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March 31
- The car in Rocket League's next Rocket Pass looks cool, rest of it is so-so
- Magic: The Gathering contract artist who copied fan art: 'I was overworked, but that's no excuse'
- Here's everything added in today's Call of Duty: Warzone Season 2 Reloaded update
- Cyberpunk 2077 expansions are still in development, CD Projekt confirms
- Hooray, World of Warcraft's next big update hits beta servers in just two weeks
- Cloudpunk's City of Ghosts is a 'sequel-sized' DLC that adds hovercar street races
- PUBG's free, low-spec edition is shutting down
- This Fall Guys Counter-Strike mod is better than Fall Guys
- No Man's Sky's Expeditions update is taking us on a galactic road trip
- Finally start backing up your data with this 12TB external HDD for just $180
- Death Stranding and Metal Gear composer leaves Kojima Productions
- G.Skill's new DDR4-5333 RAM for Rocket Lake is faster than some DDR5 kits
- Back the f**k up. No seriously
- The fate of Nvidia's RTX 3080 Ti GPUs shows just how scared it was of AMD's RX 6900 XT
- Summer Games Done Quick's online show returns in July
- 'World's largest' hacks distributor brought down by police in China
- It's now easier to switch to Linux and play your PC games with an Nvidia GeForce GPU
- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare quietly brings back a fan-favourite map
- Official Outriders system requirements demand an RTX 3080 for ultra
- Sadly, Nier: Automata and The Evil Within on Game Pass aren't actually better PC ports
March 30
- Despite being banned, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is still available in Australia on PC
- Valorant tries yet again to make Viper good in latest patch
- Hitman 3’s excellent Dubai mission is free for the week
- CD Projekt won't market new games until 'much closer' to launch
- XIII is free on GOG (and it's the original, which does not suck)
- Hearthstone's latest expansion goes live with queue errors and Classic pack bugs
- Razer's new clothing line is made of 88% recycled plastics and 0% RGB
- Kingdom Hearts PC save files are tucked inside cute PNG images, because of course they are
- CD Projekt has 'decided to reconsider' Cyberpunk 2077’s multiplayer
- Amnesia: Rebirth gets a monster-free 'Adventure Mode'
- CD Projekt acquires Cyberpunk 2077 support studio Digital Scapes
- Intel accused of wiretapping in class action lawsuit
- Nvidia's latest graphics cards get a free speed boost today... in exactly 17 games
- Ninja Gaiden Black isn't being remastered because the code is in 'pieces'
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive opens up premier matchmaking for all
- The Medium developer no longer up for sale
- Intel will launch its anti-toxicity voice chat AI in beta later this year
- Bandwidth busting PCIe 4.0 SSDs rated over 7GB/s are launching by the day
- Activision Blizzard appoints former Trump official as its chief administrative officer
- Nioh 2's latest patch fixes the previous update's crashes
- Magic: Legends makes a monetization concession, framerate improvements
- The best 240Hz gaming monitor is just AU$519—down from AU$699
March 29
- Apex Legend halts Chinatown Market skins after the brand announces a surprise name change
- Get Evil Genius 2: World Domination for under AU$43 today only
- NFL player accidentally leaks new contract to his wife's Call of Duty: Warzone squad
- 100-player WW2 FPS Enlisted begins open beta in April
- Call of Duty: Warzone's next monster update is 81GB smaller if you delete Modern Warfare
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon is back on SteamDB
- PAX East is cancelled because of 'ongoing public health concerns'
- Ten years after release, Terraria gets Steam Workshop support
- This beehive-inspired Nvidia RTX 3060 is generating quite the buzz
- The Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha is now live
- EA is making a new PGA Tour game
- Nvidia pays good money for a hashtag emoji simply to poke fun at its CEO
- Exclusive: Give your graveyard some love with these three MTG Strixhaven cards
- Here's World Of Warcraft's Northrend modded into Valheim
- Activision shuts down Warzone's largest stat tracking site
- Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.2 boasts 484 PC fixes for softlock bugs, NPC tomfoolery and more
- This Game Boy-cum-cryptocurrency miner will score a Bitcoin long after the Earth is destroyed by the Sun
- Nvidia and AMD raked-in over $25bn combined revenue in 2020
- We've officially entered the era of gaming PCs shipping without a graphics card
- AMD graphics cards ready up for ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077
- This anime rhythm adventure looks Unbeatable
- Sega is Metacritic's top-ranked publisher of 2020
- Battlefield 6 rumors are rife, but DICE has spaghetti on its mind
March 28
- Looks like the Wild Hunt will be in Netflix's Witcher Season 2
- Naturally there is a life-size cutout of Resident Evil's giant vampire lady
- Here's the stuck Suez cargo ship in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Sable, Boyfriend Dungeon among Xbox Game Pass PC releases in spring showcase
- This week in PC gaming: Evil Genius 2, Kingdom Hearts, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, Outriders
- Here's Mario Kart in Halo
- Activision orders Call of Duty stats site SBMM Warzone to shut down
- Crash Bandicoot 4, a game with no online features, was unplayable when Blizzard's login servers went down
March 27
- Greatest chess player of all time goes for the 'Double Bongcloud' opening
March 26
- The end of Ludwig's absurd 2-week Twitch stream may finally be in sight
- Anthem director leaves BioWare
- This new open-world survival game promises to 'completely redefine the genre'
- Devolver’s new game is about a crow with a sword who harvests the souls of the dead
- Gamestop starts selling GPUs, obviously doesn't have any GPUs to sell
- This gorgeous indie RPG had a helping hand from Final Fantasy veterans
- Get an up-close look at Stalker 2’s many guns and fully customizable teeth
- This upcoming co-op cyberpunk RPG looks cool as hell
- Intel accidentally confirms a bunch of different GPU specs for its new gaming Xe HPG cards
- This fansite lets you relax to the sounds of Halo's main menus
- If LG can shut operations down for an Earth Hour, you can power down for just 60 minutes, right?
- Thymesia heard you like Souls games dawg, so it copied all of them
- Call Of Duty will reportedly return to World War 2 this year
- The Apple VR headset could weigh less than an actual apple
- Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver has been 'temporarily removed' from Steam
- Play PC VR games lag-free on your Oculus Quest 2 with this Netgear Wi-Fi 6 router for $85
- NZXT throws Ryzen owners a bone with its first AMD motherboard
- Super-rare N64DD dev kit surfaces in pristine condition
- Get ready for a gorgeous 14-inch Razer AMD Ryzen gaming laptop
- Balan Wonderworld's seizure-inducing effects will be fixed in a launch update
- Hades cleans up at the 2021 BAFTA Games Awards
- 'I feel a lot of affection and affinity towards the PC,' says Hideo Kojima
March 25
- Multiplayer FPS Sub Rosa has come out of hiding with a publicly listed Steam page
- Humankind aims to tell 'historically authentic' stories with diplomacy options
- Why fly, when Elite Dangerous Odyssey's new space cabbies can do it for you?
- Carve up bodies and hoover up the blood in Serial Cleaners
- Oddworld Soulstorm demo shows off just how many ways you can get your friends killed
- Of Bird and Cage is a hectic metal-themed adventure game coming in May
- Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall shows off its undead menace
- Aiko's Choice is a sneaky new standalone expansion for Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
- Latest Back 4 Blood trailer reveals new details on the game's infected
- Hidden Deep is a brutal tribute to every '80s sci-fi movie
- Axiom Verge 2 stays mysterious and Metroid-y in this developer walkthrough
- Check out the pixel art animation in parkour platformer Savior
- Biomutant’s feral fighting shown off in new gameplay trailer
- Here's McDonald's, in Morrowind
- Lord of the Rings: Gollum gameplay revealed in a new trailer
- Valheim mod makes deer sound like deer instead of 'crazy duck-monkeys'
- Now’s the ideal time to dive into Magic: The Gathering Arena — here’s why
- World of Warcraft players are confused and angry at Blizzard for removing options for purchasing game time
- Outriders will 'permanently' brand cheaters with shameful on-screen watermarks
- Riot begins hiring for its League of Legends MMO
- Risk of Rain 2's big Anniversary Update includes a very cool space cowboy
- Dyson's new laser-equipped vacuum tallies up dust kill counts like a videogame
- Outriders unlock time and day-one patch plan revealed
- The EU wants 20,000 GPUs to run a simulated digital twin of Earth. Can we add an RTX 3080 to that order?
- Back 4 Blood delayed, but an open beta will happen this summer
- Microsoft is testing new icons in the latest Windows 10 preview build, obvs breaks gaming
- I desperately need these Disco Elysium jackets
- Revisit a classic with Total War: Rome Remastered in April
- Humankind is delayed, will now release in August
- Move over, Discord: FroggieChat is my new messenger of choice
- Samsung stacks 512GB onto a single stick of DDR5 RAM. This isn't an SSD guys
- TSMC and Micron now face 'red alert' for GPU, CPU, and memory production as water crisis worsens
- Activision pulls Ice Drake blueprint from Warzone's store
- AOC's chonky new budget gaming headsets aren't what we were expecting from the display maker
- Overwatch League MVPs will no longer get their own unique skins
- Verdun studios reveal a new First World War shooter set in the Alps
- There's another Haunted PS1 Demo Disc for 2021 and it's 147 percent as haunted
- Dota 2 is getting a huge update to help new players
March 24
- Magic: Legends open beta takes a beating over monetization and framerate issues
- Serious Sam 4 gets official modding and Steam Workshop support
- This essential Valheim mod turns you into a freakishly huge Viking
- Apex Legends may finally be getting Titans, sort of
- Rainbow Six Siege is fixing that bizarre recoil bug tomorrow
- Retro FPS Ion Fury is getting an expansion this summer
- Every time Genshin Impact releases a new character it makes at least $12 million in a single day
- Magic: The Gathering Strixhaven reveal: Quintorius of Lorehold college
- Watch Dogs Legion is free to play for the weekend
- Steam Next Fest wants to compete with E3
- Intel's 3D chip tech is 'perfect' so it doesn't have to follow AMD's chiplet design
- Valve's Robin Walker says Half-Life fans should be 'excited about possibility again,' does not mention the number 3
- A free Rocket League mobile game is releasing this year
- Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti now looking at a mid-May launch
- World Of Warcraft Classic's return to The Burning Crusade has entered beta
- Agent 47 could be getting some luscious locks in the Hitman TV show
- Hitman 3's first DLC explores the seven deadly sins of Agent 47
- The GhostWire: Tokyo dev from that wholesome E3 show now has her own studio
- Think your PC's custom cooling loop is sweet? Intel's Cryoprober gets down near -459°F
- Euro and American Truck Simulators' stunning lighting update is here
- If your broadband connection sucks the FCC wants to hear about it
- Asus suggests Nvidia graphics card supply problems are down to low GPU yields
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds now lets you fulton your friends, Metal Gear-style
- How to watch the Future Games Show 2021
- Intel announces new 'leadership client CPU' being built by TSMC
- Serious Sam 2 gets a seriously big update 15 years after launch
March 23
- Six Days in Fallujah gameplay video looks a lot like Call of Duty
- Absolute monster builds 'cursed' USB-C port that works differently if you flip the cable
- Valheim mod makes kicking way more kicky
- Meteor Lake, Intel's first 7nm CPU, to tape in before July this year and release in 2023
- Intel's creating its own contract foundry business to rival TSMC and help solve the chip supply crisis
- Double XP coming to Call of Duty: Warzone and Cold War, here's exactly when it starts
- Valheim patch adds more storage space and other quality of afterlife changes
- Half-Life: Alyx is cheaper than it's ever been
- Infinite Fleet is a new space MMO inspired by EVE, Homeworld, and Bitcoin
- Shadow Man: Remastered releases April with 'never-before-seen content cut from the original'
- The PC Gamer forums are giving away two EPOS prizes to one lucky winner
- Fortnite's Croft Manor level looks pretty darn cool, gifts free item
- Amazon Games recruits Rainbow Six Siege devs for a new studio
- Fortnite pulls battle pass item accidentally being sold on the store
- If the Nintendo Switch Pro gets DLSS support I want it in my new Nvidia Shield too
- Acer says it’s ‘constantly under attack’ amid reports of a $100M ransomware demand
- AMD's DLSS-alternative doesn't need machine learning to work
- Nvidia may be about to launch a $3,000 GPU that puts the RTX 3090 in the shade
- Report: Microsoft in talks to buy Discord
- Deathmatch mode Resident Evil: Re:Verse gets an open beta next month
March 22
- Microsoft renames Xbox Live to 'Xbox network'
- Two World of Warcraft players kill a boss with 1.8 million HP that's supposed to take 40 people
- The Epic Games Store could be draining your gaming laptop's battery life
- Hearthstone 20.0 patch notes detail ‘The Great Unnerfing’
- Doom has 'more stories to tell,' Doom Eternal director says
- The Witcher Season 2 casts Dijkstra, Philippa Eilhart, Nenneke, and more
- Fallout 76 2021 roadmap leads to legendary power armor, pets, and aliens
- The Sims 4 is getting bunk beds at long last
- Cyberpunk 2077 lead gameplay designer leaves CD Projekt Red
- Get wild discounts on XCOM 2 and Witcher 3 in the GOG Spring Sale
- It's No Man's Skyrim
- Fall Guys gets a Squads mode
- Players demolish Trackmania's 'impossible' skip and fly over the finish line in reverse
- Leaks show that a 6GB Radeon RX 6700 non-XT variant is official
- You can finally order a gaming monitor with HDMI 2.1, but it costs nearly $1,900
- Resident Evil Village's system requirements are here
- The Resident Evil movie reboot will be called Welcome to Raccoon City
- Yakuza 6: The Song of Life system requirements announced
- An hour of Rainbow Six Parasite footage has leaked
March 21
- Second Wind is a Breath of the Wild mod the size of an expansion currently in development
- The charity sloth pet for World of Warcraft is adorable
- Parts of an Assassin's Creed Valhalla seasonal update were removed after causing crashes
- It's psychics versus monsters in action RPG Scarlet Nexus, coming in June
- Terraria has sold 35M copies across all platforms
- Indie publisher Playism is closing its DRM-free store this month
- Nier: Automata is being review bombed on Steam by players who want it patched
March 20
- Here's some more Dragon Age 4 concept art
- Hardcore tactics RPG The Last Spell adds a dash of horde mode to the mix
- Jackbox 8 comes this fall, Word Spud 2 not confirmed
- Steam will not sell pickup artist game Super Seducer 3
- We've got 10 copies of Hearthstone's Forged in the Barrens Mega Bundle to give away
- Fortnite players think The Rock is secretly playing a character named The Foundation
March 19
- This Pokémon fan game is very literally made out of a font
- Watch Dogs: Legion's online co-op mode is now live on PC
- Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne is coming to PC in May
- Become the kind of person who has strong opinions about Daedalic adventure games for just $13
- Gotham Knights is delayed into 2022
- Payday 3 finally finds a publisher, set to release in 2023
- This gaming chair has a built-in katana so you're always ready
- Warframe completely overhauls its contentious space combat
- Cyberpunk 2077's next patch will slow police response, let you remap dodge
- Whoops, Call of Duty: Warzone didn't mean to put that crossbow in the game
- New Intel Xe graphics card teased with hidden messages, may be revealed March 23
- Valheim crosses 6 million sales mark, teases first big update
- Crusader Kings 3 accidentally breaks same-sex concubine mods
- Disco Elysium: The Final Cut has been refused classification in Australia
- Disco Elysium: The Final Cut even gives your horrific necktie a voice
- Windows Insider builds get Auto HDR with a neat twist
- A wireless Valve Index with inside-out tracking would be immense, and isn't entirely unrealistic
- Patriot dials up the Rage on USB flash drives, delivering near SATA SSD speeds
- AMD’s latest GPU driver adds a tool to stress test your overclocked graphics card
- Deathloop artist showcases the game's sharp '60s-inspired fashion
- Phasmophobia's next update will let ghosts touch your real human body
- There's a job ad for professional Minecraft landscapers, and children keep applying
March 18
- EVO 2021 confirmed as an online tournament under new Sony co-ownership
- An outside studio is helping with Star Citizen's Battlefield-like mode
- Bleak sci-fi adventure The Fall is free on the Epic Games Store right now
- The next Among Us map is finally coming out, here's why it took longer than expected
- Half-Life: Alyx mod Return to Rapture turns BioShock into a whole new VR campaign
- Hearthstone is getting 3D animated 'Diamond' cards and a revamped reward track
- Apex Legends recreated in Minecraft looks mighty impressive
- Black Panther is coming to Marvel's Avengers
- Battle dragons and zombie bears in Square Enix's Forspoken, coming in 2022
- Life Is Strange: Remastered Collection coming later this year
- In the new Life is Strange, emotional teen melodrama is your superpower
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla sails to Ireland next month
- In Necromunda: Hired Gun you're a 40K bounty hunter with a murderous robo-dog
- This $20,000 Microsoft Flight Simulator rig is more expensive than some real planes
- After Genshin Impact 1.5 update leaks, MiHoYo is threatening to crack down
- Sony's getting serious about VR on PS5, and that's great news for everyone
- Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection will run at 60 fps and 4K on PC, but drops online play
- Alienware x Cherry gaming laptop delivers DeLorean-inspired 'true mechanical key switches'
- Nvidia doubles the price of GeForce Now membership
- Here come the high-speed PCIe 4 SSDs 'optimized' for Rocket Lake
- Where to buy an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card - live updates
- Drive around a full-scale recreation of Berlin in The Bus
- The Avengers directors were behind Fortnite's Season 6 cinematic
- Nier: Automata on Game Pass/Windows Store is a different port to the Steam version, doesn't need the fan fix
- Here's Breath of the Wild running in 8K with a ray tracing reshade
- Epic Games Store 'parties' will be kind of like Discord channels
- Game companies speak out against anti-Asian violence after mass shooting
- The Outer Worlds' last DLC expansion ‘Murder on Eridanos’ is out now
- Investment group slams Activision CEO Bobby Kotick’s massive bonus payment
March 17
- Disco Elysium: The Final Cut releases on March 30
- Dying Light 2 is still coming this year
- Respawn bans more than 700 high-ranked Apex Legends players
- Valheim mod adds Diablo-style epic loot drops
- Twitch is making it easier for streamers to deal with copyright claims
- Teenage 'mastermind' who hacked high-profile Twitter accounts is off to the slammer
- Valheim has 5 million Vikings and one extremely busy community manager
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla players can finally change how their armor looks, but many are unhappy with how it works
- Yeehaw, American Truck Simulator is going to Texas
- Intel goes off on Apple: 'no-one really games on a Mac'
- AMD's 2 year old Radeon VII is better for cryptocurrency mining than it ever was for gaming
- EA Play will add over 60 games to Xbox Game Pass for PC tomorrow
- AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: 'we will not be blocking any workload'
- Necromunda: Hired Gun looks like a 40K Dishonored, launches this summer
- Save $70 on Logitech’s ‘impossibly thin’ G815 mechanical keyboard
- Doom Eternal goes high fantasy in new Ancient Gods Part Two trailer, out tomorrow
- Latest Nvidia driver fixes Fortnite, Rocket League, and Red Dead Redemption bugs
- Both Euro and American Truck Simulators to get a total lighting overhaul
- $5.7m of cryptocurrency tokens lifted from content creators' wallets
- Micron follows Intel's lead and plans to sell off 3D XPoint fab
- Respawn may be the first game developer to be nominated for an Oscar
- Arkham Origins players have restored its multiplayer mode years after it went offline
- Emily is Away 3 brings back 2008, for better or worse, next month
- Teamfight Tactics hit 10 million daily players at a recent peak
- The HyperX Alloy Elite 2 is available for a super cheap AU$155 today
March 16
- Activision Blizzard lays off roughly 50 esports employees as online events grow in priority
- Amnesia Rebirth has sold over 100,000 copies, but has proven divisive
- The Bannerlord Online mod now supports over 1,000 players on the same server
- Riot says there's 'no evidence' to support allegations of sexual misconduct against CEO
- Call of Duty: Warzone bans over 30,000 cheaters in latest wave
- Check out these super realistic fan-made 3D renders of World of Warcraft's coolest city
- Undertale is now on Xbox Game Pass, Yakuza 6 and more coming soon
- Uh oh, Kazakus is coming back to Hearthstone
- Jade Raymond launches a new Sony-backed indie studio
- Intel Rocket Lake's high pricing feels like a missed opportunity
- An open beta for new mech shooter Galahad 3093 starts on Friday
- Nvidia RTX 3050 and Intel Tiger Lake details leak on Geekbench
- Genesis Noir's jazz-infused cosmic investigations begin later this month
- Satisfactory may get a final tech tier in a future update to wrap up its endgame
- Satisfactory is getting a hoverpack that makes building massive factories so much easier
- GTA Online load time fix released, shaves off actual minutes of waiting for some
- Windows 10 Sun Valley update will start to get rid of the bloatware
- Fortnite Season 6 goes Primal with wolves, pigs, and Lara Croft
- Regretfully, Call Of Duty: Warzone's infinite stim glitch is back
- Evil Genius 2 trailer explains how to achieve world domination, free and paid post-launch content confirmed
- PC makers to adopt cheaper DRAM-less SSDs. Here's why you should care
- Somehow, 2020 was Star Citizen's most successful year to date
- Nvidia pulls dev driver that bypasses mining limiter, genie refuses to go back in bottle
- K/DA, the world's favourite League of Legends virtual K-pop group, is now a mouse mat
- Windows 10 crashing when you try to print? There's now an official fix
- Smash apart this Counter-Strike mapper's destructible Inferno remake
- Call of Duty: Warzone player notices neo-Nazi symbol in paid emblem
March 15
- Alienware ends Riot partnership due to sexual harassment lawsuit, claims report
- New Deathloop gameplay footage will make Dishonored fans feel at home
- Valheim players use 40,000 blocks to build a massive Eiffel Tower
- Fortnite team kicked out of Champion Series over toxic tweet aimed at Fortnite creative lead
- Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed poor load times, official update coming
- Outriders will be on Xbox Game Pass at release, but not for PC
- Nvidia's cryptocurrency mining limiter has been cracked, but it's not quite a farming frenzy yet
- Nvidia's GeForce GPU shortage isn't improving anytime soon
- Fall Guys' futuristic Season 4 trailer hints at Among Us collaboration
- This Week in PC Gaming: Big updates in Fortnite and Genshin Impact, plus some hand-penciled horror
- Nvidia Reflex hits Overwatch, dropping in-game latency by up to 50 percent
- Apex Legends accidentally nerfed its gassiest heroes
- Your 8TB HDD might seem big now, but 120TB drives are on the way
- GameStop Redditors are using their stock winnings to adopt gorillas
- Devotion is finally available to buy after two years in limbo
- House Flipper is getting pets, because why not
- The theme for the new Ninja Turtles game is sung by Mike Patton from Faith No More
- EA confirms 'one or more EA accounts' is behind the FIFA 21 trading scandal
March 14
- Forget farming games, Apico is about the art of beekeeping
- In this bullet hell your time limit is also your health bar
- Be a cloud and ruin everyone's day in Rain on Your Parade
- The version of Skyrim on Game Pass is moddable—with limits
- Total War: Warhammer 2's next free DLC is a dark elf lord with a 'Whip of Agony'
- Dying Light 2 dev says 'we announced the game too early'
- Nvidia won that billion-dollar crypto mining lawsuit
- Europa Universalis 4: Leviathan will add options for diplomacy, and 'playing tall'
March 13
- Stellaris: Nemesis will be out in April if you want to watch the galaxy burn
- Robot Lord Rising is co-op tactics in 30 second bursts
- Thwart an evil AI, or betray your friends, in the First Class Trouble playtest
- Man accidentally opens old Magic: The Gathering pack and pulls a Black Lotus that could be worth over $10,000
- Surviving Mars returns with a new developer, a free update and more DLC
- Crusader Kings 3 is heading north for its first DLC, coming next week
- Despot's Game is a roguelike autobattler about refrigerators, pretzels, and dark gods
- Girls kill aliens with chainsaws in co-op brawler Chenso Club
- New trailer for Netflix's Dota anime explains what the hell is going on in Dota
March 12
- Call of Duty: Warzone streamers suspended for cheating after Mara actor calls them out
- How to watch new Paradox and indie game announcements this weekend
- Valheim players are industrializing the slaughter of its most hated monsters
- The canceled, then un-canceled Stadia port of Terraria comes out next week
- Greek Squad: Scientists continue troubleshooting 2,000-year-old computer
- Hackers hack at unhackable new chip for three months. Chip remains unhacked
- This upcoming slime farming game has strong Stardew Valley energy
- This Stardew Valley mod lets you have a best friend instead of a wife
- Is Firefox faster than Chrome? Study finds people will think it is if articles say so
- Valheim didn't need mods to summon this horrifying Thomas The Tank Engine
- Yoji Shinkawa picked his favourite Death Stranding photographs, and they're incredible
- Your smart sex toy could be taken over by remote or local hackers
- A fire that wiped out Rust's EU servers may have been caused by a faulty UPS
- Rockstar Leeds founder Gordon Hall dies at 51
- AMD has a BIOS fix on the way for its intermittent USB problems
- Halo Infinite's ringworld isn't open-world, but it is teeming with gophers
- Little Nightmares 2 has sold over 1 million copies
- A new Life is Strange game will be shown at a Square Enix showcase next week
- Fallout: New Vegas mod restores cut NPCs to the Strip
- Get Metro 2033 for free on Steam, and the other Metro games for cheap
- Project Proteus mod promises to completely change how you play Skyrim
- Latest retro FPS is about blasting demons in hell, just for a change
March 11
- Potential new Call of Duty: Warzone hack is ending matches instantly
- How Rust got back online after its servers literally caught fire
- Star Citizen management criticized by employees for poor handling of Texas winter storm
- Gothic Remake development is full speed ahead at new Barcelona studio
- The Stellaris boardgame will change permanently as you play it
- Hearthstone is un-nerfing 35 cards and for a week things are going to get spicy
- Todd Howard: 'There was very little we didn't screw up' on Fallout 76 launch
- 13 of Bethesda's best games are coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC
- Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, has died at 94
- Loop Hero sells half-a-million, promises new cards and classes
- Borderlands 3 Directors Cut delayed over bad weather
- Unreleased AMD Ryzen 3 5300G chip pops up on eBay for $177
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 'almost certain to be released around mid-April'
- Get your wallet ready for this one-of-a-kind RTX 3090 gaming PC charity auction
- Hearthstone is heading to the Barrens at the end of March
- VR just got a whole lot creepier with the HTC Vive Facial Tracker
- This haunted app will make any photo sing along to Yakuza’s Dame Da Ne
- Boutique builder didn’t sell a single AMD PC in 2016, now they’re outselling Intel
- Capcom reportedly forced staff to work on-site despite Japan's COVID-19 emergency
- MSI to add Resizable BAR support to Intel Coffee Lake motherboards
- This PS5 comes with custom liquid cooling and is utterly gorgeous
- New polymer cables could match fibre optic speeds with the simplicity of copper
- Games Workshop hires Astartes creator to make official Warhammer shorts
- Meyers Leonard dropped by basketball team and sponsors after using antisemitic slur in Call of Duty stream
- A new level from Fall Guys Season 4 has been revealed
- Watch a teaser for The Outer Worlds' second expansion, Murder on Eridanos
- Games Workshop is giving away a Steam key for 12 games with the next issue of White Dwarf
- EA launches investigation after allegations an employee profited from FIFA 21 Ultimate Team trading
- Looks like Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition might arrive on Game Pass for PC this week
March 10
- Get Stellaris for a single dollar in this Humble Bundle
- Florian Munteanu from Creed 2 will play Krieg in the Borderlands movie
- Latest Nioh 2 patch adds mouse and keyboard button displays, but also crashes
- Roblox makes its stock market debut, goes toe-to-toe with EA
- Why game developers hate doors
- The Dynasty Warriors movie looks predictably bonkers
- Valorant pro Jay 'Sinatraa' Won accused of sexual assault by former partner [updated]
- Crush your coffee shop rivals as the Espresso Tycoon
- This new retro Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat-'em-up looks extremely cowabunga
- The future of high-end PC VR may not require an actual PC
- An odd bug in this month’s Windows 10 update is crashing some PCs
- Crusader Kings 3 nerfs the Pope, makes it easier to imprison your kids, and stops crotch exposure
- Nvidia's unhackable GeForce RTX 3060 hash rate limiter may not have been hacked after all
- Resident Evil's cinematic reboot arrives this September
- GlobalFoundries to double expansion investment to $1.5 billion this year
- Rust hit by catastrophic data loss after fire destroys data center
- MSI promotes cryptocurrency mining on its gaming laptops
- Intel CPU roadmap shoots for the moon with Lunar Lake drivers hitting Linux years ahead of launch
- Tell Me Why's first chapter is now free
- Race The Sun dev's next game is a procedurally-generated Star Fox
- This indie dev is holding an anti-NFT gif sale
- Get Ancestors Legacy free with the new 'peasant edition'
- German parliament says it wants games with loot boxes rated 18+, then backtracks
- PAX Australia will return as a live show in October
March 9
- Stadia exclusive Super Bomberman R Online is coming to PC
- NBA player and FaZe Clan streamer uses antisemitic slur in Warzone match, apologizes
- Twitch API code reveals plans for a 'Brand Safety Score' for streamers
- The Pachimari event skin for Overwatch's Roadhog is profoundly silly
- Valheim modders make the game harder by adding starvation, repair costs, other things I hate
- How to get Fortnite's Marigold skin and finish the Golden Touch challenges
- These dice have RGB lights, Bluetooth connectivity, and charge wirelessly
- Fortnite Season 6 will conclude Agent Jones' mission with a solo event
- This passively cooled RTX 3080 survives notorious benchmark for 4 minutes 27 seconds
- Hunt ghosts with sound in Chasing Static, a creepy new horror game with a neat lo-fi aesthetic
- Seeing Half-Life's G-Man with smooth skin brings me deep discomfort
- It's official: Microsoft owns Bethesda, 'some' future games will be exclusive
- StreamPi helps you create an alternative DIY Elgato Stream Deck
- Minecraft is highlighting influential feminists for Women's History Month
- Your Xbox could become a living room PC thanks to the console's new browser
- Huge Hunt: Showdown update overhauls the experience for new players
- This incredible wooden PC is just the tip of the CoolerMaster Case Mod World Series iceberg
- PSA: Not all PCIe 4.0 SSDs deliver the kind of speeds you might expect
- Modder gives RTX 3070 a 16GB upgrade before Nvidia has the chance
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 ventures into the Chaos Wastes next month
- A Bitcoin hotspot in China is banning all cryptocurrency mining to curb energy use
- Marvel's Avengers dev attempts to justify slowing down levelling
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive mysteriously vanished from Steam
- Wow, MicroProse Soccer just hit Steam
- The end of every Call of Duty: Warzone Plunder match is an ear-splitting nightmare
- Valheim has fireworks, if you're willing to sacrifice your surtling cores
March 8
- Source Engine Aesthetics is a museum of level design vibes from 2004 to 2014
- Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets an unreal 162 kill record in a single match
- Dota 2's tutorial sucks, so Dota 2 players are spending $25,000 to make a new one
- The studio that made sci-fi shooter Disintegration is closing
- Latest Call of Duty: Cold War patch adds a new hardcore mode
- World of Warcraft's much-anticipated patch arrives tomorrow, improves Mythic+ dungeon gear
- Dark Souls 3 is a damn sports game now thanks to this amazing mod
- You can now play 2D Minecraft in the Minecraft chat window
- Monster Hunter Stories 2 is coming to PC in July
- This monster CPU cooler is the weight of a whole gaming laptop
- Doom Eternal's next DLC teases the battle with the Dark Lord
- This Dark Souls 3 mod brings Sekiro's weapons and movesets to Lothric
- Six Days in Fallujah publisher does a 180, now says the game is 'inseparable from politics'
- Swedish teen's start-up brings us the most affordable VR full-body tracking ever
- New Intel Alder Lake leak promises 24-thread gaming laptop chips
- One of the best PC streaming services is filing for bankruptcy
- Microsoft's $7.5B acquisition of Bethesda has been given the green light
- LiquidVPN sued by movie companies for encouraging and profiting from 'blatant' piracy
- AMD's Apple-exclusive GPU could be repurposed for cryptocurrency mining, for all the good it'll do
- This Valheim world generator helps you discover the perfect seed
- Monster Hunter World: The Board Game coming to Kickstarter, with the 'complete' version costing $279
- Blaseball, the silent browser phenomenon, gets an official soundtrack
- Among Us releases a slightly sus quick chat update
- British prison escapee caught because he went out to buy Call of Duty
- Resident Evil Village won't have decapitations in Japan
March 7
- Over 5,000 Final Fantasy 14 players were banned for real-money trading in one week
- Anger Foot is Duke Nukem's Mighty Boot: The Game
- Phasmophobia update teaches ghosts to turn corners and open doors
- The Microsoft Store leaked a Tomb Raider trilogy collection
- Teardown has a Steam Workshop now, and that means there's a physics gun
- Here's an adorable factory game about machine learning and cats
- Players were farming so many legendaries in the Outriders demo it had to be changed
March 6
- You can make Loop Hero run faster by editing a file
- Chinese hit Tale of Immortal is getting an English translation
- A dating sim comes to Genshin Impact in the Invitation of Windblume update
- Watch Dogs Legion multiplayer is delayed indefinitely on PC
March 5
- The Division 2's next big update won't be out until late 2021 'at the earliest'
- The Legend of Bum-bo gets a free expansion with a new character and save function
- John McAfee charged with fraud for pushing cryptocurrencies, could face even more prison time
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 is heading to Russia
- What if every CS:GO map was Nuke?
- This handheld AMD Ryzen gaming PC from Aya will go on sale later today
- Sneki Snek gaming chair pillow supports your head and the environment
- Apex Legends will soon let you solo queue, but don't expect a fair fight
- Budget Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti with 4GB GDDR6 surfaces in Asus listing
- Destiny 2's 12-player fun can stay for now, but Bungie says it: 'didn’t create activities expecting a clown car of Guardians'
- Destiny 2's Trials have been disabled indefinitely over last week's match fixing exploits
- Microsoft Mesh is humanity's jaw-dropping hologram future
- Nvidia releases a GPU hotfix to address screen flickering and Fortnite stuttering
- Microsoft is aware of unresponsiveness issues on new Xbox controllers, fix in the works
- Before Your Eyes is an interactive afterlife you play by blinking
- Deathloop's brilliant Bond-style theme is now on Spotify
- Oculus Quest 2 is now the most popular VR headset around
- Ethereum mining limiters could come as standard on future Nvidia GeForce GPUs
- UK government opens investigation into Apple's 'anti-competitive behaviour'
- Producer on Hogwarts Legacy quits after history of anti-social justice videos exposed
- Razer's new smart glasses come with built-in speakers but no RGB
- Blaster Master Zero 3 is the finale in the cult NES throwback trilogy
March 4
- I really want to play this city builder that gives you 30 minutes to escape the Earth
- Here’s 25 minutes of Aliens: Fireteam gameplay
- Gorgeous anime fighter Guilty Gear Strive delayed due to reviled lobby system
- Valve ends Artifact development, makes the entire game free
- Elgato's green screen mouse pad is actually a cool idea
- Outriders demo patch will add a motion blur toggle and fix that annoying inventory crash bug
- The Mortal Kombat film had 'drums of blood' on set
- The Future Games Show is coming back this March with 40 new games
- The new Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 gameplay trailer really pops
- 48 million players use controllers on Steam
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's alpha takes off later this month
- Have you herd? Shelter 3 is out this month
- Dark Souls modder proves what every player knows: Bed of Chaos is outrageous BS
- Square Enix's surprisingly awesome album of lo-fi Final Fantasy beats is now on Spotify
- AMD's graphics card market share has dropped by a third in one year
- Elgato releases fancy acoustic foam panels for the discerning streamer
- Marvel's Avengers is making levelling... grindier?
- Diablo 2: Resurrected will accept old save files from the original Diablo 2
- Fortnite is jumping on the ShantyTok craze with this new emote
- Hitman 3 roadmap brings new contracts, outfits and a seasonal event
- A 7-inch OLED handheld is our PC game streaming dream but we'll settle for the Nintendo Switch Pro
- This Japanese indie mech screams with the sounds of 90s anime
- As GPU shipments rise, analyst cautions it would be ‘foolish’ to buy one for mining
- This monster PC case could be the most extra chassis ever
- Samsung's massive Odyssey G9 gaming monitor is getting a Mini LED overhaul, and we can't wait
- There's a big-budget open-world Dungeons & Dragons game in development
- Resident Evil Village will have ray tracing, on AMD cards at least
- FIFA 'dynamic difficulty' lawsuit dropped after plaintiffs talk to EA's engineers
- Wasteland 3's next patch will add more difficulty options, including permadeath
March 3
- The beautiful Minute of Islands is the latest delay after a hard year for game development
- The Sinking City publisher defends its decision to put an 'adapted' copy of the game on Steam
- Call of Duty: Warzone leak details a casual sandbox mode with vehicle races
- Scribblenauts studio 5th Cell launches a new multiplayer strategy game on Steam
- This Phasmophobia rapper has no right to go this hard
- No, birds are not flying away with boats in Valheim
- AMD shows the Radeon RX 6700 XT outpacing Nvidia's RTX 3070 in selected games
- Valheim sails past five million sales
- AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs get go-ahead for performance boosting Smart Access Memory
- AMD announces RX 6700 XT graphics card launching March 18 for $479
- All the AMD RX 6700 XT price, specs, and performance details - live updates
- Watch the AMD RX 6700 XT announcement right here
- Zynga snaps up Torchlight 3 developer Echtra Games
- Queer space opera A Long Journey To An Uncertain End has been successfully crowdfunded
- Intel's new mainstream SSDs get a much needed price cut after just two days
- A banana could be your next PC controller
- TSMC was all booked up, now it's auctioning excess wafer capacity
- The profitability of Ethereum cryptocurrency mining has halved in a week
- Dead By Daylight's next killer is a bloodthirsty BTS-inspired pop star
- Intel told to pay $2.18bn in court because patent law is super weird
- Green Man Gaming's 'Best Ever' sale cuts Marvel's Avengers, Borderlands 3 and more
March 2
- What happens when 50 howling wolves battle Valheim's final boss?
- Devil Daggers update adds a new dagger that almost nobody will ever get
- Richard Garriott went to the bottom of the goddamned ocean
- Outriders developers explain why a tiny cutscene plays every time you open a door
- Young Gamora actor Ariana Greenblatt joins the Borderlands film as Tiny Tina
- Valheim patch improves dedicated server latency, makes wolves less horny
- Epic Games buys Fall Guys studio Mediatonic
- The Sims 4 has a new, smaller pack type for some reason
- Build rodent racetracks and bet on the outcome in Hamster All-Stars
- Epic's legal battle against Apple is going to court
- This would-be Jarl is rebuilding Skyrim's Whiterun in Valheim
- Hogwarts Legacy developers fought to include a 'trans-inclusive' character creator
- All of MSI's Z490 motherboards are gaining PCIe 4.0 support with Rocket Lake
- EVE Online will let you 'borrow' skills to try new ships soon
- Layoffs hit former Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 developer Hardsuit Labs
- TSMC will produce 3nm chips this year and Apple has already grabbed them all
- Intel ends overclocking warranty plan we all forgot it offered
- This NBN provider is offering 250Mbps for the price of NBN 100, for a limited time
- The Sinking City has been removed from Steam again
- Fanatical's Spring Sale has Dirt 4 for AU$1.44
March 1
- Hood: Outlaws & Legends reveals its take on the Robin Hood character
- The next Need for Speed is delayed so Criterion can work on Battlefield 6 instead
- Thousands of World of Warcraft Classic players are starting over from scratch
- Obscura promises to be a photo mode lover's paradise
- Intel to bundle Hitman 3 with its Rocket Lake CPUs
- New Intel listings suggest devs and manufacturers are testing Xe gaming GPUs
- Valheim players are now launching longships into orbit
- Oculus Quest 2's experimental 120Hz patch planned for March
- A leaked Elden Ring trailer has surfaced
- Someone has figured out how to reduce GTA Online's load times by almost 70%
- Microsoft is trying something different to prevent Windows 10 updates from failing
- These leaked AMD Zen 4 server specs have us salivating for Ryzen 6000
- Nvidia's GTX 1060 GPU is coming out of retirement to mine cryptocurrency
- 343 snuck a Halo 5 audio log into its latest Infinite blog post
- Snoop Dogg ragequit 15 minutes into livestreaming Madden on Twitch
- Apex Legends hits record Steam player count with 198,235 concurrents