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- December 31
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- Hardcore survival shooter Road to Vostok is looking really good after switching engines from Unity to Godot
- Delve a hopeless dungeon and die of despair in indie action RPG Into the Necrovale
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #925 for Sunday, December 31
- Grim fantasy retro-RPG Skald: Against the Black Priory has a new demo ahead of a spring 2024 release
- Action roguelike Skul: The Hero Slayer has sold more than 2M copies
- December 30
- December 29
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- Remake of strange, rare R-Type Tactics 1 & 2 to release in Fall 2024
- Factorio pretty much rewrote its world generation to account for new planets—like this volcanic one
- Obviously there should be a city-builder about penguins, so try the demo for this one
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #923 for Friday, December 29
- Curious little turn-based medieval strategy game Rising Lords musters for a January release
- December 28
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- December 22
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- One of our favorite early access shooters is approaching the finish line with the release of its creepiest chapter yet
- TinyBuild closes indie publisher Versus Evil, all staff laid off
- Drive like a maniac for fun and profit in the Epic Store's next free game
- The free demo for this awesome poker-based roguelike is closing in January, and I legit don't know how I'll cope
- Witcher actor Doug Cockle says the use of AI voices in games is 'inevitable' but potentially dangerous: 'AI is not the problem. It's the people using AI'
- Disastrous survival shooter The Day Before to be extracted from existence, shutting down its servers just one month after launch
- 'Every stone will not be turned for years' says Baldur's Gate 3's principal narrative designer, on its many hidden outcomes
- Interpol busts 3,500 alleged cybercriminals and scammers, seizes $300 million of ill-gotten proceeds, and warns about the rise of the NFT 'rug pull'
- 'This experience has been extremely distressing': Insomniac shares a statement in response to catastrophic ransomware attack, including hopes for Wolverine's future
- South Park: Snow Day gets a release date and a $220 special edition with a talking toilet roll holder
- Shares in Chinese gaming giants tumble as the CCP imposes strict new regulations and spending limits, alongside a ban on login bonuses and 'luck-based draw features' for minors
- There's just nine days left before Friday the 13th: The Game disappears from sale forever
- Five Nights at Freddy's Roblox game debuts by accident because series' creator 'approved a skin'—devs say it was a beta, then nuke its Discord over unholy NSFW content
- It's apparently down to AMD whether Nvidia releases its RTX 50-series GPUs in 2024 or not
- Gloomwood's Christmas update invites you to step into the Mirror Realm
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #916 for Friday, December 22
- Four years after it was removed from sale, Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory has returned
- December 21
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- War Thunder celebrates the holidays with an old-fashioned leak of restricted military info on its forums
- Teenage Grand Theft Auto 6 hacker given an indefinite sentence in a secure hospital due to his 'intent to return to cybercrime as soon as possible'
- The 2023 Steam Winter Sale delivers the first-ever discount on Baldur's Gate 3
- Anthem sold 5 million copies, which sounds good until you compare it to Star Wars: Battlefront
- Melvor Idle, the Runescape-inspired idle game with an 'overwhelmingly positive' rating, is free on the Epic Games Store
- 'Damn—that’s cool!' FF14's composer gives the nod to Alan Wake 2's surprise musical number—which tracks, given he's also a master of the left field
- Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix stops character faces "turning into stretched eldritch horrors with pits of flesh in place of eyes"
- Game receives huge free update following 10th anniversary and instantly quintuples its previous player-count high
- Check out this gorgeous mosaic of over 20,000 FF14 screenshots assembled for the game's 10th anniversary
- Steam keys for the unavailable disaster game The Day Before were being resold for up to $400
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #915 for Thursday, December 21
- December 20
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- Oh thank God: I can finally hide all those weird sex games I've got piled up in my Steam library
- Blizzard just doubled the drop rate of Diablo 4's rarest loot, so now's your chance to grab those Uber Uniques
- Starfield promises 'new survival mechanics' in 2024
- Xbox chief Phil Spencer thanks Bobby Kotick for his 'invaluable contributions' to the games industry as Kotick officially exits Activision Blizzard after 32 years
- Yikes: Xfinity has suffered a data breach exposing the usernames, hashed passwords and potentially even partial Social Security numbers of 36 million internet subscribers
- The ESRB has started slapping blockchain games with Adults Only ratings, so Epic has changed its store policy to allow them
- Overwatch 2's executive producer says controversial winter event is a disaster of framing, anger 'surprised' him: 'What we wanted was for players to have more choice'
- At last, Shrek has come to Minecraft, but only for the next few days
- Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer says that Minthara doesn't have 'a redemption arc', she's just 'a pragmatic, evil person' with a soft side
- Microsoft Flight Simulator adds a bunch of European cities, letting you grab Zagreb and try The Hague
- The Washington Post tried to buy Wordle before the New York Times did
- A new video encoding/decoding API can replace AMD and Nvidia's encoders on all platforms, truly one API to rule them all
- Get Larian's brilliant precursor to Baldur's Gate 3 for £9 on GOG
- 'We would love to explore a new game mode,' says Remnant 2's creative director, which he'd like to 'scratch the same itch' as a wave-based survival gauntlet
- Intel CEO laments Nvidia's 'extraordinarily lucky' AI dominance, claims it coulda-woulda-shoulda have been Intel
- I hate to admit it, but I would absolutely watch Zack Snyder's Fortnite movie
- Bethesda is far from done with Fallout 76, unsurprising given 17 million people have jumped in since the Wastelanders update
- 3 months after Blizzard's president sank WoW players' hopes of a swashbuckling adventure with the words 'No pirates', roadmap suggests: Yes, yes pirates
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #914 for Wednesday, December 20
- December 19
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- World of Warcraft and WoW Classic 2024 roadmaps reveal Cataclysm Classic beta test is coming this winter
- The Baldur's Gate 3 advent calendar is telling the tale of 'How the Gremishka Stole Christmas'
- Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 cinematic universe is now 'properly rolling' as Games Workshop finalizes deal with Amazon Studios
- Former Mass Effect lead writer Mac Walters says the success of the Legendary Edition helped convince him to leave BioWare: 'I don't want to do any more Mass Effect after this'
- The Finals might be a bit less sweaty now it's cracking down on cheaters
- WoW shows off four Hero Talent trees from its upcoming expansion The War Within, and it looks like the Augmentation Evoker's meta chaos is spreading to other specs
- The reveal and release dates for the new RTX 40-series Super cards have been leaked and January's going to be a busy ol' month
- Streets of Rogue 2 promises to mash up Deus Ex and Dwarf Fortress in a chaotic immersive sim 10,000 times bigger than the first game
- EA rebrands Frostbite with a cuddly new hand as it says its studios are now 'free to develop on any engine they choose'
- Sony applies to patent dynamic difficulty settings that respond to your performance, one year after EA did the same thing with controller settings
- Microsoft confirms latest Windows update breaks Wi-Fi on some public, education, and enterprise networks
- Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games victim of horrendous leak, as hackers steal a decade's worth of plans for the studio's future
- Obsidian pitched doing a Fallout: New Vegas but for The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda said nah we're good thanks
- NASA creates cat meme history with a space laser blasting a clip of Taters over 30 million kilometres
- Well, that didn't take long: FSR 3 mod released that replaces DLSS 3 frame gen in any game
- FF14 and D&D YouTuber JoCat announces 'indefinite break' after receiving harassment—including 'suspicious packages' sent to his family
- Iron Lung dev responds to accusations that he's only doing this for the money after a $2 price hike: 'Yes ... I make games for a living'
- Rocksteady urges fans to 'avoid spoilers' as Suicide Squad leaks become a tsunami
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #913 for Tuesday, December 19
- December 18
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- The Finals speedruns into 'too sweaty' discourse as Reddit mods shut down SBMM complaints
- The guy who sued Amazon for infringing on his Lord of the Rings fanfic takes a massive L, now owes $134,000 to the Tolkien Estate
- This mind-blowingly open-ended RPG might be the next Baldur's Gate 3: 'If you have the patience, you could wipe out an entire town by just turning everyone against each other'
- Steam's 2023 Year in Review breaks down exactly how you blew the past 12 months on videogames
- Diablo 2 player seethes for 8 months after hardcore betrayal, befriends one of the gankers before obliterating their character out of nowhere: 'Now we're even'
- Alan Wake 2 director says Remedy's confidence in the game was boosted by Everything Everywhere All At Once
- James McCaffrey, the voice of Max Payne, has died
- Baldur's Gate 3's charming devil Raphael now has seven different endings
- Armored Core 6 is adding ranked matchmaking like it's no big deal (it is) and it'll be arriving tomorrow, along with new parts and PvP maps
- This startup news channel uses AI presenters and some genuinely impressive tech, but it sure is giving me the heebie-jeebies
- This is the most absurd blend of retro-futuristic looks and server grade hardware that I've ever seen, and it's all in a laptop, and I want one badly
- 'Disgruntled' engineer gets fired for porn on work laptop, claims he was watching the Matrix, revenge-hacks employer's IT network, lies to the secret service, goes directly to jail
- Larian CEO says Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge character was originally going to be a Paladin by default, which makes me even happier I played it that way
- 'We got Obama, Squidward, Biden and Trump again, and then there's me!' YouTuber stands in front of an avalanche of AI covers using 'his' voice and belts Sinatra's My Way
- In a year beset by layoffs, Games Workshop just gave its staff a £2,500 end-of-year bonus
- Intel could be heading towards an AI-powered frame generation future, thanks to a research group's work, dubbed ExtraSS
- 'She was so very well-defined from the get-go': Baldur's Gate 3's Gith darling Lae'zel changed the least during its development
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #912 for Monday, December 18
- Magic: The Gathering Arena adds another format where you can play all your old cards, called Timeless
- December 17
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- Atomic Heart's next DLC looks even weirder, and will be out in February
- Dyson Sphere Program's Dark Fog are here to blow up your space factories
- One of my favorite videogame ambience YouTube channels has a collection of cozy PC gaming 'yule logs' to get you in the holiday spirit
- Pirate stealth game Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew gets surprise modding tool
- I urge you to playtest Abiotic Factor, a survival game about scientists trapped in a vast underground black site
- Activision Blizzard settles California civil rights suit for $54 million, sets aside another $47 million for impacted employees
- Blood Bowl 3 gets Shambling Undead team, and a sizeable patch
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #911 for Sunday, December 17
- A villain in Baldur's Gate 3 was originally guaranteed to kidnap whoever you romanced, 'which wasn't very popular'
- December 16
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- The original Fallout's pacifist playthrough was an 'accidental' inclusion, but its designers loved the idea so much they kept it in
- I should know better this early on, but Arkane's teaser and first concept art for Blade already have me unreasonably excited
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #910 for Saturday, December 16
- December 15
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- This WW2 game just got rescued by the creators of Squad, and a huge new patch is live now
- After grinding for a week, Diablo 4 player achieves world first clear of its hardest dungeon while wearing the wrong pants
- Godus is deadus: Peter Molyneux's controversial Godus games are finally being taken off Steam
- Google extends the deadline to upgrade Stadia controllers to Bluetooth by another year, which is a relief for the two guys who still have them new in box
- Twitch changes its mind about nude art after just 48 hours: 'We went too far'
- Starfield is nominated for the Most Innovative Gameplay award in the 2023 Steam Awards
- 'Path of Exile 2 in some ways is less complicated than Path of Exile 1': Grinding Gear Games talks about why it created a WASD control scheme and other improvements in the sequel to its long-running ARPG
- The first Intel Core Ultra handheld gaming PC has been unveiled, and it's an oddly massive 11-inch beast
- You can play my favorite RPG of 2021 for free this weekend and nab it for 75% off if you have a good time
- Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya sheds light on why he left Platinum, the company he co-founded: 'Without that element of trust, I couldn't continue working there'
- Baldur's Gate 3 will never be on Game Pass, says Larian CEO: 'We made a big game, so I think there's a fair price to be paid for that'
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says he's open to Fortnite on Steam or 'any serious store', but that 'the end of these ridiculous 30% fees' is a requirement
- Florida Joker issues 3-day countdown threat and takes to cosplay in his war on GTA 6's supposed use of his likeness, then demands an 'extra million dollars' for his trouble
- World of Warcraft's new Night Elf capital allows Horde tourists, and boy is it ruffling some feathers
- Get ready to see frame generation everywhere as AMD finally releases its FSR 3 tools and source code into the wild
- Valve lures thousands of Dota cheaters into bans with fake Christmas presents as it declares 'this year is gonna be a bloodbath'
- Insomniac Games has reportedly been hacked, with details of its upcoming Wolverine game included in the stolen data
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #909 for Friday, December 15
- D&D actual play series Dimension 20 returns to its original setting for Fantasy High Junior Year
- The Last of Us Online finally cancelled because Naughty Dog thinks it will 'severely impact development on future single-player games'
- December 14
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- Creative Assembly apologizes for 'missteps' and says Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC will become better value and players will receive partial refunds for Total War: Pharaoh
- 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks reportedly hit with layoffs as Embracer continues to cut
- The Crew removed from sale, will become unplayable after April 1: 'We understand this may be disappointing for players still enjoying the game'
- Acclaimed movie studio A24 joins the Death Stranding film project: 'We are creating a Death Stranding universe that has never been seen before'
- Baldur's Gate 3 player chucks a magic mace on Shadowheart, gets one-shot by her clone, then realises hours later they paid 13,000 gold for the privilege
- Intel's unified its Arc desktop and laptop GPU drivers 'on a technical basis' but manufacturer updates are still going to lag behind
- How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood-themed Noctua PC builds?
- Intel's slapped a 16GB dual-channel minimum entry requirement on Core Ultra laptops if you want top gaming performance
- New Steam Workshop update pilfers a bunch of your favourite features from managers like Mod Organizer, including load orders and automatic sorting
- Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
- The latest round of PS5 Pro hardware rumours suggest that AMD's RDNA 4 could lift Radeon ray tracing up to Nvidia's level
- WoW's game director says he's keen on organising its scattered story for new players: 'that is a weakness ... Chris Metzen and I chatted [about it] a bunch'
- Twitch relaxes about nudity after viral topless streams, says you can be sexy on stream so long as it's 'artistic' or 'fictionalized'
- 'Still a slight risk of critical deformation': Noctua isn't happy with its next-gen 140mm fan so it's pushed until Q2 2024 at the earliest
- 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #908 for Thursday, December 14
- Valve asks Steam Deck owners to 'please refrain' from huffing its exhaust fumes, PC gamers immediately respond: 'No'
- December 13
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- The mellowest social game I've ever played is getting a sequel: 'There aren't enough online spaces where strangers can be fearlessly open and caring'
- Gamer browser adds a 'panic button' to hide your naughty tabs and open normal 'safe' tabs instead
- Starfield design director calls out unfair game criticism: 'Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is'
- This fan-made HD PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is so cool I can't believe Nintendo hasn't taken it down yet
- PC Gamer's favorite bard-killing game is free for keeps in GOG's 2023 Winter Sale
- Fallout 4's big 4K 'next-gen update' is delayed until 2024
- Hasbro's 1,100 layoffs have hit D&D and Magic: The Gathering hard, as a growing list of staff announce their departures
- Free games are back in Epic's 2023 Holiday Sale, live now
- Streamers, we're giving away a Loupedeck Live S stream controller and Streamlabs Ultra subscription
- A whisper of hope: a cryptic Belgian McDonald's promotion has spawned a flurry of desperate MultiVersus hype from abandoned players
- 8 years after the first game, cyberpunk adventure Read Only Memories: Neurodiver pushes its release to 2024 as it shows off its psychic protagonist and weird pocket leech
- A former Grand Theft Auto dev weighs in on GTA 6's delayed PC version: 'it's hard to do that as a developer, because the team isn't big enough'
- TCL touts fully concave and 8K OLED PC monitors using new low-cost inkjet panel tech
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #907 for Wednesday, December 13
- December 12
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- Watch a tough-guy mouse blast the heads off dirty rats in the first gameplay trailer for Mouse, the shooter that adds a Tommy gun to a 1930s Mickey Mouse cartoon
- DayZ and Icarus team up with a cheeky 'The Day After' survival Steam sale bundle
- Bethesda teases 'all new ways of travelling' coming to Starfield next year
- Epic trumpets surprise victory in its lawsuit against Google: 'A win for all app developers and consumers around the world'
- D&D and Magic: The Gathering owner Hasbro announces the layoffs of 1,100 employees, calls it a 'lever we must pull to keep Hasbro healthy'
- The loop begins again as Alan Wake 2 launches a New Game Plus mode featuring a new difficulty, extra videos and manuscript pages, and a whole new ending
- Veil is a co-op tactical warlock game that looks like someone mashed up Dishonored and Rainbow Six, and it just got its first gameplay trailer
- 'I'm an actor, I'm not a doctor—I'm not a hero': Astarion's voice actor reflects on his Game Awards win for Baldur's Gate 3, and the humility of helping others feel seen
- E3 is officially dead: 'Thanks for the memories. GGWP'
- Tekken 8 is getting a demo next week, finally offering a chance for everyone to try the game out
- Disney games boss acknowledges 'a lot of demand' for Knights of the Old Republic remake, giving me my first spark of hope for the project in ages
- 'This was our first big experience, sh*t happens': The Day Before's CEO is MIA, its Discord server has disintegrated, and its YouTube Channel has gone dark
- Hideo Kojima will show off all his celebrity friends in a documentary coming to Disney+ next year
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #906 for Tuesday, December 12
- December 11
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- League of Legends executive producer Jeremy 'Brightmoon' Lee has stepped down to do 'other stuff at Riot'
- TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design has closed: 'We join an ever-growing list of casualties in a broken industry'
- Just 4 days after The Day Before's disastrous launch, the studio has abruptly closed: 'We miscalculated our capabilities'
- Lethal Company has just solved arachnophobia with words, literally
- Watch out Razer, Asus' switch from plastic to an all-metal unibody gaming laptop design was hidden in plain sight all along
- Arthur Morgan's voice actor TikTok responds to GTA 6's Florida Joker and his demands—'you ain't getting a job at Home Depot with that face'—then deletes the video
- Leaked 3DMark score puts Intel's mid-tier Meteor Lake on par with AMD's best handheld PC processor, for gaming at least
- No more fans: Phison's new PCIe Gen 5 controller sacrifices raw SSD speed in the name of silence
- WoW Classic's Season of Discovery revives the old-school tradition of random players ruining your day, stealing a vital item that costs five gold to access
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #905 for Monday, December 11
- There's a Starfield bug that makes it crash more often if you don't start New Game+
- Here's one for people who like Vampire Survivors, bullet hell, and when games go all meta and screw with you
- December 10
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- Issue 301 of PC PowerPlay is onsale now!
- Train people are dang pleased with this line operations sim because it's not too hardcore, nor too simple
- For Doom's 30th anniversary, the Johns Romero and Carmack reunited to celebrate the FPS that changed everything: 'I want to thank everybody in the Doom community for keeping this game alive'
- People are exceptionally thirsty about this free game where you flirt with the grim reaper on text chat
- Superb survival city-builder Against the Storm is finally finished and released
- Final Fantasy 16 on PC shows signs of life, with producer Yoshi-P saying it will run best on an SSD
- No Man's Sky will rerun all this year's time-limited events in December
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #904 for Sunday, December 10
- Five years later, Doom megawad Eviternity just got a surprise sequel
- D&D's Revised Player's Handbook 'will be the biggest Player's Handbook that D&D has ever had', and like all the Revised core books will be compatible with the current edition
- That game where you farm with your mech finally has a release date
- December 9
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- There's a change buried in Baldur's Gate 3's latest patch that makes it easier than ever to recruit both of its mutually exclusive companions—without breaking the game
- Dave the Diver is teaming up with our other favorite nautical adventure of 2023, Dredge, for a spooky free DLC
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #903 for Saturday, December 9
- The Finals is getting blasted on Steam for slowing the game down, except the developer says it didn't change speeds at all
- December 8
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- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is getting an offline mode after all, but not until sometime after it's out
- Space Marine 2 gets a new release date that's only 276 days away
- Diablo 4 will get a hotfix today to sort out a major issue: its hardest dungeon is too hard
- Creator behind hugely popular Skyrim co-op mod gives up on the Starfield version of it because, drum roll please, 'this game is f***ing trash'
- Developers blast the celeb-laden Game Awards as 'an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation… with little respect for the devs'
- Cyberpunk 2077 comes full circle with Sad Keanu meme
- Windows 11 23H2 update reportedly slows down gaming performance for some but there does seem to be a somewhat complicated fix
- Big-name celebs are fine, but Flute Guy's return to The Game Awards was the main event
- All Genshin Impact codes from the version 4.3 livestream
- Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI back AMD's monstrous new 153 billion-transistor alternative to Nvidia's AI chips
- 'I didn't think we were gonna get it': Baldur's Gate 3 dominates The Game Awards with 6 wins, including GOTY
- The Game Awards 2023 results: All the winners
- I can't believe I'm saying this but Skull and Bones hasn't been delayed again: A new release date was announced at The Game Awards
- Monster Hunter Wilds announced for 2025, and it looks like a follow-up to World
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #902 for Friday, December 8
- Cyberpunk 2077 completes its redemption arc by nabbing its first Game Award three whole years after launch
- The Finals just surprised launched at The Game Awards with a new map and battle pass
- Hello Games' grand follow-up to No Man's Sky, Light No Fire, is an open world the size of the actual Earth
- 'We didn't set out to recruit a Hollywood cast': Marvel star Simu Liu's love of StarCraft led to a big role in upcoming RTS Stormgate
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt studio Sharkmob reveals a new 'tactical open world extraction shooter' at The Game Awards
- Den of Wolves is a 'mind-f***' heist game from the Payday designer set in a sci-fi city 'where late-stage capitalism has gone rampant'
- Arkane tempts fate with another vampire game, but this time it's an adaptation of Marvel's Blade
- Life is Strange team announces Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, a '90s teen drama with 27 years of trauma baked in
- Jurassic Park: Survival is a first-person action-adventure set days after the first movie
- Controversial SWAT team FPS Ready or Not announces a December release date, promising 'an intense gaming experience, that challenges you on the world you know'
- Matthew McConaughey took the stage at The Game Awards to premier an RPG from ex-BioWare vets that sounds like a Mass Effect: Andromeda do-over
- Hideo Kojima announces OD with Jordan Peele: 'It is a game... but it's at the same time a movie, but at the same time a new form of media'
- Sega just announced new Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi, and Shinobi games
- Explore 'the gruesome crimes of a sadistic killer' in the Dead by Daylight singleplayer game The Casting of Frank Stone, coming in 2024
- Christopher Judge delivers sick burn about CoD's campaign at The Game Awards
- Ori and the Blind Forest developer wants to 'revolutionize the ARPG genre' with its next game's 'direct and tactile' combat
- Untitled Goose game team announces Big Walk, an online cooperative 'walker-talker'
- Walton Goggins on the Fallout show's three main characters as 'avatars' for players: 'It's almost like three different religions'
- Holy balls, after 15 years they're actually making World of Goo 2 and it's coming next year
- Thrasher is another gorgeous and nauseating rhythm game from the creator of Thumper
- Pony Island 2: Panda Circus 'is not a game about ponies'
- Dead Cells studio reveals its new game at The Game Awards: A fast-paced co-op roguelike in which cute animated animals get absolutely massacred
- This dystopian anime action RPG has the potential to be another Genshin Impact
- This great settlement-building survival RPG just became a 4-player co-op game
- December 7
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- The Day Before launches to 'overwhelmingly negative' Steam reviews as players complain it's 'not an open world MMO'
- The Walking Dead: Betrayal halts development and will be pulled from Steam just three months after launch
- The new Avatar game has a graphics preset so 'extremely difficult to run' you're probably Na'vi gonna turn it on
- The Alone in the Dark reboot is delayed until March so developers can 'avoid any potential crunch over the Christmas holidays'
- Lego Fortnite is way bigger than we thought, and millions of people are playing the new survival mode
- Following 3 years of radio silence, Kingpin remaster releases only to get slammed: 'Is it too late to hand this over to Nightdive?'
- If you're feeling bad about dying in Baldur's Gate 3's Honour Mode, don't worry—this speedrunner who beat it in under 40 minutes is about to make you feel way worse
- YouTuber who deliberately crashed plane for content then lied about it is jailed for six months, even he admits it's the 'right decision'
- Batman: Arkham Trilogy pays tribute to the late Kevin Conroy
- Here's how to watch The Game Awards 2023
- The Among Us crewmates are coming to Vampire Survivors as its developer booms 'no realm or plane of reality is off limits'
- AMD announces refreshed Ryzen 8040 'Hawk Point' mobile chips and the excitement is, well, not particularly exciting
- GTA 6 detectives think its first trailer actually plays out in reverse—all thanks to an ankle bracelet with some grim, real-world implications
- Florida's real-life Joker calls out Rockstar over apparent cameo in GTA 6 trailer: 'We gotta talk'
- This disaster of a PSU is a good reminder why you never skimp on your PC's power supply
- PC Gamer magazine's latest issue is on sale now: Sigil 2 and Doom's 30th anniversary
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #901 for Thursday, December 7
- 464 parties have already finished the new permadeath Honour Mode in Baldur's Gate 3, but it's also killed 34,000 player-characters so far
- Exploring the seas on a magic surfboard looks awesome in this 16-player co-op survival game from former Riot devs
- December 6
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- GTA 6 trailer smashes a YouTube viewership record—but still can't compare with another three-letter acronym
- One of the best RTS games we've played in years launched a crowdfunding campaign yesterday, and crushed its goal in just 15 minutes
- Report: Embattled Bungie management insist fans 'still like us' in the face of plummeting staff morale
- Sims 4 players have found what might be a build mode bug but we're all hoping is a new feature
- World's biggest mod site shows no patience for bigoted mod that erased a queer relationship from Baldur's Gate 3, will keep banning mods that are 'deliberately against inclusivity and/or diversity'
- Cat-egorically cute farm sim Snacko stealth launched today and I'm already digging these cozy kittens
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's final clan reveal dashes the hopes of anyone wanting to play a Malkavian at launch
- If you just can't let Windows 10 go Microsoft will let you pay for three more years of extra support
- It looks like the RTX 3050 is finally going to be discontinued only to be replaced by a worse RTX 3050. Because…umm, reasons?
- Intel posts blatantly hypocritical marketing attack on AMD and then takes it straight down
- Sorry Apple, turns out 8GB of memory on a Mac isn't anything like 16GB on a PC after all
- Spotify registers ridiculous increase in Tom Petty streams as GTA 6 trailer drives everyone dad rock mad
- Twitch is shuttering its services in South Korea next year, claiming network fees are '10 times more expensive than in most other countries'
- Larian's dropped some more Baldur's Gate 3 stats, and at least 33% of you have a lot of explaining to do
- ChatGPT is Wikipedia's most viewed article in 2023, beating out last year's 'winner' which was *checks notes* Jeffrey Dahmer
- Armello studio lays off over half its staff and 'indefinitely' pauses development on its ongoing early access game because 'almost all funding and investment has evaporated from the videogame industry'
- A Chatbot from the 1960s has thoroughly beaten OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in a Turing test, because people thought it was just 'too bad' to be an actual AI
- A cool PvP event in WoW Classic's Season of Discovery has spiralled into a complete zergfest—with huge swarms of players ending it in minutes
- China redefines CPU water cooling with an huge 130,000 ton data center under the sea
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #900 for Wednesday, December 6
- December 5
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- A new Tribes game is coming next year and it's not free to play: 'We made some mistakes in how we monetized Ascend'
- Call of Duty's new operator looks like a popular Rainbow Six Siege character with the exact same name, and Ubisoft has taken notice: 'Seriously?'
- Blizzard has now fixed the accidental nerf it gave to every Diablo 4 player on the same day its brutally hard new dungeon released
- Skyrim's latest patch has pissed off players for two reasons: It broke old mods and added new paid ones
- Baldur's Gate 3 tool discovers there's around 1,888 characters with dialogue in the game—though 'justice for Karlach was actually the main reason' it was made
- GTA 6's first trailer has recreations of a load of real viral video moments in it, and it looks like Rockstar's version of TikTok will play a big part
- Steam's second most-wishlisted game puts out bizarre set of 'revelations' ahead of release: 'Please don't accuse us of scamming; that's not true'
- GTA 6 players fall in love with 'bikini girl', start drawing red circles and cross-referencing photos to prove she's the game's new lady lead
- The Embracer spiral continues as Insurgency: Sandstorm studio New World Interactive lays off employees
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #899 for Tuesday, December 5
- D&D's new free introductory adventure is a cute, functional taster session that lacks teeth—and I'm worried it teaches some bad habits
- GTA 6 trailer sends fans into frenzy, earns game dev praise, and leads people to ponder their inevitable demise: 'What if we die before GTA 6 releases in 2025?'
- Cyberpunk 2077's surprise 2.1 update aims to make Adam Smasher live up to his name, adds new racing missions, and gives love interests a life with you after their questlines
- The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer has smashed through 60 million YouTube views in 12 hours
- Nvidia's RTX technologies are now supported by 500 games and apps, with more to come
- Rockstar devs react to Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer leak: 'This f***ing sucks'
- No GTA 6 PC release date announced
- EA announces layoffs at F1 developer Codemasters 'to meet evolving business needs and priorities'
- December 4
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- The first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer dropped early, it's coming in 2025
- Ark: Survival Ascended lead designer Jeremy Stieglitz admits 'the servers are ass, they run like ass, and their stability is ass'
- The Fallout TV series will include a Vault Boy origin story for some reason
- Dragon Age: Dreadwolf video teases new lands 'you've never heard of before,' full reveal coming next year
- Payday studio Starbreeze is working on a co-op multiplayer D&D game, and the more I think about it the more it makes sense
- Elden Ring's producer says development of its Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is 'going well', compares it to Bloodborne with 'new battles and new characters'
- Withers wasn't joking—ruining the vibe in Baldur's Gate 3's new epilogue is punishable by death
- Windows 12 release date pegged to June 2024 by Taiwanese financial paper
- AMD's new chiplet GPU patent could finally do for graphics cards what Ryzen did for its CPUs
- The Grand Theft Auto 6 announcement graphic has become the new CD Projekt Red apology as brands scramble to snag some hype of their own
- Nvidia's Ampere GPUs continue to dominate Valve's monthly hardware survey, though Ada is slowly building in number
- Peter Griffin drinks the expired Fortnite slurp juice in a lore explainer, in case you were worried about Family Guy's continuity for some reason
- US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia: 'We cannot let China get these chips... If you redesign a chip that enables them to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day'
- Barring unforeseen shocks, the signs point towards a strong 2024 for the global PC market
- Put on your bunny ears and go to bullet hell in indie metroidvania Tevi
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #898 for Monday, December 4
- Furi's creators dropped a free demake of the first boss fight as a thanks to fans
- Fortnite is adding a Lego-themed survival crafting mode that includes Lego versions of over 1,200 pre-existing skins
- December 3
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- Fortnite now lets you assassinate Peter Griffin and steal his powers, but players are miffed about new running animations
- This indie fuses the structure of Hades with the horde smashing action of Vampire Survivors
- Stardew Valley 1.6 is still chugging along, says creator, after a month of "self-imposed" crunch
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #897 for Sunday, December 3
- December 2
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- Be a frog, kill bugs, collect cool dice in the demo for dicebuilding roguelike Die in the Dungeon
- The Halo show's second season is coming in February, and it's teasing an actual, you know, Halo
- Stealth classic Thief: The Dark Project just got a 10-mission fan campaign called The Black Parade from a team led by an Arkane Lyon level designer
- Fortnite's 2018 throwback map was so popular, Epic's bringing it back again next year (after blowing it up)
- Gatekeeper is like an isometric Risk of Rain 2, so go ahead and try the free prologue
- It looks like Baldur's Gate 3's composer just got a cheeky in-game cameo as the god of music
- Deckbuilder fans owe themselves some time with the brilliant Cobalt Core
- The first trailer for Amazon's Fallout TV series is full of mayhem, monsters, and madmen
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #896 for Saturday, December 2
- It's the perfect weekend to try co-op survival game Icarus, because it's free on Steam
- December 1
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- CD Projekt ties up one last loose end from Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch: the class action lawsuit
- Blizzard cranks the dial on Diablo 4's endgame progression so its brutal new dungeons don't tear you apart
- Remedy teases an Alan Wake 2 New Game+ update in the most obvious way possible
- Custom PC builds: from WHY to DIY
- You have one month to switch your Stadia controller to Bluetooth mode, or you're stuck with wires forever
- Nightingale, the neo-Victorian survival game being made by former BioWare devs, is taking signups for a server stress test
- Signal detected: Looks like we're getting the first Fallout TV show teaser trailer tomorrow
- Footballer Ronaldo faces $1bn+ class action lawsuit for promoting Binance to unwary customers, and he's still doing it
- Making connections: custom PC building that’s easy for all
- Activision felt 'now was the time' to put Call of Duty's DMZ mode out to pasture, says play zombies instead
- Cyberpunk 2077 is finally getting a fully functional metro system, so you can ride around Night City in style
- I think Larian really did sneak schlong physics into Baldur's Gate 3 without telling anybody
- You can almost triple your frame rate in Cyberpunk 2077 using multiple GPUs, but SLI this ain't
- Nvidia is still committed to its stalwart RTX 3060, making the prospect of a truly budget Ada card ever more distant
- Grand Theft Auto 6's long-awaited trailer finally has a release date
- Now that the sex update is real, Cult of the Lamb turns to Pokemon and The Sims for inspiration
- Part two of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide's big free expansion comes this month, featuring a new mission, injectable magic potions, and… a foldable shovel?
- Chrome and Chromium-based browser zero-day exploit that 'exists in the wild' has been patched but an estimated 4 billion people may still be affected
- You think you have imposter syndrome: Nvidia CEO is worried his trillion dollar company might go bust overnight
- You're fine to load up your dusty old save for Baldur's Gate 3's new epilogue, especially if you quicksave as much as I do
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #895 for Friday, December 1
