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- December 31
- December 30
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- Here's a game about selling maple syrup to soup up your trashy car for street racing
- Bully 2 got canned in 2009, say ex-devs
- Bitburner is an idle game about hacking that teaches real JavaScript
- Watch a man win 100 straight Halo Infinite free-for-alls
- Intel's upcoming Alder Lake stock cooler gets tested
- A lickable screen that can imitate flavours is in development
- Asus announces a recall program for its Z690 Maximus Hero motherboards
- TikTok usurps Google as top website
- Here's a free visual novel about Communist Poland
- Try out the Cold War tactics of Regiments in its free playtest
- December 29
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- December 27
- December 24
- December 23
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- Myth of Empires developer files a lawsuit to get it back on Steam
- Valheim speedrunner becomes the vegan viking king
- Save up to $220 on a mini PC this Christmas
- Early benchmarks of Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs look promising, if speculative
- DDR5 shortages are expected to continue well into 2022
- Budget Gaming PCs may be back with these Alder Lake MSI B660 Motherboard price leaks
- Adata to show PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSDs at CES
- LG unveils 16:18 ratio 2560x2880 resolution monitor
- Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich explains season 2's most controversial change
- Former director says a Harry Potter MMO was 'killed' by EA
- December 22
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- Halo Infinite's new Spartan cat ears are making players go purrrrr
- Court denies DFEH objection to Activision Blizzard lawsuit settlement
- Weird West is delayed until March
- The Steam Winter Sale 2021 is live
- GTA Trilogy owners can grab another game for free
- Third AWS outage in two weeks takes down multiple games and services
- Overwatch is free-to-play over the festive period
- Best Buy lists the prices of Intel's upcoming 65W 12th Gen CPUs
- December 21
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- Gearbox's parent company Embracer acquires Dark Horse Comics
- Tiny MMO Book of Travels developer lays off staff but promises development will continue
- Ubisoft is reportedly suffering an 'exodus' of employees over abuse allegations and creative discontent
- Survival game Icarus brings 64,000 lost and dead characters back to life
- The best gaming war movies are still made in Arma 3
- Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster set to launch February 2022
- Argument over Diablo loot ends in fatal shooting
- Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker 'fixes' its beautifully low-poly grapes
- Henry Cavill wants to star in a Red Dead Redemption movie now
- AMD's Threadripper PRO 5000 series to launch in March?
- LG's first official gaming laptop boasts an RTX 3080 and 11th Gen Intel CPU
- EKWB covers an ITX mobo with a water block and it looks awesome
- This audiophile optimised SSD is designed to make your audio sound better
- December 20
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- Diablo 4 is bringing back Diablo 3's Paragon system, but with some major changes
- Michelle Yeoh kicks ass in the first teaser for The Witcher spin-off series Blood Origin
- Right-click and tear through this Doom NFT mod
- Nvidia's festive Minecraft map packs an RTX-powered wonderland into a snowglobe
- Our favourite gaming chair manufacturer is releasing an official Witcher gaming chair
- Here comes the RTX 2050, only three years late
- Corsair's new DDR5 RAM clocks in at 6.4GHz out of the box
- Intel once again warns of chip shortage continuing until 2023
- Scientists taught a petri dish of brain cells to play pong faster than an AI
- Forcing Final Fantasy Remake 7 to run in DirectX 11 might help with stuttering
- Looks like the next Mass Effect will be made in Unreal
- December 19
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- The post-apocalyptic Timberborn beavers can make water go up now
- Cyberpunk 2077 gets a metro thanks to modders
- Superliminal has co-op now, for ever more confusing perspective puzzling
- Hades is the first videogame to win a Hugo Award
- Historical CRPG Expeditions: Rome has a demo
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake files and folders reference a Steam release
- December 18
- December 17
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- Steam's new Store Hubs make browsing for games a whole lot more pleasant
- Google Drive will prevent you from sharing files that violate its ToS
- The Witcher season 3 scripts are 'almost done'
- XCOM 2: War of the Chosen gets its very own Long War overhaul
- Tencent buys Back 4 Blood developer Turtle Rock Studios
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is finally on PC
- Dead Cells' next DLC adds a Metroid Dread-style biome and throwable shark
- The best Australian PC gaming deals this week
- Valve is updating Half-Life, CS:GO, and more of its games to play better on the Steam Deck
- The Steam Deck is still 'on track' for February launch, Valve says
- December 16
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- Stalker 2 developer cancels NFT plans following backlash
- Dying Light 2 has easygoing system requirements, just not for ray tracing
- Devotion studio Red Candle is working on a Taopunk action-platformer with 'Sekiro-inspired' combat
- There are some pretty fantastic discounts on the Epic Games Store right now
- CD Projekt will settle Cyberpunk 2077 class action lawsuit for $1.85M
- Nvidia is giving away 3 Matrix-inspired PCs, just to make me jealous
- Final Fantasy 14 is once again so popular it has been temporarily removed from sale
- This stealthy new Gigabyte PC case might be extra sneaky with an unlicensed design
- Intel's upcoming i5 12400 could be the king of budget CPUs
- Following report into sexism and toxicity, Bungie head of HR steps down
- Diablo 2 is getting its first class balance changes in 11 years
- Someone mixed Scrabble with battle royale, and by god it works
- December 15
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- Is this what Arma 4 will look like? Bohemia Interactive reveals new engine
- Minecraft videos now have 1 trillion views on YouTube, but the most popular ones aren't actually made in Minecraft
- Ubisoft's NFT scheme criticized as 'useless, costly, ecologically mortifying' by French trade union
- The Sims competitor Paralives shows off its highly flexible character creator
- Funko Pop NFTs are here to make the world just a little bit worse
- The original Splinter Cell is getting a full remake
- We're giving away bundles with 7 of our favourite games via the PC Gamer forums
- Twitch, Apex and League of Legends down in yet another AWS outage
- Stalker 2 jumps on the NFT bandwagon, will make 3 players 'metahuman' NPCs, whatever that is
- GTA Online premieres new Dre tracks and finally dials-down the phone calls
- Dota 2 gets 4-player co-op and gamepad support for Christmas
- AMD's CES show will highlight upcoming Ryzen processors and Radeon graphics
- Dell's Concept Luna is a sustainable, repairable laptop
- VRAM boosted RTX 30-series cards likely shelved, RTX 3090 Ti reportedly forging ahead
- These are the first Intel Alder Lake CPUs without Efficient Cores
- Hey, an actual Nvidia RTX 2060 12GB is in stock and, uh oh, it's £515
- Put Arthur to work as a bartender, dockworker, and deliveryman in this Red Dead Redemption 2 mod
- December 14
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- The '90s are back, baby: RTS games based on Stargate and Terminator are in development
- New World game director admits 'we've made some mistakes by moving too fast'
- UFC star Robert Whittaker is now a fully-voiced Skyrim companion
- Dr. Disrespect launches 'AAA game studio' with Call of Duty and Halo veterans
- Roblox faces new allegations of being unsafe for children
- Twitch mega-streamer HasanAbi suspended over ongoing 'cracker' controversy
- Sengoku Dynasty is a survival city-builder set in warring medieval Japan
- Halo Infinite pro player suspended for allegedly using cheats to slam rivals with high ping
- System Shock remake is coming in 2022, so here's 15 all-new screens
- Watch this Halo Infinite grunt dab over Master Chief's lifeless corpse
- Intel is poised to build a $7bn manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia
- Nvidia's new studio driver increases render speeds in apps like Blender
- EVGA releases a vBIOS that improves RTX 3080 Ti mining performance
- HDMI 2.0 can be labelled as HDMI 2.1 with no enhancements
- Microsoft is selling a $25 Red Ring of Death poster to commemorate its greatest console failure
- December 13
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- Nightingale is a crafting and survival game with some roots in old BioWare RPGs
- Suspected crypto mining farm burns down in Thailand
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok is confirmed for March
- The Anacrusis starts 'really weird early access' in January
- Bungie contractor reveals how the studio downgraded his Destiny credit then 'shadowbanned' him from future work
- Henry Cavill 'dreaming' of starring in a live-action Warhammer adaptation
- Phasmophobia adds voodoo doll, tarot deck, and other scare necessities
- Laser League relaunches itself as the free-to-play Laser League World Arena
- Xbox says the way it dealt with Lionhead Studios was 'one of the biggest missteps' it made
- Check out our curated list of the best games in the GOG Winter Sale
- Peter Molyneux's next game is 'play-to-earn' and all-in on NFTs
- This weird disk robot moves like a beached magikarp
- Lenovo inadvertently lists the AMD RX 6500 XT
- Google pushes back against a 1 million strong botnet
- GPU maker PowerColor joins forces with Ducky for new keyboard
- Microsoft is trying to entice pirates to turn towards the light
- Windows 11 insider preview brings dark mode to notepad
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade system requirements
- The Razer BlackShark V2 X is 50 percent off at Amazon Australia
- December 12
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- Co-op horror shooter GTFO reaches a skin-crawling, claustrophobic release
- The original GTA's tank was a pedestrian bolted onto a car
- Halo Infinite getting a Slayer playlist this week
- The biomechanical terrors of Scorn will release next fall
- This week in PC Gaming: The Witcher Season 2
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is free-to-keep on Steam for a limited time
- December 11
- December 10
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- Call of Duty: Warzone's Vanguard guns don't shoot straight, but they will eventually
- Icarus adds 3 new missions, makes it easier to find your own corpse
- Android games on Windows will let you seamlessly swap from mobile to PC
- Bungie CEO apologizes following in-depth report into sexism and toxicity at the studio
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake is bringing the $70 game to PC
- 'Streaming isn't work,' says one of the most successful streamers in the world
- Skyrim modders replace boring, basic locks with beautiful and bizarre new ones
- The Cyberpunk 2077 class action lawsuit may soon be over
- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says revising the company's missteps is a 5-year task
- Minecraft: Java Edition should be patched immediately after severe exploit discovered across web
- This Forza Horizon 5 custom track brings a slice of Japanese street racing to Mexico
- Bungie and Nerf have built a real-life Gjallarhorn with foam Wolfpack rounds
- Keanu Reeves on players modding Cyberpunk 2077 to have sex with him: 'It's always nice when it's nice.'
- Starfield Steam page appears as Bethesda cranks up the marketing machine
- The Matrix Awakens contains 38,146 driveable cars, of which we can drive none
- It Takes Two wins Game Of The Year at The Game Awards
- The Halo TV series trailer was short, but it has some nice sci-fi shots
- Former EA boss Patrick Soderlund unveils his new co-op shooter, Arc Raiders
- Here's a brand new Elden Ring story trailer
- There's a new Dune RTS coming for the first time in 20 years
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds goes free-to-play in January
- Among Us VR is first-person, and coming to SteamVR and Oculus Quest 2
- After a decade of waiting, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is getting a sequel
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands story trailer is predictably manic
- Guillermo Del Toro gently zings Konami at The Game Awards
- Cuphead's long-awaited and much-delayed DLC gets a firm release date
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 adds a war-priest with the holy hammer of Sigmar
- Slitterhead is a new horror game by Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama
- Xbox Game Pass for PC finally has a sensible name
- Former BioWare developers announce Victorian crafting survival game Nightingale
- Wonder Woman game announced, is in development at Monolith Productions
- Star Wars Eclipse is a multi-character narrative game set in the High Republic era
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake is finally coming to PC
- Alan Wake 2 will be 'Remedy's first-ever survival horror game'
- Fighting game Persona 4 Arena Ultimax coming to Steam
- The Expanse is getting the Telltale treatment, and the choice of protagonist is strong
- Adorable fox adventure Tunic has a release date at last
- Homeworld 3's first gameplay trailer teases a stylish new galactic cataclysm
- December 9
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- Call of Duty: Warzone console players are clamoring for an FOV slider that PC players have had since day one
- Epic Games Store gets innovative new 'add to cart' feature
- US government wants to know why the hell Tesla owners can play videogames while driving now
- Halo Infinite doesn't have cross-save if you buy it on Steam
- Activision Blizzard employees announce formal strike, launch fundraiser to support work stoppage
- Call of Duty: Vanguard's first season pass arrives with monetised killcams
- AMD's gaming laptop GPUs could be in for an overhaul on TSMC's 6nm process
- Ubisoft's NFT announcement video is overwhelmingly disliked
- The final Blasphemous expansion just released, and it's free
- Scuf Gaming's new controllers could be a great alternative to the PlayStation 5 DualSense for PC
- TMSC's 3nm chip process may have been delayed longer than expected, giving Intel a rare chance to catch up
- Skyrim's werewolves were originally just going to be 'people with dog heads'
- December 8
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- Judge puts Epic's App Store win against Apple on hold
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla will require a full re-download with next week's title update
- Lawyer demands Activision Blizzard victim compensation fund 'in excess of $100M'
- Rounding up Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific bugs, glitches and their potential solutions
- Final Battlefield 2042 patch of the year will increase gun accuracy yet again
- Watch this amazing concept video for Ico the devs unearthed for its 20th anniversary
- God of War system requirements reveals advanced graphical options on Nvidia and AMD GPUs
- Steam removes popular Chinese strategy game after Ark: Survival Evolved studio claims it stole their source code
- Nexon is making a Warhammer: Age of Sigmar game
- Total War: Warhammer 3 reveals Slaanesh, the horniest Chaos god
- GTA Online update will debut new Dr. Dre music, bring back Franklin
- No preload for Halo Infinite, but having multiplayer will decrease download time
- Nvidia appears to be bumping the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 Ti's memory specs
- Bowser bashed with a further $10 million fine in Nintendo piracy lawsuit
- Stardew Valley briefly broke itself after performance hotfix crashed the game
- Nvidia expects RTX 2060 12GB stock to 'ramp end of December through January' as retailers remain barren
- Horizon Zero Dawn now offers frame-rate boosting Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR
- Budget graphics cards from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel may finally materialise in 2022
- AMD's 4800S desktop kit may deliver a salvaged Xbox or PlayStation chip to PC builders
- Intel and TSMC CEO's needle each other over US based chipmaking
- Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion delayed into next year
- Turns out Fortnite Chapter 3 is the first Unreal Engine 5 game
- December 7
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- Here's when Ricochet Anti-Cheat is coming to Call of Duty: Warzone
- Halo Infinite won't let you replay story missions at launch, but the feature is coming
- AK-47 maker denies accusation that it stole a gun design from a videogame
- Here's when the Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific Caldera map unlocks
- New Discord feature enables server owners to charge monthly subscription fees
- Ubisoft management happy with pace of reforms after workplace harassment reckoning, but employees aren't buying it
- Ubisoft starts selling NFTs in the form of helmets with tiny numbers
- Activision-Blizzard QA walkout spreads to other studios in its second day
- Final Fantasy 14's pesky disconnection issues should be getting fixed this week
- Dozens of the world's biggest games are offline as AWS goes down
- Halo's Magnum is coming to Destiny 2
- Respawn co-founder and Apex director leaves, promises 'years worth of content in flight'
- Nvidia's RTX 2060 12GB looks promising for cryptocurrency miners, not so great for gamers
- This Icarus clip takes drop-in co-op to a new level
- Nvidia's ARM acquisition takes another hit, with EU investigations delayed
- Nvidia RTX 2060 12GB listed early on French retailer
- Firefox 95.0 update comes with beefed up sandbox security
- AMD SMCA patches could point to hybrid Alder Lake-like CPUs
- AMD 'will highlight upcoming computing and graphics solutions' at CES on January 4
- Alder Lake DRM issue fixed for all but three games
- How to turn off Discord's annoying 'Snowsgiving' alert sounds
- New trailer for The Matrix Resurrections sparks deja vu
- December 6
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- This guy decided to mock our future AI overlords with a GLaDOS smart assistant
- One of the most popular VTubers is now trying to sell you NFTs
- The Matrix Awakens tech demo is only releasing on consoles
- Survival game Icarus had a bumpy launch but a huge weekend
- Leave Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker's grapes alone
- BioShock 4 leaks point to an Antarctic city
- Warzone developers are walking out today to protest layoffs
- Holy mod-aroni Batman, you're in GTA5!
- Here's when the Halo Infinite campaign unlocks
- 11 years after release, FF14 hits its highest-ever Steam player count
- Intel Alder Lake H670, B660 and H310 motherboard specifications revealed
- Nvidia's RTX 2060 12GB graphics cards will not receive Founders Editions
- The upcoming Intel Core i3 12100 dominates AMD's budget offerings
- Dogsled survival adventure Arctico leaves Early Access in February
- Death Trash patch fixes 'a crash caused by Fleshworms eating puke'
- Watch Henry Cavill politely explain that Warhammer is not World of Warcraft
- December 5
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- Collect and combine some 1200 monsters in creature RPG Siralim Ultimate
- Activision Blizzard 'will not be a part' of The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley says
- Here's your Steam page for the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
- FF14 players will get free game time due to server congestion
- The Halo subreddit got so toxic that mods have closed it for the weekend
- This week in PC Gaming: Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker, Halo Infinite and Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX
- World Land Trust charity bundle gets you over $450 of games for a minimum donation of $5
- More confirmation Dragon Age 4 will be 'single-player focused'
- December 4
- December 3
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- After 19 years in development, absurdly ambitious Morrowind mod reveals new roadmap
- Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker players are waiting in long lines to go to the moon
- Forza Horizon 5 gets a convoy of fixes in the latest patch
- Valheim is teasing new armor stands to display your gear
- Take-Two takes issue with It Takes Two trademarking 'takes two,' too
- Halo Infinite has a bunch of hidden game modes when you play offline
- Fill the Batcave with toy cars and plastic race tracks in Hot Wheels Unleashed's first expansion
- Sony is reportedly making its own version of Game Pass
- Hunt Showdown TV series 'won't be about jump scares', says executive producer
- Propnight is like Dead by Daylight but you can disguise yourself as a pumpkin
- Skyrim speedrunner beats his own world record, then promptly beats it again
- New World celebrates Christmas by getting players to grind tokens to please a big yeti
- The Last Night to 'make a comeback' in 2022, says developer
- Diablo 2: Resurrected gets Nvidia DLSS, but it's not perfect
- Teardown's campaign now complete with flamethrowing robots and tornadoes
- Following backlash, EA puts Battlefield 2042 Santa skin back in the sack
- Cyberpunk twin-stick shooter The Ascent gets transmog in free update
- Destiny 2's event for Bungie's 30th anniversary brings major armor changes that will enable full loadout swapping
- Valve shows off the Steam Deck's low-key packaging
- December 2
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- The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe will be out early 2022, for real this time
- FTC sues Nvidia to stop its takeover of Arm
- After a decade of waiting, one of the most troubled RPGs of all time is getting an expansion
- The Battlefield series is now in the hands of Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella
- Reminder: Farming Simulator esports are a thing, they're awesome, and the finals are this weekend
- Goodbye Oculus: Meta moves away from the brand name for their VR products
- Some kind of game-shaped thing based on The Matrix is coming
- Here's when Icarus unlocks in your time zone
- Quake Remastered's second update adds a horde mode and new singleplayer levels
- Epic asks leakers to not leak Fortnite Chapter 3, it leaks anyway on TikTok
- GamesMaster got some kids to design a game, so now you can play Bouncing Bum Bums
- US state treasuries are putting pressure on Activision Blizzard now, too
- Noble Fates is a castle management sim inspired by Rimworld
- The ultimate Resident Evil 4 HD mod is out in February
- Halo Infinite player headshots 23 Spartans at once
- Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker Error 2002—What it is and what to do about it
- Dead by Daylight is free on the Epic Games Store
- How to fix the dreaded aim bug in Battlefield 2042
- Deep Rock Galactic Season Two 'will be a bit less ambitious and will come out faster'
- Icarus live-action trailer is all about what happens when things go wrong
- Here's when Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker unlocks
- Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod 'should come out in January' says creator
- Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC looks set to dramatically boost mobile gaming performance
- Nvidia plans to make Earth 2 in Omniverse for climate modelling
- Secretlab announces gaming chair made specially for Lamborghini owners
- Nvidia confirms the specifications of its upcoming RTX 2060 12GB
- Windows 11 Insider update tests fixes for basic Start menu and taskbar functionalities
- December 1
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- This Halo-themed Swarovski crystal is worth $2,340
- Battlefield 2042's first really big update is coming sooner than expected
- Ghostrunner DLC will let you play as one of its bosses
- The Halo Infinite launch trailer is here
- Twitch's new 'machine learning' ban evasion detector will be switched on by default
- The most pleasant game of 2021 is now playable in your browser
- Political activist group demands Bobby Kotick's removal from Coca-Cola board of directors
- After years of struggling against DDoS attacks, Titanfall is being removed from sale
- Stardew Valley update 'futureproofs the game' with improved modding support
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite scurrying into Season Two (and Xbox Game Pass)
- Comprehensive collection of game delay announcements a reminder that making games is hard
- Santa 47 comes to Hitman 3 for Christmas, is making a list
- Explore a forlorn coastline in Dead Cells' upcoming DLC
- Battlefield 2042 battle royale creator explains how he made a mode that DICE said was impossible
- Laptop RTX 3080 Ti and Ryzen 6000 APU reportedly coming to an Asus laptop at CES
- New Chinese GPUs with up to 10 TFLOPs announced
- Razer CEO says next gen laptops will see a price hike
- Nvidia's RTX 40 series could be arriving sooner than expected
- Microsoft's Minesweeper ugly Xmas sweater has already sold out
- The Air Jordan shoe craze is coming to Fortnite
