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- February 28
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- Warner is still talking about Hogwarts Legacy as it commits to basing its future games on 'tentpole franchises that have each generated over $1 billion'
- Humanity's last hope is a little robot with can-do spirit in The Last Caretaker, coming to early access this summer
- One of the best puzzle game designers is back with Kaizen: A Factory Story, a game about manufacturing Japanese consumer goods during the largest economic bubble in history
- Meta says sorry for turning Instagram into a horror show of violence, gore, dead bodies, and other graphic content that 'should not have been recommended'
- The new Terminator 2D already looks like the best Terminator game since the Genesis, and I'm not kidding
- Helldivers 2 continues its streak of turning missteps into in-game lore: After a major feature was paused for 24 hours, Super Earth says 'nothing out of the ordinary has happened'
- The BAFTAs dares to ask the internet: 'What is the most influential videogame of all time?'
- Inzoi just announced a global showcase in March to detail its pricing, roadmap, and DLC plans ahead of launch
- Skype is being shut down in favour of Microsoft Teams, and with it dies the best ring tone in the business
- Nvidia's long-awaited Arm-based chip for PCs reportedly spotted running Geekbench very badly
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal'
- 'It was truly eye-opening to realize just how many people deeply love this type of game': Inzoi director hopes his life sim will 'bring comfort to many players' lives'
- 3 years later, GTA 5’s Enhanced edition finally comes to PC, and it’s somehow 22GB smaller than GTA 5 Cool Original flavour
- I can't even handle one person in my Google Doc, yet this YouTuber invited over 800,000 people to vandalise his homework all at the same time
- The co-creator of Dark Souls' most ambitious mod resurfaces to inform me that Blighttown, source of my nightmares, was cobbled together with '10 bits of wood'
- WoW's new Undermine(d) patch had a live jazz ensemble recording its big-band bangers, and they got to improvise: 'Usually those were the takes that ended up in the final version'
- AMD has just taken the fight to Nvidia with its pricing for the RX 9070-series and I'm here for it
- Lost Soul Aside system requirements suggest Sony's upcoming RPG is a breeze to run, but you may want to make some room on your SSD
- TSMC takes 'chip binning' to a whole new level as entire wafer 'found in a dumpster'
- AMD confirms more affordable RX 9060 graphics cards will arrive in 'the second quarter of this year'
- I became a domestic terrorist to steal a lightbulb in the best immersive sim I've played this Steam Next Fest—and it isn't even a Next Fest demo
- AMD prices its new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs at $549 and $599 and we're very excited
- AMD has officially revealed its RDNA 4-based RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs and they look a lot like RDNA 3, only turbocharged
- 'Infused with AMD DNA': FSR 4 has been announced with a healthy dose of machine learning and support for 30+ games at launch
- 'It runs awful. It looks awful': Monster Hunter Wilds performance issues put a dampener on its record-breaking concurrents as it settles into an early Mixed rating on Steam
- Palworld's developer gives staff day off after Monster Hunter Wilds causes 'a series of mysterious reports from many employees that they may feel unwell'
- With some RTX 50-series cards missing precious ROPs, one PC builder guarantees their systems' GPUs will all have the right number
- Watch the AMD RX 9000-series livestream with us here: Finally, some new AMD graphics cards to get nerdy with
- A match made in heaven: Buy a 1600 W MSI power supply and get Monster Hunter Wilds for free
- Monster Hunter Wilds claws past Dota 2 and Lost Ark to be Steam's 5th most-played game ever, with a nearly 1.4 million peak player count
- PSA: If Monster Hunter Wilds is crashing, try turning off frame generation
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, February 28
- Monster Hunter Wilds already has more than 30 mods, with 2,600 downloads between them
- The new Witcher novel is a prequel called Crossroads of Ravens where Geralt is 18 years old, and it'll be available in English in September
- February 27
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- Based on its new trailer, I predict A Minecraft Movie will make A Trillion Dollars
- Civilization 7's first in-game event postponed so Firaxis can 'prioritize quality-of-life improvements'
- D&D-skewering, Disco Elysium-inspired RPG Esoteric Ebb had me trying my best to be a cleric while my Intelligence stat kept telling me to become a wizard-king
- California Fire Relief Bundle offers Tunic, Skatebird, Catlateral Damage, and hundreds of other games for just $10
- The first gameplay trailer for PUBG creator's 'brutal' survival game shows off deadly weather and cozy cabins
- BioWare co-founder laments Jade Empire's commercial failure and blames it on 'the worst advice, absolutely moronic advice' from Microsoft
- Epic will give Fortnite cheaters 'a second chance' with a new, more forgiving ban policy, as long as they didn't do anything too awful or illegal
- Monster Hunter Wilds live launch coverage: Server status, hunting tips, and all the latest release day news
- Dungeonborne, the game that once threatened to steal Dark and Darker's crown, is closing in May
- Adult game dev reveals annual gamer 'kink survey' results: 'Monster Girls' are on top, but 'Tentacles dropped out of the top 25'
- The Splitgate 2 open alpha is live now and very fun
- EA just released source code for a bunch of old Command and Conquer games, and added Steam Workshop support to bangers like C&C 3: Tiberium Wars
- Color-coded battery icon update for Windows 11 should've been super simple, proves to be anything but
- Razer has seen sense and slightly lowered the Razer Tax with its latest Blade 16 gaming laptops
- My favourite Steam Next Fest game, Cozy Desktop Konbini, combines my love for shopping management sims and desktop idlers
- Latest Nvidia Game Ready drivers fix various black screen issues that left gamers staring at their sad reflections
- Elite Dangerous just implemented an entire system colonisation mechanic, in case you really want to get off this planet
- iFixit has pulled apart Framework's mini PC and it looks to be the AMD Strix Halo-powered desktop device I've been wanting for at least a week and more
- Monster Hunter Wilds is already trying to beat the pre-release difficulty allegations by dropping the deets on its first major patch
- Metro 2033 dev pulls a reverse Fight Club twist: It's been two companies this whole time and one of them is changing its name and making a sci-fi shooter in a dystopian South America
- Over 30 Apex Legends voice actors refuse to sign an agreement that would see them 'give up our expertise to train the generative AI that will replace us tomorrow'
- The moon is getting 4G before parts of my town
- 'A big scam company just stole my whole game': A Backrooms indie dev has been forced to seek legal help after someone took their game off Steam and uploaded it to the Nintendo Store
- A rocket was just fired into space containing the first data center to land on the moon, which is both incredible and incredibly corporate in equal measure
- Amidst a barren GPU market and talk of 'supply constraints', Nvidia's end-of-year earnings call gives a glimmer of hope for RTX 50-series graphics card stocks this quarter
- WoW's new DRIVE system probably won't be used outside of its GTA-style goblin zone, but devs are 'going to think about' recycling its parts elsewhere
- It only took Razer some 15 years to finally do the right thing and make a gloriously ugly Minecraft creeper keyboard
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: inZOI
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, February 27
- Have I Been Pwned adds over 284 million compromised passwords from latest breach
- February 26
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- The Witcher 4 reveal trailer took 14 days of mocap, and CD Projekt wants you to think about what happened after it ended
- Valve expands Steam's Daily Deals program from 4 games to 6, also explains what Steam's Daily Deals program is
- Riot walks back unpopular League of Legends changes: Hextech Chests are coming back, and the Blue Essence cost for new champions will be cut in half
- Bungie's lawyers have to use fan videos of old Destiny 2 content in court because, well, it doesn't exist in-game anymore
- The Dark Souls 3 seamless co-op mod is here, letting you further hone your teamwork skills before Elden Ring Nightreign launches
- Slack is down, and that means it's time to start playing games on company time
- Following Monolith's shock closure, GOG is offering 90% off its 2005 shooter FEAR and accelerating the game's preservation to recognise its doomed developer's 'contribution to gaming'
- Maingear CEO says the company has had 'zero GPUs with missing ROPs', so maybe Nvidia's talk of a rare 'early production build' problem isn't just handwaving
- You can get an official Avowed fungus kit that lets you grow a piece of the Dreamscourge in your own home: 'If you don't do anything, eventually the mushrooms will find their way out… They'll just burst out of the box'
- This 'overwhelmingly positive' Steam Next Fest autobattler demo feels like someone bolted a Path of Exile-style map onto Halls of Torment, and I fear for my future productivity
- GPU manufacturer Yeston's done the unthinkable by dunking its new 'Atlantis' RX 9070 XT graphics card in the ocean
- Shape of Dreams' demo shows off an ingenious roguelike that wields Risk of Rain-tier finesse with action MOBA chaos, and I think I might be in love
- Ella Purnell dreads being typecast for her 'poop finger' in Fallout: 'This finger is the bane of my life'
- Inzoi's wild karma system can turn cities into literal ghost towns that you have to cleanse, game director says: 'If too many ghosts appear in the city, new Zois cannot be born'
- Delves have given WoW's devs the confidence to put mandatory grinds firmly in the rear-view, says game director Ion Hazzikostas
- Your next chance to secure an RTX 50-series graphics card at launch could be a 16 GB variant of the RTX 5060 Ti next month
- China taunts Taiwan with claim that chip foundry TSMC could soon become 'USSMC' or the 'United States Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'
- Deadlock gets a massive map overhaul that shrinks its map from four lanes to three: 'This has a large range of accompanying map-wide changes'
- Marvel Rivals fans think NetEase is teasing the Hellfire Gala and Emma Frost in a small excerpt from its newest gallery card
- Inzoi director says his son is the reason for swapping MMOs for life sims and that he wanted 'something that fans like us could enjoy for years to come'
- RTX 50-series black screen issues should finally be fixed this week in an official Nvidia driver update
- Baldur's Gate 3's stress test update has, mercifully, made one of its new OP cantrips halfway balanced again—but it's really still quite good
- New figures show Valve's Steam Deck is still by far the biggest selling handheld gaming PC but the form factor isn't really taking off
- Excellent throwback mod Team Fortress 2 Classic is coming to Steam later this year
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 26
- February 25
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- Autographed copies of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 collector's editions are being auctioned for charity, but it'll cost you more than 59 copies of the regular game just to get in the door
- 'I'm an idiot': MrBeast says he lost 'tens of millions of dollars' of his own money on Amazon's Beast Games
- Get ready to get weird in Pathologic 3: Quarantine, a free 'prologue chapter' about a young doctor looking for immortality in the world's most miserable town
- Former Piranha Bytes veterans unveil their new dungeon crawler, and it's tripping my Arx Fatalis alarms in all the right ways
- Warner Bros. is closing Monolith, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, and has cancelled its Wonder Woman game
- The Sims 4 is finally bringing the burglar back to the series after a decade away
- Framework takes aim at 'janky, locked-down, disposable, underpowered, and frankly, boring' entry-level laptops with its new 12-inch touchscreen
- Framework's first desktop PC is giving us the AMD Strix Halo machine we've been craving, and the opportunity to build our own
- The Callisto Protocol studio lays off more employees, but 'remains operational'
- With RTX 50 series cards not supporting 32-bit PhysX, some owners are taking to shoving a secondary card into their rig just to run older games better
- Inzoi director says 'we have great respect for the legacy The Sims has built' and doesn't see their game as a direct competitor: 'Our aim is to provide a different experience'
- Haste: Broken Worlds finally lets me live out my childhood fantasy of running really fast and then slamming into a rock at Mach 1 and breaking all my bones
- Fable is delayed until 2026: 'Not maybe the news people want to hear [but] it’s definitely worth the wait'
- Marvel Rivals is giving away 200 units to everyone as an apology for the server outages, and players are very happy: 'I literally made 200 units in my sleep'
- This post will self-destruct in 5 seconds: Steam's first ever spy game festival is kicking off in May
- PUBG's creator is focusing on raising funds for his next project to 'insulate the team' so they don't end up making 'just another PlayerUnknown game'
- Jennifer English (Shadowheart) and Nolan North (Nathan Drake) will be the illustrious hosts of the Future Games Show this year
- Soulsborne fans tackle the ultimate boss of private healthcare, paying off beloved community figure's huge bill within hours while collectively urging: 'Don't you dare go hollow'
- Balatro's new cards really show that every dev in the games industry is hooked on Balatro
- Reddit reports of 9800X3D CPUs dying in ASRock motherboards are racking up fast, but a new BIOS update seemingly only addresses boot problems
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater system requirements are here, and it's yet another game that requires an RTX graphics card and tonnes of free storage to play
- 'How do I know which fire is hot': Marvel Rivals players are finding it too hard to distinguish between friendly and dangerous Human Torch flames
- One educational company accuses Google's AI summary of leading to a 'hollowed-out information ecosystem of little use and unworthy of trust' in latest lawsuit
- Dungeons & Dragons' first post-revamp adventure book says hey, let's put some dungeons and some dragons in this thing
- After a year-long effort to get a QD-OLED monitor to burn in, one tester's results are better than you might expect but not quite perfect
- The Logitech G PowerPlay charging mouse pad was my baby and now there's a new version with a lower MSRP, thinner mat, and larger charging area
- Call of Duty admits it's using generative AI to 'help develop some in-game assets', and suddenly all those poorly made calling cards make sense
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 25
- Yes, Marvel Rivals went down for a while
- Andor Season 2 trailer is action-packed, but hopefully the show is still actually packed with interesting people quietly talking to each other
- February 24
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- The mad lads at New Blood have remastered Ultrakill before actually releasing Ultrakill in the first place
- Balatro finally escapes its silly 18+ age rating, PEGI promises 'a more granular set of classification criteria' for gambling-themed games in the future
- Dauntless, the monster hunting game we had before Monster Hunter came to PC, will shut down in May
- Monster Hunter Wilds reviews roundup: Either 'a new peak for the series,' or 'may have lost its soul,' depending on who you talk to
- Physical copies of Assassin's Creed Shadows leak nearly a month ahead of its release date
- BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk considered taking over EA 'from the inside', but he was thwarted by an MMO
- The Unpacking developer's next game finally has a release date, but if you can't wait until then, you can check out the free demo now
- Bossa says 'disruption' in the game industry 'is not a phase, it's a fundamental transformation' of how games will be made in the future as it lays off more employees
- With remake rumours swirling, Persona 4 fans are ecstatic while P1 and 2 fans have crossed the horizon of despair
- The Katamari Damacy designer is releasing a game about a kid stuck in a T-pose
- 'It's like Die Hard but with more comedy': Immersive FPS Skin Deep has talking cats, banana traps, and enemies you can disable by making them sneeze
- This open world bicycling game from the developer of Nidhogg is so chill that 'you don't really have to do any of the challenges if you don't want to'
- 'I think it kind of wouldn't make sense anymore': Monster Hunter Wilds is breaking my heart by doing away with its bespoke language voice option, but that doesn't mean it's vanished entirely
- The RTX 50-series might make 'high-end pricing' seem like an understatement but at least there are still reasonably priced entry-level builds out there like this one
- Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over
- Twitch is changing its suspension policy so that violations have an expiry date because the system 'didn’t acknowledge community members who had learned from their past mistakes'
- WoW promising 3 expansions with a bunch of roadmap deadlines has, paradoxically, helped its devs slow down and take their time: 'The team is really energized'
- One eager beaver PC builder has decided it can't wait any longer and has spilt the beans on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D mega chip, two weeks before all the reviews
- So long and thanks for all the space junk: China-based Starlink competitor SpaceSail plans to have 15,000 satellites deployed by 2030, and it's not the only one with its eyes on the skies
- Fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim has a new video, looks amazing, is set for release 'this year,' and I struggle to imagine the rumoured official Oblivion remake doing much better
- FF14 streamer yields to the MMO's bounciest catgirl, after inspiring them to beat his new speedrunning record 3 times before he could finish making a video about it
- AMD's 'official' performance figures for RDNA 4 leak out early, with the RX 9070 XT claimed to be 42% faster than the RX 7900 GRE at 4K
- After only 31 days, the breakout WarioWare-like game Mindwave has raised over $440,000 thanks to a brilliant demo, which you can still play now
- Ex-Intel exec, Raja Koduri, blames the bureaucratic 'PowerPoint snakes' within the company for its current issues: 'These processes multiply and coil around engineers'
- The curious tale of the missing eight: Some Nvidia RTX 50-series cards are shipping with missing ROPs in the GPU, Nvidia says only 0.5% of all cards are affected
- There's hunger at Obsidian for a Pillars of Eternity Tactics game after Avowed, says studio design director Josh Sawyer, but it doesn't sound like it'd get that Baldur's Gate 3-size budget he was fantasizing about
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 24
- Asus' new 'Fragrance Mouse' can be filled with oil to make your desk less stinky, but there has to be a better way
- Cubicle 7 explains why its fantasy RPG based on Warhammer: The Old World will be a separate game and not a line of supplements for its existing Warhammer fantasy RPG, which is called Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play
- February 23
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- Obsidian CEO reveals it's just half the size of many triple-A studios, even as it prepares to launch its 4th game in 5 years
- We've played The Blood of Dawnwalker, check it out in the new issue of PC PowerPlay
- 23-year-old Dungeons & Dragons RPG Neverwinter Nights just got a new, official expansion that continues its original story in a 'love letter' to the game and its community
- Remedy's Sam Lake and Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope will receive major achievement awards in March
- Dota 2 remembers water is very important, adds more, in latest map shakeup
- A month into early access, Hyper Light Breaker has already added a new playable character, with a perk designed for players who like to 'shoot fast and shoot a lot'
- Portal Randomized mixes up Valve's beloved puzzler by turning the floor into lava and filling chambers with a deadly neurotoxin
- Nested Lands is a 'brutal' survival city-builder about guiding villagers through a plague-infested world, and you can play its open alpha right now
- Hasbro is working with Saber Interactive on a 'tentpole' IP using Space Marine 2's swarm tech
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 23
- Magic: The Gathering's last set for 2025 will be Avatar: The Last Airbender
- February 22
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- Void Martyrs is 'Grimdark survival horror about a nun in a space suit' so sign me up
- $1.5 billion crypto heist could be the biggest yet, more than doubling the previous record, but don't worry: The affected firm says it can take the hit
- There's a free beta on for the mech game by the World of Tanks creators
- Avowed could have been Obsidian's Redfall, with a Destiny plus Skyrim co-op multiplayer vision scrapped early in a grueling 6-year development
- An autobattler designed by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield is coming in March
- There's gonna be a 1 vs many board game based on 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Skyrim was 'personally rebalanced' by producer Jeff Gardiner just 2 weeks before launch: 'Well, I hope this is good'
- Atomfall dev says Rebellion's open world shooter has 'some experimental stuff' that can have a 'huge influence' on the game world: 'It might work out. It might not'
- Need to relax? Grab a coffee, kick back and submerge yourself in the sound of Hades 2's narrator reading the patch notes for its latest massive update
- No More Room in Hell 2's 'biggest update yet' introduces weapon attachments, new level scenarios, and ensures players no longer spawn 'without a body'
- A Skyrim dev broke the game before launch when they made thousands of tiny ants cast individual shadows: 'Why is the game running so slow?'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, February 22
- 'These kids do not care about romance': Game devs want to know what today's teens want, and surveys say sex and romance isn't it
- February 21
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- Marvel Rivals was reportedly almost cancelled because the CEO of NetEase didn't want to pay Disney for the licenses
- Peripheral maker Corsair says Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming to PC in 'early 2026,' then immediately yoinks it back
- Peter Jason, the voice of Fallout 2's famous drill sergeant and Dizzy in the Gear of War games, has died
- I am begging you not to watch this ghostly white 'faceless, anatomically accurate' robot dangling from wires and silently thrashing its sinewy limbs
- Inzoi is really trying to eat The Sims 4's lunch by including seasons in its base game instead of locked behind a DLC
- XCOM's creator wants to know where XCOM 3 is just as badly as you do: 'I'm sure there's an audience for it'
- Newsflash: Intel's all-important 18A node is officially 'ready' but what exactly happened to the 'five nodes in four years' thing?
- Nvidia has built a free AI-led platform to help teach American Sign Language with '400,000 video clips representing 1,000 signed words' so far
- I got murdered by the ancient Swiss in this life sim about being Julius Caesar's top guy
- Terrifying horror nopefest Phasmophobia combined with immersive room lighting looks like an easy way to give yourself a chronic case of the brown trousers
- Marvel Rivals players are so starved for Vanguard options one person has decided to take matters into their own hands: 'We need more Vanguards, so I made one'
- Lenovo's leaked new foldable OLED AI laptop looks like someone has slipped with their mouse in Photoshop
- George RR Martin says there's 'talk' of an Elden Ring movie but he might not be involved because, ah geez, he's really gotta write this Winds of Winter book
- 'A massive, massive moment of wow.' Microsoft CEO predicts AI-generated games are a 'CGI moment' for the industry
- 'It’s very straightforward': Acer plans to raise the price of its PCs in the US by 10% in reaction to Trump's tech tariffs
- Graphics cards are so demanding now there are devices with tiny screens that plug into connectors and monitor temperatures
- There's a simple way to enable FSR 3 frame gen in Avowed and it more than doubled my frame rate, but it makes waterfalls look ugly as sin
- Players are already finding creative solutions to Prologue: Go Wayback's grueling difficulty: 'You could just chug gasoline'
- Fallout 76's former project lead says it's still his favourite game he worked on, but the initial reception was demoralising: 'I got yelled at in an Apple Store, I'll never forget'
- If you ever got the feeling a customer support line is intentionally keeping you on hold in the hope you'll go away it turns out the HP is doing precisely that with a minimum 15 wait
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, February 21
- Sure seems like the new Call of Duty map is teasing a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game
- Payday 3 sales dropped off hard in 2024, but Starbreeze has hope for the future
- Dune: Awakening's sandworms will be their own masters: 'You won't be able to summon them at will'
- Heads up on an important change to commenting
- February 20
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- 2XKO fans despair for a 2025 release as Riot pushes back a planned 'larger-scale global playtest' in favor of a 'much smaller one'
- Overwatch 2 achieves the improbable, clawing back a 'Mixed' rating in recent Steam reviews after a well-received perks update
- 'A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to,' but it's a different story for hobbits because Tales of the Shire is delayed again
- Two days after laying off US-based developers, NetEase says Marvel Rivals has surpassed 40 million players
- Sony shares examples of 'sexually charged' texts from former Destiny 2 director who claims Bungie fired him unfairly to avoid paying millions
- Among Us 3D will make the VR version playable without a headset, and it's coming 'soon'
- AI Atlantis revealed off the coast of China, reportedly boasting computational power equivalent to 30,000 high-end gaming PCs
- 'This is not unlocking shareholder value, it's a fire sale': Jim Keller weighs in on a possible 'careless' Intel chip and fab spin-off
- Hyte has announced another Persona-themed gaming PC case, and as a Persona die-hard, even I think it's a bit much
- Former Sony exec finally says the quiet part out loud: putting PlayStation games on PC is 'almost like printing money'
- Marvel Rivals players have discovered the Human Torch's weakest feature—his incredibly underwhelming Lord icon: 'They just flipped him sideways'
- Microsoft's wacky Majorana 1 chip, powered by an 'entirely new state of matter', could have industrial quantum computing here 'in years, not decades'
- GTA 5's next-gen update finally has a March PC release date a mere 3 years after it prettied-up the console versions
- 'I expect a lot of people will hate it': PUBG creator Brendan Greene doesn't care if his new game is too hard for players to handle as long as it 'elicits a reaction'
- Survival MMO Dune: Awakening launches in May and I am way more excited about it than I thought I'd be
- Nvidia's Verified Priority Access draw system returns to offer the chance to pay full price for RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics cards
- Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti launch day live: All the retail links to RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards, including MSRP and absolutely nowhere near MSRP models
- 13 years on, Ubisoft adds Steam achievements to the one mainline Assassin's Creed game you can't actually buy, but not the updated version you can
- Marvel Rivals has somehow made Storm even more terrifying, thanks to a new team-up with the Human Torch that creates massive fire tornadoes
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, February 20
- Marvel Rivals' next patch will finally fix my beautiful boy Captain America
- Gaming server sale: Start a Palworld, Ark, Rust or Minecraft world with 25% off for life
- The survival game with the best car ever has sold over a million copies in a year, and is now 40% off on Steam
- February 19
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- The $699 'AI pin' that launched less than a year ago is going to stop working at the end of February
- HBO announces The Last of Us Season 2 release date: April 13
- Civilization 6 still has more daily Steam players than Civilization 7
- Xbox announces 'a generative AI model for gameplay ideation' called Muse, but don't get too excited: Machines aren't about to make games for you just yet
- Capcom already has 'many things planned down the line' that reinforce Monster Hunter Wilds' core theme: the relationship between hunters and nature
- Croteam 'never planned to make' its philosophical puzzler The Talos Principle, but it emerged as a 'happy accident' while working on Serious Sam
- BioWare veteran calls out the 'cruelty' of fans celebrating layoffs: 'You are crossing a line, and you're probably attacking the wrong person anyway'
- Ubisoft apologizes for 'oversight' in Rainbow Six Siege's upcoming new operator after people notice the New Zealand-born character's birthday is the same date as the 2019 Christchurch mosque killings
- Newegg Shuffle lottery system returns to give you a chance to buy in-demand RTX 50-series graphics hardware at full price
- Delta Force's Chinese developer says it doesn't 'have an opinion' on the American military and just wants to create 'fun and meaningful gameplay' with its campaign based on the very real Battle of Mogadishu
- Black Myth: Wukong said to single-handedly boost monitor sales in 2024 as gamers predicted to buy 2.8 million OLED monitors in 2025
- Call of Duty's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover costs like $90 and even the die-hards are in shellshock: 'Cash cow-abunga!'
- League of Legends is getting a hotly anticipated skin for its lich necromancer Mordekaiser, but fans' joy has been 'obliterated' because it's 'stuck in a $200 fomo gacha store'
- When asked if they still want to make an MMO, Riot's co-founder replies: 'Oh yeah,' but don't get too excited, the ETA is 'before we go to Mars'
- Avowed's huge 66GB update includes major improvements for the game's whole progression system, along with key bug fixes and buffs for companions
- Intel engineer begs management and Trump to not 'sell out' to TSMC just as the company is set to regain its 'technical lead' in chip manufacturing
- Good boy modders fix Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's worst issue—all the dog treats rolling away when you're trying to feed Mutt
- The best Secretlab gaming chair is getting a gorgeous new Monster Hunter Wilds crossover and it may be my favourite yet
- Choo choo, here comes Monster Train 2: One of our favorite deckbuilders is getting a sequel and you can play a demo today
- Valve's monthly survey reveals that almost 45% of Steam users on PC are still using Windows 10 even with the sword of Damocles hanging over them
- GameStop announces plans to sell off French and Canadian outlets, while its CEO yells about 'Wokeness and DEI' in bizarre, self-defeating promotion
- Overwatch 2's new competitive season is as chaotic as ever, thanks to the new perk system, but it's still a huge step in the right direction
- Trump flirts with 25% and 'substantially higher' tariffs on all computer chips
- Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems'
- Just Cause creator's new studio announces 'incredibly difficult' layoffs while still working on its first game
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 19
- Exploit asteroids for resources using automated mining equipment as they hurtle through your space-claim in Astronomics
- Thanks to the upcoming Final Fantasy set, Magic: The Gathering is getting a fishing minigame
- Marvel Rivals casually reveals its Blade in new map trailer
- February 18
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- Steven Spielberg's 'reportedly UFO-related' movie doesn't even have a name yet, but it has a release date
- The Black Widow situation is dire in Marvel Rivals
- Valve releases 'Team Fortress 2 SDK,' enabling creators to 'build completely new games based on TF2'
- Relic's new project is a 'smaller indie-style' game about a martian invasion of Earth
- NetEase confirms Marvel Rivals layoffs, says cuts were made 'to optimize development efficiency for the game'
- You know the drill: Avowed's default waypoint and UI settings are way too handholdy, so you should change them ASAP
- Marvel Rivals is changing how the battlepass works so it's easier to grind-out currency for skins: 'Crazy good for people that play the game a lot'
- Meta announces plans for epic new undersea data cable longer than the circumference of the Earth
- Epic sues Fortnite cheater, donates his winnings to charity, forces him to publicly apologise, bans him for life, and all but sends him to his room without dinner
- Blockchain-based space survival MMO EVE Frontier has a free trial running, with CCP hoping you'll take a chance on its 20,000 star systems, more tactical combat, and 'dark sci-fi Pinocchio story'
- Streamer achieves git gud godhood by beating all mainline Souls games at level 1, back to back, without getting hit—then explodes into tears of relief
- Nvidia has quietly ended support for 32-bit PhysX on its new RTX 50-series, so games like Batman: Arkham City might look and run better on older GPUs
- OLED monitor market set to grow from just $75 million in 2022 to $1 billion in 2025 as LG commits to much brighter gaming OLEDs
- GTA 3 almost had us obeying traffic laws before Rockstar yanked it out, and if you're wondering if GTA 6 will bring it back: 'I'm sure they'll realize it's a bad idea'
- A Fallout: New Vegas fan is so fed up waiting for a remake he's decided to do it himself. The twist? He's making it in the Sims 2
- LG's new 45-inch 5K2K uber OLED monitor goes into mass production and will land soon on a desk near you. For $2,000
- One lucky Walmart employee bought two Ryzen 7 7800X3D chips for $99 each and immediately cashed them out for over $700 on eBay
- Bethesda refuses to announce that Oblivion remaster to spite me specifically, so I'm consoling myself with this gamejam based on its terri-brilliant persuasion wheel
- TSMC now said not to be eyeing up Intel's fabs while other rumours suggest Intel could be split between TSMC and Broadcom
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is offering one lucky player the chance to be made into an NPC for charity, but you'll have to beat the current winning bid of $11,050 first
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players are seized by the spirit of generosity, band together to buy strangers in need over $1,500 in copies
- Dead by Daylight delays its existing update plans for a 'substantial quality of life initiative', which includes adding a surrender mode and cracking down on 'extreme hiding'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 18
- If you're a fan of giant robots I urge you to watch the Mecharashi cinematic trailer
- Sure, why not, here's a guy beating Baldur's Gate 3 without a race or class at all
- February 17
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- Toby Fox is still working on more Deltarune, folks, game development is just complicated
- Japanese patent attorney, burdened with a party pooper's knowledge, says Nintendo having 22 out of 23 Palworld-targeting claims 'rejected' in the US is business as usual
- The new game from The Witcher 3's director revives the best tradition of Morrowind by letting you kill off 'really important NPCs'
- Ubisoft announces the 'biggest transformation in Rainbow Six Siege's history' for later this year, so big they're adding an 'X' to the name—But don't call it a sequel
- About darn time: Microsoft says it has fixed the annoying lag in Windows Explorer when working with cloud-based files
- WoW next big patch, Undermine(d), gets a release date, starting the countdown clock until my gaming time is entirely consumed with doing donuts in my new ride
- Remember those 'choose your own adventure' fantasy books? Well, now they're coming back in this delightfully chonky e-ink console
- 'I strive to be half the hater he is': Elden Ring Nightreign players have decided that Margit was the most annoying invader during the playtest
- Mass Effect 3 didn't have music like Vigil or Suicide Mission because composer Jack Wall had a spat with Casey Hudson: 'Casey was not particularly happy with me at the end'
- Asked point-blank if they're trolling dataminers with fake characters, Marvel Rivals dev scoffs and says they'd 'rather spend our time developing the game'
- GPUs powering AI will probably be the end of us all but at least they're being used to find small city smashing asteroids before they do
- You joke, but I still want one: AMD 'teases' the 320 GB 90700.05XTXT Max with a 96-pin power connector and a 1.21 gigawatt power requirement
- 'Not every story is told in that way': Phil Spencer says that live service games aren't the answer to every problem, and that smaller games play an important role
- Viewers watch in horror, unable to help, as blindfolded Super Mario 64 speedrunner almost gets a world record that wouldn't have counted: 'I would've cried'
- YouTuber The Swedish Maker wears a Meta Quest 3 VR headset for his entire woodworking project and miraculously emerges with all fingers intact
- Claims about AMD moving to a 12-core chiplet design for Zen 6 have got me all kinds of excited for the next generation of X3D processors
- Don't get rid of your starting horse in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2—there's a secret perk that makes her the best in the game
- Shovel Knight artist says throwback games need 'retro authenticity' but can't coast on nostalgia alone: 'Part of the appeal of the NES era of game making was that everything was a new idea'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 17
- Layoffs at Funko Fusion developer 10:10 Games blamed on 'complete commercial and critical failure' of the game
- February 16
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- Maybe I'll finally stop getting lost in Fallout: New Vegas' Bison Steve Hotel thanks to this new minimap mod
- Viktor Antonov, the visionary artist who defined Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died
- LAN Party simulates LAN parties without the LAN
- Capcom says Ōkami sold quite well, actually, and it's wanted to do a sequel for ages but was waiting for 'the stars to align'
- Dawnfolk is a satisfying city builder puzzle game that works great on Steam Deck
- Saber Interactive's head honcho pulled a wild stunt to nab the Halo: Combat Evolved remaster, telling Microsoft he'd do the job for free before ultimately squeezing the publisher for millions
- Mintrocket's director is delighted to bring Like a Dragon's Ichiban into Dave the Diver, 'It's been a dream of mine to invite these iconic characters into Dave’s world'
- Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game launches John Carpenter's the Thing into space this October
- Metal Eden is a movement-shooter that looks like cyberpunk Doom Eternal
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 16
- Lae'zel's voice actor Devora Wilde also auditioned for Shadowheart, Karlach, 'And probably Astarion?'
- February 15
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- Diablo speedrun sleuths proved its 15-year world record was fake after reverse-engineering the game and failing to replicate the run in 2.2 billion possible randomized dungeons
- Former EA exec says the ailing mega-publisher missed a chance to snag Blizzard and other heavy hitters before Activision: 'EA saw all those first and passed on all of them'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has almost hit 2 million sales, a 'reminder' to parent company Embracer 'to bring great products to the market'
- Monster Hunter producer says 'There are more players than ever playing on PC, including in Japan,' and that the series' handheld wilderness years prepared them for Wilds' day 1 PC launch and crossplay
- We can't have Bloodborne on PC but we can have Mudborne, a thematically similar game about breeding frogs
- Controllers beware: The much-loved and much-hated Shinobi series is being revived
- 'Massive' Stalker 2 patch adds A-life updates and 1,700 other fixes to GSC's survival shooter, so many you'll need to go on a little quest to read them all
- Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game is back in stores after 70 years of obscurity and one sold-out print run
- Planet Coaster 2's latest update adds synchronised rides, customisable video billboards, and stops guests suffering from perpetual panic
- Dark Messiah of Might and Magic gets co-op mode and extra content thanks to the mod community's collaboration with Ubisoft: 'To see it all come together has been very emotional for us'
- Indie FPS developer targets content creators who take undisclosed payments from rival developers and then dunk on his game: 'You and I will have legal problems'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, February 15
- 'We should be a little scared of what we're putting out there': Overwatch 2 lead designer says hero perks are about 'letting go' of perfect balance
- February 14
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- Just two weeks after launch, 'extraction survival horror' game Level Zero: Extraction ends development: 'It's no longer feasible for our relatively small teams to sustain the game'
- Epic gave away nearly 600 million games in 2024, and it's 'not slowing down' for 2025
- France's biggest game industry union puts together a 'Grève Bundle' to support striking workers
- David Bowie's time on Omikron, and his madcap scheme to buy up a load of old satellites and 'relaunch Ziggy Stardust from space'
- Dark and Darker developer did not commit copyright infringement, court rules, but has to pay Nexon nearly $6 million anyway
- We can now pinpoint the exact year videogames turned from God's light thanks to the discovery of a 'nude code' for Smurfette in 1984
- 3DMark benchmarks show off AMD's big daddy Strix Halo laptop chip in action and I'm a little underwhelmed
- Presumably much to Miyazaki's dismay, Elden Ring Nightreign is decidedly void of poison swamps: 'Maybe no one wanted to include it'
- I have seen the future, and it's this 3D-printed air raid siren honking its baleful tones over my neighbourhood as the waters rise
- Arm reportedly plans to make its own CPUs from this summer with future chips said to be powering a revolutionary Jony Ive-designed AI device
- Nightdive's spent 6 years on its update of System Shock 2, so it's now the '25th Anniversary Remaster' and will finally announce its release date on March 20
- Don't worry about missing Elden Ring Nightreign's network test on PC—nobody could play it on console either
- You can nab Owlcat's first Pathfinder CRPG for $45 or $4 right now, depending on whether you want a library's worth of TTRPG books too
- A web3 free-to-play survival game found to be a front for installing malware on your PC has finally been removed from Steam
- Anyone who raises an eyebrow at paying $85 for a Deep Rock Galactic mug must know they are 'the most complicated mug made industrially on Earth'
- Overwatch 2 players are hoping that the upcoming perks will dissuade the heinous act of counterswapping
- Intel is reportedly in talks to spin off its chip factories into a partnership with arch rival TSMC and now I think I've seen everything
- Despite a 'teamwide oops, guess we made it too hard moment,' Hyper Light Breaker has 'no regrets' about its mixed-response early access launch, and now it's got a roadmap so everyone can 'git gud'
- AMD is finally spilling the beans about the RX 9070 series during a live stream on February 28
- All Honkai: Star Rail 3.1 livestream codes
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti GPU officially goes on sale February 20 and the RTX 5070 is go for March 5
- A 'Musk-led consortium' of investors say they'll withdraw $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI—but only if it stays non-profit
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, February 14
- Obsidian says it won't chase huge profits or grow aggressively, and that's how it's going to last 100 years in the RPG business: 'Are we serious? Yes'
- February 13
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- Despite everything, Assassin's Creed Shadows preorders are 'tracking solidly,' Ubisoft says, 'in line with those of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the second most successful entry of the franchise'
- Bobby Kotick says he'd never have raised World of Warcraft's subscription by even a dollar because 'it's a prickly audience, you don't wanna do too much to agitate them'
- After years of running awkwardly close to the Winter Sale, the Steam Autumn Sale will start 2 months early this year
- Elden Ring Nightreign director didn't want to 'encroach too much' on the lore fans hold sacred by including Dark Souls bosses, but admits 'I thought it'd be kind of fun'
- Rockstar launched an official Discord server yesterday, and it's already a jungle in there
- Neil Druckmann wasn't going to cast Laura Bailey in The Last of Us Part 2 because 'she's in everything,' but changed his mind after studying her audition 'frame-by-frame'
- Those mad lads at Obsidian were bluffing us: Avowed does have a tiny bit of companion romance, as a treat
- Josef Fares doesn't care what EA thinks, he'll never make a live service game: 'It will not happen with a Hazelight game, ever'
- Avowed may run on a 9-year-old GPU, but Steam Deck looks like a no-go unless you like sub-30fps upscaled at minimum settings
- Twisted Metal Season 2 teases a character from the games so ridiculous I can't wait to see how they're gonna pull it off
- A black hole just annihilated a beloved Helldivers 2 planet, and now it's on a direct course for Super Earth
- Avowed fooled us all into thinking you have to commit to playing in first or third person, but you can actually swap on the fly like in Fallout or The Elder Scrolls
- The sci-fi adventure game from Deus Ex's art director now has Adam Jensen's voice actor, a September release date, and more techno-freak horror vibes than you can shake an augment at
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Steam page lets slip it'll have DLC bosses and player characters
- If the AMD RX 9070 XT is as beefy as these leaked specs and benchmark makes out, low Nvidia 50-series stocks might not matter
- Overwatch 2's upcoming hero is a DPS with an explosive crossbow, a bola that pulls enemies together, and a whole bunch of annoying ways to zip around
- Ancient MMO Tibia is getting its first new class in 28 years
- 10-series and other old GPUs should be able to run Assassin's Creed Shadows says director, and my RTX 3060 Ti sheds a single hopeful tear
- Assassin's Creed Shadows will let you take your pick from the frame gen and upscaling buffet as 'a mix and match approach is possible'
- New EU regulation finally cuts massive CPU boxes down to size
- You can get Marvel Rivals' new Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman Valentine's Day skins for free—the only catch is that you need to find a streamer first
- Monster Hunter: World continues to fly off the shelves as anticipation for Wilds reaches critical mass
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, February 13
- Capcom is so devoted to samurai authenticity with the new Onimusha, it went and licensed the face of Japan's most legendary actor
- Minecraft movie villagers look like what I imagine Hell is
- Former GTA producer's GTA-like shooter will come out before GTA 6
- February 12
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- Stellar Blade launches on Steam in June
- Turns out the reason Total War: Warhammer 3's campaign AI sometimes played too defensively was a bug that made it overreact to the presence of even a single hero
- Tides of Annihilation looks like Elden Ring if it was based on Arthurian legend and set in modern-day London
- An all-new Five Nights at Freddy's game is coming in June
- Lies of P: Overture will take Pinocchio back in time to the beginning of the Puppet Frenzy
- Borderlands 4 gets a release date and another acrobatic trailer
- Sonic Racing CrossWorlds looks like a return to the over-the-top arcade fun of All-Star Racing Transformed, and we'll get to play it this month
- Lost Soul Aside, a spectacle fighter where your dragon pal turns into a hoverboard, is coming out in May
- Civilization 7 patch 1.0.1 addresses 'key areas of player-reported issues' including UI and tooltip improvements
- Diablo 4's second expansion won't be out until 2026
- Nvidia didn't send the Monster Hunter Wilds devs any RTX 5000 cards before their CES reveal, so official DLSS 4 support is still in progress
- Bobby Kotick reckons the Warcraft film was 'a terrible idea' for Blizzard, and in the end 'was one of the worst movies I've ever seen'
- Jeff Minter is remaking another Atari classic, and yeah, it is definitely a Jeff Minter game
- With Adventure mode squared away, Dwarf Fortress is entering a 'new era of development' as its devs shift focus toward future features
- The Alters is altered again: 11 Bit Studios' survival game about creating alt-universe versions of yourself on a hostile alien world is delayed
- Overwatch 2 is getting radical changes that might finally help that '2' make sense, starting with a third-person mode and over 160 hero perks
- Overwatch 2 is bringing loot boxes back from the dead
- After more than a year and 2 million sales, Alan Wake 2 is finally turning a profit for Remedy
- New research says ChatGPT likely consumes '10 times less' energy than we initially thought, making it about the same as Google search
- Meta might've done something useful, pioneering an AI model that can interpret brain activity into sentences with 80% accuracy
- Designed in just a few weeks, this $5 indie game about digging a hole has journeyed to the centre of Steam's top sellers chart
- Warhorse announces official modding support for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, turning Bohemia into a canvas for all manner of pervert ambitions
- 'This task is both more wonderful and dreadful than you could imagine': After 638 days of drawing badly until Civ 7 is released, one dedicated YouTuber can finally put their skills to rest
- Zotac beats those dastardly GPU scalpers by selling RTX 50-series graphics cards to actual gamers courtesy of their Discord channel
- Crysis 4 is officially 'on hold' as Crytek lays off 15% of its workforce, saying it 'cannot continue as before and remain financially sustainable'
- Here's Linux running inside a PDF, running inside a browser, running on a Windows PC
- Geralt will definitely appear in The Witcher 4, Doug Cockle confirms (again): 'I can't wait to see what they do'
- Subnautica 2 dev sounds foghorn about 'fraudulent links' being sent to community members: 'We will never contact anyone by Steam DM for any potential playtests'
- Looks like Neverwinter Nights 2 has been freed from rights hell and is due an imminent enhanced edition release, but Beamdog says it ain't us
- Elden Ring Nightreign release date set for May, will cost $40
- Give your Wikipedia rabbit hole deep dives a dollop of dopamine by reading them in an 'anti-algorithm' TikTok-style feed
- TSMC reportedly plots 2027 start date for its 3 nm US fab, but will that be in time to save next-gen GPUs from tariffs?
- Nvidia confirms RTX 50-series laptops can be pre-ordered from February 25 and will be 'available starting March', stock willing
- 'It's nice to have options': Blizzard thinks Avowed's new cross-buy feature is breaking down barriers
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 graphics card rumoured to be delayed from February until March but that could actually be good news
- Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins sure are excited for everyone to see Fallout season 2: 'No one's going to be able to predict what happens. There's some big twists this time around'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 12
- There are already Civilization 7 mods that improve the UI, unlock all civs, and add 'ludicrous'-sized maps
- At just over AU$30, you might as well buy this well-reviewed Logitech gaming mouse in case of emergency
- February 11
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- Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft
- To make its fantasy extraction game, this studio of ex-Blizzard devs had to teach itself the art of third-person combat design: 'There's a science to how those are built'
- Here's our first look at Karl Urban in Mortal Kombat 2 as 'Johnny ******* Cage'
- Karlach voice actor offers a pre-emptive no thanks to Disco Elysium successors that don't include the original project lead: 'Miss me with that casting call'
- Doug Cockle says that playing Geralt again is like 'slipping into a warm bath': the voice is 'part of me now'
- 2 years into Unity's long downward spiral, even more employees are being laid off as CEO says it's still 'stretched across too many products'
- The best Far Cry game of all time now has achievements on Steam
- The unwelcome workaround for Nvidia's RTX 50-series black screen issues is to hobble your gaming monitor with a 60 Hz refresh rate
- With great self-awareness WinRAR releases official $150 merch: 'What better way to support the software you’ve NEVER paid for than by buying a WinRAR bag?'
- GOG's bespoke cut of The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall gets delisted tomorrow, so you've got a day to grab it for free as the store works out how 'to publish and maintain such projects better' in future
- Surely not again: Worrying analysis shows Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card may be prone to melting power connectors
- If you failed to get an RTX 5090 and still want an upgrade, all signs suggest the RTX 5070 Ti will launch on February 20
- I'd be a nervous wreck, but Monster Hunter Wilds' producer is 'very confident' following up Capcom's bestselling game ever
- Marvel Rivals players use the power of overwhelming negativity to encourage the devs to abandon plans for a mid-season rank reset
- Do goblin dice math, slap your D&D players with severed troll limbs, and take revenge on Shakespeare in this year's wonderfully weird ZineQuest RPG kickstarters
- Dragon Quest 12 is still coming, says Yuji Horii, but they're determined to make a game 'worthy of the posthumous work' of the late Akira Toriyama and composer Koichi Sugiyama
- Judging by the demo—out now—Ruffy and the Riverside might be one of this year's best platformers
- Man who chucked $750 million of bitcoin into a dump now wants to buy the whole dump
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii system requirements suggest it could be your next Steam Deck must-play
- What we want from RDNA 4: PCG hardware team reveals hopes and dreams for AMD's next gaming graphics card
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 11
- February 10
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- This long-running cozy tavern life sim on Steam just added online multiplayer, so now you can design and run a medieval pub with your pals
- Elon Musk kicks off $97.4 billion effort to buy OpenAI by immediately starting social media beef with Sam Altman
- The Human Torch, the Thing, and a rank reset are coming to Marvel Rivals next week
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has a secret dark ending for Bohemia's worst criminals
- Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea
- Discord finally adds an Ignore feature so you can gently silence someone's rancid vibes
- Inzoi's game director teases plans for ghost Zois getting shackled to the mortal realm, karma-starved and seeking redemption if they die with a bad rep
- Civilization 7's new patch temporarily disables crossplay between PC and console so Firaxis can 'expedite updates to the PC'
- Take-Two chief says PC has become a 'more important part of what used to be a console business,' but he's still not committing to a Grand Theft Auto 6 release
- LocalThunk had made hobby games in the past, but realized Balatro was something special when a friend revealed he had played it for '20, 30, or 40' hours
- Rainbow Six Siege coach and manager 'ejected' from the $3 million Invitational after raging like big babies
- Hearts of Iron 4's new DLC lets you cast off the Brits as India, cast off the Brits as Iraq, resist the Brits as Iran, or ignore the Brits as Afghanistan
- OpenAI boss suggests there's the equivalent of Moore's law for AI and it's 'unbelievably stronger'
- We asked a PSU expert which adapters or extensions are okay for the RTX 50-series. His answer: 'DO NOT BUY adapters or extenders, they can all be dangerous'
- TennoCon 2025 sold through all 3,000 tickets in about 30 minutes, presumably off the back of massive demand for last year's customisable mums
- PSN crapping out means we all get an extra day of the Monster Hunter Wilds beta, even us on PC
- Former WoW designer tips hat to Marvel Rival's shifting meta as an antidote to MMOs with stale class design 'you have to change the meta continually'
- In a mere decade 'everyone on Earth will be capable of accomplishing more than the most impactful person can today' says OpenAI boss Sam Altman
- Just in case you've forgotten all about them, AMD posts a less-than-convincing argument as to why AI PCs are better than any other type of PC
- Hell has frozen over, pigs are flying, and a Square Enix game has actually managed to exceed the publisher's ludicrous sales expectations
- I've been testing Nvidia's new Neural Texture Compression toolkit and the impressive results could be good news for game install sizes
- Final Fantasy 14 is, you guessed it, still making bank for Square Enix as Dawntrail rakes in the big bucks, though it might not be all sunshine and tacos
- The best way to play Diablo 1 on pretty much anything just got an update for a 20-year-old Apple OS that runs on a dead chipset, one lunatic somewhere presumably rejoices
- The definition of overkill: Cooling an RTX 4090 to a claimed 20°C with a household air conditioning unit
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 10
- Steam makes its ban on games that rely on in-game ads even more explicit, so no 'watch this to continue playing' stuff will be making its way to our PCs
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 is so realistic it's been used in a driver fatigue experiment
- February 9
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- Stealth tactics game Commandos: Origins will be out in April
- Oh hell yeah, someone's making a game about customizing and off-roading RC cars in your backyard
- Civilization 7 is coming to VR on Meta Quest 3, in case you'd like a full-size Benjamin Franklin to lecture you about stuff
- This third-party retro UI for Discord looks like—and even runs on—Windows 98
- Blizzard co-founder and Diablo designer thinks new ARPGs have 'cheapened' the genre with fast leveling, throwaway loot and enemies
- Sony offers 5 free days of PlayStation Plus but no explanation for 24-hour 'operational issue,' Capcom to extend Monster Hunter Wilds beta to make up for downtime
- The creator of the Elden Ring Seamless co-op mod is now infusing unlimited multiplayer into Dark Souls 3
- Abiotic Factor's massive Dark Energy update, which adds teleporters, pocket dimensions and black hole grenades to the Half-Life inspired survival sim, is out now
- Sony enforcers execute a legal visceral attack on the BloodbornePSX demake, continuing its mission to eradicate all traces of FromSoft's beloved RPG on PC
- The best unofficial Alien game is getting a spiritual successor where you carve up derelict ships and manage drones with 'personality quirks'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 9
- Forbidden Solitaire is an upcoming horror game about a cursed CD-ROM from the spookily distant year of 1995
- Here's a Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth mod to make catching chocobos trivial
- February 8
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- Stimulation Clicker distills a decade of internet brainrot into exposure therapy that makes you stupid—plus, it's free!
- Marvel Rivals leak suggests a PvE mode involving a boss fight against a giant squid is on the way
- A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
- Helldivers 2 game master Joel offers a look back on the first anniversary of the galactic war
- Update: The PlayStation Network appears to be coming back online after nearly a day's outage, but there's still no word from Sony on what happened
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's latest update leads with a fancy datavault for your battle-barge, but I'm far more interested in the new tyranid unit with a cannon on its back
- Resident Evil Re:Verse is reversing right off Steam, as Capcom claims it has served its 'original, celebratory purpose' despite mostly negative reviews
- Superb Bloodborne-inspired racing game Nightmare Kart is getting free DLC featuring sniper rifles and supercharged penny farthings
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, February 8
- February 7
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- Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'
- PUBG's top-down tactical shooter spinoff Project Arc now has an official title, and a demo is coming to the Steam Next Fest later this month
- Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick takes a moment to remind us once again that 'there's no such thing' as artificial intelligence
- PC Gamer's simulated Super Bowl 2025 predicts Eagles victory, player getting hit so hard he flies out of the stadium and into the parking lot
- Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
- Square Enix thanks the thirstiest fans in the world for buying Tifa figures and a $2,600 statue of Nier: Automata's 2B
- Forget hunting: You should play the Monster Hunter Wilds beta this weekend to spend as much time as you want in the character creator
- Balatro 1.1 will include new jokers plus a revamp of a really confusing existing one
- MultiVersus is somehow using its dying breath to go full looney tunes and put out what may be one of its best patches, and now fans want it to be saved
- Rocksteady is looking to make a new singleplayer Batman game, but Warner's Wonder Woman game is struggling
- Newly unveiled Nintendo Switch 2 patent confirms mouse functionality and gives more details on exactly how it will work, and I don't know if I like it
- Sweet liberty, the Illuminate are moving an entire wormhole across Helldivers 2's galaxy map to slam dunk it into Super Earth like a basketball
- Marvel Rivals devs conducted 'exhaustive research' to come up with the game's roster of heroes and abilities so it could live up to 'exceptionally high player expectations'
- Manor Lords, the best city builder of 2024, hits 3 million sales as players continue to fill its maps with muddy medieval towns
- Netgear says certain router owners should 'download the latest firmware as soon as possible' to patch a critical vulnerability
- AMD asks what you want from RDNA 4. PC gamers reply: 'er, just make sure we can actually buy it, oh and don't worry about ray tracing'
- Sports Interactive announces the shock cancellation of Football Manager 25, but fans are weirdly pleased: 'Better to be honest and admit a mistake'
- Hi-Rez will only be giving 'minor updates' to Smite and Paladins now it's laying off around 70 employees, but don't worry, Smite 2 is the 'primary focus of the newly streamlined operations'
- Vanished for a year, early access dev returns to announce a crisis taught them 'videogames ain't it' and end development on 'singleplayer EVE' they've been making since 2017
- WoW has raised over $2 million for charity CureDuchenne by selling a cute little fox, after being inspired by The Remarkable Life of Ibelin documentary
- Final Fantasy 14 promises crackdown on stalking exploits with actual solutions now, rather than politely asking the plugin creator to stop
- Nvidia is 'investigating the reported issues with the RTX 50-series' cards after RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 owners (and some RTX 40-series folk) report black screen problems
- If you installed Windows 11 with certain security updates and a USB stick, you may not get any more security updates warns Microsoft
- A Marvel Rivals player has uncovered 'one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities a game can have' that'll let cheaters take over your PC and find your passwords
- Doom on a dongle: Turns out the Apple Lightning to HDMI adapter has more than enough grunt to blast imps with aplomb
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, February 7
- The Monster Hunter Wilds beta is now live
- Magic: The Gathering is being turned into a live-action movie as the beginning of 'a multimedia universe'
- February 6
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- I'm sorry to say Rockstar still won't tell us when (or even if) Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming to PC
- Rust goes medieval with the Primitive update: siege weapons, swords and shields, and maybe a few jewel-encrusted assault rifles
- Harrison Ford points to Troy Baker's Indiana Jones for why he's not worried about AI actors: 'You don't need artificial intelligence to steal my soul'
- Ubisoft's grudging crawlback to Steam continues with achievements for Watch Dogs 2 added a mere 9 years after release
- Spider-Man 2's first PC patch is live with 'several crash fixes,' UI improvements, and an auto-save backup
- As Civilization 7 languishes with a 'mixed' rating on Steam, Firaxis says improving the game's wildly unpopular UI is 'our top priority'
- Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 is so big, it needed its own patch before it even released, and we're one step closer to a Permanent Booming Blade Economy
- The organizers of E3 announce a new event called iicon, but it's not open to the public and you probably don't want to go anyway
- Paradox is the new owner of Jagged Alliance 3 and Surviving Mars developer Haemimont Games
- If showing off that you actually own an RTX 5090 isn't enough, why not show off that you own a golden one for double rarity points
- ZA/UM gets away with $165 plastic bags because its execs know hypocritical moaners are the same 'ones ordering the expensive items' anyway, says former Disco Elysium writer
- NASA is hosting the first Twitch stream from space and I'm already picturing the chat with equal parts fear and excitement
- This Steam Deck mount looks silly, but greatly reduces the risk of dropping Valve's handheld on your face while gaming in bed
- Bill Gates laments Pat Gelsinger's failure to save Intel: 'I was hoping for his sake, for the country's sake that he would be successful'
- Former Dragon Age developers are not happy with EA CEO's suggestion that The Veilguard should have live service features: 'I'd probably quit'
- EA CEO says the magic words 'Apex 2.0': It won't happen until after the next Battlefield, but 'this will not be the final incarnation of Apex'
- Square Enix's Chocobo Steam Deck is cute, fluffy, and unfortunately gets in-KWEH-dibly warm
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater finally has a confirmed release date: August 28
- Marvel Rivals' destructible environment was apparently the 'first major technical challenge' the devs had to overcome
- In a first tariff-induced hit against the PC gaming sector, ASRock is talking about increasing costs and moving its graphics card manufacturing away from China
- Civilization 7 is off to a rocky start as it receives 'Mixed' Steam reviews from its premium backers: 'Comparing this unfinished mess to the Civ 6 release is night and day'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says it deliberately avoids the 'instant gratification' of modern games, channelling the best of Bethesda like Morrowind and Oblivion
- Arm won't keep chasing after Qualcomm on the grounds of licensing shenanigans—but the legal jostling isn't over
- 'No lotteries, and no onerous upkeep': World of Warcraft takes a cheeky potshot at Final Fantasy 14's egregious housing system as it readies up to unleash its own
- Disco Elysium game director Robert Kurvitz praises the first Fallout: 'It makes other post-apocalyptic worldbuilding seem like an amusement park'
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, February 6
- February 5
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- Rooster Teeth returns from the dead, under the ownership of one of its original founders
- Less than 4 months after revealing his studio's new game, Michael Condrey has reportedly been given the boot by 2K Games
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 honors Elden Ring legend Let Me Solo Her in touching Easter egg
- Iron Galaxy lays off 66 employees in a 'last resort' effort to 'enable our long term survival'
- Civilization 7 live launch coverage: reviews, tips, and the latest news
- Psychologist says 'there's a real sense of effort' to The Sims 4's emotional realism, from Maslow's Hierarchy to personal pep talks
- After The Sims 1 + 2 rereleases stumbled out to mixed reviews, EA issues a patch that boldly declares they 'should now launch in most situations'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sells more than 1 million copies in just 1 day
- Microsoft nixes details of its Windows 11 TPM 2.0 security bypass though there are still other ways of getting the latest OS on 'unsupported' hardware
- Sony winds down manufacturing of recordable blu-rays, leaving a void Verbatim is only too happy to fill
- War Thunder players take a break from leaking classified information to review bomb their beloved game for adding an auction house
- After 75 hours, I finally cracked what I was doing wrong in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's terribly explained alchemy system
- The first RTX 50-series laptops are listed at retailers and dare I say it, is that reasonable pricing I see?
- Doctor Strange's portals were 'particularly challenging' to add into Marvel Rivals, as they created 'unprecedented performance demand' for Unreal Engine 5
- The next game from Cruelty Squad's creator, a 'policing and punishment simulator', has dropped a new trailer showing off its gruesome mech combat
- Sim racers rejoice, F1 champ Max Verstappen says you're getting a '90 to 95%' accurate experience even without that megabucks motion rig
- AMD sees record revenue of $25.8 billion in 2024 thanks to data center growth—gaming last seen tumbling into a ditch
- Steam now warns you if that early access game you're eyeing up has been abandoned by its devs
- AMD's CEO Dr Lisa Su claims 'highest sell-out in many years' for desktop processors and the company is 'catching up with some demand' for gaming CPUs
- AMD's new RDNA 4 GPUs are officially arriving in 'early March' and they'll need to be stellar to rescue the company's nosediving gaming graphics division
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 rockets past the first game's peak player count as it pips into Steam's top 100 most-played games
- Helldivers 2's latest warbond adds a stratagem I've craved since the galactic war started, a portable hellbomb
- Make Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 feel even more like The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion with this charming potato mode mod
- UK government says it won't change the rules on publishers taking videogames offline after selling them: 'We have no plans to amend existing consumer law on digital obsolescence'
- Overwatch Classic is bringing back the worst period in the game's history: The dreaded Mercy Moth Meta
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 5
- The Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark is here, and my poor RTX 3070 is now crying sub-60 fps tears
- The cheapest way to buy Monster Hunter Wilds in Australia
- Will Wright says the original Sims AI was actually too good: 'Almost anything the player did was worse than the Sims running on autopilot'
- It sure sounds like Electronic Arts thinks cutting Dragon Age: The Veilguard's live service components was a mistake
- February 4
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- Monster Hunter Wilds will have a photo mode and new 'hunter profiles' to help you show off your character
- Next Battlefield game set to release sooner than I expected, before April 2026: 'We're looking for this to be the biggest Battlefield we've ever made'
- Capcom can't stop spilling the beans on new Monster Hunter Wilds monsters
- Cozy undead gardening game Greenheart Necromancer is apparently 'a mixture of 'witchcore' and 'whimsigoth' with a healthy dose of 'grandma chic''
- Capcom announces a remaster of samurai classic Onimusha 2, coming to Steam this year
- That was fast: a modder already added an 'unlimited save game' feature to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- After working on Ultima Online for 26 years, producer Bonnie Armstrong is stepping down to 'work in my greenhouse, play with puppies, and snuggle with my hubby'
- That Just Cause movie we've been hearing about since 2011? It just got a new writer and director (again)
- Destiny 2's latest season will run a lengthy 5 months, implying a July launch date for Frontiers
- The metaverse could be a 'legendary misadventure,' Meta executive says, if Reality Labs doesn't turn things around in 2025
- Bill Gates says 'you can be cynical' about the tech bros' motivations in cosying up to Trump, but he's doing it too because the President is 'making decisions about global health and how we help poor countries'
- Opera has unveiled 'the world’s first browser with mindfulness at its core' and, to my surprise, I might be convinced
- Old AM4 CPUs including the Ryzen 5000 still make up 50% of AMD's sales today
- Dune: Awakening says no to David Lynch and Sting in his underwear: 'The vision for the IP right now is the Villeneuve vision'
- Epic talks shop about stuttering in games that use its Unreal Engine and offers solutions to the problem
- 'We launched ray tracing and DLSS to a thud' reveals senior Nvidia suit reminiscing on the troubled launch of Nvidia's first RTX GPUs
- Man charged with $65,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency heists was reportedly discovered through chatting on Discord with a company they allegedly stole from
- Nothing says 'communism' like this $165 poverty-chic plastic bag based on Disco Elysium, aka 'the level of greed that they talk about in the Bible'
- Since Path of Exile's expansion has been delayed, players are instead getting a month-long event featuring 'whacky ideas that never quite made it off the brainstorm board'
- AI may move at the speed of light but Nvidia's machine learning model for frame generation took 6 years to develop
- Ugh! Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has a body-odour 'broadcasting' system where your stink can alert nearby NPCs
- Need for Speed is effectively on hold while Criterion musters entirely around Battlefield, but EA assures players the racer will return in 'new and interesting ways'
- Destiny 2 is the latest game to feel the SAG-AFTRA strike as it warns Heresy will be missing an unknown chunk of voiced dialogue
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's guns are very, very bad, but that's what makes them so fun: 'We knew it was going to be a meme weapon, but we were cool with it'
- This 4090-equipped water-cooled copper PC 'looks like a steam engine' and I'm in love
- 'Put them on the slides': How Jensen Huang invented and then announced Nvidia's DLSS AI upscaling tech in just two weeks
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 4
- Alleged Fallout season 2 set photo reveals the return of New Vegas' beloved roadside attraction turned sniper nest, Dinky the T-Rex
- February 3
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- Gaming's largest lobbying group says Trump's tariffs 'would negatively impact hundreds of millions of Americans' and do serious damage to the videogame industry
- 'I feel extremely insulted by this': Platinum removes most of its games from its website, erasing the last signs of life for Project GG
- While you're waiting for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, try this free Steam demo of a roguelike kingdom-builder where your peasants won't work unless you're looking directly at them
- 'I cannot believe this': Composer Winifred Phillips was 'blown away' after winning a Grammy for a remake of a 44-year-old RPG
- New US administration begins purging US government websites, President Trump says 'it doesn't sound like a bad idea to me'
- Multiversus director addresses fans angered by its upcoming closure: 'You're entitled to what you say and think, but when there are threats to harm it's crossing the line'
- AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D CPUs are rumoured to launch at the end of March at roughly the same time as the RX 9070-series GPUs
- The first 10 seconds of gameplay for the next Battlefield looks a lot like Battlefield 3, playtest signups are now live
- Got the Nvidia 50-series and AMD X3D stock-out blues? Skip the waiting lists with this surprisingly well-priced RTX 5080 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming PC
- This hacked 3D printer-turned-tattoo machine has a built-in panic lever, which I would be hammering furiously at every opportunity
- There's a whole world of MMOs you probably don't know about, and the best way to play them just got basically its own Steam Workshop
- Spider-Man 2's PC launch woes are woe-ier than you think, as it looks like GPU-powered DirectStorage is hobbling performance
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's developer is 'fed up' of being dragged into the culture war: 'It seems like someone is always trying to brand us somehow, and we are just trying to make a cool videogame'
- UK retailer expects more RTX 5090 stock in '3 to 16 weeks', so, err, adjust your diaries accordingly
- We're getting a warm and a cold cow in Minecraft, and even though it's not our beloved Moobloom, it's still a win for variant enjoyers
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 live launch coverage – Reviews, performance analysis and all the latest news
- Intel will be keen to forget 2024 despite its products selling well because its foundries still keep on swallowing money
- Put away your pitchforks, the first report of an RTX 50-series graphics card melting a cable was actually down to an ol' RTX 4090 under load
- Marvel Rivals' ranked distribution for Season 1 is pretty evenly spread except for the 482,526 players just sat in Bronze 3
- The official Assassin's Creed Shadows artbook just got leaked on a hentai site before someone snatched it back down
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 3
- Here's an Elden Ring mod to give you the rad moveset of Sekiro boss Great Shinobi Owl
- February 2
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- The best FPS of 2024 just got a surprise free update with 30 new maps, 9 new weapons, and just one cheeky cosmetic
- BioWare has reportedly lost at least half its staff, with fewer than 100 people left and the studio a ghost of its former self
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser's new project looks like nothing special, to be perfectly honest
- The Sims 1 and 2 Legacy Collections launch to 'Mixed' reviews on Steam as EA investigates 'various issues'
- Killing Floor 3 splatters onto PC on March 25, but you can get your hands dirty a month early via its closed beta
- Besiege celebrates a decade of building deadly contraptions with a reworked sandbox mode, adjusted level designs and slow-motion explosions
- Techno Banter channels Yakuza and Bojack Horseman as you destroy club rejects with words
- Palworld developer 'blown away' by the response to its new publishing arm, which has received 150 game pitches just one week after opening
- After a decade of delays, Defenders Quest 2 is finally out, bringing with it wild character designs and nostalgic tower defense shenanigans
- Civilization 7's post-launch roadmap will bring the Bermuda Triangle and Mount Everest to all players in March
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 2
- EVE lays out a busy 2025 focusing on player customization and fan-favorite events
- 'Borderlands 4 does have some open-world-like features,' says Gearbox, before clarifying it isn't an open world game 'in the traditional use of that term'
- Roll7's stylish skate games OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome have both been delisted on Steam
- February 1
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- The true victims of Multiversus closing are the people who bought that $100 Founder's Pack
- NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as 'a monopolistic crime against the consumer'
- Sony bullies Bloodborne 60 fps mod off the internet with DMCA takedown as it continues to let the FromSoft classic gather dust on PS4
- I didn't think Factorio needed swarms of robot ants, but the trailer for this upcoming factory sim has convinced me it missed a trick
- Snowrunner follow-up RoadCraft shows off its roadbuilding and logistics automation in a new trailer, and I'm already in love with its mobile quarry
- Split Fiction's latest trailer shows off its side-stories, which let you fly through space and ride giant desert fish in worlds 'completely different' from the main adventure
- DeTechtive 2112 is a slick-looking cyberpunk shooter that seems great on paper but is really just Hotline Miami but worse
- Nightdive's remaster of Doom + Doom 2 gets multiplayer mod support, spectator mode for co-op play, and stops you from losing your mind searching for red doors
- Butcher's Creek is a short, sweet and brutal FPS video nasty from the maker of Dusk
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, February 1
- Drone operator who damaged LA firefighting plane was Peter Akemann, who co-founded Treyarch back in the '90s
