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- April 4
- April 3
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- One of the Switch 2's biggest innovations is 'Discord but worse'
- After months of silence, Bungie fires up the Marathon social media machine to tease... well, something
- Based on Capcom's spotty patch history, you might want to back up your Monster Hunter Wilds save before Title Update 1 hits
- 'Thick thighs save lives': Marvel Rivals players are desperate for Emma Frost to crush them between her thunderous gams when season 2 goes live
- Path of Exile 2's latest patch notes are so bewilderingly vast I got a sicko to help translate, and to summarise: It's nerf-a-geddon!
- Our first look at Ultron in Marvel Rivals
- After hitting kids with cars was patched out, Inzoi players are now kidnapping babies
- NetEase is feeling the pressure to keep Marvel Rivals as fresh as launch, so it's releasing a new hero every month starting in Season 3
- The multiplayer shooter with moose-propelled artillery is having an open beta this weekend
- Den of Wolves' left-field feature may seem odd, but the devs believe 'it's something we can deliver on' thanks to previous work with horror in GTFO
- Neglecting the mod scene is just 'silly', says dev whose team went from making mods to officially working on Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein: 'It's so short-sighted not to support it'
- Overwatch 2's April Fools game mode has made Reinhardt one of the most terrifying heroes, who can now kidnap any other player
- Jason Momoa adopts bold marketing strat for A Minecraft Movie: Telling everyone he doesn't let his kids play games or have phones—'I just want them to use their creativity in a different way'
- 'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 years
- Dune: Awakening will have in-game radio stations featuring everything from Harkonnen propaganda broadcasts to classic '90s Dune tunes
- EverQuest 2 to bring back the 'absolute heyday' of PvP with classic server
- Endless Legend 2 continues the faction reveals with some cyborgs who use coral to make people chill
- Those Elden Ring Switch 2 extras are coming to PC, and the game's now sold an incredible 28 million copies
- Fear not, potato gamers, the RuneScape Dragonwilds system requirements are pretty light and hallelujah for a new UE5 game that doesn't require ray tracing
- Enter the glorious world of true HDR gaming with this massive 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor, now $710
- Nintendo's fearsome CEO once called Shigeru Miyamoto in to ask if Tetris was any good, who replied 'your secretaries and accountants are all playing at lunchtime and after work, and that's never happened before'
- The BAFTAs declares Shenmue and a game that came out 2 months ago more influential than Tetris and expects us to all just go along with that
- Semiconductors are exempt from Trump's massive 32% tariff on Taiwan though PC gamers will still feel the heat
- It's better than Slay The Spire, it was our best card game of 2020, and now the sequel has a proper release date
- Elden Ring Nightreign gets a new trailer showing that, finally, you get to be the nightmare archer of Anor Londo
- Companies are selling cheap faux leather 'Jensen Huang' jackets and some of the listings are hilarious
- 'WE WON!'—It was just 3 (technically 4) clips of Silksong news, but the community has fully lost it in joyous rapture
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, April 3
- April 2
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- Stray Gods studio reveals its next game, an 'unholy roguelite deckbuilder' about hunting demons in a festering city
- Capcom says it will 'take action against any fraudulent ranking activity' if Monster Hunter Wilds cheaters goof up the arena quest leaderboards
- 7 years after its debut, Deltarune chapters 3 and 4 are finally coming in June
- A Minecraft Movie review roundup: some say it's 'okay,' others say 'it isn't actively boring'
- Astroneer studio announces its next game, 'a multiplayer voyage of discovery' in deep space
- Psychologist breaks down The Last of Us Part 2's most traumatic and realistic moments: 'Revenge is sweet. Otherwise why would we hold onto it?'
- The creators of A Minecraft Movie approached adapting the game delicately, opting to 'not take ourselves too seriously, but take the game very seriously'
- 'Never give up the spark': A Minecraft Movie's director and producer hope that this film can inspire adults to carry on creating
- A Minecraft Movie's producer says working on set was like 'playing with friends on a Minecraft server'
- Here's what happens to your base in Dune: Awakening if you take a long break from Arrakis
- 'This is a gift': Baldur's Village mod maker says thanks to all (especially Swen) and promises more content including an 'Astarion's Ten Hearts event' is on the way
- No one's making a new BattleTech videogame any time soon, so I'll console myself with this $18 bundle of stuff for the tabletop RPG
- Our favourite wireless soundbar just hit its lowest ever price in the latest Amazon deal, solving one of our biggest gripes
- Wicked Whims for Inzoi is just an April Fools joke for now but The Sims' most famous sex mod is probably coming eventually
- Nintendo is going to charge Switch 2 handheld console owners money for a glorified digital manual that doubles as a game
- Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding's now had over 20 million players, and the fact folk are still playing 'makes me the happiest'
- Assassin's Creed Shadows didn't have yellow paint originally, but unfortunately players like me are stupid
- The Nintendo Switch 2 mouse controls are a great gimmick but they don't excite me at all
- Nintendo got a Bloodborne spiritual sequel before PC even got the first game
- Nintendo Switch 2 specs: $450 price tag, bigger 1080p LCD screen, 4K support, 256 GB storage, 'mouse' functionality and more
- The first Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU makes an appearance in the Steam hardware survey and it's the RTX 5080 that has the honour
- It's actually happening, everybody stay calm: Silksong properly confirmed for a 2025 release date at the Nintendo Direct with a whole 3 seconds of footage
- AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs
- Ambitious burrito-lover mods real-life Chipotle orders into Fallout 4, thrilling community who can 'Finally get the food poisoning perk!' in reality
- You can get PC Gamer's longest-reigning Top 100 winner and enough branching narratives to keep you busy for the rest of the year for under $15
- Hollow Knight: Silksong returns as the #1 wishlisted game on Steam after Inzoi's release—but is it just keeping the seat warm after 6 years of slowly-gathered hype?
- Intel promises its next-gen Pather Lake laptop CPU will have the 'efficiency of Lunar Lake and the performance of Arrow Lake' and is on track for 2026
- OpenAI finalises deal for $40 billion in investments, raising company value up to $300 billion, but there's a catch to receive it all
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 2
- Details about the canceled Disco Elysium spin-off codenamed X7 have leaked, and it would have let us play as Cuno and Cunoesse
- April 1
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- Call of Duty will finally let console players turn off crossplay to dodge PC cheaters, which is potentially terrible news for all the legit PC players
- Atomfall surpasses 1.5 million players to become Rebellion's most successful game launch in 32 years
- 'I'll believe it when I see it' says Josef Fares about a Split Fiction movie: 'There’s a lot of talks, but nothing happens'
- After another disappointing Project Rene leak I wish EA would finally step in and say anything at all to Sims fans
- Inzoi's game director is 'determined to prove that this is not just another early access game' and plans even more hotfixes and communication
- A 60-year-old videogame just hit its highest player count ever on Steam and I'm pretty sure it's because people are pirating Schedule 1
- ZeniMax workers union votes to authorize a strike against Microsoft over stalled contract negotiations
- One year after surprise launching viral hit Content Warning, Landfall does it again with lightspeed running roguelike Haste
- Valve fans come together to smash the Steam concurrents record for the studio's least-popular game: 'We all know Ricochet is the best Valve game ever made'
- 'The original Tetris was a survival game': The man who prised Tetris out of the Soviet system recalls how different it once was
- Inzoi and The Sims start their relationship as life sim siblings with a friendly fruitcake delivery
- It took nearly 20 years but one of the best PSP games is finally coming to PC
- Mecha Break competitor Steel Hunters releases in early access on Steam this week, offering a slower, more tactical free-to-play mech game
- Schedule 1 roadmap includes adding a 'classic fishing minigame,' plus parkour and heroin
- Inzoi hotfix stops your zois from dying too young, as long as nothing awful happens to them
- Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards
- 'It's easy to play with other people': Den of Wolves devs confirm that you don't have to talk to your teammates at all to be able to complete missions
- Ex-Payday 2 devs think they've solved the problem of player in-fighting for their next co-op heist game: 'The bar is low'
- 'It satirises itself because it's so freaking evil': Den of Wolves isn't a satire on late stage capitalism but it doesn't help that its doomsday scenario is starting to unfold
- Schedule 1 just got its 5th patch, teaching its blackjack dealers to no longer let you look at their cards and promising a full-on '1st content update' this weekend
- HP Omen is now making upgrade options, like fans and PSUs, and it makes the gaming PC builder in me quite happy
- Oh, you tease—we don't know when exactly GTA 6 is coming out because Take-Two's CEO wants 'to maintain the anticipation'
- After Swen Vincke wagged his finger at a Wizards of the Coast DMCA, Stardew's Baldur's Gate 3 mod is back online
- AMD reportedly plots late 2025 launch for desktop version of the nifty little Strix Point APU we like so much in laptops and handhelds
- Same plan, different CEO: Intel's Lip-Bu Tan laments 'past mistakes' while promising a brighter 'engineering focused' future
- It's tough to find a good price on a gaming laptop right now but this $900 RTX 4070 HP Victus is a tall glass of water in a desert of deals
- Inzoi and The First Berserker Khazan devs suggest ditching the latest Nvidia drivers if you're running an RTX 40-series graphics card
- 'We were at war with our customers': Unity's new CEO talks about arriving to the 'insane' post-runtime fee dumpster fire
- YouTuber Karl Jobst to pay more than $230,000 to Donkey Kong record holder Billy Mitchell in defamation ruling
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 1
