts, Star Wars: The Old Republic's economy is still completely out of control
- Two years after 'toxic' studio management scandal, Steve Gaynor is working as a solo developer under the Fullbright name
- Asus ROG Scar 17 (2023)
- Final Fantasy 14's patch 6.4 trailer reveals the path we'll take to the Dark Throne
- PC's best city builder, Cities: Skylines, is only $9 right now—and you can pick up excellent Paradox strategy games like Stellaris and Crusader Kings 3 for cheap too
- Buckle up! It looks like WoW's dragonriding is heading to the rest of Azeroth
- Amnesia: The Bunker hit with one more last-minute delay, but luckily it's a short one
- Here's the latest fan attempt to create Half-Life 2: Episode 3
- This scarily detailed Witcher 3 mod forces Geralt to fight a new foe: long Covid
- Where to find a cooking pot in Sons of the Forest
- Bobby Kotick's AI comments perfectly sum up the thoughtlessness behind the large-language model gold rush
- PUBG's latest patch adds an Apex Legends-style respawn system
- Jack Black journeys through Fallout 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog in Tenacious D's new music video
- Layers of Fear's Steam demo will stimulate your nostrils on May 15
- Meta says new study shows the metaverse could boost the global economy by $3.6 trillion per year and yes it probably is worth noting Meta paid for the research
- Fallout's original co-creator has casually dropped 'the true purpose of vaults' on YouTube
- How to solve the Crypt of Uhrma door puzzle in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Disco Elysium novel Sacred and Terrible Air has finally been translated
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #692: Friday, May 12
- The Witcher 3's latest update adds Intel XeSS support
- Ten years on, we're getting a sequel to Reus
- 'There is no AI-driven software that I know of that we would put in a shipped game,' says Blackbird Interactive's president
- May 11
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- New World of Warcraft specialization promises 'a playstyle never seen before'
- Apex Legends pro hits top rank without scoring a single kill: 'That is just so dumb'
- Here's who's coming to Summer Game Fest: CD Projekt, Larian, Steam, and dozens more
- Finally, after 8 years Geralt can no longer eat chicken sandwiches, turkey legs, or pierogies underwater
- Cryptominers hope they can find a second life by turning their mining operations into AI farms
- Arkane founder is working on an all-new game that's even 'more ambitious' than his last one
- This company secured billions to reboot Japan's chip industry in just 4 years
- Rainbow Six Siege PC players are accidentally joining console lobbies and absolutely destroying them
- Don't miss grabbing a free Sims 4 DLC bundle this week
- CD Projekt's Witcher spinoff game is back on track with an 'updated direction'
- How Fyrakk Assaults work in World of Warcraft
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 11: Rizzing up our favourite videogame beaus
- D&D's oldest rival is making a comeback thanks to the developer of Sniper Elite
- Bethesda adds 27-level megawad to its Doom re-release
- Blizzard developers say mandatory return-to-office policy has 'cost us some amazing people'
- Asus ROG Ally
- Hard drives predicted to be history after 2028
- Former Bloodlines 2 developer acquired by Keywords Studios to do port, remaster and co-development work
- Redfall would be better as a two-player game
- Looks like the new Mortal Kombat game is going to be another reboot, called Mortal Kombat 1
- The EU's incoming AI Act is giving off some real I, Robot vibes
- Overclocked RTX 4090 hits an epic 3.825GHz
- Best Diablo 4 Necromancer build: Cast bones and explode corpses
- Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is Steam Deck Verified and 70% off for the next few hours
- Light up your gaming setup with Corsair iCUE Murals
- Phison has a fix for its overheating PCIe 5.0 SSD controller
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #691: Thursday, May 11
- I can't stop playing this autobattling strategy masterpiece
- May 10
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- Bungie is brutally nerfing Destiny 2's best Warlock build (but also cooking up some spicy buffs)
- Bungie tracks down another Destiny 2 cheat maker, hammers him for $16.2M
- Everything we know about Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 3
- Hogwarts Legacy's new last-gen port is actually prettier in some ways
- Ever feel disappointed in yourself for abusing fast travel? This Skyrim mod stops you
- Best Diablo 4 Druid builds: Pulverize leveling build and storm wolf endgame build
- The same group of UK regulators that blocked the Microsoft Activision acquisition is now looking into AI
- Blizzard reveals Diablo 4 seasonal plans and battle pass
- Redfall is the first Arkane game we don't like—what happened?
- Adobe's generative AI art tool and Google Bard are joining forces
- PUBG is getting a clan system that doubles your XP bonus when fighting with clanmates
- If you're planning to upgrade to an ultrawide gaming monitor, don't overlook the one critical mistake I made
- Valve overhauls Steam community rules with much more granular prohibitions
- New Nvidia RTX 4070 variant based on larger GPU rumoured
- The voiceover on this new Boltgun trailer is so bad it made me want to play the game less
- Capcom just had its best year ever, selling 41.7 million games
- Want to play Warzone 2's new ranked mode? You'd better meet the level requirement
- FPS roundtable: Apex Legends, Hunt: Showdown and Deceive Inc. devs dish on competitive shooters
- Darkest Dungeon 2 review
- Here's that Murder on the Orient Express adventure game you wanted
- In a dystopian world first, China arrests man for allegedly using AI to create and spread a fake news story
- This absurdly accurate Valheim build recreates one of WoW's most infamous starting areas
- Don't mind me, I'm just mesmerised by this implausibly pleasing trick for fixing bent cooling rad fins
- The US Navy is training sea lions and dolphins to play videogames
- Publisher calls out Metacritic after hit indie JRPG gets inexplicably review bombed
- This new Star Wars TCG is ready to go toe-to-toe with Magic: The Gathering
- How to fix the Xbox Elite Series 2 bumper buttons
- Age of Wonders 4 is the fastest-selling game in the series
- Best Diablo 4 Sorcerer build: Burning Meteor for damage and mobility
- MrBeast bought up a bunch of houses for his employees and family to live in
- Unity manager publicly states company is 'out of touch', is fired within three hours
- Hope you weren't planning on playing Dragon Age: Dreadwolf anytime in the next year
- Intel's Meteor Lake iGPU is set to shake up the entry level GPU market
- Nvidia's Neural Texture Compression technology should alleviate VRAM concerns
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #690: Wednesday, May 10
- Hollow Knight: Silksong may be delayed, has 'gotten quite big'
- Total War: Warhammer 3 roadmap outlines the next year of DLC and updates
- Nintendo is so desperate to smite Zelda leaks it DMCAed a legitimate streamer
- May 9
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- Make famous VTubers fight in this surprise Steam hit
- Why you're right to hate motion blur in games (but devs aren't wrong to include it)
- Holy multitasking, Batman! Philips slapped an e-reader onto a monitor
- Wait, there are two different games about causing large-scale mayhem in a pretend Ikea?
- Pewdiepie manages to get banned from Twitch without actually streaming on Twitch
- Walt Disney rolls over in his grave as I wishlist this M-rated Mickey Mouse FPS
- Best Diablo 4 Rogue builds: Penetrating Shot and Twisting Blades AOE damage
- OpenAI may have lost more than half a billion dollars over the past year
- One wing to rule them all: Scientists name a butterfly after Sauron
- Dark and Darker early access release delayed: 'We ask everyone to hold the line just a little longer'
- Vampire survival game's new expansion adds awesome multi-level castles with all the Dracula vibes
- Activision Blizzard hires barrister who advised Boris Johnson on partygate to front CMA appeal
- I beat up like a hundred schoolkids in this budget Yakuza-like, and I'd do it again
- Tongue-in-cheek RPG Greedventory is slashing its way to Steam soon
- The daddy of battle royales is still going strong as publisher Krafton posts record sales for PUBG
- How to knock down timber pines in Fortnite
- Oops! This pro Valorant team were forced to forfeit a tournament match because one of them couldn't stop playing Honkai: Star Rail
- Cassette Beasts is a pretty sick Pokémon remix and it's got co-op too
- Warner Bros. exec says Hogwarts Legacy's sold 15 million, made over a billion dollars, and now they want to do the same with Superman
- Starfield has some of the worst post-sex dialog I've ever seen
- Finally, proof your choice of gaming chair can affect the performance of your PC
- Honkai: Star Rail's gacha animations have no right to go this hard
- How to unlock the Crystal-encased chest in World of Warcraft
- This MOBA mutation where you don't fight other players will get a closed beta next month
- How to open the Blazing Shadowflame chest in World of Warcraft
- Nvidia reportedly prepping a 16GB RTX 4060 Ti for July
- PC-specific fixes are coming to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, but EA says there's still work to be done
- GoDeal24's Flash Sale has the best Windows and Office deals around
- The endless FromSoft memes are the only good thing to come out of Britain's coronation
- Teamgroup Siren Duo360 AIO cooler
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #689: Tuesday, May 9
- More layoffs are coming as Intel's brutal start to 2023 gets worse
- May 8
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- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's leak has turned into one giant mess for the emulation community
- Two men are facing jail time after trying to smuggle GPUs and, uh, live lobsters into China
- Five Nights at Freddy's creator thanks fans for not watching leaked trailer
- 7 things you could buy with the $30B Meta has lost to VR and AR research
- Destiny 2 cheat maker refuses to show up for court and now owes Bungie $6.7 million
- This cozy farm sim is 'akin to Stardew Valley' except you never know which of the locals is secretly a serial killer
- Jedi: Survivor has a slightly ominous but surprisingly helpful message hidden away for sequence breakers and speedrunners: 'Things will likely be broken'
- It took 13 years but Doom 2 RPG has finally come to PC
- Activision is making more money on PC than consoles for the first time, and the gap is widening
- Study claims that when a company's tech support adopted ChatGPT its staff got better at their jobs and became less likely to quit
- Sci-fi city builder Ixion gets a much-needed difficulty update
- 8 overlooked games you might've missed in 2023 (that are rather good)
- Sign up now to test tabletop-inspired RPG For the King 2 for free later this week
- Conan Exiles celebrates its fifth anniversary with cake and a sale
- Nightdive CEO discusses sale to Atari, says publisher 'is on the rise'
- A Payday 3 gameplay reveal is coming this summer, according to an incredibly ephemeral teaser trailer
- Darkest Dungeon 2 reaches v1.0 and lands on Steam today
- Help, I can't stop listening to audio loops from the Thief games on repeat
- Chinese brand PowerLeader launches 'new' CPU: a rebranded 2021 i3
- IBM believes 7,800 members of its staff could be replaced by AI
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #688: Monday, May 8
- While you wait for Skywind and Skyblivion, you could be playing Skygerfall right now
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 16, 2023)
- Intel Boot Guard private keys have reportedly leaked, compromising the security of many computers
- May 7
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- Dota 2's world championship returns to Seattle this year
- This new Star Trek website lets you explore the bridge of every major iteration of the Enterprise
- Nintendo seems to have fired back over the Tears of the Kingdom leak by DMCAing popular Switch emulation tools
- Video game hall of fame inducts Computer Space, Barbie Fashion Designer
- GOG looks like it's in a much healthier spot after a hairy 2021
- Great moments in PC gaming: Making your own Doom levels
- Jedi: Survivor preorder and deluxe edition bonuses are going missing
- Pathologic's ambition and atmosphere made it easy to praise, but hard to enjoy
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #687: Sunday, May 7
- CS:GO broke its peak player count record yet again with 1.8M players
- Creative director of Midnight Suns says it was originally even more talky: 'we cut 30 conversations'
- May 6
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- The first act of this impenetrable RPG was so good, I didn't mind playing through it three times
- An Englishman plays American Revolution sim Liberty or Death
- Magic: The Gathering Arena is finally coming to Steam this month
- You get one guess as to what this FPS called KILLBUG is about
- Steam's search bar just got a lot better
- This madcap five buck microshooter just got a surprise free content update
- What do you use those extra buttons on the side of your mouse for?
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #686: Saturday, May 6
- A Fallout co-creator has been revealing heater after heater of never-before-seen RPG history on YouTube, including an early Lord of the Rings RPG demo
- May 5
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- Olympic esports tournament adds Fortnite, but not any Fortnite mode you've seen before
- This fantasy author can't stop making mods for the 21-year-old D&D videogame that first disappointed him, and then 'helped shape' his life
- Blizzard locked a new World of Warcraft item behind an old World of Warcraft item, and now players are price-gouging each other to get it
- This game might have the worst name ever, but it's actually pretty fun
- Over 1M people have bought our favorite open world game of 2023 so far
- This ludicrously expensive gaming chair just became regular expensive
- Activision isn't sure how long the Overwatch League and CoD League will last, says efforts to address challenges 'may prove unsuccessful'
- A literal child and her robot dad are crushing some of Honkai: Star Rail's toughest fights
- Rigged? Bungie just announced the winners of a Destiny 2 event that isn't due to end for weeks
- Are you stressed out? Maybe you have too many browser tabs open
- Oh, bother: Winnie the Pooh gets the bloodlust again in this Eldritch horror game set in the Hundred Acre Wood
- This slice-of-life sim about getting in debt and drunk in '80s Britain celebrates the coronation by leaving early access
- Streamer whose esports team just ate 7 losses in a row: 'I have been having a lot of doubts about my decision making'
- How to clean the fish tank in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Where to find Ponzo in WoW: Dragonflight
- US, UK governments make weak plea to AI companies: 'The private sector has an ethical, moral, and legal responsibility'
- Chip war heats up as Samsung claims it can beat TSMC within 5 years
- Hogwarts Legacy gets massive patch that's especially useful if you're afraid of spiders
- Russian hackers are using WinRAR as a 'cyberweapon' against Ukraine
- Destiny 2's Vow of the Disciple raid boss has been recreated in Minecraft
- Nvidia's dropped a video of an incredible AI-powered hairdressing sim and now I want a digital barbershop
- Honkai: Star Rail tier list for the best characters in version 1.1
- How to complete the Chamber of Reason in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Hope you like GPUs with 8GB because both AMD and Nvidia have new cards ready to go
- 'It is really, really OP': Europa Universalis 4 DLC feature lets you conquer the world at record pace
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #685: Friday, May 5
- The day is coming where we'll no longer need passwords on the internet
- 40% of Hunt: Showdown players have never killed another player, says Hunt: Showdown's general manager
- May 4
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- Amnesia: The Bunker 10-minute gameplay video features dark halls, giant rats, and the worst gun ever
- Former SimCity developers launched a new city builder today—but sadly it's not on PC
- Game engine maker Unity lays off 600 employees and plans to close half its offices worldwide
- Holy cow, they're making a new Shadowman game
- Steam's new layout is hiding my screenshots from me and this is the worst minor inconvenience of my week
- Roots of Pacha review
- As Hunt: Showdown players catch 'granny fever,' I'm wondering if we need more elderly characters in FPSes
- There might be more Star Wars games in development than you realize
- Redfall review
- There are more magnificent, messy murders to solve in the DLC for last year's most devious detective game
- Phil Spencer apologizes for Redfall's 'disappointing' launch but promises to keep working on it
- This Star Wars themed PC with lightsaber SSDs has me dreaming of new versions of Nvidia's greatest special edition cards
- Street Fighter 6 has some terrifying ambitious sales goals from Capcom—10M copies
- New Blizzard patent details an AI system to make art for its games
- How to defeat the Rancor and unlock the Shatter Perk in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- So, you're telling me that US crypto mining used more power last year than ALL THE COMPUTERS?!
- Saints Row gets major update that overhauls pretty much everything including combat
- How to Find the Gorge's Secret in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- How to unlock Holo Tactics and beat opponents in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Latest Minecraft update fixes an 11 year-old bug
- Biden proposes heavy tax on cryptocurrency miners for 'the harms they impose on society'
- Best gaming headsets in 2024: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #684: Thursday, May 4
- May 3
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- Months of Apex Legends audio issues caused by 'a single line of code,' Respawn confirms
- Is it just me, or is Game Pass not feeling like a very good deal lately?
- Roccat Vulcan II Max
- I'm so used to old Steam, new Steam's menus kinda freak me out
- Brace yourself: Discord is going to make everyone pick a new username
- Activision will let you pay to make your Call of Duty guns sound like 2009
- Valve won't let devs frontload Steam screenshot galleries with a dozen trailers anymore, says many don't know 'how best to manage' the space
- Nvidia is best known for building GPUs but says it actually spends '80% of our time on the software'
- PSA: The trailer for Dune: Part Two looks dope, whatever the rest of the PC Gamer team think
- Former Dragon Age lead writer claims BioWare 'quietly resented' its writers
- I am absolutely hypnotised by the balls of Blizzard's VFX artists
- A new lo-fi Sims competitor just launched in early access
- This new Counter-Strike map was created to smuggle the truth about the Ukraine war into Russia
- ChatGPT's Italy ban reversed after privacy concerns addressed, banned at Samsung due to privacy concerns
- Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs have 30% market share to AMD RX 6000's 3% in revised Steam survey
- This $145 27-inch 165Hz IPS gaming monitor proves you don't have to overspend on the most desirable specs
- Microsoft promises 'tons of gameplay' in June 11 Starfield deep-dive
- System Shock publisher Prime Matter angers fans by having an AI imagine its own evil AI
- This new co-op survival action RPG the developer calls 'Valheim meets Zelda' has my full attention
- Ravenlok review
- How to unlock the Old Trunk in World of Warcraft
- Bungie lawsuit ends with Destiny cheat-seller on the hook for $12M
- Dwarf Fortress update adds babies for everything, and stops dwarves dying from thirst because they couldn't pick up goblets
- Nvidia's RTX 4090 dips below MSRP in Europe as GPU prices continue to fall
- Dredge is finally getting a fiend-free fishing mode and map markers
- AMD will launch a new 'mainstream' GPU by the end of June and it's almost certainly the 7600 XT
- Pathfinder is getting its own Diablo-like action-RPG
- How to open the Dreamer's Bounty chest in World of Warcraft
- Launch your new Steam obsession with Oddyssey: Your Space, Your Way
- Razer makes sunglasses now, and no, they don't have RGB lighting
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #683: Wednesday, May 3
- The whole Super Mario Bros. Movie was uploaded to Twitter
- The challenges of telling compelling stories in survival games
- May 2
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- Redfall's ugly open world will only look worse once you see how great Prey 2017 still looks
- Marvel's Midnight Suns gets its final DLC next week, but the Nintendo Switch version has been cancelled
- Did Blizzard accidentally ship some Diablo 4 collector's editions a month early? Uh, maybe
- Hey, wait a minute, the Gran Turismo movie is just Days of Thunder!
- PC gamers are getting really, really fed up with one sh*tty port after another
- How to get Star Wars Force abilities in Fortnite
- You can now give five of your friends a free PC Game Pass trial
- Super Mega Baseball 4 launches in June with over 200 former pro players including David Ortiz, Willie Mays, and Babe Ruth
- EVE Online celebrates 20th anniversary with a fireworks show and a free expansion
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Spawn of Oggdo location and how to beat it
- There's a lot to like about this RTX 4080 gaming PC that's currently $500 off
- If Microsoft is looking into its own ARM chips that could set off alarms at Intel and AMD
- This delightful mod brings Elden Ring's community spirit into Final Fantasy 14
- Capcom finally warns Street Fighter 6 streamers to stop being so obvious about owning a cracked copy
- The World Wide Web was released to the public 30 years ago. Feel old yet?
- How to solve the Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Alignment Control Center puzzle
- Looks like Intel is dropping the 'i' from 'Core i7' starting with Meteor Lake
- MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Gaming X Trio
- The Last Case of Benedict Fox review
- One person is transcribing the whole of Final Fantasy 14's massive main quest, just because
- Street Fighter 6's story mode really is a low-rent Yakuza game and I love it
- RTX 4060 Ti uses same board as 3060, due out end of May
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #682: Tuesday, May 2
- World's first wooden transistor bark is stronger than its byte
- I was almost ready to declare Redfall another PC performance disaster, but a last-minute patch might've saved it
- May 1
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- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor players are going bananas customizing cylinders and showing them to each other
- The first Mortal Kombat 12 teaser is apparently a grain of sand that explodes for some reason
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in May
- Ukraine's army is experimenting with using Steam Decks to remote-control gun turrets
- OpenAI threatens legal action against the developer of a free GPT4-powered chatbot for sneaking past its paywall
- Skywind, the ambitious mod remaking Morrowind in Skyrim, has a new 20 minute gameplay video showing off an entire quest
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has leaked on piracy sites, and Nintendo's now in a whack-a-mole war with streamers
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