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- January 10
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- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 10
- We may not have a roadmap or balance patch just yet, but at least Path of Exile 2's bugfix patch notes are funny
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided writer didn't like the ending either: 'Nothing is resolved'
- It seems like Square's finally consistently taking the PC ports of Final Fantasy seriously
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii looks more like a zany RGG take on Black Flag than I dared hope
- January 9
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- The most important tool in Remedy's new co-op FPS is the shower: 'Saving water is essential'
- If you missed it over the holidays, this noir Half-Life 2 mod turns you into a hardboiled detective in Prohibition-era Chicago
- Path of Exile 2 players are calling foul on Elon Musk's high-level hardcore character after he streams his struggles with core game mechanics
- Alan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has died
- Track down a missing person in this 'Geoguessr-inspired detective game' set on an alien planet
- Old meets new as classic MMO players worship a famous Vtuber via gifts of bones so she can max out the Prayer skill
- Hyper Light Breaker will cost $30 and for a limited time come with a free copy of Drifter
- Fallout season 2 filming delayed due to massive LA fires
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is delayed again 'to better incorporate player feedback gathered over the past three months'
- This bizarre roguelike has a new take on the Vampire Survivors formula: letting you build your own custom weapons out of brains, eyeballs, and chimpanzee spines
- The Freewrite Wordrunner with a built-in word counter might be the keyboard to look out for if you want to improve your writing process
- Thank Goodness You're Here! review
- 'I created it, let me move on': Ex-Cloud 9 player, the Overwatch team whose blunder inspired the infamous 'C9' slang, watches in horror as the term moves onto Marvel Rivals
- 18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
- Lenovo's rollable laptop screen isn't just a CES party trick—you'll be able to pick one up yourself in June
- Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's simple reminder that useful quantum computing is a long way off has somehow caused industry stocks to plummet
- After 15 years, Minecraft has finally added two new pig variations: The warm pig and the cold pig, meaning I can delete one mod off my list
- You've heard of a CPU cooler screen, but have you heard of a *curved* CPU cooler screen? Apparently it has 'unmatched performance and visual appeal'
- Nvidia seems to have just confirmed upcoming Arm and Blackwell laptop chips based on its new GB10 processor in collaboration with MediaTek
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, January 9
- The Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 now looks like a dazzler of a gaming laptop, even if it's still a bit of a paving slab
- The Witcher 3's now 2-year-old bonus quest is our first taste of the 'vibe' CD Projekt is going for in The Witcher 4
- Mythic Quest Season 4 trailer wrestles with Roblox, AI, and the US Congress
- Splash Damage says layoffs are likely as the Transformers game it announced in 2022 is cancelled
- 2024 was the year updates for old games beat out all the new ones for me
- Legendary joker ports Balatro to the 44-millimeter screen of an Apple Watch, calls it 'Wee Balatro'
- Even I was impressed by LG's gigantic transparent OLED chandelier of hopes and dreams, but I'm still not buying one
- January 8
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- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joins the rush to kiss Trump's ring: 'I'd be delighted to go see him and congratulate him'
- Deadly LA fires lead to office closures for major game studios: 'Nothing can be said to truly acknowledge the pain and suffering that we are witnessing,' says Riot CEO
- Inzoi is creating a newfangled life sim NPC that can 'grow and develop its own personality' with Nvidia's AI tech
- Marvel Rivals patch has way more nerfs and buffs than we thought: A whopping 24 heroes are changing this week
- Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
- Marvel Rivals' most-picked hero also has one of the lowest win rates
- NetEase pulls funding for another studio: Former Halo Infinite design head says Jar of Sparks is 'halting work' while it looks for a new publisher
- WoW's finally upgrading its dreaded swirlies so players can actually tell where it's safe to stand
- I saw a tiny robot dog do a handstand at CES 2025 and I recorded it for your amusement
- AIB vendors getting the RTX 5080's memory config wrong could mean 50-series Super cards have more and faster VRAM
- Early Radeon RX 9070 benchmarks are positive, though don't bank too much on them
- Monster Hunter Wilds is getting more open beta tests before launch—but they'll be missing Capcom's latest performance improvements
- Hyte's new $20 processor frames are yet another way to customise your gaming PC
- D&D's revised Monster Manual is tackling one of the game's biggest hangups—and adding a new menu of BBEGs: 'We wanted the Tarrasque to have some fighting buddies'
- 'That's my ass again': A Marvel Rivals body model realises she's the inspiration behind the new hero Sue Storm after recognising her butt in the teaser trailer
- Ken Levine never expected Take-Two to shutter Irrational after Bioshock Infinite: 'The decision was made at a corporate level'
- Valve is changing the way it updates Deadlock 'to help improve our development process', so you can say goodbye to the regular biweekly posts
- Colorful PC cases are so in this year
- Corsair's new 'personalised RAM' gives you the option to pick the look and speed of memory you hide in the case anyway
- AMD says there are no technical reasons for not having an X3D processor with 3D V-Cache on both CCDs, but we probably won't see such a dual-stacked chip anyway
- The 2025 Asus ROG NUC looks epic and has some mighty specs but a desktop gaming PC will probably be far better value for money
- Final Fantasy 14 data sleuth gathers more info on the game's script, finds Alphinaud is the king of yappers—though Wuk Lamat's in the top 3 after just 1 expansion
- SteamOS beta could be available to download to your handheld gaming PC of choice as soon as April
- All Kell's Fall organ puzzle codes in Destiny 2
- 'It's simply impossible to make a difficulty level that's just right for all players': How Final Fantasy 14's lead battle designer has been playing a precarious balancing game for Dawntrail's dungeons and raids
- The RTX 5090 might make triple-fan cards look light on cooling if these four-fan and five-fan versions from Gigabyte and MSI are anything to go by
- League of Legends' new season trailer is basically an epilogue to Arcane with 6 new Fortiche champion redesigns in it—so if it's not a preview of the upcoming Noxus show, I'll eat my hat
- MSI's spangly MEG Vision X AI desktop PC is just the ticket for anyone wanting to recreate that Scotty scene in Star Trek IV
- This $2000 Dual OLED screen laptop with 'outstanding computing power' has been spotted at CES but I'm unconvinced
- Jen-Hsun reckons Nvidia has driven the 'cost of computing down by 1,000,000 times'
- Will there ever become a point with AI where there are no traditionally rendered frames in games? Perhaps surprisingly, Jen-Hsun says 'no'
- Please join me in getting super excited for all the cool looking survival games coming in 2025 (and beyond)
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, January 8
- The RTX 5090 Founders Edition might be svelte but the Asus ROG Astral cards are absolute chonkers
- Eight years after arriving on Steam, VRChat just hit a new peak concurrent player count
- Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island review
- January 7
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- The ROG Zephyrus G14 is calling to me even more now it has an RTX 5080 stuffed inside it
- Private Division's 'games and franchises,' including Kerbal Space Program, are reportedly being taken over by former Annapurna Interactive employees
- Competitive shooters are at a crucial crossroads in 2025: 'sweaty' teamplay vs. casual fun
- Call of Duty's development budget ballooned by $250 million between 2015 and 2020 to an eye-watering $700 million
- Facebook and Instagram are ditching fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes system inspired by X: 'Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased,' Zuckerberg says
- Path of Exile player casually posts mind-blowing collection of ultra-rare and out-of-print items, including a ring there's only 4 copies of in the world
- This keyboard combines two of my favorite things: mechanical switches and bread
- I got hands on with the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld PC with Valve's SteamOS—and it seems like a bit of a winner to me
- Call of Duty's $28 Squid Game skins are the perfect crossover for our capitalist dystopia, and Activision knows exactly what it's doing
- 'We're extending the 6v6 playtest': The game director of Overwatch 2 stokes the flames that 6v6 will make an official comeback someday
- LG wants to turn your Smart TV into an Xbox, announces cloud gaming partnership with Microsoft
- An Elden Ring player has promised to fight Messmer every day with a new weapon until FromSoftware releases Elden Ring: Nightreign
- Corsair heard you like screens and PC cases so it made a new screen for your PC case that you can also use as a, er, screen
- Citizen Sleeper 2 will likely be the last in the series, though its creator plans to come full-circle with a TTRPG
- Nvidia RTX 50-series and dev kit show that rasterization is old news and we're now firmly in the era of AI rendering
- AMD might have told us little about its RDNA 4 graphics cards but at least we know the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT have 16 GB of VRAM
- Nvidia's impressive AI-based computer tuneup tool G-Assist launches next month but the best bit is missing
- 'New year, new low, Microsoft'—even the search engines are firing shots on social media now, as Google employees take aim at Bing over 'long history of tricks'
- Extraction MOBA Seekers of Skyveil will launch into early access in March, but first, the 'largest playtest' yet is coming later this week
- Logitech has announced an 'intelligent streaming assistant' in Streamlabs to tell you when your live stream sucks
- Uber-bright new OLED TVs from LG and Samsung should finally enable PC gaming monitors with full-screen brightness of up to 400 nits
- Tencent has been designated a Chinese military company by the US Department of Defense, which the conglomerate calls a 'misunderstanding'
- Razer blew hot and cold air down my neck and rumbled my posterior at CES 2025, and I liked it
- Intel on its next-gen laptop chip: 'Panther Lake will take everything you love about Lunar Lake to the next level'
- Nvidia announces dedicated GeForce Now app for Steam Decks and more, streamlining cloud gaming for mixed-reality headset wearers too
- With its Prime and TUF Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards, Asus is ditching thermal paste for a thermal pad that melts when hot
- Razer has released a backseat gaming AI bot called Ava, and I'm not sure whether using it should be considered cheating or not
- PUBG teammates not good enough? Nvidia's new generative AI-led 'Co-Playable Character' aims to offer you an alternative
- AMD and Intel launch mainstream and budget motherboard chipsets at CES but some of the codenames are so similar that I've already mistaken them for each other
- Mister Fantastic will be Marvel Rivals' first duelist vanguard hybrid who can deflect Iron Man's ult and stun enemies into one another—in other words, he's busted
- The future of the PC according to Intel is a CPU-GPU-NPU trifecta and that definitely includes gaming
- The SSDs and RAM on this new Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 can be upgraded entirely without tools
- I reckon the Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition is the best looking graphics card I've seen in... well, ever, actually
- The HyperX Saga and Saga Pro are magnetic build-a-mouse kits with interchangeable components and the option to add 3D printed parts
- Nvidia announces DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, says it can help multiply frame rates by 'up to 8X over traditional brute-force rendering'
- Nvidia's new RTX 5070 will deliver 'RTX 4090 performance at $549' when it launches in February
- The new 'aggressively priced' Razer Blade 16 is slimmer, sleeker, AMD Strix Point-equipped, and may just be the Asus G16 competitor I've been hoping for
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, January 7
- Alienware's new Area-51 desktop PCs are built for upgrading as it finally ditches the proprietary parts and covers everything in QR codes
- What's cooler than being cool? HP's Omen Max 16 featuring an omnidirectional fan that thwarts dust buildup and keeps this gaming laptop a little closer to ice cold
- Nvidia has announced a whole host of gaming laptop GPUs at CES 2025, from the RTX 5070 all the way to the big RTX 5090
- Nvidia announces the RTX 50-series, led by the $1,999 RTX 5090 with 'twice the performance of the 4090'
- Helldivers 2 is getting a film adaptation, even though Starship Troopers already exists
- BioShock maestro Ken Levine says Judas will double down on reacting to player choices because it's the future of games: 'I've never been a big fan of cutscenes because they're not interactive'
- Marvel Rivals' first balance patch targets two popular Duelists and Jeff's ultimate
- Nvidia CES 2025 keynote live: new GPUs or there'll be a riot
- January 6
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- AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs are about efficiency in terms of performance and price: 'We know where gamers buy products, it's well below that $1,000 price point'
- AMD says 'the performance data out there for RDNA 4 is completely inaccurate'
- Acer unveils the comically huge Nitro Blaze 11, a gaming handheld more than three times the weight of a Nintendo Switch
- Less than 2 years after launch, 2K Games delivers a fatal piledriver to WWE 2K23, taking servers offline and removing it from Steam
- OG Fallout lead Tim Cain dusts off a trove of old development photos dating back to 1994 to show 'what development looked like in the '90s'
- Intel is 'confident' about next-gen Arc Celestial GPUs following Battlemage's success
- Marvel Rivals mods that replace Captain America with Trump and Biden removed by Nexus Mods: 'We don't want to handle all the nutjobs that come out the woodwork whenever these mods get posted'
- Former Starfield lead quest designer says we're seeing a 'resurgence of short games' because people are 'becoming fatigued' with 100-hour monsters
- See ya later Inspiron and XPS: Dell has streamlined its branding down to a very Apple-like Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max
- AMD announces new driver-based AI for 'AMD-related questions', local file summaries, and image generation for its new line of graphics cards
- The new ROG Flow Z13 is ditching dedicated graphics but making up for it with AMD's next-gen Ryzen AI Max APU
- AMD Ryzen AI Max is finally here: 'the most advanced mobile x86 processor ever created' with 40 RDNA 3.5 CUs and 16 Zen 5 cores
- It looks like AMD's expecting the RX 9070 XT to rival the RTX 4070 Ti, which is fine if it ends up being the right price
- AMD announces more powerful Ryzen Z2 Series processors for future PC handhelds, but Valve says 'there is and will be no Z2 Steam Deck'
- AMD just gave us our first look at the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 RDNA 4 GPUs and I am officially whelmed
- AMD has just announced the two new 9000-series X3D chips we were hoping for, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D
- AMD's FSR 4 will use machine learning but requires an RDNA 4 GPU, promises 'a dramatic improvement in terms of performance and quality'
- AMD's throwing the considerably hefty Ryzen 9 9950X3D at gaming laptops and calling it a Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
- Intel unveils second round of updates intended to bring Arrow Lake desktop chips up to expectations: 'our software for the 200S has reached full performance'
- Marvel Rivals season 1 starts on January 10 as Dracula and Doctor Doom team up to 'disrupt the moon’s orbit' and unleash an army of vampires on New York City
- Crytek went so overboard on the Crysis tech it created a whole blushing system, implemented nose shadows, and sent devs to photograph leaves in Haiti to get the translucency right: 'We went over bonkers on this one'
- Intel announces new mobile Core Ultra 200HX Series processors to power the next generation of gaming laptops
- Existential horror or cute fuzzy bag buddy? CES is off to a flying start with the wackiest tech for 2025
- This Swedish 'gamer' puffer jacket has pockets so big you can jam a full-sized keyboard and laptop in them because why not?
- These are the 14 biggest upcoming RPGs of 2025—get ready for another amazing year for the genre
- Microsoft's latest trick to get you using Bing is disguising it as Google
- Crysis' magical Nanosuit was so convincing that a nanotech conference asked Crytek's boss to give a keynote speech: 'I said, excuse me, but this is all fake'
- That Banana clicker game is somehow still one of Steam's most-played games, with 100K+ concurrents seeing it consistently outranking the likes of Call of Duty and Helldivers 2
- Microsoft plans on investing $80,000,000,000 in AI this year, with no sign of the machine learning spending spree stalling just yet
- Balatro developer bestows the 'very prestigious Golden Thunk award' on Animal Well, says it's so good it makes him 'feel like an imposter'
- I was wrong—Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players are still finding fault with the Squid Game skins despite them looking cool
- Corsair rolls out its first CUDIMM memory sticks for Intel Arrow Lake gaming PCs and they're as pricey as you'd expect them to be
- Hero modders take a break from their 25-year quest to make the rest of Morrowind to make the Oblivion we should have got instead
- The most absurd Magic collection I've ever seen, including a Black Lotus that's 'the best of the best', is going for a mere $2.2 million
- 'Game has become mahjong': WoW Classic player installs over 3,600 addons in a bout of eldritch madness, somehow only needs to remove 20 to get it to 'work'
- Now D&D's 2024 rules revamp is almost finished, I've been visited by the ghosts of TTRPG past, present, and future to help me predict the next 5-10 years
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, January 6
- Finally someone turned Doom into an enriching cultural experience for art snobs
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 6, 2025)
- January 5
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- Zach-like automation puzzle game ABI-DOS is available on Steam for free
- It sounds like we'll have to wait even longer to find out what the deal is with OD, Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele's game, movie, and 'new form of media' that had the trailer with all the faces cryptically talking at us
- I've seen enough: No more forcing singleplayer studios to make mediocre live service games
- After losing his father to cancer, mega streamer Shroud is running a January 'Fragathon' where he'll donate to cancer research for each in-game kill
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, January 5
- If you want Fallout: New Vegas to look a little more lived-in, these mods have you covered
- January 4
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- Elden Ring: Nightreign players won't be able to troll each other with messages
- Meta wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram 'kind of in the same way accounts do,' but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots
- Minecraft creator Notch says that he 'basically announced minecraft 2' with a Twitter poll and a commitment to making a spiritual successor
- The Junji Ito collection brings eight new outfits to Dead by Daylight, letting you dress up its killers as cannibalistic supermodels and nail-toothed children
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, January 4
- Civilization 7 senior historian prays it'll be a 'gateway drug' into textbooks: 'I teach undergraduates in my other life, and my God, man, they don't read'
- January 3
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- 6 games that could be bigger hits than you're expecting in 2025
- Floridians appear to be frantically Google searching for VPNs in the wake of the state's invasive porn ban
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says violence will be the default in AAA RPGs as long as we keep buying it: 'Companies don't make them because they feel like it. They make them because they sell'
- 'Elon is a father who gets lots of sex' somehow leads to renewed claims that Elon Musk superfan Adrian Dittmann is actually Musk himself
- What are your 2025 gaming resolutions?
- The FBI put a $5 million bounty on the 'Cryptoqueen' last year but still hasn't found her, so take your pick: Russia, South Africa, or murdered on a yacht in 2018
- The Witcher season 4: Everything we know about Hemsworth's debut on The Continent
- Helldivers 2 director decides to kick off 2025 by wading into a conversation about DEI: 'Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement'
- PC Gamer's Best City Builder of 2024 has sold over 2.5 million, but here's the big news: Now it has bridges
- Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain, so I'll just go ahead and start the countdown clock for our first Sailor Man soulslike
- The TDP of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 have been leaked, suggesting it's a little less power-hungry than we thought, though still massive
- Marvel Rivals admits that it accidentally banned some players for trying to run the game in a different operating system, which isn't cheating
- Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people'
- Marvel Rivals has some truly cursed mods, but that's what happens when you mix weirdly detailed character models with the internet
- MSI's new 24-inch gaming monitor hits a sizzling 600 Hz and has me wondering how many Hz you genuinely need
- AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend, featuring an Elden Ring saxophone boss rush, an 'All Romances' run of Fallout: New Vegas, and some of the worst games ever made
- A German retailer reports the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has outsold the entire non-X3D 9000 line
- LG's new 45-inch 5K2K OLED could be the pixel-packed gaming monitor you've been waiting for
- Bioshock's Big Daddy Ken Levine says that while he doesn't want to 'underestimate' AI, he's 'not overly impressed' by it, either
- The Secret Level creator wants you to know that they did ask Halo to take part in the series, but Microsoft turned them down: 'Man, you think we didn't talk to Halo?'
- Defending a kinda wimpy Killzone crossover gun, Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says the game's past balance woes were due to weapons being 'seen as game objects' and that 'balance doesn't matter'
- Nvidia is giving away 5 classic Jensen-signed GeForce cards if you tweet to build hype for its CES 2025 briefing, and its first choice is almost older than me
- Hiding in the shadows, this Nvidia teaser video might have given us our first look at a Founders Edition RTX 50-series GPU
- MSI, Asus and Samsung are announcing new 27-inch 4K models with '4th gen' QD-OLED panels but they're not a huge step forward
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Sid Meier's Civilization 7
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 3
- Gulp! Dune: Awakening beta testers are dying of thirst nearly as often as they're dying of sandworms, and some are even drinking mouse blood to stay alive
- 8 bold gaming predictions for 2025
- January 2
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- Net neutrality is dead again: US court says the FCC can't bring back Obama-era internet regulations
- Clobberin' time is confirmed: The Fantastic Four is coming to Marvel Rivals and they're bringing a cute little robot along with them
- New beverage technology unlocked: this gaming controller mug keeps your drink warm and has a trigger so you can sip and shoot at the same time
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in January
- Eternal Strands, the physics-heavy RPG being headed by Dragon Age veteran Mike Laidlaw, will roll out a playable demo a week ahead of its full release
- Thanks to Doom, I can finally solve captcha prompts without wanting to spoon my eyeballs out and wander into the wilderness
- 'Lunatic' crypto fugitive Do Kwon finally extradited from Montenegro to the US to face charges over $40 billion crash
- Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango Gameworks is officially reborn for the New Year, with a slightly new name
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 hits peak lack of awareness with its Squid Game skins which, unfortunately, look rad as hell
- This upcoming Micro-OLED VR headset has absolutely everything and weighs less than 200 grams but of course it costs nearly 4x the Quest 3
- G-Man's voice actor rings in the new year by dropping a cryptic tweet grenade promising 'unexpected surprises' into the starving Half-Life 3 fanbase
- Ultra-high refresh gaming monitors might be all the rage in 2025 if MSI's and ASRock's latest 500+ Hz panels are anything to go by
- PUBG creator Brendan Greene swears his infinite, mega-ambitious digital universe isn't like all the others: 'I want to build a metaverse because I don't think anyone else is'
- Marvel Rivals' FPS bug puts players with potato PCs at a disadvantage, and that's not the only optimisation issue happening right now
- Not only did FF14's controversial chatter Wuk Lamat rank 1st for words spoken in Dawntrail, 'Wuk Lamat' was the most-used phrase by the characters in 2nd and 3rd place, too
- Twitter is dead, X is a cesspit, let's make 2025 the year of the message board
- A debloating wizard has managed to get Windows 11 running on just 184 MB of RAM, and it looks like it can actually run apps
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, January 2
- Skyblivion only has one region of the map left to finish: 'We are nearly ready to release an entirely remastered Elder Scrolls game'
- Former Age of Empires developer says the RTS genre's stuck in a rut: 'you're still playing the same game'
- January 1
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- 2025 PC hardware preview: This is the tech we want in our gaming rigs from the coming year
- Why do some games get a pass for jank and others don't?
- After a year in its company, I've done a complete 180 on my Steam Deck
- With the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout games still years away, here are 6 upcoming total conversion mods for Skyrim and Fallout 4 to get excited about
- Sorry, 2024's record-breaking 402,000,000 Mbps internet connection isn't available at your house yet
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, January 1
