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- December 4
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- More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, just three weeks before Christmas
- Meet The Council
- Stalker 2 is so popular in Ukraine, its launch strangled the whole country's internet for hours
- 'I’ve been waiting over 4 hours in the cold': Zipcar's Black Friday-related car sharing outage left some users locked out of their rides like leg-using chumps
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players think Treyarch is trying to gaslight them into believing that a hit registration error is really just 'erroneous visual blood effects'
- Intel partners with Acer once again for the new generation of Arc GPUs but it's not just gamers they have their eye on
- Ranking arachnophobia modes as someone who's been terrified of spiders for nearly 30 years
- Some users are claiming excessive sweat is killing their Meta Quest 3 headsets, which makes me worried about the one I've literally just bought
- As Viktor mains rage over their fave being hit with the Arcane twink ray, Riot quietly tinkers with controversial skin reworks on the League of Legends test server
- Wrangling the Helldivers: What it's like to be the mouthpiece of Super Earth
- Turns out the Arcane creative team always had the go ahead to kill any fan-favourite League of Legends characters it wanted: 'Riot embraced whatever story we wanted to tell with any of the characters'
- WoW documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin lit a fire under Martin Hywood, a charity worker with a similar condition who's raised over £300,000 since his diagnosis
- I'm going to build my very own multi-billion dollar chip fab at home with this awesome Lego kit
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2024
- Our first 'official' look at the new Lenovo Legion Go S shows that, unlike the original, it should be a bona fide mainstream handheld
- The new subclasses coming in Baldur's Gate 3 are a powergamer's paradise, and I know because I've seen them do terrible work in D&D
- GSC says it couldn't delay Stalker 2 to fix bugs because 'one more marathon' might have destroyed the devs: 'It has some problems, but it's a game! It's a game with soul'
- How to get Plastic Scrap in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- PlayStation co-CEO spits out a bizarre prediction about the future of AI and gaming—one I pray never happens
- The Rewinder is a bit like that time-travelling Dishonored level turned into a point-and-click puzzler, and I'll never finish it because I can't do maths
- Intel's Arc graphics cards have made their first appearance in the Steam hardware survey just as I'm getting genuinely excited about the new Battlemage B580 card
- Man who lost £500 million bitcoin fortune to bin day is fighting for a chance to find it in court, after more than 10 years in a landfill
- Hold on to your potatoes because Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's system requirements demand ray tracing you can't disable and an RTX 4090 for highest settings
- Astarion voice actor Neil Newbon offered Fallout: London modders free work, but they accidentally left him on read for nearly 2 years
- If the rumour that AMD's RDNA 4 GPU is 45% faster in ray tracing than a 7900 XTX and on par with an RTX 4080 Super in raster is true I'm buying six of 'em
- Red Dead Redemption 2 modded so wagons and horses travel at supersonic speeds—and the results are ludicrous
- Helldivers 2 hits 'Overwhelmingly Positive' recent reviews on Steam, losing 2,225 negative reviews and gaining over 29,000 positive ones in the past month
- Fantasian Neo Dimension review
- Delta Force open beta launch times and release date
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, December 4
- This sprawling RPG tries to blend Diablo with Baldur's Gate with Dark Souls, and does a pretty good job pulling it off
- Ubisoft loses faith in free-to-play CoD competitor XDefiant, will shut it down in 2025: 'Many free-to-play games take a long time to find their footing and become profitable'
- December 3
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- Fortnite's drastically diminished Save the World XP rewards was a bug, Epic says, but now it's fixed
- StarCraft 2's impossible mission has been beaten after 14 years by a guy who turned the 'Archon Toilet' into an 'Archon Bidet'
- I'm afraid there's a Helldivers 2 sex game, and yes it is called Sexdivers
- Mass Effect boss may have dropped a hint about the next game: 'Make sure you play Lair of the Shadow Broker'
- Another big Stalker 2 patch just arrived to fix the main mission, side quests, and input lag
- Intel's new second-gen XeSS 2 upscaling tech with Frame Generation matches Nvidia's DLSS for features and might have the edge on AMD's FSR
- Monster Hunter Wilds game director says the beta's missing hitstop has already been tweaked, thanks to 'very positive feedback' from hitstop-hungry veteran hunters
- OLED displays with up to five times better lifespan may be on their way sooner than you think, thanks to a manufacturing breakthrough
- Stalker 2 devs say the scrubbed mentions of anticipated NPC code A-Life 2.0 (which is busted, but there) were due to a marketing guy going rogue
- Atlyss is a considerately horny RPG where you can play the thickest furry this side of the internet, but I'm in it for the fun action and oldschool MMO nostalgia, I swear
- 'Inspired by wind-sculpted desert rocks' and bestowed with Intel Lunar Lake, the new MSI Claw handhelds might actually be worth a look
- The Finals flies to Mexico next season with a new map and a Heavy rifle with 'immense stopping power'
- Galactically petty Half-Life 2 modders ban 'anticitizens' who criticised their mod by targeting their Steam IDs, leave the proof visible in code: 'Script kiddies vibes from this lmao'
- FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki says the studio doesn't 'have any particular plans to develop Elden Ring 2', but that doesn't mean the 'Elden Ring IP' is over
- Infinity Nikki launch times and release date
- 5 hours with Monster Hunter Wilds soothed my beta fears, but I left more impressed by its storytelling chops
- It turns out Two Point Museum is so perfect for my Sims decorator-addled brain that I forgot it was supposed to be a management sim
- Gigabyte's new app for enabling its X3D Turbo Mode in Windows is, for some unfathomable reason, called Aorus AI Snatch
- Intel launches new Arc B580 GPU with 10% more performance than an RTX 4060 for $249 but the rumoured RTX 4070-beater is nowhere to be seen
- Master Chief and Commander: It's Halo 3 but with boats and a naval battle against a Scarab
- Critical Role's plans to make a videogame have become an 'active pursuit', says CEO Travis Willingham, after almost 10 years of growing a D&D campaign into a full-on franchise
- All Monster Hunter Wilds weapons confirmed so far
- All Stalker 2 endings and how to get each
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, December 3
- Be safe out there: long-suffering Bloodborne fans are in hysterics over a new PlayStation ad
- December 2
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- The best Xbox controller deal right now isn't at Amazon or Best Buy
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in December
- Fortnite's latest season lets players morph into lethal demon hunters who defy gravity and the God of Destruction himself, Godzilla
- Valve removes pro-Palestinian shooter from Steam after complaint from UK Counter-Terrorism police, dev says 'we see clearly the double standards'
- If you grab one of these five Cyber Monday gaming keyboard deals, promise me you'll use it for Baldur's Gate 3 and not just replying to your emails
- Russian disinfo is trying to spark a boycott of Stalker 2 by claiming it's going to draft you into the war in Ukraine somehow
- Infinity Nikki review
- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires: 'Leading Intel has been the honor of my lifetime'
- My 10-year-old headset is falling apart, so I've found the five best Cyber Monday gaming headset deals still available
- Blizzard is delisting Warcraft 1 and 2 from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot
- Grab 29 books from perhaps the best TTRPG publisher in the business, including a fantastic alternative to D&D, for just $18 in this limited time bundle
- Arcane co-creator reminds fans 'there are always constraints', dispels theories the show was rushed or restrained by Riot's higher-ups
- How two secret Stalker 2 hacks cut my loading time from 5 minutes to 52 seconds and got me in the Zone faster
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, December 2
- December 1
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- To stop its 'strip-mining of journalism,' some of the biggest Canadian news companies are suing OpenAI to the tune of $20,000 for every article fed to ChatGPT
- Satisfactory gets weird for a month with the adorable, festive FICSMAS event
- The actor behind Half-Life's G-Man based his iconic, halting delivery on the idea he was experiencing multiple timelines at once: 'His relationship to time is very different than you or I would think'
- Pillars of Eternity director thought it had a 50/50 shot before it crowdfunded in 27 hours
- Dragon Age: Inquisition's final expansion was going to force us to blow up our home base to kill a fan favorite Origins companion
- Fallen Aces adds a pulp superhero hideout and a small, unfriendly dog
- Antonblast comes out swinging to challenge Pizza Tower's chaotic platformer rule
- I'm serving the best Cyber Monday gaming deals using every second of my near 20 years as a PC gaming tech vet. That's veteran, not veterinarian, btw
- New physics fighter Gladio Mori sends animators where they belong: The gladiator pit
- Soundtrack Sunday: Why Final Fantasy 13-2's score is the most eclectic and unique offering in the series
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, December 1
