All content archive
July 2024
Filter
692 articles
- July 31
-
- Star Wars Outlaws director was inspired by a samurai action game more than Red Dead or Assassin's Creed: 'My biggest reference was Ghost of Tsushima'
- Here's a 15 minute gameplay deep dive on water parks in Planet Coaster 2
- Jonathan Blow says the Braid remaster 'sold like dog****'
- '$100M is GTA-level money': A former developer on the 2013 Deadpool game says rumors of its budget are highly exaggerated
- How to do your homework in The Sims 4
- This CT scanning company is sowing chaos for Pokémon card collectors by selling X-ray scans of booster packs: 'We firmly believe we stand in the zone of chaotic good'
- Somehow the worst part of crafting games is the crafting
- Actor for Dragon Age: The Veilguard protagonist says the role is "an honor but a challenge"
- A disgraced Dr Disrespect teases his return to streaming
- PC Gamer announces editorial staff changes and recent hirings
- Delightful deckbuilder Clank! now has a digital version
- How to get Archeo Kingdom crafted gear in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail
- In this investigation game you're the desk jockey with all the cool analysis software
- Bungie lays off 220 developers in shocking bloodbath as it aggressively refocuses on Destiny and Marathon: 'We were overly ambitious'
- Xbox users will soon be able to watch Discord streams and make direct calls
- FromSoftware is warning Elden Ring players that your mouse could be holding you back, or at least tanking your framerate
- Thank you, Freeware: I was just saved from USB disconnect/reconnect hell by a simple logging tool
- A blistering photo finish: Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's world first race to vanquish the Arcadion's debut tier is clutched with a mere 21 seconds between 1st and 2nd place
- New AI companion goes all Black Mirror, listens to absolutely everything and dies if you lose it
- How to win the debate against Skott in Honkai: Star Rail 2.4
- After 3 years, Chivalry 2 goes into maintenance mode as devs decide they've released enough updates to make it 'content and feature complete'
- Destiny 2: How to get the NES006 sample and summon secret bosses
- Activision's donation to the AI race is a 'first-of-its-kind' open-sourced Call of Duty map
- How to infuse the Lifeless Stone Ring in World of Warcraft
- SCP: Secret Lab player who 'can't remember s***' invents their own custom mapping tool like a horror game MacGyver
- EA CEO calls the next Battlefield 'one of the most ambitious projects in our history' as all hands get to work on a 'Battlefield universe'
- World of Warcraft players aren't pleased with The War Within pre-patch event: With 90 minute waits in between bosses and somewhat-stingy currency rewards
- AMD sells $1 billion worth of AI chips and CPU sales are up but its gaming graphics continues to struggle
- 'I can't thank streamers enough': Palworld developer's CEO weighs in on Japanese visual novel discourse in the wake of streaming controversy
- After cutting 5% of its workforce in 2023 reports say Intel is planning to lay off thousands more workers
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 31
- Wizards of the Coast broke glass on the alarm marked 'anthropomorphic animal Magic set', and it seems to have worked
- July 30
-
- Former GTA dev says 'it's time for a revolution' where 'animation is more AI-driven and physics-driven' than done by hand
- Assassin's Creed subreddit promises bans for anyone who keeps complaining about 'historical accuracy' and Yasuke: 'We are all exhausted of this tedious discussion'
- Activision explains that weird spike in Call of Duty cheaters last week
- Diablo 4 season 5's return to hell supercharges its most overlooked loot to game-breaking levels
- How to write songs in The Sims 4 with your Sim's instrument of choice
- Goofy builder-crafter Space for Sale is about developing 'prime real estate on unexplored worlds'
- Palworld's community manager says our 'dead game' fixation is ruining gaming: 'I don't think it really serves anyone to push gamers to play the same game, day in and day out'
- How to age up an infant in The Sims 4 with either a cake or a cheat
- Gearbox boss says Tiny Tina's Wonderlands was bigger than the first Borderlands: 'It's reasonable for our fans to expect more there'
- The latest Sims 4 bug fix stops Sims from committing autonomous incest
- Make your own Deadpool & Wolverine movie with this surprisingly deep movie studio management sim
- Mystery afoot as Garry's Mod gets hit by Skibi-DMCA apparently on behalf of Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet film studio: 'Can you believe the cheek?'
- Indie studio pulls its first game from Steam after realizing it lost the source code: 'We had no established routine to back up our data'
- Fallout: London is a truly impressive modding achievement that mostly hits the mark, but it's barely playable right now
- AI avatars may soon be attending meetings for us and that sure feels like a slippery slope towards an AI future none of us want
- Brilliant execution, awful inspiration material: This AMD-powered Cybertruck mini PC really is in production
- Star Wars Outlaws will finally let us turn off that annoying yellow paint on every climbing surface
- After 5 hours of exploring the galaxy and ghosting past Stormtroopers, Star Wars Outlaws is finally winning me over
- Mario and Sonic were benched by the Olympics in favour of NFTs and esports, former producer on the series says
- Helldivers 2's upcoming Warbond will let you set your enemies on fire with just about everything—including your Hellpod
- I knew it—Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss has some hokey freaking hitboxes the size of barn doors
- GDDR6X VRAM is claimed to be in short supply and could lead to an RTX 4070 being launched with slower GDDR6 to meet the demand
- Ducky Zero 6108 review
- Elden Ring's new patch just released, and it finally fixes an infuriating problem with summoning your spectral steed
- Tales of Fablecraft's early access release is already an excellent introduction to tabletop roleplaying for a new generation of Dungeon Masters
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree player smashes NG+7 one-shot record, dealing 143,411 damage against the final boss in one go
- Relaxing gardening simulator The Garden Path is the breath of fresh air I've been in desperate need of
- Incensed Japanese visual novel author vows legal action against streamer for violating broadcast embargo, then vanishing into the night without even saying sorry
- Twitch employees are worried the service could become a 'zombie brand', as a potential third round of layoffs looms, but luckily CEO Dan Clancy only eats 'medium-sized dinners' during international trips to meet streamers
- Meta's Mark Zuckerberg chews AI cud with Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang, talking about delicious cows, slicing tomatoes, and old Chinese guys drinking whiskey
- Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League only had one job, but it's already started to revive the Justice League
- Total War: Pharaoh Dynasties has quietly become one of the best historical Total War games ever
- Where to find and unlock artifact armor in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail
- Fallout: London devs hand out maths homework to players who are suffering from a bug that lowers their HP
- There's a surprise lack of Pictomancer nerfs in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's first major balance patch—which streamlines Viper and tries to save the suffering Black Mage
- Tony Pankhurst, actor and face of The Dark Pictures Anthology's Curator, has died
- Nvidia's CEO chats about the future of AI: 'We're going to need three computers... one to create the AI… one to simulate the AI… and one to run the AI'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 30
- Game archivists lament end of the Xbox 360 Marketplace
- July 29
-
- World of Goo 2 drops globular trailer, soundtrack preview ahead of launch this week
- Diablo 4 player finds counterfeit 'legendary' items that shouldn't exist
- The Steam Tower Defense Fest is here, bringing sales on games where buildings do the battling
- How the Radiant Echoes event works in World of Warcraft
- The circle is now complete: The developer of an open-source port of Dark Forces who consulted on the Nightdive Remaster is working on putting the remaster back in the source port
- Another Call of Duty cheat maker bites the dust, this time without a fight
- The greatest betrayal in The Sims 4 is when none of the color swatches match
- Co-op survival game Enshrouded now lets you make things way tougher, or way easier, with an update that adds more than 30 difficulty sliders
- One modder has already ported a ton of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's bosses into Sekiro
- BioWare claims Dragon Age: The Veilguard has 140,000 lines of dialogue, which is probably more than Baldur's Gate 3, but definitely less than Starfield
- Elden Ring players find cut voice lines from Shadow of the Erdtree bosses that probably should've said something, if we're being honest
- Cool statues at Comic-Con might've leaked upcoming Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver remasters
- After 14 hours and 239 nonstop tries, an Elden Ring Streamer beat Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss twice simultaneously with a controller and a dance pad
- Zen 5 tested: AMD's Ryzen AI 300-series brings new cores and a revamped RDNA 3.5 GPU for chunky performance gains in laptops and handhelds
- AMD introduces a beta preview of Fluid Motion Frames 2, with 'AI-optimized enhancements for improved quality, lower latency, and better performance'
- Subnautica devs have been sneaking screenshots of the upcoming sequel into existing time capsules, and they finally got caught
- Things I've missed: Windows 11 lets you 'End Task' from the taskbar, but you have to turn it on yourself
- Bethesda registers a trademark for 'Starborn' after Todd Howard confirms more Starfield expansions are on the way
- Nvidia's reportedly scaling back RTX 40 series production by as much as 50% in preparation for the Blackwell RTX 50 launch
- AMD's Ryzen 9000-series CPUs may have been delayed because of a typo on the heatspreader, which is definitely not the sort of mistake I'd ever make
- Fallout: New Vegas designer slams unrealistic release dates that 'burn out and demoralize the developers' as he shares tips on how to spot when a game needs more time in the oven
- MIT researchers create a super-fast, super-tough, super-slidey transistor and claim that in '10 to 20 years from now could change the world'
- Remnant 2 announces plans for its 3rd DLC: The Dark Horizon—and it'll be chucking in a free game mode and 'progression system' to boot
- 'It's a soccer ball': Modders are already correcting Fallout: London's local lingo one sport at a time
- Intel has no plans to recall those crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, hasn't halted sales, and the damage to affected chips may be permanent
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says he hasn't 'done a good enough job of hiding' the studio's next project, pretty much immediately confirms it's Borderlands
- Report claims that OpenAI has burned through $8.5 billion on AI training and staffing, and could be on track to make a $5 billion loss
- Mortal Kombat 1 is getting animalities, the T-1000, Conan, and Ghostface from Scream
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 29
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 29, 2024)
- July 28
-
- The Behemoth will update Castle Crashers, Battleblock Theater, and more
- Abstract factory-building sequel Shapez 2 will release in August
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 28
- Everyone gets a free feat and a more mechanically impactful background in D&D's 2024 Player's Handbook
- A surprise final episode of the Psychonauts 2 documentary series has dropped more than a year after its initial release
- Blizzard politely tells Hearthstone players their game isn't dead just because it's not getting a new cosmetic board this expansion
- July 27
-
- Grand strategy fans gobsmacked by this outrageously detailed Holy Roman Empire map from the unannounced Europa Universalis 5
- If you want to talk about 'getting good,' one Elden Ring player has beaten Messmer the Impaler at level 1 without dodging, blocking, or getting hit a single time
- There was a guy dressed like an Assassin's Creed character doing parkour while carrying the Olympic Torch in Paris, which was somehow one of the tamer parts of the opening ceremony
- The Like a Dragon live action show's first trailer isn't giving the same vibe as the games, but it still might make for some great martial arts-infused noir
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 27
- How to find the Beso Rápido Motel in The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion
- A dairy-sponsored women's Fortnite tournament called 'The Milk Cup' is awarding 'the largest women's esports prize pool in North America' this year
- Activision secretly experimented on 50% of Call of Duty players by 'decreasing' skill-based matchmaking, and determined players like SBMM even if they don't know it
- July 26
-
- Diablo 4 expansion — Everything we know about Vessel of Hatred
- Valley Peaks trades Getting Over It's frustration for cozy frog vibes, but keeps you climbing
- Every ARPG needs a good endgame, and for No Rest for the Wicked, it's a roguelite that just got a huge update
- Actors' union 'not happy' about GTA 6 strike exemption, but confirms it's in the contract: 'Insane, but it's there'
- I hope Elden Ring never gets a boss rush mode like Sekiro—helping out strangers in co-op is a much more interesting way of revisiting these fights
- Survival RTS Cataclismo added a sandbox mode, because sometimes we just want to make our silly little castles in peace
- After 3,878 days in early access, zombie survival game 7 Days to Die finally releases
- We made 5 types of polyamorous families with The Sims 4's new romantic boundaries system and most of them actually work
- The grandest WoW guilds raced for a world first raid clear hinged on a new secret boss, and the winner was 'None of the Above'
- Date Everything is a dating sim with 100 fully voiced household objects to woo, such as a smoke alarm and a cabinet
- Scientists think there's a 10-mile-thick layer of diamond beneath the surface of Mercury, which would make you around 876 billion Minecraft pickaxes if my math is right
- My favorite indie answer to the Elder Scrolls, Dread Delusion, just got a surprise final content update—including a dungeon built inside the remains of a giant flying squid
- Marvel Rivals isn't just an Overwatch 2 rip-off, and that sentiment does both games a disservice
- Japanese man gets jailed for repeated death and bomb threats that saw multiple Nintendo events cancelled, judge excoriates 'selfish motive' and 'persistent and vicious' behaviour
- A leaked document indicates Runway's Gen-3 AI video generation tool may have been trained on YouTube videos and copyrighted content without permission
- Keyboards might be cheating now: what is Snap Tap/SOCD and why is it causing a crisis for competitive shooters?
- A final Borderlands film trailer is giving fans one last opportunity to dunk on it before it comes out: 'The first movie in 20 years to go straight to VHS'
- Steam is changing demos to be easier to find, easier to see, and easier to handle in your library
- Guilty Gear Strive's producer hints at further Cyberpunk: Edgerunners characters—or a continuation of Lucy's story from the anime—before clamming up to avoid spoilers
- Bing is experimenting with search pages that boot traditional results off to the side in favour of AI summaries, and the results are a bit of a mess
- Hard to believe but Secure Boot BIOS security has been compromised on hundreds of PC models from big brands because firmware engineers used four-letter passwords
- After an icy response to the D&D 2024 Ranger's proposed reliance on spells, lead rules designer Jeremy Crawford says don't worry, the spells should help
- Marvel Rivals is adding two new heroes before the end of the closed beta test: Thor, the god of thunder, and Jeff, a shark with legs
- Netflix's 'new regime' takes an axe to the BioShock movie's budget, so expect something 'much smaller' with a different point of view
- Google's AI solved four out of six problems in one of the world's hardest maths competitions, equivalent to a silver medal standard 'in a certain sense'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 26
- July 25
-
- Videogame voice actors are officially on strike over AI: 'We refuse this paradigm'
- Cyberpunk adventure Nobody Wants to Die feels like if you made an entire game out of the boring no-combat intro of a triple-A FPS
- Hollywood billionaires Mario and Sonic now too good for the Olympic Games
- Earth Defense Force 6 gets review bombed on Steam over a surprise Epic account requirement when we should all be bombing giant bugs instead
- In The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion I can make 'you up?' texts and coffee dates equally valid ways of pursuing relationships
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard will launch on Steam without the clutching, hateful tendrils of the EA app
- 'There aren't 3 new wolf simulation games coming out every month': 17 years in, this multiplayer wolf edutainment game from the Minnesota Zoo has an improbably loyal fandom keeping it alive
- Blizzard is finally doing it: Overwatch 2 will try 6v6 again, reversing the single biggest change of the sequel
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Steam Deck verified, though we still don't know the system requirements
- Motordoom is a 'freestyle-sports roguelite horde shooter' about skeletons on motorcycles
- Fortnite players declare the Cybertruck public enemy number one: 'You are now in a truce with everyone else in the lobby until they're taken down'
- Fights, friendships, passions and pugs: At Black Desert's 10th anniversary event, we asked players about why they're still obsessed with the MMO
- Baldur's Gate 3 modder creates its most hellish spell yell: On-demand testicular torsion
- Helldivers 2 takes a crack at the CrowdStrike outage as its Destroyers suffer from a systems update: 'Please manually reboot each affected computer 15 times'
- MrBeast 'disgusted' by grooming allegations aimed at channel co-host, removes her from 'any association with MrBeast' and hires investigators to look into the claims
- iFixit CEO takes shots at Anthropic for 'hitting our servers a million times in 24 hours' and even the AI company's own chatbot disapproves
- After years, Fallout 4's much-anticipated 'DLC-sized' mod Fallout: London is out, here's how to install it
- Finished Shadow of the Erdtree and looking for more punishment? Get Nine Sols, the soulslike metroidvania so good it made me stop pining for Hollow Knight: Silksong
- A big gameplay leak for Star Wars Outlaws has done wonders for my Ubisoft showcase fatigue—it's actually given me a new hope
- Google's now the only search engine that will show new Reddit posts in search results and it's somewhat AI's fault
- Ready or Not's new expansion takes the tense shooter action to new heights, but the politics hit rock bottom
- Marvel Rivals' closed beta is aggressively bad and turns my favourite Marvel villain into a glorified babysitter
- After crashing 8.5 million computers, CrowdStrike says sorry to its partners with a $10 Uber Eats gift card, which was also broken
- The Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 closed beta is live for invitees, now that Larian has fixed a critical bug: '[The] dice are now rolling'
- WoW players are already using the new Warbands system for its true purpose: Memes and transmog flexing
- An Elden Ring speedrunner has a $10,000 reward for the fastest Shadow of the Erdtree completion at level 1 with limited Scadutree levels and DLC weapons only
- Swap D&D for grimdarkness with these 9 Warhammer tabletop RPGs
- Stalker 2 has been hit with another delay, pushing the release date back to November to 'fix more unexpected anomalies'
- How to beat Ede in Once Human
- Asus ROG Azoth Extreme review
- Bleak report alleges that Activision already has an AI-generated cosmetic in Call of Duty—with artists reportedly 'forced to use AI to aid in their work' and pushed into outsourcing
- 'This is the most polished map we've ever shipped': Hunt: Showdown 1896 director goes deep on Hunt's first new map in 3 years
- After Life by You's disastrous end, Paradox chalks up a 90% drop in operating profit for Q2: 'We end the second quarter of the year with mixed feelings'
- Tekken 8 director spends months insisting 'Heihachi Mishima is completely dead' before giggling and unveiling him as the newest DLC character anyway
- Nvidia's share price drops along with other AI firms, but all is peachy as they collectively remain some of the most valuable companies on the planet
- An official app for PS VR2 on PC has just been listed on Steam
- Phantom Blade Zero devs say its interconnected world is 'like the Souls games before Elden Ring'—which has turned my interest into attention
- Asus ROG Ally X review
- Blizzard mends rift with Whoopi Goldberg at Whoopi Goldberg-themed weed event as Diablo 4's Lilith presents star with 'key to hell'
- The MSI Claw and Stealth 14 are great compact companions for gaming this summer
- How to get Mythbrine Aethersand in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail
- Earth Defense Force 6 review
- Take note, Call of Duty fans: This AU$95 NBN plan can download 150GB in around four minutes
- DLC-sized Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London will be out tomorrow, 'Unless nuclear war happens'
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 25
- The latest round of absurd Baldur's Gate 3 mods include a better Bing Bong and mankinis for the boys
- July 24
-
- As an old guy playing Stardew Valley, I should be allowed to date the bus driver
- Stormgate developers say they want to lower the RTS skill floor, not the skill ceiling: 'It's okay to be a high-skill game'
- Dungeons and Kingdoms is an upcoming game that's about exactly what it sounds like: dungeon crawling and kingdom management
- Blizzard's World of Warcraft team has unionized
- AMD delays Ryzen 9000-series retail launch by a couple of weeks after discovering an issue with the first batch of chips
- Sony hero shooter Concord will not have a battle pass: 'You own Concord, Concord doesn't own you'
- The worst part of the new Apex Legends battle pass plan is being reversed
- The 'Skibidi Toilet multiverse' is 'absolutely in talks' to become a TV and movie series from Michael Bay
- The strangest game I've played this year can confuse and horrify you, too, in September
- I cannot get enough of the swarming tyranids in Space Marine 2 videos
- The First Descendant executes total U-turn on the promise of endless loot caves, blames 'mistranslation' and weirdly insists 'there have been no reversals'
- People are making mini Fractal Design cases for their Raspberry Pi and it's making me wish I owned a 3D printer so I could do the same
- Twitch policy update clarifies exactly what it means by 'sexual harassment'
- Monty Python is the next Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair crossover, in a trend that feels increasingly like Hasbro has a board full of IPs and a box full of darts
- It's official: International Olympic Committee votes to confirm the first Olympic Esports Games will happen in 2025, even if they don't know the games yet
- Mark Zuckerberg launches Meta's latest AI model, moans about Apple being mean and imagines a future of AI bots commenting on each other's social media posts
- BlueAnt Soundblade review
- Conscript review
- Modder creates Hitman 3's ultimate weapon: A portable, inflatable toilet you can deploy anywhere to drown your targets in
- Old School RuneScape thrillseeker risks a 370-hour old no-hit account against 63 waves of monsters to try and claim a cape forged in flames
- The Sims 4 latest patch notes open the doors to polyamorous relationships and a life free of jealousy
- US, UK, and EU finally come together to prevent AI monopoly (catastrophic market failure, not the game)
- WoW's The War Within pre-expansion patch has already made the 20-year-old MMO so much better
- Here's what the number on your backpack means in Once Human
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch may have dug up the graves of deleted characters—including my ancient shaman with a hearthstone that killed me
- Warframe's upcoming 1999 expansion adds a romance system, and it's all thanks to Baldur's Gate 3
- AMD is already prepping a 3nm update to its new Zen 5 CPUs
- 13 years later, this bonkers third-person shooter collab between Suda51 and the creator of Resident Evil is finally coming to PC
- Ubisoft attempted to address historical 'authenticity' issues in Assassin's Creed Shadows and just made the whole situation worse
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 24
- Here's a free walking sim about cryptid investigation that's dripping with early 2000s vibes, complete with fake forums
- July 23
-
- Marvel's Overwatch-style hero shooter has players scrambling to log in and push a payload as their favorite superheroes
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 comes to Game Pass this week
- Yet another Google web service bites the dust in August when 'goo.gl' links will stop working
- Super Earth grants free mechs to all Helldivers 2 players in celebration of a last-minute Major Order victory
- The developers of this new micro-tactics roguelite RPG say it's 'small in scale, grand in depth'
- A Google Doodle animator is my new favorite Elden Ring lore theorist thanks to this cartoon retelling of Shadow of the Erdtree set to a Taylor Swift song
- An Elden Ring streamer killed Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss in one hit and only needed to juggle 5 consumables, 3 weapons, 4 helmets, and 5 talismans to do it
- Humble Games says it's 'restructuring,' employees say its entire staff has been laid off
- The Sims 4 romantic boundaries settings: What they mean and how to change them
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev says it's Larian's philosophy to 'fuel and reward' player creativity: 'They found a way to exploit the game, let them have it, it's awesome'
- Valve shuffles some crates around on beloved Counter-Strike map, some fans react like it shot Old Yeller: 'The more I think of this, the more upset I am'
- The trials of a billionaire Bond villain: Oculus founder Palmer Luckey sues after getting stuck in a car elevator in the mansion he bought just to store cars
- Ubisoft's live-service pirate sim Skull and Bones pulls into port on Steam this August
- 'Our resolve is unwavering and should not be tested': Major union SAG-AFTRA breaks glass on big red strike button as negotiations continue on voice actor AI protections
- Once Human codes and how to redeem them
- Former EA devs are making a 3v3 basketball game without all the 'GM modes and micromanagement and opening packs' of modern pro sports games
- The best Zhu Yuan build in Zenless Zone Zero
- Helldivers 2 announces a massive new update: The Escalation of Freedom, bringing over 3 new enemy types, fresh objectives, a new difficulty, and votekick protection
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail is a great story with a ton of potential, but it's told so poorly it nearly ruins the whole thing
- I'm hopeless with a brush and canvas IRL, but this cosy painting game has me feeling like the next Van Gogh
- Call yourself a bass head? Walk around wearing a pair of Ol' Thumpy headphones, I dare you
- Where to find the High Banks weapon and gear crates in Once Human
- I downloaded Intel's new AI Playground beta and may have finally found something Arc is honestly good at
- Minisforum AtomMan X7 Ti review
- Tesla will roll out 'genuinely useful' humanoid robots to factory floor next year says Musk
- How Warbands work in World of Warcraft
- Google has changed its mind about dropping support for third-party cookies in Chrome, after years of trying to make it happen
- How to solve the telephone booth puzzle in Once Human
- Intel finally breaks silence, points finger at 'microcode algorithm' voltage errors, and says it's going to patch Core 13th/14th Gen CPU stability issues mid-August
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 23
- ColdRidge is a cowboy exploration game that's like playing just the exciting first turns of a Civilization campaign
- July 22
-
- My favourite PC gamepad with drift-proof analog sticks is heavily discounted right now
- Despite its magic and monsters, Dungeons of Hinterberg's developers 'wanted to show a real place' that could explore 'all the layers' of overtourism
- Your Dragon Age: The Veilguard character can be voiced by the guy who did all the Baldur's Gate 3 sex noises
- Warner Bros acquires MultiVersus devs as it shifts focus to free-to-play
- Stardew Valley creator swears 'on the honor of my family name' that he'll never charge money for DLC
- A look back at 8 versions of classic action RPG Hydlide reveals how PC ports can preserve—or lose—the soul of a game
- Google claims it's been able to simulate 'self-replicating' digital life, but its 'primordial soup' needs a pinch of salt
- This Saturday-morning-cartoon-styled RPG brings all the strategy and none of the grind
- Who needs College Football 25? The 'fastest growing sport' in the US is now a PC game
- This new co-op horde shooter on Steam is so bad it made me feel physically ill
- Epic's bringing the joy of mocking a passing Cybertruck to Fortnite
- AMD RDNA 4 info leak confirms RT performance is getting boosted but could fall short of a major hardware redesign
- Modiphius has announced the year's most obscure tabletop RPG adaptation
- This is not a typo: The world's fastest gaming monitor may well be this ancient IIyama CRT unit, pushed to 700 Hz at a glorious 120p resolution
- It's not just Windows PCs that have gone belly up, as CrowdStrike's Falcon software has been b0rking Linux-powered computers, too
- Microsoft says 8.5 million devices were affected by the CrowdStrike bug or 'less than one percent of all Windows devices' as new details emerge on Friday's tech meltdown
- Heads up, Arcane fans: Riot's released a new season two teaser, and preorders are up for the fancy Blu-ray of season one
- Publishers 'eject too soon' on their live service games, says Warframe developer's CEO: 'It comes out, doesn’t work and they throw it away'
- Nvidia's third-party RTX 40-series GPUs are losing performance over time thanks to rubbish factory-installed thermal paste
- The First Descendant players have discovered a Destiny-style loot cave but, rather than 'simply nerfing certain content', the devs are leaning in
- Astarion's voice actor says it'd be 'awesome' to play the character again after Baldur's Gate 3: 'Live action, game … advert for grape juice, I don't know'
- Smaller and faster Windows 11 updates are on the way as Microsoft switches to downloading just what you need and none of what you don't
- No E, just the P—Intel quietly launches Raptor Lake Rekked for the embedded market
- Replaying Dragon Age: Inquisition has recalibrated my expectations for Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 22
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (July 22, 2024)
- Here's a game that combines jigsaw puzzles with arithmetic problems to great success
- July 21
-
- Conscript is an old school survival horror game where the horror is just that you're in World War 1
- PowerWash Simulator keeps on giving, with two nautical maps chosen by the community coming to the people's champ in a free update
- Orcs Must Die's next entry will bring a roguelite twist next year
- Guilty Gear Strive is getting Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners as a guest fighter next year
- More than 10 years after its creation, massive Russian Oblivion mod Citadel of Madness has been translated into English
- D&D's new 2024 Player's Handbook will have 10 species to choose from including goliaths, and drow will be closer to their Baldur's Gate 3 version
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 21
- The Polish Witcher comics from the '90s where Geralt has terrible hair are being translated into English
- July 20
-
- Schim review
- I've found the best Prime Day gaming laptop deal — this MSI with RTX 4060 is a steal at AU$1,199
- TennoCon's Warframe: 1999 demo reveals '90s instant messenger clients, motorcycle stunts, and an Infested space mutant boy band
- Microsoft responds to the FTC, argues its Game Pass price hike is actually a good deal for gamers because the new cheapest tier includes multiplayer now
- Great news: Soulframe will have customizable moms
- A Baldur's Gate 3 player has discovered hidden mini-quests you can only get by leaving the most important items in the game in an exploding building or at the bottom of the ocean
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 20
- The only thing I want this Prime Day is the official Stardew Valley cookbook
- Overwatch 2's new space girl healer takes the throne as one of the most strategically satisfying heroes in the game
- Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers
- College Football 25 is having a big moment on consoles, but like usual, EA decided PC gamers are an afterthought
- July 19
-
- The creator of this Bigfoot game is considering changing Bigfoot's face after commenters said it's too human-like, but I'm entranced by it
- Once Human developer teases the first big update, apologizes for the last bad patch
- I don't play Counter-Strike 2, but I do follow this CS2 player dedicated to finding weird mistakes and 'bomb stuck' spots on Valve's maps
- The open beta for Throne and Liberty, Amazon's latest MMO import, is available now
- The creators of cyberpunk bartending sim VA-11 Hall-A are following it up with an amazing-looking 'active time action' RPG
- Twitch unbans Donald Trump: 'We believe there is value in hearing from Presidential nominees directly'
- Hideki Kamiya asks Capcom to let him make Okami 2 and Viewtiful Joe 3: 'Creators have the duty to create sequels fans want to see… I still feel like I haven't fulfilled my duty'
- A furry hacktivist group has breached Disney, leaked 1.1TiB of data, and says it's because Club Penguin shut down
- Somehow, the 11-year-old niche mil-sim Arma 3 managed to sell nearly 700,000 copies during the Steam Summer Sale
- How to find and use your Aether Compass in Final Fantasy 14
- I was not expecting Dave the Diver to join forces with a sexy anime gacha game but here we are and I gotta tell ya, it actually kind of makes sense
- Final Fantasy 14 stuck a hat on a pig and got me to buy over $20 worth of boba for it like the fool I am
- Tempest Rising is a dream RTS for Command & Conquer vets, and you can try it now
- Mix a little Obsidian into your CDPR with this mod that adds a full-blown reputation system to The Witcher 3
- PC Gamer does not beat rock in this viral AI-driven rock-paper-scissors browser game where a dead dog beats John Wick, low gravity beats bazookas, and me on a bad day beats Margit, the Fell Omen
- 'Cozy exploration meets true crime' on horseback is the MMO I didn’t know I wanted
- You'll get so engrossed building castles and barricades that you'll almost forget about the monsters in survival RTS Cataclismo, out next week in early access
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D review
- FTC says I told you judge, I warned you bro, as it unloads on Microsoft for Game Pass price hikes and 'a degraded product' that it says break promises made to seal the Activision merger
- 33,700,000 motherboards expected to ship in 2024, signaling the end of the PC market's dry spell
- The misfiring Halo TV series has been cancelled just as the Chief actually found a Halo ring
- The CrowdStrike IT outage is pretty grim but let's hope it's not as bad as the infamous Dyn DDoS attack, Facebook mega-crash, and Rogers network disaster
- CrowdStrike CEO apologises for global IT outage that has seen planes grounded, health services halted and the BSOD appearing in oh so many places it shouldn't
- Do temps matter no more? Next-gen Intel desktop CPUs might run as hot as Meteor Lake laptop chips
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 19
- Devolver announces Forestrike, a kung fu roguelike where you can plan your moves in advance
- July 18
-
- Despite its relaxing pastels and quaint mountain village, Dungeons of Hinterberg is pushing against the confines of cozy games
- Once Human review
- Comics giant Dark Horse says it won't use AI art or writing, is instead 'committed to supporting human creative professionals'
- Team Fortress 2's summer update adds new maps, taunts, Unusual effects, and more 'security and stability improvements'
- The Sims 4 is finally ending my Create-A-Sim suffering with this new time-saving menu option
- Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred's director says they made a brand new class that's 'very fresh for what people want' instead of just making paladins again
- The First Descendant changes Destiny 2 lookalike icons, but Nexon still won't say how they ended up in the game
- The Immortal Lock is a gnarly new Quake map that's meatier than some entire FPS campaigns—literally and figuratively
- Asked if it plans to delay Star Wars Outlaws over negative YouTube comments, Ubisoft says no: 'I think people will love it'
- Cozy cooking adventure Magical Delicacy is super sweet but not quite as filling as I hoped
- Summoning animal gods as Diablo 4's new Spiritborn is so fun, I'm ready to leave the other classes behind
- According to BioWare, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the first entry in the series where 'the combat's actually fun' and where characters are 'intentionally' the focus of the storytelling, which seems pretty unfair on the first three games
- I got a little too into sorting my rocks in this game about a drone factory on the moon
- Overwatch has managed to snag a whopping 100 million players in 8 years and is slapping your terrible K/D ratio into a fun montage to celebrate
- Splitgate 2 is coming in 2025 with a big promise from the developers: 'This is a revolutionary step forward for competitive shooters'
- Sega identifies harasser making 'excessive slanderous and insulting comments' towards one of its staff, sues them into oblivion, and says if anyone wants to try the same it's their funeral
- Overwatch 2's new support hero Juno joins the roster in August, but you can play her for free this weekend
- Logitech Litra Beam LX light review
- Mr. DIMM, why do you have so many chips? Micron's new monstrous multi-rank memory doubles DDR5 speed to 8,800 MT/s
- Counter-Strike co-creator says he's happy they sold the game to Valve—'They have done a great job of maintaining the legacy'
- Lenovo Legion Pro 5i 16 Gen 9 review
- AMD's tweaked RDNA 3.5 GPU is solely focused on improving mobile gaming performance
- Dyson's humongous ANC headphones look great for Princess Leia impressions from the side, but from the front, I'm not convinced
- China is dispatching crack teams of AI interrogators to make sure its corporations' chatbots are upholding 'core socialist values'
- Russian antivirus giant Kaspersky says do svidaniya to US customers with 6 months of free software: 'stay safe'
- I've never been interested in League of Legends but its new Vampire Survivors mode might be the thing that kickstarts my esports career
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: World of Warcraft: The War Within
- Dungeons of Hinterberg review
- Clickolding's Click Daddy made me his Click Piggy, oink oink
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 18
- July 17
-
- Walton Goggins earns an 'Outstanding Actor' Emmy nomination for playing a sexy noseless mutant in Fallout
- When does Prime Day end? Plus, our favorite deals still available
- Apex Legends suffers close to 30,000 negative Steam reviews in one week as the battle pass bombing campaign continues
- Amazon Prime members have until midnight Pacific to get one of my favorite games for free
- The VFX company behind that Dead Island reveal trailer we all obsessed over in 2011 is shutting down
- Hearthstone players go into meltdown as Blizzard confirms the next expansion won't have a new cosmetic board
- Zenless Zone Zero review
- Once Human is basically a Control MMO, which would have been pretty cool if it wasn't an awful survival game
- Neva is a beautiful side-scrolling platformer from the Gris devs with an adorable doggy companion that is inevitably going to die horribly
- Overwatch 2's new hacked event adds a feature that solves almost all of my problems as a support player
- Tabletop game forumite achieves posting godhood, emerging from the void after 100,000 hour 11 year ban to continue the same argument from 2013
- Turns out it's possible to cause a nuclear meltdown in a Minecraft server, even after a real-life nuclear technician has given you their stamp of approval
- No Man's Sky goes 5.0 with a sweeping tech update that's 'adding things the community has almost given up hope on ever happening'
- Join me as I build a wicked gaming PC for ~$1,000 out of Prime Day sale parts
- Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn review
- Fantasy becomes reality in Neverness to Everness, a supernatural, urban, open-world anime game built in UE5
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 17
- I've been coveting this absurdly expensive AU$735 wireless gaming headset, and its Prime Day discount almost makes it affordable
- July 16
-
- CD Projekt's Pawel Sasko tells the inspiring tale of how an Estonian beet farmer in Australia became a senior quest designer on The Witcher 4
- Yesterday I ignored 10 tornado warnings to finish a Destiny 2 raid, didn't get the exotic drop, and disappointed my fiancée. Is there some sort of lesson here?
- Here's how to craft Aberrant Action the new rocket-powered sidearm from Act 2 of Destiny's Echoes episode
- Larian isn't done with Baldur's Gate 3 yet: 'We still have a few things up our sleeve' after Patch 7 goes live
- Space Marine 2 studio says the leaked build is nearly a year old, urges people not to play it: 'It's disheartening that many of the surprises we worked to keep secret were spoiled'
- Manor Lords dev confirms that he's 'working on fishing ponds for the next update' which should only take a 'few weeks'
- This creature collector has you tracking down quirky critters atop a giant bird, and I'm addicted to finding every last one
- I tried to stop my peasants from starving in Norland, but their lords only care about sex and holy rings
- Russian antivirus giant Kaspersky leaves the US after two decades, slams the 'theoretical concerns' that led to it being banned
- 'The cherry on the top' for Fallout: London is having the robotic Speaker of the House played by a former Speaker of the House
- Tom & Jerry meets Rimworld in this complex city builder that's all about throwing off the yoke of feline tyranny
- Steam has discounted a ton of the best fighting games just in time for one of the biggest tournaments of the year
- Yoshi-P is just as confused about Final Fantasy 14 players being horny for a two-headed lizard as I am: 'I would never have guessed this'
- Genshin Impact voice actors criticize design of new character named after African deity: 'If you're going to use real-world deities, respect them'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 16
- Uh oh, I played 7 hours of Concord this weekend and immediately want back in
- July 15
-
- Dolphin emulator launches RetroAchievements support for more than 100 classic GameCube games, crashing its servers in the process
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta kicks off in August, and this time PlayStation players aren't getting in ahead of the rest of us
- Yikes: a full build of Space Marine 2 has seemingly leaked online almost 2 full months before release
- Here's 3 reasons I'm actually pretty optimistic about Dragon Age: The Veilguard despite being an old school RPG sicko
- I didn't expect my favorite cozy MMO to do a crossover with a Finnish children's series
- The Witcher 4 is in the 'most advanced' state of development among all the games currently underway at CD Projekt, ahead of The Witcher remake and Cyberpunk 2
- The Splitgate studio is teasing something new, and it sure looks like more Splitgate
- Cyberpunk 2 director says CP 2077's catastrophic launch 'crushed' the developers and the subsequent redemption arc was basically 'group therapy'
- Ken Levine says Bioshock was 'almost cancelled' after going over time and over budget, while all publishers cared about was that these games 'don't make any money'
- Fallout: London won't be available for Epic Games Store players initially thanks to Bethesda's mod-breaking update
- Turtle Beach Burst II Air review
- Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess review
- This leaked screenshot may be our first glimpse of BioShock 4, and it sure looks like a BioShock game
- 'We can't stay here': Larian CEO opens up about relocating Russian developers otherwise, 'all of my team was going to go to war'
- AMD Zen 5 architecture: A ground up redesign that lays the foundation for future Ryzen CPU architectures
- Renaissance Kingdom Wars is a pleasingly simple hybrid of Crusader Kings, Total War, and Age of Empires
- Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke says that all the awards actually started to obstruct development: 'It is surprisingly draining on the soul'
- Facepunch Studios is celebrating its 15th birthday and throwing a huge half-off sale to celebrate it
- Get ready to cook and explore at the same time in wholesome metroidvania Magical Delicacy
- Despite its 'mixed' user rating on Steam, The First Descendant has racked up over 10 million players in its first week
- Double Dragon Revive promises a refresh of the venerable beat 'em up in 2025
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 15
- Looks like Journey to the Savage Planet is getting a sequel
- It turns out that Commander Shepard runs a great game of Call of Cthulhu
- If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds
- July 14
-
- My favorite weapon from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is even more powerful than I thought, letting you completely juke legendary boss Malenia's Waterfowl Dance
- Black Desert Online is introducing a mammoth-size 'War of the Roses' PvP mode for duking it out with 599 of your closest friends
- A heap of award-winning indie games are currently on sale at Steam
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 14
- We may have lost Piranha Bytes, but at least Eurojank RPG Greedfall 2 is still on the way, announcing early access will begin in September
- Court documents show that not only is Valve a fraction the size of companies like EA or Ubisoft, it's smaller than a lot of triple-A developers
- July 13
-
- Star Citizen is free this week, if you'd like to try it
- How well does XCOM: Enemy Within hold up today?
- It's rare for a pixel art throwback to really wow me these days, but a hybrid action-JRPG where you collect magical octopus friends to cast spells might just fit the bill
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 13
- Concord's persistent deployables have players building makeshift forts out of healing pads, shields, and walls
- July 12
-
- Magic: The Gathering's next main set is going full Watership Down
- Former Bungie lead counsel explains how the studio nailed one of Destiny 2's most infamous leakers
- Prepare to hear opinions: Concord's first beta is live now
- Larian CEO Swen Vincke says there were only two other RPG series he was interested in working on if he couldn't get Baldur's Gate: Fallout and Ultima
- Anger Foot review
- The first-ever Olympic Esports Games are coming in 2025, and of course they're being held in Saudi Arabia
- Taking matters into her own hands: How a fan became a dev and went on a quest for missing EverQuest 2 furniture
- New Helldivers 2 major order offers the chance to divide Automaton forces—fighting a war on two fronts being a famously winning tactic
- The First Descendant will change its in-game icons following accusations that it swiped them from Destiny 2
- It looks like AMD is racing Intel to production of chips on glass substrates for faster, more efficient processors
- Indika publisher, Frostpunk dev to donate $50,000 to 'support Ukrainian kids' in wake of Russian missile strike on the country's biggest children's hospital
- Deep Rock Galactic now has its own official heavy metal song, called—you guessed it—Rock and Stone
- Dino survival game developer is switching all its servers to AMD 'which experience 100 times fewer crashes compared to Intel' because it's 'only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail'
- Manor Lords publisher doubles down on protecting devs as CEO says 'developer sustainability' is more important than 'any perpetual growth'
- Microsoft's latest speech generator is so good it's afraid to release it to the public
- 'The repeated targeting of individual team members needs to stop': OldSchool Runescape devs firmly ask players to cool it over Tormented Demon loot tables
- Under fire after OnlyFans leak, Twitch streamer Sketch posts apology for a past that doesn't really need one: 'That was a dark time, [a] rough time'
- To celebrate 50 years of D&D, Royal Mail is selling monster stamps you can keep in a mimic's mouth
- Persona 4 Golden mod turns it back into your granddaddy's Shin Megami Tensei, fixing the gravest aesthetic crime of its non-PS2 version
- Chrome beats all comers in web browser drag race, never mind the memory footprint and privacy problems
- The Outlast Trials' new major update has given a deranged killer a shotgun because all the melee opponents weren't hard enough
- You can pick up the best Star Wars RPG ever made on the most forgettable launcher ever made for free if you're a Prime Gaming sub
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch is coming soon—alongside Warbands, a quality-of-life game changer that lets you share rep, gear, and currencies across your alts
- Minami Lane finally convinced me that not all management simulators are invented to stress me out
- PC sales are finally on the up again as Lenovo tightens its grip on the top spot in the charts while Dell takes a dip
- Researchers create Dune-like pee-pants for the next generation of astronauts and maybe even wealthy, overly 'dedicated' gamers
- Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Keyboard review
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 12
- The TMNT roguelike that basically looks like a co-op Hades and was previously announced for Switch is coming to Steam as well
- This Witcher 3 mod that lets you play as a custom character or a whole new sorceress class is super promising, but maybe wait a few months for it to iron out the kinks
- July 11
-
- The designer of mobile hits Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride is making a deep-sea Lovecraftian horror game
- You don't lose all your progress when a Once Human season ends—here's how the survival game's server resets work
- Deathbound is a 'party-based soulslike,' but everyone in the party lives inside you
- Throwback Zombies-style shooter Hellbreach: Vegas drops an updated demo to announce the full launch coming in August
- 'Not a hoax!'—Valve writers confirm the official Team Fortress 2 comic will continue, after over 7 years on ice
- Tencent's free-to-play co-op shooter Synced is closing just a year after it launched
- Planet Coaster 2's announcement promises 'gripping rides, spectacular slides', but I can't wait to see what ungodly contraptions the community makes
- It's 2024 and yet Intel is still churning out DUAL CORE CPUs for desktop PCs, and I'm a little in awe of the plucky trooper
- Less than 6 months later, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be free to download and keep for Prime subscribers—though you'll only have 48 hours to snag it
- The actor behind Shadow of the Erdtree's best NPC didn't think videogame voice acting was all that until 'mysterious' Miyazaki opened his eyes
- Alright, who wants to spot me $1,000 for this absurdly sumptuous Elden Ring lore book?
- Bear sex 'a watershed moment in game history', says Baldur's Gate 3 writer
- The Tony Blair Insitute 'did not simply ask ChatGPT for the results' of its AI impact report, it trained its own version of ChatGPT instead
- MSI has some great laptop deals going on this Prime Day
- Fallout: London is waving goodbye to the next-gen update as the modders realise it 'isn't stable enough' at the 11th hour
- Rechristened 'Let Me Solo Them,' Elden Ring's greatest hero has overcome his first-time jitters and is now clowning on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss
- The maverick animators behind the WoW Classic trailers put together a rad-as-hell montage of an Azeroth turned destruction derby
- Ayaneo Retro Mini AM02
- Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat
- Arm has developed a new shader-based upscaler using AMD's open source FSR 2.2 as its starting base
- Darktide's next update promises a complete overhaul of weapon progression: 'We took the philosophy with this game to not be afraid of doing quite massive changes'
- As WoW returns to China, NetEase has placed a $14,000 bounty on reports that see cheat peddlers punished by law
- FF14 player counts around 21 hours of cutscenes in Dawntrail—making it the second longest expansion next to Endwalker—and I can't for the life of me tell you why
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 11
- July 10
-
- Whether or not we'll see a penis in Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a spoiler, apparently
- Riot was working on a Smash Bros-style fighting game, but MultiVersus helped convince it to pull the plug
- Surprise! Dota 2 has a built-in fighting game now and it actually looks pretty good
- Star Wars Outlaws' maps won't initially be blanketed in Ubisoft's infamous map icons because your character Kay 'hasn't seen the galaxy' and 'doesn't know everything' yet
- The Sims 4 Lovestruck expansion: release date and feature details
- Now's the time to play that one game you've been putting off
- You can now add Fortnite to the list of things someone has put Doom into
- Ubisoft says a Star Wars Outlaws planet is the size of '2 or 3' Assassin's Creed Odyssey map zones put together, which takes about 5 minutes 'nonstop' on a speeder to cross
- PVKK's full title is literally too big for our website, and the devs say it's 'Space Invaders, but the cannon you fire is really complicated'
- Ubisoft apologizes for using a real-life reenactment group's flag in Assassin's Creed Shadows concept art without permission
- After fans declared total war on Total War, Creative Assembly completes the apology tour with a major free expansion for Pharaoh this month
- After a brutal Overwatch 2 mid-season balance patch, all I can think about is how desperately the game needs a ban hero button
- Bioshock 4 studio is now 'recruiting like mad' but the game's nature remains a mystery
- Intel reportedly won't make any cheaper GPU-less 'F' spec versions of its top Arrow Lake CPUs
- 'Our artists draw thousands of sketches': Palworld's CEO, seemingly exhausted by AI art accusations, once more tries to put them to bed
- How to change worlds in Once Human
- Meet the OBSBOT Tiny 2: An AI-powered 4K webcam that enhances your gaming livestreams with AI auto-tracking and gesture control
- The latest Windows update means Notepad might now be my favourite word processor
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail review
- Palworld announces merch after a new partnership with Sony Music, and I'm praying to Jormuntide Ignis that means plushies
- Why TSMC's 4nm silicon will make or break Intel's new Battlemage GPUs
- Fan effort to recreate the lost Fallout 3 we never got from the original devs gets a big update, goes open-source, and you can finally find it on Nexus Mods
- Baldur's Gate 3's spell tooltips have been lying to you for (potentially) months, though if you've been running off the % chance to hit, you're just fine
- Samsung workers union is calling for an indefinite strike, to which the bosses claim there will infeasibly be 'no disruptions' to production
- Setting every registry value to zero in Windows 10 breaks most features—but Paint and WordPad cling on until the very last
- Gigabyte Aorus 17X (2024) review
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 10
- In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, your companions earn skill points as you rank up their 'Relationship Level'
- New free-to-play survival game Once Human isn't basking in praise, but it does have an unnecessarily granular character creator with no guard rails
- PC Game Pass is getting a $2 price hike this September, but consoles will be hit harder
- July 9
-
- The First Descendent is dollar store Destiny starring exclusively hot people
- SteamDB's browser extension now lets you claim Steam discovery queue rewards without actually looking at your Steam discovery queue
- 'It's time to rebuild some foundations': Shadowlands forced Blizzard to rethink World of Warcraft's oldest ideas to make it a better MMO, director says
- Iizuka says Shadow the Hedgehog wasn't inspired by Vegeta, but fans have receipts that say otherwise
- Somehow, Suicide Squad biffs it again: Just 2 days before it was set to go live, season 2 is delayed
- Apex Legends gets the ol' Steam review bomb treatment
- Bungie is making a drastic change in response to player complaints about timegating in Destiny 2
- What do we want FromSoftware to do after Shadow of the Erdtree?
- Konami releases Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on GOG but bizarrely stops the Japanese game being sold in Japan
- Helldivers CEO wants to keep the 'T-pose of democracy' fall damage bug: 'We'll add inflatable bouncy bags that deploy from under your armpits or some sh*t if we have to'
- New expansion Forges of Corruption is Warhammer 40K: Boltgun at its most gloriously, gruesomely holy
- Overwatch 2's Transformers collaboration is a dream come true for Blizzard Korea's lead concept artist: 'The coolest gift I could give my childhood self'
- Keychron Q3 Max review
- Baldur's Village, the Stardew Valley/BG3 mash-up mod that lets you kiss Astarion, has a new update and potential release window
- The Helldivers smash their latest MO and for some reason have taken against anti-tank mines, but 'can finally go back to killing bugs in good conscience'
- The First Descendant's tutorial robot is talking so fast, players are having to screenshot its dialogue just to learn about the game
- Spelunky creator comes out against god modes in brutal games like his because 'The amount of satisfaction one gets from succeeding eventually is incredible'
- 'Nvidia is slowly becoming the IBM of the AI era' says Jim Keller, perhaps forgetting how short-lived IBM's PC monopoly was
- The Baldur's Gate 3 council of sages (or Larian Studios, if you want to be boring) meets on holy ground to discuss 'lift off' for its next big game
- 50 million downloads in less than a week: Zenless Zone Zero, MiHoYo's action-RPG gacha, is (unsurprisingly) popular
- 'I hope Miyazaki is proud of me': After 325 deaths and a 7-hour bossfight slog, streamer fulfils prophecy and beats Shadow of the Erdtree with a dance pad
- Xiaomi Mi Curved Gaming Monitor 34 review
- League of Legends game director asks the community how players who throw games should be punished: 'Immediately or some lenience?'
- FF14 players skip over perfectly serviceable catboy to thirst relentlessly over a giant, two-headed lizard jerk instead
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 9
- July 8
-
- Elden Ring mod finally lets you wear Ranni as a demigod backpack like the true consort you are
- Sony's hero shooter Concord reveals PC system requirements ahead of two weekend beta tests
- Elden Ring players team up as 'let us duo her' to spin kick its most infamous boss so fast she can't move
- The First Descendant contains icons from Destiny 2, and one theory about how they got there is a reminder that not everything on the internet is what it purports to be
- Apex Legends announces 'improved' battle pass structure that actually sucks for players, removes option to pay with in-game currency
- Embracer has reportedly closed Elex developer Piranha Bytes as former creative director announces a new indie studio
- 20 hidden gems from 2024 to grab before the end of the Steam Summer Sale
- Google's AI visionary says we'll 'expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045' thanks to nanobots, the tech will resurrect the dead, and we're all going to live forever
- Parrying god defeats the hardest boss in Sekiro without moving, admits 'I really need a DLC'
- Multiple governments around the world have secretly agreed to restrict the export of quantum computers
- Helldivers 2 players realise you can survive ludicrous falls by doing a Hug emote while flying through the air
- 'The end is in sight'—Fallout: London, a DLC-sized mod plagued by delays, will arrive soon with its own installer to help slim the chances of Bethesda breaking it a 2nd time
- How to get Amorphous Material in The First Descendant
- An infamous dataset of leaked login details, updated last week, now houses 9,948,575,739 passwords and poses the biggest threat to our online security ever
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty couldn't have been as good 'if the initial reception of the game wasn’t as negative', says lead quest designer
- Hooded Horse CEO hits back at claims that Manor Lords slipped up in early access: 'Not every game should be aimed at becoming some live service boom or bust'
- This platformer frustrates me like no other, but now I'm addicted to beating my own personal best and can't stop
- 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
-
- 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
-
- 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
- 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
-
- 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
- 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
- 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'
- 9 tips to get started in Zenless Zone Zero
- The best Nicole build in Zenless Zone Zero
- Zenless Zone Zero tier list: The best agents for each speciality and attribute
- How to get Polychrome in Zenless Zone Zero
- The best Anby build in Zenless Zone Zero
- The best Billy build in Zenless Zone Zero
- Zenless Zone Zero codes and how to redeem
- July 3
-
- 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
- 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
-
- 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
-
- 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'
- 'Is this supposed to be rigged?' Helldivers 2 players fatigued as bugs leapfrog across supply lines like a bunch of dirty cheaters
- 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
