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- January 31
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- For 20 years, WordPress existed without much drama—now it's at the center of a big fight that won't be over soon
- Path of Exile 2 has finally perfected the fantasy archer
- A yuri VN about national parks that turn into anime girls is, somehow, the most relatable game I've played in my 20s
- Jedi Power Battles is old-fashioned, weird, and frustrating—but God, I wish they still made Star Wars games like this
- Beyond Citadel is a horny, ultra-violent retro FPS that I want to recommend to everybody and nobody
- January 30
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- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s minigames, ranked
- At long last, Hello Kitty Island Adventure has come to PC after 2 excruciating years and it's the perfect outlet for my ever-growing Sanrio obsession
- DLSS 4's announcement may have convinced me to switch from AMD to Nvidia for the next generation of GPUs, and I doubt I'm the only one
- After 7 hours, Dune: Awakening might be the mix of survival and RPG that finally wins me over to the genre
- This fascinating Lovecraftian RPG has me determined to build an army of ghoul-slaying cats—and no I haven't been driven mad by forbidden knowledge, why do you ask?
- January 29
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- Where to buy the Nvidia RTX 5080: the high-end GPU just launched and stocks are already running low, so here's every RTX 5080 retailer listing I've found so far
- I'm still waiting for a high-end VR headset good enough to make me ditch my Quest 3
- It's high time League of Legends got full voice chat
- The best part of this brilliant detective game is going back to a time when searching the internet was a huge pain... uh, for different reasons than it is now
- January 28
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- I only just noticed this, but Merriam-Webster has put together a solid collection of free daily puzzle browser games
- Brace yourselves Civ fans: Civilization 7 is going to be contentious among critics and fans
- Everything we know about Inzoi—the first major Sims competitor to hit the ground
- In the middle of the LA fires, I played a new extraction shooter that challenged me to survive angry robots, other players, and planet-destroying climate change
- Monster Hunter Wilds: everything we know about the open world Wilds
- Death Howl is an impossible and brilliant blend of soulslike, turn-based strategy, and deckbuilding, and you can try it for free now
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 27, 2025)
- January 27
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- January 24
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- Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is Team Ninja making a statement of intent, and I am here for it
- While I'm trapped indoors by one of the UK's worst storms, I'm enjoying one of my favourite pastimes: trudging through gnarly weather in videogames
- I put a $139 gamer muzzle on my loud husband to muffle his Rainbow Six shouting, but the quiet wasn't worth the guilt
- Dynasty Warriors: Origins goaded me into spending an hour trying to beat Lu Bu, then gave me nothing for winning—and I loved it
- Air coolers are still cool
- The RTS genre might be in a bit of a state, but at least you can pick up these 10 classics for $30 in the Steam Real-Time Strategy Fest before it ends soon
- Mythic Quest Season 4: Still a nimble comedy with a ton of heart, and the best it's been since its first season
- January 23
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- Quit worrying about game install sizes with these future-proof SSDs
- GTA 6: What we know about Rockstar's return to Vice City
- After Doom Eternal's intense acrobatics, Doom: The Dark Ages will focus on simplified, ergonomic controls: 'You shouldn't be fighting the controls, you should be fighting the bad guys'
- Endless Legend 2, the sequel to Amplitude's sublime 4X, is finally coming, and it's fully leaning into the joy of exploration: 'It is a feeling that will stick with you until the end'
- Mindwave is the story-driven spiritual successor to WarioWare that is so good I don't care that I keep messing up on the supposedly simple final boss
- I played 6 hours of Assassin's Creed Shadows, and folks, I think this one was worth the wait
- Eagle-eyed digital snipers have a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Sniper Elite: Resistance
- January 22
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- Where to buy the Nvidia RTX 5090: the top-end GPU just launched and here are all the RTX 5090 retailer listings I can find, though stocks are fast dwindling
- I built the mullet of gaming PCs with MSI's Project Zero 'Back-Connect' parts
- Arrow Lake's had three months of Windows and BIOS updates to fix its performance, and my testing shows in some games, it's worse
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC performance analysis: Runs well and looks good, but the tight system requirements and dearth of PC-centric options spoil the show
- If you're planning to mainline Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, turn the difficulty down to easy
- Diablo 4 meets Vampire Survivors in this clever roguelike that makes every round its own epic viking adventure
- Blade Chimera ditches the usual metroidvania progression in favour of a radical idea: skipping straight to the good stuff
- January 21
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- Steam reviewers finally trolled me: I bought a game they called 'calm' and 'relaxing' before I noticed those were the 'funny' reviews
- Civilization 7: Everything we know about the first new Civ game in nearly a decade
- The best games like The Sims for building beautiful characters, homes, and a life full of drama
- Level up your campaigns with HP printers: essential equipment for gamers and storytellers
- January 20
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- World of Warcraft has a currency problem: more than 500 kinds of tender can currently be used in the 20-year-old game
- The run up to the US TikTok ban got as messy, emotional, and weird as the final days of an MMO—and now everyone's back and no one can look each other in the eye
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 20, 2025)
- January 18
- January 17
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- 'The kid is 100% getting kidnapped': Our 7 best guesses at what the plucky kid in the new Assassin's Creed Shadows art is gonna do in the game
- As a longtime GTA roleplayer, this documentary about actors putting on Hamlet inside GTA Online made me laugh, cry, and wholeheartedly regret ever calling Shakespeare a boring old bastard
- Ancient Egyptian horror game Amenti had everything lined up to make it a stellar scarefest—except it forgot to include some actual horror
- The Best of CES 2025
- 10 essential boomer shooters that every FPS fan should play
- January 16
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- Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 both rushes and drags, but finally arrives at its best action scenes ever
- Nintendo Switch 2? Nah, I'll take a next-gen handheld gaming PC thanks very much
- I will get a Switch 2 for Pokémon and no handheld gaming PC on Earth can stop me
- Some 20 hours in, I can say that Civilization 7's age transitions are the series' most radical and disruptive mechanic yet
- January 15
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- Brutal survival RTS Age of Darkness kept me up until 4 am this morning as I tried to perfect the formula to halt the end of the world
- Here's how the new RTX 50-series cards perform against the previous generation of GeForce GPUs
- I'll say it: The best thing I saw from Nvidia at CES wasn't its sweet new GPUs, but some tasty AI every RTX gamer can enjoy
- An ode to the RTX 4090 and why high-end GPUs can sometimes be the best value
- MrBeast's YouTube schtick is somehow even worse with the obscene Amazon money being pumped into Beast Games
- January 14
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- Sid Meier's Civilization needs to keep reinventing itself to stay relevant
- The new Sims 4 start screen is by far the best it's had in a decade
- The Sims 4 is getting 2 base game updates to celebrate the series 25th anniversary
- 'The Sims continues to be this kind of funhouse mirror to the world': Sims boss Lyndsay Pearson on 25 years of the series and what's to come in the future
- The high-rise adventure SickWay VR is now available on Steam with a limited-time 10% discount
- Aloft strives to be the next co-op survival crafting game, but its early access version leaves a lot to be desired
- Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is an aggressively old-school MMO that hates hand-holding so much it won't even give you a map—but a certain type of player might just love it
- This depraved roguelike will turn you into a desperate sociopath… uh, in a fun way
- January 13
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- Hyper Light Breaker has great combat, impeccable vibes, and its ambitious randomized open worlds actually work—the real test is if it goes the distance in early access
- To the dismay of my colleagues, I paid $15 for this Hatsune Miku desktop pet so you don't have to
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 13, 2025)
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- January 10
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- A tabletop RPG designer made a game about the way FromSoft NPCs say cryptic stuff and go 'heh heh heh' all the time, and the result is a love letter to the 'grubby little weirdos'
- World of Warcraft's competitive dungeon mode is struggling
- The best part of Marvel Rivals Season 1 is Mister Fantastic's obnoxiously fun chest-bump attack and his ridiculously OP kit
- It's time for me to admit that AI-accelerated frame generation might actually be the way of the future and that's a good thing
- 20 hours in, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a mad, systems-driven sandbox that captures some of the best parts of games like Stalker
- Dragonflight got WoW back on its feet, now we get to see if Blizzard can make the Worldsoul Saga run
- January 9
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- This bizarre roguelike has a new take on the Vampire Survivors formula: letting you build your own custom weapons out of brains, eyeballs, and chimpanzee spines
- 18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
- The Witcher 3's now 2-year-old bonus quest is our first taste of the 'vibe' CD Projekt is going for in The Witcher 4
- 2024 was the year updates for old games beat out all the new ones for me
- January 8
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- 'It's simply impossible to make a difficulty level that's just right for all players': How Final Fantasy 14's lead battle designer has been playing a precarious balancing game for Dawntrail's dungeons and raids
- Please join me in getting super excited for all the cool looking survival games coming in 2025 (and beyond)
- January 7
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- These are the 14 biggest upcoming RPGs of 2025—get ready for another amazing year for the genre
- Now D&D's 2024 rules revamp is almost finished, I've been visited by the ghosts of TTRPG past, present, and future to help me predict the next 5-10 years
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 6, 2025)
- January 5
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- 6 games that could be bigger hits than you're expecting in 2025
- What are your 2025 gaming resolutions?
- The FBI put a $5 million bounty on the 'Cryptoqueen' last year but still hasn't found her, so take your pick: Russia, South Africa, or murdered on a yacht in 2018
- The Witcher season 4: Everything we know about Hemsworth's debut on The Continent
- 8 bold gaming predictions for 2025
- January 2
- January 1
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- 2025 PC hardware preview: This is the tech we want in our gaming rigs from the coming year
- Why do some games get a pass for jank and others don't?
- After a year in its company, I've done a complete 180 on my Steam Deck
- With the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout games still years away, here are 6 upcoming total conversion mods for Skyrim and Fallout 4 to get excited about
