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- November 8
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- Listen to an old '80s arcade sound chip replicating the sound of birds, a whistle, and even a jackhammer
- 'I had my fun' says hacker who used Call of Duty anti-cheat exploit to ban 'thousands upon thousands' of innocent players
- It's time for Deadlock to introduce an arachnophobia setting because its newest hero can unleash 'a wave of spectral spiders' onto enemies
- I want one: For just $2,900,000 you can own a proper Batmobile with a 6.2 litre V8, and that's a downright bargain if you ask me
- AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU sold out almost instantly and scalpers are already selling the chips for up to $999
- Simulated CPU-building speedrun attempt ends with a functioning processor in a mere six hours
- Intel's Battlemage GPUs rumoured to arrive in December, well ahead of AMD and Nvidia's next-gen chips
- All Genshin Impact 5.2 livestream codes
- New class action lawsuit alleges Intel knew its CPUs were crashing even before they went on sale
- Semiconductor sales rose to $166,000,000,000 in a single quarter this year thanks to all that demand for AI-crunching silicon
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, November 8
- Co-op survival game Icarus is celebrating 153 consecutive weekly updates by giving you a flamethrower and a free weekend
- The first PUBG spinoff with real promise is a top-down take on Rainbow Six Siege
- November 7
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- Black Ops 6 is wasting no time stinking up the joint with ugly skins
- The best Dragon Age: Origins mods
- The most underrated shooter of 2023 is free on Epic right now, and going for cheap on Steam
- To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks
- There is simply too much going on in Black Ops 6 Season 1
- Death of the Reprobate's creator drew inspiration from the timeless art of Hieronymous Bosch, Bruegel, and the poop joke
- Amazon's Mass Effect TV show now in 'active development' from the writer of F9: The Fast Saga (the one where a car goes to space)
- Brighter Shores is a RuneScape successor with lots of professions and little wonder
- Take-Two CEO says Grand Theft Auto 6 is on track for 'fall' next year, GTA 5 has sold over 205 million, and 'PC will be more and more a part of [our] business going forward'
- How to romance Harding in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you
- The top AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D overclock just hit 7.24 GHz on HWBOT, but also a stable 6.9 GHz that delivers literally thousands of in-game fps
- If you love big trucks, establishing trade routes, and the phrase 'post-apocalyptic survival business simulator' then I've got just the strategy RPG for you
- Australia proposes social media ban for everyone under the age of 16, citing concerns about young people's mental wellbeing
- Sega is delisting a huge number of its greatest classic games on Steam, probably so it can sell you a new collection
- Tomorrow is the last day of voting for the 42nd Golden Joystick Awards Ultimate Game of the Year and Best Game Adaptation
- AMD finally beats Intel in server revenue, but surprise surprise, Nvidia's still miles ahead
- Dragon Age: Origins' Fade level is the sort of funky failed experiment you just wouldn't see in a triple-A RPG these days
- AMD just took the one thing Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs had going for them and slapped it right out of their hands
- Roblox is banning kids from unrated experiences and Social Hangout spaces in an effort to protect them from paedophiles
- Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming CPU
- An unintended rules change in D&D's new Dungeon Master's Guide can cause your heroic adventurer to drop dead after chasing bad guys for 1 minute—and if they survive, they'll be knackered for days
- How to romance Taash in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL Gen 3 review
- The Sims competitor Inzoi is being delayed until next year because 'it is said that among primates, raising a human child to adulthood takes the longest time'
- Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming headset
- Nvidia's upgrading GeForce Now's $10 tier with 1440p and Ultrawide resolutions, but the only extra Ultimate users get is a new 100-hour play limit
- GTA 6's corporate overlord reveals that he's looking forward to 'a more sensible FTC' under the Trump administration because sometimes 'deregulation can be a positive'
- Take-Two's CEO generously calls the cataclysmically bad Borderlands movie 'disappointing', but it still ended up helping sales of the games
- OpenAI has bought the URL of what used to be an adult video chat website for more than $15,500,000
- I chatted to an MIT-built AI version of my future, 60-year-old self and we did NOT get along
- Five things I always tell people before they buy their first SSD
- Crown Gambit, a stylish dark-fantasy card battler where choices matter, now has a demo
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Path of Exile 2
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, November 7
- Blizzard veteran David Kim's strategy comeback with Battle Aces is 'very personal:' 'I just can't accept... the end-all peak of RTS is StarCraft 2 and nothing can ever be better'
- November 6
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- Diablo 4 players take the 'action' out of action RPG and create the ultimate AFK build that plays itself
- Barney Calhoun goes to Xen in Black Mesa: Blue Shift's latest chapter, coming later this month
- Take-Two has sold Private Division to an unnamed buyer: 'We are top-ten hit makers around here,' and Private Division wasn't making them
- Foxhole, the brilliant MMO that simulates a persistent war, gears up to add airplanes in 2025
- Grab a friend to try these Deadlock duo lane picks and take a bite out of the cursed apple
- Helldivers' creative boss doesn't want to 'dilute' it with crossovers, but his list of dream choices has some real deep cuts
- Eric Barone issues emergency Stardew Valley performance PSA: 'Remove all hats from pets'
- Arcane, Riot's two-season League of Legends animated series, reportedly cost $250 million to make
- How to get the best ending to Dragon Age: The Veilguard—or the worst, if you're curious
- Pud's Dolbus gets you 5.1 surround sound from headphones with a side of deadly Saw trap nightmares
- Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming mouse
- Sony's 'universal' rewind button is probably just a glorified video capture feature
- The Ryzen 7 9800X3D may have just launched, but AMD doesn't expect an end of life announcement for the old 7800X3D 'anytime in the near future' and 'would expect it in the market for a while'
- Best Black Ops 6 PP-919 loadout and class setup
- Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming chair
- I thought I was good at Deadlock until its unexpected ranked distribution proved that I'm worse than mid
- Best Black Ops 6 KSV loadout and class setup
- It looks like 'Windows Intelligence' might subsume 'Copilot' branding, giving yet more evidence that we can't decide how to market AI
- Take that, Apple: Nvidia is once again the world's most valuable company at $3.43 trillion
- 20 years later, Konami just finally revealed who played Eva in MGS3 and how she acted making out with Naked Snake
- If you're using any kind of stagger build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, do this side quest for the Lords of Fortune right away to get a best-in-slot ring
- How to romance Bellara in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Best Black Ops 6 Model L loadout and class setup
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review
- Best Black Ops 6 AS Val loadout and class setup
- Best Black Ops 6 C9 loadout and class setup
- CrowdStrike is having problems with Windows again but thankfully just with 24H2 and just in some Office programs
- The ex-GTA lead whose blog got the kibosh from Rockstar chats San Andreas' worst bug and why 'anything that isn't visible to players tends to have swearing in it'
- It was nuts that BioWare based Dragon Age: Inquisition's story on a DLC nobody played, but that DLC also proved just how close Dragon Age 2 was to perfection
- Intel CEO sees 'less need for discrete graphics' and now we're really worried about its upcoming Battlemage gaming GPU and the rest of Intel's graphics roadmap
- The PS5 Pro gives console players the guilt-free 60 fps that PC players have enjoyed for years
- The PS5 Pro's best friend isn't a TV, it's a gaming monitor
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, November 6
- It sure looks like a Warcraft 2 remaster just leaked ahead of next week's anniversary event
- Steam Deck orders in Australia will go live on November 19
- As expected, Twitch has modified its new 'politics and sensitive social issues' rules, and nobody is happy with the changes
- November 5
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- Steam Game Recording is now available for everyone, and it's packed with neat features
- There's a Halo 2 nostalgia party going on in Halo Infinite and you're invited
- A remake of strategy classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 has proven divisive among its fanbase
- Capcom, if you're listening: Monster Hunter Wilds needs its hitstop back
- How to obtain Mythal's essence by convincing her to help you in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- This week's Humble Choice is dang good: Darktide, Persona 4, and more
- Two months after the disastrous Seekers of the Storm expansion, Gearbox details its Risk of Rain 2 rescue plan, and players are actually pretty excited
- All the suave assassins in Dragon Age: The Veilguard are actually even cooler in Tevinter Nights
- Don't expect a big Mass Effect reveal this week: BioWare says N7 Day will be 'quieter' than previous years
- In the wake of Nuketown, Treyarch gears up to tackle players’ biggest issue with Black Ops 6: The map pools
- WD Blue SN5000 4TB NVMe SSD review
- Stardew Valley's latest update added a 'secret, experimental mobile multiplayer' mode, and you have to use the Konami code on a bunch of leaves to unlock it
- Red Dead Redemption appeared on consoles 14 years ago—here's the kind of gaming PC it could have been ported to back then
- Samsung 990 Evo Plus 1 TB NVMe SSD review
- Microsoft has eradicated all memory of Paint 3D from the store, and its predecessor is only getting better
- What is the worst Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 map and why is it Babylon?
- Why Stalker: Shadow of Chornobyl's difficulty modes have divided players for over a decade
- Looking back on 15 years of Dragon Age reviews—including that Dragon Age 2 score we've never stopped defending
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first mods fulfil the creators' true intention of letting you play as Nigel Thornberry, but spit on all that is good and decent by making everything less magenta
- Have you ever wanted to see a 1950s rotary phone turned into a Bluetooth headset? Well, here's one anyway
- Meta's nuclear-powered AI ambitions appear to have been thwarted by a swarm of bees
- 'They have left us no choice': New York Times' tech staff asks players to boycott Wordle and Connections in solidarity
- Now's the time to update your Nvidia drivers as several high-severity vulnerabilities have been patched in the most recent update
- Deadlock players have finally figured out that Grey Talon is good, actually, only for Valve to dish out a little nerf
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first patch is coming later this week
- Final Fantasy 14 composer Soken admits he doesn't like musicals, but reassures fans he wasn't 'forced to make' Dawntrail's controversial Smile theme 'against my will'
- Elon Musk says he's one of the world's 'top 20' Diablo 4 players, still reckons he was a Quake all-time great even after its actual best player said he 'wasn't very good'
- Some of AMD's next generation of laptop APUs will be absolute monsters at gaming, all thanks to the magic of 3D V-Cache
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard Warden Vault solution—How to open the locks
- Monster Hunter Wilds' low-poly beasts have been lovingly adopted by fans nicknaming them 'origami monsters'
- Enshrouded's biggest update yet adds townsfolk, livestock and pets, a new biome, and finally some dynamic weather
- Metal Slug Tactics review
- Early PlayStation 5 Pro shipments reveal some big upgrades over the original but that AMD GPU isn't quite what I was expecting
- Meta-funded regulator for AI disinformation on Meta's platform comes under fire: 'You are not any sort of check and balance, you are merely a bit of PR spin'
- After 17 years, 'the most mysterious song on the internet', used in esoteric and rad Doom mod MyHouse.wad, has been found
- Overwatch 2's newest smash hit game mode is getting an extra week of run time, but not everything is sticking around
- It's the end of an era: Nvidia replaces Intel in a key Dow Jones index, as Team Blue's fortunes tumble
- The long promised online co-op update for The Binding of Isaac Rebirth is only weeks away
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, November 5
- Ubisoft's NFT dumpster fire flares up as a matchmaking bug leaves every player connecting and losing to the same confused, unkillable guy
- November 4
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- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 review
- This chill puzzle game is so good I bought its prequel before I even finished it
- Pro Philosopher 2 is Ace Attorney for our stupid election season, and it really did make me feel better
- The fix to Destiny 2's 'Weightgate' scandal will be rolled out tomorrow, Bungie is going to say sorry by giving away god-roll guns to everyone
- Dragon Age boss says a Legendary Edition-style remaster of the old games in the series is unlikely because there's 'maybe 20 people left at BioWare' who know how their engine works
- Black Friday gaming chair deals in Australia for 2024: cheap seats for gamers and streamers
- Stardew Valley has a troublesome new 'disappearing chickens' bug, which Eric Barone is explaining away by declaring invisible coyotes are stealing them
- Treyarch has nerfed Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's loathed Recon perk, meaning your wallhacks won't last quite as long after respawning
- Squid Game season 2's first trailer shows player 456 returning to the lion's den, as the creator basically confirms an English-language adaptation
- Not content with finally getting Stardew Valley 1.6 live on all platforms, Eric Barone has piled a bunch of other new stuff on top of it in yet another big update
- Star Wars Outlaws has a new creative director, promises more work on three 'key areas': Combat, stealth, and controls
- Real Madrid is so popular, Real Madrid vs. Real Madrid outranks nearly every other matchup in EA Sports FC 25
- Hackers hijack over 16,000 TP-Link network devices, creating a big ol' botnet that's absolutely slamming Microsoft Azure accounts
- Square Enix honcho Yoshi-P pledges more simultaneous releases as the company realises people don't like waiting years for its games
- From the moody horror of Origins to the gleaming high fantasy of The Veilguard, few series have changed as much as Dragon Age
- One player has finally solved the Silent Hill 2 remake photos secret, and the devs couldn't be happier: 'There was a theory in our company that the puzzle might be too hard'
- Robots can play the cello with an orchestra now, and that sound you can hear is the point whistling over the top of its creator's heads
- How to use valuables in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Microsoft's building data centres out of wood hoping we'll forget AI's made its carbon emissions 29% higher than when it pledged to go 'carbon negative' in 2020
- It looks like Ubisoft's finally had it with the Assassin's Creed Shadows outrage mill: 'When we self-censor in the face of threats, we hand over our power'
- The goggles, they do everything: These scratch-built AR glasses even have homemade lenses
- Dragon Age has a secret 'uber-plot' that BioWare still seems to be following, and it all builds up 'the final thing you could do in this world that would break it'
- On Dragon Age's 15th anniversary, join us in celebrating one of the most iconic RPG series of all time
- Dragon Age: Inquisition's Hinterlands were the closest BioWare got to making an Elder Scrolls-style open world, and everyone agreed you should leave as quickly as possible
- 'I look tired'—FF14 director Yoshi-P apologises to Monster Hunter Wilds for his 'unseemly presence' after fans recreate him, and I feel like he's being a little harsh on himself
- Lemokey G1 review
- Undead Labs wants to be known for more than just zombies, and State of Decay 3 could mark that changing point with 'a much greater level of ambition'
- I've tested Asus' new Turbo Game Mode for AMD CPUs and my verdict is simple: Don't use it
- Ex-AMD fab GlobalFoundries has been fined $500K after admitting it shipped $17,000,000 worth of product to a company associated with China's military industrial complex
- What a difference a year makes: Nvidia's RTX 40-series share of the Steam Hardware Survey is 80% larger than this time last year but its last-gen RTX chips still rule the roost
- Ubisoft boss says it knows players think it has an 'inconsistency in quality,' so it delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows to flip that script
- PSA: Don't miss this Dragon Age: The Veilguard side quest, since it gives a ton of vital context for the main story
- Slitterhead review
- 'One million street-level deals' worth of methamphetamine smuggled in PC case shipment
- Morrigan isn't just my favourite Dragon Age character, she's the greatest fantasy RPG companion of all time
- Here's a time-devouring combination of factory-building and incremental game
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 4, 2024)
- November 3
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- Magicraft is like Brotato mixed with Hades where you make up all your guns as you go along
- In just 3 days, the state of Nintendo Alarmo hacking went from 'it loads a cat jpg' to 'it runs Doom better than a lot of PCs back in the day'
- Every origin in Dragon Age: Origins, ranked
- A college student put on a free stage adaptation of Silent Hill 2 'to make a truly frightening theatrical experience' all without an appearance by Pyramid Head
- Apparently George Lucas originally wanted Liam Neeson to be the 'real' Obi-Wan Kenobi, with Ewan McGregor taking up the name after he died
- One of the biggest names in immersive sims reckons they're easier to sell if you call them something else, but one day they'll be 'invading every genre'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, November 3
- BioWare has no DLC plans for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, has shifted focus onto Mass Effect
- Sintopia is a town-builder and god game that puts you in charge of the bureaucracy of Hell
- November 2
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- Greg Hildebrandt, influential artist for Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Magic: The Gathering, has died
- Baldur's Gate 3's offscreen secrets include an 'asylum' for plot-critical NPCs and a 'magical teleporting death journal' to help particularly murderous players find Act 2
- These Dragon Age: The Veilguard players have done the impossible, making the qunari look nearly as awesome as they did in Dragon Age 2
- China: Mao's Legacy is like an absurdly specific Paradox game on a tight budget, and also one of the best sims I've ever played
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, November 2
- Twitch now requires a warning label for 'politics and sensitive social issues,' and it's going over exactly as well as you'd expect
- November 1
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- The PC game releases we're most excited about in November
- Black Ops 6 needs to nerf this ludicrously overpowered 'Wallhacks' perk into the ground ASAP
- The biggest hidden gem of the Steam Scream Fest is Labyrinth of the Demon King, a brutal horror game that traps you in the worst place in all of Feudal Japan
- Another game is disappearing from Steam: Five years after its last update, Bethesda is closing its Elder Scrolls card game
- Borderlands 2 player spends over 800 hours beating it without taking a single hit, but another player swiped the achievement 10 hours earlier
- I play way too many indie horror games, and you absolutely shouldn't miss Psychopomp Gold: it's $9 and got 1,000 'overwhelmingly positive' Steam reviews in just 1 week
- The Monster Hunter Wilds beta isn't looking so hot, but Capcom says the full game 'is already in a more improved state'
- The scariest horror game I played this Halloween ended up being Waffle Cone Willie, a game about running away from an evil ice cream truck
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard doesn't care what choices you made in previous Dragon Age games, and that sucks
- Wanna feel old? Warcraft is 30 years old, Half-Life 2 is 20 years old, and Dragon Age: Inquisition is 10 years old as of this month
- The Monster Hunter Wilds beta drew almost half a million concurrent Steam players in the first hour
- Ex-BioWare dev explains why everyone in Mass Effect and Dragon Age does that one 'BioWare turn' animation
- After a combined 180 hours playing, we can finally tell you which is the best Dragon Age: The Veilguard class and why it's actually kind of all of them
- How to complete the Zombies easter eggs in Black Ops 6
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's story does get better, but its clunky script makes such a bad first impression—and those problems never quite go away
- I don't know whether I'd wait for Black Friday when there are already RTX 4070 Super gaming PCs going for so little
- How to romance Neve in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Microsoft is asking for 30 of your American dollars to keep Windows 10 safe for a year after it's put out to pasture
- GTA Online's console-exclusive enhanced edition is finally coming to PC
- Lunar Lake's speedy onboard memory is a one-off, Intel's AI GPU is a flop and other news from CEO Pat Gelsinger's latest chinwag with investors
- Eric Barone reveals his secret pumpkin folder, full of Stardew Valley fan carvings of Krobus that players keep sending him on Halloween
- Planet Coaster 2 review
- An AI-generated website convinced thousands of people to show up to a fake Halloween parade in Ireland, showing how unprepared we are for AI misinformation
- Horizon Zero Dawn's questionable remaster launches to Mixed reviews as players lament a new mandatory PSN sign-in that wasn't in the original, visual glitches, and audio bugs
- The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D might seal Arrow Lake's fate unless Intel cuts prices to compete with the 9000-series
- Nvidia's 'high-end' Arm-based chip for PCs will reportedly go into production in 2025
- The best part of Deadlock's Halloween update is a new building redesign which reimagines the world into a truly occult New York City
- PSA: Dragon Age: The Veilguard doesn't warn you which big quests are going to lock you out of finishing up side quests
- Final Fantasy 14's patch 7.1 trailer teases much-needed character development for its bad dad antagonist Zoraal Ja—but a sluggish release schedule for everything else
- AI-generated Minecraft unveiled, showcasing AI's unlimited ability to copy things but worse
- Microsoft recalls Windows 11's Recall AI PC feature yet again and it now won't even be released for testing until December
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, November 1
