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- July 31
- July 30
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- Uh oh, Halo Infinite campaign details are leaking from the tech test
- Hexes never looked as beautiful as they do in the Hexoplanet trailer
- Valve says Steam Machines were 'a good idea' that helped make Steam Deck possible
- Horizon Forbidden West reportedly delayed into 2022
- In one of the weirdest game crossovers ever, Sonic the Hedgehog is now in Two Point Hospital
- Valheim's Hearth and Home update will let you hoard stacks of gold coins
- The Ascent is lacking DLSS and ray tracing on Game Pass but not on Steam
- Capcom wants to know if players want more Ace Attorney
- Survival game Icarus delayed until November
- The same government agency that's suing Activision Blizzard has an ongoing lawsuit with Riot Games
- Ubisoft staff say they're waiting for 'real, fundamental change' at the company
- Skyrim mod lets you pay your respects to fallen friends and enemies
- Razer's ambidextrous Viper 8KHz gaming mouse is marked down to $60 today
- King's Bounty 2 system requirements announced
- Intel launches 'Beast Canyon' modular mini gaming PC kits starting at $1,150
- GTA modders pull their own 14-year-old-project over takedown fears
- New speedier memory could pave the way for premium Steam Decks
- Motherboard manufacturers unite against Intel's efficient PSU plans
- Second-hand GPU lottery: Mining cards lose 10% performance every year
- AMD announces '1080p beast' Radeon RX 6600 XT for $379
- Try not to get guillotined in Ambition: A Minuet in Power this August
- July 29
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- Steam Client Beta overhauls downloads page and storage management, looks great
- Microsoft Flight Simulator patch improves performance but causes more crashes
- Forza Motorsport 7 is being removed from sale only four years after release
- Ubisoft CEO says 'important progress' has been made since 2020 harassment scandal
- Valve responds to antitrust lawsuit, defends Steam's 30% cut
- Sci-fi exploration game Outer Wilds is getting a surprise expansion in September
- A gorgeous new Stray trailer showcases the adventures of a cat in a crumbling robot city
- Annapurna reveals Storyteller, a compact, clever puzzle game about telling tales
- New World player 'AmazonOfficial' has been trolling the MMO with Amazon facts
- Fortnite will host a series of August concerts, probably starring Ariana Grande
- Look at all these games currently being made in Doom
- PUBG's planes are now terrifying fiery death traps
- Beautifully animated adventure-puzzler Omno is out today
- Gigabyte's M27Q is a fast 1440p FreeSync Premium monitor and it's on sale for $290
- One of Steam Deck's 'terrifying prototypes' was called the 'Ugly Baby'
- Even faster SSDs based on PCIe 5.0 are expected to arrive next year
- Gabe Newell expects VR to be 'a very long haul' for Valve
- Crimson Desert is being delayed to an unspecified date
- Superhot VR gets review-bombed following the removal of suicide scenes
- Rocket League gets James Bond's suave Aston Martin DB5
- Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water PC port gets a release date
- July 28
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- Fortnite crosses over with Suicide Squad, featuring Bloodsport
- The Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters are out now and there's already a way to improve their crappy font
- Watch a full match of Halo Infinite multiplayer ahead of tomorrow's technical preview
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits delayed by a month
- Halo Infinite lets you drop weapons for the first time in series history
- xQc promises to be more careful after he gets suspended from Twitch yet again
- The game industry shares messages of solidarity with Activision Blizzard walkout
- Ubisoft employees say they've 'had enough' of 'empty promises,' offer solidarity to Activision Blizzard
- High-end gaming PCs are exempt from the CEC power regulations
- 'We will not return to silence': Activision-Blizzard employees push back on Bobby Kotick statement
- Serial Cleaners shows off its own take on Batman vision
- The Waylanders update lets you have a fluffy pet spider
- New Hitman 3 roadmap gives us a lustful Agent 47 and Marrakesh for free
- This hyper-realistic Minecraft map looks as good as the real deal
- Dull Grey looks anything but
- New blockbuster studio That's No Moon boasts an embarrassment of talent
- Save $68 on our favorite wireless gaming mouse, Logitech's G502 Lightspeed
- Valve's being increasingly vague about future Steam Deck availability
- Faster gaming monitors are coming, including 4K at 240Hz and 1080p at 480Hz
- Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons expansion introduces a siege turtle and fishing
- AMD's Zen 4 and RDNA 3 on track for a 2022 launch
- Time-looping murder mystery The Forgotten City is out today
- Bobby Kotick finally responds to Activision Blizzard employees: our initial response was 'tone deaf'
- Activision Blizzard employees are planning a walkout on Wednesday
- Halo Infinite's first technical preview is happening this weekend
- Fuse and Caustic will get major buffs in Apex Legends Season 10
- July 27
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- Norman Reedus posts disturbing selfie with Silent Hill 3 bunny
- A Total War Saga: Troy Linux port dropped because Valve's Proton means 'less demand for native titles'
- World of Warcraft developers pledge to remove in-game references that are 'not appropriate' following sexual harassment lawsuit
- These Dune-inspired Mass Effect posters are dope
- Facebook stops sales of the Oculus Quest 2 because it might irritate your face
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition brought out the basic Paragon Shepards
- PAX West announces attendees now require vaccinations or negative Covid-19 tests
- Blizzard quietly reveals all the new cards in the Hearthstone: United in Stormwind expansion
- Intel reveals its first chiplet CPUs are coming in 2023
- A Total War Saga: Troy says screw it, have mythological monsters after all
- AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 5950X is in stock and selling below MSRP right now
- Your new favourite indie in five words: Fully destructible sword-wielding robots
- Dell is cancelling Alienware gaming PC shipments to several US states
- I just can't stop staring at this hypnotic DIY Ambilight project
- UK games industry veteran Ian Richardson dies aged 53
- This free bundle of the Mass Effect OST, comics and art books is only available for a few more days
- This lo-fi horror roguelike looks like the best Resident Evil spin-off Capcom never made
- Death's Door reaches over 100,000 players in its first week
- Olympic athlete wins gold medal while wearing a Witcher medallion
- July 26
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- Splitgate's final release is delayed while studio revamps server infrastructure
- More than 1,500 Activision Blizzard employees condemn company leadership, call for 'compassion for victims'
- 11-year-old discovers loophole in Newegg's lottery system, buys RTX 3090
- Intel announces Amazon and Qualcomm as its first foundry customers
- Former World of Warcraft designer apologizes for the cringeworthy, sexist stuff they said at BlizzCon 2010
- Nanometer no more: Intel changes its process names to match TSMC
- Need a frame rate boost? Maybe you should be gaming at 128x72 resolution
- AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT and RX 6600 prices leak
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla's next expansion, The Siege of Paris, arrives on August 12
- Minecrafter uses 100 adorable axolotls to annihilate the Ender Dragon
- EVGA's GPU fans are trying to hit 200,000 RPM in New World, that might explain a fried chip or two
- Switch vs. Steam Deck: Gabe Newell reckons 'you're going to know which one is right for you'
- Why a 'freedom flag' from Dream's Minecraft server waved over a London anti-vax rally
- This game will make you nostalgic for the petty crimes you probably never committed in the 90s
- Leaks suggest AMD's new GPU has 3x the core count of an RX 6900 XT
- Seagate's 8TB external HDD with professional data recovery is just $170 today
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 40-series rumours point to TSMC 5nm, Lovelace, and late 2022 launch
- Final Fantasy 16 is prioritising English voice acting, hasn't even started Japanese dub
- A gaming subreddit's harassment campaign peaked when a member faked death threats to themselves
- Careful where you download Windows 11, some installers are packed with malware
- Sims players are flooding their homes with the new pond tool
- The ALOT texture mod comes to Mass Effect Legendary Edition
- New Sonic game announcement 'a bit premature' says Sonic Team head
- July 25
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- Watch a trailer for King's Bounty 2's second playable character, Katharine
- Try to save your crumbling sci-fi empire in the Alliance of the Sacred Suns demo
- This mod is becoming the fantasy grand strategy game you can't get elsewhere
- Genshin Impact is finally becoming a real game by adding fishing in 2.1
- This week in PC Gaming: The Ascent, The Forgotten City, and cyberpunk kitties
- Steam Deck 30 fps target is 'the floor of what we consider playable'
- Chris Metzen is the latest ex-Blizzard dev to speak up: 'There is no excuse'
- July 24
- July 23
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- The Splitgate crossplay beta is so popular the developers had to take it offline
- Original Dead Space co-creator says he's 'excited' by the remake
- Battlefield 1 is free for the weekend on Steam
- Activision Blizzard executives can't decide whether allegations of abuse are 'disturbing' or 'meritless'
- This $699 Lenovo laptop somehow has a 120Hz screen and Ryzen 4600H CPU
- Max Payne's original face and voice team up to prove that 20 years later, he's still got it
- This Cooler Master mechanical keyboard is just $48 right now
- Activision Blizzard heads promise change following reports of widespread abuse
- Valve explains how removable Steam Libraries will work on Steam Deck
- Sports Interactive announces multi-year project to bring women's football to Football Manager
- Popular Fortnite mapper suspended then reinstated over homophobic comments
- Gigabyte’s gorgeous Aero 15 OLED gaming laptop delivers an RTX 3060 with a chunky discount
- The Tokyo Olympics kicked off with a load of videogame bangers
- The first totally modular Intel laptop is now shipping, and I really hope it's a success
- Overwatch may have pulled planned map reveal amid this week's abuse allegations
- EVGA confirms it's replacing all its RTX 3090s killed by Amazon's New World MMO
- Google's latest doodle is a surprisingly packed Olympics RPG
- Update: PUBG Mobile's latest skin being renamed to remove reference to Hypnospace Outlaw
- Knockout City season 2 launches next week, new maps and balls detailed
- Star Wars Galaxies devs discuss why it died
- July 22
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- Bungie promises 'zero-tolerance' for harassment following Activision allegations
- World of Warcraft players call for removal of references to Blizzard ex-employee named in harassment lawsuit
- Respawn is hiring for a 'brand new singleplayer adventure'
- World of Warcraft players are staging in-game protests against Activision Blizzard
- 7 top Borderlands 3 developers have reportedly left Gearbox
- Apex Legends pro league will pit PC players against aim-assisted console foes
- Valve says it hasn't found a game Steam Deck can't handle
- Dark fairytale adventure Lost in Random rolls up this September
- Dead Space remake confirmed: here's our first look
- Battlefield Portal is instantly the most exciting part of Battlefield 2042
- Apex Legends reveals Seer's powerful tracking abilities
- Grid Legends promises to blend high-speed racing with behind-the-scenes drama
- Looks like your Steam Deck could arrive sooner rather than later
- The internet is fixed, Steam is back online
- Genshin Impact is getting a Horizon Zero Dawn crossover
- Mismanagement and cut costs doomed Warcraft 3: Reforged, a new report finds
- Heist Simulator lets you design and share your own devious heist levels
- Final Fantasy 14 director says the new AFK timer shouldn't ruin the fun
- You'll do well to find another QHD 144Hz gaming monitor for $200
- Microsoft says it's fixed an issue in Windows 10 Game Mode that 'results in lower frame rates'
- Modder adds AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution to Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 VR, and more
- Battlefield 1 and Battlefield 5 are being given away on Amazon Prime
- Discord is adding Slack-style conversation threads
- Hades wins GDC Game of the Year, Umurangi Generation wins IGF Grand Prize
- Activision Blizzard lawsuit alleges discrimination, sexual harassment, and 'frat boy' culture
- Ubisoft Singapore employees face a 'French ceiling,' report says
- July 21
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- Since you already play games while on Zoom calls, Zoom is getting games
- 3 ways to enhance your Alienware setup
- The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf trailer puts Vesemir in the tub
- Tom Clancy's Elite Squad, the mobile game that co-opted BLM imagery, is closing
- Fortnite taps Ferrari for its first licensed car
- Ubisoft wins $150,000 lawsuit against Rainbow Six Siege DDoS operation
- New World beta hits 190,000 concurrent players on Steam
- Get ready for marbles to be the next big esport
- Valve kicks off $1 million art contest for new Counter-Strike skins
- Games Workshop is trying to shut down fan animations
- Gnarly concept art from The Thing's cancelled sequel game emerges online
- Google updates Chrome to detect phishing attempts ’50 times faster’
- Stardew Valley creator shares a game-changing tip hardly anyone noticed
- First RAM under Kingston's own Fury brand is a Beast (and a Renegade)
- Amazon's New World MMO is reportedly killing $1,500 Nvidia GPUs
- PES is dead, replaced by the F2P 'football platform' eFootball
- Bitcoin and Ethereum take a hit after EU proposes anti-terror cryptocurrency regs
- Leaked Intel Alder Lake numbers place it up to 22% quicker than AMD's finest Ryzen
- Play a free, broken twist on Tetris every Tuesday
- Skull and Bones is 'too big to fail', despite eight years of tortured development
- Steam's Big Picture mode will be replaced by Steam Deck's UI
- Steam Next Fest drops another payload of demos this October
- A whole Xbox 360 character fits in the eyelashes of an Unreal Engine 5 character
- Playing difficult games is like eating spicy food, says Spelunky creator
- Final Fantasy 14 player who ate 999 eggs now eating more than 138,000 eggs
- July 20
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- Castlevania anime showrunner is now adapting PUBG for screen
- Netflix's push into games will 'primarily' be mobile for now
- XDefiant will be exclusive to Ubisoft's store on PC at launch
- Fallout 76 adding customizable private servers for Fallout 1st subscribers
- Overwatch League is bringing back live events in September
- The internet reacts to XDefiant
- Hearthstone's next expansion has a Priest card that straight up kills opponents on the spot
- Humankind drops Denuvo ahead of launch to avoid performance problems
- After more than ten years it's still 'too soon' to say when Beyond Good and Evil 2 might be out
- Solve a posh murder as a young Hercule Poirot this September
- District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is making a game now
- You can't escape inflated GPU prices even on MSI's own new store
- Snoop Dogg's stream has been muted for a week and his fans can't tell him
- Back 4 Blood finally gets a trailer that makes it look awesome
- LucasArts' best game, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, somehow works amazingly well as an FPS
- This excellent Cooler Master mouse is selling for just over ten bucks
- Final Fantasy 14 director hates that people think his game has 'beat' World of Warcraft
- Nvidia's frame rate boosting DLSS tech is now a simple download for any game developer
- Finally, something good has come out of cryptocurrency: better SSDs
- Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga and Naruto are coming to Fortnite
- Turns out the Steam Deck's final spec is more impressive than Valve first listed
- Resident Evil Village gives you two chances for higher frame rates in one little patch
- Here's all of Half-Life 2 loaded at once in someone's browser
- CEO of ex-AMD fab GlobalFoundries shoots down Intel buyout
- A few Skate features have been confirmed, but we're vexed by a remark about the 'future'
- July 19
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- Call of Duty: Warzone's red doors are turning players invisible
- Best Buy will sell RTX 30-series cards in stores early Tuesday morning
- US and its NATO allies officially accuse China of Microsoft Exchange Server hack
- XDefiant is Ubisoft's free-to-play answer to Call of Duty multiplayer
- A 60-year-old man died of a heart attack after being swatted over his Twitter handle
- Gaming chair maker Vertagear apologizes after backlash to sexist tweet
- Fortnite world champ Bugha gets his Icon Series skin
- Apex Legends' next character is a cursed moth-man with an army of drones
- Final Fantasy 14 is desperately trying to fix its housing crisis
- Save $100 on this ultra high-end Wi-Fi 6 gaming router from Asus
- Fall Guys turns Spelunky Guy into a terrifying bean tomorrow
- This HP gaming laptop with a GTX 1650 is now cheaper than a Steam Deck
- Tencent to acquire Sumo Digital for $1.27 billion
- The Nvidia Arm race has just put Microsoft, AMD, and Intel on notice
- Solve a murder by flicking through a fake future Wikipedia
- Early samples of Intel's next-gen Alder Lake CPUs are already selling in China
- Microsoft vows to 'keep supporting' 1.3 billion Windows 10 users
- Windows 11's best gaming feature now being enabled in Windows 10
- EA doesn't want to exclude some of FIFA 22's PC players, so it's excluding all of them
- Call of Duty: Warzone banned 50,000 more cheaters last week
- No Skate at EA Play Live, but 'a little something' is coming tomorrow
- After 30 years, Japanese tactics series Super Robot Wars is finally coming West
- You might be able to upgrade a Steam Deck's SSD, but Valve says not to
- The new XCOM is a free-to-play mobile game
- July 18
- July 17
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- Valve has done "a ton" to avoid stick drift, increase reliability on Steam Deck
- Warframe's The New War expansion revealed in an explosive 30-minute gameplay trailer
- Warframe live event shatters concurrent user record, crashes servers
- Warframe is getting crossplay and cross-save across all platforms, is coming to mobile
- French game workers union sues Ubisoft for 'institutional sexual harassment'
- July 16
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- Steam Deck reservations are already selling on eBay for absolutely stupid prices
- Call of Duty: Cold War PC now supports PS5 haptic triggers, but you should probably turn it off
- Watch 1,000 illegal bitcoin PCs get literally steamrolled, experience justice
- War Thunder fan says tank is inaccurate, leaks classified military documents to prove it
- In city-builder Dice Legacy, your dice eat, drink, and have sex on a medieval ringworld
- After more than 1,600 attempts, a player has soloed Destiny 2's latest raid boss
- Ubisoft delays Rainbow Six Extraction and Riders Republic
- Steam Deck ship date pushed to mid-2022 for new reservations
- Heads up, $5 Steam Deck reservations are now live on Steam
- Netflix's new Monster Hunter film gives a popular NPC the spotlight
- Gabe wants other PC makers to create their own Steam Decks
- Quakecon 2021 is virtual but still wants you to 'bring your own PC'
- Unless something changes, Steam Deck won't run Destiny, Apex, PUBG or Siege
- Call of Duty: Warzone adds then immediately removes useful loadout feature
- AMD's most affordable Zen 3 CPU, the Ryzen 5 5600X, is down to $280
- AMD's new GPU driver promises a massive performance boost in F1 2021
- The internet reacts to the Steam Deck
- There won't be new Star Wars games at EA Play Live
- This week's Epic Games Store freebies are Obduction and Offworld Trading Company
- July 15
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- Hackers begin leaking stolen data after Vice refuses to help them blackmail EA
- Tim Sweeney: Steam Deck is 'an amazing move by Valve'
- Steam Deck: Finally, a handheld PC you might actually buy
- Valve has a plan to stop bots and resellers profiting from Steam Deck
- God of War actor Christopher Judge will voice Black Panther in Marvel's Avengers
- The new Elgato Facecam contains the baseline for all its future webcam developments
- Steam Deck is Valve's new handheld, starts at $400
- You can install Windows on a Steam Deck and possibly other game storefronts too
- Gabe Newell expects Steam Deck to sell 'millions of units' but the pricing was 'painful' to pick
- GTA Online's next big update brings the va-va-vroom to Los Santos
- AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution world just got a whole lot bigger
- Bloodborne's retro PC port shows off its brutal first boss fight
- Capcom promises patch for Resident Evil Village stuttering issue seemingly caused by DRM
- Former FaZe member threatens legal action against YouTubers who exposed his crypto scheme
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has been delayed into next year
- As the GPU supply crisis eases it's budget PC gamers who could suffer
- Call of Duty Black Ops and Warzone's huge season four is live and here's everything in it
- Resident Evil spin-off Re:Verse has been delayed yet again, and Capcom won't commit to anything beyond '2022'
- How to watch the Elgato 'future of content creation' stream today: new streaming gear incoming
- Quick! There's an Asus ROG gaming PC with a GeForce RTX 3070 for $1,600
- NZXT will ship you a new gaming PC in 2 days, including RTX 30-series GPU
- That Assassins' Creed Valhalla dice game is a physical game now
- The Ramp makes faceplanting down a wooden cliff look utterly serene
- Xbox gamepad may get some DualSense features down the line, Phil Spencer says
- Netflix is getting into game development
- July 14
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- Syberia 1 and 2 are free to keep on GOG
- Phil Spencer says he worries about the loss of videogame history
- Hit the open road with your friends in American Truck Simulator's new 'Convoy' mode
- Priest and Druid get the shaft in the latest round of Hearthstone nerfs
- The cracked version of Resident Evil Village runs better, testing confirms
- Microsoft threatens to bring back Clippy
- World War 3, the 'more hardcore Battlefield,' comes back from the dead
- Red Dead Online's latest expansion will once again make you wish it was singleplayer DLC
- Fans can't stop dunking on CDPR's fun Cyberpunk 2077 stats
- Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl may be the Smash Bros. killer
- The source code for famed arcade bastard Defender has been posted to Github
- Anyone can call in a robot dog, and other new Battlefield 2042 details
- Battlefield 2042 will have crossplay between PC and consoles
- Battlefield 2042's 'server-filling' AI soldiers won't be optional
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War brings its secret nukes to the rest of multiplayer
- Mafia modder spends 15 years filling the Titanic with mobsters
- AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X is a great gaming CPU and it's on sale for $398
- Final Fantasy 10 director says chances of 10-3 are 'not zero'
- Chromebooks are selling like gangbusters, but the party could be coming to an end
- Next-gen AMD Ryzen CPUs may not feature extra cores, but there's far more to Zen 4
- Fall Guys announced its next season with a jigsaw puzzle
- Unique action-strategy game Highfleet is coming to Steam this month
- An 'undetectable' and 'unstoppable' cheat was taken down at Activision's request
- Forza Horizon 5 will have ray traced audio and much improved engine sounds
- The Amazing American Circus delayed to September
- July 13
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- id Software's Mario PC port found in a stack of discs submitted to a museum
- Red Dead Redemption 2 DLSS update brings 'up to' 45 percent performance boost today
- Despite Sony's warning, Cyberpunk 2077 is still massively popular on the PlayStation 4
- Henry Cavill can't stop thinking about Warhammer, even on The Witcher set
- Work on Apex Legends cross-progression slowed down by recent hacks
- Oh good, someone's opening a nuclear-powered crypto mining facility
- Ghostwire: Tokyo is delayed into early 2022
- Fans have been playing Company of Heroes 3 for years
- Company of Heroes 3 is coming next year, but you can play a demo right now
- Corsair's weird new pump/reservoir comes disguised as set of fans
- Trackmania dev analyses 15 years' worth of records to root-out the cheaters
- Hell yeah, Nier: Automata's official Steam fix is finally dropping
- GTA 2-inspired cyberpunk action game Glitchpunk hits Early Access on August 11
- Atlus announces Persona has sold 15 million, offers merch hinting at Persona 6
- Overshoot your power needs with this 1000W PSU for $190
- EVGA's first-ever motherboard for AMD Ryzen CPUs comes into view
- These tiny Cooler Master PSUs deliver an extreme gaming PC's worth of power
- So that's what gaming chairs were missing: Swarovski Crystals
- Watch out for your email inbox because one of the biggest ransomware botnets is back
- Esports team CLG tells players they're getting dropped on camera, sponsored by Bud Light
- This retro horror demo has some of the best first-person platforming around
- Shrek's house has been found on Hunt: Showdown's new map
- A new Company of Heroes game might be revealed tomorrow
- Warner Bros denies report that NetherRealm and TT Games are for sale
- July 12
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- New Minecraft Dungeons expansion takes the fight to the Endermen
- Ninja is becoming a playable character in the free-to-play RPG Raid: Shadow Legends
- Allow this gamer womb to envelop you, if you dare
- Logitech G603 wireless gaming mouse now on sale for $45
- This is how you'll kill xenomorphs in Aliens: Fireteam Elite
- Warframe trailer teases its long-awaited new expansion being revealed this weekend
- LeBron James joins Fortnite to promote Space Jam 2 and Taco Tuesday
- Our favourite gaming chair, the Secretlab Titan, receives a major redesign
- A month after launch, Ninja Gaiden finally has in-game graphics options
- FIFA 22's PC edition will miss out on next-gen features
- Here's a speedy eight-core Intel Comet Lake CPU for just $240
- Final Fantasy 14 had such a spike in players that Square Enix temporarily ran out of digital copies
- Supercharge your laptop with this liquid-cooled RTX 3080 Ti in a box
- Dispute over a PC version of Lost Judgement may see the series come to an abrupt end
- Death Stranding: Director's Cut isn't a director's cut, says Hideo Kojima
- Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker system requirements and benchmarking tool released
- Warzone glitch lets player parachute into the gulag while invincible
- Psychonauts 2 will have an invincibility toggle
- There are 'one or two' staff at Respawn working on Titanfall's security problems
- Bloober Team shoots down new Silent Hill rumors, but there's still hope
- Pirates claim Resident Evil 8 crack fixes performance problems
- July 11
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- You can watch FIFA 22's official reveal trailer now
- Summer Games Done Quick breaks its online record by raising nearly 3 million dollars
- Red Dead Redemption 2 has some unexpected edutainment value, according to academics
- Don't hold your breath for Final Fantasy 16 at Tokyo Game Show
- Exclusive: Chernobylite's survival systems were inspired by research trips to Chernobyl
- Watch a badass cinematic for the new Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team
- July 10
- July 9
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- President Biden signs executive order calling for the restoration of net neutrality
- This $250 Geralt statue sure is a look
- Favela was Rainbow Six Siege's most hated map, now it's coming to Ranked
- Latest Windows 11 update focuses on the taskbar
- Henry Cavill was supposed to use his normal voice for Geralt, but forgot
- Call of Duty: Warzone world record holder denies cheating, goes to absurd lengths to prove it
- Here's the full trailer for The Witcher season 2
- The Witcher 3 is getting free new DLC based on the Netflix show
- The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf anime releases on Netflix in August
- Close call: The first Witcher game almost didn't star Geralt
- The official WitcherCon Geralt hot tub stream is incredibly chill
- How to watch WitcherCon today, and what to expect
- This Fallout mod aims to be the galaxy's greatest Star Wars game
- Ranked Arenas are coming to Apex Legends next season
- Genshin Impact's massive 2.0 update introduces a new Ghibli-inspired island region
- Corsair's H115i RGB Platinum is a fantastic CPU cooler and it's just $100
- AMD's Lisa Su says chip supplies will remain 'quite tight' until 2022
- The 'right to repair' bill gains backing from President Biden and Apple co-founder Wozniak
- Changes to how Ethereum is mined will dampen demand for GPUs, but not until 2022
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's next zombies map arrives next week
- US Defense Department cancels 'JEDI' contract awarded to Microsoft under Donald Trump
- This Half-Life designer is sharing early prototypes on TikTok
- Here's how the Hot Wheels Unleashed track editor works
- Demon Slayer manga gets a game adaption this October, and it's coming to PC
- Job ads suggest a new Ubisoft studio is opening in Australia
- Baldur's Gate 3 will release 'hopefully somewhere in 2022'
- July 8
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- Here's the first gameplay for Superbrothers' ultra pacifist space sim Jett: The Far Shore
- Death Stranding: Director's Cut adds cargo catapults and racing
- Sifu pushed to early 2022, guy pushed down stairs in new trailer
- Deathloop's new video teases something going on between Colt and Julianna
- Splitgate's newest map is an homage to the Unreal Tournament classic Facing Worlds
- Bethesda and Xbox donate $10,000 to the Humane Society in honor of Dogmeat
- Resident Evil Village mod replaces Sturm with a 'copyright-free' floor fan
- Epic makes two oddball genre mashups free for the week
- AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT rumored to launch in August for $399
- Valheim devs' next project is telling you how to make a fish wrap
- Cybersecurity wakeup call as hackers target school system
- Omno releases July 29, has a magic staff that turns into a hoverboard
- Google Maps makes for a shockingly compelling speedrun
- Mass Effect's telepathic jellyfish needed more nipples, apparently
- Here's a fully loaded gaming laptop with a GeForce RTX 3080 for $1,870
- Yes, Windows 11 will let you roll back to Windows 10, but you'll have to decide fast
- Among Us translated into Gaelige in 'a cultural victory for the Irish community'
- Mass Effect modder reluctantly returns missing butts to Legendary Edition
- Upgrading to Windows 11 from Win7 will require a clean install
- Minecraft is now R-rated in South Korea, Microsoft is looking into a solution
- Chip shortage sees smugglers cling-filming CPUs to their bodies, over $4M of parts seized
- Tend and grow a garden full of naked festival-goers
- Apex Legends is getting a toasty new arenas map next week
- Ruin your day with this concept art of a helmet-less Big Daddy
- July 7
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- Turn-based FPS Lemnis Gate begins beta testing on July 22
- Driving horror game Beware shows off a spooky map and killer trucks
- Try the stylish high-speed shooter Severed Steel for free next week
- The International 10 moves to Romania
- CS:GO player count dips after Valve starts charging $15 for Ranked
- Battlefield 2042 co-developer DICE LA is now Ripple Effect, and it's making something new
- Tencent is now using facial recognition to stop children in China from gaming all night
- Guilty Gear Strive mod restores references to Taiwan, Tibet, and Uyghurs
- Nvidia DLSS support is finally coming to Red Dead Redemption 2 next week
- You can now play World of Warships on an actual warship
- Fallout 76: Steel Reign releases today with legendary crafting and Brotherhood of Steel story finale
- Red Dead Online's Blood Money update adds 'a series of daring robberies' next week
- Bungie will reveal Destiny 2's The Witch Queen expansion next month
- Assassin's Creed Infinity will turn the series into a live-service game with multiple historical settings
- Guild Wars 2's best boss battle returns next week after a 7 year absence
- A Curb Your Enthusiasm short too spicy for Apple has leaked
- Gigabyte's G27Q is our favorite 1440p FreeSync monitor and it's on sale for $260
- Valorant's League of Legends tie-in adds a mammoth spectral sword
- Newegg will now build you a gaming PC with your own choice of parts for $99
- Counter-Strike's latest patch says don't cheat please
- Ubisoft has delisted Might and Magic 10 while it fixes the game's DRM issues
- Nvidia's new healthcare supercomputer looks like something out of a sci-fi movie
- Microsoft fixes PrintNightmare vulnerability but leaves it open to local attacks
- Massive Session update adds two new neighbourhoods to shred
- The latest WoW raid gives closure to the Sylvanas saga
- Blood Bowl 3 will have transforming pitches, gross burgers
- July 6
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- Spiders' sci-fi take on the French Revolution gets its first gameplay reveal
- Solasta: Crown of the Magister to get sorcerers and more in first big update
- RoboCop: Rogue City is an 'all-new' story based on the original film trilogy
- Apex Legends hackers 'achieved nothing of value,' Respawn dev says
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong delayed to February 2022
- Nintendo's OLED Switch is going to force handheld PCs makers to step up their game
- Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown hits the streets of Hong Kong in 2022
- Rogue Lords, the roguelite about helping the Devil reclaim Earth, arrives in September
- Good news: official Mass Effect body pillows are back in stock
- Streets of Rage 4’s first major DLC arrives July 15, lets you whack goons with a swordfish
- Bizarre brawler Zeno Clash is coming back in Clash: Artifacts of Chaos
- Netflix prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origin casts Michelle Yeoh
- God of War is coming to PlayStation Now on PC today
- Microsoft is working on game upscaling technology powered by AI
- Owner of ROM site nuked by Nintendo wants to bring it back
- Our dream machine case, Corsair's 5000D, is down to just $99 right now
- PowerColor briefly lists Radeon RX 6600 and 6600 XT on its website
- Project HP is a gorgeous medieval PvP brawler that will melt your rig
- Intel erased all the market share gains AMD CPUs made this year
- Finally a safe place to download alternative DLSS versions
- Styx speedrunner uses literal in-game flowcharts to cut through levels
- Atari wants to make 'premium' PC games again
- July 5
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- Rimworld's Ideology expansion will let you play as 'tree-worshipping cannibals' (or whatever)
- Fortnite leakers say Lebron James is coming to the game as an Icon Series skin
- Space Punks is a co-op loot-shooter that looks a lot like an isometric Borderlands
- Nearly a decade after it was announced, Battle Cry of Freedom appears on Steam
- Get the HyperX Cloud Alpha headset for just $70 ($30 off)
- Fable will be very British, and you'll play it before Elder Scrolls 6
- Hackers boot Windows 11 on Android and Windows Phones
- The GPU power going into the ethereum network has dropped by 19% in just one month
- BMW's new gaming chair concept is halfway to a car
- Streamer's first Final Fantasy 14 experience ruined by idiots
- Build Engine recreation of Matt Hancock's office quickly spirals out of control
- Star Wars: The Old Republic is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a big expansion
- Next-gen Intel enthusiast CPUs appear in leaked roadmap, but don't hold your breath
- Time Bandit reimagines Metal Gear Solid as a darkly comic work sim
- Phil Spencer admits Xbox needed the Perfect Dark reboot to make its firstparty lineup less male
- Here's a Dell G15 Ryzen Edition laptop with a GeForce RTX 3050 Ti for $833
- Grand Theft Auto 6 still 'early in development' and may not release until 2025
- It was a nice run, but the Oculus Rift S is no longer available on the Oculus site
- Falling Nvidia and AMD graphics card prices in Germany have us hopeful for PC building in 2021
- Guilty Gear Strive quietly removed references to Uyghur, Tibet and Taiwan
- Final Fantasy 14 just broke its concurrent player record on Steam
- Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me leaked by trademark filing
- July 4
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- The latest indie about chaotic animals is one with penguin pals pulling heists
- Terraform Mars in this clever combo of tile placement and nonviolent 4X
- Studio behind Metro Exodus are hiring for a new IP
- Apex Legends hacked to protest Titanfall server hacks
- Quake Champions is celebrating 25 years with one of the original Quake maps
- Sandbox building RPG Hytale isn't coming until 2023 'at the earliest'
- Monster Hunter Stories 2 is going to update with cute doggies
- Guild Wars 2 expansion delayed
- New Mass Effect Legendary Edition modding tools arrive
- Here's 7 minutes of System Shock remake gameplay
- Here's a stunning mod that remakes the original TIE Fighter
- US Department of Justice is investigating Overwatch League's 'soft salary cap'
- July 3
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- EA says it's not planning in-game video ads, following report (updated)
- Starting next month, Nexus Mods will no longer let modders delete their mod files
- Summit1g sets a new Max Payne 3 speedrun world record
- Call of Duty: Warzone hacker joins streamer's squad, forcibly crashes the game
- The Witcher: Monster Slayer is like Pokémon Go, but you might find a decapitated horse in the park
- The infamous Blue Screen of Death might be turning black in Windows 11
- Mortal Kombat 11 is finished, NetherRealm is moving on to a new project
- Destiny 2's best exotic weapon is getting nerfed
- Henry Cavill 'could be a politician,' Witcher director says
- Acer's RTX 30-series gaming laptops are getting a free GPU speed boost
- Resident Evil's Netflix show asked reviewers not to mention politics
- Doom Eternal abandons Invasions in favour of a brand new horde mode
- FaZe clan kicks one member, suspends three more over crypto scam
- Despite backlash, Humble Bundle is reintroducing a cap on charity splits
- AI bots are not just great at Dota 2, they can beat you at cornhole too
- PC can't run Windows 11? Buy a $55 Raspberry Pi 4 instead
- There's a HTML error in the $5.43M NFT representing the internet's source code
- Download Nvidia's new hotfix driver to stop Doom Eternal from crashing
- Rockstar's Dan Houser has set up his new studio
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's planetside missions can now be shared with friends
- The scaly lads and hairy boys of Total War: Warhammer 2's last DLC have been detailed
- Another classic Apogee platformer just got the HD treatment
- July 1
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- New Dying Light 2 gameplay shows that stealth might be fun this time around
- Rumor has it a Dead Space reboot is in development
- You'll be able to shoot Death in hand-drawn horror Kingdom of the Dead
- Call of Duty: Warzone cheaters don't even have to aim anymore
- There's a shiny new trailer for Destiny 2 event Solstice of Heroes
- We won't see Dragon Age 4 or the new Mass Effect at EA Play Live this month
- This mouse has a fan in it, for those sweaty matches
- Pride month is over, but you can still get the Queer Games Bundle for a few days
- Rust DLC gets loud with boom boxes, megaphones, and a disco
- Valheim patch re-tweaks monster AI so they won't hate your fort more than they hate you
- Hearthstone's United in Stormwind expansion will add Mounts, Tools, Questlines and Tradeable cards
- Hearthstone Battlegrounds is getting new barmen, cosmetics, and the biggest minion shakeup yet
- Sony acquires PC port developer Nixxes Software
- Bungie is hiring someone to help tackle Destiny 2's cheater problem
- Microsoft engineer stole $10 million by selling Xbox gift cards for bitcoin
- Power up your PC with EVGA's Supernova 650W 80 Plus Gold PSU for just $50
- Hunt: Showdown's janky hit registration is getting better, says Crytek
- New MS Flight Simulator update to deliver dramatic performance uplift on PC
- Fan mod adds AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution to GTA V, can you spot the difference?
- Welcome the world's first PC cooled by magnetized bellows
- Build wonky robots and throw them across Mars next year
- Someone actually paid $5.43M for Tim Berners-Lee's NFT of the internet's origin story
- Nvidia could offer a better-looking DLSS setting in a coming update
- Tencent wants to make the 'next great PC RTS'
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous dev diary shows off huge home base
- Banned Destiny 2 streamer denies cheating, gets ruined by Bungie
- Robinhood trading app hit with $70M penalty for 'misleading' customers
- Phil Spencer says studio acquisitions are good for the videogame industry
