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November 30
- Diablo 4 has 'plans for a really really big update' to give you better loot, but you'll have to wait until next year
- Native Steam Link support for Meta Quest headsets promises to simplify life for VR gamers
- Breaking with tradition, Activision says it will actually start talking about Call of Duty skill-based matchmaking soon
- That new version of Ark has disabled crossplay for Windows 10 users because you're a big old bunch of cheaters
- Strike from the shadows as Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's third clan, the Banu Haqim
- Penny's Big Breakaway is a colorful platformer from former devs of the best Sonic game in years
- Crown Wars: The Black Prince is a magical, tactical RPG take on the Hundred Years' War
- Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth debuts Daniel Dae Kim's voice work and Danny Trejo's unforgettable face
- Solium Infernum comes to the PC Gaming Show with a unique vision of Hell: 'Not a place of chaos, but one of red tape'
- I can hardly wait for this madcap action RPG that'll let you hypnotize trolls, one-hit kill the beefiest bosses, and then just wind down with some fishin'
- Surrealist 'driving survival game' Pacific Drive has a new February release date
- Art nouveau strategy game Songs of Silence plots a spring release
- Upcoming job sim Ambulance Life is putting the public in your capable, paramedic hands
- Ultros is a psychedelic metroidvania set in a cosmic uterus
- Shared world puzzle adventure Islands of Insight promises no frustrations, just a real chill time
- Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is a third-person action game that looks far more Star Wars Jedi: Survivor than Dark Souls, and I couldn't be more pleased
- Deathgrip's take on podracing keeps you riding the line between hyper-speed victory and dying in a fiery explosion
- Crashlands 2 crashes into the PC Gaming Show: 'It's very Crashlandsy,' says dev
- It must suck to be the bad guys in this cyberpunk beat 'em up with cinematic gun fu
- Gray Zone Warfare is an upcoming tactical FPS which aims to 'simulate the human body'
- Yesss, more horror fishing: Drowned Lake is a survival horror adventure in which you might catch an 'abomination'
- Build your own town and overthrow an evil queen in survival RPG Bellwright
- Launching tomorrow, SteamWorld Build manages to be an incredibly busy but also chill city builder
- Surprise! Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a 2.1 update in December with 'new and hotly anticipated gameplay elements'
- Gloomwood's next big update delves into the city's dank sewers
- Demonschool's movement-based demon battles are shaping up to be the most interesting turn-based combats of 2024
- New Frostpunk 2 teaser shows just how big your city can get, and wow
- Hawked is the rare extraction shooter not trying to copy Escape From Tarkov, and it's out today
- The devs of this 'freaky and grotesque' adventure game about a Russian Orthodox nun left Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine, and they're out 'to show that people and authorities are not the same thing'
- Ironhive turns colony survival into deck-building and is inspired by one of the best tabletop world-building games around
- This year's most delightful open world adventure is coming to Steam in March
- Menace looks like a departure from Battle Brothers, but its tactical battles are just as deadly
- Datajack 2020 is the lo-fi hacking fantasy of my dreams
- Republic of Pirates will let you city-build your own pirate empire
- Void Bastards dev announces space cowboy sequel Wild Bastards: an open-ended take on the BioShock-y roguelike
- Lost Isle is an open-word survival game that just makes me want to plunder
- Super cute colony farm sim Echoes of the Plum Grove is inspired as much by Oregon Trail as Stardew Valley
- Watch the Real American Heroes punch a gang of Cobra goons right in the face in this new trailer for the retro beat-em-up G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra
- Sands of Aura is a beautiful action RPG that passed me by in October
- Harold Halibut is a handmade 'stop-motion aesthetic' adventure about friendship and home in a giant spaceship trapped beneath an alien sea
- I already know Unrailed 2: Back on Track's chaotic co-op is going to ruin friendships
- Persona 3 Reload shows off its youngest party member, and he's just as adorable as I remember
- Get murdered by cute critters in co-op survival game Under a Rock
- Holstin is a Polish survival horror game that upends everything I thought I knew about camera perspective, and the vibes are flawless
- Dwarf Fortress's roguelike adventure mode arrives on Steam in April, bringing with it my favorite feature: 'Your adventurer can literally slay the dragon that slew your dwarves, and your next fortress can make a statue of it'
- 'Nothing beats the real thing': Horror game composer used miniature oil rig to play 'non-human' music
- Triumphant OpenAI CEO spends a whole interview dodging questions about why he was fired like he's in The Matrix, but does suggest the nonprofit board is in for some big changes
- Baldur's Gate 3 colossal new patch adds a playable epilogue set six months after the game ends with 3,589 new lines of dialogue, 2 new difficulty modes, and I'm running out of headline space
- Modder shrinks PS5 Slim into PS5 Teeny Tiny, runs only slightly warmer than Sony's attempt
- Twitter owner Elon Musk tells departing advertisers to 'Go f*** yourself' in baffling on-stage interview: 'This advertising boycott is going to kill the company… Let's see how Earth responds to that'
- It looks like the next Baldur's Gate 3 patch will update the game's ending—also, Withers says 'fun is mandatory' and I'm scared
- One of my favourite soulslike shoot-'em-ups—Remnant 2—just quietly dropped on PC Game Pass, and it's a really good time to subscribe anyway
- Plex says controversial service that emails your anime habits to your mates is opt-in, actually, pointing at a screen where you still have to turn it off
- This kinetic PC case puts my RGB chassis to shame and I'm totally okay with that
- Sega admits Creative Assembly's live service push happened because it was drunk on 'the favorable winds of the early Covid-19 period,' says the studio will focus on RTS games from now on
- PC gamers in China to get new RTX 4090 cards after all, just not the versions they might have hoped for
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #894 for Thursday, November 30
- Rising NAND and DDR chip prices mean SSD and memory prices are sure to increase in 2024
- Among Us is doing a collab with some of the most popular indie games ever released
November 29
- Shadow the Hedgehog is in the next Sonic movie and all I can think about now is which Hollywood tough guy will voice him
- The Game Awards Future Class members call for a statement on the Gaza crisis at this year's awards show
- Embracer lays off 50 more employees and may soon close resurrected TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design, yet its CEO and board of directors still have their jobs and were 'discharged from liability for the financial year'
- Comedy TV show Taskmaster is getting its own VR game, and I can't stop thinking about how Greg Davies looks like he should be a tank hero in Overwatch 2
- RTX 4090s reportedly being stockpiled as China ban looms
- Wireless headset gets modded with a battery from a baby monitor for a substantial upgrade in battery life and substantial change in looks
- Thanks to the meta, one of the most busted cards in TCG Disney Lorcana is Hiram Flaversham—and if you have no idea who that is, you're in good company
- Yorkshire Tea is now selling branded Xbox and PS5 controllers for £150 and the designs are something to behold
- Critical Role's D&D dungeon master Matthew Mercer would love to make a videogame 'should all those stars align', though I think it's a little more likely than that
- Geralt gets out of the bathtub and onto your tabletop in new Witcher expansion for Unmatched, the board game where he can fight King Arthur and Spider-Man
- Unity is terminating its agreement with Peter Jackson's former VFX studio, laying off 265 employees in the process
- Millions of people have bought Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion, and even other devs are impressed
- This year's ugly Windows sweater is here and it's one of the best in a long line of gloriously ugly jumpers
- Silent Hill: Ascension's terrible Jam Man (who likes to make jams) was not written by AI, says Genvid CEO: 'every word in Ascension was written by real people'
- Microsoft Paint jumps on the generative AI bandwagon, with DALL-E taking the fancy-footed horses' reins
- Ubisoft accidentally releases Beyond Good and Evil remaster, remembers it doesn't do that sort of thing, attempts to scrub all trace from the internet, then gives up and announces it anyway
- Ayaneo's first mini PC looks absolutely gorgeous but that beauty is only skin deep, unfortunately
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #893 for Wednesday, November 29
- Some Google Drive users are reporting that their recently uploaded files have vanished
November 28
- Dragon's Dogma 2 extended gameplay showcase reveals it's coming to PC in March
- Cult of the Lamb devs said they'd make the 'sex update' meme come true if they got 300,000 followers and, well, you can guess what happened next
- The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted is revealing the 25 most anticipated upcoming PC games
- Lawsuit filed by 33 US states alleges Meta knew Facebook and Instagram's 'addictive features harmed young people's physical and mental health'
- Rockstar veterans Michael Unsworth and Lazlow Jones have joined Dan Houser's new studio
- CD Projekt Red now has more than 300 developers working on The Witcher 4
- Self-hosted media app starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an 'opt-out' service, and it's going terribly
- Fallout TV series first look: it's 'dramatic and dark' but with 'a little bit of a wink,' says Todd Howard
- Wannabe supervillain pulls AI 'heist' to steal competitor traffic, but really just shows how unchecked AI is going to ruin the internet
- RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti are reportedly getting a production freeze to make room for the forthcoming Super variants, while the RTX 4070 will soldier on
- Nvidia sells half a million AI chips and bags $14.5 billion in just three months
- Baldur's Gate 3's next patch will fix the game thinking so hard about your crimes it breaks the fabric of existence
- There's an entire Remnant 2 build dedicated to belly flopping your enemies so hard, they get drowned in acid and bleed to death
- With Sam Bankman-Fried in the slammer, now the fugitive crypto 'Lunatic' behind 2022's $40B crash is being extradited from his Montenegrin getaway
- Skyrim player amasses 267,000 gold lifetime bounty after killing 'everything that was killable,' and all you can really do is tearfully salute it
- Bethesda's still responding to negative Starfield reviews with cheesy taglines, and at this point I just want the studio's reply brigade to log off
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #892 for Tuesday, November 28
- You can create a RAM disk within the 3D V-Cache of an AMD X3D CPU if you really want to
- Herman Miller gaming chairs are 29% off with free shipping, including our favorite luxury chair
November 27
- Marvel Snap reassures players it will 'continue to operate' despite closure of publisher Nuverse as TikTok parent ByteDance looks to exit gaming
- The Game Awards will beef up security to prevent stage-crashers this year: 'That's top of mind for us,' Geoff Keighley says
- 13 of the best Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals that are still live
- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, the one about murderous siblings in London during the Industrial Revolution, is free to keep from Ubisoft
- Dredge publisher says profits will likely be down this year due to certain games 'not meeting internal expectations'
- The best Cyber Monday deals on ergonomic gaming mice and keyboards
- Bungie admits Destiny 2: The Final Shape is being delayed until June: 'We’re taking the time we need to deliver an even bigger and bolder vision'
- David Braben says Frontier Developments has had a 'turbulent and difficult year' as Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin flops
- After Starfield, I thought I was done with large-scale space travel, but Star Citizen's spectacular latest trailer has pulled me right back in
- Hideki Kamiya breaks out the tiny violin for the 9 Bayonetta games he once imagined: 'I may have to take the full saga to the grave'
- Not one but two Acer Predator Helios 16 gaming laptop deals to make the sun shine again this Cyber Monday
- I'm tracking all the best Cyber Monday SSD deals live right now, join me in my palace of storage dreams
- The best thing I did this deals season was revive my old desktop with a cheap SSD
- We're live blogging the hottest new Cyber Monday PC gaming monitor deals
- Silent Hill 2 remake devs try to calm down fans, saying (for the second time) that it's on Konami to share anything: 'we kindly ask for a bit more patience'
- You can buy this forgotten '90s shooter from its original website, which is a perfectly preserved time capsule of PC gaming's golden age
- This Cyber Monday Sennheiser HD 6XX deal has me seriously considering upgrading the headphones I've used for nearly a decade
- These are our picks for the hottest Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals still live today
- Remnant 2 player gets punished with eternal torment upon the spike after drawing with a DLC boss
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #891 for Monday, November 27
- Pony-inspired fighting game Them's Fightin' Herds abandons its unfinished story mode
November 26
- I'm not joking when I say this mini-fridge has been one of the most transformative PC gaming purchases I've ever made (and it's on sale today)
- Starfield mod lets you disable the dialogue camera
- The best sub-$1,000 Cyber Monday RTX 4070 gaming laptop deal is inexplicably even cheaper than it was on Black Friday
- I've been doing this for 18 years and I'm still picking out the best Cyber Monday PC gaming deals
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #890 for Sunday, November 26
- No, Cult of the Lamb's next free expansion won't be 'the sex update'
- 29 Black Friday stocking filler killer deals for gamers, all under $50
- Trust me on this, you should cyber up your toilet with RGB lighting for Cyber Monday
- The 12 best Black Friday PC gaming deals still available
- A decade after launching as a free game on Xbox One, Killer Instinct is going free-to-play on PC
- Our favorite 1440p 165Hz gaming monitor is $100 cheaper for Cyber Monday
- The 17 Black Friday deals with the biggest discounts
- Chief producer of the Yakuza series wasn't worried about going turn-based back in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, saying, 'we are confident that we can make an enjoyable game, even if it is in a genre we have never made before'
November 25
- Make Resident Evil 4 Remake look like Silent Hill with these mods
- Forget the Dark Urge: if you want to feel like a monster in Baldur's Gate 3, it has over an hour of different gut wrenching breakup conversations
- Assassin's Creed players started having their games interrupted by full-screen pop-up ads, but Ubisoft says it was a 'technical error' and quickly patched it
- The SteelSeries Nova Pro Wireless is good enough to adorn my own head and it's over $50 off with this Black Friday gaming headset deal
- You haven't missed the best Cyber Monday deals on OLED monitors and TVs, as all these discounts are still alive and kicking
- The Fanatec sim racing power upgrade I've been ever-so-tempted to buy for over a year has $150 off for Black Friday
- There are more cottagecore PC gaming deals than my little crochet heart can handle this Cyber Monday
- Who says Black Friday has ended? These are our favorite deals you can still grab
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #889 for Saturday, November 25
- 8 Black Friday deals to improve your livestreaming setup
November 24
- Our top pick for the best wired gaming headset is 40% off for Black Friday
- This is the cheapest RTX 4070 graphics card deal you'll find on Black Friday
- This is the cheapest RTX 4080 graphics card you'll find on Black Friday, and it might not stick around
- I know everybody wants the Razer DeathAdder, but if I'm buying a new Cyber Monday gaming mouse it's one of these Logitech rodents or bust
- You can still get Disney+/Hulu for $2.99 a month, and other great Cyber Monday streaming deals
- The Razer Huntsman V2 TKL, 'one of the best, most practical mechanical keyboards out there today,' is 50% off for Black Friday
- My favorite gaming desk is $150 off, and man is it VAST
- Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit
- All these Intel Z690 motherboards are 50% off, thanks to good ol' Black Friday
- Take it from someone who's been roleplaying for 20 years: these are the best discounts on D&D and other tabletop RPGs this Cyber Monday
- 'A**holes' swat GTA 5 actor's house during Thanksgiving livestream
- If you think this Alienware RTX 4090 laptop deal doesn't look so bad we have a Black Friday Lenovo RTX 4080 deal that blows it away
- This Black Friday gaming PC deal is the best value Alienware machine you can get right now
- Starfield player completes the main story by whacking every enemy to death with his gun, an ability some players didn't know was in the game at all
- Good news, Black Friday's fixed our only problem with our favorite webcam
- I've been doing this for 18 years and these are the Black Friday PC gaming deals I'm still into right now
- Complete your budget Cyber Monday gaming PC purchase with these pocket-friendly peripherals
- At just 4¢ per GB, why not just get 4TB of SSD storage and never worry about your gigantic Steam library again this Cyber Monday?
- If I was handed $500 to spend on Black Friday gaming deals, here's what I'd buy
- Our pick for the best microphone is 10% off right now during Black Friday
- I've been reviewing PC screens since the early Mesozoic and these are unquestionably the best Cyber Monday gaming monitor deals this year
- Valve 'accidentally' leaks the earliest Left4Dead prototype, and it was a Counter-Strike mod all along
- Black Friday sliced hundreds of dollars off this great gaming laptop and gaming PC, just because it could
- Our number one pick for best gaming CPU has a Black Friday discount right now, and its a scorcher of a chip
- Left 4 Dead could've had player classes—but the game's co-lead put his foot down: 'no, that is the wrong way to go'
- Asus's fastest ROG Ally gaming handheld just got hit with the Black Friday discount stick making it $80 cheaper
- 25 years later, this Half-Life scientist finally bites it as Gabe intended
- Modern Warfare 3's latest exploit is wriggling around on the floor as a snake going mach one
- Yet ANOTHER price cut has made our favorite Black Friday gaming laptop deal even better today
- These are my favourite Cyber Monday microphone deals
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #888 for Friday, November 24
- I use this microphone every single day, and at just $35 it's a Black Friday deal, it's a steal, it's the sale of the [expletive deleted] century
November 23
- After spending 41% of my life as a tech journalist I can tell you these are STILL the best Black Friday gaming laptops under $1,000
- Judge me by size, do you? I say 14-inchers make the best Black Friday gaming laptop purchase
- Samsung's excellent 34-inch Odyssey G5 ultrawide gaming monitor is on for less than $300 for Black Friday
- This Meta Quest Black Friday deal is the best way to get into VR
- The absolute best Cyber Monday Razer deals, from gaming laptops to headsets, mice and mics
- Robocop: Rogue City's surprising success proves there's still room in the business for mid-tier games with good licenses
- I thought it might be tough to find actually good 1TB Cyber Monday SSDs for under $60 but found way more than I expected
- Self-described gay furry hackers breach one of the biggest nuclear labs in the US, and demand it begin researching 'IRL catgirls'
- These are the absolute best Black Friday Alienware gaming laptop deals
- Our favorite gaming monitor and a mighty OLED at that is as cheap as we've ever seen it for Black Friday
- Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an 'agonising process,' but that restructuring is 'how we win'
- Tekken 8 is going to knock another 100GB out of your PC's available storage
- Alienware's RTX 4090 monster gaming PC with 32GB of RAM and a Core i9 CPU has been slashed by $600 for Cyber Monday
- The Samsung 990 Pro isn't the best Cyber Monday 2TB SSD deal: I'd buy one of these instead
- Here's the cheapest gaming PC for Fortnite I've found (that's actually any good) in the Black Friday sales
- Dave the Diver studio's zombie survival sim gets its pre-alpha playtest next week
- A former GTA dev made an ill-fated blog about his experiences, and boy did Rockstar not like that: 'Maybe I'll try again in a decade or two'
- Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya says 'it would be a disaster' if he ever collaborated with Hideo Kojima or Yoko Taro: 'It doesn't work like in Dragon Ball'
- 17 years after its release, the best Star Wars strategy game gets converted to 64-bit
- This Black Friday gaming monitor deal is the cheapest we've ever seen for a 32-inch 4K 144Hz IPS at just $349
- This Razer Blade 14 for $1,799 is stupidly cheap compared to its original $3,499 price for Cyber Monday
- If I had $300 to spend on a budget Intel upgrade, here's the CPU, motherboard and RAM I'd buy this Black Friday
- Just $1200 gets you this fantastic RTX 4070 gaming PC, perfect for a Modern Warfare 3 zombiefest
- No Starfield? No problem! Turn Mass Effect into the first-person space RPG of your dreams with this mod
- Sources claim the Knights of the Old Republic remake isn't dead, though what's really going on is anyone's guess
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #887 for Thursday, November 23
- For just $750 here's a high-spec all-AMD gaming laptop with a rare Radeon GPU that will smash any RTX 4050 machine
November 22
- Feel the need for speed? This 240Hz 32-inch monitor is a whole lot of screen for not a lot of money
- This Nextorage 1TB Gen4 NVMe packs a mighty Phison punch for very little cash
- Those reusable Epic Games Store coupons are back for Black Friday, and the discount is even bigger this time
- This alt-history 'city builder grand strategy hybrid' has my full attention
- Two of the best wireless gaming headsets are on sale, and I'm truly torn on which one I want
- This budget racing wheel has no right being so good for just $150
- Six months after rebooting Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake, Ubisoft says it's coming along nicely: 'The project has passed an important internal milestone'
- A gaming PC with good specs from our favorite budget builder is on sale for $830
- I'm loving the fact this 1440p Asus gaming monitor is competing with the best 1080p Black Friday deals
- Classic Digimon fans are digging this creature catching RPG I almost missed last week
- AMD's best 1080p GPU, and our office favorite, is even better value right now
- AMD's best gaming CPU is on sale for Black Friday, making a pitch to be the heart of your next gaming PC
- Now might be the perfect time to load up your gaming PC with a 32GB RAM kit, thanks to these sub-$100 Cyber Monday deals
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is delayed, and hoo boy it's a long one
- PUBG is getting an extraction shooter spinoff next year
- Stealthy goblin murder sim Styx: Shards of Darkness is free on GOG
- The reason we got Left 4 Dead 2 as a standalone game was because the first one 'was such a broken thing that nobody wanted to touch it'
- You can avoid the blood, sweat, and tears of planning your own custom loop PC with EK's pre-configured kits now 24% off for Cyber Monday
- There's up to 50% off Elden Ring, Pac-Man, and One Piece goodies on the Bandai Namco store's Black Friday sale
- Win a Remnant 2-styled Stream Deck, Game Codes, and a cool hat to celebrate the launch of The Awakened King DLC
- Amazon's not the place for a cheap Black Friday gaming laptop deal when Best Buy has these two on sale for at least $300 less
- Another one bites the dust: Binance CEO quits as both he and the company plead guilty to money laundering charges and accept whopping $4.3 billion fine
- World of Warcraft player gets visited by benevolent twink 'Boostlord', a level 10 monster mage juiced up on funky dungeon scaling
- I've got to admit, these Cyber Monday OLED TV deals make OLED gaming monitors look painfully overpriced
- You probably think Lenovo is all corpo ThinkPads, but its Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals are the best around
- Fortnite adding multiple career-spanning Eminem skins alongside a live event blowout that 'marks a new beginning'
- Don't even think about buying the best Cyber Monday RTX 4080 gaming laptop deal on Amazon when you can save $500 at Newegg
- I wear these Bang & Olufsen headphones daily and now they're finally at a price I can actually recommend you buy them for this Cyber Monday
- Mimimi's swan song is 2 same-day expansions for Shadow Gambit before the studio shuts its doors forever
- There are no Black Friday Razer Blade deals on its newest gaming laptops, but these three last-gen deals will outperform them anyway
- Playseat's pro sim racing cockpit makes it look like I mean business and is $100 off for Cyber Monday
- An Armored Core 6 co-op mod has a fully-functional alpha, though its creator wants to add a few key features like difficulty scaling first
- OpenAI co-founder makes spectacular return mere days after ousting, with the board that fired him mostly swept away
- Ballsy B&H Photo is trying to sell GTX 1660s for $260 on Black Friday, so here are the graphics card deals I recommend instead
- Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski says Netflix 'never listened' to his ideas, and as for the games 'I have no time for this'
- Left 4 Dead's first internal playtest was so disastrous, Gabe Newell asked its lead: 'Why don't I just play Counter-Strike instead?' then 'made me watch him play it'
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #886 for Wednesday, November 22
- Diablo 4 player defies death itself with sorcerer build so unkillable they went AFK for 20 minutes against the Butcher
- People are trying to resell Baldur's Gate 3 Deluxe Editions for a profit even though supplies aren't limited and there's plenty of stock
- As GTA 6 trailer reveal approaches, Rockstar Games whacks the name 'Rockstar Social Club'
- Sorry Amazon and Best Buy, Newegg's got pretty much all the best Cyber Monday gaming PC deals
November 21
- Ubisoft has 'paused' advertising on Twitter
- Our favorite budget gaming chair is at its cheapest price ever for Black Friday
- Diablo 4 is having a free trial on Steam for the first time ever
- The next Subnautica game is coming in 2025
- Toss a coin to Destiny 2, because Witcher-inspired armor and cosmetics are coming next week
- The Steam Autumn Sale 2023 is live
- Between Secretlab and Corsair we have the only two Cyber Monday gaming chair deals you need to bother with
- Let's be honest with ourselves, the official Xbox and PlayStation gamepads are the only ones worth worrying about—and you can get both for a great price this week
- League of Legends world champ gets his very own skin as a reward—but can't choose his favourite champion because he didn't get a chance to play her: 'they said they can make Bard pretty too'
- Pokimane called a viewer 'broke boy' for complaining about her overpriced snacks, and now the internet is mad about miniature cookies
- 'Today is the end of Steam': Argentina and Turkey floored by new Steam price hikes as high as 2900%
- These are my favorite bang-for-buck deals this Cyber Monday: from $20 gaming mice to $380 RX 6800 GPUs
- These Abyssal Black RTX 4070 and RTX 4080 Black Friday gaming laptops are $500 off each
- Your gaming PC case becomes more than just a shell with the iBUYPOWER RDY Y70 Touch - Enter for your chance to win!
- Devs from The Simpsons Hit & Run say the game could've had four sequels, but the publisher said nah: 'The stars [were] aligned … and then it was just: huh, I guess we're not [making them]'
- Black Friday $600 portable PC gaming showdown: Asus ROG Ally or an MSI gaming laptop?
- This 34-inch 160Hz LG ultrawide Cyber Monday gaming monitor has got seriously cheap at just $249
- The best gaming keyboard I've reviewed all year is down to $145 for Black Friday
- These stellar RTX 4080 Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals make RTX 4090 notebooks even more irrelevant
- Modern Warfare 3's loathed 'Groot' skin is getting yanked and nerfed following widespread player backlash
- Players discover the Dark Urge of Baldur's Gate 3 has one crucial weakness: capitalism
- Elon Musk claims he was once one of the best Quake players around, everyone laughs, but wait: The actual best Quake player ever says Musk 'wasn't very good, but he's still an OG'
- Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti vs AMD RX 7900 XT: Cyber Monday deals stick them around the same price, so here's which I recommend buying
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #885 for Tuesday, November 21
- Take advantage of Cyber Monday with this 17-inch RTX 4070 Asus gaming laptop for $400 off
November 20
- Starfield's DLSS update goes fully live on Steam to a 'mixed' reaction from players
- 'Segregating high skill players from the population at large, forcing long wait times on them, is a form of discrimination': former Halo multiplayer lead on the 'failure' of SBMM in modern games
- This upcoming indie game about mining asteroids and fighting aliens might be the new Homeworld-style experience I've been waiting for
- Epic admits Fortnite's new age ratings 'didn't hit the mark,' says a new system is coming soon as part of a 'big in-game event'
- Co-op horror game Lethal Company costs $10 and is outselling Call of Duty on Steam
- These are our favorite Black Friday gaming TV deals for PC gamers
- This 2TB Cyber Monday SSD is a ludicrous deal at $68 and proves you just don't need an HDD anymore
- Two years after FF14's botched distribution of an 'eat pizza' emote that sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars (yes, really), you can finally buy it for $7
- This is the cheapest big brand RTX 4060 gaming PC we've found this Black Friday and it still doesn't skrimp on storage
- Whether or not you're handy with a screwdriver, you can get a great RTX 4060 gaming laptop for under $800 this Cyber Monday
- WoW's telegraphs are so cluttered that even the best guild in the world is using darkening potions during raids so they can fight more effectively
- Popular Diablo 4 streamer reckons 'you're not really supposed to finish the last tier' of the upcoming Abbatoir of Zir event
- League of Legends' most iconic map is getting a huge makeover, ridable monsters, and an infestation of gross alien insects
- Cities: Skylines 2 DLC has been delayed and weekly patches have come to an end
- After a community uproar over plans to charge players $10 to change their in-game IDs, Riot Games believes it has 'found the right balance with time alone'
- A 16GB RX 6800 or an 8GB RTX 4060 Ti for under $370 this Black Friday? For us it's a no-brainer
- Starfield's down to mixed reviews on Steam, while the community laments 'the magic is just missing from [the game]'
- Microsoft immediately hires ousted OpenAI co-founder, as OpenAI staff begin publicly calling out the company's management
- Half-Life's 25th anniversary celebrations have caused a resonance cascade in its Steam player-count, surging to a new all-time high over the weekend
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #884 for Monday, November 20
- NieR producer promises the series will continue as long as creator Yoko Taro is alive to work on it
November 19
- 'For fun and challenge:' The team that ported Jak and Daxter to PC has done the same for Jak 2
- Gabe Newell on making Half-Life's crowbar fun: 'We were just running around like idiots smacking the wall'
- Even after 180 hours of Baldur's Gate 3, I never realized there's a game-spanning unmarked quest to find a stray cat a new home
- New League of Legends champion Hwei is suspiciously similar to one of Dota 2's hardest-to-use heroes
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #883 for Sunday, November 19
- Behold, the world's first combine harvester combat racing game
November 18
- Warner Bros says Wonder Woman won't be a live-service game
- Once marooned on Metal Gear Solid 3's 3DS port, modders have gotten crouch walking working in the PC Master Collection version
- A mysterious 'third party' forbidding an embattled studio from bringing an essential Star Wars mod to consoles has left the dev fending off a gamer class action lawsuit
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #882 for Saturday, November 18
- The Logitech G Pro X Superlight is $50 off in an early Black Friday deal and I promise you'll never use a wired mouse again
November 17
- Immortals of Aveum would really like you to give it another shot, so now there's a free demo on Steam
- Gabe Newell on why game delays are OK: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.'
- Diablo 4's upcoming boosted XP and gold week is overkill in its most generous season yet, but I'll gladly take it
- I'm thrilled that Sims 4 builders are already sharing the most adorable townhomes ahead of the For Rent expansion
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been fired: Company 'no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading'
- Landlords will just steal your stuff if you don't pay rent in The Sims 4: For Rent expansion
- Even if you're not getting a Steam Deck OLED, the new SteamOS update will make your display just a little bit prettier
- Valve just made Half-Life free and put out a massive update with cut content and an hour-long 'making of' documentary
- For 'just' $70, you too can blind yourself in MW3's zombies mode with this garish weapon texture straight out of Garry's Mod
- The original Steam Deck 64GB is down to $349 and that makes it the cheapest gaming PC you're probably ever going to find
- All the best uberwide and ultrawide gaming monitors are already on sale for Black Friday
- Baldur's Gate 3's hottest fix yet tackles two separate make-out scenes and promises to repair Astarion's visible disgust at kissing you
- Unity says it's building its AI suite in a 'transparent and responsible' manner, after its first swing didn't go down so well earlier this year
- PC Gamer is hiring! We're looking for a talented hardware writer to join us on the team
- You know what, I think I may have found the perfect AMD Ryzen upgrade package for any PC gamer
- Rocket Arena sputters out, not with a bang but a whimper
- World of Warcraft's adding dragonriding to old world content ahead of schedule
- Fortnite players revolt as the game's 'Roblox-ification' with baffling age ratings stops them accessing paid cosmetics
- $999 is a load of money but this uberwide OLED gaming monitor from Samsung is still my Black Friday bargain
- An ARPG I love from 2016 just had a massive update that gives players a Diablo 4-style dodge, among a huge list of other goodies
- Snag yourself some lush gaming monitor luxury from Razer with this stupendous Black Friday deal
- Remember, you don't have to spend a fortune on a standing desk, I love my little desktop converter
- World of Warcraft's upcoming patch will finally start fixing how much its dungeons suck for new players
- Dark Souls mod turns FromSoft's game into the PSP demasterpiece it was always meant to be
- Pair the best OLED gaming monitor with the top RTX 4080 gaming PC deal and you've got a super-sweet all-Alienware Black Friday combo
- These are our top ten early Black Friday deals this week: $899 gaming PCs, RTX 4080 laptops and 2TB SSDs
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #881 for Friday, November 17
- Magic's Lost Caverns of Ixalan set is Minecraft with dinosaurs in an underground lost world
November 16
- A stable of AI chatbots imitating influencers for erotic roleplay has gone dark after its CEO went to jail for attempted arson
- A Highland Song, the narrative platformer survival game from Heaven's Vault studio Inkle, is coming in December
- An RTX 4060 Ti gaming PC with a 2TB SSD for less than $900? I guess it must be Cyber Monday, after all
- Embracer CEO just flat-out refuses to talk about the KOTOR remake now: 'Anything I say to this becomes a headline'
- The Steam Deck OLED frenzy has begun but Valve's inventory is holding strong
- The most ridiculously pretty Sims competitor yet got announced this week
- Man found guilty of attacking Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer testified that his radicalisation began with Gamergate
- Bethesda now says Redfall's new heroes and other deluxe edition content won't arrive until sometime in 2024
- After a decade of iMessage dominance, our green bubble nightmare is over: Apple is adopting a universal texting standard with Android next year
- If, like me, you're bummed for missing out on that monster Baldur's Gate 3 collector's edition, Larian's got you covered with an upcoming big box 'Deluxe' release
- Baldur's Gate 3 cinematic animation lead Jim Southworth has died: 'We will all forever have a Jim-shaped hole in our lives'
- Mass Effect veteran Mac Walters is heading up a new studio with NetEase
- Forget the other sizes and types, 2TB drives are the sweet spot for a Black Friday SSD upgrade
- Todd Howard reflects on Fallout 76's poor reception: 'we struggled [but] it made us much, much better developers'
- Hooray! You can now 'voluntarily amputate your own limbs' in the last major update before full release for the best roguelike out there
- Two of our favorite wireless gaming mice are at a heavy Black Friday discount right now and I can't decide which one I want
- They're back: Doritos code thieves awaken from their long slumber to pilfer the codes off Xbox chip bags
- If the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless drops to $150 again as a Black Friday deal, I'm in
- After Sonic raced up the box office charts, Sega wants to bring Persona and Yakuza to the big screen and Roblox too
- Remnant 2's now sold 2 million copies, and I'm not 2 surprised
- These are the only last-gen graphics cards I think are worth hunting down in the Black Friday graphics card sales
- If the RTX 4080 doesn't drop below $1,000 this Black Friday I'm waiting for the Super
- Disney awkwardly shuffles around the term 'NFT' with its 'digital pins' which are, you guessed it, still NFTs
- The Asus Zephyrus G14 is the best 14-inch gaming laptop, but there's a frankly offensive Black Friday deal you need to watch out for
- Embracer has laid off 5% of its workforce since its $2 billion mystery deal crumbled to dust
- Remnant 2 dev tells players moaning about Apocalypse difficulty OK, fine, you can have your 3 orange slices and medal for participation
- Sega of America accused of union-busting threats after telling whole company it'll 'phase out' temp employees—nearly half the union's membership
- Nvidia's next-gen flagship graphics card to feature GDDR7 memory delivering up to 50% more bandwidth
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #880 for Thursday, November 16
November 15
- Alienware's RTX 4080 Black Friday gaming PC deal is surprisingly one of the cheapest around
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League drops a new deep-dive 'story and gameplay' video and I'm starting to think this game might surprise us
- Shockingly, Owen Wilson narrates the new Teardown trailer without saying 'Wow!' even once
- Folklore strategy game Howl is a turn-based puzzle for perfectionists
- Humble Games is the latest to lay off employees, blames 'trends that required this restructure in order to ensure our long-term success'
- The worst Modern Warfare 3 bug yet means I can't freaking unlock anything
- Mutant Ape Planet NFT creator pleads guilty to $2.9M rug pull, faces up to 5 years in prison
- These two RTX 4070 gaming PCs are both great value for money so let me help you decide which is best for you
- Devs say Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is so long, they're afraid players won't take it all in unless they binge it 'even at the cost of their health'
- There's a new naming scheme for future PCIe cables but PCI-SIG hasn't really explained what it's all about
- Wait, what? The Witcher 3 is getting its own official mod editor after eight long years
- You can now buy a limited edition 'F*** off' keycap for $40 and a pyramid shaped escape key that stabs you if that's your idea of fun
- Throw your blood at people with the Tremere, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's second clan
- Old School Runescape player catches 1 million of the same sub-par fish over at least 2,500 hours to achieve inner peace, or something
- Payday 3 hasn't had updates because of a 'critical error in our backend', Starbreeze says the launch has been 'frustrating'
- World of Warcraft's director says the game is 'letting go of old stubbornness' after the fumbles of Shadowlands
- If they won't let Eidos do it, build your own Deus Ex in Shadows of Doubt's incoming modding update
- Nvidia's unreleased quad slot RTX 4090 Ti behemoth smiles for the camera
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #879 for Wednesday, November 15
- Thanks to a loophole in Baldur's Gate 3 you can get Wyll's reward for killing Karlach yet have her join your party too
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth system requirements demand twice as much space as Yakuza: Like a Dragon
November 14
- Warhammer Quest is being delisted from Steam in December, but will remain available on GOG
- 505 Games' parent company lays off 30% of its workforce, says gamers really only want sequels so that's what it's going to make
- Coral Island, the farming life sim packed with shockingly attractive NPCs, is out on Steam
- Blizzard had a team of fans recreate the iconic World of Warcraft: Cataclysm trailer from a new perspective
- 6 years after becoming publicly playable, Escape from Tarkov is adding vaulting and fans are a lot more excited about it than I would've expected
- 'Kindly nerf that trash into oblivion': Call of Duty's latest 'pay-to-win' skin turns you into a Groot-like tree monster that blends into the background
- Meet the factions of Fallout: London, from King Arthur cosplayers to the 'a bit fascist' Fifth Column
- Roblox faces class-action suit from parents about sexual content and grooming: 'Parents who would never let their kids use TikTok don’t think twice about letting them on Roblox'
- Amazon Games lays off 180 workers, says all people really want from Prime is free games
- Intel has 'no plans' to bring frame-rate boosting APO feature to older 13th and 12th Gen CPUs
- Microsoft and Meta bosses were asked outright by a UK government committee if an AI 'model is identified as being unsafe' could they recall it. They dodged the question almost entirely
- WoW Classic is doing Cataclysm because the fans, against all odds, are actually here for it: 'We got the survey data back, and it wasn’t bad'
- Swen Vincke is already teasing Larian's next game: The success of Baldur's Gate 3 is 'encouraging us to ensure it pushes many boundaries'
- Zen 3 is the gift that keeps on giving as it looks like two more X3D CPUs are heading our way
- 'I was very close to quitting acting, full stop': Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion says he was 'saved by games' after years of working part-time to make ends meet
- Let me show you how to grab an RTX 4070 Black Friday gaming PC for less than $1,000 right now
- This incredible pixel art has taken one man over 8,000 hours to animate and is the gif that keeps on giving
- 'It's a horrendous and shameful scam': Modern Warfare 3 plummets to one of Steam's worst-rated games as fans bombard it with Mostly Negative reviews
- OneXplayer crowdfunding project offers an external GPU and SSD combo but also questions over performance
- PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted will reveal the 25 most exciting upcoming PC games on November 30
- Windows 11 bloatware may soon be easier to uninstall as Microsoft tests its latest update
- Starfield's been left out to dry at The Game Awards—and even dedicated fans are 'not terribly surprised'
- Jar-headed Elden Ring hero helps 5,000 players beat the game, but not the one you're thinking of
- A new Evangelion anime tribute motherboard from Asus is getting plenty of attention but not quite for the right reasons
- Secretlab's shaved $30 off my favorite overall gaming chair for Black Friday
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #878 for Tuesday, November 14
November 13
- After earning $544 million in its most recent quarter, Unity says even more layoffs are 'likely'
- Blizzard refuses to say what Diablo 4's new class will be, but its own leak gives us some clues
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 lead The Game Awards with 8 nominations each
- It looks like modding tools for Cities: Skylines 2 are still several months away
- DayZ's just hit its highest-ever player count a decade after its standalone release
- Hundreds of Norwegian World of Warcraft players are furious after a bizarre new bug causes their game to freeze repeatedly
- Remedy's free-to-play multiplayer game is going back to the drawing board for a 'reboot' as a premium game
- Unannounced 6.2GHz Intel monster CPU spotted in pre-built rigs
- If the hundreds of hours of Fallout: New Vegas just aren't enough for you, here's a mod that adds infinite quests
- Baldur's Gate 3's narrator reflects on how ADHD has shaped her voice acting career: 'When you think about it, [the recording booth] is the perfect environment'
- Humane debuts a $699 AI pin I'd be far too nervous to wear in public
- Nightdive says Dark Forces has been 'difficult to change' because LucasArts created its own version of multi-threading years before it became popular
- Absolutely ancient Nvidia GPU used to decode even more antediluvian Roman scroll
- Mortal Kombat 1's Homelander is missing something crucial: the actor's voice
- Ken Levine hails cancelled Irrational project as 'the best game we never got to make'
- This is the spiritual successor to the best graphics card ever made
- EA might not care about Dungeon Keeper anymore, but this open-source 4K remake spent 15 years in the making to reach version 1.0
- Intel's 18A 'hallelujah' moment is the biggest bet the company has ever made
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is getting a free two-part update that lets you visit the Carnival—to rip and tear into heretics, of course
- If you've got an inactive Google account you don't want to lose, log into it by December 1 or it's at risk of being deleted
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #877 for Monday, November 13
- Details on AMD's Ryzen 8000 APUs have leaked, with the eight core 8700G topping the list with 12 CUs
- After her videos inspired by surreal '90s pre-rendered horror games blew up, this TikTok star is making an actual surreal pre-rendered horror game
November 12
- Cliff Bleszinski recalls his '90s FPS beef with John Romero was so intense he wanted to 'take that guy down'
- After nearly 10 years, Australian developer Samurai Punk is shutting down
- Darkest Dungeon 2's first DLC is finally bringing back one of the original's strongest heroes
- Rainbow Six Siege's next operator has the intimidating ability to press pause on nearly every gadget in the game
- Rainbow Six Siege is getting a skin marketplace in the style of Counter-Strike
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #876 for Sunday, November 12
November 11
- It only took hours for modders to crowbar 4k support into the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection—now they've added ultrawide, high-res UI support, and more
- Warcraft’s game director explains why Blizzard debuted three expansions at once: 'Speaking it out loud makes it real'
- After a surprise cyberattack, the world's largest bank had to shuffle a USB stick around Manhattan to do business
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #875 for Saturday, November 11
- Skip the grind: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Zombies lets you unlock any multiplayer gun in minutes
- Deus Ex protagonist Adam Jensen's signature voice actor also wanted to do his motion capture, but was rejected for being too short: 'apparently, it was a lot of work to stretch me a couple inches'
November 10
- Samwise Didier, who 'helped build Blizzard's signature art style,' is retiring after more than 30 years at the company
- Doug Cockle will voice Geralt in a new The Witcher animated film on Netflix
- Call of Duty goes Final Destination on cheaters by pancaking them straight into the map
- Steam Deck has sold 'multiple millions' of units, Valve says
- Baldur's Gate 3 won so many Golden Joystick Awards that Swen Vincke can barely hold all of them
- Ubisoft is on the NFT sauce again: A new partnership with Web3 platform Immutable aims to create 'a fresh new experience that players will love'
- With Icewind Dale 2's source code lost for good, a full remaster remains impossible—but modders managed to overhaul the game with their own 'Enhanced Edition'
- Baldur's Gate 3's narrator wants to play TTRPGs like D&D forever: 'when we're old ladies, right? In the old people's home … we're gonna freak the f*ck out of a bunch of carers'
- No one liked Twitch's Hype Chat feature, so it's being killed off just 5 months in
- We just died of not surprise at rumoured pricing for Nvidia's upcoming Super GPUs
- Unfortunate: You can now completely ruin every single cutscene in Baldur's Gate 3 with a Thomas the Tank Engine headcrab
- Remnant 2's new DLC class will let you set foes on fire, melt them with acid, electrocute them, and make them bleed—all at once
- Companies were offering a single dollar for Hitman dev IO Interactive when Square Enix was looking to offload it
- The Black Friday gaming laptop sales must be starting early as this RTX 4080 gaming laptop is already down to $1,599
- AMD claws back 5% market share from Intel as CPU sales continue to recover
- 'The next thing we're working on moving forward is Steam Deck 2,' but Valve has yet to see silicon offering the leap it's looking for
- Amid fan backlash, Modern Warfare 3 studio bluntly denies reports the campaign was scraped together in 16 months as 'simply not true'
- Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix means dwarves don't have to walk around in 'big blueberries' anymore
- SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck'
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #874 for Friday, November 10
- UL announces the 3DMark Steel Nomad benchmark for you to punish your rig with
- WoW director says its most controversial new class specialization is OP because it had to be: 'The community is naturally skeptical of things they don't understand'
- World of Warcraft director says players who pay for early access to the next expansion won't have a 'long-term advantage'
November 9
- I can't believe this worked: There's a Task Manager trick to get into Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer hours before launch on Steam
- Good news, terrible news: You don't have to launch Modern Warfare 2 to launch Modern Warfare 3 anymore, but now you can't launch Warzone without first launching Modern Warfare 3
- Good news and bad news for fans of Arcane, the League of Legends animated series: Season 2 has a release window, but it's not any time soon
- The Steam Deck's new clear plastic limited edition is giving me overpowering OLED envy, but I can't keep blowing money on these things
- Omegle, the site that paired up strangers for 1-on-1 chats and, uh, other stuff, has closed: 'Frankly, I don't want to have a heart attack in my 30s,' founder says
- Warframe developer axes publishing division, will 'transition full control' of online action RPG Wayfinder to its developer
- A Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 bug is spawning every player in the same spot, triggering a nonstop bloodbath
- Take-Two boss says Grand Theft Auto games rake in so much money, making a GTA movie isn't even worth the hassle
- Valve knows people will jam the shiny new OLED panel into old Steam Decks 'but it's probably not going to go well'
- This Angry Birds clone made entirely through AI prompts makes me wonder what the future of small-scale game development is going to be like
- Valve is committed to bringing Steam Deck OLED 'battery life improvements to the LCD models as well'
- Braid: Anniversary Edition is finally coming in 2024 with 15 hours of developer commentary, and no I am not kidding
- Valve just unveiled 'the definitive first generation Steam Deck' with an OLED screen and new Sephiroth APU
- Warner Bros. wants to transform franchises like Superman into 'always on' live-service style games—which is somehow different from what its been trying for years
- Here's how to watch the 41st annual Golden Joystick Awards
- The price keeps dropping on this 28-inch 4K gaming monitor and now it's the cheapest it's ever been at $430
- You'll be able to play Remnant 2's new DLC with a friend who has it, even if you don't own it yourself
- For just $45 BioWare will now sell you a poster of their teaser for a Mass Effect game they haven't even confirmed the name of yet
- CRPG renaissance on hold as one of our most anticipated games gets a last-minute delay to next year
- IO got the 007 license because it wants to make 'multiple Bond games' in the same way it handled Hitman
- Better HDR screen capture is finally coming to Windows thanks to an updated Snipping Tool
- Baldur's Gate 3's narrator shares her favourite moments: 'I particularly enjoyed the [lines] where it goes full on Terry Pratchett'
- 'Very Handsome and Beautiful Withers' Baldur's Gate 3 mod turns your camp's ugly skeleton into a bone-ified sex symbol
- Baldur's Gate 3 dev shows off the level of optimization achieved for the Xbox Series S port, which bodes well for future PC updates
- Nightdive thought it was 'going to get grilled' about the lack of hand-holding in System Shock remake, but players loved it
- Apple VP says 8GB RAM on a MacBook Pro analogous to 16GB RAM on a PC: 'We just happen to be able to use it much more efficiently'
- Old School RuneScape players upend a 16-year-old minigame when they realise the cops can't possibly arrest all of them
- Warren Spector says his major contribution to System Shock was to stop 'it many times from getting killed'
- The fancy French name of Genshin Impact's biggest scale is now a TikTok dance trend, somehow
- Windows 11's color blindness filters no longer add latency or hurt performance in games
- PC Gamer Magazine's 30th Anniversary Collector's Special Issue Is On Sale Now
- AMD's pre-RDNA graphics products are ready to be put out to pasture as active driver support winds down
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #873 for Thursday, November 9
November 8
- Chucky is the next Dead By Daylight killer, and I can't stop laughing at a 2-foot-tall doll chasing teens
- Why Diablo 4's loot filter isn't ready yet: 'Every perceivably simple decision has some kind of crazy cause and effect'
- Revenant Hill, the spiritual successor to Night in the Woods, is cancelled as developers struggle with serious health issues
- The Overwatch League is officially dead: Activision Blizzard is 'transitioning' away from its groundbreaking esports league as teams reportedly vote to withdraw
- Risk of Rain 2 is getting a second expansion with a new big bad
- Valve is working on a new Steam feature that will let you hide all those weird sex games from your friends
- Adele made her kid a Rust costume for Halloween, though 'can't say he really loved it'
- Starfield's big DLSS update is now available in Steam beta
- 'If you want to think of it as Hunt 2 you're welcome to, but I'm not going to charge you': Hunt: Showdown manager on the extraction shooter's impending engine upgrade, and the pitfalls of declaring a sequel
- One of 2023's best strategy games, Age of Wonders 4, just received a massive free update full of overhauls and new features
- Dev reveals that Half-Life could've been called 'Bent', 'Screwed', 'Trash', 'CrYsis', and my personal favourite, 'Dirt'
- Diablo 4 developer hints that the search for the secret cow level is going in the right direction: 'If people have picked up any items from their cow campaigns, they should hang on to them'
- Amelia Tyler, Baldur's Gate 3's narrator, talks putting a voice to the Dark Urge's 'feral, visceral, animalistic, want to tear the world apart with [its] teeth'
- We almost had an Adam Jensen-voiced protagonist in Starfield before Bethesda changed its mind
- This RTX 4070 gaming PC is cheaper than a good RTX 3080 setup from last year's sales
- Alienware's new all-Intel Arc A770-powered gaming rig is a feeble punchline for $1,949
- You can play Tetris on some old oscilloscopes—who said electrical engineering is never any fun?
- Lords of the Fallen promises to split PvP and PvE balance after player upset, fix inventory woes, and add spells in update roadmap
- Rockstar officially announces GTA 6 reveal in December
- Remedy's plant bone tech is just one of the reasons Alan Wake 2 is the best-looking videogame of 2023
- GTA 6 will reportedly be announced this week ahead of December trailer
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #872 for Wednesday, November 8
- Nintendo is making a live-action Zelda movie
November 7
- Halo Infinite strains recent fan goodwill with Halo: Combat Evolved cosmetic armor that costs twice as much as Halo: Combat Evolved
- Ex-BioWare employees and contractors use N7 Day to air disputes with the studio
- Blizzard's job is to satisfy impatient players who want 'new stuff every day, every hour,' says studio head
- The layoffs continue: Ubisoft cuts 124 jobs worldwide, including nearly 100 in Canada
- DayZ just added a new rifle, a new air base, and what the heck, a whole new damn sky
- BioWare is teasing the new Mass Effect for N7 Day, and I really wish they'd just tell us what's going on
- Asus and ASRock BIOS files provide yet more evidence AMD's cheap Phoenix laptop APU will rise on desktop
- Someone who has never seen Black Mirror wants to make lucid dreaming 'the ultimate VR experience' with dubious tech
- Xbox sparks dev revolt with new AI writing partnership: 'Lots of people are going to get fired, games will get worse, and C-suite will get millions'
- The second part of Guild Wars 2's new expansion is out now, and it's taking players to the demon realm
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 reveals its first clan, the Brujah, four years after it revealed its first clan, the Brujah
- The best 14-inch gaming laptop is down to $1,200 with a sensible RTX 4060 inside it
- A faster 8,000Hz polling rate is only a software update away for five more Razer gaming mice
- The co-op survival RPG that took Steam Next Fest by storm has a release date, and it's soon-ish
- This hyper-detailed recreation of Disco Elysium's opening scene makes a terrible hangover look like a terrific idea
- 5 years after trying for a 'Valve-Counterstrike moment' with Fortnite, the Epic Games Store still isn't turning a profit
- StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS
- Packaging leak suggests the most ridiculous Nvidia GPU name is actually happening
- Jensen Huang thinks Jackie Chan would play him best in a biopic but he would 'do his own stunts'
- Scarlett Johansson launches legal action in a case of AI imitating life imitating art
- A tech analysis of Cities: Skylines 2 proves it's rendering WAY too many polygons, making Cyberpunk 2077 look like Minecraft in comparison
- Canon challenges ASML dominance with new chipmaking tech that could lead to cheaper chips
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #871 for Tuesday, November 7
November 6
- One of Embracer's top executives resigns and announces his own gaming company at the same time
- There's a cursed way to get a free Game Pass subscription or grind Diablo 4 battle pass tiers: Bing searches
- Elon Musk loses another one: Sony is disabling Twitter integration on PlayStation consoles next week
- After Nickmercs reveals gambling is part of his new contract, xQc admits ‘everybody knows I am’ paid to gamble on-stream
- Cities: Skylines 2 boss says there won't be paid DLC until 'performance issues are fixed'
- Bored Ape owners suffer eye and skin injuries from UV lighting at a weekend NFT festival: 'Had so much pain and my whole skin is burned'
- Halloween's over but you can still scare yourself witless with this VR recreation of Amnesia
- Starfield community patchers are frustrated by the game's lack of mod support: 'A lot of stuff is really broken compared to the other games'
- When it comes to OLED burn-in what you do with your monitor matters more than whether it's an LG or Samsung panel
- AMD prioritising multi-thread over single-thread performance for next-gen Zen 5 CPUs according to new rumours
- Currently unobtainable Baldur's Gate 3 achievement teases a hardcore permadeath mode that I will never be brave enough to play
- Alienware built a gigantic 16-foot mechanical keyboard and mouse then convinced a Dota 2 esports team to actually use it
- EverQuest 2's former creative director has a bleak vision of gaming's future
- Elon Musk's newest scheme is an AI chatbot that is 'based and loves sarcasm'
- Turns out you can speedrun Duolingo, and someone did an entire course in 24 hours
- Overwatch 2's latest hero doesn’t just look like the Moana guy, he directly references him too
- Baldur's Gate 3's incubus love fiend has a very revealing message printed on their bondage gear
- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger candidly reveals where Intel dropped the ball in recent years
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #870 for Monday, November 6
November 5
- One determined modder managed to cram Elden Ring's hardest boss into Sekiro, and she hardly seems to stand a chance
- Check out this open world martial arts tactical RPG with dozens of story paths
- The return of Fortnite's original map brings a record-setting 6M concurrent players to the battle royale island
- Here's a game where you're an underpaid astronaut salvaging space trash and building an orbital factory from it
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #869 for Sunday, November 5
- Baldur's Gate 3 lets you use sausages as weapons, so of course one audacious player built a dual wielding 'Salami-mancer' ready to take on the game's hardest difficulty
November 4
- Grounded's next update will add full-on creative tools allowing custom backyards and game modes
- Tommy Gun Witches is a free detective adventure about exactly what it sounds like
- The Talos Principle 2 brings in GLaDOS to roast itself for copying Portal: 'You came up with that? Oh. No, wait. I did.'
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #868 for Saturday, November 4
- Modern Warfare 3's rushed campaign isn't going over well with fans who pre-ordered: 'This is hands down the worst CoD campaign I've ever played'
November 3
- Fortnite rockets to the top of Twitch on the back of nostalgia for 5 years ago
- Starfield mod lets you pilot your ship by remote control, even when you're not on board
- Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2
- Embracer's implosion continues as Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios lays off employees
- WoW Classic's Season of Discovery will break rules that have existed for 19 years
- World of Warcraft Classic is getting the divisive Cataclysm expansion, the reason most WoW players wanted Classic in the first place
- Blizzard announces World of Warcraft's next 3 expansions: 'We ain't screwin' around,' declares Chris Metzen
- Hearthstone is adding new 'Catch Up' packs containing up to 50 cards, Battlegrounds to get a 'Duos' mode early next year
- Diablo 4's first expansion is a Diablo 2 throwback coming 'late 2024' and featuring 'a brand new class never seen before in the Diablo universe'
- John Romero and John Carmack are still buds and they're going to prove it by teaming up for a livestream celebrating Doom's 30th anniversary
- Phil Spencer shows up at BlizzCon to address his new subjects
- Metal Gear Solid 5's Quiet actress reflects on 'very revealing costume': 'I understand the perspective of people not as happy with how she was portrayed'
- Overwatch 2's next hero is a massive tank packing two chainguns, and he's free to try this weekend
- Blizzard's first new RTS in ages stealth launched, but don't get too excited
- Tekken 8's newest fighter is a suave Frenchman with a high-tech armoury strapped to his body, and he's voiced by a French acting legend
- Dell's new 120Hz IPS Black monitors could preview gaming panels with better contrast
- Co-op RTS Dwarfheim is going offline, and the singleplayer mode can't be saved because nobody has the source code
- Powerful $750 gaming laptops to OLED gaming monitors to $48 1TB SSDs: these are the top ten early Black Friday deals this week
- You can easily disable Copilot in Windows 11 Pro, but you'll need a third party tool to do the same in Home
- Vampire Survivors' next update adds a mini-campaign mode as well as what's always been missing: 'A whole bunch of deep lore lmao'
- DoNotSpy11 can now turn off Windows Copilot and other tracking features
- Use Microsoft's generative AI services too much and it will throttle you for being naughty
- 'The king of crypto' found guilty of fraud, now faces decades in prison
- This cult open world bugfest from 2005 is making a comeback
- Ubisoft puts Far Cry 6 out to pasture before the inevitable next one, announces no more updates but online will continue
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's 213GB storage hogging is because of 'open world Zombies' but don't panic it can be reduced
- After a year of cheap SSDs, Samsung aims to slap 20% onto the price of its NAND flash chips over the next two quarters
- Baldur's Gate 3 latest patch gives a lovely facelift to Karlach and Halsin's smooch scenes—but it's seriously soured kisses with Astarion
- This 61TB homebrew hack nukes the Steam Deck's storage 'problem' from orbit
- All Genshin Impact codes from the version 4.2 livestream
- FF14 player scores 100 wins in Fall Guys crossover in under a week, just by being really dang good at it
- A mobile dev is taking a chance on one of PC's most hardcore genres: a realistic military sim
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #867 for Friday, November 3
November 2
- Here's a new 25 minute Skyblivion video, including a walkthrough of one if its biggest quests
- Payday 3's long-overdue first patch is live: 'We’re finally up and running as things should be'
- A small romance change tucked away in Baldur's Gate 3's latest patch has had dire consequences for its sex-focused speedrunning category
- Bungie issues statement to Destiny community following layoffs: 'We know we have lost a lot of your trust'
- Cities: Skylines 2 patch fixes 'unnecessarily large' character textures, removes 'offensive' radio ad
- The next Sims 4 expansion finally adds functional apartments but also eviction anxiety and malicious mold
- I put Doritos' new noise suppression tech to the test across 5 separate crisp brands and was appalled by the results
- Samsung's monster-sized Ark gaming monitor gets a refresh and for a mere $3000, you too can hook up four PCs to the same screen
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree development is 'proceeding smoothly' but sorry, there's still no release date
- Silent Hill: Ascension underestimates the rowdiness of stream chat, who—given the wheel—crashed the whole thing into a ditch so fast they had to turn it off
- Yaaas, AMD's FSR 2.2 has finally been patched into Baldur's Gate 3
- If Intel's latest GPU drivers are delivering a 750% fps boost in Halo imagine how bad it was before
- AMD swaps Zen 4 cores for Zen 4c in two new entry-level laptop APUs stating 'no human being would ever know the difference'
- Baldur's Gate 3's latest patch has over 1,000 fixes—but most importantly, it lets you buy a butt-naked statue of yourself
- Greg Street, who quit working on the League of Legends MMO to do 'something new,' has revealed that the new thing is another MMO
- 2023 gets even better for Morrowind fans as Skyrim port project gives a spooktacular look at its magical leprosy village
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #866 for Thursday, November 2
- 'No expense spared and not a single corner cut': After 11 months of work, one of Japan's most beloved PS2 games is finally playable in English
November 1
- 63 corpses lie at the feet of WoW Classic Hardcore permadeath tournament winner as he claims $50,000 prize
- Nvidia owners rejoice: Starfield's DLSS update will start beta testing on Steam next week
- Disney Dreamlight Valley finally announces 'ValleyVerse' multiplayer coming in December
- Atari acquires retro specialists Digital Eclipse in deal worth up to $20 million
- Cities: Skylines 2 devs are investigating faster patches and a fix for the 'huge' packs of abandoned feral dogs
- This SteelSeries Arctis Pro + GameDAC headset might be getting on a bit but it's a fantastic deal at under $155
- Powered by spite, Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner cleaves 12 minutes off the world record with dozens of glitches—like trapping a villain in a child's body and knocking them out
- Intel's Meteor Lake 'Core Ultra' CPUs will finally launch December 14
- After 'suffering' internet skepticism and a trademark dispute, survival game The Day Before returns to Steam with a new early access release date
- Jiminy Cricket! Lies of P isn't just getting DLC, it's getting a full sequel too
- Who even needs Bloodborne on PC when the full-fledged kart racer demake just got an imminent release date?
- Remnant 2's first DLC, The Awakened King, is inbound—here's everything we know about it
- AI-driven perpetual Seinfeld falls into further ruin, its puppets stuck walking into a fridge for 'at least five days' before anyone fixed it
- Meta's president of global affairs decrees that concerns over AI to be akin the 'moral panic' over video games in the 1980s
- AMD's next-gen console-like Strix Halo super APU said to be delayed until 2025
- Ubisoft's using hideous AI-generated Assassin's Creed art on social media, and everyone hates it
- Cities: Skylines 2's editor tools look better than the original's, but they still don't have a release date
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 seeks to take inspiration from Baldur's Gate 3's narrative design, as well as its tabletop roots
- After a naked Chun Li scandalised a fighting game tournament, Capcom sounds the alarm about PC game modding: 'There are a number of mods that are offensive to public order and morals'
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 hogs up to 213GB of storage space and doesn't care if you want to play other games
- Lenovo launches the Legion Go and aims straight for the handheld PC crown
- AMD's third quarter financial results show growth, but it'll be AI that determines its future trajectory
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #865 for Wednesday, November 1
- Bungie fans outraged as beloved Destiny composers and other veteran employees are put out of work