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- November 23
- November 22
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- Rejoice, roguelike nerds: Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is coming to Steam
- Ubisoft keeps talking about Assassin's Creed Shadows like it finally remembers it used to make Splinter Cell, the greatest stealth games
- Path of Exile 2 early access has a 25-hour campaign and a surprisingly beefy endgame
- Gabe Newell says no-one in the industry thought Steam would work as a distribution platform—'I'm not talking about 1 or 2 people, I mean like 99%'
- Stalker 2 devs reassure players: Yes, A-Life 2.0 is in the game, no, it's not working right, and yes, fixes are on the way
- The origin of the Source engine's iconic neon fuchsia checkerboard texture, as told by Half-Life 2's new commentary mode
- Riot calls out 'disrespectful' AI-extended Arcane art on Netflix: 'This image was a mistake'
- If you've been worried about Avowed not looking punchy enough, Obsidian's combat designer has a hitstop animation 'superpower' that might reassure you
- Stalker 2 sells over a million copies: 'This is just the start'
- Upcoming Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU rumoured to have fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 4070 Super
- This YouTuber has been on a mission to discover the worst Lego to step on, and it involves a ballistic gel foot
- Baldur's Gate 3 console players are now limited to 100 mods per save—and probably won't have unfettered access to big naturals Withers like we do on PC
- Ex-Blizzard president has rather boldly called Sony's potential FromSoftware scoop 'probably a top 2 acquisition in videogames in the last 15+ years if not ever'
- A team of chemists have created the world's thinnest spaghetti, although there's no word yet on the sauce
- Valve gets closer to perfecting Deadlock's matchmaking, which will now account for your strengths and weaknesses with each hero
- Balatro's mobile release has managed the almost impossible task of knocking Minecraft from its long-maintained top spot on the charts
- I can't decide if I love or hate the look of this wooden split ergonomic keyboard. No, no, it's the latter
- I'm picking out the best Black Friday gaming deals because my near 20-years as a PC tech journo have all been leading up to this
- An Intel-commissioned study on AI PCs says AI PCs are good, actually
- New Intel next-gen GPU Battlemage rumour pegs it as an RTX 4070 Super competitor with 16 GB VRAM and launching next month
- Man wed to digital icon Hatsune Miku in real life causes uproar when he admits he mostly married her just because he could
- Telecoms hack on US government officials is 'worst in nations history' and 'the barn door is still wide open' says senator
- Google to sell Chrome AND be banned from re-entering the browser market for five years, recommends US Department of Justice
- All Honkai: Star Rail 2.7 livestream codes
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti GPU specs have supposedly leaked and I'm not sure if I'm excited or exasperated
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, November 22
- What have they done to my beautiful boy
- November 21
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- Our favourite gaming chair is discounted for Black Friday, so it's time to park your butt in style
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's latest patch means players can finally use arrow keys for movement
- Dragon Age: Inquisition was supposed to see your Origins character return for what would have been the most excruciating choice BioWare ever concocted
- The last thing I ever want to do is 'Learn more' or have you 'Remind Me Later': Microsoft is pushing fullscreen ads for Windows 11 laptops to people still using Windows 10
- Rockstar teases 'absolutely mind-blowing things' in the works as Grand Theft Auto 6 wins Most Wanted Game at the Golden Joystick Awards
- Blizzard just nuked one of the most toxic Hearthstone cards ever designed: "Yeah, our bad…"
- Infinity Nikki was developed in secret for over a year, calling in former Breath of the Wild and The Witcher 3 talent to realize its open world
- Two undersea data cables cut in the Baltic, European authorities suspect sabotage
- GOG adds two of the original Stalker games to its preservation program, with huge discounts to boot
- Elon Musk might officially be the best Diablo 4 player in the world: 'So many life lessons to be learned from speedrunning video games on max difficulty'
- Google's Gemini AI tells user trying to get help with their homework they're 'a stain on the universe' and 'please die'
- Unlimited carry weight? Nerfing Bloodsuckers? The first mods are here for Stalker 2 and they ruin everything
- 'Just like we generate electricity, we're now going to be generating AI': Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sees AI as a commodity to be made in 'AI factories'
- Unknown 9: Awakening studio makes major layoffs just a month after the game's release
- Despite running load tests that simulated 200,000 users, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 devs admit that they 'completely underestimated' how many players would actually want to play their game
- By the end of the year some RTX 4070 laptops could be the first non-NPU machines to be given a Microsoft Copilot+ stamp
- Steam has changed its policy on DLC content and season passes, so now players are entitled to proper compensation if future plans fall through: 'Customers will be offered a refund for the value of unreleased DLC'
- Stalker 2 is killing it on Steam because we stan a janky weirdo
- Obsidian's designers discuss how they decide the size of Avowed's environments: 'We don't want to have those empty, meaningless spaces just to have them'
- Nvidia says its surprisingly high $3.3B gaming revenue is expected to drop but 'not to worry' because next year will be fine *wink* RTX 50-series *wink*
- Gamers using Windows 11 24H2 systems are getting jumpscared by this one weird audio bug
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, November 21
- November 20
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- Free-to-play 'MOBA battle royale' game Supervive, one of the most popular recent Steam demos, is out now in early access
- Star Wars Outlaws is dropping 'forced stealth,' so instead of being reset when you get caught sneaking around, you can just start blasting
- 'It's the best game': Post Malone reveals he has nearly 400 hours in Hunt: Showdown, proving the songwriter has impeccable FPS taste
- Indie distribution platform Itch.io now requires asset creators to disclose the use of generative AI in their work
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's waiting queue is gone, so you should be able to get in now
- Reddit is back after hours of downtime and errors: 'A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results'
- Minecraft is getting two block-busting theme parks
- FromSoftware's parent company confirms that Sony is looking to buy it out
- Space Marine 2 will ban mods for public online play in December but promises that better mod support is on the way
- The Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility in China has a machine that spins so fast it generates 1,900x the Earth's gravity
- Qualcomm reckons it will be flogging $4 billion worth of PC CPUs annually by 2029 which is about what AMD sold in 2023
- Couple spends almost $1,000,000 building a family home 'optimized for LAN parties,' and the result is definitely living that dream
- Opera labels every other browser 'f***ing boring' in an inexplicably sweary promo reel. Oh, and updates its gamer-focused Opera GX browser a little too
- The damage control for A Minecraft Movie has already begun as the director admits they expected 'strong opinions', but pinky promises that the test screens went super well
- I've already played Stalker 2 for 50+ hours, and I promise you'll have a better time if you play with Ukrainian voice acting
- Nvidia's new 'AI PC' social media channel has me foaming at the bit for the in-house CPU we all want
- Corsair's new accessory refresh gives Mac users the perfect excuse to never use a Magic Mouse or Magic Keyboard again
- Akon's 'Smack That' and Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins have a shared history, according to her writer, who cast her off a 'beat poet rendition' of the song
- Minecraft Movie director reveals that Jack Black was 'as method as it gets' while playing Steve as he 'got obsessed with searching for lapis lazuli' during filming breaks
- Huh, Final Fantasy 14 is getting a mobile remake made by another studio, with redesigned jobs and battles made for your clumsy thumbs
- Wait, the Steam Controller 2 is in mass production? Someone grab the popcorn because nothing brought out the strong opinions like Valve's first controller
- AMD rumoured to be ditching future RDNA 5 graphics architecture in favour of 'unified' UDNA tech in a possible effort to bring AI smarts to gaming ASAP
- Baldur's Gate 3 defies the laws of physics by being a singleplayer RPG with more daily users in 2024 than its release year
- Early plans for Half-Life 2 sound wild, including visits to cities like Chicago and LA, several Combine bases, and a sequence where a plane crashed into a skyrise that was cut after 9/11
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, November 20
- Path of Exile 2 developer finally reveals how much it'll cost to play in early access
- November 19
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- Star Wars: The Old Republic will give away inactive character names in December, so if you want to protect your own personal Glup Shitto you better log in before then
- A Minecraft Movie's second trailer is better than its first, but that's such an incredibly low bar I don't think it counts for much
- No Diablo 4 player will have to suffer its most grueling grind again thanks to a hidden perk with its new free character boost
- Farming Simulator 25 harvested a crop of 2 million players in its first week
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 crashes on takeoff thanks to massive server woes, devs say they're working on it: 'The team is on it, and we will keep going'
- Control 2 is an 'action RPG,' Remedy says, but unfortunately it doesn't explain what exactly that means
- US Department of Justice reportedly recommends that Google be forced to sell Chrome, and boy does Google not like that: 'The government putting its thumb on the scale'
- Gabe Newell was diving when a shark tried to bite him 'a couple of times' but 'it didn't really bother me... I just think that's how I'm wired'
- Overwatch 2's new tank hero will be playable for a short time only this Friday, and so far, Hazard looks like he'll be a treat for brawlers
- As Guild Wars 2 continues to refine its new annual expansion cycle, today's major update adds its first raid in over 5 years
- I have found the one use of AI that no one can argue with: diagnosing sick dogs
- 'I can buy like 2 hot dogs': Mouthwashing's dev celebrates over 1 million Spotify downloads for the game's soundtrack
- Valve signed a deal for Counter-Strike 2 in 2003 because they were 'running on fumes', and Gabe Newell was so happy he made a celebratory knife with his own hands
- The 42nd annual Golden Joystick Awards are live now—watch the whole show here
- This genre-blending indie game left me obsessed with the tales behind trinkets and knick-knacks, and wanting more
- You can turn Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 into 'basically an economy sim' where you hire pilots to fly for you
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will simulate '3 trillion trees' and is borrowing all its animals from Planet Zoo
- Sony is rumoured to be snapping up FromSoftware's parent company in the industry's ongoing mission to be consolidated to hell and back
- Despite an update 'mitigating' the problem, some Windows 11 users seemingly still can't change the date and time in settings—although there is a workaround
- Trash man rescues surprisingly decent gaming rig from landfill—and it even powers on
- All Balatro's creator wants to do after the game received 5 nominations at the Game Awards is praise other overlooked developers: 'We all know how hard this industry can be and help each other when we can'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, November 19
- Overwatch's two new theme songs won't make your playlist, but they're perfectly fitting for its post-OWL esports matches
- A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit after a publisher 'decided to go World War 3' on it, and it all hinged on one email
- November 18
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- After dominating The Game Awards in 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 is in the running for even more gold in 2024
- Roblox adds new rules for players under 13 following scathing child safety report
- US Air National Guardsman gets 15 years for leaking military secrets on a Minecraft Discord server: 'The scope of his betrayal is breathtaking… the amount of damage immeasurable'
- Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content
- Microsoft's Phil Spencer denies Avowed was delayed because it's janky: 'We didn't move it because Obsidian needed the time. They'll use the time'
- Helldivers 2 players endure sarcastic propaganda that commends their 'undeniable tactical brilliance' after the 'blob' abandons a nearly-won objective for basically no reason
- 'SilkSpecter' hacking operation uses sophisticated ring of 4,700 spoofed storefronts to dupe shoppers looking for Black Friday deals—here's how to avoid getting scammed
- Sailor Moon-vibed farming sim Fields of Mistria gets its first major patch and finally lets me lay down some romantic groundwork for my spouse-to-be
- Treyarch accidentally added legacy tokens to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, took them away, and then promised to restore them after realising they can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
- I've decided Casio's smart ring-watch is all that's good in this messed up universe right now
- Pathfinder 2e celebrates the 1st anniversary of its remaster by smashing D&D for value, offers $888 worth of new books for $45 with latest Humble Bundle
- Arcane's showrunners would like to shake things up after 9 years, which is part of why it's ending with Season 2
- This teeny unit might look like an adorable little AMD graphics card, but it's actually a fully formed PC with surprising performance
- The top ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips, with the two-year old Ryzen 7 5700X sitting at the tippety-top and Intel's best effort relegated to 12th place
- After having to buff event rewards 4 times in a year, WoW director Ion Hazzikostas admits there's 'a pattern' and that 'we may tend to err on the conservative side'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, November 18
- Bioware's art lead shared some off-the-wall rejected concepts for Dragon Age: Inquisition's multiplayer characters, including the return of a controversial companion we never saw again
- Yakuza/Like a Dragon creator Toshihiro Nagoshi says his studio's new game won't be that big after all: 'it's not modern to have similar experiences repeated over and over again'
- November 17
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- The Patapon designer's new rhythm-action roguelike is coming to PC
- Five years in, chill exploration-crafting game Astroneer gets its first paid expansion
- One of the strongest early Black Friday deals is a full year of Superloop gigabit NBN for only AU$89 per month
- 12 years on, Star Wars: The Old Republic is still kicking, with revamped graphics and new story content coming soon
- Classic map Train returns in a Counter-Strike 2 update
- Nintendo's lawsuit bonanza continues, with streamer EveryGameGuru targeted for being 'a recidivist pirate who has obtained and streamed Nintendo's leaked games on multiple occasions'
- Three years on, monster-huge RPG Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' final major update will overhaul its end-game dragon god abilities to finally live up to the hype
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, November 17
- Space Marine 2's latest patch adds a death ray laser pointer
- November 16
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- Sega takes a moment of their valuable time to remind everyone that Sonic the Hedgehog is canonically a homeless drifter
- Rogue Prince of Persia overhauls art style and doubles game size in its biggest update yet
- BioWare's art director reveals eight pieces of decade-old concept art for the earliest version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- More people are playing Half-Life 2 now than at any point since Steam started keeping track
- Steamworld Dig developer lays off 80-100 employees and cancels some in-development games to ensure 'long-term sustainability and resilience'
- Valve is re-releasing Half-Life 2's 'Raising the Bar' art book after nearly 20 years out of print and adding new sections about all three HL2 episodes
- Valve has released lost footage of Half-Life 2's earliest public demo from 2000, a missing link between HL1 and HL2 that already teased Episode 3's infamous Borealis
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, November 16
- Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would've included an ice gun with 'kind of like a Silver Surfer mode,' and Valve just released footage
- 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'
- Gabe Newell ponders the future in new Half-Life 2 documentary: 'I think that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers'
- November 15
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- Valve gets the original Half-Life 2 development team back together for a huge 20th anniversary update—and the game is now free for the weekend on Steam
- Diablo 4's next patch hands out courtesy buffs to the poor fools who aren't playing its overpowered new class
- Twitch forbids the use of 'Zionist' to 'attack or demean,' but says you can still use it to talk about the political movement
- This cute but spooky farm sim starts unlike any other: in a town where you don't remember all the locals who somehow already know you
- A Forbes 30-under-30-er involved in at least 2 Disco Elysium successor studios has sued the lead dev at a third, blocking him from working on a new game
- Cancelled Splinter Cell movie starring Tom Hardy was 'going to be hardcore and awesome,' says producer: 'That's one of the ones that got away, which is really sad'
- After a transformative 'buff everything' patch, Helldivers 2's bottom barrel guns are the new top dogs
- A new upgradable laptop with a discrete GPU has just been announced at a good price, but there are two big reasons not to order one yet
- D&D's 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide has finally had it, passive-aggressively denounces peasant railguns, capitalist artificers, and weaponised bags of rats
- 'We had a very big debate, and I showed him. He was silent. He doesn't know how to make a battery': The founder of the world's biggest battery company apparently had a lesson or two to give Elon Musk
- Please change your password before hackers use this list of the 200 most commonly used passwords to crack open your life like a coconut
- Looking to move to Bluesky? This handy Chrome extension will let you find all your followers but don't make the mistake I did
- If you were too relaxed playing Webfishing, you might like this fishing roguelike shooter where your catches can mercilessly gun you down
- Diamonds are for chip cooling, not just forever—at least according to this tech startup promising 20°C temperature reductions
- 'Let us disable that garbage': Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players hate the new skins so much that some are asking to pay for them to be removed
- Uh oh—Helldivers 2's state-owned missile platform players voted into existence is blowing them up, with Arrowhead giving players free shield generators while it figures out what happened
- MSI responds to reports of 9800X3D CPUs 'burning out' in its motherboards but the problem seems limited for now
- US hacker sentenced to five years in the slammer for laundering the proceeds of nearly 120,000 stolen bitcoin worth $10,800,000,000 at today's prices
- Corsair announces its PSUs 'fully support the highly-anticipated next generation of graphics cards', showing how close we might be to the RTX 50-series line
- Qualcomm upgrades its gaming upscaler from spatial to temporal tech but it lacks AI smarts and may struggle to compete with Nvidia's highly polished DLSS performance
- Obsidian quietly adds Avowed system requirements to the Steam listing and that 75 GB storage target seems downright reasonable
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, November 15
- Finally, I can be a gross little rat guy in Vermintide 2's 4v4 versus mode, which is out now
- November 14
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- Avowed will be available on Battle.net, which means you can buy it for about 1.4M gold in WoW if you want to
- Arcane showrunner praises the 'unsung heroes' of animation: 'No one will see their work, but they're masters'
- It makes perfect sense that Mythic Quest, Apple TV's comedy series about an MMORPG, is getting an expansion next year
- Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive, and Epic says that's A-okay
- A Fortnite player wondered why there was 'mold' in their game: turns out it's a texture Tim Sweeney added to Unreal Engine in 1995
- Microsoft Gaming head honcho Phil Spencer says 'I don't like expansions that are manipulative... like, the third level you cut before you launched'
- Steam accused of 'normalizing hate and extremism in the gaming community' in new ADL report
- After 'regrets and lessons learned,' and 2 months of tuning, Blizzard is 'happy' with Delves as WoW's newest endgame destination
- Here are the nominees for PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted
- 'Forget Celebrations': This War of Mine creators say their 'mission to shed light on the civilian cost of war is far from over' as they announce new DLC for its 10th anniversary
- Phil Spencer says Microsoft's PC-heavy lineup this year is 'historical' and an 'anomaly', so don't get used to it
- Nvidia tells the US Supreme Court it should dismiss a lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors over crypto
- The Zefiro is a USB-C-powered, thumb drive sized instrument that'll let you fulfil your Ocarina of Time musical fantasy—but I have some practical questions
- Infinity Nikki is releasing next month in all its dress-up Genshin Impact glory
- Armed with a spy cam and rare knowledge of how to actually play the objective, a Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 player managed to get to Prestige without a single kill
- At last, democracy has come to Helldivers 2: A new Democracy Space Station lets players vote on which planet gets bombarded for truth and justice every 24 hours
- World's biggest PCIe SSD immediately squashed by even bigger and faster PCIe SSD
- This Half-Life 2 themed RTX 4080 Super almost makes up for the fact we're about to hit the game's 20th anniversary and there's still no Half-Life 3 in sight
- Former Borderlands 3 creative director is working on a 'secret' multiplayer shooter at a new studio founded by developers tired of 'huge budgets and recycled mechanics'
- The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns with announcements and reveals galore this December 5
- Black Ops 6 players can calm down because the devs have confirmed that the 'Assault Rifle changes have not made headshots less effective'
- The remake of one of the best cult classics from one of the best years in gaming just dropped, and I have become 9 years old again
- Nvidia's first Arm APU is said to offer Strix Halo and RTX 4070 mobile performance, with Alienware already onboard to create an all-Nvidia gaming laptop
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, November 14
- November 13
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- The First Descendant announces 'important news': it's getting official 'jiggle physics,' which it somehow didn't already have
- Hundreds of ZeniMax workers go on strike to protest Microsoft 'dragging their feet' on negotiations over job security and remote work
- Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December
- 'It's about time!': Hearthstone is getting a StarCraft crossover set starring Raynor, Kerrigan and Artanis
- Kai Cenat smashes all-time Twitch subs record during marathon livestream featuring everyone from Snoop Dogg to Kim Kardashian
- Mists of Pandaria Classic is coming summer 2025
- Player housing is coming to World of Warcraft after 20 years, though you'll have to wait until the next expansion: 'It's a tremendously large undertaking'
- World of Warcraft's next major patch will let you drift in a car '4 to 5 times faster' than a normal ground mount, all while learning 'more about goblin culture than ever before'
- Blizzard is relaunching WoW: Classic with 'all-new, fresh realms,' giving players another chance to experience WoW's earliest era
- Blizzard is trying to atone for the disaster that was Warcraft 3: Reforged nearly 5 years later with the 2.0 update, out today
- Blizzard leans into maximum nostalgia by bringing back the Battle Chest to celebrate Warcraft's 30th anniversary
- Blizzard surprise launches Warcraft 2 and Warcraft 1 remasters today with 'hand-drawn visuals, UI improvements,' and more
- AMD is firing 4% of its global workforce as it realigns in likely pursuit of all those AI dollars
- Fresh from a layoff bloodbath that cost over 2,500 jobs, Microsoft is already thinking about dropping the big bucks on more acquisitions
- Micron's introduced the first PCIe 5 60 TB SSD and it could house 375 Stalker 2 installs, or even better, 35,294 Crab Champions installs
- Yawnoc is a new wave-based roguelike where killing your enemies the wrong way could send them growing out of control, and it's dirt cheap right now
- Nvidia's Stalker 2 benchmarks suggest it might be CPU limited, but DLSS 3 looks to make a world of difference at 4K
- Microsoft's Xbox boss upgrades rumoured gaming handheld device from a hope to an 'expectation' but says it's years away from release
- GOG is gonna keep games like New Vegas running on modern systems by itself, using its own devs to keep oldies going 'for generations to come'
- Secret Level's producer can't fathom why Concord ended up failing: 'There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord'
- A new math benchmark just dropped and leading AI models can solve 'less than 2%' of its problems... oh dear
- New MIT study shows what you already knew about AI: it doesn't actually understand anything
- Webfishing dev thought 'like 100 people would play it ever', thanks the 24,000+ people who flooded in to play their 'silly project', and hints at future updates
- Farming Simulator 25 is available right now with a new lush Asian farm and a fantastic PC-exclusive Collector's Edition
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, November 13
- November 12
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- Destiny 2's next act will bring Street Fighter 6 cosmetics and a 300% buff to roaming supers
- 'Enjoy what you've got now': Blizzard has its sights on Diablo 4's overpowered new class but promises not to pull the nerf trigger until next season
- 'Explain yourself': Old School RuneScape births a new meme as bug-exploiting scoundrels lay waste to unsuspecting F2P players with gear that shouldn't exist
- Call of Duty YouTuber does the math and determines these Black Ops 6 barrels barely do anything
- Stalker 2 gets updated system requirements and I've got bad news: It's going to be even bigger than we thought
- Fortnite OG is back, baby: Chapter 1 season 1 is returning in December and this time it's here to stay
- 'Calm down!' says Facepunch Studios: Garry's Mod successor s&box is getting a fan-requested sandbox mode and an alternative to 'Sausage Men'
- Rockstar drops an unexpected GTA Trilogy update that makes the PC version almost as good as the one you can play on your phone
- Tell us your thoughts about gaming in 2024 for a chance to win a $300 Amazon voucher
- Top bitcoin analyst says Trump's win is 'not the main story' behind recent bitcoin price surge, and why it will rise again in four years
- Amazon wants chips with everything, crafting its own AI-focused line of silicon in a bid to dethrone Nvidia
- Nintendo seems to have set up shop in the condemned home of Switch emulator Ryujinx, claiming its domain name for its own
- Due to export restrictions, Huawei has been forced to develop a weird hybrid SSD/tape storage drive for data archiving
- Tripwire says it's 'leaving no game behind' as it releases a surprise update for the 7-year-old Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
- The unholy union of Pizza Hut and PS5 exhaust fumes has created the PIZZAWARMR, a 3D-printed box you can build for free to foul up your PlayStation and warm pizza
- Not that any PC gamer will care but Intel is lining up low-power Arrow Lake chips for launch in January
- Astarion has breached the Vatican—Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in Vatican City, says Larian's director of publishing
- FTC comes slamming down on a website as its new rules to create 'truthful and accurate reviews' take effect
- Final Fantasy 14's latest patch gives one of Dawntrail's most critically panned scenes a do-over
- Proposed class action lawsuit claims The Crew players were 'duped', bizarrely comparing the game shutting down to Ubisoft breaking into your house and stealing parts of a pinball machine
- Open AI co-founder reckons AI training has hit a wall, forcing AI labs to train their models smarter not just bigger
- Steam Cooking Fest makes some brilliant cooking games cheaper than a snack
- 3D-printed M4 Mac mini enclosure addresses one of Apple's most egregious design choices—but maker argues that the power button 'problem' is overstated
- Square Enix apologises for messing up hairstyle competition winner's submission in Final Fantasy 14 'due to limitations such as the polygon count'
- The Nvidia App has finally launched out of beta and if you really hate remembering your login for GeForce Experience you should try it
- Eric Barone warns that Stardew Valley's hat mouse has gone missing, but only in Spanish games
- Nvidia has reportedly killed production of all RTX 40 GPUs apart from the 4050 and 4060 as affordable 50-series GPUs could arrive earlier than expected
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, November 12
- Baldur's Gate 3 is safe from the top-down Elden Ring CRPG that only exists in our imaginations and these modded screenshots
- November 11
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- Halo 2's playable E3 2003 demo is an astounding feat of preservation, and everything great about PC gaming
- Sony says it should've gotten more feedback before launching Concord, but it isn't done with live service games despite 'a certain amount of risk'
- Following Arcane's season 2 premiere, Riot drops our first look at Jinx's moves in fighting game 2XKO
- Valve just announced the Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White, a 'second experiment' in new colorways for the classic Deck that looks eye-searingly snazzy
- Take-Two boss gets philosophical about 'entropy' and life after Grand Theft Auto: 'If we're not trying new things ... we're really running the risk of burning the furniture to heat the house'
- Holy cow, Stalker 2 needs 150GB of SSD space, and you've got 9 days to figure out where you're going to put it
- The makers of Black Mesa reveal their new project, which has absolutely nothing to do with Half-Life
- Arcane creators admit the show was never meant to run for 5 seasons, it was a joke that got out of hand: 'Nothing but tomfoolery'
- Overwatch: Classic brings the 2016 game back as a limited-time event and promises to 'capture the charm' of its original heroes and maps
- Support for Windows Mail, Calendar and People apps will finish at the end of this year as new Outlook elbows its way onto the center stage
- Material scientists create a new compound that has a thermal resistance up to 72% lower than some of the best liquid metals
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle showcases 15 minutes of plundering tombs and punching Nazis
- Final Fantasy 14 is still the load-bearing, reliable breadwinner for Square Enix, even with Dawntrail's bumpy post-launch reception
- LG's bizarre but impressive stretchable prototype display has the 'highest rate of elongation in the industry,' a measurement I had no idea existed
- It only took 8 years and an orchestral jazz cover but one of the funkiest Persona 5 songs finally got nominated for a Grammy
- Steam's latest update promises better betas, barely a bundle of broken save games
- Break out the world's tiniest violin: PS5 Pro scalpers are having a tough time reselling units because it's in stock basically everywhere
- NetEase employees arrested in alleged multi-million-dollar fraud scheme that involves nearly 30 companies
- A crucial Caitlyn and Vi moment in Arcane season 2 'wouldn't have been possible from a technical standpoint' before now because it was apparently so complex
- AMD's 2025 laptop plans sure do include a lot of refreshed and rebranded APUs, but who cares when you've got Fire Range, Strix Halo, and four RDNA 4 mobile GPUs heading our way next year
- 'We are dirt cheap': Arcane's showrunners say the 'most expensive' animated series ever produced isn't that expensive, if you think about it
- Intel admits the Arrow Lake launch missed the mark and promises performance fixes by December, but my testing suggests you shouldn't get your hopes up
- An SK Hynix employee printed out 4,000 pages of confidential info and carried it out the door in shopping bags before leaving for their new job at Huawei
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, November 11
- November 10
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- Trash Goblin is a game about being a little goblin that sells trash
- Karate Survivor is an 80s-tastic battler about building your own combos
- Deus Ex director Warren Spector thinks that 'if someone made Deus Ex today it might be perceived as a documentary,' so if he made a new one it would be pretty different
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, November 10
- Tony Todd, the voice of Half-Life 2: Episode 2's vortigaunts and Spider-Man 2's Venom, has died
- November 9
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- 2025's videogame Grammy nominations are the normal AAA fare and one surprising indie entry
- Darktide already has hard mode, but will add 40 extra hard, randomized difficulty levels anyway
- Warren Spector found working on his cancelled Half-Life episode 'a little frustrating', but he'll be 'forever grateful' to Valve for keeping his studio alive
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, November 9
- Genshin Impact's missing English voice acting returns in its latest trailer, but players aren't sure if they should celebrate yet
- November 8
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- Palworld developer reports Nintendo's suing over 3 Pokémon patents for only $66,000 in damages, but a videogame IP lawyer says fighting the lawsuit could mean 'burning millions of dollars'
- The best Black Ops 6 map for XP grinding finally got a 24/7 playlist, so you know what to do
- 'Please give it a chance': Brighter Shores studio asks players to have patience with its unusual progression system, promises it's actually a lot of fun 'once you get used to it'
- No Man's Sky gets cross-save on a dozen platforms and brings back Mass Effect's Normandy as a limited-time rewar
- Things look grim for Multiversus as the Warner Bros. suits blame it for a $100 million writedown—'It hasn't been pretty'
- Sony isn't giving up on PSN account requirement for PC games: Company president says it's necessary so people can 'safely' play its games
- Strategy studio Amplitude breaks from Sega: the Endless and Humankind developer is now indie again
- After closing its AAA games development studio, Netflix Games VP transforms into the VP of GenAI for Games and the gobbledygook must flow: 'a creator-first vision… with AI being a catalyst and an accelerant'
- Ayaneo's announced its new AMD Strix Point handheld PC and you can bet CES 2025 is going to be awash with new AMD and Intel options
- FF14 is finally fixing the fact my carefully-constructed portraits keep reverting to a goddamn driver's licence photo whenever I change my goddamn gear
- Kojima Productions acquires Death Stranding IP rights, presumably meaning the series will only get more unhinged
- Stardew Valley creator says he 'could work on it for the rest of my life' and wants to keep sharing new things with players
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first patch adds some Mass Effect flair to your wardrobe
- AMD's desktop CPU market share jumps by nearly 10% in a year, all at the expense of poor old Intel
- Final Fantasy 14's upcoming patch promises improved 'character toe detail' across 118 footwear items
- Feeling the post-Suicide Squad ennui, Warner Bros. announces it won't be 'trying to launch 10, 12, 15, 20 different games' anymore
- 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
- November 7
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- Black Ops 6 is wasting no time stinking up the joint with ugly skins
- 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
- 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)
- 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'
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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'
- 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
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Path of Exile 2
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, November 7
- 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
- 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
- Pud's Dolbus gets you 5.1 surround sound from headphones with a side of deadly Saw trap nightmares
- 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'
- I thought I was good at Deadlock until its unexpected ranked distribution proved that I'm worse than mid
- 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
- 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'
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Microsoft has eradicated all memory of Paint 3D from the store, and its predecessor is only getting better
- 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
- 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
- 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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- This chill puzzle game is so good I bought its prequel before I even finished it
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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'
- '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
- 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
- '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
- 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'
- 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
- 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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- 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
- The Monster Hunter Wilds beta isn't looking so hot, but Capcom says the full game 'is already in a more improved state'
- 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
- I don't know whether I'd wait for Black Friday when there are already RTX 4070 Super gaming PCs going for so little
- 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
- 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
- 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
