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June 30
- Battlefield streamer harassed by stream-snipers for months becomes a godlike helicopter pilot to take them all on
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in July
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum dev pulling out of making new games after The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
- I spent hours tracking down a game I barely remembered from my childhood, and it turned out it was a screensaver
- Here's how to permanently wipe OneDrive folders from your PC if they keep recreating themselves
- Only Up! pulled from Steam, developer says it'll be back (update: and now it is back)
- The Sims 5 will be 'free-to-enter' according to EA job posting
- What if Baldur's Gate 3 isn't just getting out of Starfield's way by launching a month early—what if it's better?
- Abandon your Diablo 4 builds: The bouncy Barbarian boy is now the only valid way to play
- Someone made a ChatGPT-powered bot that says 'dumb things that are somewhat funny' to waste telemarketers' time
- The hunt's over: all 6 of Diablo 4's mega-rare items have been discovered
- AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X3D sounds like a killer budget gaming chip we could do without being limited edition
- Pokemon GO developer Niantic cuts workforce by a quarter after struggling to make lightning strike twice
- Amid national riots over a police shooting, the French president blames the unrest on videogames
- Devs casually expose far-reaching loading bar conspiracy: 'People just don’t trust one that's too quick'
- Microsoft CEO says he'd 'love to get rid' of console exclusives but it's all Sony's fault, your honor
- Psychonauts creator Tim Schafer says he's never read anything that was 'meaningful, important or worthwhile' created by AI
- Microsoft's light-based computer marks 'the unravelling of Moore's Law'
- Diablo 4 player churns through 1,270 cellars in three days, just for the hell of it
- Cache is king when it comes to designing the gaming CPUs of the next 20 years
- The spirit of PC building will keep our gaming machines from disappearing into the cloud
- We're on the brink of the biggest changes to computing's DNA and it's not just quantum that's coming
- Silicon won't run our gaming PCs forever but it's far from finished
- Call of Duty gets into psychological warfare as new anti-cheat tech plagues hackers with 'hallucinations'
- Windows AI Copilot has just hit Windows Insider builds
- The 6 best and most brutal baddies in Diablo
- Hold on, weren't Intel's desktop Meteor Lake-S chips cancelled? Maybe not
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #741: Friday, June 30
June 29
- Microsoft lawyer tells judge that The Elder Scrolls 16 is coming in 2026, accelerating Bethesda's release calendar by 124 years
- The Witcher comics ranked from worst to best
- Bungie targets the end of August to roll out fixes for endemic Destiny 2 connection errors: 'This is not a process that can happen overnight'
- It took 25 years but we're finally getting a new Blade Runner game
- The players hunting for Diablo 4's secret cow level have suffered a major setback, but you'd be a fool to think that's stopping them
- It doesn't seem fair that this wonderfully weird visual novel about alien whales is completely free
- The Stream Deck mobile app turns your phone into a handheld livestream control room
- Y'all farmed Elden Ring so hard the list of most-killed enemies is all out of whack
- After only 3 hours this fishing and restaurant management RPG has rocketed to the top of my GOTY shortlist
- Shuffle a barrel of pirate monkeys in the demo for promising deckbuilding RPG Cross Blitz
- 'Iran's Call of Duty' is all about destroying the US and NATO, and 'with God's permission will make a lot of money'
- The 2023 Steam Summer Sale is live, and the Steam Deck is 20% off
- After two decades Football Manager is adding the one feature literally every player wants
- Baldur's Gate 3 promises level 12 cap, new races, 22 new subclasses, and whopping 174 hours of cinematics in community update
- Thousands of 1980s PCs lived happily in a barn for 33 years and are now being sold for $120 a pop so you can relive the birth of PC gaming and the internet yourself
- HP Omen 16
- Baldur's Gate 3 makes a critical save against Starfield and is now launching nearly a month early
- 7 games with big ideas that were years ahead of their time
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 18: Our gaming graveyard
- One of Fallout 4's most ambitious mods just got delayed to get out the way of Starfield
- How Master Chief made it onto this very scientific survey of the most stylish video game characters is utterly beyond me
- It's hard to trust CD Projekt when it's still pretending Cyberpunk 2077's launch wasn't a disaster
- The best Honkai: Star Rail Yukong build
- Silent Hill 2 remake studio Bloober Team says it's finished with 'psychological horror' games, it's 'mass-market horror' from here on out
- This action-MOBA could fill the Battlerite-shaped hole in my heart, but I'm scared to hope again
- Iran finally admits its 'quantum processor' was in fact not quantum at all
- Faster GDDR7 memory coming first half of 2024 leaving plenty of time to be included in next-gen GPUs
- Cities: Skylines 2 has no cap on the number of people it can track, and it's basically the Matrix
- After around 150K kills, Old School RuneScape hero becomes first in history to collect every boss drop in the game
- VRLA Tech Titan
- In this beautiful strategy city builder from the creator of The Settlers series, 'You don't have to make your people happy, instead, your people have to make you happy'
- Microsoft wants to suck your entire Windows OS up into the cloud
- This guy's tech mandalas are giving me an ontological crisis
- The Witcher Season 3 Volume 1 review: An aggressive goodbye to Henry Cavill in a season full of thrills and kills
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #740: Thursday, June 29
- The US wants to restrict China's access to AI chips even more, and Nvidia could lose out as a result
June 28
- Our favorite extraction shooter just got an update that adds its greatest enemy yet: rain
- Sony's advanced black marker technology fails to stop super sleuths from reading confidential numbers
- Fervent speculation on a Red Dead Redemption remaster (or PC port) follows rating in Korea
- The once controversial Six Days in Fallujah is finally out in early access, but it's just a barebones milsim for now
- Darktide patch finally gets us crossplay between Steam and the Microsoft Store
- Veteran devs from Riot, Bungie, Respawn, and Blizzard have come together to make 'the world's next 10,000-hour game'
- I built some wonky robots in Mars First Logistics, and they keep spilling potatoes
- If you die in WoW Classic's official hardcore servers, you'll be cursed to live as a ghost forever
- The Steam sale superstars you should never buy for full price
- Artists and developers worried about Unity's AI programs have been given a big shrug
- Lenovo Legion Tower 5i
- Halo fans rejoice at the return of Mini Slayer
- DayZ 2 revealed by the US Federal Trade Commission
- This simple feature is the reason I'm still using this $99 headset over objectively better ones for the last two years
- Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest
- How to open Mutterlock Chests in Diablo 4
- The most PSP-looking handheld PC just got upgraded with AMD's fastest APU
- Starfield is promised 'at least DLSS3 support in the Early Access 5 days' by pro modder PureDark
- This unhinged browser game about passwords is the most messed up thing I've ever played
- F1 Manager 2023's new scenario modes have me trying and failing to rewrite the season's greatest heartbreaks
- There is no escaping Among Us: a new animated series has just been announced
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
- Destiny 2: How to catch Exotic fish and use each Broken Blade
- Diablo 4's sword enthusiasts have realised that its weapons are all messed up
- Diablo 4's rarest items have become a holy grail for its players, and I'm a little worried for them
- TSMC's higher prices could make for even more expensive GPUs
- Where to trade Void-Touched Curio in WoW Dragonflight
- BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic team will suffer layoffs as the developer recommits to singleplayer games
- With thousands still playing, this extraction shooter is shutting down after barely a year online
- I would die for this delightfully garish Barbie Dreamhouse Xbox console
- Nvidia's next-generation GPUs will arrive in 2025 and slightly later than expected
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #739: Wednesday, June 28
June 27
- Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life review
- Skullgirls bombarded by negative Steam reviews after devs alter old artwork they felt was in 'poor taste'
- Diablo 4's toughest XP grind just got significantly easier
- Netflix Witcher promises a 'lore accurate' Geralt actor swap, and it may have to do with Ciri's dimension hopping
- Minecraft movie starring Jason Momoa, by Napoleon Dynamite director, will supposedly start shooting this year
- Skytech Chronos 2
- Diablo 4's first major patch buffs every class but is totally focused on the early game
- Hearthstone's Titans expansion features a brand new type of legendary card
- Back in 2006, this tiny indie developer made a mecha game that reveres Sega's Virtual On as much as I do
- Former EA CEO talks about how AI could replace Simlish but that sounds like a horrible idea
- Students added ray tracing to Descent and it looks sick
- A humble RFID scanner is at the center of a fresh scandal in Formula 1's all-electric alternative
- How to grow grass and feed your cows in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
- How to sell items and make money in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
- 6 tips I wish I knew when I started Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
- Starfield partners with AMD and oh boy, the internet is not happy
- Today's Diablo 4 miracle is this player-made chart that tells you where the gear you want is most likely to drop
- Truck Simulator studio starts video series about 'legendary' truck makers in an act of truckception
- Diablo 4 Paragon Board explained
- Magic: The Gathering finally gives me a reason to care about its least exciting cards
- Atomic Heart's first DLC is all about fans' favorite sexy fridge
- The next Guild Wars 2 expansion releases this August, and will finally answer an 18-year-old mystery
- PC's answer to Pokemon just dropped a free version which strips out the filler and gets straight to the monster brawling
- Best October Prime Day gaming monitor deals
- Your gaming PC deserves an SSD in 2023
- Stephen King gave the opening quote to Alan Wake for just one dollar, and it's not the first time he's done this
- Diablo 4's season 1 cosmetics will let you slap whatever on whoever
- The best Honkai: Star Rail Luocha build
- Badlands Crew will let you build and operate your own adorable Mad Max war rig for tactical post-apocalyptic shenanigans
- The data suggests Britain's best years of electronics recycling are already behind it
- I took on Corsair's new DIY iCue Link system just as any good PC builder would: with no instructions
- Phil Spencer asked Microsoft's top brass to let Xbox buy Sega
- CD Projekt Red insists that Cyberpunk 2077's launch wasn't that bad, but 'it became a cool thing not to like it'
- Tutorials are becoming the bane of my existence
- Bejeweled's designer releases free wrestling game where you can beat up Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
- Diablo 4 Brought to Heel quest: Where to find the red mushroom
- Court emails reveal Bethesda's confusion at Microsoft's special treatment for COD while Starfield goes Xbox-exclusive: 'What's the difference?'
- Google believes the key to beating ChatGPT is to drop its all-conquering gaming AI into the algorithm
- ROG Ally mostly beats Valve's Steam Deck in repairability and that's great news for miniaturised PC gaming
- John Goodenough, the man most responsible for developing the batteries powering our mobile lives, dies aged 100
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #738: Tuesday, June 27
June 26
- Valve collector shares his treasure trove of never-before-seen Half Life 2: Episode 3, 'Alyx & Dog,' and Stars of Blood concept art
- US announces $42 billion plan to make high-speed internet universal by 2030
- Cities: Skylines 2's simulation is so realistic that all the young people are broke
- This mod mashes up five factions from Command and Conquer's past into one giant brawl
- MrBeast says he turned down the chance to be on the doomed Titan submersible
- Best UK October Prime Day PC gaming deals
- Best October Prime Day gaming PC deals
- You can only date your co-workers in Starfield, decrees Todd Howard
- Where to find the rifle in Sons of the Forest
- That's all folks! MultiVersus is officially dead but promises a 2024 comeback
- GTA Online is still leaving PC players in the dust with baffling console-exclusive updates
- Best October Prime Day gaming laptop deals
- Hideo Kojima: 'Someone, please, send me up to space!'
- Hands-on with Payday 3's expanded stealth heisting, in which everything goes wrong
- Where to find and how to drive a golf cart in Sons of the Forest
- Rights holder retakes control of a 27-year-old MMO from devs keeping it updated, says don't worry, you can still play a version from 2008
- Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator says 'we're not a game ... what we're doing is accurate aviation activities'
- Mortal Kombat 1 continues the tradition of dealing with rage quitters in hilariously brutal ways
- AI is being used to translate 5,000 year-old cuneiform tablets
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #737: Monday, June 26
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 26, 2023)
- Great moments in PC gaming: Building a little server community in Project Zomboid then dying six times in a row
June 25
- Phil Spencer says Microsoft bought Bethesda to prevent Starfield being PlayStation-exclusive
- Has anyone walked in on you during an embarrassing moment in a game?
- Swap horses and swords for kids on bikes in Kingdom Eighties
- High profile Escape from Tarkov dataminer apparently permabanned, unbanned from the game in less than a day
- Diablo 4 and other Battle.net games are back online after brutal weekend DDoS attack
- The new GOG versions of the Yakuza games omit multiple developers and even entire support studios from their credits
- Suds for the sud god: PowerWash sim is getting a Warhammer 40K crossover
- Skyblivion team reveals roadmap to 2025 release, says quests and NPCs are done in 'around a third' of the map but The Shivering Isles will have to wait
- Every Warhammer 40,000 game, ranked
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #736: Sunday, June 25
- Anime action RPG Eternights is like a very horny Persona
- Be a middle-manager in charge of hell's breaches in deckbuilding defense game Heretic's Fork
June 24
- Afterlife, the 'Sim Hell' game by LucasArts, was a sadly wasted opportunity
- One of the best parts of Amnesia: The Bunker doesn't even involve its gruesome new monster
- Dev discloses Diablo 4's rarest unique items, what they are, and how to get them
- Oh, to be a little gecko crawling up some walls in this exploration platformer
- The Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection popped up on Steam with a notice it wouldn't support mouse & keyboard before disappearing a half hour later
- Just like nobody asked for, YouTube is reportedly testing in-app and in-site gaming
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #735: Saturday, June 24
June 23
- Ultima creator Richard Garriott issues statement on Explorer's Club members lost in Titan sub disaster
- You begin this base-building survival game with a single item: a time machine
- BattleBit Remastered is dominating Steam because there's no catch: it's just a lot of game for $15
- Bethesda's upcoming Indiana Jones game will only be available on Xbox and PC
- This hidden Diablo 4 feature could make the endgame loot grind much easier
- It doesn't look good for Starfield on Steam Deck, but Todd Howard isn't writing it off: 'We'll talk about that down the road'
- Escape From Tarkov studio threatens to ban anyone who shares information gained from 'illegal datamining'
- With its kiddie audience rapidly growing up, Roblox is making a new category for 17+ games on the platform
- Why you should consider a CRT for your PC gaming setup this year
- Park Beyond review
- Amazon's 'dark patterns' alleged to have deceived millions of customers into signing up for seemingly endless Prime memberships
- My new Necromancer gloves turn Diablo 4 into a hell governed by sprinting, suicidal skeletons
- Drama ahoy as Pokimane weighs-in on xQc's $100 million Kick deal: 'I would rather make $0 and keep my dignity'
- This upcoming arcade racing game promises to be a throwback to the '90s in more ways than one
- Intel China makes 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPU official
- The year is 1983 and I'm about to vampire tap my thick Ethernet
- Slender Man teases a spooky return after a decade in the shadows
- Overwatch 2 makes competitive tweaks and, yep, if you've been stuck in Bronze 5 it maybe wasn't your fault
- Where to find the Sidereal Essence vendor in Wrath Classic
- This smart-yet-simple kingdom survival game might be my next strategy fix
- All you need to know about AMD's 'missing' 7800 XT and 7700 XT GPUs
- Genshin Impact codes from the version 3.8 livestream
- Forget Diablo 4, the best way to play the original Diablo just got a meaty update
- The Diablo 4 team confirms DirectStorage isn't working in the game 'but we are planning on enabling it in the future'
- The ESA insists E3 isn't dead despite the city of Los Angeles saying otherwise
- Players salivate as Todd Howard confirms Starfield will be a 'modder's paradise' that Bethesda will 'participate' in
- Acer Predator Helios 16
- Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti OC
- Blood Bowl 3 debuts seasonal 'blood pass', gives away Lizardmen team for free
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #734: Friday, June 23
- Magic: The Gathering's Lord of the Rings set gives the card game a mythic resonance other crossovers lacked
June 22
- This solo developer can't stop making his own riffs on famous stealth games, and his next looks like the best one yet
- After 9 years of waiting, horse fans are underwhelmed by the Sims 4 Horse Ranch expansion reveal
- For Deus Ex's 23rd Anniversary, its most chaotic mod is literally flipping the script with a new mirror mode
- Filthy Diablo 4 infinite spawn glitch makes it rain loot for as long as you want
- The first trailer for the big budget GameStop—Reddit stock scandal film reveals a surprisingly stellar cast
- Final Fantasy 16's PC version is next on Yoshi-P's to-do list
- Email reveals PlayStation boss wasn't actually worried about Call of Duty becoming Xbox exclusive: 'We'll be OK, more than OK'
- Activision is shutting down the original Call of Duty: Warzone after only 3 years
- Starfield won't let you ride aliens or go fishing, so modders: you know what to do
- Blizzard unveils Diablo 4's Hardcore Lilith statue and it's metal as hell (but also quietly dignified)
- Metal Gear Solid 4 is finally being freed of its PlayStation 3 prison
- Xbox is hiking Game Pass prices but sparing PC Game Pass, at least for now
- BioWare calls Star Wars: The Old Republic's change in developer 'a new beginning' and denies that it's going into maintenance mode
- 'About 10%' of Starfield's 1000+ planets have life on them as the game tries to capture 'the magnificent desolation' of space, says Todd Howard
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 17: The post-not E3 debrief
- In this mashup of Crusader Kings and RimWorld, I spent a huge amount of time watching people vomiting on each other
- The competitive fighting game community deserves better, and might finally be getting it: 'we're the next big thing'
- Diablo 4's latest mystery is its hidden post-credits scenes, and players are scrambling for answers
- AOKZOE A1 Pro
- Sand Land is a promising manga-styled Mad Max with more tanks and much more slapstick
- Solid Snake says he's not worried about AI stealing work from voice actors: 'it'll always be soulless'
- Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg end up agreeing to a cage fight after argument over the word 'sane'
- New Marvel TV show has AI-generated opening credits, and they're somehow even worse than you'd expect
- South Korea leaks the existence of Quake 2 Remastered a mere 2 years after it leaked the existence of Quake 1 Remastered
- This is awkward: some aerospace company just rebranded as RTX
- Bungie says it will 'compensate and credit' artist whose work was 'mistakenly' used in this week's major Destiny 2 cutscene
- The Metal Gear Solid collection is including the non-canon game Kojima hates
- Intel's forcing its chip designers to pay market rates not mate's rates at its own fabs
- Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes' 'Definitive Edition' updates almost nothing, but at least it's a second chance for the best puzzle RPG ever made
- You can buy an official Starfield skateboard for reasons I can't even pretend to understand
- Any app that makes 'create desktop shortcut' the default option is going straight in my recycle bin
- PC Gamer UK August issue on sale now: Broken Roads
- If you own an Asus router, you should update the firmware to protect against critical vulnerabilities right now
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #733: Thursday, June 22
- Cities: Skylines 2's cool new road tools are already making me think my city won't be a traffic-filled hellscape
June 21
- Twitch's new sensation is a weird indie climbing game that's also quietly promoting NFTs
- Gasp: Infamous Microsoft Office mascot Clippy was actually designed on a Mac
- Iron Lung dev weirded-out by their game being linked to the Titanic sub story and sales spiking: 'This feels so wrong'
- Vampire Survivors is finally getting couch co-op multiplayer for up to 4 players
- Cyberpunk 2077’s massive credits roll gets even bigger with the addition of more than 1,600 voice actors
- Twitch adds mandatory content labels and clarifies 'we consider kissing or licking a microphone to fall within Sexual Themes'
- My favourite Steam Next Fest demo so far is this analogue '90s dial-a-witcher horror game
- Final Fantasy 16 review roundup: 'A bold new benchmark for the series'
- Broken Sword designer retires after 30 years in the industry, laments the 'threat of AI' to the next generation of creators
- This quiet adventure finally makes climbing towers fun again
- Aliens: Dark Descent review
- They actually did it: EVE Online becomes the first videogame with Microsoft Excel integration
- Stellaris Nexus is a 4X you can finish in an hour, but I was bored after just 20 minutes
- BioWare's best RPG and Arkane's best immersive sim are free on Prime Gaming this month
- Intel-made Arc A770 graphics cards are officially toast
- Diablo 4's best player says loot filters 'need to happen, and soon' because 'the amount of trash loot at high levels is daunting'
- Jedi: Survivor update fixes bounty hunters neglecting to kill you, but this is not the performance patch you're looking for
- You've got to try this clever roguelike that turns Minesweeper into a turn-based strategy game
- EA King Solomons itself and, weirdly for a games publisher, EA Games no longer exists
- 16 demos from Steam Next Fest that you need to play right now
- Here's where the Microsoft-Activision deal stands around the world
- I replayed Duke Nukem Forever 12 years later and, yeah, I've got opinions
- Microsoft plots dumbed down folder options in Windows 11 Explorer
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #732: Wednesday, June 21
- Nvidia's ultra expensive H100 Hopper GPU gets tested in games
- EA's Heretic-like magic FPS Immortals of Aveum is delayed
- YouTuber picks up where he left off with RPG he started making almost 40 years ago on a Commodore 64
- Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'
June 20
- A breakthrough in the hunt for Diablo 4's cow level has players racing to perform a secret cleansing ritual for the Oxen Gods
- The Sims 4 is finally getting the horse expansion players have been demanding for years
- You have to start a fresh Diablo 4 character for each battle pass
- Blizzard may remove upcoming WoW quest where players fix the timeline by ensuring a character is sexually assaulted
- Researchers smash 'energy density' record for rechargeable lithium batteries
- The way I used to enjoy Diablo games has been replaced, and it sucks
- Blizzard is killing Hearthstone Classic and replacing it with a new mode called Twist
- Dota 2 is moving away from the battle pass model as Valve says there are better uses of dev time and most players 'never buy' one anyway
- Little Kitty, Big City is like Untitled Goose Game for cat fanciers
- The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood lets you design your own tarot deck and seal your friend's fates, and I already know it's going to make me cry
- This cosy city builder is like Dorfromantik and Animal Crossing had a space baby
- There's a foot posing simulator with a free demo on Steam if that's your scene
- Square Enix wins stunt of the day by commissioning actual swordsmith to make a giant Final Fantasy 16 weapon, then displaying it in the Tower of London
- The Steam subreddit has suddenly become all about actual steam and steam trains
- Hyper Light Breaker's world overview trailer looks too pretty to be procedural
- This charming auto-battler tries to fuse Slay the Spire with Autochess, and gets it halfway right
- Lies of P has a comeback mechanic, and now I want it in every soulslike
- Assassin's Creed Mirage's comparatively tiny map is great news for a series that needs more focus
- Microsoft says latest Windows Kernel fix might actually break more things
- Diablo 4 item power breakpoints and how they work
- Chinese businesses and universities turn to back alley GPU dealers to power AI
- Amouranth gives Twitch the boot as Kick steals second streaming star in under 2 days
- The 'miserable experience' of iFixit's new MacBook Air teardown has me yearning for the hot-swappable future of gaming laptops
- Intel continues its spending spree with more major fab investments
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #731: Tuesday, June 20
June 19
- Steam's next Steam Next Fest is now live on Steam
- Millions of perfectly fine HDDs are shredded each year because of 'zero risk' security policies. Spoiler alert: There's still a risk of stolen data from just a 3mm scrap
- Baldur’s Gate 3 gets a free, Twitch Plays-style prequel that may be teasing the return of a major villain
- Xenonauts 2 will invade our world this July
- Beaverpunk city builder update boosts framerate, crop yields by as much as 80%
- Forever Skies, the blimp survival game, reveals system requirements ahead of early access launch later this week
- Bananas IP case sees Apple seeking rights over actual apples
- Did you know there's been a hidden 'last resort' Emergency restart button in Windows since Vista?
- The Callisto Protocol’s first and last story expansion finally arrives next week
- Dragon's Dogma lead says Final Fantasy 16's thrilling combat is his 'personal masterpiece'
- Absurd Yakuza collection is 35 bucks for seven games that our EIC has spent 456 hours playing
- Diablo 4 players are overcoming fashion limitations to recreate their favourite characters
- Corporation buys a popular League of Legends app for $55 million—it's made by one guy
- One million people have checked out Lies of P's mash-up of Pinocchio and Bloodborne thanks to its demo
- Blizzard says Overwatch matches sometimes turn into 'stomps' because that's, like, just the nature of things
- How to make Diablo 4 elixirs and potions
- Players claim to have worked out the hellish details underpinning Diablo 4's timed events
- ASRock RX 7800 XT graphics cards with 16GB of memory are really real
- Intel's Raptor Lake refresh CPUs rumored to launch in October
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #730: Monday, June 19
- Henry Cavill says bye to his Witcher co-stars: 'You guys bring so much nuance and detail to these characters, which are often at risk of being oversimplified'
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 19, 2023)
- The Outlast Trials' opening moments are beyond terrifying, but it loses steam fast in multiplayer
June 18
- A departed Rockstar cofounder is finally teasing what's next with a music video and a big ole' creepy eyeball
- I'm hoping against hope that Cyberpunk 2077's expansion overhaul will finally fix the game's lingering mechanics malaise
- Here's space corporations doing things they shouldn't in the Aliens: Dark Descent story trailer
- Gunpowder soulslike Flintlock delayed into 2024
- Humble is offering the motherlode of Destiny lore ebooks for just $9
- World of Horror will actually finally release in October
- Skyrim mod gives you a fully voiced ex-Thalmor companion
- Great moments in PC gaming: Transforming a hero into something bizarre in Wildermyth
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #729: Sunday, June 18
- Get sci-fi spy sim Sigma Theory free this weekend
- The best sex games on PC that aren't garbage
- One of the OG System Shock's devs is streaming the remake: 'We see our feet, never coulda done that in 1994'
June 17
- Fallout 76 looks like it's chasing New Vegas vibes in its next big addon
- Here are the updates coming to Valorant's progression system
- FMV fighting game Supreme Warrior was worse than a slap in the face
- A free Vermintide 2 update adds three dwarven delights from the first game
- One of the best shooters around finally has a mondo creepy first look at its final act
- Kigndoms and Castles gets a nice update as devs announce new Rome-based city builder
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #728: Saturday, June 17
June 16
- The magical realism of Dungeons of Hinterberg unexpectedly stole my heart at not-E3
- Diablo 4's bringing big changes to its endgame, but a 'significant majority' of players haven't even finished the campaign yet
- xQc scores unbelievable $100 million deal to start streaming on Kick
- Diablo 4 director: 'It is time for the buffs'
- Blizzard reveals how it plans to prevent death by disconnect in Diablo 4 Hardcore mode
- Overwatch 2's bad times continue as it's forced to disable two new maps
- Diablo 4 gems will be moved out of the inventory
- I demand you stop what you're doing and look at this cute Mac-shaped charger
- Skyrim Grandma shoots down rumors of Starfield NPC appearance: 'I'm not in the game'
- I felt like a multitasking monster in front of Samsung's new 49-inch OLED ultrawide gaming monitor
- Doom creator John Romero finally plays its most mind-blowing mod
- I'm so mad that we have to wait for Final Fantasy 16 to release on PC, because it may be one of the best RPGs of the last decade
- Xbox boss on Redfall studio Arkane Austin staying open: 'That is the plan right now'
- The son of Playboy's founder started an OnlyFans to afford rare Pokémon cards, and I'm a little jealous it's worked out so well
- Wave goodbye to yet another Diablo 4 power levelling trick as Blizzard releases a World Tier-focused hotfix
- Google ditches web domain business moments after unleashing .zip websites on unsuspecting grandmothers
- All Diablo 4 Unique items and how to get them
- New Valheim update brings world modifiers, creative mode, and finally lets you see your hair with a helmet on
- 21 year-old CS:GO pro dies in defense of Ukraine
- Todd Howard says Starfield's 1000+ planets won't be all boring procgen globes and contain more handcrafted work 'than Skyrim and Fallout 4 combined'
- Get your OLED-everywhere-all-the-time fix with this portable monitor
- Not the tease! Nicolas Cage may be in a Hideo Kojima game
- Don't Nod's latest game is like opening up Life Is Strange and staring at its guts
- Apple's Game Porting Toolkit previews a future free from overpriced GPUs
- Next generation quantum computing takes a step forward thanks to Intel's new chip
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #727: Friday, June 16
- Top Nintendo Switch piracy subreddit banned after 3 years
June 15
- The top-selling game on Steam right now is a new 254-player FPS made by 4 people
- How to build the best ships in Starfield
- Twitch is finally giving some streamers a bigger slice of the money pie, but there are some big conditions, too
- Alan Wake 2 looks gorgeous, but the combat and mystery were less convincing in its recent demo
- Morrowind mod 'Feminist Nerevarine' lets you side with women more often
- The streamer who spent $1M on an esports team says esports is a terrible business: ‘Everyone is losing a lot of money’
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 16: The hidden gems of 2023
- Einstein, the dog who played Cain in Red Dead Redemption 2, has died
- Total War: PHARAOH—why it’s a worthy heir to the throne
- PlayStation this is your fault: The first thing modders did to Lies of P is turn it into Bloodborne
- Nurture tiny sociopaths in Crusader Kings 3's next event pack this August
- A Dead Cells animated series is coming in 2024, but untangling the game's patchwork story is a daunting task
- Our favorite RTX 4080-powered monster laptop for $2,300? Yes, I think I will
- Layers of Fear (2023) review
- Payday 3 dev diary details all the sociopathic stuff you can do with hostages
- Streamer finds true hell as his 173-hour Diablo 4 hardcore character gets wiped by 'the most unfair bug' in the game
- How to solve the Traveler's Superstition quest in Diablo 4
- Alienware X16
- You've got even less time than usual to blitz Modern Warfare 2's season 4 battle pass
- Intel scores a rare win in multi-billion dollar rollercoaster lawsuit that'll make you say 'Is this really what patent law is like?'
- Intel's ditching the 'i' in 'Core i5/i7/i9' and will stop calling out chip generations
- Obsidian celebrates 20 years by offering fat discounts on some of the greatest RPGs ever made
- Fans are trying to figure out which action-adventure classic Capcom is reinventing
- Predictably bizarre Grasshopper Direct lampoons John Wick, offers no reveals, ends on the pause screen from the studio's next game
- PC players are being left out of Mortal Kombat 1's upcoming online stress test and the preorder beta
- Twitch streamer left 'traumatised' after stalker travels 700 miles, burns down her car, and nearly sets the house ablaze with her mother inside
- Twitter founder warns that we're heading toward a VR-obsessed future of humans in 'floating chairs, drinking their food out of straws'
- How to unlock the ISO 45 in Warzone 2
- While we wait for AMD's conspicuously absent RX 7800 XT, here's a simulated one
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #726: Thursday, June 15
- Steam's big update has left beta: now everyone can pin notes, videos, and web pages to the screen while they play
- An extremely premature ranking of Starfield's 1,000+ planets
June 14
- Diablo 4's scariest boss has caused 2% of all player deaths
- Tense exchange between a streamer and Twitch director speaks to the state of streamer-platform relationships
- 7 stupidly specific details I spotted while watching Starfield Direct frame-by-frame
- The best games and announcements from all the summer showcases (and 7 hidden gems)
- It sounds like CD Projekt is rolling right into the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel when Phantom Liberty is finished
- Google search now has a Katamari game where you roll up the results
- I can't function unless my PC gaming desk is immaculate, so here are my 5 top tips for ensuring a Zen-level aesthetic
- Grand Theft Auto players 'rightfully pretty pissed' after Rockstar commits around 200 acts of grand theft auto
- High on Life announces Roiland-free DLC
- Lost? Confused? The AI Jesus livestream probably doesn't have the answer
- The action in Armored Core 6 'cannot be reproduced with a human character' said FromSoftware, and the demo proved it
- Google spits out results for Book of Genesis and the band Genesis when searching for Sega's Mega Drive because it's trying to be clever
- Starfield ships have a literal 'rage quit' button
- EU outlines rules aiming to make it clear when content has been generated by an AI
- Diablo 4 players furious that Blizzard 'learned nothing from D3' as its best XP farms get nerfed to hell
- Latest The Last of Us patch sorts performance issues and earns Steam Deck Verified status
- AMD bigs up 12GB for 1440p gaming but where are its new GPUs?
- Gigabyte releases an RTX 4090 with a smart power connector placement
- PCIe 7.0 remains on track for a 2025 release
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #725: Wednesday, June 14
- FTC wins a temporary restraining order blocking the Microsoft—Activision deal
June 13
- Overwatch 2 charging $15 for story missions is the cherry on top of its worst month ever
- Cyberpunk 2077's system requirements are going up ahead of the Phantom Liberty launch, hard drive support is being dropped
- Hopes are high: Starfield rockets to second place in Steam's global bestsellers list
- These Diablo 4 players are working together to find the game's secret cow level, which officially does not exist
- Electronic Arts didn't cancel Titanfall 3, Respawn did—and it didn't even tell EA for six months
- I cannot overstate how great it feels to have classic Assassin's Creed back
- BattleBit Remastered, a 254-player shooter with vehicles and destructible maps, is out this week for $15
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty adds cyberware that lets you air-dash, see through walls, and 'change your appearance to lose the heat'
- Star Wars: Outlaws' stupid little companion is played by the go-to Star Wars voice actor
- This is almost certainly going to be the best year for fighting games ever
- New steampunk RPG criticised for 'borrowing' from Bioshock Infinite, but why is that a bad thing?
- Dough's new glossy OLED gaming monitor aims to reduce screen 'reflections by 70%'
- This dark horror city builder is like being a mayor in The Witcher
- F1 23 review
- Capcom's weirdass dad-in-space game delayed indefinitely in the cutest manner possible
- After years of expansion and the recent collapse of a $2 billion mystery deal, Embracer Group announces major layoffs and studio closures
- After Starfield, Todd Howard thinks The Elder Scrolls 6 may be his last hurrah: 'I'm not getting any younger'
- Turns out Huawei beat Apple to trademarking 'Vision Pro' in China by 4 years
- I didn't really get Starfield until Bethesda revealed we could just go around stealing giant space sandwiches
- New Square Enix CEO dunks on the teachers who told him to stop playing games: 'They would be very surprised!'
- Blizzard's Diablo 4 stats suggest barely anyone is trying PvP
- The ROG Ally is available to buy from today. Good news if the Steam Deck never showed up in your area
- The US won't force the world's biggest chipmakers to back out of China even if it apparently makes them 'look very weak'
- This intense, bullet time-filled FPS is a glorious tribute to FEAR and the spirit of 2000s-era gaming
- Nvidia brings the RTX 4060 launch date forward to June 29
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #724: Tuesday, June 13
- The world of Dragon's Dogma 2 is 'roughly 4 times' bigger than the first game's
- Starfield traits list: what they do, our favorites, and how to remove them
June 12
- Capcom heard you like fighting dinosaurs more than actual players in Exoprimal, and they're on it
- Star Wars Outlaws devs say they want to nail that Han Solo 'scoundrel fantasy'
- Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert wasn't involved with the Sea of Thieves DLC: 'Happened behind my back'
- Is there a game you love despite absolutely sucking at it?
- Microsoft exec says Starfield has 'the fewest bugs any Bethesda game ever shipped with'
- Eagle-eyed dataminer reveals a potential fifth difficulty option in Diablo 4
- Assassin's Creed Mirage's hero is looking a little OP... what with all the teleporting he does
- Diablo 3's 'Hidden Camp' has been discovered in Diablo 4
- Following outcry, BioWare pulls Mass Effect statue celebrating that time Shepard died in the cold hard vacuum of space
- Redfall gets its first major patch, but is anyone around to care?
- 3 years after he faced sexual harassment allegations, new fighting game Diesel Legacy is giving disgraced Skullgirls developer Mike Zaimont a chance to prove he's now 'fundamentally different'
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown may not be the game you were hoping for, but trust me, it's the one you need
- Star Wars Outlaws looks like the best thing Ubisoft has made in years
- Start lowering your expectations for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
- Ubisoft's Skull and Bones sea shanty was this year's best gaming showcase musical performance
- Survive the wild American road in Alaskan Road Truckers
- Intel asks for more money to build its German megafab, government says nein
- Zephyr's new RTX 3060 shows off its sensitive side as the first ever graphics card with a pink PCB
- 'Killable horse found': This innocent Diablo 4 stallion is the final target for its worst achievement
- Elden Ring fans are going hollow at the lack of DLC news at Summer Game Fest
- Starfield's premium editions will get you into the game 5 days early, just like Diablo
- If Starfield is 'grounded and realistic', what's with all the cowboys and space magic?
- How to solve The Pilgrim's Footsteps quest in Diablo 4
- Half-Life is a twin-stick roguelike in this Valve-approved mod, and you can try it now
- What makes an Obsidian game? Playing tonnes of old Obsidian (and BioWare) games
- How to watch the Capcom Showcase 2023
- Here's when to watch the 2023 Ubisoft Forward showcase today
- 7,178 subreddits and counting have gone dark today in protest of a 3rd-party app pricing calamity
- Starfield's system requirements are pretty odd—don't buy a whole new PC to play just yet
- Undead magic and tight stealth tactics make Shadow Gambit a joy to play
- American Truck Simulator players are now being targeted by in-game recruitment ads from a massive truck company
- How to get Stone Grilled Olm in Honkai: Star Rail
- Diablo 4 is desperate to not be Diablo 3, but too timid to move past it
- Iran's 'quantum processor' turned out to be a $600 dev board
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #723: Monday, June 12
- Starfield will be 30 fps on consoles
- This modern fantasy action RPG has you take a break from corporate life to crawl dungeons
- Every game at the PC Gaming Show 2023
- Persona 3 Reload won't have the female protagonist or other additions of Persona 3's Portable and FES editions
June 11
- Starfield Direct recap: sandwich heists, cowboy towns, space magic, and other things we learned
- Our 9 biggest unanswered questions after the Starfield showcase
- All the premieres and reveals from the Xbox Games Showcase
- Dune: Awakening's combat 'is much more second-to-second and intense than you would find in an MMO'
- Look at this little green goo guy, shooting his guns at an endless clone army, just having a great time
- In Sand, you'll explore the wastes of a dead planet colonized by the Austro-Hungarian empire
- Bloomtown looks like Stardew Valley, but with more kidnappings and psychic duels
- Breathedge 2 is the funniest take on floating through an uncaring void I've ever seen
- F1 Manager 2023 lets you rewrite history in its new mode
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer is 'confident' that the Activision Blizzard acquisition will go through
- My Friendly Neighborhood asks: what if Resident Evil happened on Sesame Street?
- Thread a train through the chaos of a civil war in this chilly new RTS
- Nova Roma is a Roman city builder with colorful catastrophes
- Earthless is a new sci-fi deck builder from the creators of Homeworld 3 where you'll need to come up with ludicrous 'game-breaking' combos and win over your crew to have a chance at saving humanity
- Great! Macabre has given us *another* thing to fear in the Australian outback
- TerraTech Worlds is a sandbox vehicle-building game that looks great in Unreal 5
- It's a good thing Ember Knights has co-op because its boss battles are ridiculous
- Check out Baldur's Gate's three densely-packed districts in this dev diary
- The making of the PC Gaming Show's Baldur's Gate 3 animated short
- Vampire Survivors is getting a surprise free update with gameshow flair
- 'Select' PC Game Pass games coming to Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming
- All the games in the PC Gaming Show 2023 montage segment
- Somehow I now know even less about Yakuza 8 after that name reveal
- WW2 shooter Hell Let Loose is adding a shorter-session mode for 25 players
- Our favorite upcoming cyberpunk FPS will let you explore satellites and get crossed over on the court this September
- The Xbox Games Showcase's biggest reveal is that Microsoft's now the PC publishing monster it always should have been
- Stormgate is shaping up to be a brilliant blend of modern and classic RTS
- A game that asks: 'What if Dirt Rally had meteor storms?'
- Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew looks like classic Commandos with an eye patch
- Chimera is a survival sim that makes Mother Nature your cataclysmic frenemy
- Mega Man-inspired roguelite platformer 30XX is launching out of early access in August
- Welp, Bethesda just couldn't resist putting dragon shouts in Starfield
- Fabledom is a fairytale city builder that lets you get freaky while your people starve
- Parcel Corps is a biting bicycle courier adventure straight out of Saturday morning cartoons
- Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors lets you bring a friend to the horde slaying
- Starfield system requirements: you're gonna need a 125GB cargo hold
- Park Beyond is a theme park sim that defies the laws of physics
- Sci-fi thriller The Invincible shows there are parts of space we should avoid
- A rhythm game for fans who lay on the altar of pop
- Metroidvania Altered Alma paints a vision of a cyberpunk Barcelona
- Build your own Umbrella Corps in Undead Inc
- Atlus has announced the Persona 3 remake and Persona 5 tactics spin-off that it already accidentally told us about, and shown off some slick new footage
- Miasma Chronicles is an apocalyptic turn-based tactical game about what happens if the billionaires win
- Klei's love letter to Sid Meier's Pirates! is set in cosmic purgatory
- Creator of AI game Hidden Door: 'I don't think AI is innately evil—I think what we're arguing about is who gets to benefit'
- Critter Cove brings together Animal Crossing, MySims, and a savvy rat
- Citizen Sleeper 2 is inbound, and this time you have a spaceship
- Take your first look at Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin in action
- Mariachi Legends brings the challenge of 2D Ninja Gaiden to Mexico's streets
- Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master brings Two Point Hospital's HR management to Dungeon Keeper
- We got another glimpse at Lords of the Fallen in the PC Gaming Show, and it looks like the Bloodborne sequel I've been dreaming of
- If you'd rather explore a multiplayer open world where you solve puzzles than fight, here's the game for you
- If you've ever wanted to play as one of those guys who gets eaten at the start of Jurassic Park, then boy do I have a dinosaur survival game for you
- Build your own space agency in Mars Horizon 2's upcoming alpha test
- PC gaming is getting a 60-player Mario Kart-plus-Fall-Guys racer, and it looks ridiculous
- This ambitious 'social sandbox' MMORPG is like EVE Online in medieval Europe: 'From the first minute you start playing the game, you can do everything you can imagine with other players'
- It's the end of the world, and this JRPG wants you to go on a date
- Ghibli-inspired shopkeeping sim Saleblazers lets you clobber angry customers with a chair
- I'm immediately sold on this singleplayer extraction FPS with cartoon gore
- If you thought Command & Conquer Red Alert had crazy units, you haven't seen D.O.R.F.
- You'll have a chance to turn into one of Warhaven's battle gods at Steam Next Fest
- Finally, the Scrooge metroidvania we've all been asking for
- Ultra-hardcore survival shooter Road To Vostok's getting a big new public build
- Spaceship roguelite Jumplight Odyssey is an anime-fueled FTL
- The next good cyberpunk game might be Nivalis
- Starfield looks like the perfect place to spend 500 hours ignoring the main quest
- Teardown's new creative mode update is a major leap for its thriving modding scene
- Starfield has a 'highly detailed' character creator so of course I'll be fighting for my life not to wind up ugly
- I almost can't believe it, but Frostpunk 2 looks even more grim and bleak than the original game
- No, Bethesda, I do not want to kiss any of Starfield's glassy-eyed companions
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a whole new game that lets you douse wildfires and rescue lost hikers
- Starfield's got a skill that's just 'jetpack,' and that's got me pumped for what looks like the best combat Bethesda's ever done
- We finally got our first look at the Adoring Fan in Starfield, and holy cow I want to smack him already
- Sorry folks, Hellblade 2's new trailer doesn't have the Big Guy in it
- Your ship in Starfield 'can look like almost anything you want' and we all know it's gonna get weird
- I wondered what The Banner Saga devs were up to: turns out it's Towerborne, a co-op action adventure where you live in a big windmill
- Idris Elba is my best friend in Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, and we're gonna save the president
- inXile's next game is a bold gamble that asks what if Bioshock Infinite, but better?
- Payday 3 looks like it's making the wise decision to not change very much at all
- Overwatch 2's PvE mode may be dead, but I'll play the hell out of these story missions
- Cities: Skylines 2 looks amazing
- Star Wars Outlaws better be good, because it's basically the open world Star Wars game us nerds have all been dreaming about for years
- Monkey Island is coming to Sea of Thieves, and because of that, so am I
- Yep, I'm gonna reinstall all 80GB of Microsoft Flight Simulator to fly Dune's ornithopter
- Enter here for a chance to win a Park Beyond Collector's Edition
- I'm not sure what to expect from South of Midnight, but the vibes are impeccable
- Richard Ayoade in Fable is inspired casting, and the trailer's tone is perfect too
- Exclusive: Obsidian breaks 3-year silence to spill the secrets of Avowed, its next big RPG
- Exclusive: Avowed started as Obsidian's Skyrim, but evolved to focus on depth over breadth, 'where Obsidian really shines'
- How to watch the Starfield Direct
- How to watch the Xbox Games Showcase 2023
- At last, Midnight Suns got a New Game+ update that lets you keep your cards
- You can play a demo of the 'Aussie Fallout' CRPG Broken Roads on Steam
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #722: Sunday, June 11
- The greatest hat in all Diablo has surfaced in Diablo 4
June 10
- In 1997, horror game Haunted Casino tried to scare us chipless
- Here's what to expect from the updated D&D rulebooks coming next year
- Our 11 favorite trailers from the 2023 Future Games Show Summer Showcase
- I told you guys Lords of the Fallen looked cool
- I have no idea what to make of this 'motorvania' about a biker coyote on a quest for vengeance, but I think I like it
- Diablo 4 review
- I was not expecting how much I'd dig this surreal adventure game where I've somehow broken 'Writer's Law' and have to escape my punishment
- Assassin's Creed Mirage will include a 'desaturated blue/gray' mode for people who are stuck in 2007
- The world's angriest Metroidvania is out soon and would probably make the Doom Guy flinch
- The 8 best cozy games to wishlist from the Wholesome Games Showcase
- Mineko’s Night Market is a cozy slice of life with a huge helping of cats and crafts
- Punting dudes off ledges in the Steam demo for this comedy prop combat game is bringing me a lot of joy
- Daedalic turns one of its classic point-and-click adventures into a life-and-death survival game, and it feels a little weird
- If you've ever wanted to play Euro Truck Simulator in deep space, this new sci-fi trucking simulator might be just the thing
- Cozy sim Lakeburg Legacies shows the real perfect match is city building and dating sims
- I've played cooking sims and puzzle platformers, but a cooking platformer? I'm listening
- Venba's gorgeous meals stir up the joy and challenge of recreating family recipes
- In cozy cat cafe sim Pekoe the cats are the ones running the show
- This co-op farming game is the most jam-packed cutesy life sim I've seen since Stardew Valley
- Sam Lake answers the biggest Alan Wake 2 question: What happened to his layers?
- How to watch the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2023
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #721: Saturday, June 10
- Our apologies to every other Diablo 4 class, but Sorcerers are the fan favorite
June 9
- Tekken 8 is holding a 'closed network test' in July, and you can sign up to get in right now
- System Shock's first patch fixed every glitch I ran into, including a few things I didn't even realize were bugs
- OpenAI is being sued by a Georgia radio host because ChatGPT accused him of a crime he did not commit
- 'Uber Lilith' has fallen: Diablo 4's toughest demon has finally been killed in Hardcore by a barbarian named Spinnywinny
- I'm worried Diablo 4's open world is only there to sell me stuff
- Top Pokémon pros organise finger-wagging protest at badly-run Pokémon tournament, so the organisers just up and disqualify them
- Which Corsair Gaming Headset is best for you?
- Riot and League of Legends pros reach compromise ahead of planned walkout, North American play to resume next week
- Is PC hardware 'leak' culture out of control?
- Zuck points out that every Apple Vision Pro VR demo 'was a person sitting on a couch by themself'
- TSMC tells US workers to expect long shifts or find another job
- HyperX Cloud III
- Graphics card sales just got even worse
- Horror story: As an actually good Friday the 13th game dies, another implacably rises
- CCG company sues Disney's next big card game for alleged 'premeditated' IP heist, asks court to block its release and throw the book at them
- This cult classic Suda51 and Shinji Mikami collaboration is getting a remaster, and god willing it'll come to PC
- You can overhaul your Steam Deck controls with these drift-resistant Hall effect joysticks
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #720: Friday, June 9
- Activision removes Nickmercs' Call of Duty skin over anti-LGBTQ+ tweet
- Every Summer Game Fest 2023 trailer and moment you should see
June 8
- The new Remnant 2 trailer sealed the deal for me: I've gotta shoot this big purple guy
- Our 5 favorite games to wishlist from Day of the Devs 2023
- I can't wait to install one million gigabytes worth of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth months after everyone else gets to play it
- Persona 3 remake is real: Atlus accidentally leaks its own game early
- If you like metaphysical nonsense and weird architecture, The Talos Principle 2 should be right up your alley
- Baby Steps is a 'literal walking simulator' from Bennett Foddy that looks like QWOP-ing your way through Skyrim
- You can try out Wizard with a Gun, the upcoming survival game about being a wizard with a gun, free on Steam now
- This Summer Game Fest showcase really brought it home: The idea of E3 died with E3
- Meet the PC Gaming Show 2023 Co-Streamers
- Thank goodness Return to Moria looks good because honestly I was going to play the Lord of the Rings crafting game either way
- Paradox is publishing a Star Trek grand strategy game and I am vibrating with anticipation
- I can't tell if people actually want co-op zombie FPSes anymore
- Best Diablo 4 Barbarian build: Rend enemies and bleed bosses
- Baldur's Gate 3 finally gave us a peek at the city itself, and I'm over the moon
- If you've ever wanted to kill and eat Pokémon, great news: this critter-collecting survival shooter arrives in January
- Alan Wake 2 will be 'Remedy's first survival horror game' and feels like it's taking cues from Resident Evil
- I'm so happy they're making a game all about Akira Toriyama's obsession with cute tanks and motorcycles
- I absolutely cannot wait to jet pack stomp xenos in Space Marine 2 with my mates
- Here's our first look at Henry Cavill's final turn as Geralt in The Witcher Season 3 on Netflix
- Prince of Persia is coming back with a cartoony 2.5D platformer, and it's the 2003 throwback I didn't know I wanted
- Capcom knows what the people want: Mecha Ryu punching a giant dino
- Finally, Mortal Kombat will let you team up Sub-Zero with Sub-Zero
- Nicolas Cage says he'll be 'fused' with Dead by Daylight players who play as him: 'I want you to know that we're one'
- God help me, Pinocchio might become the coolest protagonist of 2023
- The new shooter from the creators of Painkiller 'is much closer to Souls' than Doom, and it finally has a release date
- The first Diablo 4 player to solo his way to level 100 in Hardcore mode dies in a fight against the game's toughest boss
- The FPS that gives you an instagib chainsaw leg just keeps getting better
- Diablo 4 world boss times and locations
- TMNT: Shredder's Revenge getting dimension-hopping multiverse DLC starring a samurai rabbit
- Where to find the Butcher in Diablo 4
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 15: Converting everyone to PC gaming
- Like a relentless horror movie monster, Friday the 13th: The Game is finally going to die, but very, very slowly
- Nightdive's kicking around the idea of an 'XCOM-like' System Shock that casts you as the Citadel's doomed resistance fighters against Shodan
- Corsair TC100 Relaxed review
- DockCase Pocket Smart SSD Enclosure
- Turning a new PC into a personal computer is one of our hobby's great pleasures
- GameStop says CEO 'has been terminated' as revenue falls and stock price plunges
- Diablo 4 with DLSS 3 is the ultimate demon-slaying experience
- Want to know what to do with your Diablo 4 legendary gear? Turn on this optional setting immediately
- The Day Before studio founders say they'll be 'back at the top of the wishlists' in interview that feels barely acquainted with reality
- Leak suggests AMD's best laptop GPU delivers RTX 4070 desktop performance for less power
- How to watch Summer Game Fest 2023, and what to expect
- Whoopi Goldberg lambasts Blizzard for not releasing Diablo 4 on Mac: 'This really pissed me off!'
- Building D&D settings is so much less stressful with these brilliantly clever tabletop games
- Lords Mobile marches to PC in shiny new standalone form
- DrunkDeer A75
- Mask of the Rose review
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #719: Thursday, June 8
- Warzone 2 is giving everyone keys to the nukes for the next week
- Is it just me or does co-op make Diablo 4 feel way too easy?
- Myst creator defends its use of 'AI assisted content' in latest game (updated)
June 7
- If you're playing barbarian in Diablo 4, you really should try switching to controller
- Streamer outrage forces Twitch to drop planned changes to branded ad rules
- The Witcher community rallies around Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle after he reveals cancer diagnosis
- Starship Troopers: Extermination is a 16-player co-op FTS/RTS hybrid with lots of promise
- At last I can farm someplace other than a rural Earth valley in this space western farm sim
- That one-of-a-kind Magic: The Gathering card is already worth $1M and it's not even out yet
- Hell yeah, Hammerwatch 2 is basically going to be Diablo lite without the live service bloat
- EU commissioner calls for AI regulations: 'I don't see any right of machines to freedom of expression'
- Battletech subreddit creator comes back after years of lurking to kick out moderators who were deleting LGBTQ+ content: 'Battletech is for everyone'
- Diablo 4's first level 100 Hardcore character has died in the worst way possible
- The PC version of Madden NFL 24 will be the current-gen version for the first time in years
- Intel CPU with 16 big Performance cores hits 7.2GHz and draws 800W
- How to unlock Nightmare Dungeons in Diablo 4 and how they work
- AMD's mini Zen 4c cores could have Intel's Efficient cores well beaten
- UK readers! We're teaming up with Nvidia to give away an MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Suprim GPU and a Diablo 4 Collector's Edition!
- Diablo 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 now run on a Mac with Apple's new game compatibility toolkit
- We'll finally learn who's making Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 in a few months
- Diablo 4 Glyphs and how to use them
- Blizzard's paying Megan Fox to eulogise Diablo 4 deaths in a corset
- Classic RPG series Wizardry is becoming a blockchain abomination
- Noctua's fan 8 years in the making could be the last you'll ever need
- AMD's Ryzen 8000 CPU with Navi 3.5 graphics could kill low-end GPUs
- BioWare prepares to jettison Star Wars: The Old Republic to focus on Mass Effect and Dragon Age
- Windows 11's latest endearing mess rigorously and wrongly enforces Britishisms
- Windows 11's Teams Chat bloatware will soon no longer taunt me with its very existence
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #718: Wednesday, June 7
- PSA: Diablo 4 players, don't waste your gold
June 6
- Two pulse-pounding PvP modes come to Farming Simulator 22, and yes I am serious
- Counter-Strike 2 loadout update takes cues from Valorant, and might indicate more guns are coming over time
- Black Desert asks the question: What if we made an MMO expansion and didn't invite any monsters?
- Twitch streamers revolt against new limits on branded sponsorships: "This is a direct attack on our business"
- One lucky Barbarian finds unique Diablo 4 gloves that are 'like playing my own slot machine'
- GOG is giving away an old Amnesia game to celebrate the launch of the new Amnesia game
- Nintendo's claim that emulation 'stifles innovation' isn't just absurd—it's hypocritical
- 2023's most mind-bending puzzle game gives you a magic camera and invites you to break the world
- AI is being used to 'supercharge' phone scams with the cloned voices of your relatives
- Microsoft eats $20 million FTC fine for violating kids' privacy on Xbox Live, admits no wrongdoing and promises not to do it again
- Blizzard says Diablo 4 is its fastest-selling game... but weirdly won't share the numbers
- The original Diablo 3 was canceled, and it looked surprisingly similar to Diablo 4
- Nvidia's name was on everyone's lips at Computex while the metaverse was barely a whisper
- Nefarious Overwatch glitch lets Mercy tank everyone's framerate to single digits, then bring her own back up and start blasting the sluggish victims
- Fans despair about 'putting your hope in Epic' as the publisher purges all mention of Unreal Tournament game it accidentally announced last year
- Flash drives often end up as e-waste but this eco-friendly one might alleviate some of the guilt
- Intel claims 'substantial' CPU core speed boost in Meteor Lake test chip 'for just moving wires around'
- Crypto exchange Coinbase just got slammed by the SEC: 'You simply can’t ignore the rules because you don’t like them'
- The best Honkai: Star Rail Silver Wolf build
- Bill Gates says he's a gamer now, calls them 'a terrific metaphor for human connection'
- The internet's unsurprising reaction to Apple's Vision Pro headset is a mix of wonder and cringing at its $3,499 price tag
- Dead Cells sells over 10 million
- Where to find Fiend Roses in Diablo 4
- Jurassic Park management game marks the film's 30th anniversary by adding nostalgic set dressing and literal poop
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #717: Tuesday, June 6
- Diablo 4 servers finally start to buckle under launch strain, Blizzard's working on it
June 5
- Diablo 4 is finally, officially live
- Astonished Diablo 4 players discover they've been moving their horses wrong this whole time
- Yikes, the new Robocop shooter does not look very good
- Diablo 4's $21 Bone Guy armor is just another reminder of how numb we've gotten to Microtransaction Hell
- Major subreddit admins are going to war with Reddit over monetization changes that will kill many third-party apps
- Arizona is giving residents a free 10-day semiconductor technician course in anticipation of new Intel factories
- Stranger Things actor joins FaZe Clan in effort to 'bring women to the forefront,' former FaZe leaders bully her until she cries and seemingly quits
- Apple reveals $3,500 Vision Pro AR headset that puts Meta's top-tier goggles to shame
- Kojima makes surprise appearance on Apple stream to praise the Mac's 'rendering pipeline' and announce Death Stranding for Mac
- Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition is a faithful remaster of a janky '90s FPS, for better and worse
- Forget RGBs: The coolest PC fans at Computex have LCD screens on them
- Diablo 4 already has its first level 100 Hardcore character, and it's not who you think
- How to get Sacred items in Diablo 4
- Hubcaps for PCs are a thing now
- How to solve the Reject the Mother quest in Diablo 4
- Amnesia: The Bunker review
- How to salvage gear in Diablo 4
- With free rules and a new game mode, Warhammer 40,000 is looking a lot cheaper to get into in its new edition
- I'm practically drowning in matcha green thanks to the pastel PC case trend at Computex
- Diablo 4 has two expansions cooking already
- How to solve the Keeping the Old Traditions quest in Diablo 4
- Valve wouldn't host Dolphin on Steam because it 'can't sit in judgement' on Nintendo's fight against emulators
- Diablo 4 hotfix deals with 'Darcelpocalypse', a bug that endlessly multiplied one elite enemy
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #716: Monday, June 5
- Take over an annoying Skyrim shopkeeper's shop with this mod
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 5, 2023)
- A $10 thrift store PC seemed as ordinary as they come, until the owner found a veritable 'Library of Alexandria' of early 2000s gay porn reviews
June 4
- Great Moments in PC gaming: Landing an impossible shot in XCOM 2
- Even Street Fighter 6 has been modded into VR now
- Ubisoft will show off Assassin's Creed Mirage, Avatar, and The Crew Motorfest this month
- Elden Ring dataminer uncovers alternate early game characters in a renamed Limgrave
- Diablo 4 has a winner in its race to world's first level 100, with Hardcore falling one day later
- The demo for this dusty survival strategy city builder was surprisingly brutal
- Diablo 4's first big patch is here, and it's almost entirely game balance tweaks
- The AutoFull M6 gaming chair is one to look out for in 2023
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #715: Sunday, June 4
- I never get tired of Hitman: Blood Money's inventiveness
- Prepare for the strangest ride of your life in 1993's Hell Cab
- Watch a Thief fan film directed by one of the original game's creators
June 3
- After 13 years, Amnesia: The Dark Descent got Steam Workshop support out of nowhere
- Boy howdy that new Hunt: Showdown gator is an absolute hoss
- Would you ever use a tiny keyboard?
- EA is doing some vague nonsense on Nike's NFT platform
- Please observe a whole symphonic orchestra recording the Vampire Survivors soundtrack
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #714: Saturday, June 3
- Beloved Twitch streamer Puppers dies at 32
June 2
- Devastating glitches end Diablo 4 race to level 100 Hardcore runs early
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in June
- Diablo 4 high resolution assets: should you install them?
- Blaseball, the bizarre, beautiful sports gambling horror sim, is ending forever
- Handheld gaming's greatest dungeon crawlers manage to hold their own on PC
- Diablo 4's fastest XP farm works just like it did in the betas
- Diablo 4's first hotfix buffs enemies in the difficulty level you probably haven't even played yet
- After watching the explosive documentary on Disco Elysium's legal battle, I can't fathom how Disco Elysium 2 will ever be made
- Diablo 4's first battle pass details: reward types, price tiers, and more
- Praise the King of All Cosmos, the best Katamari Damacy game is now on PC
- GTA Online's next free update will add a new mercenary group that you can join to fight its old mercenary group
- Yep, the perfect way to lure me back to a co-op survival game is by adding fishing poles and over 50 types of fish to catch
- Publisher apologizes after fans spot signs of AI generation in contract artist's Duke Nukem promo illustration
- Pathfinder's ambitious Diablo 4 competitor launches its Kickstarter campaign
- These Jedi: Survivor stats confirm that Star Wars fans are incredibly boring
- The relaunch of this defunct medieval survival MMO is met with 95 cry-laugh emojis, 74 poops, 62 clowns, 42 letters spelling S-C-A-M, and 35 optimistic thumbs up
- How to reset dungeons in Diablo 4
- You can pick up 7 excellent metroidvanias for $15 over at Humble right now
- Tell Me Why is available free for Pride Month, as is now tradition
- Talking Tom and Angela join forces for Green Game Jam 2023
- Capcom wants to know what Resident Evil remake you want next
- System Shock was originally pitched as Sonic the Hedgehog in space
- Blizzard reskins cop cars in Overwatch 2's Pride-themed map
- Diablo fans heave a sigh as teased announcement turns out to be K-Pop collaboration: 'Consider me whelmed'
- The best ways to farm XP and gold in Diablo 4
- Blizzard dev claims he was fired for writing loot goblin that made fun of corporate greed
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #713: Friday, June 2
- PlayStation players are buying Diablo 4 currency to bypass an invalid license error
- Here's how each Diablo 4 class is performing in the race to level 100
June 1
- If you long to play high-level D&D but don't have time, then Solasta's Palace of Ice DLC is for you
- How to unlock Street Fighter 6's classic outfits
- Each fighter's favourite gift in Street Fighter 6
- How to turn on Classic controls in Street Fighter 6
- Diablo 4 early access has begun, and the race to level 100 is on
- How Diablo 4's World Tiers work and where to change them
- Rogue simulated AI drone never turned on its masters after all, US Air Force AI chief says he 'mis-spoke' and has actually 'never run that experiment'
- Where to find your Diablo 4 pre-order bonuses
- GSC Game World says Russian hackers are leaking Stalker 2 test builds, please don't look at them
- Another Vampire: The Masquerade videogame is on the way, and it is still not Bloodlines 2
- The 7th Guest VR remake uses 'volumetric video' for 3D FMV scenes
- How to craft legendary gear in Diablo 4
- The life sim where you lead a cat colony has a new demo
- 'Challenging and realistic' Skyrim mod stops all your characters becoming stealth archers with one simple trick: Instant death
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 14: The (sort of) PrE3 episode
- The end of the world can wait in this RPG: I've got a study session with a god
- Meta Quest 3 announced, coming later this year for $499
- Report: Most of Arkane Austin's Prey veterans quit during Redfall's development, and the ones that stayed hoped Microsoft would cancel it
- Total War: Pharaoh is making huge changes to battles, from dynamic weather and terrain to armour degradation
- This new PC case is giving real 3D printer vibes and I guess that might be my new 'thing'
- Firaxis hit by layoffs after Midnight Suns disappointment and departure of iconic creative lead
- 'No signs of remorse'—Sonic creator faces prison sentence and over $1 million fine in ongoing trial
- Adata's shown its 1600W PSU can power four 450W RTX 4090s and that it really doesn't care for maths
- Warhammer and stamp-collecting collide in Royal Mail's latest collection
- If you've got a modern Gigabyte motherboard there's a BIOS setting you need to disable to avoid PC's latest security calamity
- InWin's clever modular PC case system can quickly spiral into your very own behemoth
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #712: Thursday, June 1
- After 18 years, controversial shooter Six Days in Fallujah is finally releasing
- Oh heck yeah, these gaudy origami PC cases now come with water cooling support