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- August 31
- August 30
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- This upcoming survival game promises an unusual twist: You're an alien botanist who's crash-landed on Earth 300,000 years ago
- Gearbox says Borderlands 4's humor will be grounded in its world: 'We want to make sure that it's situational, that it emerges naturally'
- Blizzard's next massive Diablo 4 update will let everyone enjoy its endgame in half the time and let blasters crank the difficulty up higher than ever before
- This week's Deadlock patch offered a brief peek at 3 unreleased heroes before a hotfix shoved them back behind the curtain
- Black Ops 6 will let players talk directly to their meat shield hostages, and people are already bracing for heretofore unseen levels of toxicity and abuse
- Runescape is increasing its membership subscription costs, and players aren't happy: 'Inflation my a**'
- Dustborn devs call out the 'tidal wave of hate and abuse' that's engulfed the game: 'Those who engage in such behavior will be removed from our community'
- After 10 years of reinventing The Elder Scrolls Online, its devs say they'd have only done one thing differently: 'Pick the game you want to make'
- The indisputable first, third, and sixth-best Fallout games are free to keep on the Epic store this week
- Arthur Morgan's voice actor has his own 'canon ending' for RDR 2, and the only thing he'd change would be pronouncing Colm O'Driscoll's name properly: 'Rockstar made me say it wrong. I told them it was wrong. They didn't care'
- In just two years, ChatGPT users have doubled to 200 million weekly users, fast approaching Reddit's user figures
- Lawn wars: Garden tractor manufacturers, plumbing providers and more are lobbying against the US military's right to repair its equipment
- 'I sat with Todd Howard for about 3 months': The Elder Scrolls Online devs talk working with Bethesda to make sure they don't break the lore of future games
- Meta may be plotting a new budget mixed-reality headset with 'tethered puck' according to reports
- A neural network is 'playing' Doom by generating frames one by one and it's pretty trippy, man
- If in doubt, use more lube: Wooting's Lekker V2 switches now have tighter tolerances and more of the slippy stuff, insert your own joke here
- All Honkai: Star Rail codes from the 2.5 livestream
- Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus 2's revamped Cognition system is incredibly clever, bridging the gap between wargame vets and tactics fans
- Shinji Mikami doesn't think the world needs another Dino Crisis, 'that's been kind of nailed down by Monster Hunter in recent years'
- This open source tool updates DLSS to the latest version in all your games at once and no matter the launcher
- As Intel's struggles continue, rumours are now emerging that plans are afoot to flog its chip-manufacturing fabs
- Space marines are so big the Space Marine 2 dev team had to spend a considerable amount of time just getting their walking and running animations right
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, August 30
- Deadlock's first major patch adds wall jumping and over a hundred balance changes
- August 29
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- 'We are not an extraction shooter, hero shooter, or some competitive tac shooter:' Cyberpunk FPS Defect's secret fourth thing actually has me excited for a PvEvP game for once
- Sid Meier was apparently baffled by the decision to launch Civilization 5 without Genghis Khan: 'Sid said, What?'
- Demonschool, the Persona-like tactical RPG about battling demons while getting a good education, has been delayed into 2025 so developers can add 'more life and liveliness' to the game world
- 6 years after making one of our senior editors so mad he beat up a defenseless armadillo, Green Hell is ending development 'with teary eyes' and one last update
- Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred's new runewords system will let barbarians teleport like loud, massively muscled sorcerers
- Gearbox's first Risk of Rain 2 expansion gets hammered on Steam as developer admits the PC version 'is in a really bad place'
- Randy Pitchford says Tiny Tina's Wonderlands didn't get DLC because there was 'no way to do that and put the focus on Borderlands 4 that we needed to'
- In survival MMO Dune: Awakening players can 'see just a little bit into the future' once they get 'saturated with spice'
- Remedy is leaving Epic in the dark place to self-publish Control 2 through a 'strategic cooperation agreement' with Annapurna
- MOBAs are suddenly back in fashion, and one dev says it might be because of soulslikes: 'Now that more players understand that it feels great to master a difficult game, I think more are willing to take that journey'
- The latest influx of Intel Arrow Lake rumours make me cautiously hopeful about desktop and mobile processors for a change
- The judge Elon Musk bizarrely called 'Brazil's Darth Vader' gives Twitter 24 hours to comply with court order or get shut down by the full power of his legal battle station
- Build an empire that will last for thousands of years in strategy city builder Memoriapolis
- Cooler Master painted a landscape onto a CPU using thermal paste and the hardware nerd in me can't help but think 'that's way too much'
- Dev studio returns 20 years after it stopped existing to remaster PS1 banger Croc, and it's destroyed my relationship with my colleagues
- Our favourite city builder of last year is releasing its first expansion next month, and it brings a new biome, new buildings and, oh yes, frog people
- As the Borderlands movie crashes and burns as a box office megaflop, The Crow reboot says hold my beer, outflopping it so hard that it gets branded 'a cynical cash grab' by the original film's director and annihilated by critics
- I would bet money that Metal Gear Solid 4 is PC-bound after Konami tells fans they can 'probably connect the dots' about its inclusion on Master Collection volume 2
- 'I have not touched Haunted Chocolatier in a long time': Eric Barone says work on Stardew Valley's 1.6 console and mobile port is still ongoing
- Nvidia says 'every PC with an RTX is an AI PC' as gaming revenue increases 16% year-on-year for the GPU behemoth
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 29
- August 28
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- Just over a year after it launched on PC, Warner Bros is shutting down Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
- The Witcher 4 'is nearing a major milestone' and will soon enter full production
- Space Marine 2's lead dev says more games can trace their DNA back to 40K than people might think: 'Many young gamers probably don't realize the influence it had on your favorite game'
- Former Marathon director Christopher Barrett was reportedly fired by Bungie for inappropriate behavior with female employees
- Discord now displays a log of your recent playtime, so your friends can peer into the unholy depths of your gaming habits
- There was a wedding at the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer reveal: 'Our love is stronger than any meta'
- Deadlock players are learning they can pause the match for the entire lobby, and some are using it for evil
- CD Projekt dev explains how Geralt ended up in Balatro, and the answer will shock you: CD Projekt devs really like Balatro
- Bandai Namco says no refunds as it kills off anime MMO Blue Protocol, but it'll give you 5,000 funbucks a month until it dies
- Microsoft has partnered with one of my favourite controller manufacturers to make an accessible controller
- MSI's latest BIOS could give AMD Zen 5 yet another performance boost with a 105 W TDP toggle for the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X
- Phantom Blade Zero plays less like Sekiro, more like Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty—and I couldn't be happier
- Tavern Keeper is immediately charming, narrated by a prolific audiobook actor, and has a furniture system so freeform I already know I'm gonna lose hours to it
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director speaks about the dark fantasy RPG's stunning Unreal Engine 5 graphics: 'It’s a key foundation for the studio to really look for the latest technology'
- 'Magma fish are back on the menu boys': Valheim's newest patch lowers the difficulty of the notoriously treacherous Ashlands biome
- After claiming 8 GB on a Mac is like 16 GB on PC, Apple's rumoured to be finally making the jump to 16 GB
- Baldur's Gate 3 YouTuber uncovers 15 minutes of fully voiced 'impossible' content, and it turns out Karlach's 4th-wall break is far from the game's only hidden scene
- You can now rent a 'minibrain' for $500 a month and the potential implications are horrifying
- 'I love stories where you go and venture into the unknown': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche opens up on the RPG's brilliantly bonkers plot
- AOC announces what could be the cheapest OLED gaming monitors yet
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director speaks candidly about the new RPG's respect for Final Fantasy and Persona: 'We are definitely not hiding that there are influences'
- Stardew Valley maker Eric Barone says he's 'trying to' score a Fortnite collab and knows just who he wants in the game: Pelican Town's smoky, middle-aged bus driver Pam
- Deadlock's upcoming hero Astro is a sign that players need to start learning better movement habits
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P talks about the Scion's 'half-hearted' role in Dawntrail, says they'll likely use smaller, more selective groups of beloved NPCs in the future
- Should you be worried about OLED burn-in? The increasing evidence is yes, but it's not catastrophic
- No need to wait, that AMD CPU performance update is available right now in Windows 23H2, and even Zen 3 and Zen 4 chips should receive a boost
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, August 28
- August 27
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- Spectre Divide, the most promising tactical FPS since Valorant, is out next week
- Space Marine 2 reveals post-launch plans: 4 seasons of paid cosmetics and free gameplay updates including new maps, weapons, enemies, and a horde mode
- Deadlock wins the award for best placeholder UI text I've ever read with this one-line character bio calling one of its heroes an a**hole
- One of the best co-op survival games of the past few years just popped up on PC Game Pass
- 'Of course we are tired': After working for 2 years in the shadow of Russia's invasion, Stalker 2 developers see finally finishing the game as a way to tell the world, 'We are here'
- Nearly every essential Castlevania game is now on PC, with one glaring exception
- Smite 2 is a full-on sequel because the original is just too old: 'There were lots of little janky bits about Smite 1 that we were unable to address'
- Geralt and Dave the Diver are in Balatro now
- Sony's PC obsession continues with in-depth DualSense Edge customisation on your PC
- WoW game director Ion Hazzikostas says they're already drafting up plans for The Last Titan's patches—that's 2 expansions after The War Within, in case you're keeping score
- AMD's RDNA 4 equipped line of RX 8000 GPUs may have already been spotted in tests but don't trust the figures just yet
- One of Deadlock's scariest characters is getting a redesign, changing her from an 'alien weeb' into a deadly yokai
- Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P says 'if the question is whether I was shocked' by the mixed reception to Dawntrail's story, 'the answer is no, not really'
- 'This really doesn't look promising': Concord PC players are having a hard time finding matches thanks to ridiculously low player counts
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 system requirements have been revealed and you won't need a rig upgrade if you can run (all of) last year's COD
- World of Warcraft: The War Within is out—kicking off with banger zones, stupendous side quests, and early access gripes
- If you're gaming with a Zen 5 system, you'll bag some major performance gains from the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 update
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, August 27
- Star Wars Outlaws release time and release date
- August 26
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- 'A violation is upon you': Valve called out for breaking its own rules with Deadlock's Steam store page
- Microsoft softens language about killing off the Control Panel, but it's still clearly gonna kill off the Control Panel
- 'This game is going to easily—and I mean easily—take over': Major streamers, early fans, and esports players share their Deadlock hype after Valve opens the floodgates
- Report says well-known videogame accessibility advocate may not have actually existed
- The Black Myth: Wukong map mod is here to make your Journey to the West a little easier
- I let out a 'hell yes' when I saw this game stars a worm-fox trapped on a dying world, and an even louder 'yes dude, yes' when the trailer got to the Metal Gear mechs
- Starfield modders are already trading in Bethesda's new buggy for Halo's Warthog and Luke's landspeeder
- Steam surpasses 37 million concurrent users for the first time ever thanks to Black Myth: Wukong
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard drops a 10-minute combat deep dive video, and it might just have sold me on giving BioWare's latest RPG a whirl
- Tropico 4 is free on GOG to kick off the 2024 Back to School sale
- Descending is a free Iron Lung-style horror game where you drill a giant borehole for the glory of your country
- Valve developer shares video of an even earlier version of Deadlock, in which the player battles Half-Life 2 enemies with Left 4 Dead weapons
- Gloomwood, aka Thief with guns, is getting cutscenes 'done in an early 1900s animated horror style' to introduce major areas and encounters
- Gamers hoping to build a Ryzen 9000-series system with an affordable B850 motherboard are set for a long wait
- Scientists say they not only taught hydrogel how to play Pong, but to get better at it over time
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, August 26
- A super fan of Dungeons & Dragons' Githyanki made a Baldur's Gate 3-infused Doom map where you can just hang out and talk to them
- Andrzej Sapkowski has finished writing another Witcher book
- MSI's X870 and X870E motherboards come with an auxiliary 8-pin power connector, which could indicate some scary next-gen GPU power consumption levels
- August 25
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- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will have challenging puzzles, but also a creative hint system through Indy's camera: 'We don't want you to go to YouTube to look up the solution, because that's immersion-breaking and bad'
- Flip patties with friends to fill orders in cozy cook-em-up Galaxy Burger
- Doom E1M1 remade in Doom Eternal is honestly kind of quaint
- Click Click Dig is a charming little pixelated idler
- I am so here for this zombie game set in a medieval market town
- This $10 bundle is incredible value on 7 modern detective games
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, August 25
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard is getting a prequel in the form of an audio drama podcast
- Here's how a martial artist created the motions for Baldur's Gate 3 monks
- After years of speculation about whether Avowed takes place before or after Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian casually revealed it's a sequel through a preview quest poking fun at the events of Pillars 2
- August 24
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- Players seem to like Concord, but its $40 price tag has led to a tepid first weekend on PC
- Sekiro was so influential, even the next big BioWare and Obsidian RPGs are adding parries and stagger meters
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs say an Indy game 'could never be a shooter, should never be a shooter,' so they're embracing his signature whip, improvised brawls, and disguise-based stealth instead
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, August 24
- August 23
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- After four months, hundreds of leaked gameplay videos, and everybody you know having played it, Valve finally admitted Deadlock exists
- After 20 years of patience and negotiations, RPG veteran Brian Fargo managed to buy back a lost haul of memorabilia from Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and more: 'It was like a very exciting version of Storage Wars'
- Black Myth: Wukong is already one of the fastest-selling games of all time, moving almost as many units in one week as Elden Ring and Cyberpunk did in their first months
- After Borderlands comes crawling back to Steam, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford responds to people mocking his old predictions about Steam being killed off by the Epic Store: 'Epic is not pressing their advantage'
- Steam just updated its reviews system to show when a user has 'played primarily on Steam Deck'
- LG says its new 'Dream OLED' tech cracks the pesky problems that prevent OLED gaming panels being brighter and lasting longer
- Bungie's pre-Halo FPS Classic Marathon Infinity just launched on Steam for free, meaning you can now play the entire Marathon trilogy for the low price of nothing
- Asus has finally come up with the easy-release GPU slot we've all been crying out for
- Asked about SAG-AFTRA's strike for better AI protections, Amazon Games Boss claims AI 'has nothing to do with taking work away' from actors because 'for games, we don't really have acting'
- You can tell the new Heroes of Might and Magic game is meant to be a throwback to when the series was good because they're not insisting we call it Might and Magic: Heroes this time
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, August 23
- August 22
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- This upcoming 'survival-action game' looks like Stalker crossed with an episode of your mom's favorite British murder-mystery show
- Warcraft VP on what Blizzard should've done differently over the last 20 years: 'We should have listened more'
- Despite being one of the biggest Unreal Engine 5 games ever, Stalker 2's locations are almost entirely hand-crafted: 'It took a lot of time, took a lot of effort, but we're happy with the result'
- As scandal surrounds the MrBeast empire, MrBeast lawyers up and goes into bunker mode
- World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas says the Worldsoul Saga is letting Blizzard give its villains some much-needed character: 'Dragons are really cool, but it's hard to grasp the motivations of a being the size of a city'
- 'People are pro crabs': WoW's artists tested leg angles and other features before choosing crabs for its new arachnophobia mode
- This city builder swaps traffic jams with human sacrifice, because you're the mayor of a huge Cthulhu cult
- Someone finally figured out a good use for NFTs: Peter Molyneux is using 'land' sales from his failed blockchain game to fund the development of his new project
- These AMD Ryzen 7500G and 7300G chips don't officially exist but they're making me wonder why we bother with naming schemes
- Final Fantasy 16, Black Myth: Wukong and Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade all require over 100 GB, so I thought you might like this 2 TB SSD for $140
- Terrifyingly good Humble Bundle deal nets you 11 Resident Evil games for less than the price of Resi 4 remake
- 'It's very important for us to get this right': Songs of Conquest devs ask players what they think the upcoming DLC should cost
- 'I can look and it goes where I want it to': Neuralink participant is using his brain chip to play Counter-Strike 2 with just his mind
- Original Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says 'critique of capitalism was never the point' of the games and if anything they're about how 'war is inevitable given basic human nature'
- Laid-back puzzler Wilmot's Warehouse is getting a sequel, in which Wilmot ditches his job to do jigsaw puzzles at home
- An aerospace engineer quit her job to make this cozy city builder full of adorable gourd people
- Silent Hill 2 remake lead drops cryptic easter egg hints, says finding all the hidden goodies 'Will take you more than 20 hours for sure'
- Bohemia Interactive reveals a Minecraft competitor and a horse-themed comedy platformer, but remains silent on the status of Arma 4
- Final Fantasy 16 PC system requirements are here and surprisingly light for one of the PS5's best-looking games
- AMD admits its chips actually have gaming 'parity' with Intel's 14th Gen, suggests lacklustre Ryzen 9000 performance could be because we're not fiddling with Windows' backend
- Concord dev reflects on the last 8 years of development, 'We don't get a lot of launch days in our careers'
- Seeing Black Myth: Wukong running on GeForce Now may have finally convinced me that cloud gaming is the future
- The creators of Blasphemous are making a real-time tactics game about escaping from a haunted Spanish monastery
- Asus unveils its X870/X870E motherboard lineup at Gamescom 2024 and they look pretty darn good
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 22
- August 21
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- Journey to the Savage Planet developer says Google only wanted 'monstrous' games with major licenses for Stadia: 'They were very strange'
- Riddlemaster Randy Pitchford says the Borderlands 4 teaser contains 'several secrets'
- BioWare spent more than 200,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC: 'Getting the PC experience just right was crucial to us'
- Thousands of Sims fans are flocking to the limited time demo for Inzoi Character Studio to make effortlessly gorgeous Zois
- Fashion hunters rejoice as Monster Hunter Wilds ditches gendered armor: Capcom confirms 'all characters can wear any gear'
- How to watch the Future Games Show's Gamescom showcase today
- Even Phil Spencer's been bugging Todd Howard to get vehicles in Starfield: 'Come on Todd… I'm tired of walking'
- I can't decide whether I want this AI customer service chatbot Rickrolling users to actually be real… but I'm still here for it
- The Windows 11 dev build has an accessibility feature to use a single webcam across multiple apps at the same time but it may get more use as a streaming tool
- Civilization 7's new narrator is Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie
- There might soon be a new go-to cheap gaming CPU as AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D is rumoured to launch early next month
- Twitch launches new Drop Ins collaboration feature but doesn't let streamers opt out: 'You can't turn it off'
- Secret Level's turning 15 games into animated shorts, but all we want to know is if that's actually Keanu Reeves piloting a mech
- Mafia: The Old Country studio clarifies lack of Italian voice acting, says they're doing it in Sicilian for that real Mafioso 'authenticity'
- Blizzard will inject a little WoW into Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred with a new co-op dungeon and party finder
- 9 things we know about Inzoi from its new gameplay reveals
- Rumoured Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU with cheapo GDDR6 memory is now official
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford predicted that the Epic Games Store would kill off Steam 5 years ago, now the internet is mocking him as Borderlands 4 comes crawling back
- 'We won't see another game reach these heights until probably GTA 6': Palworld community manager congratulates Black Myth: Wukong for its continued success
- AMD's game-tastic next-gen 9000X3D V-Cache CPU spotted on Asus motherboard website
- Samsung's glasses-free 4K 3D monitor concept has been turned into a gaming display you can actually buy
- Games Workshop officially bans the use of AI in its Golden Demon painting competitions
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, August 21
- August 20
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- We asked Black Myth: Wukong's developer about the controversy over its founders' past sexist remarks, but GameScience's only reply was 'No comment'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 imagines a medieval Europe that's mostly swords in its latest Gamescom gameplay teaser
- Stellar Blade studio says a PC version is coming 'in the near future'
- 'If you fire it up, there's a build of Civilization 1 on there': The PC that Sid Meier used to make the first Civilization has a whopping 16MB of memory and still works
- With Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Black Myth: Wukong, and Star Wars Outlaws, ray tracing in games is slowly becoming an Nvidia-exclusive
- The First Berserker: Khazan shows off its angry anime Conan in a new Gamescom trailer
- 'Mafia 4' officially revealed as Mafia: The Old Country, set in 1900s Sicily during the 'origins of the mafia'
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming in December, drops a big new trailer at Gamescom
- Monster Hunter Wilds reveals a horrifying spider and an electric apex predator in its Gamescom trailer
- He's baaack: Peter Molyneux announces new god game Masters of Albion, and honestly it looks really good
- Blizzard is bringing mercenaries back with Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred and one of them is a literal demon
- Marvel Rivals reveals December release date, Captain America and the Winter Soldier join the team
- Infinity Nikki looks like a fever dream of open world dress-up and I can't wait to come down with a case of it
- I didn't realize how much I wanted to shepherd a pack of big hairy beasts through the mountains until I saw the trailer for Herdling
- Watch a latex-clad billionaire punch out poor people in the debut gameplay trailer for Batman: Arkham Shadow
- New Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 gameplay shows a meaty chunk of campaign we'll all forget about once we click 'Multiplayer'
- We can finally get our hands on Path of Exile 2 when it hits early access this November
- Starfield expansion Shattered Space is out September 30, but you can drive its new moon buggy today
- Survival MMO Dune: Awakening announces early 2025 release
- We got another look at the rock-em-sock-em robots of multiplayer mech game Mecha Break at this year's Gamescom Opening Night Live
- Civilization 7 releases this February, first gameplay trailer shows off new art style, navigable rivers
- Thanks to Tarsier Studios' new horror game Reanimal, I'll never look at a sheep in the same way again
- Embark's next shooter is ditching free-to-play so devs can 'focus more on the fun' and not 'encouraging players to make purchases'
- Dying Light: The Beast is a revenge story for Kyle Crane: 'basically like the movie Old Boy's premise, but with zombies'
- Dying Light: The Beast is a standalone game starring Kyle Crane that started out as DLC, and will be free for owners of Dying Light 2 Ultimate Edition
- 'The greatest simulation game known to man and goat returns': Goat Simulator is back, and the first stop is Cash Grab Penitentiary
- Borderlands 4 is coming in 2025
- MudRunner follow-up RoadCraft is all about natural disasters, heavy machinery and, yes, more mud
- Even Disney has realized that trying to use the Disney+ terms of service to wriggle out of a wrongful death lawsuit was a terrible idea
- Internet Archive preserves and releases 1980s PC radio show that interviewed legends including Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, and Jack Tramiel
- Microsoft gave Todd Howard an exclusive 1,000-Gamerscore achievement in 2016, and we finally know what it is
- The Borderlands movie was so wretched that someone's made a 3-minute song just from the bad reviews
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time to 'add more endings to the game' along with some extra polish
- Valve says 'we've decided to draw a clear line' and bans Snap Tap keyboard automation from Counter-Strike 2
- Black Myth: Wukong smashes Palworld and Counter-Strike 2 to become the second most-played Steam game of all time less than a day after launch, and it's gaining on PUBG's gold medal
- Nvidia's new partnership with MediaTek has just killed the module which made G-Sync monitors so damned expensive
- Pokémon Worlds competitor gets disqualified straight after winning the quarter-finals, thanks to a rude hand gesture
- US lawmakers believe TP-Link networking products come with an 'unusual degree of vulnerabilities' leaving them vulnerable to hackers
- Black Myth: Wukong crushes Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077's all-time player records on Steam with 1.2 million and counting
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, August 20
- August 19
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- Madden NFL 25 stumbles out to a 'mixed' rating on Steam, which means it's no worse than any other Madden game on PC
- Larian released a teaser for the new evil endings coming in Baldur's Gate 3's next patch, and they really weren't kidding about the evil part
- 'Britain's Bill Gates' among 6 missing after luxury yacht tragedy off coast of Sicily: 'We should have found something by now'
- Black Myth: Wukong has some bonkers streamer guidelines about not using the game to spread 'feminist propaganda' or discuss anything about China
- Final Fantasy 16 is finally coming to PC in September, and a demo is available right now
- Microsoft closes another door for bypassing the TPM 2.0 requirement in Windows 11
- The Mechanism Gaming Pillow acts like a third arm for your gaming handhelds and I'm not ashamed to say I kinda want one
- A movie adaptation of 1993's Sega fighting game Eternal Champions is on the way, for some reason, so get ready to watch a caveman fight a cyborg kickboxer
- Dead Cells takes a bow with its 'final major update,' calling an end to 7 years of development that spanned 35 updates, 5 DLC, and 2 studios
- Borderlands to release on streaming services less than a month after its catastrophic cinematic debut
- OneXPlayer is back with another external GPU and this time uses a graphics chip so new, not even its maker has announced it
- Cheap but very cheerful? PowerA's wireless controllers feature Hall effect sensors and start at just $50
- You can finally pick different power modes for battery or plugged in with the latest Windows 11 Insider build, ending the tyranny of one power setting for all
- Silksong thirst is now so outrageously high that Geoff Keighley has to announce that it won't be at his show so people don't lose their minds
- Zotac Gaming officially launches its Zone handheld gaming PC with a super fancy AMOLED HDR screen
- The Future Games Show at Gamescom promises Civ 7 deep dives and fresh Rings of Power news, here's how to watch it
- I give you the smolest gaming PC: A tiny desktop playing tiny Doom is the ultimate '90s nostalgia hit
- Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake desktop CPUs are reportedly only 7 weeks away from launch
- MSI's PBO Enhanced Modes take Ryzen 9000 series chips off the leash, giving you up to 15% extra performance
- Go on roguelike dives to keep evil gods asleep in Feed the Deep
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, August 19
- You can now watch all 14 weapon previews for Monster Hunter Wilds
- 'Don't get lacerated!' is a bullet-point feature in limb-lopping survival horror game The Lacerator
- The new highest-level Steam user in the world spent over half a million dollars to do it, has a 'Discord Kitten,' a $9,000 Counter-Strike gun with a racial slur on it, and potential beef with the guy in third place
- Design little towns for adorable vegetable people in this cute sandbox
- The FDA just cleared 'Traumagel,' a wound-treating gel with 'the color and texture of hummus' that sounds like a real-life FPS medkit
- August 18
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- According to a creator of the ambitious H2M Modern Warfare 2 mod shuttered by Activision, the multi-billion dollar corporation was worried the free project would disrupt Black Ops 6's sales
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, August 18
- You can play the original and best version of Diablo in your browser (again)
- Total War: Warhammer 3's dwarfs will be able to turtle properly in the next update, and the other reworks seem decent too
- August 17
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- Vampire Survivors update rolls out new dark arcanas, but the best part is a retired guy in his rocking chair
- Y'all have to see these gruesome starfish monsters coming in Factorio: Space Age
- It's no wonder Dragon Age: The Veilguard was Steam Deck Verified so quickly: it'll run on a 10-year-old graphics card that was new when Inquisition came out
- After Helldivers 2 cheaters undercut its latest Major Order by turning in millions of bug bits at once, Arrowhead canceled the whole thing with an in-universe justification: 'The ones submitting false samples have had their pet fish summarily executed'
- List of the UK's richest game devs and influencers puts Garry's Mod creator neck-and-neck with Rockstar founders, but the richest of all is a different pair of gaming brothers worth £12.5 billion
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, August 17
- August 16
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- Sorcerers were doing too much magic for Diablo 4's servers to handle, so Blizzard nerfed their most popular build
- Ubisoft reveals full Star Wars Outlaws system requirements and PC-specific features
- Runescape's latest content roadmap includes group ironman mode, a new skilling boss, and exciting advancements in woodcutting
- Exoborne is making the extraction shooter less punishing, and taking storytelling notes from Hades
- The spiritual successor to old school pick-up-and-play Call of Duty Zombies is out now, on sale for $10 and gloriously free of battle pass nonsense
- PowerWash Simulator meets Pulp Fiction in this first-person scrubber where you clean up after horrific murders
- Neo-Victorian survival sim Nightingale is getting 'handcrafted realms,' more boss fights, and an all-new campaign in a major update coming later this summer
- Swen Vincke was worried that the 100-hour Baldur's Gate 3 would be too short, which is why Larian made a ton of extra areas they wound up cutting: 'I've notoriously always been bad at judging the length of our games'
- Black Myth: Wukong review roundup: 'An interesting and exciting reimagining'
- Hunt: Showdown enjoys highest-ever player count after 1896 update, but player complaints about UI are pushing down its Steam review score: 'I've never seen such a bizarre reaction to so much amazing content'
- The VR version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is 'on hold indefinitely' as Meta and Rockstar shift their focus to other things
- 'Without using these inventions, Western Digital would not be able to compete in the market': WD owes $262,000,000 in damages over a HDD patent dispute
- Super-svelte CAMM2 memory can deliver higher clock speeds, lower latencies, costs, and even better system cooling says MSI
- Arm reportedly spooling up major new GPU architecture to take on Nvidia
- After Morrigan's surprise cameo in Dragon Age: The Veilguard's release date trailer, VA Claudia Black says she 'wasn't lying … I honestly thought they were done with my fave mage'
- About half—50 in total—of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks' staff will be taken on by new publisher Krafton
- You had one job: Outlook, Word and OneNote may 'unexpectedly close when typing' says Microsoft
- Deliriously funny rhythm tooter Trombone Champ is getting a VR version
- You can get 650 hours of classic RPG in Humble's latest bundle, featuring original Baldur's Gate, Pathfinder, and Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader
- Leaked Intel Arrow Lake CPU benchmarks show generational performance regression but that might not be the whole story
- Many of Epic's exclusivity deals were 'not good investments,' says Tim Sweeney, but the free games program 'has been just magical'
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney accuses Apple of 'malicious compliance' as Fortnite finally returns to iOS, but only in Europe and with a convoluted install process
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a $150 'edition' that doesn't actually include the game, though you do get 22 inches of Rook's shiny blade
- The FTC is banning fake reviews, false testimonials and all sorts of shady consumer deception with an ominous sounding 'final rule'
- Lonely Mountains: Downhill is getting a skiing-themed sequel, making it the second winter sports game announced this month
- 2K removes its pointless launcher from Civilization 6, while also announcing that Civilization 7 players will never have to suffer launching the game twice for no reason
- All Genshin Impact codes from the 5.0 livestream
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, August 16
- August 15
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- Get ready for Nicolas Cage to do an incredible John Madden voice in a biopic about his life and the videogame
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard is bringing back the heinously ugly original sin of preorder/digital deluxe cosmetics, but I'm weirdly nostalgic for it now
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's latest trailer is the best showing the game's gotten yet—BioWare really should have led with this months ago
- The next Stellaris expansion will let your space empires harness 'the majesty and menace' of new cosmic storms, which I'm sure can only go well
- Dr Disrespect says he's coming back soon, deletes his admission of inappropriately texting a minor: 'We have lots to talk about'
- Activision kills ambitious H2M Modern Warfare 2 mod one day before its release
- Some of the world's biggest game companies are joining together to make us all look at this truly awful horse
- Oops! Bungie accidentally changed the names of a 'high number' of Destiny 2 players, says a fix 'will take some time' to figure out
- 'I'm still amazed that it all came together and actually works': YouTuber spends 14 months building a glorious gaming laptop from desktop parts
- The most wishlisted cozy game on Steam is launching in September
- Unbelievably beautiful life sim Inzoi is doing a limited time demo of its character creator next week
- Upcoming Sims competitor inZOI is getting full mod support on launch and a surprise character creation demo much sooner
- The lead writer of Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge was extremely squeamish at first, which shows you can do just about anything if you set your mind to it
- Helldivers 2 player is plagued by trampolining Terminids in 'the most ridiculous bug I've ever encountered in a video game'
- Someone's already overclocked the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and 9950X above 7.4 GHz
- Blizzard disables trading in Diablo 4 for the third time in a year, as another dupe bug wreaks havoc on its economy
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdree's success deftly parries 'extraordinary losses' caused by a recent cyberattack on FromSoftware's parent company
- Beefy medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has been delayed until February
- A mysterious World of Warcraft teaser has people wondering if an animated show is on its way
- Intel sells all its Arm shares, likely raising almost $150 million, AKA peanuts in tech
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard arrives on October 31, preorders are live now
- PC Gamer magazine's landmark 400th issue is on sale now: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 15
- Skyblivion shows off some gorgeous Oblivion locations and some boring Oblivion quests in its latest trailer
- August 14
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- GitHub, the go-to site for open source software, is currently down
- Steam's new 'Helpfulness' system for user reviews is here to fix Steam's 'Helpful' system for user reviews
- Persona 3 Reload producer dashes any remaining hopes for the return of Portable's female protagonist: 'It is likely never going to happen'
- Josh Sawyer says Fallout: New Vegas has deathclaws in Goodsprings as a warning to Fallout 3 players expecting another easy ride: 'You can't just slide all over the map and not feel the heat'
- Steam's latest beta removed the 'open screenshot location' button and it's sending me into an existential crisis
- Valve issues new rules outlawing links in Steam page descriptions, hopefully bringing an end to the plague of demos pretending they're 'prologue games'
- Pray the kids don't kick over your priceless T-Rex exhibit in Two Point Museum, an upcoming new addition to the Two Point universe
- Fallout: London sets a new record by becoming the 'fastest redeemed game ever on GOG'
- The Final Fantasy 9 upscale mod just got a surprise update after 3 years, including a 'full rework' of its backgrounds, 120 fps, ultrawide, and more
- Mordhau pugilists raise thousands of dollars for a fellow player's medical bills in a fistfighting contest against cancer
- AMD might give the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X a big post-launch TDP boost in the name of chasing higher performance
- Overwatch 2's highly anticipated space girl hero drops next week with season 12
- Leximan is a charming indie romp where you grab words out of the air to solve problems—like helping Dave, who has been on fire for 27 minutes
- Live your fantasy of being a game dev in this sim where you build an MMO, manage your team and investors, and even play your own game
- If you want to have fun while looking silly, check out the Roto VR Explorer, a super spinny chair that aims to solve motion sickness while VR gaming
- Even Uwe Boll is dunking on the abominable Borderlands movie—'Now you wish I directed!'
- Blizzard is still updating Heroes of the Storm on an almost monthly basis, and I just think that's nice
- XCOM 2 is just $3 on Steam for a day—cheaper than the bus I took into work this morning, or 1/5th of a World of Warcraft subscription
- Rumoured new AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D could be our first sub-$200 3D V-cache gaming CPU
- Unsurprisingly, the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X don't seem to be selling very well right now
- Final Fantasy 14 player is so sick of one particular healing spell, they've built an entire website to explain why you shouldn't use it: 'I finally have had enough'
- Valve is 'continuing to work on adding support' for other handhelds, but 'SteamOS isn't ready to run out of the box' just yet
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, August 14
- August 13
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- Somehow, Baldur's Gate 3 isn't done winning yet: It's just claimed the most prestigious award for science fiction and fantasy writing
- A massive free update and a 50% discount sends Cult of the Lamb rocketing up the Steam charts
- Josh Sawyer would head up a new Fallout game if Microsoft asked, but he'd have to do it his way: 'Who wants to work on something where the one thing they want to explore is not possible to explore?'
- Black Mirror creator offers a new premonition of humanity's self-wrought tech apocalypse, and it's Balatro on phones: 'It's possibly the most addictive thing ever created'
- Helldivers 2 game director says a Chargers rework and an update to fire damage are part of a 60-day update plan: 'What matters most now is action, not talk'
- Call of Duty 4 is one of the best-selling Steam games right now, but only because you need it to play an ambitious Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer mod launching this week
- Josh Sawyer doesn't like Baldur Gate 3-style romances and that's part of why he doubts a new Pillars of Eternity would be a hit: 'I feel like I'm kind of out of touch with that audience'
- Russian chess player faces jail after video shows her allegedly poisoning opponent with mercury: 'I've never seen anything like this'
- This awesome mod sees TF2 come to CoD Zombies—which is all the more impressive considering it'd typically be the other way around
- A robot trained with AI to beat average randos at table tennis is a much more impressive thing than you might think
- Once the apple of Microsoft's eye, Paint 3D will be fully killed off in favour of its elder sibling Paint
- Jonathan Nolan and the writers didn't catch it, 'but boy, Reddit caught it': Fallout's makeup department hid a sneaky easter egg in one episode that fans 'jumped on' immediately
- A Red Dead Redemption PC port was proudly 'announced' on the store page for the PS4 version, of all places
- Space Marine 2 settled on 3-player co-op because having 4 lore-accurate 40K marines made it too much of 'a massacre'
- Doom running on a Def Con attendee badge at 50 fps is the highlight of the otherwise messy backstory to this year's popular hacking conference
- Black Myth: Wukong's most-wishlisted status means its new benchmarking tool is the 18th most played 'game' on Steam right now
- Borderlands grosses $16 million globally, leaving it roughly $60 million shy of breaking even—and that's before the theatres take their cut
- Dazzling Doom 2 mod upgrades the legendary FPS with full-blown ray tracing, looks hellishly good
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, August 13
- August 12
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- Stalker 2 devs' 35-minute in-depth gameplay video and promise of an 'authentic' experience that'll kill you dead finally has me fully on board the hype train to The Zone
- We can all see that Valve's unannounced shooter Deadlock just hit over 18,000 concurrent players, Gabe
- Bethesda's updated Doom remasters have opened a portal to a hellish dimension of uncredited mod uploads: 'This is a massive breach of trust'
- Baldur's Gate 3's rarest ending has only been unlocked by 34 players, and it requires an obscenely specific sequence of poor decisions
- Hunt: Showdown is going offline for 48 hours to prepare for its biggest update ever
- Randy Pitchford is posting through it after Borderlands bombs bad
- Baldur's Gate 3's lead mocap choreographer reveals Lae'zel's combat stance is based on a real technique that came to an ancient samurai master in a dream
- 'It was such a chore, every day': the surprising reason Ella Purnell was 'part of the biggest challenge' for the Fallout TV show's makeup department
- Ex-Twitter VP says if Elon Musk keeps stirring up unrest, 'get an arrest warrant'
- Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month
- 'Free doesn't pay our bills': Mega-mod Fallout London's developers plan to build their own indie studio
- Reports say Intel could have bought a $1 billion chunk of OpenAI seven years ago but its then-CEO thought it wouldn't pay off
- 'Let Super Earth burn': Helldivers 2 players are committing treason to protest its latest patch—allowing a tide of bots to creep worryingly close to home
- Arrowhead CEO says 'we need to do better' after incendiary response to flamethrower nerfs in Helldivers 2: 'Me just talking about it isn't enough, actions matter'
- Millions of AMD CPUs found vulnerable to 18-year-old 'Sinkclose' deep-system flaw but it's pretty difficult to exploit
- The Borderlands movie squeaks in at $8.8 million over its US box office weekend, which is about 6% of what it cost to market, distribute, and make
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, August 12
- Hi-Fi Rush lives: PUBG owner Krafton has acquired Tango Gameworks from Xbox
- August 11
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- Despite imminent delisting, Sega says Sonic Generations will still be available via a bundle
- The original Doom-inspired roguelike will return this year as Jupiter Hell Classic
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, August 11
- Arkane founder says Skyrim is an immersive sim, and Baldur's Gate 3 is 'immersive sim-adjacent'
- Geralt's voice actor confirms he'll be in the next Witcher, but not as the main character: 'Geralt will be part of the game'
- August 10
- August 9
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- Bungie promises to address the 'uncertainty' surrounding the future of Destiny 2 following massive layoffs last week
- Scientist survival in Abiotic Factor gets the obligatory water area next week, complete with fishing
- You can get every Dragon Age game yet made for just $10 in EA's August Steam sale
- Doom Eternal's new official mod support includes 'the very same tools' used to create the game
- Monster Hunter fans are so hungry for Wilds gameplay that Capcom's new 60-second weapon clips are racking up millions of views
- Kingmakers, the game about going back in time with an M4 tank, doesn't have a release date yet, but it does somehow have a movie deal
- Fallout 4's best modder is bringing Doom to Starfield and bards to Skyrim
- Olympic heroes like Noah Lyles are going for the only gold that matters: The one in League of Legends
- Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is still holding out hope for the Borderlands movie: 'Let's give the film a chance'
- Creating your own Microsoft Copilot chatbot is easy but making it safe and secure is pretty much impossible says security expert
- New SteamOS beta hints at an imminent general install with ROG Ally support added
- 'I dunno what the negativity is for, people had fun': Palworld dev comes to Helldivers 2's defence after stats-tracker decrees both games burnt out
- Phew: Blizzard clarifies you'll get every transmog from WoW's quests like in The War Within beta—and retroactively, no less
- I want a 4K OLED gaming monitor so bad and with both Alienware and Samsung's available for $200-plus off I'm going to sell my dog, probably
- Landlords are so drunk with power they've started advertising apartments made in The Sims 4 on real estate websites
- Major browser providers scramble to patch an 18-year-old vulnerability affecting MacOS and Linux systems but Windows remains gloriously immune
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a 'seriously satisfying RPG' that lets you live the life of a medieval knight in a 'rich and reactive open world', has its price slashed by 83%
- God of War Ragnarök needs a chonky 190 GB of SSD space but the rest of the system requirements seem pretty reasonable
- AMD keeps chipping away at Intel as latest figures show increased market share in PCs, laptops and servers
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, August 9
- August 8
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- Grand Theft Auto 6 is still on track for fall 2025, and there's still no sign of a PC version
- Arrowhead boss says he's not upset by the latest Helldivers 2 balance uproar: 'I'd take this ANY day of the week over nobody giving a s**t'
- Splitgate 2's first gameplay is here, and yep, adding classes changes everything
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies mode will introduce powerful new technology previously thought impossible: saving and coming back later
- Brother, your world faces exterminatus unless you watch this new Space Marine 2 gameplay footage right now
- Id Software just surprise launched Doom + Doom 2, a 'definitive' bundle that adds cross-platform multiplayer and in-game mod support to every retro Doom
- The modders recreating the original Fallout in Fallout 4's engine are releasing their first demo today
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's combat is 'more technically demanding on the player' BioWare says, which is why we'll only be controlling one character
- Critic reviews of the Borderlands movie are absolutely savage
- Arkane founder was saddened by the closure of Arkane Austin, but says immersive sims aren't going anywhere: The studio is gone, but 'the people survive'
- I've been watching this dude play Grand Theft Auto 4 with the traffic at 9999999 'warp speed' and it's both hilarious and some sort of surrealist masterpiece
- Borderlands film goes from disaster to farce as the guy who rigged Claptrap says neither he nor the model artist are credited
- Dragon Age director says BioWare learned an important lesson from the disaster that was Anthem: 'Know what you're good at and then double down on it'
- Bought a pre-built Intel 13th/14th Gen gaming PC? Here are the warranty extensions different PC builders say they're offering
- Turkey just straight-up banned Roblox for 'child exploitation'
- Next-gen Intel Arrow Lake CPUs rumored to consume at least 100 W less power at high frequencies
- Warner Bros execs pine for the Hogwarts Legacy glory days as games revenue plummets 41% thanks to Suicide Squad's abysmal performance
- Hunt: Showdown's tradition of dropping horrifying little freaks into the Wild West continues with the 'Hellborn,' a roaming fire demon that hurls molten lava balls
- The next game from Dishonored co-creator Raphael Colantonio is a first-person immersive sim with a structure between Prey and Fallout: New Vegas—'We favour density over size'
- World of Warcraft: The War Within gets a new 2D cinematic, reminds us that Xal'atath is an ancient knife piloting a corpse puppet for kicks
- 'Now it is war': Elon Musk and Twitter accuse an advertising alliance, which includes EA and Twitch, of conspiring against the platform and breaking US antitrust law
- Sony says the 220 layoffs at Bungie were made in the name of—you guessed it—things like 'portfolio optimization' and enhancing 'the efficiency of the business'
- Corsair ditches 80 Plus for PSUs: here are the Cybenetics ratings it'll use instead
- MSI and Asus roll out first Intel instability fix for a range of motherboards with 0x129 microcode BIOS
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 8
- August 7
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- YouTube is testing a new Twitter-style community notes feature, which is good because YouTubers sure do love to lie
- A mischevious dagger slid Diablo 4 players free XP boosts under the table before Blizzard caught it
- Lone Echo developer Ready at Dawn has reportedly been closed by Meta
- Bungie can't catch a W: Rather than buffing the drop rate of Destiny 2's most-wanted exotic items, the latest patch nerfed it into dust
- Previously unreleased Life By You screenshots are making life sim fans even sadder that it got cancelled
- Fans of MOBAs and extraction shooters should sign up for Seekers of Skyveil's playtest on Steam and prepare for its closed beta next month
- The first impressions of the Borderlands movie are out, and include slightly worrying phrases like 'disaster' and 'visually repulsive dud'
- A pedophile used Roblox to groom, abduct and sexually assault a 15-year-old girl, a full 18 months after the community had outed him as a predator
- Baldur's Gate 3 anniversary statistics cement the popularity of Astarion, kissing, and being turned into a cheese wheel
- StarCraft 2 spiritual successor Stormgate launches to a mixed rating on Steam, but Frost Giant is undaunted: 'Mixed reviews are to be expected at this stage'
- Balatro has sold 2 million copies, free 'major gameplay update' coming next year
- I've never needed anything more than 'the world's first medieval electronic instrument,' a pre-Baroque beatbox that looks like a Pentiment/DJ Hero collab
- NIS America says Trails and Ys RPG fans won't have to wait so long for future English releases: 'We want to bring that timeline down'
- Micron touts world's first PCIe Gen 6 drive with epic 26 GB/s speeds but it's not hitting your PC for years
- Republican vice prez candidate JD Vance nurses a secret passion for Magic: The Gathering, says his wife
- 'My thighs were absolutely killing me': Red Dead Redemption 2's Roger Clark discusses the perils of crouch running
- We're getting a Civilization 7 deep dive at The Future Games Show at Gamescom, hosted by GTA's Michael de Santa and RDR2's Sadie Adler
- Warframe is gearing up for its wildest expansion yet with The Lotus Eaters update on August 21
- Logitech says it has 'no plans' for a subscription mouse—let's keep it that way
- Intel CEO says Panther Lake CPU on its new 18A node is already up and running with production slated for next year
- New world's thinnest LPDDR5X memory from Samsung could bode well for handheld gaming PCs
- 'Everything's held together with duct tape': Fallout London's project lead discusses all the bugs, including the infamous train crash
- UK Royal Mint's 'urban mining' extracts more gold from old motherboards and other junk than you might think
- AMD's new Ryzen 9000 CPUs are officially up to $50 cheaper than the old 7000 series were at launch
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, August 7
- Here's what Karlach and Astarion get up to if you leave them at camp: Joining a D&D actual-play show
- Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz once endorsed a high school Valorant team
- Final Fantasy 14 is a load-bearing MMO helping to keep Square Enix profitable
- I thought Diablo 4 had already evolved into a great action RPG, but its latest season just made it even better
- August 6
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- Fallout: London devs are working on a 'HUGE' patch, offering 'dedicated 1-on-1 troubleshooting sessions' to help players with installs and crashes
- Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio will reveal more about his next game in a few days, says fans of Dishonored and Prey 'will be happy'
- Helldivers 2's loudest players go nuclear over another unpopular nerf, but Arrowhead CEO keeps calm: 'Some are going 'Buff everything!' Others are saying 'It's too easy!' Most are just playing.'
- The maker of this retro city builder wants to include events like bank robberies, police chases, and zombie outbreaks
- Once Human is revealing the inner Sims player that even my loud FPS friends have inside them
- Bloober Team knows fans don't really trust it with the Silent Hill 2 remake, so it's asking for the next-best thing: 'Give us a chance'
- Hidden Final Fantasy 16 profile in latest Nvidia driver has fans hyping themselves up for a surprise Gamescom PC launch
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 system requirements are out, and you probably won't need to buy a new PC to play it
- IRL Squid Game competitors complain it was too real, reporting injuries and poor treatment as they fought for $5 million beneath a grinning MrBeast: 'We're all just looking up at the sky, screaming at him like he's god'
- It turns out that Elden Ring players can kill Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss with the power of friendship and a strange bug
- Larian releases Baldur's Gate 3 anniversary video celebrating the fans, and boss Swen Vincke says you ain't seen nothing yet: 'We're gonna take all of that energy and convert it into something new, something shiny, something big'
- 'The ongoing conversations around ARM vs x86 power are based on a false premise,' says Intel's VP of technical marketing
- Alan Wake 2 fan notices a sound cue gives the game away about its villain early on, Remedy sound dev gasps 'Finally someone noticed'
- 'I hate the thought of Balatro becoming a true gambling game': LocalThunk is making sure casinos can't get their hands on his game even after he dies by literally writing it into his will
- A Dead by Daylight and Five Nights at Freddy's collaboration was just announced, something I am shocked has taken this long to happen
- High on Life is getting a TV show adaptation produced by Curb Your Enthusiasm's JB Smoove: 'It's a case of game recognizing game!'
- It turns out that music was the endgame for Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone: 'I've always dreamed of people appreciating my music'
- Descenders Next is the follow-up to my favourite extreme biking sim, but it won't have bikes at launch
- Banned Twitch streamer Adin Ross gets Donald Trump on a Kick stream, gifts him a Rolex, then they sit together in a Trumped-out Cybertruck listening to Elvis' 'Can't Help Falling In Love'
- There still might be more RX 7000-series AMD GPUs on the way as rumours suggest two under $250
- 'Google is a monopolist' says US judge in ruling on exclusivity deals to get Google Search on all your platforms all the time
- Cult of the Lamb's next major content update will be an interactive digital comic: 'Where all your choices will take you on a colourful adventure'
- Yakuza producer still won't put Kiryu in a goddamn fighting game, or possibly any future videogame for that matter: 'I think going cross-medium is the better way to go about it'
- Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP's release date has been bumped up, plus a price tag reveal that's raised a few eyebrows
- GeForce GPU giant has been data scraping 80 years' worth of videos every day for AI training to 'unlock various downstream applications critical to Nvidia'
- Final Fantasy 14 hunter spent 3 days collectively losing their minds trying to spawn a monster with sunglasses, mass crying sessions, and alpacas… only to find out they just needed to wait
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, August 6
- August 5
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- House Flipper 2 update adds 150 new items, including towels, decorative moss, and weeds
- Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra is now CEO of one of those technically-not-gambling daily fantasy sports apps
- The follow-up to Palworld could go 'beyond AAA', but Pocketpair's CEO only wants to pursue projects that 'are interesting as indie games'
- Star Wars Outlaws' $40 season pass comes with 2 story packs, including a run-in with Lando Calrissian later this year
- Nightingale devs say they're 'not satisfied' with the game, its reception, or its player numbers, but they've got big improvements coming
- Fallout: New Vegas director on the art of making sure all your points in persuasion aren't wasted: It's 'all about feelings … but you use numbers to arrive at that feeling'
- 'Our 33-year legacy deserves a genuine goodbye': Game Informer staff tweets one last goodbye after all of their work was deleted, then GameStop nukes the account from orbit
- Diablo 4 players finally unearth a secret ring they've been looking for since it launched over a year ago—and it's utter trash
- Crusader Kings 3 is, unexpectedly, the latest videogame to receive an official comic book
- Lae'zel's actor shares the 'one and only audition' that got her the role in Baldur's Gate 3, featuring threats, bullying, and more urine drinking than I expected
- Monster Hunter Wilds introduces Focus Mode, for those moments when you absolutely must hit that Tigrex in its tender nethers
- The performer for Baldur's Gate 3's smooth-talking devil, Raphael, thought the RPG was a musical
- World of Warcraft dev says the game's 500-strong union, spurred on by 2021 controversies, has been aided by the move to Microsoft
- A decade after buying Oculus VR, Meta's Reality Labs' losses are spiralling out of control, with no end in sight
- All the small things: Lenovo's website may have hinted at an upcoming Legion Go 'Lite'
- The Call of Duty ban wave continues as Activision dishes out over 65,000 account bans across Warzone and Modern Warfare 3
- Rust dev is bored of paying Unity '$500k a year' to fix its engine and promises that his Garry's Mod successor won't hoodwink devs with fees
- Elon Musk says his brainchip patients will soon 'outperform a pro gamer', then takes a big old puff and says 'let’s give people superpowers'
- Microsoft, Meta and more might have to wait for their shiny new AI hardware as Nvidia's Blackwell server GPUs are reportedly delayed
- HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 debuts its first proper teaser—showing us Abby and a mysterious maybe-therapist played by Catherine O’Hara
- Workstation builder Puget Systems' report shows the stability problems with Intel's CPUs can be managed if only you 'mistrust the default settings on any motherboard'
- Devs turn to Patreon after Humble Games collapse leaves studio without support: 'We lost access to the pipeline of critical systems without warning'
- This 3D printed laser chip-hacking device uses a $20 laser pointer, costs $500 to build, and was developed so that 'people can do this in their homes'
- Sega files mysterious 'Yakuza Wars' trademark right after Like A Dragon studio teases fans that the next game will leave them 'surprised'
- After players reject the stratagem 3 times, Helldivers 2 devs snap and demand they kill 1.5 billion enemies or suffer the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines as punishment
- A new Darksiders game is in development: 'The Four Horsemen will ride again'
- Steam's favourite GPU, the RTX 3060, is nearing its end as Nvidia gets ready to issue the last batch of chips
- A codenamed Valve project found in a voice actor's résumé has Half-Life fans putting on the clown makeup yet again
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, August 5
- August 4
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- Baldur's Gate 3 was so big that Larian has developed a 'Simpsons did it' problem: 'Whenever we're talking about things, we say we did that in BG3'
- Crafting in crafting games may suck, but it seems surprisingly decent in the updated rules for Dungeons & Dragons of all things
- Elden Ring's latest patch tried to sneak a big 'ole chair into a boss arena like we wouldn't notice and immediately ponder the lore implications
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, August 4
- Don't expect Dragon Age: The Veilguard before October at the absolute earliest
- August 3
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- Mega streamer Kai Cenat is streaming Bloodborne to call attention to fan demand for a PC port: 'PlayStation, FromSoft, this is one of the most highly requested games for a remaster and a PC version'
- To celebrate Baldur's Gate 3's first birthday, Larian announces a 'Channel From Hell' on YouTube for 'community-focused' and 'never-before-seen' videos
- Larian's not holding back for its next two RPGs: 'The machine was meant to make large games'
- All Zenless Zone Zero codes from the 1.1 livestream
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, August 3
- August 2
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- Dishonorable Elden Ring players bypass Shadow of the Erdtree's greatest duel without even entering the boss room
- Ark 2, blink twice if you're OK: Xbox announces a playable demo of the survival crafting sequel at Gamescom and then unannounces it
- Fallen London is getting a tabletop RPG for its 15th anniversary
- Payback, a Destiny spinoff that was not, in fact, Destiny 3, was cancelled two months before the latest mass layoffs at Bungie
- Valve's former economist says Steam could produce 'better macroeconomic forecasts' than Goldman Sachs with the power of crowdsourcing and brownie points
- Valve unintentionally set the stage for today's digital economic hellscape, according to its former economist in residence
- Car destruction lovers rejoice, Wreckfest 2 is on the way
- We've finally gotten a closer look at Titan Quest 2, and it sure looks a lot like Diablo 4
- With its 'immersive and realistic world' and 'complex life simulation on a scale hardly ever seen before', the Gothic 1 Remake looks even more wonderfully over-ambitious and janky than the original game
- Game Informer, the longest running US gaming magazine, shuts down after 33 years
- There's a free open beta for 'adaption shooter' Ascendant on Steam this weekend
- New Path of Exile league crushes concurrent player record, introduces city builder mode, shakes up the metagame
- A Fallout: London modder has taken it upon themself to cure the rampant dog food addiction that is more sinister than you'd think
- Helldivers 2 CEO goes straight to the tap, asks the Reddit think tank for ideas on how to use their oodles of in-game resources
- Larian nearly made Baldur's Gate 4, it was partially playable and 'something that you all would have liked', but the studio didn't want to spend another 3 years on it
- Founder takes down the Nexus Mods of romhacking after 20 years because 'lines were crossed' by 'a most dishonest and hate filled group,' but others tell a different story
- Old School RuneScape developers left mystified as players, whipped up into a religious fervour, demand that gaming's loudest mole-rat get even louder
- Broken CPUs, workforce cuts, cancelled dividends and a decade of borked silicon—how has it all gone so wrong for Intel?
- Upscaling is the new normal according to Star Wars Outlaws system requirements
- NZXT will rent you an RTX 4070 Ti Super system for $169 a month or $2,028 a year but we can find deals a lot better than that
- Paradox indefinitely delays Prison Architect 2, just like it did with Life By You before it was scrapped
- Bungie was reportedly going to pull the trigger on layoffs regardless of The Final Shape's success, due to leadership under-delivering on 'financial promises' to Sony
- You officially have no excuse not to play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided now Prime Gaming is doling out free GOG copies of the game
- Intel extends its warranty support for 13th and 14th Gen CPUs by two years but its RMA procedure has been anything but straightforward for some
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch event has been fixed, removing 90-minute wait times and turning its weekly quests into account-wide dailies
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- Once Human patch speeds up motorcycles and makes respeccing easier
- Blizzard could've let Diablo 4's weakest classes ride it out until the expansion, but it's showering them in buffs for season 5 instead
- Intel is laying off 15,000 people: 'We are making some of the most consequential changes in our company's history'
- Arrowhead posts shocking found footage of elusive Helldivers 2 game master Joel
- Avowed delayed to February to 'give players' backlogs some breathing room'
- We'll see what makes Civilization 7 different on August 20 when Firaxis shows off the first gameplay of its 'revolutionary new chapter' in the grand strategy series
- Sins of a Solar Empire 2 comes to Steam this month, after almost two years of Epic exclusivity
- If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe
- It's so funny that Valve's new shooter that it won't admit exists has a public subreddit
- Promise Mascot Agency is a game where you can entice a big, sobbing tofu guy with employee benefits, and I think that's beautiful
- Hearthstone content creator tells Blizzard to give away a Golden Legendary in order win back fans. Blizzard replies: 'OK'
- During a $10,000 Elden Ring speedrun contest, the "holy grail" of glitches emerges as speedrunners learn to run across the sky
- Do you also have strong '90s memories of Tomba from a PS1 demo disc? You can relive the magic in its unlikely remaster now
- Star Wars Outlaws devs were stunned by the internet's response to its sexy, sexy droid: 'There's nothing sexy about sitting in the skintight suit'
- Baldur's Gate 3's Harpers just can't catch a break—sleuth discovers Jaheira's redshirts have a block in their code that nerfs their damage in half
- Former Bungie devs show fury and sorrow over layoffs, following the revelation that CEO Pete Parsons allegedly spent at least $2,414,550 on vintage cars in the past 2 years
- D&D's upcoming VTT, codenamed Project Sigil, will come with Baldur's Gate 3 minis—further cementing WoTC's plans to franchise the heck out of it
- Shareholders sue CrowdStrike over consequences of catastrophic worldwide IT outage and I don't think an Uber Eats voucher will cut it this time
- Activision rolls out a Call of Duty: Warzone ban wave and promises that Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer is next: 'Leaderboards have been purged'
- As rage factories howl about Kay Vess' looks, Star Wars Outlaws lead says there's no point engaging with 'bad faith' criticism: 'No nuance and no possibility of real dialogue'
- Logitech's 'forever mouse' could mean peripherals go the way of coffee beans, TVs, and printer ink by pushing a subscription
- A law firm is investigating whether to launch a class action case against Intel for 13th/14th Gen CPU instability issues
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 1
