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February 28
- Cities: Skylines and BattleTech developers will announce new games next week
- Naoki Yoshida says Final Fantasy 16 won't be on PC 6 months after release
- Somebody tossed at least $100K of Magic: The Gathering cards in a landfill
- Heck yeah, Sons of the Forest update adds weapon hotkeys
- After 4 years, Destiny 2's Cayde-6 finally gets the memorial he deserves
- This powerful RTX 3080 Ti gaming laptop just hit its lowest price
- A Stalker board game is coming and of course I want miniatures of the little zone men
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer somehow managed to 100% Vampire Survivors while managing the biggest videogame acquisition in history
- After 10 years of killing dragons, Guild Wars 2's new update is a hint at what comes next
- Intel is already matching AMD for gaming graphics market share
- Graphics card shipments cratered by 50% at the end of 2022
- Hitman developer just announced its next project: an 'online fantasy RPG'
- 14 years later Resident Evil 5 finally removes Games for Windows Live and restores splitscreen
- Chainsaw Man X Goddess of Victory: Nikke is now live on PC
- Elden Ring's creator says he's been checking out Escape from Tarkov for a little multiplayer inspiration
- AMD's 7900 XT is now even cheaper at $830
- Staff at Ubisoft's Beyond Good and Evil 2 studio are reportedly at breaking point
- Elden Ring's first expansion announced
- Wordle hint and answer #619: Tuesday, February 28
- Gen5 SSDs listings finally show up on Amazon and Newegg
- These new wooden panels give Corsair's PC cases a retro makeover
- One of Korea's best indie studios released a free-to-play game about a bus ride to hell
February 27
- A chatbot with roots in a dead artist's memorial became an erotic roleplay phenomenon, now the sex is gone and users are rioting
- 'Too early access for early access'—players react to Kerbal Space Program 2 launch
- Survival MMO Dune: Awakening takes place in an 'alternate' timeline
- Hall-of-famer Mercy player wins competitive Overwatch 2 match by lying in a bush
- This RTX 4070 Ti-powered rig for $200 off is great for 4K gaming
- PSA: Sons of the Forest companions can be revived with Notepad
- You can clone Kelvin and other NPCs in Sons of the Forest with this simple command
- What a Trip: EA and 3DO founder's on the Web3 Kool-Aid
- Oops, Windows 11 upgrades were offered to ineligible PCs
- This fluorescent gaming PC has 69 water blocks to keep it frosty
- Existing owners won't get The Outer Worlds' new fancypants edition for free, but there's a hefty discount
- Tarkov devs issue update on 'cheating bastards' and 'other related scum of the earth', but players ain't buying it
- Streaming on Discord is one of the better ways to make use of AV1 GPU support
- 'Ready-to-wear' Diablo 4 clothes at Milan Fashion Week seem unwearable, have nothing to do with Diablo 4
- That time Bill Gates got so obsessed with Minesweeper high scores that Microsoft staff had to conjure up one he couldn't beat
- Atomic Heart devs apologise for racist cartoon clip and promise edits
- Wordle hint and answer #618: Monday, February 27
- Atomic Heart mods are here
- We're saved: this 'Morrowind Removed' mod gets the Morrowind out of Morrowind
- Microsoft's shoddy Bing AI chatbot has been in the making for at least 6 years
- It's a platformer about a cute turtle and duck, what more do you want?
- Get stuck in the ice and struggle to survive in this story-rich management game
- This hack lets you use YouTube as infinite cloud storage
- Wait a minute, you can still update a disk-based version of Steam from 2004 to the current release
- Half-Life 2's face models include a legendary DJ and an actual dead body
February 26
- Rough PC performance can't keep me from loving Wo Long's Wuxia action
- Wordle hint and answer #617: Sunday, February 26
- Dragon Age: Origins deserves remaster with 'extra-realistic slimy nipple textures', says lead writer
- Blood Bowl 3 devs address complaints, hand out free stuff
- Police discovered a secret crypto-mining operation beneath a US high school
February 25
- It looks like EA is already considering Dead Space 2 and 3 remakes
- Selling 2 million copies in 24 hours, Sons of the Forest is definitely a hit
- Overwatch confirms Christ Jesus is better at deflecting missiles than ninja-cyborg Genji
- Wordle hint and answer #616: Saturday, February 25
- Overwatch 2 director confirms what we already knew: the 'meta' isn't all that important
February 24
- The Street Fighter 6 trailers are getting me hyped to once again pretend I'm finally going to get good at Street Fighter
- I tried the 'world's first crypto-backed energy drink,' and it tastes like it was secreted from the blockchain
- Baldur's Gate 3 increases system requirements 'to better reflect the realities of the launch version'
- Dark and Darker will hold one more playtest in April
- This Gigabyte RTX 4070 Ti selling near MSRP is the best GPU deal of the week
- Hogwarts Legacy players have murdered more than 1 billion Dark Wizards
- The Day Before's calendar app nemesis confirms it owns disputed copyright, would like you to know it's been around for 13 years
- Elden Ring and God of War: Ragnarok win big at the DICE Awards
- Mini LED gaming monitors are a bad idea in theory and in practice they're even worse
- iBUYPOWER celebrates the launch of the HYTE Y40 Case with two new RDY systems
- I'm excited that BioWare is 'trying something new' with Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, but for the love of god actually tell us something
- That postmodern Lemmings-like where a Shiba Inu saves humanity is getting a PC version and a limited-time demo
- John Romero honoured alongside the teacher who made world's first edutainment game
- The best Alien game that isn't an Alien game is free for a week
- Intel CEO slams Arrow Lake CPU delay rumours
- Wordle hint and answer #615: Friday, February 24
- Embracer and WB agreement means multiple new Lord of the Rings movies
- The Resident Evil 4 Remake messes with the timeline and teases Mercenaries return in its latest trailer
February 23
- This YouTuber is crafting an alternate Command & Conquer mythos populated entirely by the weirdest guys on the internet
- Mortal Kombat 12 is 'set for release this year' according to investors call
- What we learned about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League from the State of Play stream—it's a looter shooter alright
- Destiny 2: Lightfall launch trailer finally shows The Traveller and The Witness kicking the crap out of each other
- Our most anticipated game of 2023 is launching August 31
- This shooter looks like if Max Payne literally went to hell
- Dreamlight Valley players have been investigating a potato mystery for months
- More people are playing Sons of the Forest on Steam than Hogwarts Legacy
- The best multiplayer FPS you haven't played is $16 right now
- Ukraine wants Valve, Microsoft, and Sony to stop selling Atomic Heart in the country
- Spooky! Bungie just made Destiny 2's phenomenal Witch Queen campaign free for everyone
- Every Steam sale and event coming in 2023 has been revealed
- How am I just now learning about the cops whose job is to play Fortnite?
- This top spec 1TB SSD for $105 is a ridiculously good deal
- Singapore detains teens under controversial act after they played on ISIS-themed Roblox servers
- Baldur's Gate, one of my favourite CRPGs of all time, will be free-to-keep for Prime subs next month
- Legendary designer Shinji Mikami to leave Tango Gameworks and Xbox
- You already speak fluent computer code according to Nvidia's CEO
- No Man's Sky's 163rd update brings a VR overhaul, new quests, and your own personal Guinness World Records book
- Nvidia predicts AI models one million times more powerful than ChatGPT within 10 years
- I make no apologies for the geeky pleasure I get watching a 56-core CPU just monster this benchmark
- Here's when Company of Heroes 3 unlocks in your time zone
- Ray traced Half-Life mod is finally here and looks incredible
- Nvidia predicts explosive future for AI even as gaming graphics revenues plummet by 46%
- Wordle hint and answer #614: Thursday, February 23
- Quest v50 update adds poking and prodding
February 22
- This battle royale game could win two DICE awards five days before it shuts down
- Amazon is bringing another big Korean MMO to the West
- Let this 32-inch 4K 144Hz gaming monitor take over your desk for just $490, its lowest price ever
- Dark and Darker dev denies theft accusation: 'As far as we know you cannot copyright a game genre'
- Here's when Sons of the Forest releases in your time zone
- New World is switching to a seasonal model and, yep, that means a season pass
- This fan remake of a Star Trek text game from 1978 is way better than it has any right to be
- Valve lured 40,000 Dota cheaters into a trap before banning them in one day
- Elden Ring has sold over 20 million in less than a year since release
- Atomic Heart criticised for racist caricature in one of its Soviet-era cartoons
- EVO 2023 lineup features Street Fighter 6, and the surprise announcement of a fighting game classic
- Wild Hearts devs fix the hellish RX 7900 XTX 'disco lights' headache
- The film studio behind Get Out and The Purge is going to make 'original, horror-themed' games
- Intel's reported 3nm chip deferment hints at a delay to Arrow Lake CPUs
- Task Manager's most useful function could soon be a right click away
- Wordle hint and answer #613: Wednesday, February 22
- After Elden Ring released, The Lords of the Fallen devs realized one of their bosses was 'nearly identical to Malenia'
February 21
- This huge Diablo 4 statue costs as much as a good gaming PC
- Survival game Sons of the Forest shows off co-op base-building, fleshy nightmares
- Microsoft announces 10-year deal with Nvidia to bring Xbox PC games to GeForce Now
- Hogwarts Legacy Accio Masochism mod makes everything a chore
- Hogwarts Legacy director says there are 'no current plans for DLC'
- Huge Elden Ring mod brings Hogwarts Legacy broom flight and spells to the Lands Between
- Destiny 2 cheat maker owes Bungie $4.4M after judge rules it violated the DMCA
- This implant lets those with severe paralysis send texts and use the internet with just their minds
- Atomic Heart has launched without ray tracing despite featuring in multiple Nvidia tech demos
- The Walking Dead is being turned into a tabletop RPG by the creators of the Alien and Blade Runner RPGs
- Randomizer mod for RollerCoaster Tycoon breathes life into a bonafide classic
- Shocking but not surprising: The average price of a GPU at retail has doubled since 2020
- The first RTX 4060 gaming laptop prices are... actually kind of okay
- The union organising Activision told the EU that life would be much better under Microsoft
- After more than 2 years of updates, Assassin's Creed Valhalla's final patch is out today
- Major sci-fi magazine halts submissions due to flood of stories written by AI chatbots
- Capcom will give its first Street Fighter 6 champ a massive million-dollar prize
- Wordle hint and answer #612: Tuesday, February 21
- This VR mod uses LEDs to increase your field of view
- Tabletop-ish RPG For the King 2 is looking good in a new trailer
February 20
- Facebook and Instagram are getting paid verification badges, just like Twitter
- Here's a demo for a collectathon platformer that fell right out of 1999
- Layers of Fears studio decides the extra 's' is too scary, so now it's called Layers of Fear again
- Play a radio host guiding callers to safety in horror adventure Killer Frequency
- The Expanse extended gameplay trailer showcases zero-G exploration and tough decisions
- There is such a thing as a good RTX 4080 gaming PC deal
- Spiderweb Software is remastering another classic RPG
- One year later, Chrono Cross' busted PC port is finally getting a patch
- A human has beat an AI in possibly the most complex board game ever
- AMD won't have users 'paying for features they never use' when it comes to AI in GPUs
- The world's biggest charity speedrunning event just banned Hogwarts Legacy
- Sega arrives late to Japan's pay-hike party, bumping employee salaries by 30%
- Wordle hint and answer #611: Monday, February 20
- Razer's new BlackWidow V4 Pro gaming keyboard is a beast with a price to match
- This Lemmings-like platformer drove me to the brink (in a good way) trying to rescue its hapless astronauts
- Skyrim mod adds Doctor Who's weeping angels in case you feel like wetting yourself
- A demon rat and a duck star in this buddy cop RPG
- This randomizer mod reshuffles classic shooters like Duke 3D, Blood, and Shadow Warrior
- It's better to reign in Hell, so check the trailer for a strategy game about conquering it
February 19
- Redfall production designer: 'Making a large, open world game, that was breaking the mold for us'
- Rainbow Six Siege is revamping riot shields and overhauling the new player experience in 2023
- An AI that plays Minecraft for you got made, but it won't be released
- Wordle hint and answer #610: Sunday, February 19
- Fighter management sim Punch Club gets a sequel
- See anime spaceship sim Jumplight Odyssey's gameplay reveal
- Dark Pinocchio soulslike Lies of P is coming out this year
February 18
- GOG's giving away a NSFW hospital sim called 'Biing' this weekend
- Rainbow Six Siege is going to start doing evil things to mouse and keyboard players on console
- iFixit throws its hat in the ring with its own 2TB SSD upgrade for Steam Deck
- Diablo 4's first playtests are coming in just a few weeks
- Wordle hint and answer #609: Saturday, February 18
- Indigenous group demands Final Fantasy 14 remove Far Northern Attire DLC
February 17
- Beamdog is giving fans a chance to put themselves in Baldur's Gate
- 'Leaked' Starfield image turns out to be AI-generated fake
- Indie city builder removed from Steam after angry fan claims ownership of a game mode
- Woman who sells virtual sex in VRChat denied US visa for 'prostitution'
- New Steam feature lets you copy games to the Steam Deck (or between PCs) without redownloading
- Apex Legends hits all-time player count peak on PC following team deathmatch update, free hero giveaway
- This early access survival game just climbed over Starfield to become the most-wishlisted game on Steam
- Steam celebrates Carnival with its first-ever Made in Brazil Sale
- Indie dev files DMCA takedown against his own game as dispute with publisher continues
- Where the heck do GPU prices go from here?
- The good news is that you can grab an RTX 4090 laptop for $2,851
- Devs and modders can now freely add AMD's best upscaling algorithm into games
- Firaxis announces new Civilization game as XCOM director Jake Solomon leaves
- Deeply weird Alice video basically begs EA to fund the game
- It's a great weekend for trying big games for free
- Wild Hearts devs acknowledge the PC port runs terribly and promise fix next week
- Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened delay announcement doubles as a short war documentary
- All Genshin Impact codes from the version 3.5 livestream
- Wordle hint and answer #608: Friday, February 17
February 16
- Here's a thoroughly Slavic cyberpunk stealth-action game
- This solo-developed 'cross between Dark Alliance and Dark Souls' is shaping up to be my next RPG obsession
- The trailer for the upcoming Tetris movie is way hotter than it should be
- Ubisoft has an 'improved version' of Skull and Bones that it hasn't shown anyone yet
- Bungie is going to sell a 'booster' that unlocks the new Destiny 2: Lightfall subclass on your alt
- Resident Evil 4 Remake system requirements are pleasantly mild
- Wait, there are 5 Lord of the Rings games due in the next 2 years?
- The best superhero game in recent memory is free on Steam this weekend
- Payday: The Web Series fans vindicated as Starbreeze announces live 'TV or film' adaptation of the games
- Destiny 2: Lightfall's new loadout system will let players swap gear in the middle of an activity
- Destiny 2: Lightfall's new destination features an activity teased as 'Escalation Protocol 2.0'
- $898 will get you a full 1440p gaming PC. One screwdriver required
- Up to 40% ray tracing boost for last-gen cards in AMD's new driver
- Bing's AI meltdowns make Portal's cranky GLaDOS look well adjusted
- Total War: Warhammer 3 is making one of the series' greatest ever campaigns free for all owners
- Genshin Impact drops actor who admitted to sexual misconduct and pledges to scrub him from the game entirely
- Wordle hint and answer #607: Thursday, February 16
- Quantum computing just got another step closer
- Experts say the AI singularity could be here in the next two decades
- Genshin Impact developer's next game draws 2M sign-ups as its launch nears
February 15
- Angry Modern Warfare 2 players moderately soothed by new map reveal, remain mad
- Hogwarts Legacy datamined potion would've made choosing talents easier
- Lies of P official gameplay trailer is a steampunk Bloodborne
- Rejoice: Warzone 2 Resurgence is back with a new small map
- A 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD at just 8 cents per GB is a deal we can't pass up
- AMD's RX 7600S mobile GPU matches RTX 3060 in first review
- Valve backtracks on Team Fortress 2 update wording after people got way too excited: 'We've been bamboozled'
- 11 years on, Natural Selection 2's going to that great alien-infested spaceship in the sky
- League of Legends is getting a '2D hi-bit pixel action RPG' where you lead a magic revolution
- Watching this artist drag an easel into Half-Life: Alyx makes me want to be a VR painter too
- The Witcher 3 unwittingly added a mod called 'Vaginas for Everyone' after another chaotic modder snuck it in
- Age of Empires 4 is getting a dash of Age of Mythology-style magic in tomorrow's big update
- Here are those AMD RX 6000-series and older GPU drivers you've been waiting on
- Wordle hint and answer #606: Wednesday, February 15
- Give your Steam Deck some old school chic with a transparent, coloured backplate
- Pro-net neutrality FCC nominee says ISPs are doing everything they can to keep her out
February 14
- Hear AI Todd Howard declare The Elder Scrolls 6 will let players have sex with NPCs
- Players are replacing their Hogwarts wands with with guns, Luigi Wiimotes, and asparagus
- Hogwarts Legacy's first patch hasn't fixed performance issues for everyone
- Destiny 2 just dropped its biggest twist since Cayde-6 got killed off and I'm a mess
- Mick Gordon is donating his fee for Atomic Heart to humanitarian aid for Ukraine
- Guild Wars 2 is switching to smaller, more frequent expansions
- This Valentine's Day, say it with Doom
- Minecraft is getting a new biome in update 1.20 after all
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's going to give the best player in the world a one-of-a-kind prize
- The damage has been done to Samsung's sickly 990 Pro SSDs despite the new firmware fix
- This is the all-AMD gaming laptop deal I've been waiting nearly a year for
- Frictional has a new 'SOMA-style' game quietly in the works
- Kevin Conroy found recording the Arkham games frustrating: '‘What the f**k do they want me to say?’
- Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU rumours suggest it's worse than the laptop variant of the same chip
- WoW player hits level cap without even arriving at the starting area in 200-day grinding ordeal
- This city builder lets you build a civilisation on the back of a space whale with its own 'desires and agenda'
- Motherboard sales dropped by as much as 55% in 2022
- This upcoming VR headset aims to solve virtual reality's most frustrating problem
- Wordle hint and answer #605: Tuesday, February 14
- This desolate action-RPG about a city at the end of time is 11 years in the making
February 13
- The Skyrim Together team is working on a multiplayer mod for Hogwarts Legacy, and there's already a prototype
- You've got three extra days to play in the Dark and Darker alpha
- Hogwarts Legacy players discover a hugely OP secret weapon: cabbage
- You've got 3 days left to play one of the best demos on Steam right now
- The Witcher 3's next-gen vaginas are going away
- This $800 mechanical keyboard had better let me actually hack into the Matrix
- Oh damn, an RTX 4070 Ti gaming PC on sale for less than most RTX 3080 rigs
- An RTX 3070 Ti gaming PC for a price that makes all RTX 3070 'deals' irrelevant
- The deepfake scam era begins with an AI-generated Joe Rogan pushing penis pills on TikTok
- Dead Island 2 celebrates going gold by changing its release date one last time, so now it's releasing a week earlier
- Here's another good reason to keep your GeForce Experience software up to date
- Minecraft reveals the big, floppy Sniffer mob coming in version 1.20
- The Day Before devs say a calendar app stole their trademark, YouTube is delisting their videos, and no doubt the dog's eyeing up their homework
- Why four of Steam's top five sellers are Hogwarts Legacy
- EA on verge of $600 million deal to be the Premier League's 'lead partner'
- Nvidia CEO hails ChatGPT as 'one of the greatest things that has ever been done for computing'
- Double Fine just dropped a 22-hour documentary series on the making of Psychonauts 2
- Cult PC gaming icon 'Super Mario' resurrects his '80s rap classic in nostalgic Super Bowl ad
- Wordle hint and answer #604: Monday, February 13
- Here's when Wild Hearts releases in your timezone and when you can start the EA Play First trial
- Intel reportedly seeking even more government funding for new German fab
- 'Trans Witches Are Witches' game bundles raise over $79,000 in protest of Hogwarts Legacy
February 12
- This mod creatively revives a long-forgotten Mass Effect 2 feature in the Legendary Edition remaster
- Rebuild after Ragnarok in roguelike city-builder Roots of Yggdrasil
- Here's a management game best described as 'terraform and chill'
- EA Originals to publish more big-budget games as well as small indies
- Finally, after 21 years, Morrowind meets my exacting standards of realism and immersion with this mod that adds footprints
- Dark Souls 3 joins the growing list of games with fun Unreal Engine 5 mockups
- A remake of the first Atelier game is coming to Steam in summer 2023
- Resident Evil 4 is partying like it's 2011 with a deluge of day-one DLC
- Wordle hint and answer #603: Sunday, February 12
- Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC planned for April release
- Fatshark details upcoming changes to Darktide's gear acquisition and crafting
February 11
- Broken Arrow is a convincing attempt at a modern warfare RTS
- Wandering Sword may be the wuxia RPG I've been waiting for
- EVE Online's far-future boardroom sharks are using their powers for good with an in-game charity drive
- Guns and spells clash in real-time cooperative RPG Dark Envoy
- 20 years on, this mod adds new lightsabers, character models, and quality of life fixes to one of the best Star Wars games
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive smashes all-time player record 11 years after release like the boss it is
- Wordle hint and answer #602: Saturday, February 11
- I'm loving this chill city builder with storybook looks and fairytale charm
- Players are modding Hogwarts Legacy to make their characters paler
February 10
- Hogwarts Legacy modders wasted no time adding VTubers to it
- Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick says Sony is 'not returning our calls'
- Hollow Knight: Silksong playtester encourages patience, says it's a 'glorious game worth the wait'
- Square Enix developer lets slip that yes, a Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is probably on the way
- Hogwarts Legacy arachnophobia mode arrives just in time for launch
- It's a Friday miracle! An Asus RTX 4070 Ti is selling at $799 MSRP right now
- Remedy plans to release a new game each year from now on
- Reddit gets hacked after employee falls victim to phishing attack
- Hi-Fi Rush, which was helmed by The Evil Within 2's director, sure seems to be teasing The Evil Within 3
- Microsoft might have plans to get rid of all those RGB lighting apps on your PC
- AMD's RX 7900 XT is on sale under MSRP only two months after release
- This mod that lets you fight your Morrowind character in Oblivion is one of the coolest I've seen in ages
- Minecraft's archeology feature is finally getting dug up for 1.20
- You can try out all of Octopath Traveler 2's protagonists in its demo right now
- Thomas the Tank Engine steams straight into Hogwarts Legacy
- Vampire survival game getting major free update that overhauls combat, castles, necromancers, and more
- The Witcher 3's next-gen update has added detailed vaginas to female monsters, apparently by mistake?
- A Division 2 update broke things so bad the game can't be updated again until they fix the system for delivering updates
- Final Fantasy 14 suspends automatic housing demolition following the Turkey-Syria earthquake
- Sony accuses Microsoft of 'obvious harassment' in latest FTC court filing
- You can grab a 2TB Steam Deck SSD from the makers of the most modular laptop
- 2022 market downturn the worst in PC processor history according to new data
- Wordle hint and answer #601: Friday, February 10
- TF2 is getting an 'update-sized update' this summer, but the community has to make it themselves
February 9
- This eerie RPG looks like Baldur's Gate on Game Boy, and it's out soon
- World of Warcraft is ditching Twitter integration
- Hogwarts Legacy PC players are cursed with stuttering and other performance issues
- Genshin Impact voice actor apologizes for sexual misconduct with fans on Discord, other actors 'furious' and 'disgusted'
- Hearthstone's new Naxxramas miniset launches next week and we have a Legendary card to reveal
- Well, now we know why Google closed Stadia
- Bizarre propaganda stunt sees teenager stream 'Russia vs NATO' grand strategy game from notorious mercenary group's HQ
- Oops, ChatGPT can be hacked to offer illicit AI-generated content including malware
- Atomic Heart detailed system requirements revealed
- This super speedy and sort of Sony-made 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is just $88
- Puny Asus Mini-ITX motherboard has a chipset on a stick
- A bunch of classic Nintendo DS JRPGs are headed for PC, but it'll cost ya
- Ubisoft teams up with UK police to tackle 'the most extreme cases' of online harassment and threats
- Silicon wafers are getting cheaper but CPUs and GPUs may not follow
- Google's new AI didn't do a racism but its public screw up still knocked $100B off the books
- The original Life Is Strange devs are making a beautifully animated, choice-driven narrative game next
- Here's when Hogwarts Legacy releases in your time zone
- Inject Dead Cells' Castlevania DLC straight into my veins please
- That Tron visual novel has a release window, a new trailer, and lots of choices to make
- Intel calls time on Rocket Lake, the CPU generation that should never have happened
- Wordle hint and answer #600: Thursday, February 9
- Audio-Technica's StreamSet promises a streaming mic in a gaming headset
February 8
- UK regulators say Activision Blizzard should be broken up
- Stay competitive with this speedy 240Hz gaming monitor for $200
- Nearly 500,000 people are playing Hogwarts Legacy on Steam before it's truly out
- Destiny 2 reveals bold plan to stop lethally physics-slamming players into walls
- Bing's cool new AI chat feature still doesn't solve the biggest problem with AI-generated content
- Forspoken studio promises PC performance improvements are on the way
- Design your dream gaming setup from the discomfort of your actual gaming setup
- Be right back, just downloading some headphones
- After Bobby Kotick tries to scare them off, UK regulators say they'll oppose Activision Blizzard deal
- YouTuber trumps Razer with massive six-foot mechanical keyboard
- After a long train of farces, The Day Before devs put out statement decrying 'disinformation' about their game
- Stacked microLEDs could bring us the ultimate gaming monitor
- Star Wars Jedi Survivor shows off slick prequel-style combat and a weird walk
- Whisker Squadron: Survivor is a neon Star Fox roguelite that you can play on PC right now
- This Mass Effect/The Office mashup convinced me Michael Scott is the canonical Commander Shepard
- Bobby Kotick blasts UK over Microsoft deal, says regulators lack 'independent thought' and Britain risks becoming tech 'Death Valley'
- Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs rumoured to be massively faster than 12th Gen Alder Lake
- Wordle hint and answer #599: Wednesday, February 8
- 'Shift Happens' is a gorgeous book about the story of keyboards
- Make the great Lord Sauron himself jealous with this LOTR keyboard
February 7
- Production has begun on EA's singleplayer Iron Man game
- Final Fantasy 14 dispute ends in the death of its most popular mod
- Hearthstone Mercenaries is getting one last big update before Blizzard mothballs the mode forever
- Diablo 4's open beta might be real soon
- No, Avalanche Studios did not develop Hogwarts Legacy, you're thinking of the other Avalanche
- One of the biggest games on Steam right now is a Next Fest demo
- Pharaoh: A New Era used a 'certified Egyptologist to ensure the game's historical accuracy'
- This Aorus gaming laptop is still a good deal in the face of RTX 40-series machines
- Encanto is finally getting its moment in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Nvidia's RTX 4070 reportedly arrives in April and looks much slower than a 4070 Ti
- Who needs Nintendo when you can just build Zelda in Minecraft?
- Modders are using AI to put voice acting in Morrowind, and I'm impressed and concerned all at once
- Samsung's 34-inch OLED gaming monitor is a joke at $1,499
- Finally, the mainstream managed a good videogame parody
- Critical update expected this month to fix Samsung 990 Pro's unusually rapid decline
- This Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 fan remake is most impressive, and you can play the first two levels right now
- Watch this OG Slayer run Doom across four screens
- I'd be very excited for the performance of the RTX 4060 if I didn't fear Nvidia's pricing
- Time's up, this legendary graphics card just sold for $15,000 on eBay
- Wordle hint and answer #598: Tuesday, February 7
- Tiny 11 lets you run Windows 11 on underpowered machines
- Researchers discover way of layering graphene to mimic brain synapses
- Juggle enemies to hell with a grappling hook and mighty kick in this stylish FPS
- One of the industry's more skeptical CEOs thinks AI tools will 'raise the bar' for videogames
- Google unveils its own ChatGPT-like AI chatbot
February 6
- That AI generated Seinfeld show has already been suspended from Twitch
- Dr Disrespect's Deadrop is moving to 'less frequent but much larger' updates
- You've got 7 days to get through 900 game demos in the latest Steam Next Fest
- Overwatch 2 is about to make playing support easier, except for Mercy
- Apex Legends is finally getting team deathmatch
- Finally, Overwatch 2 gets a dating sim and more in season 3
- More people saw the secret Elden Ring ending where you have to do loads of weird stuff than the 'normal' ending
- Play Darkest Dungeon 2 for free with a new limited time demo
- Dell to lay off 6,650 employees after underwhelming PC sales
- Dry spell for older Radeon GPU drivers set to end in the next two weeks
- John Carmack goes off about online-only games being abandoned: 'I believe in saving everything'
- Put a name to the artwork behind AI art with this algorithmically smart tool
- One of our favourite space shooters leaves early access in a couple of months
- Hogwarts Legacy review roundup: 'the Harry Potter RPG I’ve always wanted to play'
- The Day Before trainwreck continues with accusations it's copied other game trailers
- Probably the best sub-$1,000 gaming PC deal out there right now
- Boy, there sure is a lot of murderin' in Hogwarts Legacy
- Wordle hint and answer today: Let's solve #597, February 6
- This turn-based deconstruction of the fighting game is blowing minds
- Fully voiced DLC-sized Fallout 4 mod adds 50 quests and a new ending
- FromSoftware drops a lengthy new interview about Armored Core 6
- Why use fans when you can cool your CPU with 8 lbs of copper?
- Here's a detailed look at Tekken 8's new battle system
- These GameCube keycaps are adorable and on sale
- First ever Grammy award for videogame score goes to AC Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok composer
February 5
- This adorable, Wind Waker-inspired platformer casts you as a friendly delivery witch
- Activision Blizzard will pay a $35M fine to the SEC
- Purported Dragon Age: Dreadwolf leak shows actionized combat in a part of Thedas we've never seen before
- Wordle hint and answer today: Let's solve #596, February 5
- Evil Dead: The Game gets a new 'Splatter Royale' mode
- Explore a vast industrial hulk with your trusty climbing axes in this eerie first person platformer
- Shocking no one, real-life Squid Game seems to have been a bad idea
February 4
- Dreamy Zelda-like Anodyne is free to keep this weekend
- Sons of the Forest will launch in Early Access to avoid another delay
- A Colombian Judge claims to have used ChatGPT to help decide a case
- Check out this modder's doomed quest to turn a Nintendo Switch into a Steam Deck
- Wordle hint and answer today: Let's solve #595, February 4
- Become a Malkavian PI in pursuit of a serial killer in this Vampire Jam 2022 winner
February 3
- Man, Steam's official website has come a long way in 21 years
- Discord voice chat is coming to PlayStation 5
- The world's biggest plane, destroyed in Ukraine, will fly again in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- This upcoming FPS has a website that's a sick throwback to '90s game ads
- One of our highest-reviewed NVMe SSDs is the cheapest it's ever been
- EA's Monster Hunter-like has no plans for microtransactions, all post-launch content will be free
- This genius student uses the power of AI and a 3D printer to 'handwrite' their homework
- This military base-building sim has all of the soldiers and none of the violence
- Elden Ring streamer strums Margit to death with an actual acoustic guitar
- The Last of Us Part 1 is delayed because everyone likes the HBO show so much
- AMD's excellent Radeon RX 6800 XT 'Big Navi' GPU can now be had for $553
- Dwarf Fortress' next update grants even more ways to torment your minions
- We've partnered up with Perish for a monstrous GPU giveaway
- Overwatch 2 is targeting players who play with cheaters even if they're not cheating themselves
- Hose down a filthy Final Fantasy 7 boss at several thousand PSI in Powerwash Sim's upcoming DLC
- AMD's new laptop APU nearly twice as fast as Steam Deck in leaked graphics benchmark
- Deep Rock Galactic celebrates five years of free updates by letting you play without them, says 'we are not slowing down'
- Beef-up Hitman's Freelancer mode with this variant map mod
- Eagle-eyed gamer spots Starfield feature hiding in plain sight
- Wordle hint and answer today: Let's solve #594, February 3
- Two years after launch, live-service dodgeball game Knockout City is shutting down
- Razer's new gaming mouse is its lightest ever
February 2
- Bandai Namco announces Elden Ring anniversary event, but I'd put those piping hot DLC expectations on ice, champ
- The Last of Us star Nick Offerman swore off videogames forever after becoming obsessed with this Nintendo 64 game
- Sims 4 trans-inclusive update faces culture war backlash in record time
- Back 4 Blood won't get any more new content as Turtle Rock pivots to an all-new game
- The Day Before gameplay reveal actually happened, and it was as bizarre as you'd expect
- Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser
- The next Sims 4 expansion is threatening me with making family memories
- Overwatch 2's new Antarctic map has ice drills, fishing, and immortal penguins
- This 'professional' end-of-the-world simulator is now available on Steam
- We now know the massive changes coming to Destiny 2's DPS meta in Lightfall
- LG's latest tech could fix the biggest problem with gaming OLEDs
- That time Among Us accidentally violated the Geneva Conventions
- Seriously, where did you lot get the money for all those RTX 4090s?
- The Apocalypse has never been more relaxing in tinyBuild’s new cozy base builder
- Fans huff the copium as Platinum Games teases MGR:Revengeance's 10th anniversary
- An error in Samsung's 980 Pro firmware is causing SSDs to die. I'd check your drive right now tbh
- Meta lost more than 4 billion dollars on the metaverse in the last financial quarter
- Dwarf Fortress releases sales figures since Steam release showing 46,000% increase in earnings
- At long last, the Steam Deck UI has replaced Steam's Big Picture mode
- PC Gamer UK March issue on sale now: System Shock reborn!
- Wordle hint and answer today: Let's solve #593, February 2
- Ubisoft's launcher broke Steam games on Linux and Steam Deck
- Amnesia: The Bunker delayed into May after a 'tough winter'
- EA has reportedly canceled a singleplayer Apex Legends game
February 1
- The Day Before devs reverse course again, announce a 10 minute 'gameplay extravaganza' for Thursday
- NASCAR bans real-life wall-riding: 'We will penalize for that act going forward'
- YouTuber's pet fish commit credit card fraud on stream
- Redfall requires a 'persistent online connection', even in singleplayer
- GTA Online patch aims to fix exploit that let hackers steal money and corrupt accounts
- AMD Ryzen 9 7000X3D CPUs to launch later this month, cheaper chip to follow
- Turns out an ungodly amount of hidden rabbits was my perfect wind-down game this week
- This gorgeous kingdom-builder is inspired by Tactics Ogre, so they hired the same composer
- AMD A620 chipset reportedly promises cheaper Zen 4 mobos minus PCIe 5 support
- Intel's new $249 GPU price wipes out Nvidia at the entry-level
- Dead Island 2 devs detail its gruesome procedural violence-modelling tech
- Nvidia publishes workaround to the Discord bug hobbling GPU memory
- AMD's RTX 3060 Ti rival is cheaper than an RTX 3060 right now
- Doughnut-shaped laser beam used to create fibre optics from thin air
- AMD 'undershipping' chips to help prop prices up
- World of Warcraft's Trading Post is live now and will give you enough free cash to buy most of the stock
- Resident Evil 4 Remake is ditching QTEs and I couldn't be more upset
- Watch AI generate weird Seinfeld episodes about nothing, forever
- EA's final FIFA game is on-track to be the best-selling in series history
- Bean obsessed crypto-weeb community harvested for $2.74m in cryptocurrency & NFTs
- Sims 4 players love the game's new trans and disability-inclusive cosmetics update
- AMD clings onto profitability as Intel burns cash
- Wordle hint and answer today: Let's solve #592, February 1
- Biohybrid robot made with mouse muscles successfully walks, might think and boink later
- Halo switching to Unreal Engine as studio weathers major layoffs, report says
- Final Fantasy 14 team sets a raid world first, then gets busted for cheating