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- July 31
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- Star Wars Outlaws director was inspired by a samurai action game more than Red Dead or Assassin's Creed: 'My biggest reference was Ghost of Tsushima'
- Here's a 15 minute gameplay deep dive on water parks in Planet Coaster 2
- Jonathan Blow says the Braid remaster 'sold like dog****'
- '$100M is GTA-level money': A former developer on the 2013 Deadpool game says rumors of its budget are highly exaggerated
- This CT scanning company is sowing chaos for Pokémon card collectors by selling X-ray scans of booster packs: 'We firmly believe we stand in the zone of chaotic good'
- Actor for Dragon Age: The Veilguard protagonist says the role is "an honor but a challenge"
- A disgraced Dr Disrespect teases his return to streaming
- PC Gamer announces editorial staff changes and recent hirings
- Delightful deckbuilder Clank! now has a digital version
- In this investigation game you're the desk jockey with all the cool analysis software
- Bungie lays off 220 developers in shocking bloodbath as it aggressively refocuses on Destiny and Marathon: 'We were overly ambitious'
- Xbox users will soon be able to watch Discord streams and make direct calls
- FromSoftware is warning Elden Ring players that your mouse could be holding you back, or at least tanking your framerate
- A blistering photo finish: Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's world first race to vanquish the Arcadion's debut tier is clutched with a mere 21 seconds between 1st and 2nd place
- New AI companion goes all Black Mirror, listens to absolutely everything and dies if you lose it
- After 3 years, Chivalry 2 goes into maintenance mode as devs decide they've released enough updates to make it 'content and feature complete'
- Activision's donation to the AI race is a 'first-of-its-kind' open-sourced Call of Duty map
- SCP: Secret Lab player who 'can't remember s***' invents their own custom mapping tool like a horror game MacGyver
- EA CEO calls the next Battlefield 'one of the most ambitious projects in our history' as all hands get to work on a 'Battlefield universe'
- World of Warcraft players aren't pleased with The War Within pre-patch event: With 90 minute waits in between bosses and somewhat-stingy currency rewards
- AMD sells $1 billion worth of AI chips and CPU sales are up but its gaming graphics continues to struggle
- 'I can't thank streamers enough': Palworld developer's CEO weighs in on Japanese visual novel discourse in the wake of streaming controversy
- After cutting 5% of its workforce in 2023 reports say Intel is planning to lay off thousands more workers
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 31
- July 30
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- Former GTA dev says 'it's time for a revolution' where 'animation is more AI-driven and physics-driven' than done by hand
- Assassin's Creed subreddit promises bans for anyone who keeps complaining about 'historical accuracy' and Yasuke: 'We are all exhausted of this tedious discussion'
- Activision explains that weird spike in Call of Duty cheaters last week
- Diablo 4 season 5's return to hell supercharges its most overlooked loot to game-breaking levels
- Goofy builder-crafter Space for Sale is about developing 'prime real estate on unexplored worlds'
- Palworld's community manager says our 'dead game' fixation is ruining gaming: 'I don't think it really serves anyone to push gamers to play the same game, day in and day out'
- Gearbox boss says Tiny Tina's Wonderlands was bigger than the first Borderlands: 'It's reasonable for our fans to expect more there'
- The latest Sims 4 bug fix stops Sims from committing autonomous incest
- Make your own Deadpool & Wolverine movie with this surprisingly deep movie studio management sim
- Mystery afoot as Garry's Mod gets hit by Skibi-DMCA apparently on behalf of Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet film studio: 'Can you believe the cheek?'
- Indie studio pulls its first game from Steam after realizing it lost the source code: 'We had no established routine to back up our data'
- Brilliant execution, awful inspiration material: This AMD-powered Cybertruck mini PC really is in production
- Star Wars Outlaws will finally let us turn off that annoying yellow paint on every climbing surface
- Mario and Sonic were benched by the Olympics in favour of NFTs and esports, former producer on the series says
- Helldivers 2's upcoming Warbond will let you set your enemies on fire with just about everything—including your Hellpod
- I knew it—Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss has some hokey freaking hitboxes the size of barn doors
- GDDR6X VRAM is claimed to be in short supply and could lead to an RTX 4070 being launched with slower GDDR6 to meet the demand
- Elden Ring's new patch just released, and it finally fixes an infuriating problem with summoning your spectral steed
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree player smashes NG+7 one-shot record, dealing 143,411 damage against the final boss in one go
- Incensed Japanese visual novel author vows legal action against streamer for violating broadcast embargo, then vanishing into the night without even saying sorry
- Twitch employees are worried the service could become a 'zombie brand', as a potential third round of layoffs looms, but luckily CEO Dan Clancy only eats 'medium-sized dinners' during international trips to meet streamers
- Meta's Mark Zuckerberg chews AI cud with Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang, talking about delicious cows, slicing tomatoes, and old Chinese guys drinking whiskey
- Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League only had one job, but it's already started to revive the Justice League
- Fallout: London devs hand out maths homework to players who are suffering from a bug that lowers their HP
- There's a surprise lack of Pictomancer nerfs in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's first major balance patch—which streamlines Viper and tries to save the suffering Black Mage
- Tony Pankhurst, actor and face of The Dark Pictures Anthology's Curator, has died
- Nvidia's CEO chats about the future of AI: 'We're going to need three computers... one to create the AI… one to simulate the AI… and one to run the AI'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 30
- Game archivists lament end of the Xbox 360 Marketplace
- July 29
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- World of Goo 2 drops globular trailer, soundtrack preview ahead of launch this week
- Diablo 4 player finds counterfeit 'legendary' items that shouldn't exist
- The Steam Tower Defense Fest is here, bringing sales on games where buildings do the battling
- The circle is now complete: The developer of an open-source port of Dark Forces who consulted on the Nightdive Remaster is working on putting the remaster back in the source port
- Another Call of Duty cheat maker bites the dust, this time without a fight
- Co-op survival game Enshrouded now lets you make things way tougher, or way easier, with an update that adds more than 30 difficulty sliders
- One modder has already ported a ton of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's bosses into Sekiro
- BioWare claims Dragon Age: The Veilguard has 140,000 lines of dialogue, which is probably more than Baldur's Gate 3, but definitely less than Starfield
- Elden Ring players find cut voice lines from Shadow of the Erdtree bosses that probably should've said something, if we're being honest
- Cool statues at Comic-Con might've leaked upcoming Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver remasters
- After 14 hours and 239 nonstop tries, an Elden Ring Streamer beat Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss twice simultaneously with a controller and a dance pad
- AMD introduces a beta preview of Fluid Motion Frames 2, with 'AI-optimized enhancements for improved quality, lower latency, and better performance'
- Subnautica devs have been sneaking screenshots of the upcoming sequel into existing time capsules, and they finally got caught
- Things I've missed: Windows 11 lets you 'End Task' from the taskbar, but you have to turn it on yourself
- Bethesda registers a trademark for 'Starborn' after Todd Howard confirms more Starfield expansions are on the way
- Nvidia's reportedly scaling back RTX 40 series production by as much as 50% in preparation for the Blackwell RTX 50 launch
- AMD's Ryzen 9000-series CPUs may have been delayed because of a typo on the heatspreader, which is definitely not the sort of mistake I'd ever make
- Fallout: New Vegas designer slams unrealistic release dates that 'burn out and demoralize the developers' as he shares tips on how to spot when a game needs more time in the oven
- MIT researchers create a super-fast, super-tough, super-slidey transistor and claim that in '10 to 20 years from now could change the world'
- Remnant 2 announces plans for its 3rd DLC: The Dark Horizon—and it'll be chucking in a free game mode and 'progression system' to boot
- 'It's a soccer ball': Modders are already correcting Fallout: London's local lingo one sport at a time
- Intel has no plans to recall those crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs, hasn't halted sales, and the damage to affected chips may be permanent
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says he hasn't 'done a good enough job of hiding' the studio's next project, pretty much immediately confirms it's Borderlands
- Report claims that OpenAI has burned through $8.5 billion on AI training and staffing, and could be on track to make a $5 billion loss
- Mortal Kombat 1 is getting animalities, the T-1000, Conan, and Ghostface from Scream
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 29
- July 28
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- The Behemoth will update Castle Crashers, Battleblock Theater, and more
- Abstract factory-building sequel Shapez 2 will release in August
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 28
- Everyone gets a free feat and a more mechanically impactful background in D&D's 2024 Player's Handbook
- A surprise final episode of the Psychonauts 2 documentary series has dropped more than a year after its initial release
- Blizzard politely tells Hearthstone players their game isn't dead just because it's not getting a new cosmetic board this expansion
- July 27
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- Grand strategy fans gobsmacked by this outrageously detailed Holy Roman Empire map from the unannounced Europa Universalis 5
- If you want to talk about 'getting good,' one Elden Ring player has beaten Messmer the Impaler at level 1 without dodging, blocking, or getting hit a single time
- There was a guy dressed like an Assassin's Creed character doing parkour while carrying the Olympic Torch in Paris, which was somehow one of the tamer parts of the opening ceremony
- The Like a Dragon live action show's first trailer isn't giving the same vibe as the games, but it still might make for some great martial arts-infused noir
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 27
- A dairy-sponsored women's Fortnite tournament called 'The Milk Cup' is awarding 'the largest women's esports prize pool in North America' this year
- Activision secretly experimented on 50% of Call of Duty players by 'decreasing' skill-based matchmaking, and determined players like SBMM even if they don't know it
- July 26
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- Valley Peaks trades Getting Over It's frustration for cozy frog vibes, but keeps you climbing
- Every ARPG needs a good endgame, and for No Rest for the Wicked, it's a roguelite that just got a huge update
- Actors' union 'not happy' about GTA 6 strike exemption, but confirms it's in the contract: 'Insane, but it's there'
- Survival RTS Cataclismo added a sandbox mode, because sometimes we just want to make our silly little castles in peace
- After 3,878 days in early access, zombie survival game 7 Days to Die finally releases
- The grandest WoW guilds raced for a world first raid clear hinged on a new secret boss, and the winner was 'None of the Above'
- Date Everything is a dating sim with 100 fully voiced household objects to woo, such as a smoke alarm and a cabinet
- Scientists think there's a 10-mile-thick layer of diamond beneath the surface of Mercury, which would make you around 876 billion Minecraft pickaxes if my math is right
- My favorite indie answer to the Elder Scrolls, Dread Delusion, just got a surprise final content update—including a dungeon built inside the remains of a giant flying squid
- Japanese man gets jailed for repeated death and bomb threats that saw multiple Nintendo events cancelled, judge excoriates 'selfish motive' and 'persistent and vicious' behaviour
- A leaked document indicates Runway's Gen-3 AI video generation tool may have been trained on YouTube videos and copyrighted content without permission
- A final Borderlands film trailer is giving fans one last opportunity to dunk on it before it comes out: 'The first movie in 20 years to go straight to VHS'
- Steam is changing demos to be easier to find, easier to see, and easier to handle in your library
- Guilty Gear Strive's producer hints at further Cyberpunk: Edgerunners characters—or a continuation of Lucy's story from the anime—before clamming up to avoid spoilers
- Bing is experimenting with search pages that boot traditional results off to the side in favour of AI summaries, and the results are a bit of a mess
- Hard to believe but Secure Boot BIOS security has been compromised on hundreds of PC models from big brands because firmware engineers used four-letter passwords
- After an icy response to the D&D 2024 Ranger's proposed reliance on spells, lead rules designer Jeremy Crawford says don't worry, the spells should help
- Marvel Rivals is adding two new heroes before the end of the closed beta test: Thor, the god of thunder, and Jeff, a shark with legs
- Netflix's 'new regime' takes an axe to the BioShock movie's budget, so expect something 'much smaller' with a different point of view
- Google's AI solved four out of six problems in one of the world's hardest maths competitions, equivalent to a silver medal standard 'in a certain sense'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 26
- July 25
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- Videogame voice actors are officially on strike over AI: 'We refuse this paradigm'
- Hollywood billionaires Mario and Sonic now too good for the Olympic Games
- Earth Defense Force 6 gets review bombed on Steam over a surprise Epic account requirement when we should all be bombing giant bugs instead
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard will launch on Steam without the clutching, hateful tendrils of the EA app
- Blizzard is finally doing it: Overwatch 2 will try 6v6 again, reversing the single biggest change of the sequel
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Steam Deck verified, though we still don't know the system requirements
- Motordoom is a 'freestyle-sports roguelite horde shooter' about skeletons on motorcycles
- Fortnite players declare the Cybertruck public enemy number one: 'You are now in a truce with everyone else in the lobby until they're taken down'
- Baldur's Gate 3 modder creates its most hellish spell yell: On-demand testicular torsion
- Helldivers 2 takes a crack at the CrowdStrike outage as its Destroyers suffer from a systems update: 'Please manually reboot each affected computer 15 times'
- MrBeast 'disgusted' by grooming allegations aimed at channel co-host, removes her from 'any association with MrBeast' and hires investigators to look into the claims
- iFixit CEO takes shots at Anthropic for 'hitting our servers a million times in 24 hours' and even the AI company's own chatbot disapproves
- A big gameplay leak for Star Wars Outlaws has done wonders for my Ubisoft showcase fatigue—it's actually given me a new hope
- Google's now the only search engine that will show new Reddit posts in search results and it's somewhat AI's fault
- After crashing 8.5 million computers, CrowdStrike says sorry to its partners with a $10 Uber Eats gift card, which was also broken
- The Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 closed beta is live for invitees, now that Larian has fixed a critical bug: '[The] dice are now rolling'
- WoW players are already using the new Warbands system for its true purpose: Memes and transmog flexing
- An Elden Ring speedrunner has a $10,000 reward for the fastest Shadow of the Erdtree completion at level 1 with limited Scadutree levels and DLC weapons only
- Stalker 2 has been hit with another delay, pushing the release date back to November to 'fix more unexpected anomalies'
- Bleak report alleges that Activision already has an AI-generated cosmetic in Call of Duty—with artists reportedly 'forced to use AI to aid in their work' and pushed into outsourcing
- After Life by You's disastrous end, Paradox chalks up a 90% drop in operating profit for Q2: 'We end the second quarter of the year with mixed feelings'
- Tekken 8 director spends months insisting 'Heihachi Mishima is completely dead' before giggling and unveiling him as the newest DLC character anyway
- Nvidia's share price drops along with other AI firms, but all is peachy as they collectively remain some of the most valuable companies on the planet
- An official app for PS VR2 on PC has just been listed on Steam
- Phantom Blade Zero devs say its interconnected world is 'like the Souls games before Elden Ring'—which has turned my interest into attention
- Blizzard mends rift with Whoopi Goldberg at Whoopi Goldberg-themed weed event as Diablo 4's Lilith presents star with 'key to hell'
- Take note, Call of Duty fans: This AU$95 NBN plan can download 150GB in around four minutes
- DLC-sized Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London will be out tomorrow, 'Unless nuclear war happens'
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 25
- The latest round of absurd Baldur's Gate 3 mods include a better Bing Bong and mankinis for the boys
- July 24
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- Dungeons and Kingdoms is an upcoming game that's about exactly what it sounds like: dungeon crawling and kingdom management
- Blizzard's World of Warcraft team has unionized
- AMD delays Ryzen 9000-series retail launch by a couple of weeks after discovering an issue with the first batch of chips
- Sony hero shooter Concord will not have a battle pass: 'You own Concord, Concord doesn't own you'
- The worst part of the new Apex Legends battle pass plan is being reversed
- The 'Skibidi Toilet multiverse' is 'absolutely in talks' to become a TV and movie series from Michael Bay
- The strangest game I've played this year can confuse and horrify you, too, in September
- I cannot get enough of the swarming tyranids in Space Marine 2 videos
- The First Descendant executes total U-turn on the promise of endless loot caves, blames 'mistranslation' and weirdly insists 'there have been no reversals'
- People are making mini Fractal Design cases for their Raspberry Pi and it's making me wish I owned a 3D printer so I could do the same
- Twitch policy update clarifies exactly what it means by 'sexual harassment'
- Monty Python is the next Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair crossover, in a trend that feels increasingly like Hasbro has a board full of IPs and a box full of darts
- It's official: International Olympic Committee votes to confirm the first Olympic Esports Games will happen in 2025, even if they don't know the games yet
- Mark Zuckerberg launches Meta's latest AI model, moans about Apple being mean and imagines a future of AI bots commenting on each other's social media posts
- Modder creates Hitman 3's ultimate weapon: A portable, inflatable toilet you can deploy anywhere to drown your targets in
- Old School RuneScape thrillseeker risks a 370-hour old no-hit account against 63 waves of monsters to try and claim a cape forged in flames
- The Sims 4 latest patch notes open the doors to polyamorous relationships and a life free of jealousy
- US, UK, and EU finally come together to prevent AI monopoly (catastrophic market failure, not the game)
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch may have dug up the graves of deleted characters—including my ancient shaman with a hearthstone that killed me
- Warframe's upcoming 1999 expansion adds a romance system, and it's all thanks to Baldur's Gate 3
- AMD is already prepping a 3nm update to its new Zen 5 CPUs
- 13 years later, this bonkers third-person shooter collab between Suda51 and the creator of Resident Evil is finally coming to PC
- Ubisoft attempted to address historical 'authenticity' issues in Assassin's Creed Shadows and just made the whole situation worse
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 24
- Here's a free walking sim about cryptid investigation that's dripping with early 2000s vibes, complete with fake forums
- July 23
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- Marvel's Overwatch-style hero shooter has players scrambling to log in and push a payload as their favorite superheroes
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 comes to Game Pass this week
- Yet another Google web service bites the dust in August when 'goo.gl' links will stop working
- Super Earth grants free mechs to all Helldivers 2 players in celebration of a last-minute Major Order victory
- The developers of this new micro-tactics roguelite RPG say it's 'small in scale, grand in depth'
- A Google Doodle animator is my new favorite Elden Ring lore theorist thanks to this cartoon retelling of Shadow of the Erdtree set to a Taylor Swift song
- An Elden Ring streamer killed Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss in one hit and only needed to juggle 5 consumables, 3 weapons, 4 helmets, and 5 talismans to do it
- Humble Games says it's 'restructuring,' employees say its entire staff has been laid off
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev says it's Larian's philosophy to 'fuel and reward' player creativity: 'They found a way to exploit the game, let them have it, it's awesome'
- Valve shuffles some crates around on beloved Counter-Strike map, some fans react like it shot Old Yeller: 'The more I think of this, the more upset I am'
- The trials of a billionaire Bond villain: Oculus founder Palmer Luckey sues after getting stuck in a car elevator in the mansion he bought just to store cars
- Ubisoft's live-service pirate sim Skull and Bones pulls into port on Steam this August
- 'Our resolve is unwavering and should not be tested': Major union SAG-AFTRA breaks glass on big red strike button as negotiations continue on voice actor AI protections
- Former EA devs are making a 3v3 basketball game without all the 'GM modes and micromanagement and opening packs' of modern pro sports games
- Helldivers 2 announces a massive new update: The Escalation of Freedom, bringing over 3 new enemy types, fresh objectives, a new difficulty, and votekick protection
- Call yourself a bass head? Walk around wearing a pair of Ol' Thumpy headphones, I dare you
- I downloaded Intel's new AI Playground beta and may have finally found something Arc is honestly good at
- Tesla will roll out 'genuinely useful' humanoid robots to factory floor next year says Musk
- Google has changed its mind about dropping support for third-party cookies in Chrome, after years of trying to make it happen
- Intel finally breaks silence, points finger at 'microcode algorithm' voltage errors, and says it's going to patch Core 13th/14th Gen CPU stability issues mid-August
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 23
- ColdRidge is a cowboy exploration game that's like playing just the exciting first turns of a Civilization campaign
- July 22
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- My favourite PC gamepad with drift-proof analog sticks is heavily discounted right now
- Despite its magic and monsters, Dungeons of Hinterberg's developers 'wanted to show a real place' that could explore 'all the layers' of overtourism
- Your Dragon Age: The Veilguard character can be voiced by the guy who did all the Baldur's Gate 3 sex noises
- Warner Bros acquires MultiVersus devs as it shifts focus to free-to-play
- Stardew Valley creator swears 'on the honor of my family name' that he'll never charge money for DLC
- Google claims it's been able to simulate 'self-replicating' digital life, but its 'primordial soup' needs a pinch of salt
- Who needs College Football 25? The 'fastest growing sport' in the US is now a PC game
- Epic's bringing the joy of mocking a passing Cybertruck to Fortnite
- AMD RDNA 4 info leak confirms RT performance is getting boosted but could fall short of a major hardware redesign
- Modiphius has announced the year's most obscure tabletop RPG adaptation
- This is not a typo: The world's fastest gaming monitor may well be this ancient IIyama CRT unit, pushed to 700 Hz at a glorious 120p resolution
- It's not just Windows PCs that have gone belly up, as CrowdStrike's Falcon software has been b0rking Linux-powered computers, too
- Microsoft says 8.5 million devices were affected by the CrowdStrike bug or 'less than one percent of all Windows devices' as new details emerge on Friday's tech meltdown
- Heads up, Arcane fans: Riot's released a new season two teaser, and preorders are up for the fancy Blu-ray of season one
- Publishers 'eject too soon' on their live service games, says Warframe developer's CEO: 'It comes out, doesn’t work and they throw it away'
- Nvidia's third-party RTX 40-series GPUs are losing performance over time thanks to rubbish factory-installed thermal paste
- The First Descendant players have discovered a Destiny-style loot cave but, rather than 'simply nerfing certain content', the devs are leaning in
- Astarion's voice actor says it'd be 'awesome' to play the character again after Baldur's Gate 3: 'Live action, game … advert for grape juice, I don't know'
- Smaller and faster Windows 11 updates are on the way as Microsoft switches to downloading just what you need and none of what you don't
- No E, just the P—Intel quietly launches Raptor Lake Rekked for the embedded market
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 22
- Here's a game that combines jigsaw puzzles with arithmetic problems to great success
- July 21
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- Conscript is an old school survival horror game where the horror is just that you're in World War 1
- PowerWash Simulator keeps on giving, with two nautical maps chosen by the community coming to the people's champ in a free update
- Orcs Must Die's next entry will bring a roguelite twist next year
- Guilty Gear Strive is getting Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners as a guest fighter next year
- More than 10 years after its creation, massive Russian Oblivion mod Citadel of Madness has been translated into English
- D&D's new 2024 Player's Handbook will have 10 species to choose from including goliaths, and drow will be closer to their Baldur's Gate 3 version
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 21
- The Polish Witcher comics from the '90s where Geralt has terrible hair are being translated into English
- July 20
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- I've found the best Prime Day gaming laptop deal — this MSI with RTX 4060 is a steal at AU$1,199
- TennoCon's Warframe: 1999 demo reveals '90s instant messenger clients, motorcycle stunts, and an Infested space mutant boy band
- Microsoft responds to the FTC, argues its Game Pass price hike is actually a good deal for gamers because the new cheapest tier includes multiplayer now
- Great news: Soulframe will have customizable moms
- A Baldur's Gate 3 player has discovered hidden mini-quests you can only get by leaving the most important items in the game in an exploding building or at the bottom of the ocean
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 20
- The only thing I want this Prime Day is the official Stardew Valley cookbook
- Overwatch 2's new space girl healer takes the throne as one of the most strategically satisfying heroes in the game
- Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers
- College Football 25 is having a big moment on consoles, but like usual, EA decided PC gamers are an afterthought
- July 19
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- The creator of this Bigfoot game is considering changing Bigfoot's face after commenters said it's too human-like, but I'm entranced by it
- Once Human developer teases the first big update, apologizes for the last bad patch
- I don't play Counter-Strike 2, but I do follow this CS2 player dedicated to finding weird mistakes and 'bomb stuck' spots on Valve's maps
- The open beta for Throne and Liberty, Amazon's latest MMO import, is available now
- The creators of cyberpunk bartending sim VA-11 Hall-A are following it up with an amazing-looking 'active time action' RPG
- Twitch unbans Donald Trump: 'We believe there is value in hearing from Presidential nominees directly'
- Hideki Kamiya asks Capcom to let him make Okami 2 and Viewtiful Joe 3: 'Creators have the duty to create sequels fans want to see… I still feel like I haven't fulfilled my duty'
- A furry hacktivist group has breached Disney, leaked 1.1TiB of data, and says it's because Club Penguin shut down
- Somehow, the 11-year-old niche mil-sim Arma 3 managed to sell nearly 700,000 copies during the Steam Summer Sale
- Mix a little Obsidian into your CDPR with this mod that adds a full-blown reputation system to The Witcher 3
- PC Gamer does not beat rock in this viral AI-driven rock-paper-scissors browser game where a dead dog beats John Wick, low gravity beats bazookas, and me on a bad day beats Margit, the Fell Omen
- 'Cozy exploration meets true crime' on horseback is the MMO I didn’t know I wanted
- FTC says I told you judge, I warned you bro, as it unloads on Microsoft for Game Pass price hikes and 'a degraded product' that it says break promises made to seal the Activision merger
- 33,700,000 motherboards expected to ship in 2024, signaling the end of the PC market's dry spell
- The misfiring Halo TV series has been cancelled just as the Chief actually found a Halo ring
- The CrowdStrike IT outage is pretty grim but let's hope it's not as bad as the infamous Dyn DDoS attack, Facebook mega-crash, and Rogers network disaster
- CrowdStrike CEO apologises for global IT outage that has seen planes grounded, health services halted and the BSOD appearing in oh so many places it shouldn't
- Do temps matter no more? Next-gen Intel desktop CPUs might run as hot as Meteor Lake laptop chips
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 19
- Devolver announces Forestrike, a kung fu roguelike where you can plan your moves in advance
- July 18
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- Despite its relaxing pastels and quaint mountain village, Dungeons of Hinterberg is pushing against the confines of cozy games
- Comics giant Dark Horse says it won't use AI art or writing, is instead 'committed to supporting human creative professionals'
- Team Fortress 2's summer update adds new maps, taunts, Unusual effects, and more 'security and stability improvements'
- The Sims 4 is finally ending my Create-A-Sim suffering with this new time-saving menu option
- Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred's director says they made a brand new class that's 'very fresh for what people want' instead of just making paladins again
- The First Descendant changes Destiny 2 lookalike icons, but Nexon still won't say how they ended up in the game
- Asked if it plans to delay Star Wars Outlaws over negative YouTube comments, Ubisoft says no: 'I think people will love it'
- Overwatch has managed to snag a whopping 100 million players in 8 years and is slapping your terrible K/D ratio into a fun montage to celebrate
- Splitgate 2 is coming in 2025 with a big promise from the developers: 'This is a revolutionary step forward for competitive shooters'
- Sega identifies harasser making 'excessive slanderous and insulting comments' towards one of its staff, sues them into oblivion, and says if anyone wants to try the same it's their funeral
- Overwatch 2's new support hero Juno joins the roster in August, but you can play her for free this weekend
- Mr. DIMM, why do you have so many chips? Micron's new monstrous multi-rank memory doubles DDR5 speed to 8,800 MT/s
- Counter-Strike co-creator says he's happy they sold the game to Valve—'They have done a great job of maintaining the legacy'
- AMD's tweaked RDNA 3.5 GPU is solely focused on improving mobile gaming performance
- Dyson's humongous ANC headphones look great for Princess Leia impressions from the side, but from the front, I'm not convinced
- China is dispatching crack teams of AI interrogators to make sure its corporations' chatbots are upholding 'core socialist values'
- Russian antivirus giant Kaspersky says do svidaniya to US customers with 6 months of free software: 'stay safe'
- I've never been interested in League of Legends but its new Vampire Survivors mode might be the thing that kickstarts my esports career
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: World of Warcraft: The War Within
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 18
- July 17
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- Walton Goggins earns an 'Outstanding Actor' Emmy nomination for playing a sexy noseless mutant in Fallout
- Apex Legends suffers close to 30,000 negative Steam reviews in one week as the battle pass bombing campaign continues
- Amazon Prime members have until midnight Pacific to get one of my favorite games for free
- The VFX company behind that Dead Island reveal trailer we all obsessed over in 2011 is shutting down
- Hearthstone players go into meltdown as Blizzard confirms the next expansion won't have a new cosmetic board
- Tabletop game forumite achieves posting godhood, emerging from the void after 100,000 hour 11 year ban to continue the same argument from 2013
- Turns out it's possible to cause a nuclear meltdown in a Minecraft server, even after a real-life nuclear technician has given you their stamp of approval
- No Man's Sky goes 5.0 with a sweeping tech update that's 'adding things the community has almost given up hope on ever happening'
- Join me as I build a wicked gaming PC for ~$1,000 out of Prime Day sale parts
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 17
- I've been coveting this absurdly expensive AU$735 wireless gaming headset, and its Prime Day discount almost makes it affordable
- July 16
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- CD Projekt's Pawel Sasko tells the inspiring tale of how an Estonian beet farmer in Australia became a senior quest designer on The Witcher 4
- Larian isn't done with Baldur's Gate 3 yet: 'We still have a few things up our sleeve' after Patch 7 goes live
- Space Marine 2 studio says the leaked build is nearly a year old, urges people not to play it: 'It's disheartening that many of the surprises we worked to keep secret were spoiled'
- Manor Lords dev confirms that he's 'working on fishing ponds for the next update' which should only take a 'few weeks'
- Russian antivirus giant Kaspersky leaves the US after two decades, slams the 'theoretical concerns' that led to it being banned
- 'The cherry on the top' for Fallout: London is having the robotic Speaker of the House played by a former Speaker of the House
- Tom & Jerry meets Rimworld in this complex city builder that's all about throwing off the yoke of feline tyranny
- Steam has discounted a ton of the best fighting games just in time for one of the biggest tournaments of the year
- Yoshi-P is just as confused about Final Fantasy 14 players being horny for a two-headed lizard as I am: 'I would never have guessed this'
- Genshin Impact voice actors criticize design of new character named after African deity: 'If you're going to use real-world deities, respect them'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 16
- July 15
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- Dolphin emulator launches RetroAchievements support for more than 100 classic GameCube games, crashing its servers in the process
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta kicks off in August, and this time PlayStation players aren't getting in ahead of the rest of us
- Yikes: a full build of Space Marine 2 has seemingly leaked online almost 2 full months before release
- I didn't expect my favorite cozy MMO to do a crossover with a Finnish children's series
- The Witcher 4 is in the 'most advanced' state of development among all the games currently underway at CD Projekt, ahead of The Witcher remake and Cyberpunk 2
- The Splitgate studio is teasing something new, and it sure looks like more Splitgate
- Cyberpunk 2 director says CP 2077's catastrophic launch 'crushed' the developers and the subsequent redemption arc was basically 'group therapy'
- Ken Levine says Bioshock was 'almost cancelled' after going over time and over budget, while all publishers cared about was that these games 'don't make any money'
- Fallout: London won't be available for Epic Games Store players initially thanks to Bethesda's mod-breaking update
- This leaked screenshot may be our first glimpse of BioShock 4, and it sure looks like a BioShock game
- 'We can't stay here': Larian CEO opens up about relocating Russian developers otherwise, 'all of my team was going to go to war'
- Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke says that all the awards actually started to obstruct development: 'It is surprisingly draining on the soul'
- Facepunch Studios is celebrating its 15th birthday and throwing a huge half-off sale to celebrate it
- Get ready to cook and explore at the same time in wholesome metroidvania Magical Delicacy
- Despite its 'mixed' user rating on Steam, The First Descendant has racked up over 10 million players in its first week
- Double Dragon Revive promises a refresh of the venerable beat 'em up in 2025
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 15
- Looks like Journey to the Savage Planet is getting a sequel
- If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds
- July 14
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- My favorite weapon from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is even more powerful than I thought, letting you completely juke legendary boss Malenia's Waterfowl Dance
- Black Desert Online is introducing a mammoth-size 'War of the Roses' PvP mode for duking it out with 599 of your closest friends
- A heap of award-winning indie games are currently on sale at Steam
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 14
- We may have lost Piranha Bytes, but at least Eurojank RPG Greedfall 2 is still on the way, announcing early access will begin in September
- Court documents show that not only is Valve a fraction the size of companies like EA or Ubisoft, it's smaller than a lot of triple-A developers
- July 13
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- Star Citizen is free this week, if you'd like to try it
- It's rare for a pixel art throwback to really wow me these days, but a hybrid action-JRPG where you collect magical octopus friends to cast spells might just fit the bill
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 13
- Concord's persistent deployables have players building makeshift forts out of healing pads, shields, and walls
- July 12
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- Magic: The Gathering's next main set is going full Watership Down
- Former Bungie lead counsel explains how the studio nailed one of Destiny 2's most infamous leakers
- Prepare to hear opinions: Concord's first beta is live now
- Larian CEO Swen Vincke says there were only two other RPG series he was interested in working on if he couldn't get Baldur's Gate: Fallout and Ultima
- The first-ever Olympic Esports Games are coming in 2025, and of course they're being held in Saudi Arabia
- New Helldivers 2 major order offers the chance to divide Automaton forces—fighting a war on two fronts being a famously winning tactic
- The First Descendant will change its in-game icons following accusations that it swiped them from Destiny 2
- It looks like AMD is racing Intel to production of chips on glass substrates for faster, more efficient processors
- Indika publisher, Frostpunk dev to donate $50,000 to 'support Ukrainian kids' in wake of Russian missile strike on the country's biggest children's hospital
- Deep Rock Galactic now has its own official heavy metal song, called—you guessed it—Rock and Stone
- Dino survival game developer is switching all its servers to AMD 'which experience 100 times fewer crashes compared to Intel' because it's 'only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail'
- Manor Lords publisher doubles down on protecting devs as CEO says 'developer sustainability' is more important than 'any perpetual growth'
- Microsoft's latest speech generator is so good it's afraid to release it to the public
- 'The repeated targeting of individual team members needs to stop': OldSchool Runescape devs firmly ask players to cool it over Tormented Demon loot tables
- Under fire after OnlyFans leak, Twitch streamer Sketch posts apology for a past that doesn't really need one: 'That was a dark time, [a] rough time'
- To celebrate 50 years of D&D, Royal Mail is selling monster stamps you can keep in a mimic's mouth
- Persona 4 Golden mod turns it back into your granddaddy's Shin Megami Tensei, fixing the gravest aesthetic crime of its non-PS2 version
- Chrome beats all comers in web browser drag race, never mind the memory footprint and privacy problems
- The Outlast Trials' new major update has given a deranged killer a shotgun because all the melee opponents weren't hard enough
- You can pick up the best Star Wars RPG ever made on the most forgettable launcher ever made for free if you're a Prime Gaming sub
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch is coming soon—alongside Warbands, a quality-of-life game changer that lets you share rep, gear, and currencies across your alts
- PC sales are finally on the up again as Lenovo tightens its grip on the top spot in the charts while Dell takes a dip
- Researchers create Dune-like pee-pants for the next generation of astronauts and maybe even wealthy, overly 'dedicated' gamers
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 12
- The TMNT roguelike that basically looks like a co-op Hades and was previously announced for Switch is coming to Steam as well
- This Witcher 3 mod that lets you play as a custom character or a whole new sorceress class is super promising, but maybe wait a few months for it to iron out the kinks
- July 11
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- The designer of mobile hits Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride is making a deep-sea Lovecraftian horror game
- You don't lose all your progress when a Once Human season ends—here's how the survival game's server resets work
- Deathbound is a 'party-based soulslike,' but everyone in the party lives inside you
- Throwback Zombies-style shooter Hellbreach: Vegas drops an updated demo to announce the full launch coming in August
- 'Not a hoax!'—Valve writers confirm the official Team Fortress 2 comic will continue, after over 7 years on ice
- Tencent's free-to-play co-op shooter Synced is closing just a year after it launched
- Planet Coaster 2's announcement promises 'gripping rides, spectacular slides', but I can't wait to see what ungodly contraptions the community makes
- It's 2024 and yet Intel is still churning out DUAL CORE CPUs for desktop PCs, and I'm a little in awe of the plucky trooper
- Less than 6 months later, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be free to download and keep for Prime subscribers—though you'll only have 48 hours to snag it
- The actor behind Shadow of the Erdtree's best NPC didn't think videogame voice acting was all that until 'mysterious' Miyazaki opened his eyes
- Alright, who wants to spot me $1,000 for this absurdly sumptuous Elden Ring lore book?
- Bear sex 'a watershed moment in game history', says Baldur's Gate 3 writer
- The Tony Blair Insitute 'did not simply ask ChatGPT for the results' of its AI impact report, it trained its own version of ChatGPT instead
- Fallout: London is waving goodbye to the next-gen update as the modders realise it 'isn't stable enough' at the 11th hour
- Rechristened 'Let Me Solo Them,' Elden Ring's greatest hero has overcome his first-time jitters and is now clowning on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss
- The maverick animators behind the WoW Classic trailers put together a rad-as-hell montage of an Azeroth turned destruction derby
- Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat
- Arm has developed a new shader-based upscaler using AMD's open source FSR 2.2 as its starting base
- Darktide's next update promises a complete overhaul of weapon progression: 'We took the philosophy with this game to not be afraid of doing quite massive changes'
- As WoW returns to China, NetEase has placed a $14,000 bounty on reports that see cheat peddlers punished by law
- FF14 player counts around 21 hours of cutscenes in Dawntrail—making it the second longest expansion next to Endwalker—and I can't for the life of me tell you why
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 11
- July 10
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- Whether or not we'll see a penis in Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a spoiler, apparently
- Riot was working on a Smash Bros-style fighting game, but MultiVersus helped convince it to pull the plug
- Surprise! Dota 2 has a built-in fighting game now and it actually looks pretty good
- Star Wars Outlaws' maps won't initially be blanketed in Ubisoft's infamous map icons because your character Kay 'hasn't seen the galaxy' and 'doesn't know everything' yet
- You can now add Fortnite to the list of things someone has put Doom into
- Ubisoft says a Star Wars Outlaws planet is the size of '2 or 3' Assassin's Creed Odyssey map zones put together, which takes about 5 minutes 'nonstop' on a speeder to cross
- PVKK's full title is literally too big for our website, and the devs say it's 'Space Invaders, but the cannon you fire is really complicated'
- Ubisoft apologizes for using a real-life reenactment group's flag in Assassin's Creed Shadows concept art without permission
- After fans declared total war on Total War, Creative Assembly completes the apology tour with a major free expansion for Pharaoh this month
- Bioshock 4 studio is now 'recruiting like mad' but the game's nature remains a mystery
- Intel reportedly won't make any cheaper GPU-less 'F' spec versions of its top Arrow Lake CPUs
- 'Our artists draw thousands of sketches': Palworld's CEO, seemingly exhausted by AI art accusations, once more tries to put them to bed
- The latest Windows update means Notepad might now be my favourite word processor
- Palworld announces merch after a new partnership with Sony Music, and I'm praying to Jormuntide Ignis that means plushies
- Why TSMC's 4nm silicon will make or break Intel's new Battlemage GPUs
- Fan effort to recreate the lost Fallout 3 we never got from the original devs gets a big update, goes open-source, and you can finally find it on Nexus Mods
- Baldur's Gate 3's spell tooltips have been lying to you for (potentially) months, though if you've been running off the % chance to hit, you're just fine
- Samsung workers union is calling for an indefinite strike, to which the bosses claim there will infeasibly be 'no disruptions' to production
- Setting every registry value to zero in Windows 10 breaks most features—but Paint and WordPad cling on until the very last
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 10
- In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, your companions earn skill points as you rank up their 'Relationship Level'
- New free-to-play survival game Once Human isn't basking in praise, but it does have an unnecessarily granular character creator with no guard rails
- PC Game Pass is getting a $2 price hike this September, but consoles will be hit harder
- July 9
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- SteamDB's browser extension now lets you claim Steam discovery queue rewards without actually looking at your Steam discovery queue
- 'It's time to rebuild some foundations': Shadowlands forced Blizzard to rethink World of Warcraft's oldest ideas to make it a better MMO, director says
- Iizuka says Shadow the Hedgehog wasn't inspired by Vegeta, but fans have receipts that say otherwise
- Somehow, Suicide Squad biffs it again: Just 2 days before it was set to go live, season 2 is delayed
- Apex Legends gets the ol' Steam review bomb treatment
- Bungie is making a drastic change in response to player complaints about timegating in Destiny 2
- Konami releases Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on GOG but bizarrely stops the Japanese game being sold in Japan
- Helldivers CEO wants to keep the 'T-pose of democracy' fall damage bug: 'We'll add inflatable bouncy bags that deploy from under your armpits or some sh*t if we have to'
- Overwatch 2's Transformers collaboration is a dream come true for Blizzard Korea's lead concept artist: 'The coolest gift I could give my childhood self'
- Baldur's Village, the Stardew Valley/BG3 mash-up mod that lets you kiss Astarion, has a new update and potential release window
- The Helldivers smash their latest MO and for some reason have taken against anti-tank mines, but 'can finally go back to killing bugs in good conscience'
- The First Descendant's tutorial robot is talking so fast, players are having to screenshot its dialogue just to learn about the game
- Spelunky creator comes out against god modes in brutal games like his because 'The amount of satisfaction one gets from succeeding eventually is incredible'
- 'Nvidia is slowly becoming the IBM of the AI era' says Jim Keller, perhaps forgetting how short-lived IBM's PC monopoly was
- The Baldur's Gate 3 council of sages (or Larian Studios, if you want to be boring) meets on holy ground to discuss 'lift off' for its next big game
- 50 million downloads in less than a week: Zenless Zone Zero, MiHoYo's action-RPG gacha, is (unsurprisingly) popular
- 'I hope Miyazaki is proud of me': After 325 deaths and a 7-hour bossfight slog, streamer fulfils prophecy and beats Shadow of the Erdtree with a dance pad
- League of Legends game director asks the community how players who throw games should be punished: 'Immediately or some lenience?'
- FF14 players skip over perfectly serviceable catboy to thirst relentlessly over a giant, two-headed lizard jerk instead
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 9
- July 8
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- Elden Ring mod finally lets you wear Ranni as a demigod backpack like the true consort you are
- Sony's hero shooter Concord reveals PC system requirements ahead of two weekend beta tests
- Elden Ring players team up as 'let us duo her' to spin kick its most infamous boss so fast she can't move
- The First Descendant contains icons from Destiny 2, and one theory about how they got there is a reminder that not everything on the internet is what it purports to be
- Apex Legends announces 'improved' battle pass structure that actually sucks for players, removes option to pay with in-game currency
- Embracer has reportedly closed Elex developer Piranha Bytes as former creative director announces a new indie studio
- Google's AI visionary says we'll 'expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045' thanks to nanobots, the tech will resurrect the dead, and we're all going to live forever
- Parrying god defeats the hardest boss in Sekiro without moving, admits 'I really need a DLC'
- Multiple governments around the world have secretly agreed to restrict the export of quantum computers
- Helldivers 2 players realise you can survive ludicrous falls by doing a Hug emote while flying through the air
- 'The end is in sight'—Fallout: London, a DLC-sized mod plagued by delays, will arrive soon with its own installer to help slim the chances of Bethesda breaking it a 2nd time
- An infamous dataset of leaked login details, updated last week, now houses 9,948,575,739 passwords and poses the biggest threat to our online security ever
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty couldn't have been as good 'if the initial reception of the game wasn’t as negative', says lead quest designer
- Hooded Horse CEO hits back at claims that Manor Lords slipped up in early access: 'Not every game should be aimed at becoming some live service boom or bust'
- Rip the display off a laptop, snap its keyboard in the middle, and you've got this portable PC you can stick in a pocket
- 'Very few' people would play a Morrowind-style RPG with 'no compass, no map' and a reliance on quest text, says ESO director, 'which is kind of sad'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 8
- July 7
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- Tend a cozy garden and stave off corruption, with the help of some cool gnomes, in Horticular
- Besiege's watery expansion will get a patch adding new missions, giant sharks, tentacled horrors of the deep
- Here's a game where you're a fantasy dungeon's put-upon janitor
- Nintendo becomes the biggest company in the games industry—and maybe the world—to say 'no, thank you' to using generative AI
- Witcher 3 mod restores cut boat-racing quests
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 7
- The next Transformers game will be a combat-racing roguelite
- July 6
- July 5
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- Oh no, Rust just added my least favorite item from DayZ: handcuffs
- Marvel Snap's new Deadpool trailer accidentally included a phone number leading to a fishy 'free medical alert device' promotion that I'm pretty sure is a scam
- Satisfactory 1.0 is finally out in September with two megaton changes: easier-to-manufacture computers and flushable toilets
- After a year of competitive dino survival, Capcom ends new updates for Exoprimal
- Factorio's big Space Age expansion arrives in October and it's going to be even bigger than we thought
- Peanut Butter the dog finishes Ken Griffey Jr speedrun at SGDQ with a walk-off home run in extra innings
- Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection
- Steamy 'Overwatch cabaret club' where you can pay to have women fall asleep on voice chat with you gets obliterated, is immediately replaced by even steamier Apex version
- 'It was so much of a cash cow': Former GTA 5 dev implies ill-fated Agent Trevor DLC was sacrificed at the altar of GTA Online
- Dataminer unearths 'cut' voicelines from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's stoic final boss
- Here's your reminder how close AMD came to financial collapse and just how much we owe to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
- All Genshin Impact codes from the 4.8 livestream
- Microsoft patents a technique to display encrypted documents so only you can see them
- An ambitious Starfield mod that sought to bring Elder Scrolls to a single planet has been canned, but the modders insist that it wasn't a joke: 'The project was genuine'
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players are baffled by proposed changes to Viper, a job that's existed for less than week, and honestly so am I
- The Game Boy Camera can now be used as a webcam, providing 16,000 pixels of grainy black and white glory
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 5
- July 4
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- Summer Games Done Quick is restricting access to one of tonight's events 'to provide the most comfortable environment' for the speedrunner, because the speedrunner is a dog
- Escape From Tarkov studio Battlestate Games has put a bounty on cheaters
- Strap a gun to a giant bird and fly the fantasy skies in the latest free game from the Epic Store
- Brainiac was right: Freeze is coming to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League next week, but it may not be quite who you were expecting
- Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM
- Obsidian says Larian's experience let it knock Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer out of the park, but it wouldn't have been possible for Avowed
- Final Fantasy 14's director confirms that no, Pictomancers weren't meant to manually remove their own buffs for a 1% DPS increase—outlines other job changes for patch 7.01 of Dawntrail
- David Hasselhoff cracks out the old leather jacket and KITT from Knight Rider to tell gamers to 'grab your joysticks' and fight global warming
- Tekken director says that the fighters 'are all like my children' and if players keep pestering him about favourites he'll 'charge you tuition for lectures'
- Obsidian went back and made Avowed's combat 'more juicy' because we all collectively winced at its underwhelming first showcase
- Excellent news—Apple Vision Pro headsets can no longer be filled with VR spiders
- FTC fires out warnings to ASRock, Gigabyte and Zotac over 'Warranty void if removed' stickers in violation of US law
- There's a new ray tracing benchmark in town and it paints an all-too-familiar picture of today's GPUs
- 'We have won the war on floppy disks!' Japan finally declares independence from floppy media
- The first Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree patch nerfs the boss-melting explosive perfumes into the ground
- The father of Final Fantasy loves FF14 so much, fellow devs at his studio have had to log on sometimes to say 'hey, the meeting's started'
- Someone has slowly been modding Naruto games to give a character his father's eyes—who knows why, but we're at 5 and counting
- Who wants a Watch Dogs film? Too bad, you're getting one anyway
- Go farruk yourself: Creator of the D&D setting used for Baldur's Gate 3 teaches us how to cuss
- Elden Ring's 1.12.3 patch notes blame third party mouse apps and unintentional ray tracing settings for performance issues
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 4
- July 3
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- The final Steam playtest for fantasy extraction game Dungeonborne attracts thousands of eager adventurers
- Attention former RuneScape preteens: You owe it to yourselves to hear this official metal cover of the RuneScape theme
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's difficulty options will let you turn off death entirely
- In this satirical city builder, your goal is to convert walkable cities into parking lots and use propaganda to convince everyone it's what they want
- After seeing this handheld pixel filter prism on Twitter, I'm haunted by an insatiable urge to pixelate everything in my home
- Temtem veterans are working on a Breath of the Wild-inspired narrative survival game for 1-4 players, set to arrive later this year
- Dead Space x Battlefield 2042 crossover event looks fun, even if it isn't quite what Dead Space fans have been hoping for
- Google's dumb AI answers increased its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 50% in the last 5 years
- The 'historical adventure' game that lets you ground pound an ogre is free on GOG
- UK man imprisoned for 4 months after walking up to cops wielding 6-inch Master Sword
- Bethesda mistakenly rips art from Fallout: Nuka Break creator but manages to remedy the situation: 'So does this mean I'm officially a shill?'
- D&D's lead rules designer admits he changed some spells because of how 'painful' and 'excruciating to cast' they were in Baldur's Gate 3
- Helldivers 2's latest major order has everyone so curious about a mysterious interplanetary battle station, 4/5ths of all online players are handling it as I write this headline
- Beware: The latest Windows 11 update might just trap you in a boot loop of virtualised doom
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree robs one player as the final boss bugs into a wall and then just dies: 'I was enjoying it too'
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players warn side-questers: don't solve these riddles for an NPC that blabs a big spoiler right before it happens
- Let Me Solo Her adds fashion icon to his resume as Star Wars showrunner credits 'Elden Bling' for the design of The Acolyte's villainous Sith
- Oh for goodness' sake—D&D has early access periods and pre-order bonuses now, like a 3D model of a dragon for a virtual tabletop that doesn't exist yet
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 3
- July 2
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- Just 3 months after launching Tales of Kenzera: Zau, developer Surgent Studios lays off 'just over a dozen' employees
- Polyamory is coming to The Sims 4 for free alongside the Lovestruck expansion pack this month
- Xbox Live's 'major outage' is fixed, but we still don't know what went wrong
- Stardew Valley players on Steam Deck can test out the new Nexus Mods app
- Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett explains why she signed up for the Borderlands film: 'A touch of Covid madness'
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree players are sleepwalking through bossfights with the DLC's silly, pointy shields
- Catholic Church prepares to canonise its first gamer saint—and yep, one of his favourites was Halo
- The BBC dons its game dev cap to combine 2 things I fear and don't understand: The UK General Election and Roblox
- Lethal Company's next update introduces monsters that'll kidnap you and cut you up as well as its first and only vehicle
- The most popular RTX 40-series GPU on Steam is in a gaming laptop, not a graphics card
- Don't sweat it—Zenless Zone Zero's system requirements demand nothing more than a ten-year old GPU and 8 GB of RAM
- Palia developer Singularity 6 is now part of the Daybreak Game Company
- Mortal Kombat player wins $565, celebrates by breaking a light fixture worth $3,000
- Capcom's somehow come up with the *deep breath* Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Digital Deluxe edition
- The Beyond Good and Evil remaster settles 20 years of debate over Jade's parentage in a new prequel tie-in sidequest
- Capcom announces the next mainline Resident Evil is in development, and the great news is it's being helmed by Resident Evil 7's director
- Nvidia could face antitrust charges in France as 'the risk of abuse by chip providers' scrutinised by competition authority
- This WoW player who clicks their skills is probably better than you—hunter Durendil solos yet another raid boss armed with a spreadsheet and raw grit
- Elden Ring maestro plays a saxophone to style on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, wins battle of the bands in 'a dozen attempts'
- Samsung was either feeling generous or someone messed up big time when it temporarily slashed £1,400 off a 49-inch 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 2
- It took me 7 hours to beat Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, and people are already demolishing it without getting hit a single time
- July 1
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- Guy who mapped Skyrim's rivers decides to follow Fallout characters home after dismissing them
- To combat torrent traffic, a South Korean ISP deployed a bold strategy: Infecting 600,000 of its own customers with malware
- Team Fortress 2's player count doubles after fan pressure sees Valve step in with a bot-demolishing banwave and a firm line on appeals: 'No'
- A Japanese company is making an adorable Elden Ring warrior jar mug just in time for everyone to get really freaked out by their new lore in the DLC
- Trust me, you should rewatch the Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree cinematic trailer after beating the expansion
- Valve's new top-played chart for the Steam Deck shows that people really, really like both Hades and Hades 2
- Team Fortress 2 players are not loving the announcement of TF2 DLC for Funko Fusion instead of, y'know, TF2: 'Genuinely would rather bots continue to overrun the game than this happen'
- Thanks to the Responsive NPCs mod, crowds in Cyberpunk 2077 can now react if you sprint nude through Night City's streets
- GTA Online adds a quality-of-life feature players have wanted for years then upsets everyone by paywalling it: 'One of the slimiest things they've done in a while'
- SSD storage is set to use 1,000 layer memory chips by 2027, potentially offering 20 TB NVMe drives for under $300
- One Elden Ring player made the mother of all Scadutree Blessing maps, 'You can get Scadutree Blessing level 12 without killing any bosses'
- 'Is this supposed to be rigged?' Helldivers 2 players fatigued as bugs leapfrog across supply lines like a bunch of dirty cheaters
- Internet speed record of 402,000,000 Mbps achieved using standard optic fibre cabling, fast enough to download Baldur's Gate 3 in less than four milliseconds
- Intel's Arrow Lake chips could be using a brand new core layout for the first time in years
- 'I know nothing, you never heard a peep from me': George RR Martin pens cryptic message about a potential Elden Ring TV show or film
- AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D-series chips reportedly gain full overclocking support, meaning simple tweaks would make them the all-round chips we always wished for
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 1
- Drop blocks to make your own maze in the demo for tower defense game Emberward
