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- January 21
- January 20
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- 'You’re not supposed to say this out loud!': Baldur's Gate 3 dev reacts to analyst who says some game makers 'hope' Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost up to $100 at launch
- 'S**t's about to get real': The first Steam sale of 2025 is live, and it's all about strategy games
- Vertical extraction shooter Exoborne holds its first playtest soon, and you can sign up now
- Streamers including Kai Cenat named in Drake's UMG lawsuit for their reaction videos instantly respond with reaction videos: 'The biggest Ls come from not knowing how to take an L'
- The first multiplayer demo for my most anticipated RTS, Tempest Rising, is out now
- 'You deserve better customer service': Path of Exile 2 studio apologizes for long support wait times but with 545,000 emails received, it's kind of understandable
- 'Who planned this garbage?' Streamers unite in slamming the official Twitch Marvel Rivals tournament for last-minute rule changes and unbalanced chaos
- TeamSpeak could finally be so back, since it can't stop teasing a new makeover while sneakily encouraging you to delete your Discord account
- Samsung is working with a studio to 'create an immersive 3D gaming experience without the need for 3D glasses' using its fancy eyeball-tracking gaming monitor
- The Witcher 3's director says he has designed his new vampire RPG to explore 'something in pop culture that nobody yet has done' in videogames: 'We will see how people like it'
- Is time too precious to waste making gurning thumbnails for your YouTube videos? Huzzah for this AI tool that does it all for you, then
- Developer behind the Dino Crisis spiritual successor says 'vulgar' mods are the reason we're not getting a PC port
- Bitcoin hits a new all-time high, $Trump is stymied by $Melania, and I'm over here having a full-blown existential crisis
- Even with 50-series GPUs just around the corner, this RTX 4060 Ti gaming PC is worth it if you're looking for a build for under $1,000
- 1,465 consecutive days of (mostly) no Silksong news: I spoke to the Sisyphean internet hero that's kept folks informed, every 24 hours, for 4 whole years
- EA announces the guillotine will finally fall on Origin this April thanks to Microsoft's abandonment of 32-bit Windows and, if you don't like it, 'use a newer computer'
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has now banned 136,000 accounts as part of the ongoing struggle to ensure fair play but still says that IP banning isn't an option
- If you're worried about your RTX 50-series graphics card suffering another 4090-meltgate, MSI's yellow-tipped adapter cables might just give you peace of mind
- Previously borked Ubisoft games are now fixed on Windows 11 24H2 as the troubled update begins automatically downloading to compatible PCs
- It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? 'Andromeda's a train wreck'
- Aokzoe teases its next-gen handheld gaming PC and it looks like it's just stuffed a better chip, screen, and battery into its not-bad, not-great A1 Pro
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, January 20
- Survival-stealth sequel Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone hit its Kickstarter goal in four days
- January 19
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- I felt goodwill and hope for the future seeing Cybrlich and the Death Cult of Labor, an FPS that's 60% HUD and looks like an Adult Swim cartoon where you smoke 'deepweed' to restore your health and blow clouds that spell out 'doink' and 'loud'
- Baldur's Gate 3's shows off its upcoming photo mode by going haywire with memes
- Bethesda intended Starfield to be more violent, including 'meat caps' for beheaded astronauts, but the gore was toned down for technical reasons and because it 'didn't fit thematically'
- Total Chaos, the full-fat remake of one of Doom's best mods, is a getting a demo 'very shortly'
- The worst Tomb Raider game is getting cut weapons, areas and voice lines restored as part of its upcoming remaster
- TikTok is already back online in the US after less than a day, with ByteDance thanking President-elect Trump for 'providing the necessary clarity and assurance' it can keep running
- Update: Marvel Snap should be 'fully restored in the next 12 hours' after it became unexpected collateral in the short-lived TikTok ban
- Dead or Alive publisher requests between 2,000 and 3,000 takedowns on works of inappropriate fan art annually because it thinks of the game's characters 'like daughters'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, January 19
- Heroic programmer of the first three Final Fantasy games says he'd 'never seen any roleplaying games until Final Fantasy'
- Disco Elysium-inspired steampunk RPG Sovereign Syndicate is getting a director's cut
- January 18
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- Crysis director says it was so hard to run it became a meme because its highest settings were meant for future PCs: 'I wanted to make sure Crysis does not age'
- Call of Duty is getting a microtransaction nobody can get mad at: A unique premium skin whose proceeds will go to LA wildfire relief
- Creator of horror game Poppy Playtime sues Google for refusing to remove 'bait-and-switch scam' apps that pretend to be the real thing then charge users up to $95 for literally nothing
- Sons of the Forest's first patch in 6 months is a doozy, adding buildable rafts, a procedural wall system, and fixing more than 100 bugs
- Galaxy-brained high schooler ports Doom to a PDF file, paving the way for a bloody revolution in invoicing
- Wartorn is a top-down fantasy tactics game co-created by BioShock's lead designer, inspired by a forgotten Bungie title where you command dwarves to blow up zombies
- The animator behind some of Castlevania's greatest moments racked up another instant classic with Nocturne Season 2's most intense scene
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, January 18
- January 17
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- As the LA fires raged, Riot Games provided a generator to a fire station that lost power and donated meals from its employee cafeteria
- This Path of Exile 2 build simply opts out of danger by keeping nearby enemies permanently frozen in time
- FTC says Genshin Impact 'deceived children' and orders its publisher to pay a $20 million fine and stop selling loot boxes to kids
- 'Please remember the game has no plot': Vampire Survivors dev points out one of the many challenges in turning its roguelike into a live-action film
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is Steam Deck verified
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 rolls out new forum rules to curb toxic behavior, which immediately sparks toxic behavior
- So is the US banning TikTok or not? The Supreme Court says go for it, but it's up to Trump now: 'You're going to see what I'm going to do'
- Instead of role queue, Marvel Rivals wants to trust players with the epic responsibility of creating a functioning team by themselves: 'We’ll be taking a little bit more of a Marvel-inspired approach'
- This is not a drill: The Razer Kuromi collab is finally more widely available, offering a pointy-eared headset, keyboard, mouse, and gaming chair
- A not-so-subtle tease suggests Games Workshop is finally bringing Total War: Warhammer 3's Grand Cathay army to the tabletop wargame
- 'You can’t plan a success in this industry': Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida says he would've 'tried to resist' the company's ill-fated march towards live service gambles
- This leather-wrapped PC case is trying to be all executive chic but it looks like Don Draper's gaming PC
- Retired PlayStation exec reckons Bloodborne PC hasn't happened because Miyazaki 'cannot do it himself, but he doesn’t want anyone else to touch it'
- The FBI used self-destruct on malware infecting over 4,000 US computers, it's super effective
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director departs BioWare after 18 years at EA after an offer to build a new RPG she 'couldn't turn down'
- Super Mario Bros. speedrunner sets a new world record on a PC using keyboard controls and boldly proclaims they're 'now 0.3 seconds off of absolute perfection'
- Ding ding ding: This is your regular reminder that the HyperX Cloud Alpha is only $80 and still the best wired gaming headset
- The manufacturer of 90% of the world's consumer drones will no longer automatically stop its products flying over US airports, power plants and prisons
- Legendary Japanese dev goes in hard on Switch 2 leakers: 'A filthy desire for approval that lacks a shred of rationality—The worst of scum'
- The Silksong hive is buzzing over a dev tweet that sees a chocolate cake, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Imagine Dragons all pointing with red string to the April Switch 2 Nintendo Direct
- After the catastrophe of Concord, Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game
- Ever wanted to become a published Warhammer author? Now's your chance—and you only need to write 500 words
- The Witcher 3's director explains why he had to leave CDPR to make his dream vampire RPG: 'We had crazy ideas'
- OnlyFans model explains calculus and machine learning on Pornhub because it pays better than YouTube
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 17
- Chase sticky-fingered dragons across the cosmos (or just fly around, ramming spaceships) in this sci-fi deckbuilder
- January 16
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- Horror movie adaptation of horror movie-style horror game Until Dawn goes the time-loop route, so it's basically Groundhog Day with monsters
- Jagex outrages the Runescape community yet again, this time with a survey hinting at big price hikes and worse service for those who don't want to pay
- Undaunted by mixed Steam reviews, Hyper Light Breaker dev says it's 'encouraging' to have 'extremely reasonable' early access feedback
- Elon Musk and Asmongold are beefing over who the best gamer really is, and no matter who wins, we lose
- Path of Exile 2's first big patch of 2025 is here, bringing new maps, quality of life tweaks, unique item and monster rebalancing, and—let's see—improved visuals for 'Chaos Pustules'
- Visionary filmmaker David Lynch, whose influence can be felt throughout games, has died
- Deadlock's ranked play has improved quite a bit since its arrival, but a small quirk has left only 75 people down at the bottom rank to battle it out
- 9 years after launching his own studio, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo finally reveals what he's doing with it
- Looks like the Nintendo Switch 2's Joy-Cons double as gaming mice, which is neat but I can't help think about how I basically never use the Legion Go's same feature
- Tekken 8 has finally reinstated the time-honoured tradition of deathmatching your foes for hours on end
- Ahead of RTX 50-series gaming laptops you can snag an RTX 4070 Lenovo machine for just $900
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 made millions for Games Workshop, and now it wants more hit videogames: "Clearly we are looking for the next one"
- WoW's Plunderstorm mode is back, and it just lets you buy what you want with your in-game dubloons instead of having to grind
- GTA 5 mod recreating GTA 4's map nuked after 6 years of work because people noticed, and Rockstar insisted on a 'friendly takedown', if you know what I mean
- The Nintendo Switch 2 has just been announced and it looks a lot more like a handheld gaming PC than a console to me
- Obsidian vet Josh Sawyer says that while 'it's not that important' if players never finish an RPG—after all, who finishes Skyrim—'we can kind of chill out' on size
- If AMD isn't spilling the beans on the RX 9070 and 9070 XT at least online retailers are, but a release isn't imminent
- Marvel Rivals devs have accidentally buffed Storm into a tornado-yeeting monster that everyone is picking, and no-one knows how to counter: 'A clustered group is a snack for us'
- Dragon Age voice actor arrested on multiple charges over allegations, including revenge porn and harassment
- The Blood of Dawnwalker's design director explains the ARPG's time-as-resource mechanic, and how 'both action and inaction have consequences’
- $1 million in refunds are on their way to those who picked up Razer's not-actually-N95 Zephyr mask
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, January 16
- They've started putting arms onto robot vacuums, so we're closer to either getting our own R2D2 or being strangled in our sleep
- January 15
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- New report says PC games are outselling console games, calling PC gaming a 'bright spot' in a troubled industry
- Arrowhead boss wants to get as many A-listers as possible for the Helldivers 2 film, 'as long as they all get killed violently'
- Romanian folklore, David Lynch, and heavy metal come together in a dark fantasy hack-and-slash action game 'with an even darker sense of humor'
- Riot admits it 'screwed up' League of Legends' new reward system, because somebody forgot to add a big chunk of numbers in the new XP calculations
- The Sims 3 just got its first patch in over a decade and fans aren't quite sure what it means
- TikTok users wave goodbye to their 'Chinese spies' as they they ditch the app for another, er, Chinese one
- 'The team wants every kind of player to enjoy the game': Marvel Rivals director wants to foster a competitive scene, but not at the expense of fun
- Sims boss Lyndsay Pearson says 'leaks are unavoidable' and 'you're going to end up with crossed wires occasionally' as EA stays clammed-up about Project Rene
- 'We are incredibly sorry': Path of Exile 2 devs apologise for data breach that saw 66 accounts snatched and personal info potentially stolen
- Popular indie FPS won't get updates for a while because the dev was sentenced to 3 years in prison: 'What I did was wrong and that's all you need to know'
- Turns out there's 'a big supercomputer at Nvidia… running 24/7, 365 days a year improving DLSS. And it's been doing that for six years'
- Marvel Rivals director all but tells players to git gud when going up against Jeff's ultimate, but I have a couple of tips that'll actually help you
- A UFO true believer made a grand strategy space game with input from alien abductees, but now claims shadowy forces have shut it down with a bomb threat
- Baldur's Gate 3 modder says the community's been making 'huge strides' towards custom campaigns: 'I think we'll see many of them refined, improved, and released this year'
- Be the Batman in your bedroom with this Meta Quest 3S deal, saving $50 on the 256 GB model
- TSMC's next-gen 2nm silicon is reportedly on track for later this year but don't expect chips for PCs until 2027 and beyond
- Diablo 4 is getting its first bird pet in Season 7
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, January 15
- Former Stalker dev reveals new FPS set in a post-apocalyptic Paris that's been overrun by sentient trees
- January 14
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- Terraria creator jokes that the 1.4.5 update may not be the last one after all: 'Terraria will never die as long as there is one last final update'
- Black holes, buildings on poles, and a 'sea urchin planet': PUBG creator's world-sized tech demo may be hiding some bizarre machine learning 'hallucinations'
- 'We will take measures to vanquish this nefarious behavior': Marvel Rivals will ban console players who use a mouse and keyboard
- Hideo Kojima is 'tired' while crunching on Death Stranding 2 and wonders how long he'll be able to keep making games: 'Every day feels like I'm racing against the clock'
- Elden Ring geographer tests rigorous calculation against weed-fueled horse math to determine the exact size of The Lands Between
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is now officially finished as its final update goes live
- The MySims: Cozy Bundle brings the blocky-headed chibi sims over to PC: 'It's still very, very Sims'
- Marvel Rivals game director says it'll be getting a new hero every month and a half, which hopefully isn't a display of classical hubris
- Blade and Soul Neo is a full-on remaster of NCsoft's 2012 wuxia-themed MMO
- Larian celebrates 100 million Baldur's Gate 3 mod downloads by bringing 'Withers Big Naturals' to consoles
- 'I like to be challenged': Sims boss Lyndsay Pearson is 'excited' to see more developers trying to break into the life sim space
- League of Legends players are up in arms after an update to get rid of 'unnecessary complexity' makes it a struggle for new players to earn anything
- An incredible $43,690 donation to Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 doubles as the most expensive nerd joke I've seen on the internet
- Big AI beasts reportedly delay Nvidia Blackwell orders due to GPU overheating but it doesn't worry us for RTX 50 gaming cards
- The real Geralt comes back for a new Netflix animated film to slay monsters and give brooding speeches about humanity's failings
- It turns out NFTs of tennis balls that sold for $3 million aren't worth much after all and I just died of not-surprise
- 'I think geniuses come up with terrible ideas, too': Former senior artist at Bethesda likens Todd Howard's struggles with complete creative control to George Lucas
- This huge monitor is ultrawide, curved, OLED, and pretty much every other monitor tech you need and I'd be tempted at $200 off
- Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem'
- Path of Exile 2 devs acknowledge the endgame is 'too severe' but are sticking to their guns because 'the whole death actually mattering thing is actually important'
- 'He was trying his best'—Palworld had a lone server guy trying to keep the game afloat during its 2 million player launch
- AMD says it took four goes to get its new Strix Halo uber APU right and that included designing new CPU dies that 'put Threadripper in the palm of your hands'
- Blasting AI into the past: Modders get Llama AI working on an old Windows 98 PC
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, January 14
- Evidence mounts that Marvel Rivals stealthily places losing players in bot matches, and I know because I'm the loser
- Studio Wildcard remains quiet on Ark 2's release date, but just revealed a two-year roadmap for Ark: Survival Ascended
- Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars'
- January 13
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- The new RPG from Rebel Wolves, a studio founded by Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs, asks a bold question: What if Geralt was a vampire?
- Zerg Rush! Blizzard drops first cards from its StarCraft x Hearthstone crossover mini-set
- High-flying RPG city builder Airborne Empire has launched on Steam, and it's testing my balancing skills in more ways than one
- Percy_Verence, Elon Musk's infamous Path of Exile 2 hardcore character, dead at level 97
- Despite the big Baldur's Gate 3 update in the works, Larian says its 'full attention' is now focused on its next game
- Powerwash Simulator studio ends VR development, but at least there are no layoffs happening
- Core i9 14900KF CPU hits a world record 9.12 GHz and proves Intel chips are still good at something
- Hatsune Miku is the icon for Fortnite Festival Season 7, and it might be the collab that finally convinces me to become a rockstar
- D&D's revised Monster Manual is aiming to provide oodles of plot hooks along with its stat blocks, and I'm already quietly stealing some for my own encounters
- After fabled RTX 4090 Ti was allegedly dug out of a bin last year, tech testing YouTuber puts Nvidia's prototype GPU through its paces
- Man on hopeless quest to recover $600 million of Bitcoin from landfill is finally told by the High Court to quit it, says he's 'very upset'
- Nvidia denounces Biden administration's 'rigged' and 'misguided' new AI chip export restrictions
- Even with a new generation of GPUs on the way this all-AMD Ryzen/Radeon 7900-series gaming PC is a great discounted machine
- Marvel Rivals starts 2025 by clobberin' the most played charts, hitting over 640,000 players on Steam alone
- Chris Roberts sallies forth to declare 'we are closer than ever to realizing a dream many have said is impossible' with Star Citizen, but I'm sure I've heard this record before
- Around 66 accounts in Path of Exile 2 were compromised, due to a one-two punch of an old unused Steam account and a backend bug
- Marvel Rivals players have found a workaround for mods, but it involves potentially frying your PC and sacrificing your framerates
- It's hard to believe but 22% of PC gaming monitors are now OLED panels
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, January 13
- Players are still finding edge-case Baldur's Gate 3 scenes, like one where you play as a kidnapped Astarion even if you made your own player-character
- Path of Exile 2's first patch of 2025 is coming later this week, with 'more rewarding' endgame mapping and the rollout of respawns when fighting pinnacle bosses
- Speedrunning Crazy Taxi with a live band is an inventive way to dodge a DMCA takedown
- January 12
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- An ambitious Counter-Strike mod to emulate the OG 1.6 experience in Global Offensive has been rejected by Valve after 8 years of development
- When 2K removed its annoying launcher it broke a bunch of XCOM 2 mods
- Cruel is a frantic run-and-gun shooter where you boot cultists out of windows in a cursed apartment block that wants you dead
- Valve's Steam page currently lists a second mystery game alongside Deadlock, sending Half-Life 3 theorists into another frenzy of speculation
- CD Projekt Red boss says 'around 100' Witcher 3 designers still work at the company, while the Witcher 4's story director is 'the same person since Witcher 1'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, January 12
- January 11
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- Watching an all-romances speedrun of the legendarily janky Fallout: New Vegas is a delight
- Activision will send you alarmingly detailed data for every single Call of Duty match you've played in the last 4 years if you ask, and players are using it to figure out their mysterious SBMM rankings
- Here's a game about being a depressed, lonely maintenance robot on a long-haul space colony ship
- Civilization 7 has been Steam Deck Verified ahead of its launch next month
- 23-year-old D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights just got a new update thanks to the 'unpaid software engineers' of its unkillable community
- My Summer Car, the absurdly detailed Finnish life sim about vehicle maintenance and drinking in your underpants, smashes into 1.0 after nearly a decade in Steam early access
- The Junji Ito collection brings eight new outfits to Dead by Daylight, letting you dress up its killers as cannibalistic supermodels and nail-toothed children
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes a run at improving parkour, as Ubisoft strives to make the system less 'like a gas pedal'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, January 11
- The Last of Us season 2 trailer is a brief look at a story you should probably just play yourself in April
- Lords of the Fallen publisher embraces fear of the DEI boogeyman, says it will not include 'any social or political agendas' in its games
- January 10
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- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'
- If you're trying to convince me your 'companionship' robot is 'lifelike', maybe don't rip her face off in the demo video
- Square Enix launches new anti-harassment policy to protect its employees and partners from abusive fans
- The Sims begins its 25th anniversary celebration next week with a Behind The Sims episode of news and announcements
- Path of Exile 2 numberlord spends 16 straight days killing rare monsters to prove that a stat that makes loot better makes better loot
- Palestinian developer raises more than $200,000 to make Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the horrors of the 1948 Nakba
- Piranha Games will lay off employees after Mechwarrior 5: Clans 'performed below projections'
- Marvel Rivals' latest update quietly killed the game's burgeoning mod scene
- Sorry everyone, Minecraft 2 is cancelled, and it might be our fault
- Team Fortress 2 just had the single biggest trade in its history, with 'the absolute best hat you can get' going for around $40K
- Is the new RTX 5070 really as fast as Nvidia's previous flagship RTX 4090 GPU? Turns out the answer is yes. Kinda.
- Elden Ring: Nightreign is getting a closed network test, and I'm totally not fuming because PC players aren't invited to the party, or anything
- If you're a content creator and gamer looking for a CPU upgrade, this Ryzen 9 9900X deal will get you $90 off
- AMD is now reportedly making all-American Ryzen 9000 CPU dies at TSMC's Arizona fab
- I tried a sim racing rig that generates 'wind' at CES 2025 and it's claimed to help keep VR nausea at bay
- Final Fantasy 14 communities panic as it turns out change to blacklisting, meant to help reduce stalking, also lets players use mods to track their alts
- TikTok's time in the US may be ticking to a close as it makes a last stand in the Supreme Court, though Trump now says he 'opposes banning' it
- MSI intros cheaper 'back connect' Project Zero Intel motherboards for super-clean PC builds you might actually be able to afford
- Thermaltake's new 2000 W PSU is too powerful to be sold in the USA and comes with four PCIe 5.0 GPU power connectors
- AMD accuses Intel's Arrow Lake of being a 'horrible' product and implies a lack of options for consumers has caused the Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortage
- This Jinx-inspired gaming PC is my favorite of CES 2025 and I'm head over heels for the hardware
- Harrowing report alleges years of horrific abuse at Brandoville Studios, an Indonesian support studio that worked on Assassin's Creed Shadows and The Last of Us Remake
- Tencent says it's not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn't removed from a blacklist
- All Zenless Zone Zero 1.5 livestream codes
- Asus reveals three new Slash Travel Bags for carting around your ROG Ally—however, none of them are particularly fashion forward
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 10
- We may not have a roadmap or balance patch just yet, but at least Path of Exile 2's bugfix patch notes are funny
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided writer didn't like the ending either: 'Nothing is resolved'
- It seems like Square's finally consistently taking the PC ports of Final Fantasy seriously
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii looks more like a zany RGG take on Black Flag than I dared hope
- January 9
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- The most important tool in Remedy's new co-op FPS is the shower: 'Saving water is essential'
- If you missed it over the holidays, this noir Half-Life 2 mod turns you into a hardboiled detective in Prohibition-era Chicago
- Path of Exile 2 players are calling foul on Elon Musk's high-level hardcore character after he streams his struggles with core game mechanics
- Alan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has died
- Track down a missing person in this 'Geoguessr-inspired detective game' set on an alien planet
- Old meets new as classic MMO players worship a famous Vtuber via gifts of bones so she can max out the Prayer skill
- Hyper Light Breaker will cost $30 and for a limited time come with a free copy of Drifter
- Fallout season 2 filming delayed due to massive LA fires
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is delayed again 'to better incorporate player feedback gathered over the past three months'
- The Freewrite Wordrunner with a built-in word counter might be the keyboard to look out for if you want to improve your writing process
- 'I created it, let me move on': Ex-Cloud 9 player, the Overwatch team whose blunder inspired the infamous 'C9' slang, watches in horror as the term moves onto Marvel Rivals
- Lenovo's rollable laptop screen isn't just a CES party trick—you'll be able to pick one up yourself in June
- Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's simple reminder that useful quantum computing is a long way off has somehow caused industry stocks to plummet
- After 15 years, Minecraft has finally added two new pig variations: The warm pig and the cold pig, meaning I can delete one mod off my list
- If you love a big laptop without a big price tag, this RTX 4070 17.3-incher is an ideal pick at $1,300
- You've heard of a CPU cooler screen, but have you heard of a *curved* CPU cooler screen? Apparently it has 'unmatched performance and visual appeal'
- Nvidia seems to have just confirmed upcoming Arm and Blackwell laptop chips based on its new GB10 processor in collaboration with MediaTek
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, January 9
- The Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 now looks like a dazzler of a gaming laptop, even if it's still a bit of a paving slab
- Mythic Quest Season 4 trailer wrestles with Roblox, AI, and the US Congress
- Splash Damage says layoffs are likely as the Transformers game it announced in 2022 is cancelled
- Legendary joker ports Balatro to the 44-millimeter screen of an Apple Watch, calls it 'Wee Balatro'
- Even I was impressed by LG's gigantic transparent OLED chandelier of hopes and dreams, but I'm still not buying one
- January 8
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- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joins the rush to kiss Trump's ring: 'I'd be delighted to go see him and congratulate him'
- Deadly LA fires lead to office closures for major game studios: 'Nothing can be said to truly acknowledge the pain and suffering that we are witnessing,' says Riot CEO
- Inzoi is creating a newfangled life sim NPC that can 'grow and develop its own personality' with Nvidia's AI tech
- Marvel Rivals patch has way more nerfs and buffs than we thought: A whopping 24 heroes are changing this week
- Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
- Marvel Rivals' most-picked hero also has one of the lowest win rates
- NetEase pulls funding for another studio: Former Halo Infinite design head says Jar of Sparks is 'halting work' while it looks for a new publisher
- WoW's finally upgrading its dreaded swirlies so players can actually tell where it's safe to stand
- I saw a tiny robot dog do a handstand at CES 2025 and I recorded it for your amusement
- AIB vendors getting the RTX 5080's memory config wrong could mean 50-series Super cards have more and faster VRAM
- Early Radeon RX 9070 benchmarks are positive, though don't bank too much on them
- Monster Hunter Wilds is getting more open beta tests before launch—but they'll be missing Capcom's latest performance improvements
- Hyte's new $20 processor frames are yet another way to customise your gaming PC
- D&D's revised Monster Manual is tackling one of the game's biggest hangups—and adding a new menu of BBEGs: 'We wanted the Tarrasque to have some fighting buddies'
- 'That's my ass again': A Marvel Rivals body model realises she's the inspiration behind the new hero Sue Storm after recognising her butt in the teaser trailer
- Ken Levine never expected Take-Two to shutter Irrational after Bioshock Infinite: 'The decision was made at a corporate level'
- Valve is changing the way it updates Deadlock 'to help improve our development process', so you can say goodbye to the regular biweekly posts
- Colorful PC cases are so in this year
- Corsair's new 'personalised RAM' gives you the option to pick the look and speed of memory you hide in the case anyway
- AMD says there are no technical reasons for not having an X3D processor with 3D V-Cache on both CCDs, but we probably won't see such a dual-stacked chip anyway
- The 2025 Asus ROG NUC looks epic and has some mighty specs but a desktop gaming PC will probably be far better value for money
- Final Fantasy 14 data sleuth gathers more info on the game's script, finds Alphinaud is the king of yappers—though Wuk Lamat's in the top 3 after just 1 expansion
- SteamOS beta could be available to download to your handheld gaming PC of choice as soon as April
- The RTX 5090 might make triple-fan cards look light on cooling if these four-fan and five-fan versions from Gigabyte and MSI are anything to go by
- League of Legends' new season trailer is basically an epilogue to Arcane with 6 new Fortiche champion redesigns in it—so if it's not a preview of the upcoming Noxus show, I'll eat my hat
- MSI's spangly MEG Vision X AI desktop PC is just the ticket for anyone wanting to recreate that Scotty scene in Star Trek IV
- This $2000 Dual OLED screen laptop with 'outstanding computing power' has been spotted at CES but I'm unconvinced
- Jen-Hsun reckons Nvidia has driven the 'cost of computing down by 1,000,000 times'
- Will there ever become a point with AI where there are no traditionally rendered frames in games? Perhaps surprisingly, Jen-Hsun says 'no'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, January 8
- The RTX 5090 Founders Edition might be svelte but the Asus ROG Astral cards are absolute chonkers
- Eight years after arriving on Steam, VRChat just hit a new peak concurrent player count
- January 7
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- The ROG Zephyrus G14 is calling to me even more now it has an RTX 5080 stuffed inside it
- Private Division's 'games and franchises,' including Kerbal Space Program, are reportedly being taken over by former Annapurna Interactive employees
- Call of Duty's development budget ballooned by $250 million between 2015 and 2020 to an eye-watering $700 million
- Facebook and Instagram are ditching fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes system inspired by X: 'Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased,' Zuckerberg says
- Path of Exile player casually posts mind-blowing collection of ultra-rare and out-of-print items, including a ring there's only 4 copies of in the world
- This keyboard combines two of my favorite things: mechanical switches and bread
- I got hands on with the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld PC with Valve's SteamOS—and it seems like a bit of a winner to me
- 'We're extending the 6v6 playtest': The game director of Overwatch 2 stokes the flames that 6v6 will make an official comeback someday
- LG wants to turn your Smart TV into an Xbox, announces cloud gaming partnership with Microsoft
- An Elden Ring player has promised to fight Messmer every day with a new weapon until FromSoftware releases Elden Ring: Nightreign
- Corsair heard you like screens and PC cases so it made a new screen for your PC case that you can also use as a, er, screen
- Citizen Sleeper 2 will likely be the last in the series, though its creator plans to come full-circle with a TTRPG
- Nvidia RTX 50-series and dev kit show that rasterization is old news and we're now firmly in the era of AI rendering
- AMD might have told us little about its RDNA 4 graphics cards but at least we know the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT have 16 GB of VRAM
- Nvidia's impressive AI-based computer tuneup tool G-Assist launches next month but the best bit is missing
- 'New year, new low, Microsoft'—even the search engines are firing shots on social media now, as Google employees take aim at Bing over 'long history of tricks'
- Extraction MOBA Seekers of Skyveil will launch into early access in March, but first, the 'largest playtest' yet is coming later this week
- Logitech has announced an 'intelligent streaming assistant' in Streamlabs to tell you when your live stream sucks
- Uber-bright new OLED TVs from LG and Samsung should finally enable PC gaming monitors with full-screen brightness of up to 400 nits
- Tencent has been designated a Chinese military company by the US Department of Defense, which the conglomerate calls a 'misunderstanding'
- Razer blew hot and cold air down my neck and rumbled my posterior at CES 2025, and I liked it
- Intel on its next-gen laptop chip: 'Panther Lake will take everything you love about Lunar Lake to the next level'
- Nvidia announces dedicated GeForce Now app for Steam Decks and more, streamlining cloud gaming for mixed-reality headset wearers too
- With its Prime and TUF Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards, Asus is ditching thermal paste for a thermal pad that melts when hot
- Razer has released a backseat gaming AI bot called Ava, and I'm not sure whether using it should be considered cheating or not
- PUBG teammates not good enough? Nvidia's new generative AI-led 'Co-Playable Character' aims to offer you an alternative
- AMD and Intel launch mainstream and budget motherboard chipsets at CES but some of the codenames are so similar that I've already mistaken them for each other
- Mister Fantastic will be Marvel Rivals' first duelist vanguard hybrid who can deflect Iron Man's ult and stun enemies into one another—in other words, he's busted
- The future of the PC according to Intel is a CPU-GPU-NPU trifecta and that definitely includes gaming
- The SSDs and RAM on this new Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 can be upgraded entirely without tools
- I reckon the Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition is the best looking graphics card I've seen in... well, ever, actually
- The HyperX Saga and Saga Pro are magnetic build-a-mouse kits with interchangeable components and the option to add 3D printed parts
- Nvidia announces DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, says it can help multiply frame rates by 'up to 8X over traditional brute-force rendering'
- Nvidia's new RTX 5070 will deliver 'RTX 4090 performance at $549' when it launches in February
- The new 'aggressively priced' Razer Blade 16 is slimmer, sleeker, AMD Strix Point-equipped, and may just be the Asus G16 competitor I've been hoping for
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, January 7
- Alienware's new Area-51 desktop PCs are built for upgrading as it finally ditches the proprietary parts and covers everything in QR codes
- What's cooler than being cool? HP's Omen Max 16 featuring an omnidirectional fan that thwarts dust buildup and keeps this gaming laptop a little closer to ice cold
- Nvidia has announced a whole host of gaming laptop GPUs at CES 2025, from the RTX 5070 all the way to the big RTX 5090
- Nvidia announces the RTX 50-series, led by the $1,999 RTX 5090 with 'twice the performance of the 4090'
- Helldivers 2 is getting a film adaptation, even though Starship Troopers already exists
- BioShock maestro Ken Levine says Judas will double down on reacting to player choices because it's the future of games: 'I've never been a big fan of cutscenes because they're not interactive'
- Marvel Rivals' first balance patch targets two popular Duelists and Jeff's ultimate
- Nvidia CES 2025 keynote live: new GPUs or there'll be a riot
- January 6
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- AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs are about efficiency in terms of performance and price: 'We know where gamers buy products, it's well below that $1,000 price point'
- AMD says 'the performance data out there for RDNA 4 is completely inaccurate'
- Acer unveils the comically huge Nitro Blaze 11, a gaming handheld more than three times the weight of a Nintendo Switch
- Less than 2 years after launch, 2K Games delivers a fatal piledriver to WWE 2K23, taking servers offline and removing it from Steam
- OG Fallout lead Tim Cain dusts off a trove of old development photos dating back to 1994 to show 'what development looked like in the '90s'
- Intel is 'confident' about next-gen Arc Celestial GPUs following Battlemage's success
- Marvel Rivals mods that replace Captain America with Trump and Biden removed by Nexus Mods: 'We don't want to handle all the nutjobs that come out the woodwork whenever these mods get posted'
- Former Starfield lead quest designer says we're seeing a 'resurgence of short games' because people are 'becoming fatigued' with 100-hour monsters
- See ya later Inspiron and XPS: Dell has streamlined its branding down to a very Apple-like Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max
- AMD announces new driver-based AI for 'AMD-related questions', local file summaries, and image generation for its new line of graphics cards
- The new ROG Flow Z13 is ditching dedicated graphics but making up for it with AMD's next-gen Ryzen AI Max APU
- AMD Ryzen AI Max is finally here: 'the most advanced mobile x86 processor ever created' with 40 RDNA 3.5 CUs and 16 Zen 5 cores
- It looks like AMD's expecting the RX 9070 XT to rival the RTX 4070 Ti, which is fine if it ends up being the right price
- AMD announces more powerful Ryzen Z2 Series processors for future PC handhelds, but Valve says 'there is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck'
- AMD just gave us our first look at the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 RDNA 4 GPUs and I am officially whelmed
- AMD has just announced the two new 9000-series X3D chips we were hoping for, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D
- AMD's FSR 4 will use machine learning but requires an RDNA 4 GPU, promises 'a dramatic improvement in terms of performance and quality'
- AMD's throwing the considerably hefty Ryzen 9 9950X3D at gaming laptops and calling it a Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
- Intel unveils second round of updates intended to bring Arrow Lake desktop chips up to expectations: 'our software for the 200S has reached full performance'
- Marvel Rivals season 1 starts on January 10 as Dracula and Doctor Doom team up to 'disrupt the moon’s orbit' and unleash an army of vampires on New York City
- Crytek went so overboard on the Crysis tech it created a whole blushing system, implemented nose shadows, and sent devs to photograph leaves in Haiti to get the translucency right: 'We went over bonkers on this one'
- Intel announces new mobile Core Ultra 200HX Series processors to power the next generation of gaming laptops
- Existential horror or cute fuzzy bag buddy? CES is off to a flying start with the wackiest tech for 2025
- This Swedish 'gamer' puffer jacket has pockets so big you can jam a full-sized keyboard and laptop in them because why not?
- Microsoft's latest trick to get you using Bing is disguising it as Google
- Crysis' magical Nanosuit was so convincing that a nanotech conference asked Crytek's boss to give a keynote speech: 'I said, excuse me, but this is all fake'
- Our favorite budget keyboard is still cheaper than it was during Black Friday and at just $30 it's an incredibly easy recommendation
- That Banana clicker game is somehow still one of Steam's most-played games, with 100K+ concurrents seeing it consistently outranking the likes of Call of Duty and Helldivers 2
- Microsoft plans on investing $80,000,000,000 in AI this year, with no sign of the machine learning spending spree stalling just yet
- Balatro developer bestows the 'very prestigious Golden Thunk award' on Animal Well, says it's so good it makes him 'feel like an imposter'
- I was wrong—Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players are still finding fault with the Squid Game skins despite them looking cool
- Corsair rolls out its first CUDIMM memory sticks for Intel Arrow Lake gaming PCs and they're as pricey as you'd expect them to be
- Hero modders take a break from their 25-year quest to make the rest of Morrowind to make the Oblivion we should have got instead
- The most absurd Magic collection I've ever seen, including a Black Lotus that's 'the best of the best', is going for a mere $2.2 million
- 'Game has become mahjong': WoW Classic player installs over 3,600 addons in a bout of eldritch madness, somehow only needs to remove 20 to get it to 'work'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, January 6
- Finally someone turned Doom into an enriching cultural experience for art snobs
- January 5
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- Zach-like automation puzzle game ABI-DOS is available on Steam for free
- It sounds like we'll have to wait even longer to find out what the deal is with OD, Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele's game, movie, and 'new form of media' that had the trailer with all the faces cryptically talking at us
- After losing his father to cancer, mega streamer Shroud is running a January 'Fragathon' where he'll donate to cancer research for each in-game kill
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, January 5
- If you want Fallout: New Vegas to look a little more lived-in, these mods have you covered
- January 4
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- Elden Ring: Nightreign players won't be able to troll each other with messages
- Meta wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram 'kind of in the same way accounts do,' but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots
- Minecraft creator Notch says that he 'basically announced minecraft 2' with a Twitter poll and a commitment to making a spiritual successor
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, January 4
- Civilization 7 senior historian prays it'll be a 'gateway drug' into textbooks: 'I teach undergraduates in my other life, and my God, man, they don't read'
- January 3
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- Floridians appear to be frantically Google searching for VPNs in the wake of the state's invasive porn ban
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says violence will be the default in AAA RPGs as long as we keep buying it: 'Companies don't make them because they feel like it. They make them because they sell'
- 'Elon is a father who gets lots of sex' somehow leads to renewed claims that Elon Musk superfan Adrian Dittmann is actually Musk himself
- Helldivers 2 director decides to kick off 2025 by wading into a conversation about DEI: 'Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement'
- PC Gamer's Best City Builder of 2024 has sold over 2.5 million, but here's the big news: Now it has bridges
- Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain, so I'll just go ahead and start the countdown clock for our first Sailor Man soulslike
- The TDP of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 have been leaked, suggesting it's a little less power-hungry than we thought, though still massive
- Marvel Rivals admits that it accidentally banned some players for trying to run the game in a different operating system, which isn't cheating
- Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people'
- Marvel Rivals has some truly cursed mods, but that's what happens when you mix weirdly detailed character models with the internet
- MSI's new 24-inch gaming monitor hits a sizzling 600 Hz and has me wondering how many Hz you genuinely need
- AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend, featuring an Elden Ring saxophone boss rush, an 'All Romances' run of Fallout: New Vegas, and some of the worst games ever made
- A German retailer reports the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has outsold the entire non-X3D 9000 line
- LG's new 45-inch 5K2K OLED could be the pixel-packed gaming monitor you've been waiting for
- Bioshock's Big Daddy Ken Levine says that while he doesn't want to 'underestimate' AI, he's 'not overly impressed' by it, either
- The Secret Level creator wants you to know that they did ask Halo to take part in the series, but Microsoft turned them down: 'Man, you think we didn't talk to Halo?'
- Defending a kinda wimpy Killzone crossover gun, Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says the game's past balance woes were due to weapons being 'seen as game objects' and that 'balance doesn't matter'
- Nvidia is giving away 5 classic Jensen-signed GeForce cards if you tweet to build hype for its CES 2025 briefing, and its first choice is almost older than me
- Hiding in the shadows, this Nvidia teaser video might have given us our first look at a Founders Edition RTX 50-series GPU
- MSI, Asus and Samsung are announcing new 27-inch 4K models with '4th gen' QD-OLED panels but they're not a huge step forward
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Sid Meier's Civilization 7
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 3
- Gulp! Dune: Awakening beta testers are dying of thirst nearly as often as they're dying of sandworms, and some are even drinking mouse blood to stay alive
- January 2
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- Net neutrality is dead again: US court says the FCC can't bring back Obama-era internet regulations
- Clobberin' time is confirmed: The Fantastic Four is coming to Marvel Rivals and they're bringing a cute little robot along with them
- New beverage technology unlocked: this gaming controller mug keeps your drink warm and has a trigger so you can sip and shoot at the same time
- Eternal Strands, the physics-heavy RPG being headed by Dragon Age veteran Mike Laidlaw, will roll out a playable demo a week ahead of its full release
- Thanks to Doom, I can finally solve captcha prompts without wanting to spoon my eyeballs out and wander into the wilderness
- 'Lunatic' crypto fugitive Do Kwon finally extradited from Montenegro to the US to face charges over $40 billion crash
- Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango Gameworks is officially reborn for the New Year, with a slightly new name
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 hits peak lack of awareness with its Squid Game skins which, unfortunately, look rad as hell
- This upcoming Micro-OLED VR headset has absolutely everything and weighs less than 200 grams but of course it costs nearly 4x the Quest 3
- G-Man's voice actor rings in the new year by dropping a cryptic tweet grenade promising 'unexpected surprises' into the starving Half-Life 3 fanbase
- Ultra-high refresh gaming monitors might be all the rage in 2025 if MSI's and ASRock's latest 500+ Hz panels are anything to go by
- PUBG creator Brendan Greene swears his infinite, mega-ambitious digital universe isn't like all the others: 'I want to build a metaverse because I don't think anyone else is'
- Marvel Rivals' FPS bug puts players with potato PCs at a disadvantage, and that's not the only optimisation issue happening right now
- Not only did FF14's controversial chatter Wuk Lamat rank 1st for words spoken in Dawntrail, 'Wuk Lamat' was the most-used phrase by the characters in 2nd and 3rd place, too
- A debloating wizard has managed to get Windows 11 running on just 184 MB of RAM, and it looks like it can actually run apps
- It's a very happy new year when you can get this RTX 4070 gaming laptop for just $850
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, January 2
- Skyblivion only has one region of the map left to finish: 'We are nearly ready to release an entirely remastered Elder Scrolls game'
- Former Age of Empires developer says the RTS genre's stuck in a rut: 'you're still playing the same game'
- January 1
