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June 30
- Twitch streamers may soon be able to share banlists with other channels
- Major cryptocurrency exchange signs $1.4 million deal to help ICE track crypto trades
- The next Hunt: Showdown update is pretty big
- Desecrated corpse of failed electronics retailer Radioshack brought back from the dead as a shambling crypto-meme zombie
- Skull and Bones leak points to a November release
- The XIII remake is getting a remake
- Halo Infinite's co-op beta is finally coming on July 11
- EA reveals 'pre-pre-pre-alpha' Skate gameplay, closed beta signups are now open
- Lab denies opening portals into parallel universes despite everyone thinking so
- The latest Sims 4 expansion wants me to relive the worst years of my life
- Bungie's absurd $185 Nerf Gjallarhorn reloads like the in-game weapon
- Samsung beats Intel and TSMC to major chipmaking tech that'll one day power our gaming PCs
- World of Warcraft's Silvermoon City is being recreated in Minecraft
- Id won't do it, so hobbyists ported Carmack's final Doom game to PC
- Stranger of Paradise announces first DLC with a rickroll
- Gaming laptops could learn a lot from this adorable open source mini laptop
- AMD's preposterous Threadripper Pro price tag holds its 128-thread monster back from greatness
- Unity lays off hundreds of employees to 'realign' resources
- Monkey Island creator says he's done sharing the new game after 'personal attack comments'
- Tired of waiting for the Steam Deck in Australia? These Ayaneo alternatives are worth a look
- Check out these Hackaday Reuse, Recycle, Revamp finalist projects
- ASRock's 600-series motherboards officially support 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs after a BIOS update
- Photographer uses DALL-E 2 AI to automatically edit images better than Photoshop
- Owner of itch.io accuses newly launched alternative w3itch.io of theft
June 29
- The new PC PowerPlay Tech & Hardware Handbook is on sale now!
- Valve says Steam Deck's SSD change impacts performance only in 'extremely uncommon cases'
- Wild West Dynasty looks like any other survival game until it turns into a city builder
- Kyle MacLachlan joins Amazon's Fallout TV series
- Halo Infinite's desync problem is on hold because developers are busy with other things
- Xbox Game Studios boss says there's no more crunching at Bethesda
- Windows Defender is reportedly hindering performance on Intel CPUs
- Return to Monkey Island shows off a bold new look in its debut gameplay trailer
- Valve has quietly downgraded the Steam Deck SSD on some 256GB and 512GB models
- Monster Hunter Rise's latest update is great even if you don't own Sunbreak
- 2021's best RPG improves a key feature alongside fixing 'wonky barber jobs'
- Blizzard acquires Spellbreak developer as it closes doors on the battle royale
- Overwatch fans are mourning Symmetra as Blizzard nerfs her into the ground
- AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer is now the world's first 'true exascale machine'
- AMD hack due to some of its passwords being just 'password'
- Wizard royale Spellbreak is shutting down next year
- AOKZOE AI is the next Steam Deck competitor powered by AMD 6800U
- Arm's new flagship GPU will include hardware ray tracing support. Yeah, ray-traced phones
- Total War: Warhammer 3 is shaking things up with the Immortal Empires map and starting positions
- This 3D printer mod on Kickstarter can automatically swap your filament mid-print
- Overclocker pointlessly delids a Ryzen 7 5800X3D
June 28
- Steam's most-wishlisted game admits to using some 'volunteer' workers
- 'I will stream while you cook for me,' says banned Twitch streamer in bizarre sexist rant
- Small streamers protest Blizzard's 'Support a Streamer' Twitch event
- These Phasmophobia speedrunners are scarier than the ghosts they're hunting
- Disney Dreamlight Valley gameplay trailer reveals a surprisingly grim magic kingdom
- Persona fanzine saved by donations after founder spent $21K budget on Genshin Impact, rent, and plushies
- Some baller used a Raspberry Pi to play YouTube on the Commodore PET
- Cyberpunk 2077's clever AMD FSR 2.0 mod can double performance but is definitely a work in progress
- All Windows 11's worst install pain points can now be bypassed using this genius app
- What Townscaper needed, apparently, was delightfully tiny trains
- This is the saddest GPU launch in history and for once I'm not talking about the Intel Arc A380
- Intel's official Arc A380 gaming benchmarks confirm it's on average 15% slower than a 3 year-old GPU
- Jane Foster's Mighty Thor is now playable in Marvel's Avengers
- Ludicrous Skyrim mod gives dragons 16K textures
- Intel's Arc GPUs will officially support AMD SmartAccess Memory when they finally hit the DIY market
- Nvidia rumored to have halted production of the RTX 3080 12GB
- Stadia may be getting an Nvidia GPU upgrade
June 27
- Fall Guys pushes the Epic Games Store to a new record player count
- Diablo Immortal player uses premium currency shenanigans to turn old WoW tokens into a whale-killing Necromancer
- The Boys showrunner wants to team up with Hideo Kojima to make a game
- Skull and Bones ESRB listing appears, this thing might actually be happening
- Valve is ramping up Steam Deck production as Q3 reservation emails go out this week
- New Fallout: London trailer shows bike-riding and weaponized elephants
- Hearthstone's next expansion will ask the players whodunnit
- Nethack is now in the Museum of Modern Art
- How do you train an AI to play Minecraft? Feed it 70,000 hours of YouTube gameplay
- AMD has released new drivers for GPUs it no longer supports
- Persona 5 Royal's PC port will be bundled with all DLC
- Sonic Origins co-developer is 'very unhappy' about the state of it
- I used AI to help Nvidia design an 800W version of the RTX 4090
- Blade Runner Enhanced Edition updated with the un-enhanced edition on Steam after awful reception
- Microsoft's Edge browser gets a game streaming upgrade
- Innosilicon's low power LPDDR5X memory hits a stunning 10,000 Mbps
- AMD's next gen cards will come with higher power levels, but not as high as Nvidia's
- This year's strategy RPG hotness might just be Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
June 26
- Gordian Quest is a deckbuilding RPG inspired by the genre classics
- The Steam Summer Sale has everything—except 2022's biggest game
- Turns out a simple Steam Deck mod means you can install a larger NVMe SSD
- Steam Deck designer says SSD mod 'will significantly shorten the life of your Deck'
- Sovietcore FPS Hrot launches second episode, 'The Degustation'
- Speedruns aplenty kick off today in Summer Games Done Quick
June 25
- Valorant will start listening to your voice chat in July
June 24
- This Japanese open air, all-in-one PC case is as impractical as it is cool
- This mod turns Stellaris into the Mass Effect strategy game you've dreamed of
- Bungie, Ubisoft, Bethesda, EA, and others speak out in support of abortion rights in the US
- Elden Ring studio FromSoftware has a new game in the 'final stages' of development
- The best milsim FPS just got its biggest update ever
- The latest Windows 11 update fixes game crash woes for some users
- Epic Games Store introduces rating system designed to stop review-bombing
- Bungie condemns Roe v Wade decision, will pay for employees to access essential healthcare
- Drunk employee passes out on the street, losing 2 USB sticks holding the personal data of an entire city
- Look out, used mining GPUs are turning up with dead memory chips
- Dragon's Dogma is dirt cheap following the sequel announcement
- Footage of cancelled Scarface sequel includes Elvis impersonator, Vegas and lots of f-bombs
- Microtransactions may be coming to Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- AMD suggests a Ryzen-like design for RDNA 3 chiplets would be 'a reasonable inference'
- Stardew Valley is getting a 1.6 update, but don't expect it to be a big one
- ESA is finally updating Mars Express Windows 98-based software
- AMD 7000 series V-Cache CPUs to fight an Intel 13th Gen CPU that could hit 6GHz
June 23
- I still don't know what the metaverse is, but it has a 'Standards Forum' now
- Warzone Season 4 players agree: great new map, jury's still out on balance changes
- Once Overwatch 2 arrives, you'll never be able to play Overwatch 1 again
- Into the Breach is getting a free Advanced Edition expansion
- The Japanese PC that ran the original Metal Gear is coming back after 30 years of extinction
- The Steam Summer Sale has begun, and it's a little weird this year
- Bungie slaps YouTube takedown impersonator with $7.6M lawsuit
- MIT robotics engineers are accelerating robot learning across the board
- Sonic creator confirms Michael Jackson's long-rumoured involvement in Sonic 3
- Wrath of the Lich King is where WoW Classic starts diverging from WoW
- Microsoft's released a quick check to see whether your PC is ready for DirectStorage and next-gen gaming
- AMD's epic new FSR 2.0 upscaling just took a big step toward wider use
- Overwatch 2 is getting a guild system, apparently
- Open your Overwatch loot boxes or Blizzard will do it for you
- Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs will continue to support DDR4
- Miners are dumping GPUs via livestreamed auctions
June 22
- Steam reviewers love Neon White despite its horny anime nonsense, or very much because of it
- Red Bull suspends Formula 2 driver after he drops a racist slur during a Warzone stream
- Final Fantasy 16 isn't open world so it can have a 'global scale', according to producer
- Fall Guys' Steam player count skyrockets a day after it becomes an Epic exclusive
- Alien: Isolation studio Creative Assembly reveals its zero-G shooter, Hyenas
- Team Fortress 2 update fixes ancient bugs but doesn't really address the bot problem
- Twitch tests new category layout and viewers have strong feelings on autoplaying video
- Enhanced edition of one of the greatest licensed games ever is out now
- Following Intel's graphics card misadventures is like watching a slow motion freeway pile-up
- The new game from Saber Interactive looks like Darkest Dungeon at a steampunk circus
- Here's how Jane Foster's Mighty Thor joins Marvel's Avengers
- DICE is 'only focusing' on Battlefield 2042, has no time for other projects right now
- Here's when Call of Duty: Warzone Season 4 unlocks in your timezone
- Tiny Tina's Wonderlands rolls a crit on Steam tomorrow
- Gaming laptops are set for a stealthy upgrade thanks to Cherry's new switches
- Tabs are coming to Windows 11 Explorer, and they're saving your RAM
- These Commodore 64 PC prebuilds are pricy, but the case looks great for DIY
- PCIe 7.0 to quadruple the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0, coming in 2025
June 21
- Build a Rapture that actually works in this undersea survival city builder
- Activision Blizzard shareholders vote in favor of harassment report, despite board's objections
- World of Warcraft: Dragonflight will be out later this year
- 'Almost half' of The Callisto Protocol's combat will be hand-to-hand (or hand-to-tentacle)
- Overwatch 2's new tank hero Junker Queen is a bowling ball of carnage
- Ted Cruz says he's 'interested' in talking to Asmongold about loot boxes
- This 1.5TB microSD is surely witchcraft
- Valve could cut the cord for future VR headset suggests new patent
- Intel really just asked the EU for $624M to pay it back for overturned anti-AMD fine
- Fall Guys now free on Epic but de-listed from Steam
- Modder builds the world's first PS5 slim
- Watch this streamer literally punch his way through Sifu with fist-powered motion controllers
- Microsoft appears to have blocked Windows downloads in Russia
- Kojima Productions starts selling anti-war merch with proceeds going to Ukrainian refugees
- More Tony Hawk remakes were planned, but then shelved
June 20
- Crytek warns against using revolver glitch in Hunt: Showdown, says fix is coming soon
- Outriders is free to play on Steam until Thursday
- Watery survival hit Raft splashes out of Early Access with its largest update ever
- Alice: Madness Returns is back on Steam again, American McGee says ‘yikes’
- This indie strategy game is like a tiny Total War that only takes an hour
- Flashback is free on GOG
- All that chanting in the Elden Ring soundtrack is gibberish
- Diablo Immortal delayed in China just days ahead of launch
- Riot brings back LoL's magical anime troupe, fans go bananas
- Meta's myriad VR prototypes prove the metaverse is a long way off
- Dune early access update spices things up with multiplayer
- Makers of The Hunter: Call of the Wild announce new open world fishing game
- Researchers find way to hack your CPU via AMD and Intel's frequency boosts
- Legendary Japanese studio Treasure is on the comeback trail
- Elden Ring mod adds Bloodborne and Sekiro quickstep-dodging
- RIP Heroes of Newerth, once LoL's biggest competitor
- Thousands of PC parts go up for auction from the defunct Artesian Builds
- Yeah, you can run Doom on a Lego brick PC now
- Call of Duty now makes cheaters' weapons vanish
- This slick Lenovo 34 inch WQHD gaming monitor is under AU$500 on Amazon
- Intel Arc A380 graphics card goes on sale in China
- TSMC's 2nm chips are coming to a device near you in 2026
June 19
- Unused Elden Ring quest would have tied an early NPC to the game's darkest secrets
- The Looker is a free puzzle parody of other, much more serious, puzzlers
- Deus Ex Randomizer mod also adds bingo, Dark Souls-style online death markers
- According to a report, The Quarry and High On Life were almost Stadia games
- An easter egg in Unpacking has revealed the developer's next game
- Diablo Immortal has apparently earned over $24M in just two weeks
- Alice: Madness Returns has been taken off Steam again
- Get isometric point-and-click Beautiful Desolation free for a limited time
June 18
- Mecha armada stomps kaiju all the way out of Early Access
- Rob the town blind and cheat gods in Dread Delusion's Early Access
- This collection of old game logos delights the primordial lizard parts of my dumb brain
- Check out the demo for stylish, dynamic deckbuilder Beneath Oresa
- Controversial tactical shooter Ready or Not returns to Steam after brief removal
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero is going hard on features for the PC port
June 17
- Dataminer discovers 2 major Elden Ring bosses may have once had their own questlines
- The guy who wrote those Star Wars: X-Wing books is writing an official Dark Souls novel, for some reason
- Lost Japanese adventure game from 1999 resurfaces on Steam, and it's so weird I can't describe it in a headline
- Madcap modders have ported PS2 platformer Jak and Daxter to PC
- Here's how to sign up for Overwatch 2's next beta
- SpaceX fires at least 5 employees who criticised 'free speech absolutist' Elon Musk
- V Rising shifts 2 million in a month, gives horselords a big 'ol nerf to celebrate
- Atari shocks the world with decent-looking game
- Halo Infinite issues fixed on Steam Deck with new Windows drivers
- Epic's free multiplayer tools let developers enable Steam crossplay
- Marvel's next Midnight Sons comic looks a bit more like the Midnight Suns videogame
- Zachtronics is making its final game: Last Call BBS
- Elon Musk is being sued for $258 billion because of Dogecoin
June 16
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade is coming to Steam tomorrow
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy continues with Rebirth next year
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion coming to Steam this winter
- The Fallout-style RPG teased by New Blood last week features big names in the classic Fallout scene
- Dragon's Dogma 2 finally announced
- $13.5M settlement puts the cost of one Destiny 2 cheater at $2,000
- Harpist turns her harp into a controller, plays Elden Ring with it
- Activision Blizzard finds 'no evidence' of widespread misconduct at Activision Blizzard
- The Xbox App will now tell you if the game you're about to buy runs well on similar PCs
- Original versions of Resident Evil remakes return to Steam after 'overwhelming community response'
- Amazon is giving away 30 games including Mass Effect Legendary Edition on Prime Day
- Here's Valorant's new underwater map, Pearl
- Valorant is dropping one of its oldest maps
- Overwatch 2 will get 3 to 4 new heroes and maps every year
- The US to join forces with Japan to produce bleeding-edge 2nm chips by 2025
- Apex Legends' resident healer opens a new clinic on Olympus next week
- Online abuse in Japan can now be punished with up to a year in jail
- Win a GOG Summer Sale bundle including Baldur's Gate, No Man's Sky and Frostpunk
- Working in VR is more stressful and lessens productivity. Big surprise
- Samsung accused of altering TV behavior to look better in benchmarks
- Elden Ring animation captures the sensation of being constantly ROFLstomped
- OlliOlli World adds skater-abducting aliens
- Sonos accidentally sent one customer $15,000 worth of audio equipment and charged them for it
- Help 3D print these accessible controller adapters for people in need
- AOC unveils a flat ultrawide 34 inch mini LED gaming monitor
June 15
- Valheim will have crossplay with the upcoming Xbox version
- Halo Infinite studio apologies for 'offensive and hurtful' word in Juneteenth cosmetic
- Starfield's space combat is inspired by MechWarrior and FTL, says Todd Howard
- Neil Blomkamp is making a Gran Turismo movie, apparently
- Redfall campaign progress stays with the host
- Starfield doesn't do seamless planetary landings like No Man's Sky, but Todd Howard doesn't think players will care
- Daggerfall Unity - GOG Cut brings back the Elder Scrolls classic without the headaches, and it's free
- The Sims 4 adds a cute pocket telescope that can also kinda murder you
- Here's a stunning orchestral arrangement played by HDDs, floppy drives, and scanners
- Amazon's delivery drones to launch in California this year
- It's now 'more cost-effective to turn off the mining rig and buy Ethereum'
- Newegg's new gaming PC finder wants to make buying a PC easier and it does. Sort of
- Stalker 2 developers continue work as key team members fight for Ukraine
- Lollipop Chainsaw is 'back' and please let that mean on PC too
- Intel's Arc A380 GPU launches in China for around $150 USD
- Internet Explorer dies today
- Chevy's new NFT comes with actual Corvette for winning bidder
- AMD's RDNA 3 series is rumored to launch sooner than expected
- Total War: Warhammer 3's Immortal Empires DLC is coming in August, with big changes
- Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is free-to-keep on GOG
June 14
- The winner of Netflix's 'real' Squid Game competition will become a multimillionaire
- Todd Howard says Fallout 5 is coming after The Elder Scrolls 6, if we all live that long
- Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry wishes Bethesda would 'hurry up' with The Elder Scrolls 6
- Photoshop goes free-to-paint on the web
- Grand Theft Enterprise: You can steal spaceships in Starfield, Pete Hines says
- 4 months after infamous Super Bowl ad, Coinbase lays off 1,100 staff
- Fall Guys gets oddly adorable Halo skins this month
- Wrath of the Lich King gets 'fresh start' servers for its arrival in WoW Classic
- Be Quiet's modular Silent Wings 4 fans want to take over all aspects of your PC's cooling
- Upcoming Dragon's Dogma celebration video has hopes high for a sequel
- Dying Light 2 now has a photo mode
- File Explorer tabs are one step closer to reality on Windows 11
- Cryptocurrency markets collapse to their lowest levels in years, but it's not all good news for gamers
- Most detailed map of the Milky Way ever released
- UK CMA to investigate Apple and Google over possible cloud gaming dominance
- Assassin's Creed Celebration Stream confirmed for this week
June 13
- Microsoft reaches 'ground-breaking agreement' with union representing game workers
- Resident Evil 2, 3 and 7 just got their ray tracing updates
- Resident Evil Village is getting playable Lady D and a third-person mode
- Embracer CEO defends taking $1B from Saudi Arabia
- Watch the Capcom showcase here
- Farthest Frontier trailer reminds us that life sucks when you're a medieval peasant
- New Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn gameplay shows intense Soulslike combat, base building, and more
- Blizzard promises Diablo 4 won't be monetized like Diablo Immortal
- New Elden Ring patch adds the game's biggest quality of life improvement yet
- This single PCIe 4.0 RAID controller can deliver a ridiculous 28,000 MB/s in SSD bandwidth speeds
- Bethesda confirms your Starfield character will be a silent protagonist
- Intel's next-gen Raptor Lake doubles cache sizes and matches AMD's Zen 4 thread count
- Project Zomboid mod is Disco Elysium but it's the apocalypse
- Stalker 2 delayed until 2023
- AMD hero is giving Return to Castle Wolfenstein a path tracing upgrade
- Intel's first chiplet CPUs promise 20% higher frequencies at the same power level as Alder Lake
- Kojima Productions has to clarify it still likes Sony after fanboy implosion
- MSI reportedly leaks first desktop benchmarks for Intel's Arc GPUs
- Have an AMD PC? Update your BIOS to nix some stuttering issues
- Hell yeah, Persona 5 Royal and Persona 3 Portable are coming to Steam
- Google to pay $118 million over gender wage gap lawsuit
- Get Ark: Survival Evolved for free on Steam for a limited time
June 12
- A Google engineer thinks its AI has become sentient, which seems... fine
- Get ready for a a new wave of mods: Squid Game season 2 is coming
- New Half-Life Alyx: Levitation gameplay makes the wait for Half-Life 3 much easier
- The free Styx DLC for survival game Icarus doubles the size of the map
- Extraterrestrial city-builder Synergy is all about hope and harmony on a new planet
- Core Keeper's titanic Sunken Sea update gets a June release date
- Them's Fightin' Herds is a My Little Pony-like brawler and it's getting a big update
- Treachery, blood and barbarism await you in the mighty halls of Norland
- Backfirewall_ is an existential comedy puzzler about an outdated OS
- Falling Frontier brings hardcore logistics and granular space combat to the dark future
- Gloomwood finally has an early access release date
- Screw over political groups, bully other nations and get filthy rich in Victoria 3 this year
- Fantasy survival sandbox Frozen Flame launches this fall
- Laysara: Summit Kingdom dares you to stop a city falling off the side of a mountain
- Here's one of StarCraft 2's key developers talking about upcoming RTS Stormgate
- Deliver Us Mars strands you in space and asks you to save the human race
- GoldenEye homage Agent 64 has left me shaken and stirred
- Space Marine 2 promises to pit us against 'thousands of tyranids'
- Scorn is already shaping up to be a horror classic
- The makers of Cloudpunk reveal Nivalis, a 'slice of life simulation in a cyberpunk world'
- Here's the final trailer for Immortality, which Sam Barlow says was written with 'very few f**ks given'
- Summon Jeeps and launch nukes in upcoming battle royale Super People
- Nightdive reveals a perfect, immortal System Shock trailer at the PC Gaming Show
- Jurassic World Evolution 2 is getting Dominion DLC this month
- Dune: Spice Wars multiplayer is coming this month
- I Am Future may be one of the cheeriest survival games ever
- Put on cabarets and fight nightmarish monsters in Decarnation next year
- Abyssals is an underwater city builder that only slightly terrifies me
- Killing Floor 2 shows off new shrink ray and nautical map in Tidal Terror trailer
- Mahokenshi blends magical combat, deckbuilding, and celestial samurai
- Nitro Kid is a tiny tactical cop-punching brawler
- Holy Moley, season 4 of Super Animal Royale has you battling some big moles
- Potion Craft is leaving early access soon, with new quests, ingredients and potions
- Outriders Worldslayer expansion looks like a different game
- Frostpunk creators dive into mind-bending sci-fi with The Alters, a deep-space game of survival
- Here's a cheat sheet for the Compass Datacenters quiz and a chance to win a $500 Razer gift card
- In Deceive Inc. you can disguise yourself as anything, and so can your enemies
- Play Amplitude's Endless Dungeon early
- Defenestrate Druid Mafiosos as a tacticool witch in Tactical Breach Wizards
- Rotwood is a co-op hack-and-slash from the makers of Don't Starve
- Despite the name, Soulstice isn't trying to be a Soulslike
- House Flipper studio moves into large-scale demolition and rebuilding with The Constructors
- Crossfire: Legion is a promising, if somewhat sparse tactical RTS
- Cocoon is a ball-juggling worlds-within-worlds adventure
- More Citizen Sleeper is on its way with the first free episode coming next month
- Ereban: Shadow Legacy is a cyber-stealth game that gives you shady powers
- Yep, Forza Horizon 5's first expansion is a Hot Wheels collaboration
- The Last Case of Benedict Fox is a hauntingly beautiful metroidvania
- Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is a grim, mythological tale from the creators of Nioh and Dynasty Warriors
- Hideo Kojima is friends with Xbox now
- Starfield's first gameplay trailer shows you can build, crew, and yes, really fly your spaceship
- Fallout New Vegas director's new game Pentiment announced, a 'narrative adventure most unexpected'
- Diablo 4 reveals disturbingly creepy Necromancer, confirms 2023 release date
- New Minecraft RTS will finally let you control the mobs to fight The Nether
- A Plague Tale: Requiem trailer makes the Middle Ages look rather lovely
- All my childhood favourites are returning to Microsoft Flight Sim. Oh and the dropship from Halo
- Civilisation meets Crusader Kings in Ara: History Untold
- New trailer for Ark 2 reveals 2023 release
- Lightyear Frontier is a farming sim with a mech-sized twist
- Here are the official co-streamers of the PC Gaming Show
- Forza Motorsport boasts an obscene level of realism
- Riot just announced that all League champions and Valorant agents are coming to Game Pass
- Overwatch 2 is releasing free-to-play this October
- Save humanity from an alien drug cartel in the new game from Justin Roiland's Squanch Games
- Hollow Knight: Silksong finally gets a new trailer
- Redfall gameplay looks like Left 4 Dead with vampires
- Chivalry 2 is finally on Steam, and finally has horses
- Kingdoms Rise developer Flyleap calls it quits, leaving game unfinished
- Diablo 4 closed beta pre-registration is now open
- Boyfriend Dungeon's getting free DLC with three new dateable weapons
- Here's 8 minutes of gameplay from Outpost, the game with the bonkers trailer
- Get Venetica, a Eurojank RPG about Death's daughter, free for a limited time
- Orx is Carcassonne crossed with They Are Billions
June 11
- Offbeat detective game Deadly Premonition 2 surprise launches on Steam
- Firewatch meets The Thing in this game about a near-future plane crash in Alaska
- '90s crime scene cleanup caper Serial Cleaners is coming in September
- Here's a 'cozy' city builder about self-sustenance from the publisher of Boyfriend Dungeon
- Pikmin-like indie platformer Tinykin arrives this August
- Bloodborne isn't on PC yet, but The Last Faith might be the next best thing
- Moody RPG Sunday Gold might be the first Disco Elysium-like
- Turbo Golf Racing could be the Rocket League racing game I've always wanted
- Instead of going 'pew pew' your space gun rewinds time in this sci-fi FPS
- Luto is a psychological horror game about trying to get out of your house
- Freeride is an action-RPG that's also a secret personality test
- Analyze excrement and develop clever cures as a... fuel station manager?
- This kaiju kissing game makes me believe in the power of love
- Oddada is a minimalist music game where you make songs with buildings
- The gun is a frog in Frogun, a game about a frog who is a gun, and also your best friend
- Cure ailments with alchemy in Stardew-like town sim Potion Permit
- Here's another look at Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly
- Fold and tear the world itself in this unique paper puzzle game
- I'm officially a Moomin guy now
- This fluffy life sim aims to be Animal Crossing for PC gamers
- Rain World: Downpour introduces us to its weird and wonderful new slugcats
- To smash industry and restore nature, all you need is a cute bear with a big axe
- Become a strand of light and save a magic forest in the metaphysical transportation game Witch Strandings
- This PC snowboarding game mixes SSX, Mario Kart, and various small animals
- Encounter dreamy dogboys and aliens in this intergalactic dating sim
- The Last Worker is a warehouse fulfilment sim at the end of capitalism
- Retro anime horror Signalis emerges from the cold this October
- Ugly is a 'twisted fairytale' puzzle platformer that's actually very pretty
- The Fridge is Red, and you can try its surreal retro scares with a free demo
June 10
- A Duke Nukem movie is coming from the makers of Cobra Kai
- Build pretend PCs for free in the PC Building Simulator 2 open beta
- Finally, a game brave enough to ask: 'What if your hands were baseball bats?'
- Our national nightmare is over: Seth Green's kidnapped Bored Ape NFT has returned home
- Castlevania: Nocturne teases a return to one of the series' most beloved entries
- This free browser demo for Resident Evil Village is the perfect use case for game streaming
- Homeworld 3 delayed into 2023
- You can play the Disney combat racing game now in closed beta
- Microsoft Edge's 'clarity booster' will apparently make Xbox Cloud Gaming look better than it does on other browsers
- Indie roguelike Shoulders of Giants boldly asks 'what if a frog piloted a mech?'
- Co-op survival comes to Middle-earth in Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
- Dota: Dragon's Blood gets a third season on August 11
- The Queen's Gambit is now a chess game you can only play on Netflix
- A Dragon Age anime series is coming to Netflix in December
- I'm finding it hard to get too excited about AMD's upcoming tech when it's all marketing and no meat
- How to watch the Future Games Show
- Activision Blizzard changes course, will recognize and negotiate with Raven QA union
- AMD has promising plans for laptops in the next two years
- You can now speedrun Genshin Impact's massive wiki
- AMD RDNA 3 GPUs sport next-gen ports for true 4K gaming at 240Hz
- Square Enix promises 'short but sweet' update on Final Fantasy 7 next week
- 'Improve your brain and systemic wellness' while looking like a giant dork
- AMD teases its next gen chiplet-based RDNA 3 architecture
- AMD provides new Zen 4 details and touts a greater than 25% performance-per-watt gain
June 9
- Street Fighter 2 is free on Steam to celebrate a new trove of Capcom reissues
- The Plucky Squire managed to melt my E3-hardened heart
- You're a skateboarding demon made of glass on a mission to swallow the moon
- The Grammy Awards adds a dedicated videogame category
- David Harbour says World of Warcraft 'ruined my life'
- Xbox Game Pass is bringing console-less game streaming to Samsung Smart TVs
- Goodbye World's hazy nostalgia looks set to break my heart
- A Little to the Left is like Unpacking if there was a cat messing with you
- Be a water nymph and befriend ducks in chillout game Naiad
- Schim is an adorable platformer about hopping from shadow to shadow
- Keep your guests comfy in this bed and breakfast sim, and also you are a bear
- Will the The Last of Us multiplayer game come to PC?
- Choo-Choo Charles is coming to get you this year
- In Time Flies, you play as a fly that lives one second for every year of your life expectancy
- Take a deep dive into dangerous realms in co-op survival game Nightingale
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge reveals Casey Jones, launches next week
- Layers of Fears is a 'psychological horror chronicle' coming in 2023
- Here's 2 minutes of gleeful carnage in Warhammer 40K: Darktide
- Speedrunning FPS Neon White finally gets a release date
- American Arcadia is like a reality show, but if your ratings drop, they kill you
- Goat Simulator 3 announced, thinks we won't notice there wasn't a Goat Simulator 2
- Outriders is still a thing apparently and it's getting an expansion this month
- Midnight Suns director didn't get a heads-up about plot similarities in the new Doctor Strange movie
- Midnight Suns release date and leaked heroes confirmed
- Witchfire will hopefully be the long-awaited Painkiller followup that doesn't suck
- After a decade of silence, Routine is back in development
- Classic '90s platformer Flashback is getting (another) sequel
- The Callisto Protocol's first gameplay trailer tore us apart, literally
- Guile gives us a glimpse of his hair care routine in new Street Fighter 6 trailer
- Aliens: Dark Descent is a top-down cooperative bug blaster, coming 2023
- Among Us officially crosses over with Fortnite
- The Last of Us remake is coming to PC
- Ceramic keycaps are the RGB upgrade the enthusiast keyboard community didn't know it needed
- Starfield is finally getting 'finishing touches' and may actually release in 2023
- You should run Windows 11 on an SSD whether Microsoft demands it or not
- EA denies report that Battlefield 2042 development is winding down: 'We are committed to the future'
- How to watch today's Summer Game Fest
- A Radeon RX 6700 XT for under $650 is one of the best GPU bargains in a long time
June 8
- The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime series coming to Netflix looks really good
- Saudi Arabia buys a $1B chunk of Embracer Group
- Report says Fallout 76 development was plagued by crunch and poor leadership
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 trailer declares that the ultimate weapon is 'team'
- Metro 2033 author put on Russian government 'wanted' list for condemning invasion of Ukraine
- Call of Duty is bringing the $70 game to Steam
- Minecraft might be getting an RTS spin-off
- Brave modder tries to make Turok 2 a decent game
- IBM begins 'orderly wind-down' of its entire Russian operation, all staff to lose jobs
- HoloLens co-creator resigns following misconduct allegations
- US Senators' proposed crypto bill doesn't give a hoot about home mining rigs
- Somebody's already pulled apart one of AMD's next-gen Zen 4 processors
- DIYer uses tiny screens to bring Lego terminals and human keyboards to life
- Taiwan further restricts the sale of modern chips to Russia and Belarus
- Halo Infinite campaign co-op will get a public test in July
June 7
- Not-E3 hasn't had any major leaks yet, and it's kind of weird
- Diablo Immortal microtransactions have sparked a brutal backlash
- Diablo Immortal is flooded with boosting services but few players are willing to pay
- Hades mod adding god of music Apollo almost looks like official DLC
- E3 will be back in 2023 for sure, the ESA promises
- Minecraft ditched fireflies in the 1.19 update so kids' real pet frogs won't croak
- EU enforces USB Type-C charging on most electronic devices
- Battlefield 2042's first season adds a new map, specialist, and guns this week
- You can now run Doom entirely within a motherboard BIOS
- Is it just us or does mining 10 bitcoin a day not sound like much for a cryptocurrency megacorp?
- Researchers use Overcooked to train AI to be a better gaming buddy
- Elon Musk tells Twitter he's ready to walk
- HDMI 2.1 cables could get a whole lot longer without messy power cables
- First Intel Arc Alchemist benchmarks are a bit of a mixed bag
- There's a new Just Cause in development
- Apple mimics Microsoft putting speedy SSDs to work in games
- Apple has its own upscaling tech now, MetalFX Upscaling
June 6
- Tim Sweeney says Fortnite Token cryptocurrency is 'a scam'
- Be on the lookout for this malware that hijacks your browser and generates bogus search results
- Half-baked battle royale with NFTs to launch on the Epic Games Store, pleasing nobody
- Netflix's new Resident Evil trailer goes all-in on action, zombies, and a giant spider
- Apple announces M2 silicon with even more graphs to annoy Intel
- Seasonic's wattage calculator sees no power increase for AMD's 7000-series GPUs
- Check out the PC Gamer collection in the GOG Summer Sale
- Java and Bedrock editions merge, creating one Minecraft to rule them all
- May I present to you: the mechanical cheeseboard
- Elden Ring modder pits the Tarnished against a massive viral chip-shop
- Razer just made two of our favourite mice even better
- This modular keyboard can even be customised with knobs and dials
- Intel debuts a real Arc graphics card at its IEM 2022 tournament
- This LG ultrawide gaming monitor is just AU$489 for the next few days
- Aliens might be using rogue planets as spaceships
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide will have 'thousands' of party banter lines despite custom characters
June 5
- Claustrophobic cooperative shooter Space Beast Terror Fright has exited Early Access
- N64 modder achieves ray tracing and other advanced effects across multiple games
- For the price of one AAA game, you can get hundreds of queer indies in this bundle
- Fortnite's new season features mushrooms, mounts, and Darth Vader
- Razer's new Ecologos will tell you just how green your new hardware is, or how guilty you should feel
- Nightdive wants to remaster the original Unreal next
- Factory and city builder Captain of Industry also gives you a boat
June 4
- Here's Deep Rock Galactic in VR, thanks to a mod
- Fortnite's end-of-season Collision event teases Darth Vader cameo
- PSA: Popular Garry's Mod add-ons were altered to include pornographic jump scares
- Escape from Tarkov Arena will be a new 'standalone' FPS
June 3
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake isn't cancelled, but it is delayed (again)
- Report: The Silent Hill-like horror game Abandoned is in disarray
- Marvel's Midnight Suns leak reveals Spider-Man, Scarlet Witch, and a release date
- English translations of Elden Ring boss music uncover grim, fascinating lore
- Rust gets 'biggest update to gunplay since launch'
- Session: Skate Sim rolls out of Early Access in September
- Unavowed developer release time-travelling trailer for their latest game
- 10 years on, Super Hexagon just got a major update
- Leon's jacket in Resident Evil 4 Remake is a real thing you can buy
- This Alienware PC with a Ryzen 5800X and RX 6600 XT is half price right now
- Nvidia's RTX 40 series may be many months away from release
- Returnal and Sackboy for PC seem even more real thanks to these convincing leaks
- These AI-generated Dukes Nukem never asked to be born
- Wolfenstein: The New Order goes free on the Epic Store
- Final Fantasy 16's music is by legendary composer Masayoshi Soken and it already rules
- The Sims 4: Werewolves will let you roleplay as a hipster lycanthrope
- Oh hell yeah, Final Fantasy 16's combat director worked on Devil May Cry 5 and Dragon's Dogma
June 2
- Street Fighter 6 has real-time commentary and an open world mode
- OlliOlli World devs reveal a new skating-based bloodsport in Rollerdrome
- Cyberpunk cat adventure Stray gets a gameplay trailer and July release date
- Final Fantasy 16 looks like an intense action-RPG with an emphasis on colossal summons, coming summer 2023
- The Callisto Protocol looks a lot like Dead Space, has a release date
- PlayStation's Spider-Man is coming to PC
- Resident Evil 4 Remake announced
- More classified military intel gets posted to War Thunder forums, because that's just what happens now
- The creators of 2020's best deckbuilder are making a tactical multiplayer RPG
- Bungie admits Destiny 2's Solar 3.0 did not melt anyone's face off
- US Supreme Court blocks Texas law forbidding social media companies from deleting posts
- Very big computer made
- Elden Ring survival mod adds hunger, thirst, region-specific diseases
- How to watch Sony's Summer 2022 State of Play
- The next Dragon Age game is officially called Dreadwolf
- Modern Warfare 2 is bringing Call of Duty back to Steam
- Tell Me Why is free for Pride Month
- Check out these wicked helicopter skills in GTA Online
- God of War gets support for AMD FSR 2.0
- Battle with Be’lakor in a major update to Warhammer: Vermintide 2’s Chaos Wastes expansion.
- The Steam Deck’s Docking Station has been delayed indefinitely
- Graphics card shipments have actually declined in 2022
- I can't stop watching 512 simulated bowls fall over in Nvidia's Factory
- Those chilling dog robots now have deployable helicopters, too
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate is free to keep for a limited time
- The next game from the studio behind the Pathfinder RPGs is Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
June 1
- Dontnod spellchecks itself, is now called Don't Nod
- Diablo Immortal isn't quite pay-to-win, but it's close
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 trailer recommits to the legend of mankind's big bulky boys
- PC game collecting community rocked by game forgery scandal
- John Madden returns to the cover of Madden NFL for the first time in more than 20 years
- This free horror game is about the sheer terror of turning off the lights before bed
- This VR headset will measure a user's brain activity
- Warhammer 40,000 is getting a boomer shooter
- The next 40K videogame is a free-to-play card game
- First Sonic Frontiers footage has both Okami and Halo vibes
- This lady is helping put cryptocurrency scams where they belong: in the bin
- Kingdom Hearts co-creator Shinji Hashimoto retires after 28 years with Square Enix
- Here's when Diablo Immortal unlocks in your timezone
- Tekken 7 is the best-selling game in the series in 26 years
- Super Bomberman R Online is shutting down after just 18 months
- Loupedeck's new desktop shortcut console looks to push onto the Stream Deck's turf
- Crypto-hackers are holding the Costa Rican healthcare system to ransom for $5B in bitcoin
- World of Warcraft wants you to promise you'll be nice to people
- An Apple I with the CPU signed by the Woz is heading to auction
- Razer's new hybrid headsets are RGB free
- Secretlab's new armrests are the plush upgrade I didn't think my forearms needed