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- July 8
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- Say what you like about Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's story, but these bosses and dungeons are some of the dev's best work so far
- Rip the display off a laptop, snap its keyboard in the middle, and you've got this portable PC you can stick in a pocket
- 'Very few' people would play a Morrowind-style RPG with 'no compass, no map' and a reliance on quest text, says ESO director, 'which is kind of sad'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 8
- Why I love The Shivering Isles in Oblivion
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 8, 2024)
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has the coolest arsenal FromSoftware's ever made, but I think I picked wrong my first time through
- July 7
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- Tend a cozy garden and stave off corruption, with the help of some cool gnomes, in Horticular
- Besiege's watery expansion will get a patch adding new missions, giant sharks, tentacled horrors of the deep
- Here's a game where you're a fantasy dungeon's put-upon janitor
- Nintendo becomes the biggest company in the games industry—and maybe the world—to say 'no, thank you' to using generative AI
- Witcher 3 mod restores cut boat-racing quests
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 7
- The next Transformers game will be a combat-racing roguelite
- Magic's videogame crossovers continue to not suck
- July 6
- July 5
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- Oh no, Rust just added my least favorite item from DayZ: handcuffs
- Marvel Snap's new Deadpool trailer accidentally included a phone number leading to a fishy 'free medical alert device' promotion that I'm pretty sure is a scam
- Satisfactory 1.0 is finally out in September with two megaton changes: easier-to-manufacture computers and flushable toilets
- After a year of competitive dino survival, Capcom ends new updates for Exoprimal
- Factorio's big Space Age expansion arrives in October and it's going to be even bigger than we thought
- Card-based city-builder Tiny Kingdom might look cosy, but there's no time to relax when the fate of the realm is literally in your hand
- Peanut Butter the dog finishes Ken Griffey Jr speedrun at SGDQ with a walk-off home run in extra innings
- Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection
- Steamy 'Overwatch cabaret club' where you can pay to have women fall asleep on voice chat with you gets obliterated, is immediately replaced by even steamier Apex version
- 'It was so much of a cash cow': Former GTA 5 dev implies ill-fated Agent Trevor DLC was sacrificed at the altar of GTA Online
- ASUS ROG NUC 970 review
- Dataminer unearths 'cut' voicelines from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's stoic final boss
- Good SSD deals might be tough to find right now, but this 2 TB Nextorage drive is still a great buy at $136
- Alienware Pro wireless review
- Here's your reminder how close AMD came to financial collapse and just how much we owe to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
- All Genshin Impact codes from the 4.8 livestream
- Microsoft patents a technique to display encrypted documents so only you can see them
- An ambitious Starfield mod that sought to bring Elder Scrolls to a single planet has been canned, but the modders insist that it wasn't a joke: 'The project was genuine'
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players are baffled by proposed changes to Viper, a job that's existed for less than week, and honestly so am I
- The Game Boy Camera can now be used as a webcam, providing 16,000 pixels of grainy black and white glory
- Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2024: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I've tested
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 5
- July 4
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- Summer Games Done Quick is restricting access to one of tonight's events 'to provide the most comfortable environment' for the speedrunner, because the speedrunner is a dog
- Escape From Tarkov studio Battlestate Games has put a bounty on cheaters
- Strap a gun to a giant bird and fly the fantasy skies in the latest free game from the Epic Store
- The next Gundam game plays into the joy of Gunpla model kitbashing with decades of parts to mix and match
- From competitive inventory rearranging with cheese-eating slimes to roguelike Pokémon combat, the autobattler genre is more alive than ever—and there's never been a better time to jump in
- Brainiac was right: Freeze is coming to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League next week, but it may not be quite who you were expecting
- Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM
- Obsidian says Larian's experience let it knock Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer out of the park, but it wouldn't have been possible for Avowed
- This 1440p 165 Hz ASRock gaming monitor is now cheaper than many at 1080p
- Final Fantasy 14's director confirms that no, Pictomancers weren't meant to manually remove their own buffs for a 1% DPS increase—outlines other job changes for patch 7.01 of Dawntrail
- David Hasselhoff cracks out the old leather jacket and KITT from Knight Rider to tell gamers to 'grab your joysticks' and fight global warming
- Tekken director says that the fighters 'are all like my children' and if players keep pestering him about favourites he'll 'charge you tuition for lectures'
- Obsidian went back and made Avowed's combat 'more juicy' because we all collectively winced at its underwhelming first showcase
- I hope these July 4 SSD sales aren't a sign of things to come for Prime Day—they're pretty trash
- Excellent news—Apple Vision Pro headsets can no longer be filled with VR spiders
- After playing last year's soulslikes, Shadow of the Erdtree reminded me that no one knows how to use ambushes like FromSoftware
- FTC fires out warnings to ASRock, Gigabyte and Zotac over 'Warranty void if removed' stickers in violation of US law
- There's a new ray tracing benchmark in town and it paints an all-too-familiar picture of today's GPUs
- 'We have won the war on floppy disks!' Japan finally declares independence from floppy media
- The first Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree patch nerfs the boss-melting explosive perfumes into the ground
- The father of Final Fantasy loves FF14 so much, fellow devs at his studio have had to log on sometimes to say 'hey, the meeting's started'
- Someone has slowly been modding Naruto games to give a character his father's eyes—who knows why, but we're at 5 and counting
- Who wants a Watch Dogs film? Too bad, you're getting one anyway
- Go farruk yourself: Creator of the D&D setting used for Baldur's Gate 3 teaches us how to cuss
- Elden Ring's 1.12.3 patch notes blame third party mouse apps and unintentional ray tracing settings for performance issues
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 4
- The making of Cult of the Lamb: 'A lot of the design was trying to encourage the player to be evil'
- Zenless Zone Zero tier list: The best agents for each speciality and attribute
- 9 tips to get started in Zenless Zone Zero
- The best Nicole build in Zenless Zone Zero
- The best Anby build in Zenless Zone Zero
- The best Billy build in Zenless Zone Zero
- How to get Polychrome in Zenless Zone Zero
- Zenless Zone Zero codes and how to redeem
- July 3
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- The final Steam playtest for fantasy extraction game Dungeonborne attracts thousands of eager adventurers
- Attention former RuneScape preteens: You owe it to yourselves to hear this official metal cover of the RuneScape theme
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's difficulty options will let you turn off death entirely
- In this satirical city builder, your goal is to convert walkable cities into parking lots and use propaganda to convince everyone it's what they want
- After seeing this handheld pixel filter prism on Twitter, I'm haunted by an insatiable urge to pixelate everything in my home
- Temtem veterans are working on a Breath of the Wild-inspired narrative survival game for 1-4 players, set to arrive later this year
- Dead Space x Battlefield 2042 crossover event looks fun, even if it isn't quite what Dead Space fans have been hoping for
- The internet is not a free-for-all—we shouldn't let big tech companies wish copyright out of existence
- Google's dumb AI answers increased its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 50% in the last 5 years
- Trails through Daybreak's cozy sense of place delivers more of what makes The Legend of Heroes RPGs great
- The 'historical adventure' game that lets you ground pound an ogre is free on GOG
- With $550 off this might be the best value gaming PC for 1440p right now
- UK man imprisoned for 4 months after walking up to cops wielding 6-inch Master Sword
- Bethesda mistakenly rips art from Fallout: Nuka Break creator but manages to remedy the situation: 'So does this mean I'm officially a shill?'
- D&D's lead rules designer admits he changed some spells because of how 'painful' and 'excruciating to cast' they were in Baldur's Gate 3
- I spent the last week roaming the Spencer Mansion and I'm here to tell you not to sleep on the new GOG release of 1996's Resident Evil
- Helldivers 2's latest major order has everyone so curious about a mysterious interplanetary battle station, 4/5ths of all online players are handling it as I write this headline
- Build the galactic hotel of your dreams in this Ghibli-inspired management sim
- Beware: The latest Windows 11 update might just trap you in a boot loop of virtualised doom
- SteelSeries Arena 9 review
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree robs one player as the final boss bugs into a wall and then just dies: 'I was enjoying it too'
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players warn side-questers: don't solve these riddles for an NPC that blabs a big spoiler right before it happens
- Let Me Solo Her adds fashion icon to his resume as Star Wars showrunner credits 'Elden Bling' for the design of The Acolyte's villainous Sith
- Oh for goodness' sake—D&D has early access periods and pre-order bonuses now, like a 3D model of a dragon for a virtual tabletop that doesn't exist yet
- Here are the Zenless Zone Zero launch times and release date
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 3
- July 2
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- Just 3 months after launching Tales of Kenzera: Zau, developer Surgent Studios lays off 'just over a dozen' employees
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in July
- Polyamory is coming to The Sims 4 for free alongside the Lovestruck expansion pack this month
- Xbox Live's 'major outage' is fixed, but we still don't know what went wrong
- Stardew Valley players on Steam Deck can test out the new Nexus Mods app
- Expansions are the best
- Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett explains why she signed up for the Borderlands film: 'A touch of Covid madness'
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree players are sleepwalking through bossfights with the DLC's silly, pointy shields
- Catholic Church prepares to canonise its first gamer saint—and yep, one of his favourites was Halo
- The BBC dons its game dev cap to combine 2 things I fear and don't understand: The UK General Election and Roblox
- Lethal Company's next update introduces monsters that'll kidnap you and cut you up as well as its first and only vehicle
- The most popular RTX 40-series GPU on Steam is in a gaming laptop, not a graphics card
- Don't sweat it—Zenless Zone Zero's system requirements demand nothing more than a ten-year old GPU and 8 GB of RAM
- Palia developer Singularity 6 is now part of the Daybreak Game Company
- Mortal Kombat player wins $565, celebrates by breaking a light fixture worth $3,000
- Capcom's somehow come up with the *deep breath* Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Digital Deluxe edition
- The Beyond Good and Evil remaster settles 20 years of debate over Jade's parentage in a new prequel tie-in sidequest
- I pitied Shadow of the Erdtree's future 'Let Me Solo Her' champion, but seeing how the Elden Ring community's handled business, I'm not so worried anymore
- Capcom announces the next mainline Resident Evil is in development, and the great news is it's being helmed by Resident Evil 7's director
- Nvidia could face antitrust charges in France as 'the risk of abuse by chip providers' scrutinised by competition authority
- Asus ROG Strix Z790-I Gaming WiFi review
- This WoW player who clicks their skills is probably better than you—hunter Durendil solos yet another raid boss armed with a spreadsheet and raw grit
- Elden Ring maestro plays a saxophone to style on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, wins battle of the bands in 'a dozen attempts'
- Samsung was either feeling generous or someone messed up big time when it temporarily slashed £1,400 off a 49-inch 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 2
- After years of coasting on Dr Disrespect's fame, it's hard to imagine a happy ending for Midnight Society
- It took me 7 hours to beat Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, and people are already demolishing it without getting hit a single time
- July 1
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- Guy who mapped Skyrim's rivers decides to follow Fallout characters home after dismissing them
- To combat torrent traffic, a South Korean ISP deployed a bold strategy: Infecting 600,000 of its own customers with malware
- I was almost gleefully torn apart by a tornado in this janky but ambitious co-op storm chasing simulator
- Team Fortress 2's player count doubles after fan pressure sees Valve step in with a bot-demolishing banwave and a firm line on appeals: 'No'
- A Japanese company is making an adorable Elden Ring warrior jar mug just in time for everyone to get really freaked out by their new lore in the DLC
- Trust me, you should rewatch the Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree cinematic trailer after beating the expansion
- Valve's new top-played chart for the Steam Deck shows that people really, really like both Hades and Hades 2
- Team Fortress 2 players are not loving the announcement of TF2 DLC for Funko Fusion instead of, y'know, TF2: 'Genuinely would rather bots continue to overrun the game than this happen'
- Thanks to the Responsive NPCs mod, crowds in Cyberpunk 2077 can now react if you sprint nude through Night City's streets
- GTA Online adds a quality-of-life feature players have wanted for years then upsets everyone by paywalling it: 'One of the slimiest things they've done in a while'
- SSD storage is set to use 1,000 layer memory chips by 2027, potentially offering 20 TB NVMe drives for under $300
- One Elden Ring player made the mother of all Scadutree Blessing maps, 'You can get Scadutree Blessing level 12 without killing any bosses'
- This mighty Mac Mini-a-like from Geekom is packed to the gills with tech and is $120 off with our discount code
- 'Is this supposed to be rigged?' Helldivers 2 players fatigued as bugs leapfrog across supply lines like a bunch of dirty cheaters
- It's not often you find an RTX 4080 Super gaming PC for under $2,000. Well, today's your lucky day
- Where to find Rolling Sparks in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- OXS Thunder Pro review
- Internet speed record of 402,000,000 Mbps achieved using standard optic fibre cabling, fast enough to download Baldur's Gate 3 in less than four milliseconds
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail rises to a mixed reception in its opening weekend, though I don't think the sky's falling just yet
- Intel's Arrow Lake chips could be using a brand new core layout for the first time in years
- 'I know nothing, you never heard a peep from me': George RR Martin pens cryptic message about a potential Elden Ring TV show or film
- AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D-series chips reportedly gain full overclocking support, meaning simple tweaks would make them the all-round chips we always wished for
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 1
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 1, 2024)
- Drop blocks to make your own maze in the demo for tower defense game Emberward
