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April 25
- I spent $3 to shoot a wall for 30 minutes
- As she chalks up 10,000+ final boss kills, Elden Ring folk hero says her record is 100 in a day and she has absolutely no plans to stop
- Metaphor: ReFantazio did surprisingly well on PC, says director, and that the number of desktop-based JRPG enjoyers is on the rise: 'The trend is evident'
- Our favorite budget VR headset beats the old Quest 2 hands-down, and at $269 right now it's cheaper than it's ever been before
- The FBI says cybercriminals were responsible for a record $16,600,000,000 in reported losses last year, up 33% from 2023
- Intel's elderly Raptor Lake CPUs are still selling surprisingly well and the reason is simple: They're cheap
- Dune: Awakening will host a massive beta weekend in just a couple of weeks: 'Tens of thousands of beta keys will be unleashed'
- Water is so precious in the Dune: Awakening beta I wound up treating innocent scavengers like my personal juice boxes
- Oblivion Remastered modder has already fixed its awful levelled loot system, after very reasonably blacking out in an 'incomprehensible fury'
- All Genshin Impact 5.6 livestream codes
- Razer has made a wild-looking wireless ergonomic mouse with six month battery life and it's making my eyes go funny
- New Intel CEO is looking 'for partnership with the industry leader to build purpose-built silicon' for AI, but is he talking about making chips with Nvidia or for OpenAI?
- Modders have torn apart Oblivion Remastered and found 'potential' for proper modding, but without tools from Bethesda we'll need 'a lot of reverse engineering work… before modding can be fully realised'
- There's yet another PC ripoff floating around the Nintendo eShop, but this time it's REPO that's been robbed: 'Even the eShop has slip-ups when it comes to allowing fake games'
- If your Oblivion Remastered save files are mysteriously disappearing or not syncing between devices, don't worry: It's not your fault, they're just getting sent to the wrong place
- If you hurry, you can pick up a set of these sweet artisan keycaps in all sorts of delicious combinations
- I'm getting major tool envy from this hard drive converted into a variable speed disc sander and I don't care who knows it
- Capcom's wonderful Breath of Fire 4 is finally available digitally thanks to GOG—I just wish it wasn't quite so faithful to a 22-year-old port
- Making your own upgraded GameBoy PCB is almost as easy as making a grilled cheese sandwich
- World of Warcraft's latest patch is a bugstravaganza the likes of which I haven't seen in my 21 years playing WoW
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 25
April 24
- The Oblivion remaster is so faithful, it still has the secret glitched door to the end of the game that lets you roll credits in under 15 minutes
- Marathon alpha players surprised by heavy aim assist on mouse and keyboard, and Shroud really hates it: 'PC players would rather improve their mechanics than have an assist'
- In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font
- Ubisoft is keeping its promise to add an offline mode to The Crew 2, and testing begins next week
- After Hyper Light Breaker players loved a secret one run, one life mode sneakily included in an update, Heart Machine is completely overhauling the game to match
- Fallout 3 developer says a remaster would have to improve the 'not good' gunplay
- OpenAI exec tells judge hell yeah, we'd happily buy Chrome—and stuff it full of AI!
- All System Dance developer announces layoffs 'due to financial challenges'
- Popular board game publisher CMON—creator of Zombicide and Marvel United—is putting all future projects on hold and laying off creatives as tariffs continue to wreak havoc on the industry
- Here's how to watch FGS Live at Gamescom LATAM this May 2
- White Knuckle is a grimy, Buckshot Roulette-looking game about fast-climbing your way out of industrial hell, and I can't put its demo down
- California is running out of license number combinations, making for wheelie quite a lot of cars
- Chipmaker TSMC's new A14 process will apparently offer a '15% speed improvement' but our GPUs won't be made on it for a while
- I've got some great news for Malkavian fans: Bloodlines 2 is going to put one right in your brain
- Obscurvion hits gamers as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher pokes fun at its unfortunate collision with Oblivion remaster's shadow drop: 'omg it's like Barbenheimer'
- 'This is why I hate support players': Marvel Rivals players are refusing to queue support because generic streamer #1,438 called Strategists 'morons' and 'idiots'
- Fortnite's latest update has semi-resurrected Harmonix's undeservedly short-lived DJ rhythm game
- 'We want you to be a part of it': Subnautica 2's Early Access is about to begin, and the devs want players to experience all the new vehicles, craftables, and leviathans first-hand
- Immerse yourself fully in Oblivion Remastered with this 39-inch OLED Asus ultrawide gaming monitor, now at $750
- Good news for Intel Core Ultra 200S gamers: some major gaming PC builders say the new Boost profile won't void your warranty
- OG Oblivion designer thought the remaster was just 'a texture update' until he laid eyes on it, and now he thinks we need a new word to describe it
- AI Overview is still 'yes, and'-ing completely made up idioms despite Google's best efforts to restrict it
- This water block has teeny tiny fins to better cool your CPU and is meant to be slapped right on top of your silicon
- I never thought I'd want a '90s PDA but this little DIY project has totally changed my mind
- Google Messages now uses AI to blur unsolicited nude pics then offers the sender a friendly reminder not to send them in the first place
- Oblivion Remastered kept the acting gaffe where its master speech trainer says 'Let me do that one again' and repeats their line—It's even lip-synced now
- The new Frostpunk game that's coming in 2027 is a 'reimagining' of the original in Unreal Engine 5 with new content, mechanics, laws, and—finally—mod support
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, April 24
April 23
- Nintendo is trying to force Discord to give up the identity of the person behind last year's massive Pokémon leak
- The company behind the Wheel of Time series on Amazon is now working on a Wheel of Time open-world RPG
- Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO
- Don't worry, Oblivion Remastered's NPCs are still charmingly ugly, they're just ugly in next-gen ways
- Steam's gonna start listing 'adjustable difficulty,' 'save anytime,' and other accessibility features right on a game's store page soon
- The creators of Wingspan are 'suing the president' to try and save board game publishers from tariff annihilation
- Swen Vincke and Larian celebrate the last major content update for Baldur's Gate 3, and say now they'll 'focus on making our next big thing as good as we can'
- AMD says it will be talking all things gaming and AI at Computex in May, and that could set the stage for the more affordable RX 9060 graphics cards
- If you dig into Oblivion Remastered's files you can find almost the whole original game like a set of dinosaur bones
- MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible
- The new Monster Hunter Wilds cherry blossom festival brings some of its best-looking armor sets yet
- Marvel Rivals' heroes 'leap off the page,' thanks to the devs meshing 2D and 3D together to make the eye-catching art style
- Anyone can now make plugins for Nvidia's promising G-Assist AI overlay, with options available for Spotify, Twitch, and more
- Thermal imaging seems to show there are 'weak point' hot spots in some RTX 50-series graphics cards
- If you thought Elder Scrolls fans couldn't eat better: The mega-mod to build all of Morrowind just teased a release that'll make it border Oblivion's setting and add a whole new city
- Behold! A single QR code containing a miniaturized take on Doom: 'literally the entire game'
- Crusader Kings 3 has hit 4 million sales, but all that tells me is that not enough of you have played the best game
- Intel will reportedly fire fully 20% of its workforce and focus on 'engineering', a plan that sounds all too familiar at this point
- Oblivion Remastered could never 'hold up against modern masterpieces like Elden Ring', according to Ex-Blizzard boss, 'I would love to be proven wrong, but I'm not'
- Intel has released a free 'performance boost for low-latency workloads like gaming' for Core Ultra 200S processors
- You don't need an Oblivion Remaster, you need Boblivion, the mod that makes Oblivion Bob
- Praise the Nine, Oblivion Remastered doesn't make you grind your minor skills to level efficiently, and increasing Endurance boosts your hit points retroactively
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 23
- The core of the new Dungeons & Dragons rules have been released into the Creative Commons so you can use them when you publish your own D&D material
April 22
- RPG Tenderfoot Tactics removed from Xbox Store in solidarity with pro-Palestine boycott: 'We call on others in our community to do whatever they can to fight this historic injustice'
- Bethesda gave Oblivion Remastered game keys to the entire Skyblivion development team and 'made it clear that they have no intention of shutting down our project'
- Oblivion Remastered doesn't officially support mods, but the mods are rolling in anyway
- It only took 3 hours for someone to upload the first Oblivion Remastered gooner mod
- If you're getting Oblivion Remastered, save $9 by grabbing a Steam key from Fanatical's day-one sale
- Oblivion Remastered sails past 120,000 concurrent players on Steam just a few hours after launch
- It's happening again: Oblivion Remastered is selling new horse armor like it's 2006
- An 'immersive' MrBeast Experience saw disappointed fans left in the lurch for 3 days, fobbed-off with cheap merch, and waiting in hotel rooms for days to receive 'a box of chocolates'
- Despite the $50 price tag, Oblivion Remastered shoots straight to the top of Steam's best sellers
- Here are the Oblivion Remastered system specs: 'More friendly to gamers with modern hardware' and Steam Deck Verified
- Hot damn: The Oblivion Remaster is 125 GB, 2600% heavier than the original game from 2006
- Ultron being a Strategist in Marvel Rivals makes perfect sense when you disregard his hatred for humanity and realise that he's a changed AI
- Thank Todd: The Oblivion remaster is here and you can play it right now
- Oblivion Remastered live coverage: Launch info, reactions, and latest news
- Tragedy as Hollywood runs out of videogames to adapt, forced to make OutRun movie fronted by Sydney Sweeney and Michael Bay
- REPO's next update will include matchmaking and expressions, so you no longer have to rely on shouting at your friends when they've smashed a valuable
- A new Frostpunk game is coming 'as early as 2027' after Frostpunk 2 spearheaded the 'highest sales in the company's history'
- A blessing from the gaming laptop gods: The RTX 4070-equipped Asus G16 is back down to $1,140
- The Outlast Trials Season 3 launches today, adding a new enemy and the ability to punish your friends in handmade trials
- Overwatch 2 Season 16 finally adds hero bans to competitive play, and it's really brought out the vindictive side of players: 'He’s an annoying unkillable pain in the ass'
- AI becoming increasingly central to China's education reform with plans to bring AI into classes soon
- Gather around children, let me spin you the tale of NLRB whistleblower vs Musk's DOGE. It has government espionage, a billionaire megalomaniac, Russian hackers, coverup conspiracies, and even blackmail by drone
- Teeny tiny, almost wearable brain-computer interface gets 'closer to the source of the signals' by fitting between hair follicles and only lasts between six and 12 hours
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 22
April 21
- Marvel Rivals' hero gallery UI used to look a lot cooler—but also a lot harder to use
- A week after a major hack brought down 4chan and doxxed all its users, it seems like it may be dead for good
- I'm convinced Bungie won't say how much Marathon will cost because it doesn't know how much to charge yet
- Diablo 4's lead live game designer says difficulty is 'a tricky balance,' but Season 8 should pack more of a punch: 'If there isn't enough challenge, then it just feels like you're getting candy for free'
- Fallout 1 lead Tim Cain says the marketing department wanted him to make it real-time 'because of Diablo,' but he got them to back off when he told them how much it would cost
- Steam's latest themed sale is so specific it includes just 0.367% of the 135,000 game library
- Diablo 4 devs say having to keep coming up with menacing names for activities is 'probably one of the most difficult design challenges' when you've already used up stuff like Helltide and Nightmare Dungeon
- Delightful undersea soulslike Another Crab's Treasure just got a huge 'Year Of The Crab' update featuring a fully remixed New Game Plus
- The Last of Us TV show did the thing
- If you want to play the next game from the team that made Into the Breach, you'll need a Playdate
- The pitch of Diablo 4's next season is 'becoming the boss,' which is a polite way to describe killing a giant skeleton and stealing its death laser powers for yourself
- Here we go: The Oblivion remaster will be officially unveiled tomorrow
- Mark Zuckerberg is so desperate to make Facebook relevant again he considered deleting your entire friends list
- Super Robot Wars Y pits Gundams against Godzilla in a huge showcase and release date announcement trailer
- Bungie's classic Myth fantasy tactics series gets the remasters it deserves, courtesy of its community
- One of classic Doom's most brutal challenge runs is finally conquered after 13 years of mega-scale demon slaughter
- There's no need to overshare on social media now that OpenAI's new chatbots can pinpoint your location from the tiniest details in images
- A high-performance Intel Battlemage gaming GPU has allegedly been spotted and I really want it to be a $400 RTX 5070 killer
- Quick, get in the DeLorean, we've got to go back. A new renewable powered battery made of radioactive waste product just dropped, and someone's gotta tell Doc Brown it's uranium, not plutonium
- Robots lose embarrassingly to inferior meatbag humans in a first of its kind half-marathon race
- Asus announces specs and price for its 2025 TUF A14 gaming laptop and do my eyes deceive me or is this a good deal?
- Skyfaring survival sandbox Lost Skies launches into early access, built from the bones of PvP cousin Worlds Adrift
- Is that why they gave them bigger butts? Marvel revives its Swimsuit Special, with 'designs for new costumes coming soon to Marvel Rivals'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 21
- New trailer for Doom: The Dark Ages reveals the medieval equivalent of the BFG is a huge crossbow
April 20
- Palia's big Elderwood expansion is coming in May with a new zone that reminds me of WoW's Teldrassil
- Ubisoft has made its colorblindness simulation tool available to any game developer for free
- Finally, a climate change solution: This free game lets you shoot a tornado with a shotgun
- Teleport, alter gravity, and survive on the run in puzzle platformer Bionic Bay
- Gloomhaven: Second Edition on hold due to Trump tariffs causing a 'ripple effect' on the board game industry, says publisher: 'Our products are no longer retail viable'
- REPO devs gently ask modders to 'optimize the amount of server traffic they send' to avoid 'skyrocketing server costs'
- TV tie-in MMO looter shooter Defiance returns for a free-to-play third shot at life and gigantic messy boss battles
- I'm glad the Lunar Remastered Collection scrubs the Austin Powers references, but I wish it went further in overhauling its wacky '90s localisation
- Survival horror word-em-up Blood Typers rolls out the Scarlet Carpet for its grand finale update
- Devolver's financials show Cult of the Lamb is its best seller, earning more than $90 million with DLC a significant factor: 'Gamers are spending more time on known IPs'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 20
April 19
- Diablo is doing a crossover with grimdark anime Berserk and, OK, that makes sense
- Once promising developer Tequila Works is auctioning off the rights to its games, including 4 still in development
- Scientists claim they've seen a 'jaw-dropping' new color, but you can only experience it by shooting lasers directly into your eyes
- Don't worry, the fan-favorite Baldur's Gate 3 bug that turns character portraits into moody glamor shots wasn't fixed in the final patch
- Gloomwood's research update transforms it from Thief with guns into Dishonored with mutations, letting you inject dissected monster juice into yourself to gain their powers
- Dwarf Fortress sells 1 million copies on Steam, so now Bay 12 Games can afford that 'little party' it planned
- After a disappointing sequel and a cancelled remake, the original Fear Effect is coming to PC 'for the first time ever'
- The Elder Scrolls Online celebrates its 10th anniversary a year late by selling off 2,000 pieces of its servers
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 19
April 18
- I don't know what I expected: Everybody's just recreating memes in Baldur's Gate 3's new photo mode
- While this paleontologist doesn't find Elden Ring's monster designs all that realistic, he was impressed by FromSoft's subtle storytelling and commitment to 'speculative biology'
- Rematch passes 100K Steam concurrents in open beta as 'Rocket League but with feet' turns out to be a winning idea
- Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early on Steam, and the publisher has decided to just go with it
- Marvel Rivals players annoyed and confused by 'misleading' $25 Doctor Strange skin that's missing the coolest part when worn in-game
- The new trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps finally shows us stretchy Pedro Pascal (but only for about two seconds)
- Capcom says it has 'already taken and will continue to take action' to ban Monster Hunter Wilds cheaters as it begins a '1-to-2 week review' of the challenge quest leaderboard
- The new trailer for Remedy's co-op FPS features explosive pink goop and flying desk chairs, so it's still looking like the silliest thing they've made
- Rebellion's CEO says 'it looks like we want to do more Atomfall' but it will depend on whether the studio can 'find the resources to do it'
- The Forever Winter's April update introduces a 'devastating' railgun you'll need to build with buds, DLC skins and more to my favourite extraction shooter
- Nintendo confirms the Switch 2 price is staying at $450 in the US despite tariff turmoil, with preorders starting April 24
- Phil Spencer is 'really happy' with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, hinting there might be more Nazi punching adventures in the future: 'We do think there's life in that franchise'
- Painkiller's new weapons trailer gives us a good look at the reboot's guns, and I'm delighted to see that its iconic stake launcher still skewers enemies to walls
- After a disastrous recent update and a flurry of attempts to fix it, Path of Exile 2's next patch will bring 'two highly sought after improvements'
- Looks like PCIe 5.0 WD Black SSDs are hopefully definitely maybe possibly on the way, at long last
- Corsair's custom shop Drop announces possibly the best thing to come out of Starfield
- Cherry's new MX Northern Light is its 'most refined linear switch to date' and a 'love letter to the keyboard community'
- Star Wars Outlaws DLC A Pirate's Fortune announced for May 15
- Shawn Levy of Deadpool & Wolverine fame is directing Star Wars: Starfighter, a standalone movie starring Ryan Gosling
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 18
- Path of Exile 2 backlash gives Last Epoch a 150,000-player boost as the competing action RPG launches a major update
April 17
- I don't know why early 2000s internet is suddenly back, but both Ask a Ninja and Homestar Runner have just uploaded new videos
- Co-op submarine survival simulator Barotrauma has a free weekend on Steam, so dive in with friends and experience the most comically horrifying deaths you can imagine
- Thanks to Baldur's Gate 3's new Swashbuckler subclass, it no longer sucks to be a pure Rogue
- Rematch, the soccer game from the maker of Sifu and Absolver, is holding an open beta this weekend
- 22-year-old MMO MapleStory is getting the 'old school' treatment with the original lead game designer in charge of new classic servers
- Forget Baldur's Gate 3's new subclasses: Patch 8's most disgusting power gamer combo is the Rock That Makes You Stupid paired with a sneakily revamped level 2 spell
- You should buy our favorite co-op survival game of 2024 on sale now for $20—because the price goes up to $35 in May
- Eugh: Discord is scanning some users' faces and IDs to 'experiment' with age verification features
- The brilliant insect adventure Botanicula is free on the Epic Store for the first time
- 'It unfortunately won't be happening in the foreseeable future': Fortnite's Arcane skins continue to be in crossover jail as Riot boss confirms they won't be back anytime soon
- Roblox's latest legal entanglement is with the creator of the viral 'Apple' dance who took TikTok by storm: 'Kelley is an independent creator who should be compensated fairly for her work'
- 'I kept trying to talk to them': Marvel Rivals players are finding their friends' names are being used by bots
- We called its first cyberpunk setting 'cooler than Night City,' and now the studio behind The Ascent says it's making 'the kind of game that every developer wants to work on'
- Ultrakill publisher co-founder throws up hands, jokes 'Tarkov has done irreparable f*cking damage to the game industry' because even FromSoftware games are extraction shooters now
- There's no two ways about it—I love the Lumon blue, retro styling of this Severance-inspired keyboard
- US-made chip prices could soar if the rumour that TSMC might charge 'as much as 30%' more for its Arizona chips pans out
- Baldur's Gate 3's excellent new photo mode is full of details, dances, and poses for your cat—as well as 7 different ways to vogue, because why not
- The LA Times gives mealy-mouthed AI the last word on its opinion pieces
- Get into 4K gaming with this 27-inch IPS monitor, now $330 or 0.004 cents per pixel if you prefer
- This single-fan RTX 5060 Ti has me *this* close to upgrading
- Marvel Rivals' costume customisation may look cool, but it adds yet another unnecessary step while tacking on even more money to expensive skins
- Former BioWare producer says Baldur's Gate 3's impact on game dev will be 'somewhat muted' thanks to industry convention, and I can't help think we've got it all backwards
- The latest rumoured AMD Ryzen Z2 processor could be used in cheap SteamOS handhelds
- One of our favourite last-gen handheld PCs is getting a Ryzen AI HX 370 upgrade and a native landscape display
- Android phones will reboot after 3 days of inactivity in new security update, but don't worry, this is a good thing. Just make sure you know your PIN
- Nintendo take first Japanese Switch modder to court, resulting fine is 400,000% less than the one given to Gary Bowser
- Researchers develop Graphene Oxide membrane that could be used to create 'forever chemical'-busting water filter. Yes, another funky use for the wonder material
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, April 17
April 16
- Seth Rogen goes rogue at science awards show to slam tech billionaires for backing Trump: 'It's amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr'
- Skyblivion fan project lead sends 'all love and no hate' to the official Oblivion remaster devs: 'This always was a passion project and still is until the end'
- The newest Minecraft snapshot makes A Minecraft Movie's giant Ghast airships into an in-game reality
- Bloober Team delivers an ominous warning in the first gameplay trailer for its next game: 'Don't let them merge'
- CD Projekt warns against fake Witcher 4 beta test invites: 'This is a scam'
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds has dethroned Schedule 1 in the fight for Steam's top selling games list
- Capcom gets a very special award from the Japanese government for having 6,000 worldwide trademarks
- Hideo Kojima confirms an easy mode for Death Stranding 2, which'll allow players to skip boss battles and let them read about it instead
- Scientists have created a random number generator that's truly random—and no, that's not an easy thing to do at all
- I'm flabbergasted you can get an RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB for MSRP in the UK over two hours after launch
- The new Nvidia driver comes with a looooong list of fixes and a dozen of these fix black screen issues
- 'I'm honestly scared to go to sleep': Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's hardcore mode is finally here for anyone who wants a 'tougher slice of medieval life'
- Turns out a bit of pixelation won't cover your back (or front) as it's actually very easy to de-censor videos
- Nvidia could lose $5.5 billion to charges after new 'indefinite' restriction on exports of beefy AI GPUs to China
- 'It was always an option': Overwatch 2 devs reveal that going third person isn't as big a leap as some players think
- Baldur's Gate 3 just got the Hexblade, one of D&D's most OP multiclass options, and it's still the best 1-level dip you could possibly take
- Chip tariffs could be around the corner as the US starts to probe the 'effects on national security' of foreign semiconductor production
- Games Workshop celebrates the birthday of its killer parallelogram, the Land Raider
- Wizards of the Coast says 'Demand for Tarkir: Dragonstorm has been exceptionally high'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 16
April 15
- Phil Spencer says not every game has to have 'a movie or a TV show' tie-in, but promises 'you're going to see more' adaptations of Microsoft games
- I can't believe I'm saying this but Skull and Bones Year 2 is real, and it's live now
- The latest Elden Ring Nightreign character reveal is an aging viking whose hobbies include swigging ale and punching dragons in the jaw
- Arc Raiders, the extraction shooter that might finally bring the genre to the masses, is holding a new playtest at the end of April
- Guild Wars is 20 years old now, and that means it's time for a content update and 'the biggest discount in Guild Wars' history'
- Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 added a busted new spell that gives Fighters better smites than Paladins—and it's only a cantrip
- Surprise! RuneScape: Dragonwilds has launched into early access only two weeks after its first trailer was released
- Space Marine 2 gets a new mission, weapon, boss fight, and big gameplay changes in its latest major update
- Nvidia says there's 'not a whole lot we can do about tariffs' should Trump nix the exemption around RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards
- Here's who you should ban in Marvel Rivals Season 2 and thanks to the new team-up abilities, the list is long
- Dune: Awakening delayed to June, but a 'large-scale beta weekend' is coming next month
- 'This is it. Our final major game patch for Baldur’s Gate 3': The colossal Patch 8 is finally here, marking the end of (non-bug fix) updates for Larian's triumphant RPG
- I've found great deals on some of our favorite wireless gaming mice starting at just $30, even amid the ongoing price apocalypse
- The Oblivion remaster is real: Doubters in shambles as developer Virtuos accidentally leaves the door open to trailer screenshots and assets
- Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 announced, starting from $299: 'We can work with our partners to get these out at reasonable prices, which we are doing'
- One of the best RPG narratives ever told could have gotten a sequel from Dragon Age's creator if a single publisher had the good taste to throw money at it
- A Minecraft Movie makes $550 million globally with no signs of slowing down, putting it inches behind dethroning Mario from his box office kingdom
- Be Quiet's created the quietest mechanical gaming keyboards I've ever used, offering the striking benefit of not annoying everyone in a five meter radius
- 'Are you ready to rock?' Jack Black randomly appears at A Minecraft Movie showing, but jokes that he wants to see 'absolutely no chicken jockeys'
- Intel is selling its 51% stake in Altera, for presumably a few billion, to private firm with over $104 billion in investments
- Trump's Secretary of Education—and former WWE CEO—may repeatedly refer to AI as 'A1' but when she calls A1 learning 'a wonderful thing' she could genuinely be onto something
- Microsoft pulls out of two big data centre deals because it reportedly doesn't want to support more OpenAI training workloads
- The new Asus ROG NUC is a mini PC with an Arrow Lake CPU and RTX 5080 laptop GPU, and is going to be very, very, VERY expensive
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 15
- Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
- Balatro's publisher beat gold stakes and the Jokerless challenge so quickly it even surprised LocalThunk: 'How did you do this so fast?'
April 14
- 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
- White House claims 'the Trump Effect in action' as Nvidia announces plans to build AI chips and supercomputers in the US
- Former Concord dev says 'it was gut wrenching to see our project fail' but urges players not to judge Marathon too soon: 'To call this game a failure before it’s even out is wild to me'
- The latest Stalker 2 roadmap includes modding improvements, more A-life updates, and letting mutants eat corpses
- Overwatch 2's Stadium mode gameplay trailer somehow looks even more chaotic with whole team nano boosts, multi orbs, and a mini B.O.B.
- Star Wars Zero Company, the XCOM-like tactics game being made by ex-Firaxis devs, will be revealed this weekend
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's Alice In Wonderland update is dropping next week, but I'm mostly excited about 'uncrafting' things
- Don't delete that mysterious 'inetpub' Windows folder, says Microsoft, as it's supposedly important for system security
- If you thought USB naming was nonsense, allow this professional furry engineer to explain the total nightmare that is the underlying hardware complexity of USB-C
- Warner Bros suits confirm A Minecraft Movie will be getting a sequel: 'The ink might not be dry… but imminently'
- App promising a universal shopping experience automated with AI actually used a small army of human workers in the Philippines and Romania instead
- These are my favorite earbuds for under $100 and they're now on sale for even cheaper
- Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 is among its biggest, holding 48 pages (approx. 19,000-20,000 words) of patch notes in its vast and bountiful form
- 'Delete all IP law' says Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey: 'Creativity is what currently separates us, and the current system is limiting that'
- 'Trust continues to be tampered with': A thread about SBMM in the upcoming Battlefield game is the final straw as an EA community manager lets loose on leakers
- The first leaked GPU specs for AMD's RX 9060 XT appear and it's pretty much an RX 9070 XT chopped in two
- User reports melted power cable on an RTX 5070 and now we're wondering if any RTX 50-series GPU is safe
- Date Everything, the dating sim where your whole house becomes dateable, finally has a release date
- 'EA always preferred Mass Effect, straight up': Dragon Age creator reveals that his and Mass Effect's team 'didn't get along' at BioWare, as EA played favourites with its children
- I know tariff-related price increases are a thing right now but a $1,371 motherboard might be pushing it, even if it is 'Extreme'
- MSI will switch to AMD chips for its high-end Claw handheld PC if the rumour mill is to be believed
- Trump administration exempts phones and most computing hardware from tariffs and then says they're not really exempt, just being lined up for a very special tariff 'bucket' of their own
- Silicon Valley crosswalks hacked to play satirical messages from Musk and Zuckerberg impersonators: 'It's normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience'
- Marvel Rivals players have a new conspiracy theory: Magik and Psylocke's X-suits make their butts bigger
- Blue Prince was made possible by creator's Magic: The Gathering fan site: 'Now you know why I had to put up a lot of ads'
- Microsoft tweaks Edge to give it "significant performance improvements" though you're only getting up to 9% more oomph
- According to David Fincher's new Xbox ad with an extremely late '90s/early 2000s vibe, you can escape capitalism by buying Xbox games
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 14
- Eli Roth on why the Borderlands movie sucked: 'You can’t prep a movie on that scale over Zoom'
April 13
- Data sleuth discovers that Sekiro's inexplicable, skyscraper-sized rope man who gives you a lift to Heaven might have once been a boss fight or level unto itself
- 'It’s about to get even darker, more disturbed, and violent': Barotrauma's Calm Before the Storm update introduces new PVP outpost and alien ruins
- As promising RTS Stormgate nears 1.0, the 'entire narrative structure of the campaign' has been rewritten, says Frost Giant
- Microsoft is finally rolling out its controversial Recall feature that screenshots everything you do (again), but only for select users
- The underrated, open world, hoverboard FPS gem of 2024 just got a free update with new guns and islands for its cloud archipelago
- Marvel Rivals sneakily implements 'butt patch' that cakes up every male character in the game
- The Epic Store's latest free games giveaway includes 'over $100' worth of stuff for the Forgotten Realms idle game
- Age of Empires 2's quest to conquer the strategy globe continues unabated as The Three Kingdoms DLC invades ancient China this May
- Former Skyrim dev announces a vehicular free-running game where you launch a car through a claymation world using mouth-sound explosions, and that's the weirdest thing I've ever had to fit into a headline
- John Romero's brutal megawad Sigil 2 has formally chainsawed its way into Bethesda's Doom + Doom 2 remaster
- A new limited edition of Doom comes in a box that runs Doom
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was Steam Deck Verified, but now it's not
- American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car'
- This shooter is billing itself as 'the Battlefield Heroes you can actually play'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 13
- Nicky Katt, the voice of Atton Rand in Knights of the Old Republic 2, has died aged 54
April 12
- The cast and crew of Mythic Quest are being laid off and the last episode patched by Apple to 'say goodbye, instead of just game over'
- Never mind, President Trump truths on Truth Social that electronics (including from China) are still subject to tariffs
- Bungie says Marathon is about losing all your gear but still having a great time because you 'come out with a good story'
- Marathon won't have proximity chat because it'd be way too toxic: 'I don't think anyone has a good solution to that just yet'
- Bungie finally shows off post-Destiny extraction shooter Marathon, which will launch in September with signups open for a playtest this month
- Bungie hired an Oscar winner to make Marathon's stunning 8-minute short, but only real sci-fi nerds will spot the cult movie that inspired it
- Atomfall hits 2 million players and 500K cups of tea drunk
- Neil Newbon definitely wants to play Astarion again, and if whatever studio that makes Baldur’s Gate 4 recasts him, he’ll totally ‘hunt them down and gut them like a fish’
- Following massive player fall-off, Amazon's MMO Lost Ark is getting an update to make levelling faster and address a 'known progression pain point'
- Literary masterpiece The Count of Monte Cristo is being adapted as a clicker game about getting educated to escape prison
- Days Gone’s upcoming survival arcade mode will introduce endless hordes and ‘exploding freakers’, and I’m beginning to think it might be the best way to play the game
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 12
- 'Just make a very good game': Sloclap never considered making Rematch free-to-play, and dismisses the idea that online games can't succeed with a price tag
April 11
- GOG's 'Classics Promo' sale rolls into the weekend with deep discounts on more than 1,000 good old games
- 'Let's just fail quickly this time': Semiwork took a 'big risk' on REPO after its first game took 6 years to make and didn't sell very well
- Dark and Darker finally gets a PvE-exclusive 'Adventure Mode'
- The Talos Principle: Reawakened goes back to the beginning for a touching coda to its musings on what it means to be human
- OpenAI countersues Elon Musk and the gloves come off: 'These antics are just history on repeat—Elon being all about Elon'
- Brian Eno's Windows 95 startup jingle and the Minecraft OST are now preserved in the USA's Library of Congress
- The sci-fi puzzle game made by ex-Blizzard devs just got its first trailer, demonstrating intricate puzzles and cool landscapes
- Apple reportedly shipped 600 tons of iPhones in rapid time to 'beat the tariff', only for tariffs to see a 90-day pause
- PCs with Intel's new warranty-backed 'IPO' overclocking feature reportedly go on sale in China with claimed 10% frame-rate uplifts but what about the rest of us?
- 'Every single gamemode is completely broken': Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been unplayable for days on PC as hackers prevent players from spawning on any server
- This absurdly generous Newegg bundle gives you an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU, 16 GB of DDR5 RAM, AND Monster Hunter Wilds all for just $230
- William Roberts, the voice of Vesemir in The Witcher games, has died
- Baldur's Gate 3's transformative patch 8, with 12 new subclasses and photo mode, will finally launch on Tuesday
- Razer PC Remote Play, a cloud streaming service based on open-source Moonlight, has finally launched and we've put it to the test
- Hold up, there's an RTX 5070 under MSRP in the UK that just dropped below £500 (by a penny, still counts)
- Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar'
- Security researcher claims 35 Chrome extensions with 4,000,000+ installs 'include some kind of spyware or infostealer'
- FF14's composer, Soken, says doing double time on an MMO and Final Fantasy 16 was 'something beyond your imagination of hell'
- More RTX 50-series supply on the way? Rumours suggest Nvidia may have started to use SK Hynix GDDR7 in potential boost to production
- Report estimates AI energy demands will quadruple in the next few years, with some large planned centres estimated to use the equivalent power of 5,000,000 households
- Reddit has reached a Silksong level of madness over the rumoured Oblivion remake in a fraction of the time
- Netflix has renewed Devil May Cry for a second season, only one week after its release
- There's hope for the PC market yet: Sales boom before tariff hammer comes down and HP expects 90% of its US PCs will be made outside of China by the end of the year
- 'It's way too funny': A Minecraft Movie director loves the chaotic chicken jockey trend hitting cinemas
- The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 11
- Schedule 1 player follows NPCs around for a week to reveal their surprisingly thoughtful, dynamic lives
April 10
- Developer of 'non-consensual sex' game withdraws it from Steam after it's banned in the UK, Canada, and Australia: 'We don't intend to fight the whole world'
- Lost Ember studio reveals its next game, and dang, it's got some really good snow
- Gamble or die in a 'never-ending debt simulator' that plays like Balatro spliced with a demonic slot machine
- Industry report says Steam users play more noncompetitive games than console players—and our interest in PvE keeps growing
- Ubisoft's defense against The Crew lawsuit doubles down on a point we've heard many times before: You don't actually own your games
- The Elder Scrolls Online is getting subclassing—which'll expand its roster of classes to 'over 3,000' combinations of mix-and-matched skill lines
- After 10 years of setting-hopping, The Elder Scrolls Online is coming home for a new chapter of its base game story, returning player QoL updates, and a writhing wall of 'soul-juice concrete'
- Amazon's Tomb Raider series reportedly 'dead' after tens of millions in development costs resulted in no script
- 'Why just shoot your enemies when you can tear down the world around them?' Battle an endless cycle of evil machines in this FPS that features 'total environmental destruction'
- 6 years after launch, my favorite action platformer Katana Zero is still getting that long-promised free DLC that's 'nearly the size of the base game'
- Soccer fans should be paying attention to Rematch, the 5v5 game coming this summer from the developer of martial arts hit Sifu
- Schedule 1 adds some 'fancy stuff' and a pawn shop where you can sell almost anything to Mick in its first content update
- Enshrouded's next update promises a 'rebirth of the shroud,' with new monsters, resources, and a whole new weapon customization system
- Clone-conscripting base-builder The Alters gets a June 2025 release date
- Neverway is a 'nightmarish life sim RPG' with hand drawn cuties and horrors from Celeste's artist
- A Minecraft Movie's cast and crew have a private Minecraft server where Jack Black got 'super-weirdly method' and built a hilltop mansion
- Deep Rock Galactic's roguelite spinoff digs up a new trailer for the Triple-I Initiative, closed alpha testing is 'starting soon'
- Adorable or terrifying: Researchers unveil tentacular marine exploration drone prototype guaranteed to set off your Subnautica flashbacks
- Barotrauma developer unveils its next co-op survival game: a dieselpunk FPS where your mobile fortress is a train
- Endless Legend 2, one of my most anticipated strategy games of 2025, is hitting early access this summer
- Black Mirror Season 7 has an episode about a sim game where you take care of cute little creatures, and here's the twist: it's a real game you can play right now
- Looks like 8 GB and 16 GB versions of the RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti are fast approaching, so *please* can we have some affordable graphics cards for a change
- Multibillion-dollar MMO Dungeon Fighter Online is huge in Asia but 'not as well known in the West,' and The First Berserker: Khazan was meant to change that
- Potential Steam Deck prototype spotted in the wilds of eBay with AMD Picasso APU—and an asking price of $3,000
- Valve Deckard, a long-rumoured standalone VR headset, might not be too far off if these leaked shipping manifests are legit
- Marvel Rivals is launching an 'experimental feature' to help players deal with the game's awful performance and insatiable appetite for RAM
- Still Wakes the Deep provided the best performance in a videogame in 2024, so I'm happy that it's finally been shown some love at the Bafta Game Awards
- This Ryzen 7 9700X, GeForce RTX 5070 gaming PC is the cheapest I've seen this week, which might not stay that way for long
- Former Blizzard president says 'I'm not sure where Diablo is going' after Diablo 4 roadmap disappoints: 'Don't ship to check a box'
- AMD muddies the laptop CPU waters again with a Zen 4 refresh. So, where are our actual next-gen Zen 5 chips?
- Some lucky Redditors are getting 50-series cards below MSRP thanks to a weird Walmart quirk
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, April 10
- Creative Assembly is testing a second round of AI improvements for Total War: Warhammer 3: 'We heard you loud and clear'
April 9
- Every single Oddworld game is available right now for a single, solitary dollar
- Xbox Games Showcase returns in June with first-party studios, third-party partners, and a deep dive into The Outer Worlds 2
- The Last of Us is coming back for a third season on HBO
- More tariff chaos: Donald Trump pauses tariffs for most countries at the last minute but jacks them up to 125% against China, 'effective immediately,' because of their 'lack of respect'
- OK this is too far: Someone brought an actual chicken to A Minecraft Movie
- They can't keep getting away with this: Star Citizen has now raised over $800 million after 13 years, and it's still in alpha
- 'It's the end of an era': Four years after saying the studio would keep its 'identity,' CD Projekt has fully absorbed The Molasses Flood, but it's still working on The Witcher spinoff Project Sirius
- TSMC might have to fork over $1 billion to the US for allegedly breaking export rules after one of its chips was found in a Huawei processor
- 'I'm still loving this game after 50 hours': Lethal Company solo dev has been inspired by REPO to carry on work, 'My energy level is suddenly very high'
- Razer has pulled the pricing and pre-order pages for its new Blade laptops and I think it's pretty obvious what's happening here
- 'We are so back': After a month spent strangling itself with monetisation, promising new auto-battler The Bazaar finally makes things right for its players
- Balatro scoops a BAFTA and Jimbo weirds it up on-stage: 'LocalThunk is really rich now… he has shoes made of gold and he thanks you for making him that way'
- New two-way brain-computer interface has returned motion AND sensation to a paralysed test patient: 'Right now, we just know the results are significant and leading to functional and meaningful outcomes'
- If awful RTX 50-series prices aren't enough to get you consider an RTX 40-series card, maybe this dinky single-fan RTX 4070 will be
- Logitech's pretty excellent rapid trigger keyboard has just hit its lowest ever price, making it the one I'd recommend right now
- Apparently, Jack Black wasn't the first pick for Steve in A Minecraft Movie—It was meant to go to Matt Berry, according to Hollywood rumours
- Holy smokes, something that might actually be useful is coming to Copilot on Windows
- This estimate that iPhones would cost $3,500 if made in the US has me terrified of tariffs and the concept of a mid-range gaming laptop costing $5,000 and high-end models hitting nearly $15,000
- Japanese railway turns to 3D printed replacements for ageing shelters that can be built in less than 6 hours
- Trump gave global chipmaking leader TSMC an offer it could not refuse: 'All I did is say if you don't build your plant here you're gonna pay a big tax... 25, maybe 50, maybe 75, maybe 100%'
- 'Rocket Raccoon is now the goat healer': Marvel Rivals devs have finally caved and given Rocket Raccoon's ultimate the ability to heal
- Corsair's new website to update firmware means I can finally say goodbye to iCUE
- Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military
- Big Rigs, a strong contender for any 'worst games of all time' list, currently has a Mostly Positive user rating on Steam because democracy is broken
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 9
- Players are breaking the physics of Schedule 1 to escape the cops and explore the sky
April 8
- 'There is no lawsuit' against Schedule I: As negative Steam reviews pile up, Drug Dealer Simulator publisher makes a public plea for peace
- Balatro creator LocalThunk is throwing his weight around to make sure Blue Prince gets some love at The Game Awards: 'Geoff my man I better see Blue Prince as a GOTY nominee'
- Battle royale interest is shrinking but Fortnite has a larger slice of the pie than ever, according to new industry report
- One of the biggest games on Steam right now is Bongo Cat, a cat with a hat who smacks your Windows taskbar like a bongo drum when you type
- Blue Prince is currently the best-reviewed game of 2025
- YouTube is conducting a 'platform-wide review' after mistakenly hitting Balatro videos with an age restriction for gambling content
- Half-Life 2's 2003 beta reveals the mystery behind a City 17 river that once led players to the foot of the Citadel
- Diablo 4's roadmap reveals this year our console brothers and sisters will finally get keyboard-and-mouse support
- 'Redstone genius' Mumbo Jumbo was originally meant to make 'a bunch of crazy booby traps' for A Minecraft Movie, but they were all cut from the film
- Team Ninja says 'we sincerely apologize' for Rise of the Ronin's PC version being a mess, promises imminent fixes
- Samsung rakes in nearly $5 billion profit from companies hoarding memory chips like Smaug ahead of Trump's tumultuous tariffs
- A Minecraft Movie has a mysterious Herobrine moment that the producer claims is just happenstance: 'One of the characters' eyes kept coming out white'
- Microsoft's head of AI wants to create an artificial overly-attached companion for us all: 'It will have its own name, its own style. It will adapt to you. It may also have its own visual appearance and expressions'
- Shelter's developer is now making a cozy decorating game called Twinkleby
- Christopher Perkins, a senior D&D designer, director, and the mind behind 5e's Curse of Strahd, retires after 28 years at Wizards of the Coast
- Sabrina Carpenter has been revealed as the icon for Fortnite Festival's eighth season
- Spot the difference: Two of our favorite Razer gaming mice are on discount and I'd happily pick either as my next battle-ready rodent
- Framework is 'temporarily pausing US sales' on some of its laptops due to Trump's tariffs: 'At a 10% tariff, we would have to sell the lowest-end SKUs at a loss'
- 'It was just like fire': Jennifer Coolidge reflects on her chemistry with A Minecraft Movie's love interest, Nitwit the villager
- Am I the only one wondering what's going to happen to Blade, now that he's not the new hero for Season 2?
- Balatro's creator has reached poker zen after beating every deck on every difficulty: 'All this time playing has killed any negative emotions I had toward it'
- No other card game matters to me now, I only want to collect these middle-aged man cards from Japan
- Valkyrae cameo mysteriously cut from A Minecraft Movie after she accused Jason Momoa of 'mistreating some of the crew' last year: 'I feel like things could have been so much worse'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 8
April 7
- Cops called as A Minecraft Movie sends kids into chicken jockey frenzies
- How a hardcore survival game morphed into an open world town-builder where you play as a corgi mech pilot
- The Netflix bump is working its magic once again, sending Devil May Cry rocketing up the Steam top sellers in a $20 franchise bundle
- Schedule I gets Bleuballs in its first 'proper patch,' now live in Steam beta
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' first major update arrives tomorrow with very good news for your horse
- Drug Dealer Simulator is getting review bombed for suing Schedule I, even though it hasn't actually sued Schedule I yet
- Path of Exile 2's nerf-happy update has the playerbase revolting, review-bombing their baby, and scorning the developer's promises: 'Like reading a Blizzard post on fixing Diablo 4'
- La Quimera, the new shooter from former 4A Games Ukraine studio Reburn, will be out later this month
- The turf wars begin: Schedule I is being investigated for possible copyright infringement by the publisher of Drug Dealer Simulator
- Microsoft's 100% AI-generated Quake 2 made us nauseous but John Carmack, the game's OG coder, is into it: 'What? This is impressive research work!'
- AMD is reportedly plotting an NPU-enabled 'Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme' chip for handhelds and we still can't figure out what it'll do for us aside from drain more the battery juice
- G.Skill's 128 GB golden RAM kit is the first high-capacity set to hit DDR5-8000 speeds and it's making me reconsider my views on PC hardware bling
- The Death Stranding movie is being written and directed by the guy behind Pig
- Major Japanese studios and publishers were having a great time in 2025, right up until the weekend because of the (you guessed it) 'insultingly dumb' US tariffs
- Patent document shows AMD started researching the use of neural networks in ray-traced rendering at least two years ago
- This $299 Acer monitor is the cheapest high-refresh 32-inch 4K gaming panel we've ever seen from a big brand
- You can create plinking, plonking renditions of classic game theme tunes with a sweep of your finger using these 3D-printed fidget toys
- Finally, a news outlet explains the US tariffs in a way even I can understand: with a map covered in Warhammer models
- Rather than risking the shark-infested waters of GPU stocks and pricing, I'd just go for this ace $2,000 RX 9070 XT gaming PC
- 'They chewed me up pretty good': A US plaintiff attempted to use an AI avatar to argue their court case and the judges were far from amused
- Peppered: an existential platformer is a game that'll make you pay not just for your choices, but your sucky platforming skills, too
- So, it's the mirrors. Freakishly accurate-to-an-atom-width mirrors are one big reason your modern GPU is so damned expensive
- Former Awesomenauts developers finish the game they were working on when the studio went bankrupt in 2023, and it'll be free for the first 24 hours after release
- Nvidia hasn't announced them yet but laptop vendors confirm that RTX 5050 and 5060 GPUs are almost here, and they'll both have 8 GB of VRAM
- One cable to rule them all: China's 8K-ready HDMI and DisplayPort competitor supports up to 192 Gbps bandwidth and 480 W power delivery in a single connection
- Doom modder puts the Slayer in true hell: A minimum-wage fast food job that's 'psychological warfare only rivalled by the likes of Desert Bus or that one mission from Dying Light 2'
- With a quick BIOS flash and a spot of overclocking, one modder has got his RX 9070 to outperform the normally faster RX 9070 XT
- A Minecraft Movie has earned $157 million, the most successful domestic opening weekend for a videogame adaptation ever
- Arkane was 'devastated' by its cancelled Half-Life 2 Ravenholm game, but the masterclass it got from late visionary artist Viktor Antonov 'was pivotal to what would become Arkane later'
- Bungie is finally ready for a Marathon 'gameplay reveal'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 7
- The mechs of BattleTech will finally fight some proper kaiju in its first-ever spinoff alternate universe
- Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo 'inspired' by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make
- You really should play Sultan's Game, a beautiful, cruel card shuffler which launched on Steam recently
April 6
- That game jam based on Oblivion's terrible persuasion wheel actually produced some good, weird ideas
- The rights to one of the greatest PC games of all time languished in the vault of a Midwestern insurance firm until a frustrated player bugged them about a re-release, 'But they asked me if I wanted to do System Shock 3'
- Superb city-builder Against the Storm will round off its roster with a DLC of bats, who 'take pride in enduring what breaks others and cannot stand being favored'
- In 'a bit of an experiment' Rust's latest update makes softcore mode even softer, and some changes may be brought over 'to the vanilla game in future'
- Pacific Drive's 'largest ever' update adds endless expeditions to the vehicular survival game, but it's a big change to how saving works that has me pondering a reinstall
- Dishonored and Prey's director says 'I could see myself working on Dishonored 3 right now' but the chances of that happening is in the realms of 'science fiction'
- Party with wizards and get stuck in a Medusa timeloop in Indiepocalypse's latest anthology of unusual games
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 6
- The Tomb Raider board game will let you shoot dogs while sitting around the kitchen table at last
April 5
- YouTube has started age restricting Balatro videos for alleged gambling-related content, and creator LocalThunk is clearly getting sick of this sort of thing
- Overwatch and World of Warcraft art director Bill Petras has died
- The remaster of D&D classic Neverwinter Nights 2 still hasn't been announced, but it's already Steam Deck verified
- 'Sweet Liberty, the automatons are invading Minecraft!' Helldivers 2 player commemorates the game's most famous battle by recreating it in Mojang's survival game
- Terra Invicta, the space 4X from the creators of XCOM's Long War mod, just got a massive update that adds exofighters, improved diplomacy, and 'advanced weapons' for its alien menace
- After a whopping 13 years in development, the Battle for Middle-earth's Extended Edition mod finally gives the beloved RTS the full Peter Jackson treatment
- Abiotic Factor's next update will bring a whole new upgrade system and fix attacks on your base: 'We've heard a lot of feedback about base assaults and how they just kinda stink'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 5
April 4
- After being laid off from his triple-A 'dream job', this developer made a game about a disgruntled ex-employee seeking revenge on the corporate world
- Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio gave up on the System Shock remake because the cyberspace sequences were 'too hard,' and I can't tell you how disappointed I am right now
- Microsoft employee escorted out of 50th anniversary event after protesting sales to Israel: 'You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands'
- Months before Schedule 1 was a Steam top seller, its solo dev was worried he was 'kneecapping' himself by not putting 'drug' in the title
- Unity CEO rails against the 'idiocy' of the metaverse: 'I experienced all those new platforms and just thought they were garbage'
- I'm losing my mind over Inzoi's massive river sharks
- Tekken 8's newest season is being dogpiled with negative reviews as director says there's a 'disconnect between what the community wants' and what the developer is doing
- The Monster Hunter Wilds update added a big, beautiful bird who gives you free stuff, and players are already worshipping it as a benevolent god
- The League of Legends trading card game, Riftbound, will launch this year
- 13 years after it was first teased, the official Mewgenics trailer is here with live-action sexual dysfunction, brutal violence, a divine grudge, and more than 100 truly awful cats
- Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved'
- Nintendo has delayed Switch 2 pre-orders in the US 'to assess the potential impact of tariffs' and it feels like a straight warning of the hardware price rises to come
- Dice 'n' Goblins is a charming little dungeon-crawling RPG with some deceptively clever systems under the hood
- Keychron's M5 wireless ergonomic mouse has an 8K polling rate for 'ultimate control in gaming scenarios' making it a gaming mouse with a, err, twist
- A Minecraft Movie's director says he'd love to make Another Minecraft Movie: 'It'd be amazing'
- You won't have to leave the Amazon app even when buying from other retailers thanks to the company's new 'Buy for Me' agentic AI bot
- Miyazaki says calm down, FromSoft will keep making 'singleplayer-focused games' in future even though its current obsession is multiplayer stuff
- The RTX 5060 Ti is rumoured to cost the same as the RTX 4060 Ti, which may leave it wide open for an AMD RX 9070-based assault
- Krafton's first stab at a life sim game is going swimmingly as Inzoi managed to shift over 1 million copies in its first week
- Uh oh, Monster Hunter Wilds isn't messing around anymore—its new high-rank monsters hit hard and often, hopefully putting the difficulty discourse to bed
- Ubisoft frantically patches nudity back into Far Cry 4 after accidentally patching it out
- In a world of bizarre fighting game crossovers, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves has taken it up a notch with a niche Swedish DJ
- The Intel-TSMC unholy chip factory alliance rumour re-emerges and this time a 'preliminary' deal is said to have been done
- Turns out that Alienware's new upgradeable desktop is only fully upgradeable with an optional $35 conversion kit
- Metaphor: ReFantazio tried to make you love turn-based combat again, but it almost broke the game during development
- Capcom warned Monster Hunter Wilds players not to cheat on its ranked leaderboards, so of course people are immediately and flagrantly doing just that
- Marvel Rivals devs are adding new team-up abilities for Season 2, including my dream combo of Captain America and The Winter Solider
- Nvidia says its Nintendo Switch 2 chip benefited from '1,000 engineer-years of effort' claiming a 10x performance bump with DLSS and dedicated ray tracing silicon
- Inzoi characters will stop abandoning their hot meals and sleeping for hours on end thanks to the latest patch
- Cult of the Lamb audio director Narayana Johnson, also known as River Boy, has died
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 4
April 3
- 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
- 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: 'This is an extremely serious mod. Not for the faint of heart'
- 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
- 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