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March 12
- The latest Monster Hunter Wilds event quest gives piles of Armor Spheres for hunting a Chatacabra, making this a very bad week to be a frog in the Forbidden Lands
March 11
- Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?'
- Here's a roguelite dungeon crawler Steam reviewers call 'a botanical Diablo' and 'like Cult of the Lamb' except you manage a mystical garden
- Oops! Bungie rolled out Destiny 2's Rite of the Nine event three weeks early, and new loot is already dropping
- No Rest for the Wicked developer Moon Studios is now 'fully independent' after acquiring the rights to the game from Take-Two
- Attention, fashion hunters: There's a Monster Hunter Wilds mod to disable all those obnoxious glowing buff effects that distract from your fits
- Should Age of Empires and Quake be in the 'World Video Game Hall of Fame'? You can vote for them to be inducted this year
- The Fallout season 2 leaks continue with videos of the New Vegas set, including a sign for Mr. House's casino
- BlizzCon 2025 isn't happening, meaning the event will miss its 20th anniversary, but it will return in 2026 to 'meaningfully elevate this iconic celebration'
- World of Warcraft guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on the game's new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again
- The best baseball player alive is coming to Fortnite, and so is his dog
- How long can a live service game last? Theoretically, 'forever,' says Mecha Break developer: 'The last game I was in charge of has been alive and well for 16 years'
- Naughty Dog's next game is definitely steering clear of controversy: 'Let's do something that people won't care as much about. Let's make a game about faith and religion'
- We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks
- Coder faces 10 years' jailtime for creating a 'kill switch' that screwed-up his employers' systems when he was laid off
- New modder tool makes it easier than ever to swap AMD's FSR 4 scaling for Nvidia's DLSS or Intel's XeSS and vice versa
- Gigabyte seemingly mocks Asus' recent Q-release debacle with a video swapping out an RTX 5070 Ti 100 times
- It's another day of Disco Elysium-related announcements trying to kneecap each other: Studio ZA/UM has put out a teaser for its first new game since 2019, and it's not Disco Elysium 2
- If you've ever wanted to trap your D&D character in dice like a fly in amber, 3,700+ people are paying Hero Forge close to $400,000 in Kickstarter funds for the pleasure
- 'I was recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale': Inzoi director admits he now sees 'why so few companies have attempted to develop a life simulation game'
- PCG's best city builder of 2024 is adding a map with a gigantic hill in the middle: the perfect spot for your next castle
- NZXT H7 Flow review (2024 Edition)
- I wish Monster Hunter Wilds wasn't so afraid of letting me play Monster Hunter
- Microsoft is reportedly prepping a handheld Xbox for later this year with new consoles coming in 2027
- WoW's nerfed its poor Delve companion into a dwarf-shaped crater after his tank spec made them too easy, and people aren't happy
- After REPO 'kinda blew up', its developer asks the community for advice on how to make matchmaking lobbies
- After suing a Disco Elysium writer to prevent him from making his own game, a tech CEO who's allegedly banned from the Disco Elysium subreddit is trying to crowdfund a spiritual successor
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review
- The latest Windows 11 dev build gives you the ability to snap together commonly paired apps for access in a single click, and I'm already sold
- Limbo and Inside studio demands compensation from co-founder Dino Patti for alleged 'unauthorized use of Playdead's trademarks and copyrighted works'
- Some Monster Hunter Wilds players are skipping the endgame weapon grind because they just freaking hate how they look
- The SteelSeries QcK Performance series has reignited my excitement over the simple pleasure of a quality mouse pad… and trying to click skulls with pinpoint accuracy
- 'My own voice was driving me f***ing insane': GTA Vice City actor admits even he couldn't get past his own, notoriously difficult mission
- Blue Lock Rivals codes and how to redeem them
- Specs for Nvidia's new RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti GPUs leak out and that 5060 might actually be half decent. If it's priced right
- Asus' new monitors purify 90% of airborne dust from your desktop and I've definitely seen some gnarly gaming setups that would benefit
- The AMD x Sony collab gave us FSR4 and a version will appear in PlayStation next year, too, having 'already started to implement the new neural network on PS5 Pro'
- Where to find sticks in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
- A BIOS update could be all that's stopping you or someone else from jailbreaking your old AMD CPU
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows is just around the corner, so come and see the last 17 years of the series' PC graphics at max 4K settings
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 11
March 10
- 'Don't you know what he did?': The truth comes out in The Last of Us Season 2 trailer
- 'Creepy,' 'ghastly,' 'rancid': Viewers react to leaked video of Sony's AI-powered Aloy
- I’m not sure what’s weirder: that someone made a sequel to a completely forgettable 37-year-old game I played as a kid, or that it was actually worth the wait
- Split Fiction sells 1 million copies over 2 days
- The original Verdansk map is returning to Call of Duty: Warzone, to celebrate which we get a soldier crying to Nat King Cole
- More than 5 years after launch, Control gets a surprise patch that lets everyone play the Hideo Kojima mission
- Swen Vincke stamps seal of approval on Stardew Valley mod that yoinks the Baldur's Gate 3 cast out of D&D and into a cosy pastoral life
- Nvidia says it really has sorted RTX 50-series black screen issues this time around as yet another driver fix finds its way to release
- Overwatch 2 is launching another Le Sserafim collab with 'more transformative' skin designs, guided by Blizzard Korea Studio's keen eye for Korean trends and street style
- I never thought a handheld PC bloated with Windows could replace my Steam Deck, but after gaming on an old OneXPlayer 2 Pro I can see now I judged it too harshly
- Warner Bros says it will replace certain DVDs damaged by 'disc rot', but you might not get the same movie you sent in for replacement
- Screw waiting for GPU restocks, with an AMD RX 9070 gaming PC going for as cheap as this I'd hop on the pre-built bandwagon
- This Amazon-bought fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is actually a 14-year-old Bulldozer chip with a cheap sticker on it
- Rebellion CEO says Evil Genius 3 could happen but wonders 'what else could we do with it other than a base-building game?'
- Asus ROG Swift PG27UCDM review
- Wanderstop review
- All FragPunk codes and how to redeem them
- The Forever Winter, my favourite extraction shooter, just overhauled its most contentious feature for the second time: 'It was a hell of a rollercoaster to make the adjustment'
- A recently launched and now terminally sideways Moon lander contains Imagine Dragon's Starfield song, which seems eerily fitting
- A lot is going on for Cities: Skylines' 10th anniversary—from freebies to new creator packs—but there's still a big ol' elephant in the room
- Japanese game producer argues that thick thighs on anime girls are a natural byproduct of economic recession
- Hideo Kojima really just went 'screw it' and made Metal Gear Stranding
- If you've captured them for a minute, monsters in Monster Hunter Wilds are legally allowed to leave
- Razer Handheld Dock Chroma review
- At least it's not NFTs this time: The new Wizardry RPG is a gacha game
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 10
March 9
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 10, 2025)
- Death Stranding 2's PS5 release date is in June, let's hope it doesn't take 8 months to hit PC this time
- You can theoretically beat Doom: The Dark Ages without using a gun, but 'You'd have a hard time, that's for sure,' says the game's director
- Fallout-themed Doom mod Vault 666 has multiple endings, an OP Dogmeat companion, and a Ron Perlman-impersonating narrator so good, I was worried it was AI-generated at first
- Doom: The Dark Ages won't end with the Slayer in a coffin waiting for the start of Doom 2016: 'That would mean that we couldn't tell any more medieval stories'
- Path of Exile 2 speedrunner dominates official race with the game's 'worst' class
- Rust's crafting update gives the survival sim real-time food cooking and pies to rival Monster Hunter, but the tastiest treat is the ability to make and throw 'bee grenades'
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2's director had big plans for a third entry in the series, with your squad reuniting for an impossible mission amid a war between Russia and the US over Alaska
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 celebrates 7 years of rat bashing with a new versus map and double XP for all players, but its hotly anticipated weapon pack 'won't be coming out this year'
- One of the best city builders of the last decade is currently 90% off on Steam
- Company of Heroes 3 is free to try and 50% off, so it's the best time to check out the beefy 2.0 overhaul
- Rebellion CEO puts the studio's recent avoidance of layoffs down to control of scope and cost: 'Sometimes we say, guys, this game's too big'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 9
- The Baldur's Gate 3 mod for Stardew Valley is out, so here's another opportunity to romance Astarion
- 'I think only the shotguns are the same,' says Doom: The Dark Ages director, otherwise the guns are brand-new or significantly transformed
March 8
- Silent Hill gets a soccer league in FEAR FA 98, and you can play the demo now
- Parents are suing Epic over Fortnite item shop 'FOMO' timers they say are inaccurate and manipulative
- Doom: The Dark Ages already sneakily revealed its 'new Marauder,' and the devs hope he'll be just as challenging, but a little less frustrating
- This brutalist life sim gave me a free tenement block to renovate, but my mushroom addiction kept getting in the way
- Blood Typers is a budget-priced fusion of Typing of the Dead and co-op survival horror
- Planet Coaster 2's spring roadmap splashes down, with 'round-bottomed flumes' coming in March and buildable restaurants arriving in April
- Bandai Namco will celebrate Pac-Man's 45th birthday with museum displays, live experiences, and an official cookbook featuring 'a maze of imaginative recipes'
- Microsoft's Civilization 7 competitor escalates tensions with Firaxis' embattled 4X, announcing that nukes are coming with its impending diplomacy update
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 8
- The best part of The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion is just coming up with fun small business ideas
- The sickest gun from Doom: The Dark Ages' trailer is called the 'Skullcrusher' and does such horrible things to demons, the game's lead dev boasts id has 'the best gore in the industry'
March 7
- The next Monster Hunter Wilds update is set to launch on March 10 and will ensure that when you chop off monster parts, the right monster parts get chopped off
- The official Balatro Timeline documents the history of 2024's biggest game as its developer went from 'obsessed' with making it to 'shocked' at the reception
- How to get disruptive customers to leave in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies
- We all deserve better than this
- Battlefield playtest gameplay is leaking all over the internet, and fans seem cautiously but genuinely excited: 'Okay, we might be back'
- The Resident Evil movie reboot bidding war is over, and the winner is… Sony, who did every one of those other pretty terrible Resident Evil movies
- Hearthstone card reveal: If it's wrong to love a magic blue owl, I don't want to be right
- All the Avowed ending choices and epilogue-affecting decisions
- Half-a-dozen 2000AD games were in the works before fizzling out: 'The games you get to see are a tiny representative of the number that get started—sadly'
- REPO is my new favourite co-op horror game, which combines Lethal Company's looting loop with Content Warning's zany monsters
- Following a disastrous beta test, Killing Floor 3 is delayed less than three weeks before launch: 'We've realized we missed the mark'
- Intel is still using TSMC for 30% of its wafer demands: 'We were talking about trying to get that to zero as quickly as possible. That's no longer the strategy'
- I've never wanted a keyboard with cheese keycaps and a little mouse on it until I saw this one
- AMD clawed back 7% graphics market share from Nvidia at the end of 2024, but the outlook for the whole industry in 2025 looks iffy
- Capcom cooked up some extremely cursed Palico outfits in Monster Hunter Wilds
- Best Marvel Rivals crosshairs and reticle codes
- Corsair's HS65 gaming headset is the successor to my fav budget set of cans, and for just $50 it may well convince me to upgrade
- Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced is a bitter-sweet return to Rockstar's money-making machine
- Starfield promises it still exists as silence drives fans to space-madness, but it mostly just annoys everyone: 'They are deliberately choosing not to communicate more'
- Sniper Elite CEO reckons Swen Vincke is right to snarl at short-sighted publishers: 'You could argue that their business at senior level isn't making games… their business is managing their shareholders' perceptions'
- Phasmophobia is getting a big rework for one of its oldest maps, turning the Bleasdale Farmhouse into a horrifying and confusing maze
- Google is rolling out an even more AI-heavy search engine mode because 'power users want AI responses for even more of their searches'
- GTA 5 Enhanced performance analysis: Forget max settings, my advice is to enable Very High RT and enjoy the show
- As a Stalker sicko, the 2 hours I just spent with Atomfall have made it one of my most-anticipated games this year
- 'Don't despair' says AMD to PC gamers as it continues to 'encourage' AIBs to supply MSRP-priced 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs
- AMD's new RX 9070 GPUs sold out within 10 mins at launch, unless you were willing to pay ever more ludicrous prices
- Nvidia denies reports that the 'missing ROPs' debacle is hitting its RTX 50 laptop GPUs and could delay their launch
- Nvidia RTX 5060 graphics cards are said to be revealed 'in about 10 days' and are expected to 'be on the shelf a month later'
- President Trump wants to kill the $52 billion CHIPS Act: 'a horrible, horrible thing'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, March 7
- Man builds Monster Hunter switch axe, complete with working flamethrower, because why not
- Longtime Monster Hunter producer promoted to head of all game development at Capcom
March 6
- Minecraft Live returns in March with everyone's favorite kind of content: 'exclusive movie content'
- EVE Online studio CCP Games hires former Iceland Central Bank economist for its crypto game, because nothing says 'fun' like 'removing currency controls and fostering emergent value systems'
- My favourite AA stealth series starring a loathsome centuries-old goblin is getting a new instalment
- Monster Hunter Wilds' true difficulty isn't the battles: it's navigating the horrible menus
- Robocop: Rogue City is getting a 'standalone expansion' that sounds an awful lot like The Raid
- Monster Hunter's food looks so tasty it's apparently driving up demand for cheese naan in Japan
- Survival sandbox Core Keeper gets explosive next week with a whole new skill tree devoted to bombs and grenades
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's upcoming 1.2 update has a ridiculous 34 pages of patch notes
- Dark and Darker delisted again, this time from the Epic Games Store
- Nacon's promising Revosim RS Pure direct drive racing wheel lets you use your phone as a dashboard and settings tool, but it feels like it could do with a little work
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and BioWare have to offer
- The world's first 'body in a box' biological computer costs $35,000 and looks both cool as hell plus creepy as heck
- WWE 2K25: Every superstar on the roster
- Frogwares shows off The Sinking City 2's first in-game footage and launches a Kickstarter safety net: 'After 3 years of this horrid war hanging over our daily lives, we've learned to adapt'
- The tough luck continues in Dead in Antares, the newest addition to the long-running series about people trying not to lose their heads in bad situations
- After 31 years in games, Persona director Katsura Hashino just got a 'Newcomer Award' and $5,000 from the Japanese government
- Capcom is punishing me for wanting to play Monster Hunter Wilds with my friends
- Final Fantasy 16 is the latest game to be freed from the shackles of Denuvo, though its 7-year-old predecessor still remains in DRM jail
- How to get Hunter Symbol III in Monster Hunter Wilds
- Brace yourself for Discord to get worse: Reports swirl that the company is in talks with bankers about opening itself up to shareholders
- Seeing how much I hate its ads, YouTube tries to sell me yet another subscription tier with Premium Lite rolling out in the US
- I don't care about being able to kill everybody and steal the Mayor's pants in an RPG like Avowed, and I'm tired of pretending it's mandatory
- Dragon Age voice actor says his favourite way to play Inquisition is as a woman who romances himself, which is apparently 'the best'
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford rants at internet randoms (again), insists we should 'root for' the Borderlands 4 team or 'we'll all pay the price', then whips around and says 'I love criticism'
- AMD Radeon RX 9070-series launch day live: The promise of a ton of reference priced stock is a tantalising one but likely won't last long
- FragPunk launch times and release date
- US Justice Dept announces $10 million bounty on at-large 'hacker-for-hire' cabal it says targeted China critics, religious missionaries, and the Treasury
- Nintendo wins major French piracy case with EU-wide consequences: 'Significant not only for Nintendo, but for the entire games industry'
- AI helps turn highschool project into world saving tech which promises to devour 150 tons of fast-fashion plastic each year
- Japanese companies begin stockpiling in response to new Trump tariffs: Cue a ton of PS5 stock and stale cans of coffee
- The best 1 TB gaming SSD you can buy is now just $79, the cheapest it's been for a good while
- Meta's Orion AR glasses still have no 'killer use case' but want devices to hang out on your face, on your wrist, and now in your pocket too
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Turns out updating drivers fixes brand new game. Again
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, March 6
- A demo for a lost videogame based on George Orwell's 1984 has emerged from the memory hole
- Firaxis says it's 'entering our Sukritact Age' as it hires popular modder to work on Civilization 7
- The thing I'm most excited about in Assassin's Creed Shadows is my hideout: 'a little over one acre of fully customizable land' to build on, decorate, and fill with pettable baby deer
March 5
- Why did Monster Hunter Wilds dedicate so much effort to its environments, only to completely drop the actual 'hunting' from Monster Hunter?
- The Hand of Fate devs are back with a bullet heaven called Hordes of Fate
- Cities: Skylines 2's asset editor remains a distant dream: Colossal Order is still working on it but says it's 'proven more technically challenging than initially anticipated'
- Ubisoft reveals Assassin's Creed Shadows preload and unlock times
- Epic's war against the Fortnite fraudsters sees it simultaneously name and shame alleged ne'er-do-wells as its high-powered lawyers sue them
- It sure sounds like Inzoi will be multiplayer—eventually, in some capacity—according to comments by its developers
- The Witcher show finally adds a character exclusive to the games, too bad he's 'exceptionally loathsome and arrogant'
- All Monster Hunter Wilds event quests and rewards
- Looks like we won't be seeing Western Digital SSDs in our gaming PCs as the company hands the reins back over to SanDisk
- After a run of RTX 50-series launches with seemingly little availability and mega price tags, I'm left wondering 'is that it?'
- Early backers of game decry 'bait and switch' after it backtracks on monetisation promises, dev chooses to stir the pot: 'Seeing Reddit lose it today lets me breathe a huge sigh of relief'
- '3 hours of my life that I'll never get back': A Minecraft modder did the lord's work, creating a mod that adds Jack Black's voice to the game
- Everything we know about Destiny 2 Rite of the Nine
- The first Monster Hunter Wilds event quests let you wear an adorable forest creature as a helmet, which means my headgear is locked in for the next few months
- Steam users react ecstatically to update that lets them access their heaving game notes via the web, also it fixes Monster Hunter Wilds video recording
- D&D's new virtual tabletop is a glossy and cool idea that's already struggling with its identity in a world where jpegs and imagination are free
- Blades of Fire is a God of War-style action game coming to PC from the creators of Metroid Dread, and it's almost definitely a spiritual successor to Severance
- The adorable budget Razer microphone I've recently bought is now even cheaper and the only downside is it's not pink like mine
- Lenovo's clever solar-powered laptop can turn 20 minutes of sunlight into an hour of video playback but sun-powered mobile gaming still isn't a goer
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's March patch brings zoomer haircuts for Henry and the return of the hardcore mode that can kill you before the game even starts
- Google asks Trump's DOJ to please, please, please reconsider parting it from Chrome
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review (Asus Prime OC)
- Marvel Rivals announces a new limited-time game mode, Clone Rumble, and manages to pull off a comic caper that players only thought was possible in theory
- Best Buy outs a load of non-MSRP RTX 5070 cards and many are priced above $700 and up near RTX 5070 Ti levels. Ouch!
- Finding a new and inventive way to annoy everybody, Activision has company use AI to generate fake advertisements for games that don't exist
- Alienware launches two new OLED gaming monitors and one of them is its cheapest yet at $550
- It launched upside down and on fire, but busted and brilliant Stalker 2 has attracted 6 million players to the Zone in the last 3 months
- Nvidia RTX 5070 launch day live: Heaps of non-MSRP cards and a handful of MSRP ones released today, but surprise surprise, stocks are low
- How to unlock Jasmine and Aladdin in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Suikoden 1&2 HD Remaster review
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 5
- When PC RPGs were at their crunchiest and most hardcore in the 1990s, Farland Story set itself apart by… being cute?
- The unofficial Civilization 7 manual: everything Civ 7 doesn't tell you about its rules and systems
March 4
- 'He came. And now he must go,' and that's why Pinhead is leaving Dead by Daylight in April
- Civilization 7's 'first major update' tweaks balance and fixes some UI issues, but don't expect an overhaul
- Monster Hunter Wilds sells 8 million copies in 3 days, 'the fastest any game has done so in Capcom’s history'
- Legendary 1990s publisher Acclaim is back from the dead, and a pro wrestler famous for clobbering people with a guitar is on its advisory board
- Monster Hunter Wilds feels easy at launch—but after a decade of fighting post-release elder dragons and Master Rank monsters, I'm not worried about the light warmup
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake is real, and it's coming in July with new skaters, parks, music, and more
- Three women livestreaming on Twitch harassed by man who then goes for them while making repeated death threats: 'This happens off-camera to women all the time'
- How to transfer your GTA 5 save file to GTA 5 Enhanced and accept Rockstar's Online Policies if needed
- Will another Avengers game be assembled? 'We would definitely be open to it' says Joe Russo, co-director of Avengers: Doomsday
- Civilization 7 needs some big expansions to feel complete, and I'd start with one that adds the years after 1950
- Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced launch is going poorly or well depending on how you look at it: It's got a 'mixed' rating on Steam and is one of the most-played games
- What's the difference between Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced and Legacy?
- Kingdom Come 2 and Avowed have revealed to me the grand unified theory of game design: A good game is when you can steal back the money you just spent at a shop, a bad game is when you can't
- This mash-up of side-scrolling beat-'em-up and fantasy roguelike feels like it could be the future of a classic genre
- Nvidia loses over $200 billion in valuation in a single day, as Trump's tariffs continue to roll out
- It might be hard to imagine even worse GPU prices but the CEOs of Best Buy and Target both predict tariffs will push consumer prices up and fast
- We need a better name for AI, or we risk talking past each other until actually intelligent AGI comes home mooing
- The creators of Disco Elysium unofficially consulted on fascinating upcoming RPG Rue Valley during a brutalist architectural tour of Belgrade: 'It was completely unexpected'
- I was wrong, the Logitech G PowerPlay 2 charging mouse pad isn't smaller than the first one, it's just the official dimensions were listed incorrectly since 2021
- Split Fiction review
- Saying what we're probably all thinking, Zotac cautions, 'Do not use third-party cables, angled adapters, or other cable accessories'
- Knights in Tight Spaces review
- ASRock Z890 Taichi Lite review
- This DIY 'infinite contrast' screen uses an old projector in a seriously clever way and makes monitors with full-array dimming look like absolute garbage
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 3 has been delayed, as the devs say they're 'taking the time to deliver a great experience' for what will be a 'big moment' for Call of Duty
- Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition review
- Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip rumoured to pack 18 cores and a new CPU architecture, but we're still waiting for gaming to really be a goer on the original Snapdragon X
- How to farm materials in Monster Hunter Wilds
- uBlock and a handful of other popular Google Chrome extensions have been axed overnight, but some of them just require turning off and on again
- Former Ultima Online lead says MMOs have 'been in a rut for a long time', and that cozy games like Animal Crossing have been filling a non-theme park hole
- Jeff the Land Shark's creator tells whiny Marvel Rivals players who can't deal with her hero to buck up: 'Sounds like a skill issue to me, if my boy is beating your ass every night'
- TSMC and Trump announce massive $100 billion investment in the US including 3 new fabs but it's reasonable to ponder whether it will actually happen
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 4
- This Yu-Gi-Oh! retro collection transported me to a simpler time in TCGs, before Pot of Greed was banned and the Avengers were in Magic: The Gathering
- Monster Hunter Wilds dominated Steam so hard this weekend that a new game from a Nintendo legend attracted a mere 5 reviews, and another dev tweeted they hadn't sold 'a single game' since Wilds released
March 3
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in March
- I've been playing Monster Hunter for 10 years and even I'm terrified of this Wilds speedrunner deleting a Tempered Gravios in 37 seconds
- Twitch streamer Hasan Piker suspended after saying Republicans would 'kill Rick Scott' if they really cared about Medicare fraud
- There's already a Monster Hunter Wilds mod to change your appearance without a DLC voucher
- There's 'sort of' sex in Inzoi, its developers tell terminally horny life sim players asking about getting freaky and watching their Zois shower
- Just 2 weeks before the release of its next game, another studio falls victim to the relentless drive to be 'agile'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 modder snaps, transforms all women, animals, and doors into fleshy spheres but turns all men invisible: 'It’s just spheres. Experience spheres!'
- This is the coolest pricing gimmick I've ever seen: the temperature in London determines the price of this videogame
- AMD says its ghostly 'Toyshop tech demo is truly not reflective' of what FSR4 will look like when it ships with the RDNA 4 cards this week
- I'm as excited as the next guy for AMD's 9070-series launch but the lack of reference cards has me worried about how real its MSRP will be
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 feels like a French Persona, with an impressive combat system that I should love, but which I actually hate
- MSI pulls its MSRP RTX 50-series cards from its online store, not that we ever saw any of them in stock
- 'The market is large enough to accommodate both games': NetEase is confident it can make space for Marvel Rivals and Overwatch 2
- After AMD's RX 9070 XT presentation, I can safely say even this Nvidia die-hard believes the hype
- Giant Vigorwasp location in Monster Hunter Wilds
- Forget Gondor, Drop's latest LOTR-themed keyboard has my approval because it's got a tiny little sword on the Enter key
- Broadcom and Nvidia are claimed to be testing manufacturing on Intel's 18A process node, and even AMD is reportedly interested
- You might mock Microsoft's new emoji button in Windows 11 but as someone that's explained how to quickly access emojis and special characters too many times, I get it
- This RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC is about as cheap as we've seen so far, and it's got me all nostalgic for PC prices long past
- The Grand Theft Auto series has now sold over 440 million copies, and say g'day to Rockstar Australia
- Space Marine 2 dev acknowledges its FOMO events are 'a source of frustration and stress for everyone', says it'll fix things and isn't trying to make 'a full live service game' by stealth
- It Takes Two follow-up Split Fiction's system requirements are here, and it's verified for Steam Deck and potato-PCs alike
- Freeware tool CPU-Z now warns you if your GPU doesn't have the correct number of ROPs
- Marvel Rivals is considering 'crossover events and promotions with other media' but all players want is more comicbook and movie skins
- Windows 10, 32 GB of RAM, and the RTX 4060 all surge to the top spot in the Steam Hardware Survey, seemingly due to a huge influx of Chinese-language user data
- Ex-Intel CEO Craig Barrett suggests the company should 'fire the board and rehire Pat Gelsinger to finish the job he has aptly handled over the past few years'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 3
March 2
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 3, 2025)
- The New Vegas remake of the Fallout 3 that never was just got its first demo, not to be confused with the straight-up remake of the cancelled Fallout 3 or, indeed, Fallout 3
- I just started playing Monster Hunter Wilds and this monster health bar mod might be the first one I install
- Is Monster Hunter Wilds' borked PC performance because of a spelling error in the game's config files? Probably not
- No-Skin is an incredibly simple horror roguelike about the worst party ever, full of strong booze, bad conversation and eldritch violence
- Rusty Rabbit turns Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu into a fluffy bunny
- Steam just cracked 40 million concurrent users for the first time⁠, meaning Valve's user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations
- The Local is a free and blazingly-fast tribute to surf maps and bunny hopping
- Mozilla is already trying to backtrack on Firefox's controversial data privacy update, but it might be too little, too late
- Monster Hunter Wilds finally makes sense to my Dark Souls-pilled brain thanks to the Dual Blades
- An $8 cooperative horror game is rocketing up Steam's top sellers list: 'Never occurred to me Lethal Company was missing physics until I played this'
- Total War: Warhammer 3's next patch will overhaul its Kislev faction, which Creative Assembly has 'identified as the most in need of a deep review and rethink'
- Tread carefully, Atomfall's world includes 'exploding sheep' that can 'infect you with spores that creep into your lungs'
- Apparently the canceled Twisted Metal game would have been a battle royale where you could get out of your car for some reason
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 2
- Steam Next Fest's most-played demo is a game almost everybody hates
March 1
- I wrote one-sentence reviews of over 70 Steam demos to help you decide which to try before Next Fest ends
- What's the biggest game on your computer, and is it really worth the space?
- Wait a minute, Geralt of Rivia actor Doug Cockle was in Baldur's Gate 3 this whole time
- Avowed's rarest ending has only been seen by 0.2% of players and demands you make the correct choice at every major quest to not get your head chopped off
- Runescape is finally wrapping up one of its earliest storylines, 24 years after the first quest debuted
- It turns out you can get Baldur's Gate 3's best assassin armor without killing a baby angel elephant and joining a cult, all you have to do is pickpocket a ghost
- Paleontologist says Monster Hunter's monsters are 'a little' realistic, but if a lizard swallowed something that big it would have to sleep for a month
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Seikret makes travelling easier than ever, but I had a much better time when I dared to explore the old fashioned way: On foot
- There's one reason I come back to this one rapid trigger gaming keyboard over the rest, and that's great software
- I'm so desperate to play Grand Theft Auto 6 that I downloaded this unfinished open-world game set in 1990s Slovakia
- As it unveils its roadmap, Eternal Strands' dev defends the 'slippery' feeling of its physics-based player character, saying it 'can't be as snappy or reactive as it is in games that rely on animation'
- Nvidia RTX 5070 hands-on preview: a sneak peek at my unreleased RTX Blackwell card hitting triple digit frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and Avowed at 4K
- You can save rare hunts for later in Monster Hunter Wilds, so you can come back for that Rey Dau gem when it's convenient
- One of the best Return to Castle Wolfenstein mods just got an update that turns the WW2 FPS into a Killing Floor-style wave shooter
- Shockingly, nobody bought the $386,000 special edition of Dying Light that came with parkour lessons and a full-size custom zombie survival shelter
- Japanese boffins invent the 'world's smallest shooting game' by using an electron beam to blast particles one billionth of a metre in size
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 1