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- May 31
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- 'Our story is political,' Far Cry 6 narrative director says
- Cyberpunk 2077 will 'live up to what we promised,' CD Projekt boss says
- Watch Dogs Legion's new mode fills London with zombies
- Saints Row publisher Koch Media is holding a Summer Game Fest livestream
- Dark Alliance will get split-screen co-op after launch
- Bungie hiring for new IP, a "multiplayer action game" in early development
- Microsoft Store leaks Two Point Hospital follow-up Two Point Campus
- Resident Evil producer Peter Fabiano leaves Capcom for Bungie
- Ubisoft reveals new chat system for Ubisoft Connect
- Intel is happy to burn bridges with ex-Mac mate Apple
- Well, here's a nude Geralt Skyrim mod
- Griftlands hits 1.0 as Klei turns its publisher sale into a festival
- May 30
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- Logistics and city builder Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic has helicopters now
- Have a bit of Tainted Grail: Conquest for your roguelike deckbuilder fix
- Humble Heal raises over a million dollars for Covid-19 charities
- Dodgeball shooter Knockout City is free to try for all new players
- Here's your cinematic trailer for 40K shooter Necromunda: Hired Gun
- This week in PC gaming: Resident Evil Village and Apex Legends Season 9
- This week in PC gaming: Burning Crusade returns, Hokko Life does a good Animal Crossing impression
- The cancelled Fallout Van Buren is being remade as a New Vegas mod
- Rumor: The next Sonic game may be open world and include 'ubisoft towers'
- Syberia creator Benoît Sokal has died
- Angry Total War fans are review-bombing Three Kingdoms
- May 29
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- A modder is reviving the lost Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory singleplayer campaign
- Little Nightmares is free to keep this weekend
- Sierra Entertainment’s original creators might be making something new
- First Biomutant patch will tackle dialogue problems alongside combat
- The most expensive Steam profile is worth over $250K
- May 28
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- Far Cry 6 'isn't a political statement' on Cuba, narrative director says
- Obsidian slows the pace of Grounded updates in favor of more 'meaningful' releases
- Judge denies Valve's request for a new trial following Steam Controller lawsuit loss
- Microsoft Flight Simulator patch cuts the download size in half
- Creepy action adventure Graven is now in Early Access
- Far Cry 6 coming in October, features a lethal compact disc launcher that blares Macarena
- Mistborn's Kelsier comes to Fortnite as a new skin
- The Valheim developers bought a real horse
- A key building block for the first PCIe 5.0 SSDs just got announced
- Genshin Impact's June 9 update gives players a boat and island paradise to explore
- Straight Outta Comp-Sci: now AI voice actors can rap
- The movie based on Ubisoft's 2016 VR party game, Werewolves Within, actually looks pretty good
- Warzone nerfs the cargo truck meta
- Next week's Destiny 2 update will heavily nerf Stasis in PvP
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's narrative and design directors leave Infinity Ward
- Have I Been Pwned teams up with the FBI to collect a lot more stolen passwords
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update is keeping a close eye on cheating coaches
- May 27
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- Cyberpunk 2077 has a new game director
- The free Chivalry 2 open beta has started
- Here's 14 minutes of Horizon Forbidden West, which is probably coming to PC someday
- Supernatural stealth sequel Aragami 2 set for release in September
- Dying Light 2 is coming on December 7
- Steam Open World Sale kicks off with Company of Heroes 2 giveaway
- Hearthstone's 'The Wailing Caverns' mini-set announced, arrives next week
- Acer keeps the Nintendo 3DS dream alive with 3D laptops, no glasses required
- Among Us is free to keep on the Epic Games Store this week
- Looks like this is the Steam download page's sexy new look
- Creative Assembly is working on a new Romance of the Three Kingdoms project
- Borderlands 3 gets partial crossplay, but refuses to play by Sony's rules
- Google spots DDR4 weakness that could expose your PC to a system takeover
- Gigabyte promises its beefy PCIe 4.0 SSD will never throttle
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey releases beefy patch following miserable launch
- Play as Bomberman in Fall Guys from June 4
- Nvidia cryptocurrency mining GPU sales soar towards $555 million in six months
- Windows 10 gets a speedy new package manager
- Nvidia teases possible RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti with obscure liquid renders
- Scavengers is holding a 5,000-player public event this weekend
- Developer puts Unreal Engine 5 to the test with 10 billion polygons of dog
- Dragon Quest 12 announced
- Noir sidescroller Backbone releases in June, stars a raccoon PI
- May 26
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- Uncharted 4 is coming to PC according to Sony report
- Microsoft teases Starfield reveal at the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase in June
- Over 350,000 Call of Duty accounts have been banned for racist names or toxicity in the past year
- Far Cry 6 gameplay will be revealed on Friday
- BlizzCon 2021 is not happening
- The Unreal Engine 5 demo is a massive 100GB
- The Garden Path is a cosy life sim that looks straight out of a painting
- Western Digital's new SSD is aimed at budget gamers
- Unreal Engine 5 is set for an early 2022 release
- Old School RuneScape finally adds in-game clans today
- Unreal Engine 5 super resolution feature promises near 4K quality 'at the cost of 1080p'
- Creative Assembly job ads tease next sci-fi FPS from the Alien: Isolation team
- A single USB Type-C cable will soon be capable of powering an entire gaming laptop
- Apex Legends is toning down new hero Valkyrie's jetpack
- The university of Iceland is starting a course on EVE as a 'friendship machine'
- Mass Effect modders to restore same-sex romances from unused audio files
- This gaming setup is the ultimate flight and racing sim battlestation
- The latest Google Doodle is a stylish jazz swing rhythm game
- No other browser performs better than Edge in Windows 10, just ask Microsoft
- PUBG is remastering Miramar and introducing two new maps
- Intel tops semiconductor earnings in 2021 so far but AMD makes great strides
- This cosy cooking game is about staying connected with family in the pandemic
- Torchlight 3's spring update will be the current developer's last
- Metal-detection romance The Magnificent Trufflepigs hikes onto Steam next week
- May 25
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- Strangeland, the new game from the makers of Primordia, is out today (and very good)
- Sonic the Hedgehog livestream will show off ‘upcoming projects’
- Microsoft CEO says the 'next generation' of Windows is coming soon
- Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground gameplay video confirms it is not a card game (but has cards)
- A 'large' new Overwatch feature will be announced soon, possibly 'really soon'
- Axiom Verge 2 is delayed, but there's a free 'making-of' documentary you can watch instead
- Dead by Daylight's Resident Evil DLC adds Nemesis and AI zombies but no Lady D
- AMD Zen 4 may be a long way off but possible specs are coming thick and fast
- Cloudpunk's 'sequel-sized' DLC arrives with a tease for a full cyberpunk life sim
- The creator of NAND has a brave new idea for your gaming PC's RAM
- Hunt: Showdown gets a much drier map and a deadly new bow
- Nintendo prototyped a Zelda in the '90s that was a lot like Portal
- Razer's new compact wireless BlackWidow is super cute but pricey
- Cheating allegations catch up with some of Trackmania's fastest drivers
- AMD admits budget chips have been sacrificed to the silicon shortage gods
- AI knows when you're being sarcastic on Twitter
- Days Gone is another success for PlayStation on PC
- AMD may be playing chiplet Jenga with its next-gen server chips
- Microsoft is embarking on a 'multi-year journey to re-imagine' Windows 10
- Valve is reportedly working on a handheld Steam console, could be out this year
- Intel prepares to send its first 7nm CPU off for manufacturing
- The Portal movie is still happening, JJ Abrams insists
- Nvidia releases GPU hotfix for 120Hz 4K monitors and TVs
- Knockout City already has over 2 million players
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator are getting official multiplayer support
- May 24
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- CAPTCHAs are annoying, but this Doom-themed one is actually fun
- Apex Legends will finally punish players for abandoning Arenas matches
- A Dark Souls-style Final Fantasy game might be announced soon
- Rockstar Games and CircoLoco form new record label
- Ubisoft says it's addressing workplace harassment, some fans aren't buying it
- Here's when Biomutant unlocks in your time zone
- Half-Life comic A Place in the West releases new chapter
- Microsoft's business dad flip phone now turns into a portable Xbox
- The rising stars of Twitch's new hot tub category are adorable otters
- The original Samorost gets a free 'enhanced edition' on Steam and Itch
- Watch Dogs was a Driver game, until Ubisoft decided it wanted its 'own GTA' instead
- CPU coolers may require a rework to fit Intel's Alder Lake chips later this year
- Tank-fighting JRPG Metal Max: Xeno Reborn is coming to PC
- Drummer accidentally leaks a new Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
- Garry Kasparov on why he turned down a starring role in the Queen's Gambit
- Final Fantasy 14's Naoki Yoshida teases what's to come after Endwalker
- Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker will have around 30% more story and cutscenes than Shadowbringers
- Battlefield 6 continues to leak like a sieve
- Nvidia outlines plan to end 600/700 series GPU support, but may have backtracked
- Bent CPU pins may become a thing of the past as AMD eyes major socket change
- Raven will tone down the sun in Call of Duty: Warzone
- Frontier CEO apologises 'wholeheartedly' for shoddy Elite Dangerous Odyssey launch
- Halo's decades-old janky PC visuals are finally getting fixed
- Respawn explains Apex Legends cosmetic pricing: 'math is harder than people think'
- Here's all of Europe in a giant OpenTTD map
- May 23
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- Twitch is adding over 350 new tags including 'transgender, Black, disabled, veteran, and Vtuber'
- Dungeons of Edera is indie, Souls-like Diablo in Unreal Engine
- Going Medieval is a colony sim that takes its castle-building quite seriously
- Destiny 2 player on second team to clear Vault of Glass banned for offensive username
- Saints Row: The Third Remastered arrives on Steam with discount for owners
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition mod brings back console commands
- Netflix is reportedly planning to get into games even more
- May 22
- May 21
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- Crysis 2 Remastered tease turns up on Twitter
- Watch Dogs Legion is getting Grandma Helen and a June surprise
- Twitch addresses hot tub streaming controversy by adding a hot tub category
- Paradox has finally caved to the demands for Victoria 3
- Crusader Kings 3: Royal Court finally gives you a place to sit
- Final Fantasy 14's Naoki Yoshida on the death of Berserk creator Kentaro Miura: 'It's unfathomable'
- You can play Stellaris, Cities: Skylines and Surviving Mars for free this weekend
- Garry Kasparov does not approve of the double bongcloud: 'I'm old fashioned'
- Both Titanfall games are once again plagued by DDoS attacks
- Somehow the world's fastest hard drive can now rival SSD speeds
- Destiny 2 will have a crossplay beta next week, after Vault of Glass arrives
- Nvidia may release the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti a week apart, starting June 3
- Here's how you fix poor fps in Mass Effect Legendary Edition on laptops
- No Man's Sky gifts you with Mass Effect's Normandy SR1 for completing its latest expedition
- Among Us teases new crewmate colour ahead of 'next big update' announcement this June
- Chrome is crashing on some Windows 10 PCs after latest browser update
- Watch the death throes of the best budget gaming CPU around
- Modder lets Resident Evil Village's Lady Dimitrescu face off against Bloodborne's Lady Maria
- This could be our first picture of the new AMD RX 6600 XT
- Hot Wheels Unleashed looks brilliant in this new gameplay trailer
- Red Dead Redemption 2 is now playable in VR, thanks to the creator of the best GTA V VR mod
- Valheim mod adds Odin's mighty magic bong
- Phantom Abyss looks like a first-person Indiana Jones game with parkour
- May 20
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- Dungeons & Dragons had its 'best year ever' in 2020
- Check out some of Overwatch 2's new PvP maps
- This digital deck-builder about life in a travelling circus is having a free open beta
- Tank players are nervous about Overwatch 2's 5v5 future
- Overwatch 2 PvP will be 5v5 with only one Tank per team
- Wow! You can finally simulate putting on your socks
- Microsoft and Bethesda will reportedly hold a joint summer conference in June
- Resident Evil Village mod makes Lady D's big honkin' hat keep getting bigger
- Epic kicks off its annual Mega Sale with a free copy of NBA 2K21 for everyone
- Win an Alienware streamers bundle or a Crusader Armor code in Magic: Legends
- Valheim has shifted 6.8m copies, and continues to sell like hotcakes
- This Russian retro-futurist survival game looks like STALKER and Tarkov's alien baby
- The Sims 4 goes all Property Brothers with the latest game pack
- DC has revealed animated Injustice movie by hiding it in the bonus features of another movie
- Stardew Valley is so lovely, even its creator spent the pandemic hanging out there
- A new survey shows 59% of women hide their gender while gaming to avoid harassment
- AMD's Super Resolution patent details a potential DLSS-beater
- AMD's feeling flush: plans to spend $4B buying back its own shares
- Best Buy is selling a PC with a discrete Intel graphics card inside
- This week's GTA Online update finally lets you steal the Cayo Perico panther statue
- Back 4 Blood's zombie-slaying crew look cool as hell
- Former Shadow of Mordor studio head is making an open-world adventure game with EA
- Call of Duty: Warzone's Season 3 Reloaded update is here and sweatier than ever
- Final Fantasy 14 players band together to honour Berserk creator Kentaro Miura
- Amy Hennig brings in cancelled Star Wars project co-writer for a new adventure game
- A new TimeSplitters is coming under a 'reformed' Free Radical Design
- More Outriders games are likely thanks to 3.5 million players milestone
- May 19
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- Bethesda's official forums will be closed for good next week
- Twitch demonetizes top 'hot tub' streamer's ads without notice
- Take-Two says an all-new Gearbox franchise is coming sometime before April 2022
- Why today's TVs are a great choice for PC gaming
- Microsoft is finally killing Internet Explorer for good in 2022
- Summer Game Fest returns on June 10
- Be a '70s-inspired superpowered stealth machine in The Chameleon this July
- Fall Guys is getting some adorable Tron skins
- AMD's Zen 3 CPU refresh is about expanded manufacturing not performance
- Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes gets another teaser trailer
- Fortnite's jamming with the NBA
- China says cryptocurrency 'is not a real currency' and Bitcoin drops to a 3-month low
- Phasmophobia's latest update lets ghosts do even more creepy stuff
- Four Cyberpunk 2077 lawsuits against CDPR have been combined into one mega lawsuit
- Microsoft just killed Windows 10X, the lightweight version of Windows 10
- Zotac may have just revealed the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
- Fans translate Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Mohawk language sequences
- Ethereum moves to kill graphics card mining 'in the upcoming months'
- GTA 5 player beats the entire game in 9 hours without taking a hit
- This fighting game glossary helps you tell your air reset from your elbow
- You can download the 21H1 Windows 10 update right now
- Don't expect any new Hollow Knight: Silksong news at E3 this year
- Resident Evil anime series is hitting Netflix this July
- Take-Two is releasing 62 games by 2024, and we have guesses about what they are
- May 18
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- Summer Games Done Quick 2021 will include two blindfolded speedruns
- Extremely metal retro shooter Amid Evil now has RTX lighting
- EA takes a cue from Valve, will crowdfund the Apex Legends Championship prize pool
- Portal 2 update opens the door to bigger and better level designs
- Die Hard's Nakatomi Plaza is coming to Call of Duty: Warzone this week
- Nvidia DLSS is now supported in VR, starting with No Man's Sky
- There will be no anti-mining LHR versions of existing Nvidia Founders Edition graphics cards
- GOG is giving away digital goodies to celebrate the Witcher 2's 10th anniversary
- Nvidia's new LHR GPUs will put 'more GeForce cards at better prices into the hands of gamers'
- Guilty Gear voice actress steps down to 'support more work for Black actresses'
- GTA Online and Red Dead Online get new races, big summer updates
- Total War: Warhammer 3 shows off the ice-wielding, bear-crazy Kislev
- FIFA 21 adds murdered teenage footballer 15 years later
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, which lets you leave your ship and walk on planets, now has a release date
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition patch 1.02 adds mostly cosmetic improvements
- This CPU liquid cooler has an extra fan to cool your M.2 SSD and RAM too
- Overwatch's 5th anniversary is here and fans are loving the new skins
- Oculus top brass, Hugo Barra, departs Facebook
- AMD may slap a 5GHz boost onto the Ryzen 9 5950X with an XT refresh
- Genshin Impact finally adds two-factor authentication
- The Sims 4 roadmap shows off new packs, base game updates and events
- Golden Light's new 'Meat Royale' is basically Silent Hill deathmatch in David Lynch's toilet
- Warner Bros Interactive will reportedly be split up following merger
- JRPG fans are excited for a new English fan translation of a 'Trails' game unreleased in the west
- May 17
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- Epic Games sues AR company Nreal for trademark violation
- Leaks suggest Rainbow Six Siege's next operator is a new kind of healer
- Valorant pro Sinatraa suspended for not cooperating with sexual assault investigation
- A free Chivalry 2 open beta starts next week
- This cool safecracking sim teaches you how locks really work
- Final Fantasy-inspired card battler Pixel Tactics is coming to PC
- WD Blue 500GB NVMe SSDs are down to $55 today
- Terraria celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a new world seed and bug fixes
- Razer's hardware bundle with a keyboard, mouse, and headset is on sale for $69
- Twitch subs will soon cost less depending on where you live
- Biomutant continues to look like kung-fu fun in raw PC footage
- Gnosia is like an Among Us visual novel, and it's coming to PC this year
- Noctua's passive cooler is 'coming soon' to put an end to case fans
- Windows 10 has a built-in ransomware block, you just need to enable it
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition hits highest Steam concurrent players for a BioWare game
- New World addresses concerns over microtransactions
- Roblox has eradicated any mention of being a game
- Intel Alder Lake could usher in more power efficient PC power supplies
- Call of Duty: Warzone has banned over half a million cheaters so far
- May 16
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- Cartoonishly violent puzzle-slasher Grindstone is out next week
- The Division: Heartland closed beta gameplay footage leaks online
- Heroes of Might and Magic 2 fans are building it a better engine
- Base One's modular space station building looks cool, may be a bit buggy
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition changes the photo of Tali's face
- Australian ban of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut overturned
- May 15
- May 14
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- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition project director says multiplayer could make a comeback
- Here's why Mass Effect Legendary Edition launched to mixed Steam reviews
- Itch.io isn't taking any money from developers today
- The Mass Effect voice cast is joining with BioWare developers for a big online reunion
- Fall Guys studio accidentally leaks the source code onto Steam
- Stadia is 'alive and well,' Google says
- Players do the math on Destiny 2's new transmog system and the grind is even worse than expected
- Activision confirms Rambo and Die Hard are coming to Call of Duty: Warzone next week
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's new worlds won't exist outside the expansion
- E3's virtual conference hall will have leaderboards and avatars
- Exapunks' hacking minigame is now playable on a NES
- Epic's next free game is a big mystery
- AMD agrees to $1.6B in new chips from GloFo for its manufacturing freedom
- Sega wants to develop some kind of 'super game' within the next five years
- A modder has turned Serious Sam 4 into Mario Kart
- Corsair's DDR5 primer has me dreaming of running 1TB of RAM
- MSI warns of a malicious site lacing Afterburner overclocking utility with malware
- This Resident Evil Village third-person mod turns Ethan into a headless monster
- IBM agrees with Intel and TSMC: this chip shortage isn't going to end anytime soon
- Fall Guys' 4.5 update adds new rounds and almost complete crossplay with PlayStation 4
- Man who talks to bees wants to change the way we think about 3D printing
- 505 announces cyberpunk parkour sequel Ghostrunner 2
- AMD is prepping at least three affordable RDNA 2 graphics cards
- Blizzard relents on WoW Classic's overpriced cloning fees
- Intel's AI makes GTA 5 look photorealistic... and quite boring
- May 13
- May 12
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- Gabe Newell refuses to divulge Steam console plans to New Zealand high schoolers
- Humble Bundle drops an all-charity package to help fight Covid-19 in India and Brazil
- Remedy teases a 'new, exciting early-phase project' in its latest business update
- Stay out of Apex Legends 'ghost rocks' or be banned, warns Respawn
- Hearthstone's next patch is coming today, so here are the patch notes
- Valheim visual update turns the Bonemass trophy into a gloopy nightmare
- Total War: Warhammer 3 finally pits a polar bear against the god of skulls
- A Skyrim player has murdered every last nord, elf and beast in the game
- Hokko Life is entering Early Access next month
- Save mom's video store by pulling crimes in this 90s comic caper
- 'Several new' SteamWorld games are currently in development
- Razer upgrades its Blade 15 laptops with Tiger Lake-H and up to a 360Hz display
- Respawn has nerfed Apex Legends' pesky new bow
- These limited edition RTX 3060 OC cards may be super-cute, but are no way worth $839
- Retro shooter Zombies Ate My Neighbors is getting a PC release
- Europa Universalis 4 game director apologises for years of 'low quality releases'
- HTC's new Vive Pro 2 headset comes with a beefy specs list... and price tag
- The creators of the most popular Roblox game have formed a new studio
- May 11
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- Resident Evil Village PS1 demake has a scarier Lady Dimitrescu
- Design your own massive Valheim ships with this mod
- Galactic Civilizations 4 announced
- Surprise! Skull and Bones is delayed again
- Ubisoft is going to focus more on 'high-end free-to-play games' in the future
- Destiny 2 is coming back online after Season of the Splicer goes sideways
- Overwatch 2 PvP will be revealed next week
- Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer goes live with transmog, new rewards, and more
- Real life Ethan Winters unlocks smartphone with his own severed finger
- Manufacturer hints at 8GB VRAM for AMD's unreleased RX 6600-series
- QuakeCon will remain online-only this year
- Resident Evil Village's baby Chris mod comes full circle
- Fortnite may be getting a new 'Daybreak' PvE survival mode
- Samsung's new DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 expander delivers memory by the terabyte
- Need a new gaming mouse? Razer's awesome Basilisk V2 is just $50 today
- Chia mining can wreck a 512GB SSD in as little as 6 weeks
- Intel pumps 1 million laptop chips into the market with the release of Tiger Lake-H
- Nvidia's new budget gaming laptop GPUs and DLSS will make for a mighty combo
- This dungeon crawler is built inside a 200,000 page PDF
- Reverse-engineered GTA III source code is back online
- Voting is open for the 2021 Australian PC Awards
- The next Gears of War will run on Unreal Engine 5, but don’t expect it anytime soon
- Black videogame pioneer Jerry Lawson has a USC Games endowment named after him
- Fortnite banana's nude body briefly becomes focus of Epic v Apple trial
- BioShock Infinite developers talk about what a mess its development was
- May 10
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- VVVVVV creator's new game is a Roblox 'obby' about climbing a giant man
- EA hints (pretty obviously) at a Battlefield 6 reveal in June
- Valve antitrust lawsuit leads to questions about Steam's unwritten rules
- The Witcher season 2 is 'deep' into post-production
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is coming to PC later this year
- Ubisoft is now branding all internally developed games 'Ubisoft Originals'
- Teen Titans' Beast Boy joins Fortnite as a new skin
- Nier: Automata texture overhaul mod is finally complete after four years
- AMD is biting at Intel's server market share with its largest gains in over a decade
- AMD Ryzen 6000 chips are in line for a massive GPU overhaul
- Filmmaker claims Capcom used his creature designs in Resident Evil Village
- Days Gone on PC won't support DLSS or ray tracing
- Microsoft yanks a dodgy AMD driver that is bricking some Windows 10 PCs
- Optical trap technology puts us one step closer to real-life lightsabers
- Sennheiser swiftly sells off beloved audiophile headphone business
- Resident Evil Village broke 100,000 concurrent players on PC, setting series record
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition used mods as a benchmark for its improvements
- Activision no longer working with Call of Duty voice actor accused of sexism
- May 9
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- Here's a look at the Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons crossover set
- Baby Chris Redfield? Lady D Statues? Flyswatters? Resident Evil Village mods are already running wild
- A new mod series adds the trappings of Mass Effect to RimWorld
- Two murder mysteries and a game about smashing walls compete for the IGF grand prize
- Steam rejects VR sex experience Holodexxx
- The new Skullgirls character has a living umbrella that eats people
- May 8
- May 7
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- Tell me how to feel about this hunky cartoon Fortnite cat
- Watch a Japanese grandfather sing traditional 'enka' music in this wild Resident Evil Village ad
- Sega says Lost Judgment isn't coming to PC 'at this time'
- Call of Duty: Warzone patch nerfs AMAX by 1 damage point
- New Cyberpunk Red tabletop miniatures game takes place in 2045
- Those Destiny 2 alien babies that players went nuts for are being made into plushies
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford may be hinting at a new Borderlands game
- Even Nvidia graphics cards could benefit from AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution
- This real life Cyberpunk 2077 eye mod makes my skin crawl
- Titanfall 2 speedrunner reclaims the Gauntlet record by a hair
- Yakuza will remain a turn-based series going forward
- NPC companions are coming to The Elder Scrolls Online
- Tackle those high CPU temps with this triple-fan AIO liquid cooler for $80
- Storage study indicates SSDs fail less often than HDDs, and also maybe not
- CD Projekt Red is turning to modders for The Witcher 3's next-gen upgrade
- Intel's gaming DG2 GPUs are coming to laptops too
- This panda hungers for your Steam and Discord logins
- The Call of Duty League returns to live events this summer
- You can disable Mass Effect Legendary Edition's improved Mako handling if you 'like pain'
- May 6
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- Super Mario 64 PC port now has ray tracing, and you can try it yourself
- World of Warcraft Classic players are furious at the how expensive its character cloning fee is
- Chinese Overwatch League teams end boycott of Korean player who criticized 'One China' policy
- Rust gets a visual overhaul, plus a drivable junkyard crane for scrapping cars
- Ubisoft's next Division game will be free to play
- Unpaid Serenade traps you in a type-a-long karaoke fever dream
- IBM's breakthrough 2nm chip tech is Intel's clearest path to teeny tiny CPUs
- Superhot VR now supports 120fps on Oculus Quest 2
- Call of Duty: Warzone embraces the '80s with a Rambo cameo
- After 9 years, Activision has won a patent lawsuit over 3D multiplayer games
- Our favorite wireless mouse, Logitech's G502 Lightspeed, is just $104 right now
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla may be heading to the fiery realm of Muspelheim
- Research scandal sees Linux Kernel ban 'all future contributions' from University of Minnesota
- I'm drooling over Sabrent's 64TB RocketQ Battleship SSD config
- Intel's discrete DG2 graphics card is 'right around the corner'
- Please protect Destiny 2's hideous Fallen babies
- A rogue Arm CEO and a centuries-old law are causing a headache for Nvidia's big deal
- Magical door-kicker Tactical Breach Wizards enters closed beta
- Outriders' inventory wipe restoration is finally rolling out
- Tencent is negotiating with US authorities to keep Riot and Epic stakes
- May 5
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- A cruel Apex Legends bug is dropping players into matches alone
- The next Fable will use the Forza engine
- Create your own Mass Effect: Legendary Edition cover with this cool new art tool
- Electronic Arts buys Super Mega Baseball studio Metalhead Software
- These fancy Rainbow Six Siege figures will look great in the spot where all my money used to be
- Fortnite's new performance mode gives a huge boost in frames for low-end gaming PCs
- Disney's new 'working' lightsaber prop looks pretty damn real
- Humble Bundle says sorry, brings back charity sliders
- Apex Legends is crushing its concurrent player count record on Steam
- Valheim mod lets you play chess to the death
- Gamescom ditches 'hybrid' plan, will stay fully digital for 2021
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker is getting a fully voiced campaign, act one coming May 6
- AMD isn't just buying from TSMC, TSMC is buying EPYC chips from AMD
- Hitman 3's next deadly sin is a prideful trip to Chongqing
- RIMS Racing will let you customize motorcycles down to the brake fluids
- CS:GO players aren't happy about Valve's new paid analytics service
- Six more Google Stadia staff members have left the company
- Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake takes a vital step forward
- Blizzard is losing millions of players across all of its games
- Unlock 3DMark Advanced for under $5 and benchmark your PC like the pros
- Here's a closer look at Biomutant's bonkers customization and dangerous world
- Back 4 Blood's new trailer shows that deckbuilding is the best way to kill zombies now
- It didn't take long for a storage maker to pitch a new SSD for crypto mining
- Manga series Made in Abyss is getting adapted into an action RPG
- MechWarrior 5 finally stomps onto Steam and GOG this month
- New storage-based cryptocurrency loses half its value on launch day
- Google Stadia's VP and product head has left the company
- Cult 1992 cinematic platformer Flashback is getting a sequel
- There's already a mod to turn Lady D into Thomas the Tank Engine
- Dead Island 2 will be an Epic Store exclusive, and possibly the next Saints Row
- May 4
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- Borderlands 3 exclusivity cost Epic $115 million
- Tim Sweeney apologized to Ubisoft in 2019 for 'extraordinary' Division 2 fraud on the Epic Store
- Epic Games has spent at least $1 billion on exclusives
- Activision plans to 'triple the size' of some development teams by the end of 2022
- Activision finally confirms Sledgehammer Games is making the next Call of Duty
- Epic v Apple lawsuit confirms that Walmart was working on a cloud gaming service
- Apex Legends servers are recovering after a Season 9 player surge
- The Witcher 3 director leaves CD Projekt Red after workplace bullying investigation
- FIFA 21 lets players buy standalone cosmetics for the first time
- Destiny 2 goes Tron in Season of the Splicer
- Fortnite raked in $9.1 billion over two years
- Outriders armour has been bugging out, but there's a simple solution
- If your CPU usage is inexplicably spiking, try installing this optional Windows 10 update
- World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic may launch on June 1
- Resident Evil: Village's demo lasted long enough to add a Barney mod
- Toys For Bob's pivot to Warzone support studio didn't result in layoffs, Activision confirm
- Wolfenstein: Blade of Agony is a huge Doom mod 6 years in the making
- May 3
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- Sony makes minority investment in Discord following halt in Microsoft buyout talks
- Sony charges for crossplay support to protect PSN revenue, documents show
- Epic spent more than $11M on free games in the first nine months of giveaways
- Claire de Lune is first-person puzzle-adventure with a multi-purpose Portal Gun
- Rainbow Six Siege's Apocalypse event is a fight over the 'last plant on earth'
- Blizzard battles Fox over a cartoon dog named Diablo
- Court accidentally opens Epic v Apple dial-in line to all speakers, Fortnite kids go nuts
- Researchers find new CPU vulnerabilities and say fixes would kill performance
- Watch Dogs Legion update expands online, adds two new professions
- League of Legends animated series Arcane is coming to Netflix this fall
- Dragon Quest Builders 2, Remnant hitting Xbox Game Pass soon
- These Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers are a banging deal for $90
- Facebook has acquired Onward developer Downpour Interactive
- Dusk getting classic HUD, weapon wheel and more this year
- Thief Simulator 2 will let you rob banks, restaurants and fancy cars
- Resident Evil Village – the cheapest way to get it on PC in Australia
- The next D&D book is about gothic horror setting Ravenloft, this is what's in it
- More Elden Ring footage has apparently leaked, but it ain't much
- May 2
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- Scavengers free-to-play release has players divided on quality
- Build a sprawling sci-fi base with your buddies in CryoFall
- Naturally, players already extended the Resident Evil Village timed demo
- Paradox ceases work on Imperator: Rome temporarily, won't release anything for it this year
- The Borderlands movie has cast its Moxxi
- First Battlefield 6 screens may have leaked
- Resident Evil Village villains become cute puppets in latest trailer
- Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry has her own mod now
- Saints Row: The Third Remastered comes to Steam this month
- Get revolutionary brawler Tonight We Riot free today
- May 1
