News archive

February 2020

Filter

Year
Month

430 articles

February 29
- Call of Duty zombies mode director Jason Blundell leaves Treyarch
- Core Decay is a retro-shooter immersive sim about a cyborg on a dying Earth
- Atomic Heart’s first new trailer in a year is 100% absolute Soviet-themed bonkers
- New Outriders trailer shows off gorgeous, ruined sci-fi vistas
- Ratropolis is a real-time deckbuilder with a strategy twist and adorable art
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- Game Developers Conference 2020 has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns
February 28
- Iris and the Giant is a stylish roguelike CCG about a young girl and her demons
- Helicopter combat sim Comanche is having a multiplayer open beta this weekend
- China's pro League of Legends circuit set to resume March 9 but will be online only
- Doom Eternal can do 1000 fps if you've got the hardware for it
- The Witcher show gets its Vesemir, and it's not Mark Hamill
- Get this fast 27-inch 144Hz IPS gaming monitor for $288, if you can wait a month
- Analyst: Intel's graphics card will be a 'game changer' for GPU shipments in 2020
- High Hell dev's next game is a vandalism-and-photography sim on a world of sludge
- Crusader Kings 3 shows off more of its RPG lifestyle system
- AMD gets around to fixing some Radeon RX 5000 series black screen issues
- EVE Online's annual Fanfest is cancelled due to coronavirus concerns
- Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders is finally on PC, 16 years late
- Amnesia developer Frictional Games snuck a teaser trailer into its ARG
- New Rockstar logos have fans speculating about an announcement
- Final Fantasy 3 gets an update and and a half price sale
- Apex Legends' System Override event adds fixed loot and an evolving shield
- Explore a hole new world in free puzzle game Hole and Box
- Bungie will disable Artifact Power for Destiny 2's Trials of Osiris following player outcry
- You can now play Quake and Half-Life maps in Dusk
February 27
- Offworld Trading Company is among next week's free Epic Games Store titles
- Annapurna Interactive's next game is a gorgeous first-person love story puzzle
- Former Wii U exclusive Wonderful 101 gets a firm PC release date
- Play Ark: Survival Evolved for free until Monday
- Borderlands 3 and the second campaign expansion are coming to Steam in March
- Watch Baldur's Gate 3's new turn-based combat system in action
- Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access will launch with 6 classes and 5 origin characters
- Epic Games and Microsoft have pulled out of GDC over coronavirus fears
- Watch the Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay reveal livestream here
- Save $20 on this GTX 1660 Super graphics card and stay within your budget
- Apex Legends executive producer Drew McCoy has left Respawn
- Intel is finally improving its CPU security
- Black Desert Online is free to play this weekend
- Stellaris gets political in its Federations expansion on March 17
- Nvidia's latest GPU driver gets your PC ready for The Division 2: Warlords of New York
- Plague Inc. has been removed from the China App Store and Steam
- Baldur's Gate 3 leaked screenshots show off turn-based combat and close-up dialogue
- PUBG has been dealing with an increase in DDoS attacks and performance issues
- Play Predator: Hunting Grounds early in the upcoming free trial weekend
- Slay ghosts and eat cookies in free RPG Grimm's Hollow
- Yakuza 0 is among four new games on Xbox Game Pass for PC
February 26
- A 25-year-old strategy game just got new DLC and a Steam release
- Valve is doing an Olympics-style search for The International host cities
- Finally! American Truck Simulator is getting openable truck windows
- Stardew Valley is getting another free content update
- Sea of Thieves chain shot cannonballs will mess up your masts in March
- Diablo 4 developer update showcases UI changes and 'darker, more gritty' monsters
- Wolcen's latest patch fixes a ton of bugs, including one that players actually loved
- The latest HyperX headset supports wireless charging with a Qi pad
- Konami Code creator Kazuhisa Hashimoto has died
- Teamfight Tactics' next update turns everyone into cyborgs and Sailor Moon
- Nvidia says gaming laptops will be the biggest next-gen console competitor
- Dragons have arrived in Hearthstone Battlegrounds' biggest update yet
- Bungie plans to cap the power of Legendary weapons in Destiny 2
- This Stardew Valley mod swaps combat for cuddles
- PlatinumGames reveals Project GG, a giant hero game
- GOG's new refund policy is way more generous than Steam's
- Path of Exile 2's beta might be delayed due to the coronavirus
- Horizon: Zero Dawn for PC appears on Amazon
- The Division 2 is free to play this weekend
- Play Mass Effect in Minecraft with this official pack
- Play Where's Moggy in free browser game Hidden Cats
- Bungie confirms the return of Trials of Osiris for Destiny 2 on March 13
- CD Projekt Red and PUBG Corp abandon PAX plans amid coronavirus fears
February 25
- Valve adds hats to Dota Underlords Season 1, because of course it did
- Ubisoft says it’s ‘making efforts’ on a colorblind mode for Rainbow Six Siege
- Steam's search function just got a whole lot better
- EVGA's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FTW3 hybrid graphics card is at its lowest price ever
- Apex Legends players can turn Revenant into a rose with Twitch Prime this month
- Build your own Xbox Series X killer inside this lookalike case
- If you're into esports, this gaming monitor is one of the fastest around
- Temtem is getting ranked play, houses, and 'Dojo Wars'
- A Resident Evil 3 Remake demo is coming
- Star Wars Battlefront 2's Age of Rebellion update adds more maps, weapons and ewoks
- Ghost Recon Breakpoint's immersive mode has been delayed
- SnowRunner shows off new chilly environments and more stuck trucks
- Wholesome houseboat sim Spiritfarer gets its first gameplay teaser
- Aquamarine is a psychedelic underwater survival game inspired by Mobius
- Black Mesa finally leaves Early Access next week
- Tank controls are back in free survival horror Dead County
- GDC 2020 shrinks as EA, Hideo Kojima, PlayStation and Facebook all pull out
- New Minecraft Dungeons video is all about the blocky environments
- Rainbow Six Siege may go free-to-play someday, but first Ubisoft wants to solve smurfing
February 24
- Electronic Arts bans FIFA pro and streamer from everything
- Beyond Blue, the ocean exploration game from the makers of Never Alone, is delayed
- Disc Room is a meat grinder hellscape coming to Steam this year
- A messy legal dispute puts the Descent reboot in a nosedive
- Overwatch's new experimental mode coming tomorrow, Jeff Kaplan says 'don't freak out'
- Get one of the fastest consumer SSDs on the market for $200
- If you eat money for breakfast, you can cram 16TB of SSD storage into this laptop
- On paper, the GPU in the Xbox Series X is faster than a GeForce RTX 2080 Super
- More Overwatch League matches cancelled due to coronavirus
- You can finally play that massive Harry Potter RPG in Minecraft
- Streets of Rage 4 gets a new character and four-player co-op
- How Rob McElhenney's Minecraft movie fell apart
- Do you like Factorio and Mindustry? Play free production game DeFacto
- Players are preventing fall damage in Red Dead Redemption 2 by puking
- New Resident Evil 3 Remake screenshots show off more enemies
- RimWorld gets surprise Royalty DLC along with the 1.1 update
- CD Projekt has become Europe's second-biggest videogame company
- Spawn is coming to Mortal Kombat 11 in March
February 23
- Wild siege weapon sandbox Besiege is 50% off for launch, so here are some GIFs
- The Division 2 returns to Kenly College, still on sale for $3
- Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem hotfix brings greater stability and balance tweaks
- Devotion, the Taiwanese game removed from Steam, is being preserved by Harvard
- Activision takes legal action against Call of Duty: Modern Warfare battle royale Reddit leaker
February 22
- Kerbal Space Program 2 trailer shows off Nuclear Propulsion, Metallic Hydrogen, Torchships
- Obsidian's survival game of tiny children, Grounded, has a Steam page
- Baldur's Gate 3 is coming to Early Access this year
- Control a giant laser in action-strategy defense game Taur
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- Electronic Arts reportedly canceled a Star Wars Battlefront spinoff last year
February 21
- Bethesda Softworks games have been removed from GeForce Now
- Help the devil get his mojo back in the monstrous roguelike Rogue Lords
- Sci-fi MMO Population Zero is headed to Steam in May
- Give your Sims a taste of class conflict by moving them into the house from Parasite
- Plaintiffs in class action suit against Riot aren't settling for $10 million anymore
- This Asus gaming desktop with a GeForce RTX 2060 Super is on sale for $1,100
- Valve says Index will be back in stock before Half-Life: Alyx launches
- Microsoft Flight Simulator contains every airport in the world
- Dying Light is free to play this weekend for the first time ever
- Gigabyte updates its Brix mini PC line with Intel's newest processors
- Crytek and the Star Citizen devs have agreed to settle their lawsuit
- If you're having trouble with Wolcen, Grim Dawn is very cheap right now
- The Witcher 3 has generated $50M in revenue on Steam
- Dota Underlords update highlights changes from Early Access to 1.0
- Explore a surreal underworld in free sci-fi adventure Remnants
- Bungie details a big ol' bunch of nerfs coming to Destiny 2 in the next season
February 20
- Unleash your inner Flyboy in Dakka Squadron, a Warhammer 40K Ork flight sim
- Kerbal Space Program 2 moves to a new studio
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate and Faeria are now free on the Epic Games Store
- Apex Legends is bringing back its original map for the weekend
- HTC adds three more Vive Cosmos headsets with modular faceplates to its mix
- Red Dead Redemption 2 has a Hot Coffee mod, and Take-Two wants it gone
- AOC launches a big and bright 35-inch 200Hz gaming monitor for £2,159
- Here's what HTC's next-generation VR headsets might look like
- Dying Light's new Story Mode makes the game much easier
- Session gets 'Skate-like controls' and a new skate park in the latest update
- Civ competitor Humankind makes your choice of terrain vital to survival
- Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 turns you into a spy
- Subnautica: Below Zero now lets you explore a shipwreck and make new fishy friends
- The Borderlands movie is apparently being directed by gore lover Eli Roth
- Turn Notepad into an RPG with the clever, free And Yet It Hurt
- Kunai was review bombed by a single person in a 'state of anger,' claims developer
- You can now hug the angry psychic squid from Into the Breach
- US Air Force teams up with ESL for Pro League Season 11 and IEM events
- Cyberpunk 2077 will be playable on GeForce Now on launch day
February 19
- Wolcen players are getting fed up with all of its game-crashing bugs, glitches, and exploits
- Mount & Blade 2 launches in early access on March 31
- Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
- Dangerous Driving 2 will have an open world and releases this year
- PUBG is raising funds for Australia with a limited-edition frying pan
- Play Broomstick League for free in the open beta this weekend
- Sea of Thieves' new update adds burning chests, creepy pets, and Viva Pinata
- Rainbow Six Siege will adopt a pinging system similar to Apex Legends
- Save $740 on this tiny, RTX 2080-powered gaming desktop PC
- Grab this mid-tier Alienware gaming desktop for $950 for today only
- Score a 27-inch 165Hz FreeSync gaming monitor for $250
- Coronavirus is exacerbating Oculus Quest shortage and that's a drag
- Get chased by Sirenhead in this creepy Fallout 4 mod
- This rugged looking case from Asus is literally strapped for some reason
- World War Z developer now owned by THQ Nordic's parent company
- Metro Exodus is 'performing well' on Steam despite its delayed launch
- Desperados 3 is now coming this summer
- PlatinumGames teases a big announcement for February 27
- No Man's Sky update adds freaky living spaceships you can hatch from eggs
- Biomutant is still alive but has no new release date
- The Gothic remake is happening, but fans want it to be grittier than the teaser
- Cut derelict spaceships into spare parts in Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- GTA 4 returns to Steam on March 19 without multiplayer
- Blocked Up is a hectic match-3 platformer you can tackle for free
- This Doom wad turns Zombies Ate My Neighbors into a first-person shooter
- Someone is selling the free, open source Playnite launcher on Steam for $100
February 18
- Adventure game Norco is a pixel art lover's dream
- Xbox Game Pass will get Yakuza 0, Two Point Hospital, and more soon
- This re-creation of Metroid Fusion in Minecraft is very impressive
- 13 of Steam's top 20 new games in January were made in Asia
- Your Witcher 3 saves from Steam and GOG will now work on the Nintendo Switch
- Rainbow Six Siege will get secondary gadgets that let attackers carry a little Thatcher or Thermite in their pocket
- End-of-the-world adventure Beautiful Desolation comes out later this month
- After overheating concerns, Asus is helping RX 5700 owners tighten their screws
- EVE Online shooter cancelled to make way for a new EVE Online shooter
- Arctic’s Freezer 7 X brings affordable air cooling to CPUs for $20
- Asus launches a pair of adorably sized GeForce RTX 2060 cards for compact PCs
- Duke Nukem developer reveals cancelled Aliens shooter with online co-op
- Skyrim in Real Life makes a mockery of the game's clumsy NPCs
- First Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay footage will be revealed on February 27
- Fan-made Witcher VR game lets you explore Kaer Morhen
- Empire of Sin has been delayed until autumn 2020
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's battle royale mode apparently launches in March
- Paradox will continue to experiment with selling games outside of Steam
- Delve into a dense, atmospheric world in free horror Chronotopophobia
February 17
- Survival RPG Outward has a DLC coming called The Soroboreans
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate is free on the Epic Games Store this week
- Dishonored and Wolfenstein games go DRM-free on GOG, and they're very cheap
- Tactical RPG Broken Lines’ new trailer and characters highlight a grim war
- Icy MudRunner sequel SnowRunner comes skidding to an April release
- RimWorld 1.1 beefs up mod support, adds tortured artists, ducks, and donkeys
- Diablo and Overwatch might be getting animated TV adaptations
- Clearance sale: This Corsair keyboard, mouse, and headset combo is just $80
- This 15.6-inch Ryzen gaming laptop with a GTX 1660 Ti is on sale for $810
- Nvidia's limited edition Cyberpunk 2077 GPU is very yellow
- Doosk is a Doom 2 mod that's full of weapons from Dusk
- New World dev diary reveals the factions and lore of the MMO's PvE
- Watch a new trailer for bee management game Hive Time
- Fortnite added a Rickroll emote
- Audiosurf, 12 years old this month, just received an update
- Here's footage from an abandoned StarCraft third-person console game
February 16
- Hell yeah, Rainbow Six Siege is getting a Golden Gun mode
- Rainbow Six Siege's worst operator is getting a flame grenade launcher
- Rainbow Six Siege director says Clash is a 'top candidate' for a rework
- Crippling server issues are getting in the way of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem's big launch
- Mecha action game Daemon X Machina deploys on PC, and the port is great
- Surreal exploration game Ramiwo releases this week
- State of Decay 2 is receiving a big overhaul in time for its Steam release
- Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition updates, with fixes to shadows, effects, and more
- Castlevania Season 3 is coming soon, looking cool
February 15
- Oregon's rework in Rainbow Six Siege Void Edge is a lot to take in
- Katana Zero’s free DLC will be three times larger than expected
- Anime French Revolution strategy RPG Banner of the Maid is now in English
- Metro Exodus makes its way to Steam at 40% off
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
February 14
- Shenmue 3's Story Quest Pack DLC arrives next week
- Hunt: Showdown is raising funds for Australian wildlife with the Fire Fight DLC
- Nvidia says a 'misunderstanding' led to Activision's departure from GeForce Now
- AMD's 6-core Ryzen 5 3600X CPU is on sale for $195 today
- The IRS may want to tax your V-Bucks
- This compact gaming desktop from Asus just got some big upgrades
- A new Half-Life: Alyx screenshot shows a very familiar error message
- SSDs have virtually killed off laptop HDDs in Western Europe
- Stadia says Baldur's Gate 3 will be out this year
- Red Dead Redemption 2 voice actor Roger Clark has released the first of his cowboy audiobook series
- Celebrate the Sonic the Hedgehog movie's release with up to 75% off the games on Steam
- Untitled Goose Game wins Game of the Year at this year's DICE awards
- Massive Entertainment producer confirms that Avatar game is still in development
- Remedy has three games in development, including its own live service game
- Former Starbreeze executive convicted of insider trading
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary's PC test flight has started
- The Witcher 3 sales were up 554% thanks to the Netflix show
- Big changes are coming to the way Destiny 2 armor mods work next season
- Fallout 76 Wastelanders will let you recruit (and maybe seduce) a bartender for your camp
February 13
- Stardew Valley creator would like everyone to please calm down
- Quantic Dream opens the door to more PC releases with move to self-publishing
- Steam Labs' new experiment will help you decide what to play next
- The full-length Dragon Quest: Your Story movie is now on Netflix and it sure looks cute
- Half-Life: Alyx release date is March 23
- SWAT-themed tactics game Hot Brass begins open beta testing next week
- Rainbow Six Siege's next characters are an astronaut and the Juggernaut
- Dell's 27-inch 1440p G-Sync monitor is on sale for its lowest price ever
- Corsair upgraded its 17-button Scimitar mouse, and you can get it for $80
- Patriot launched a new NVMe SSD line with capacities up to 1TB
- Faeria is the next free Epic Game Store game, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Aztez are available now
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous will have both real-time and turn-based combat modes
- Black Mesa wants players to test its full 1.0 launch build
- Disney wants developers to 'come and play' with its properties
- Resident Evil 7 shifts seven million copies and DMC5 becomes the best-selling game in the series
- Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn says he left BioWare because it became too 'corporate'
- New Resident Evil Resistance additions include maps and Masterminds
February 12
- PUBG is getting an 8v8 team deathmatch mode
- Sea of Thieves is getting a new cursed chest that will set your ship on fire
- Macs now twice as likely to get infected by adware than PCs, according to research
- Watch 12 minutes of Doom Eternal's 'Battlemode' multiplayer combat
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney condemns loot boxes, says game companies should 'divorce themselves from politics'
- 79% of League of Legends players say they were harassed after a match ended, according to a community survey
- The upcoming Core i7-10700K should easily outperform today's Core i9-9900K
- Destiny 2's inventory-deleting bug was caused by a remarkable run of bad luck
- This month's Windows security update may be the biggest ever with 99 fixes
- These custom gaming PCs feature hardline liquid cooling and surprisingly start at $1,899
- Classic indie RPG Geneforge is being remastered
- Conan Chop Chop has been delayed again
- Need for Speed is returning to Criterion
- Leaked E3 2020 exhibitor list confirms who's attending
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is getting a pair of new angry monster variants
- Valve bans more than 40,000 Dota 2 accounts for 'abusing matchmaking'
- With BattleTech's expansions complete, Harebrained Schemes is focusing on two brand new projects
- Activision Blizzard games have been pulled from GeForce Now
- Metro Exodus 'Sam's Story' launch trailer features snakes, giant bats and other terrors
February 11
- Satisfactory is headed to Steam Early Access
- Logitech has a brand new webcam for streamers, and you can mount it vertically
- Borderlands 3 will get its first level cap increase later this week
- Apex Legends' Valentine's Day Rendezvous event has been delayed
- Destiny 2 rollback is complete, servers are back online
- Stardew Valley creator is working on two new games
- The Division 2: Warlords of New York expansion will tie up loose ends from the first game
- Corsair’s feature-rich Platinum K95 mechanical keyboard is on sale for $110
- Real-time ray tracing could get a boost from standardized support in Vulkan
- The Steam Soundtrack Sale has begun
- AMD quietly adds the Radeon RX 5600 XT to its ‘Raise the Game’ bundle
- Shadow Arena, the Black Desert Online battle royale spin-off, enters beta soon
- Outriders gets a reveal trailer and new release window
- Starbreeze is looking for a publishing partner for Payday 3
- 2K Silicon Valley is now 31st Union and is working on an 'ambitious and inspired new IP'
- Humble Bundle is introducing regional pricing for its bundles
- Get Frogwares' Sherlock Holmes series cheap on Steam
- IEM Sydney is turning into IEM Melbourne in 2020
- T-Pain streamed Doom Eternal for two hours
- TT Isle of Man 2 releases next month, so here's a lengthy gameplay video
February 10
- Two-headed skeletons are punching out cowboys in Red Dead Online
- Here's new footage of Doom Eternal in Nightmare mode
- Cliff Bleszinski almost made an Aliens shooter in which you played as Newt
- US Navy enters the esports scene with ESL North America and Dreamhack deal
- Grab one of these factory overclocked RX 5700 XT graphics cards for $360 today
- Breaking news: Animal Crossing Music browser extension now adapts to local weather
- Anthem seasons are being dropped as BioWare pledges to 'reinvent' the game
- Spec Ops: The Line developer receives undisclosed investment from Tencent
- A glitch is preventing some Windows 7 PCs from shutting down or rebooting
- If I win the lottery, I’m pairing this 256GB RAM kit with AMD’s 64-core 3990X
- Capcom removes Denuvo DRM from Devil May Cry 5
- Hokko Life is a solo-developed Animal Crossing-like coming to early access this year
- This tiny bathtub Geralt is $20 off on Amazon
- Steam and CS:GO break all-time concurrent user records just days after they were last set
- PUBG Corp postpones German PGS esport event due to coronavirus fears
- THQ Nordic opens a new studio with former Bohemia Interactive staff
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 2 will bring back Ghost and Rust
- Nioh's sold 3 million copies since its 2017 launch
- Dragon Ball FighterZ's third season kicks off this month with Kefla
- Space Channel 5 is coming back as a VR game
- Here's what Warcraft 3: Reforged looks like as a third-person RPG
February 9
- OtherSide Entertainment layoffs leave the future of System Shock 3 in doubt
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous hits Kickstarter target, working through stretch goals
February 8
- Someone has uploaded almost an hour of Microsoft Flight Simulator footage
- Resident Evil TV show details posted by Netflix, then removed
- Many Chinese developers are worried about Steam's upcoming Chinese-only version
February 7
- Destiny 2 speedrunners are pissed about incoming changes to swords
- Valve is building a system that auto-mutes abusive CS:GO players
- Dwarf Fortress devs are finally about to start working on the Steam version
- A grieving mother meets her deceased daughter in VR in this tragic, unsettling documentary
- AMD's 6-core Ryzen 3600 processor is on sale for $175 today
- The beautiful, harsh roguelike Below is getting an easier 'Explore mode'
- Metro Exodus is not coming to GOG 'in the immediate future'
- At long last, Intel has finally certified an AMD motherboard for Thunderbolt
- AMD's extravagant 64-core Threadripper 3990X is now available for $3,990
- Corruption 2029 is a dystopian tactics game from the Mutant Year Zero team
- Haunted PS1 Demo Disc is a free anthology of ominous oddities, out now
- Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA 5 sales have hit more than 150 million
- Warcraft 3: Reforged's 2GB update tackles animations, hitching and more
- Early Access RTS A Year of Rain has been put on hold
- Fix a room, or ruin it, in charming freebie Trust Me, I Got This!
- Expect a new Call of Duty and more remasters from Activision this year
- Broomstick League, the Quidditch take on Rocket League, releases next month
- Warcraft 3: Reforged launch was 'a hard week,' Blizzard president says
February 6
- World of Warcraft's subscriber base has more than doubled since the launch of Classic
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance is going free on the Epic Games Store next week
- This Spelunky run avoids all gold and pick-ups, and basically masters the game
- The high-flying roguelite Scourgebringer has a gourmet pizza recipe in its EULA
- Ubisoft has five 'triple-A' games coming before April 2021, Beyond Good and Evil 2 isn't one of them
- AMD's budget-friendly 6-core Ryzen 5 2600 CPU is on sale for $110
- This white edition GeForce RTX 2080 Super should come with dust filters
- MSI launches a 31.5-inch 1080p monitor with a 180Hz refresh rate for $330, but why?
- Cyberpunk RPG Gamedec reveals the first of its many virtual worlds
- Here's when Metro Exodus unlocks on Steam
- Overwatch League Stats Lab breaks down all the pro stats for you
- EA has jacked up the prices of lots of old games on Steam
- Play sneaky tactics game Alder's Blood's free prologue
- Soldat is getting a sequel, and both are coming to Steam
- Northgard developer's new co-op survival game, Darksburg, is launching on Early Access
- Make a village in your browser in free building game Habitat
- Minecraft's 1.16 snapshot includes new biomes, blocks and 'ancient debris'
- Gears of War studio head is leaving to work on Diablo
February 5
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake's timed exclusivity now ends in April 2021
- Steam users played for nearly 21 billion (yes, billion) hours in 2019
- Blizzard is offering refunds for Warcraft 3: Reforged
- Ooblets developers tease a 2020 release and 'Sea Dangling'
- The only person licensed to forge Witcher 3 swords may be extra busy this year
- This multi-platform gaming headset is on sale for $25 today
- Phil Spencer says Microsoft is competing with Google and Amazon, not Sony
- If your Windows 10 search results are coming up blank, here’s how to fix it
- AMD's Ryzen onslaught is paying off in PC CPU share gains against Intel
- The Humble Train Simulator Bundle will let you rule the railways for $1
- Cliff Bleszinski says LawBreakers failed because he was too 'political'
- Grand Theft Auto meets Cthulhu in survival game Dead Static Drive
- Get your first look at Fortnite's Harley Quinn skin
- A Space for the Unbound is a slice-of-life adventure in rural Indonesia
- Monster Hunter World's Resident Evil 2 crossover event is coming to PC
- Escape from work with free, chilled-out adventure game Respite
- Hellpoint is a horror sci-fi Souls-like releasing in April
- Stadia adds Monster Energy Supercross 3, but it costs more than it does on Steam
February 4
- Fable Fortune is shutting down in March
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is leaving the company
- Kentucky high schools ban Fortnite league over concerns about 'shooter games'
- A DDOS attack has kept many EVE Online players offline for 9 days, with no end in sight
- Apex Legends Season 4 is live, new Battle Pass and Revenant abilities detailed
- This 27-inch 'frameless' IPS monitor is on sale for $95 right now
- AMD refreshed its 'Raise the Game' bundle, but shows no love for the 5600 XT
- There's a big sale on Sims expansion packs for its 20th anniversary
- Award-winning mobile game Florence is coming to PC
- AMD's latest GPU driver cleans up HDR games and is tuned for Zombie Army 4
- Nvidia's cloud gaming service has officially launched, and you can use it for free
- Doorkickers 2 re-announced, taking the turn-based tactics to the Middle East
- Fallout 76 coming to Steam in April, with big human NPC expansion
- King's Bounty 2's first dev diary covers roleplaying, tactical combat and morality
- Russian immersive sim Atomic Heart returns in this 45-minute preview
- Watch Doom Eternal's very gory first 10 minutes in delicious 4K
- UKIE census reports that 31% of the UK games industry has depression or anxiety
- Serve up suspect sauce in free adventure game The Supper
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's Outback Relief Pack raises $1.6 million for Australian bushfire aid
- Pandemic will no longer be free on the Epic Games Store next week
February 3
- Blizzard says Warcraft 3: Reforged cutscenes 'preserve the true spirit' of the game
- PlatinumGames' hero adventure The Wonderful 101 Remastered is coming to PC
- Cyberpunk 2077 will have 'around 75' Street Story sidequests, all of them custom made
- Switch exclusive Daemon X Machina is hitting Steam next week
- Temtem bans 900 cheaters, promises to 'keep detecting and banning'
- Patrick Mahomes and EA mock the 'Madden Curse' after the Chiefs' Super Bowl win
- Senior Hearthstone developers have left to work on a secret new project at Blizzard
- Mushkin just launched a fast and relatively affordable SSD series
- Game on the big screen with this 65-inch 4K TV on sale for $498
- Nvidia's latest GPU driver offers a more flexible framerate cap to save power
- Half-Life: Google Translate Edition is full of wonderful gibberish
- Ubisoft increases its investment in more free-to-play idle games
- Classic strategy RPG The Lords of Midnight is free on GOG
- The Witcher's Henry Cavill discusses the 'iconic' bath scene
- Camelot Unchained developer announces a second online game before finishing the first
- Warcraft 3 Reforged has the lowest user score for a game on Metacritic
- Thousands of old Flash games have been saved from obsolescence
February 2
- Lead mutants across a dark fantasy wasteland in tactics RPG Urtuk: The Desolation
- Steam just broke its record player count by nearly 300k
- A modder is absolutely transforming Dark Souls 2 with lighting improvements
- Anime action MMO Blue Protocol may get an English-language release
- Christophe Gans says he's directing another Silent Hill movie
- Mike Laidlaw, creative director of the Dragon Age sequels, leaves Ubisoft
February 1
- Dota Underlords gets a scrappy little monster and a release date
- Coffee Talk is a wholesome game about a barista for orcs and elves
- Gorgeous sci-fi roguelike shooter Beacon has got some fresh new updates
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week