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- March 31
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- Schedule 1 is great because it knows crafting sucks unless you turn everything into a fun minigame
- The tiny-but-mighty Geekom A8 mini PC can tackle big workloads – and it’s up to 22% off right now
- 'You must have played this before!': Balatro's creator impressed bystanders with his Balatro skills at GDC, and nobody knew who he was
- Best Schedule 1 mixing station recipes to grow your criminal empire
- Rosewater review
- Swen Vincke says fan mods 'shouldn't be treated like commercial ventures that infringe on your property' just hours before Wizards of the Coast retracts its BG3 Stardew mod takedown
- Psycho Patrol R, the FPS-Mech sim from the creator of Cruelty Squad, is one of the most challenging, complicated games I've ever played—and worth every second it took to figure out its deal
- 'I was surprised, because I loved the trailer': Jack Black didn't get all the hate for the first Minecraft movie teaser
- Game director Soulframe Liang has used his online nickname for so long he even trademarked it in China, and when Digital Extremes and Tencent came knocking for the Warframe sequel? 'I'm not selling'
- How to invite someone over to your house in Inzoi
- Eidos Montreal lays off more employees: 'We don’t have the capacity to entirely reallocate them to our other ongoing projects'
- Dwarf Fortress dwarves are 'more human than human,' creator says: 'They're allowed to embody bigger emotions. They're allowed to make bigger mistakes. They're allowed to do anything'
- RuneScape's open world survival game adds a new twist to chopping down trees and smashing up rocks: magic
- A whole bunch of Korean studios are trying to convince Blizzard to let them make a new StarCraft game, including MMO specialist NCSoft
- AOC announces a slew of high refresh rate 1080p and 4K monitors for under €300 each
- Palworld decides it wasn't April fooling after all, is actually making a visual novel dating sim where you can, uh, 'dismember and eat' some of its cast
- 'When a widespread outage affects devices from starting properly, Microsoft can broadly deploy targeted remediation': MS introduces 'quick machine recovery' for Windows 11
- AMD goes all-in on being a data centre designer by purchasing ZT Systems for $4.9 billion
- Lian Li O11 Vision Compact PC case review
- Wizards of the Coast says it didn't mean to send a DMCA takedown notice to the Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew mod: 'We are in the process of fixing that now'
- Inzoi players are giving classic Sims townies a big ol' ultra-realistic makeover and I'm floored how good they are
- Minecraft Happy Ghast: everything you need to know about the newest passive mob
- Screenshots have seemingly leaked of the new Star Wars game from a team of former XCOM developers, and surprise: it looks like a Star Wars XCOM game
- There is no escape: MrBeast and James Patterson have co-authored a Squid Game-aping thriller, and Hollywood's already tripping over itself to secure the rights
- Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today
- Jack Black, filled with premiere mania, says A Minecraft Movie is what the world needs right now: 'There’s so much violence and war and hatred'
- Marvel Rivals pick-up bundle explained
- How to get costume coins in Marvel Rivals
- Microsoft has disabled the popular 'bypassnro' Windows 11 sign-in workaround in the latest Insider build, but there exists another
- Minecraft Vibrant Visuals update: everything you need to know about the cosmetic upgrade
- Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 gaming laptop review
- Lovecraftian horror detective game The Sinking City's grand redemption arc continues, with a shiny new remaster coming free to all existing owners
- Doom: The Dark Ages' melee-heavy, parry-focused gameplay was nothing like I expected, and now I'm more eager to play the full thing than ever
- Monster Hunter Wilds will finally let players transmog their ugly Artian weapons, and there's been some much-needed acknowledgement of PC performance problems
- AOC announces its own 600 Hz monitor offering though the thought of such a high refresh rate just makes my eyes water
- In the market for a split keyboard? Why not chop a regular one in half and then attach it back together with a nightmare of wires, said no-one ever
- Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming
- Microsoft announces changes to the Blue Screen of Death as rumours of an ominous Black Screen of Death stalk the land
- CEO of GTA 6 publisher Take-Two isn't worried about AI-generated slop games: 'It’s built on data that already exists, it’s backward-looking—big hits are forward-looking'
- Turns out Inzoi's inhabitants wear towels in the shower because pixelating them Sims-style was too saucy: 'We actually tested this ourselves during development, so you can trust us'
- Valve considered making a 'B title' before Half-Life, until an exec told Gabe Newell 'that's just not gonna work… the company will fail'
- Monster Hunter Wilds shifts over 10 million copies in its first month, which is a third of what World has sold in 7 years
- Windows 11 now has a publicly available roadmap so you can get to see what forthcoming horrors or awesome features await you
- Videogame collectibles don't have to suck, argues seasoned dev: 'I'm lookin' at you, Korok Seeds'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 31
- Nordhold is out now, and one of the year's most interesting tower defense games
- Cult classic Rain World has dropped a new expansion about its most mysterious slugcat yet
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 31, 2025)
- Inzoi mods are here and unsurprisingly 'Remove Shower Blur' is ranking high
- March 30
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- Satisfactory 1.1 will have autoconnecting blueprints, vertical splitters, branching hypertube networks, controllers, photo mode, and more
- There's now Call of Duty soap and I'm disappointed to report that none of it is called Soap's Soap
- At one point, Avowed would have taught us to use magic with an explosive Elder Scrolls reference: 'How about we just have a guy on the road that blows himself up'
- European Commission orders Apple to finally open the gates of its walled garden and level the playing field for third-party developers
- Elon Musk's estranged daughter weighs in on his pro gamer claims: 'He was a Bronze Torbjörn main'
- Give yourself a hand with this mod that turns Monster Hunter Wilds' lance into a giant pointing finger
- SAG-AFTRA makes exception for student devs and game jams in 8-month videogame performance strike: 'I'm thrilled that these types of projects can now be accommodated'
- The 37-year-old studio behind Myst and Riven laid off 'roughly half' of its staff: 'Our sincere hope is to continue to be around'
- Get up to 85% off some of the PCs weirdest adventure games, all to benefit 'humanitarian relief in Ukraine'
- Blades of Fire just showed off its first five minutes of gameplay, and I think it might be channelling God of War too heavily
- Vampire survival RPG V Rising gets a big update next month, bringing a new biome, multiplayer duels and the 'biggest combat overhaul yet'
- The modder who added seamless coop to Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 is now doing the same with Dark Souls: Remastered
- There's an Inzoi bug that makes some of your family disappear if you remarry too many times
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 30
- The next DLC for Total War: Warhammer 3 will include a Slaanesh faction led by a six-armed snake lady
- I wish Darktide's progression mechanics were as straightforward as the miniatures game
- March 29
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- Nintendo shadow-dropped a 2027 release date for a live-action Zelda movie in its weird new app, and it'll reportedly be part of a trilogy
- Obsidian snuck goodies and secrets around every corner to make exploring Avowed feel worthwhile: 'If you have a lot of dead ends that lead nowhere, you learn the lesson as a player: This game doesn't have much to offer me'
- If you've noticed the world of Inzoi is eerily heterosexual, don't fret—the distinct lack of gay Zois is a known issue
- Play 'co-op with yourself' in this single-player puzzle game where you control two wizards, one with each hand
- Tactical RPG Shadow Of The Road's open Alpha test lets players get a free first taste of its samurai versus steampunk setting
- I've finally seen gameplay from ZA/UM's follow-up to Disco Elyisum, and it looks a lot like Disco Elysium. It will have to be spectacular to win back a hostile fanbase
- I played the 21 worst Thief missions in existence and had a far better time than I expected
- This whimsical adventure game sees you play as a retired Sherlock Holmes whose beekeeping hobby keeps getting interrupted by pesky crimes
- 'Game changing' ArmA Reforger update adds attack helicopters, mortars, and destructible buildings: 'nowhere on the battlefield is safe anymore'
- After 16 years, The Dark Mod finally has guards as perceptive as in Thief: 'The days of seeing knocked-out AI in the middle of a bright spotlight get ignored are over'
- Quell your fears, Ultramarines! Just because Space Marine 3 is happening doesn't mean the end of support for Space Marine 2: 'There are surprises even dataminers haven’t found out about'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 29
- It still makes me uneasy that my hundreds of Steam games can't be passed on when I die, at least not without violating the EULA
- March 28
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- Elon Musk says he's sold X to Elon Musk's xAI
- Co-op hit Split Fiction now holds three Guinness World Records that seem destined to be won specifically by co-op hit Split Fiction
- Inzoi studio says running over children is 'highly inappropriate' after players discover they could launch kids into the next life by pasting them with their cars
- The new game from former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies is coming in June, and boy it sure looks like a Rockstar game
- Over 60% of Call of Duty players reported for cheating are on console, but the data says nearly all cheaters are on PC: 'We've found that many of these reports have been inaccurate'
- Look how they've massacred my boy: The newest Pac-Man game will have mechs, airdashing, and a 'dark sci-fi' story
- You may act like Walter White and look like Rick & Morty, but this co-op drug-dealer sim blowing up on Steam isn't just a goofy meme game
- How to get pregnant and have a baby in Inzoi
- Tired of Call of Duty's crossover skins? Hash it out in Black Ops 6's upcoming weed-themed extravaganza featuring 'joint operations' and Jay and Silent Bob
- Path of Exile 2 director says it may not leave early access in 2025: 'I want to get it done this year, but we'll see how things go'
- Sea of Thieves gets some of that Destiny 2 drip as Sony and Microsoft play happy families
- All active Arise Crossover codes in April 2025 and how to redeem them
- There's barely more than a demo in Wreckfest 2's early access debut, but I can't stop playing it
- The focus on GPU efficiency over fps means this year's gaming laptops are capable of something they've never been good at
- Former Bethesda dev went indie in part because of Fallout 76's noxious reception: 'If you put out a game that people don't like, the internet's gonna treat you like you're clubbing baby seals'
- Where to get medicine in Inzoi
- Inzoi's launch is going better than I expected with 'very positive' reviews and 87,000 concurrent players and everyone is almost being normal about it
- Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought
- Ayaneo 3 review
- How to get a car in Inzoi
- Asus has finally acknowledged it's changed the Q-Release Slim mechanism, bringing the whole saga to a satisfying conclusion
- I laughed, I fell, I ragequit: Baby Steps is a hilarious walking simulator I can't wait to watch speedrunners try to defeat
- This flip-screen mini PC looks like an original '80s Apple Macintosh and comes with all kinds of want
- The hardest parts of open world walking simulator Baby Steps are 'harder than Getting Over It by quite some distance,' says Bennett Foddy
- No Sleep For Kaname Date will have us dreaming of AI: The Somnium Files' deranged detective again this July
- Yet another Nintendo Direct passes without Silksong news, and if you're wondering how people are taking it, you must be new here
- Razer Blade 16 (2025) review
- How to get a referral code for Inzoi
- Crumbs: ASRock finds 'debris' in X870 motherboard accused of toasting AMD Ryzen CPU
- As a Warhammer fan of over 20 years, I've worked out the 3 rules Amazon needs to follow to make a great Warhammer TV show
- Venom's gonna throw it back in Marvel Rivals and there's nothing any of us can do to stop him
- Elden Ring mega-mod The Convergence redesigns legacy dungeons, improves tutorials and gives its new bosses their own theme music
- I'm collecting the best Amazon Spring Prime Day PC gaming deals like a bargain-hunting treasure goblin
- How to get a job in Inzoi
- Inzoi lets you customize your entire house down to the last thread, which is great in theory but doesn't feel good in practice
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, March 28
- One of Square Enix' most underrated PlayStation-era JRPGs just shadow dropped on Steam
- March 27
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- Grit and Valor - 1949 review
- Studio Ghibli AI image trend floods social media, cheered on by OpenAI and denounced by critics as an insult to Hayao Miyazaki
- Marvel Rivals technical designer says a future patch will reduce the shooter's insatiable hunger for RAM: 'It's a very big problem'
- An unannounced Hogwarts Legacy expansion and 'definitive edition' have reportedly been cancelled
- Chinese action game Phantom Blade Zero didn't click for me until I realized its deep commitment to wuxia film authenticity meant I had to relearn how swords work
- Story of Seasons is doing another Harvest Moon remake and it might be the best the series has ever looked
- Assassin's Creed Shadows puts up the 'second highest day-one sales revenue in Assassin's Creed franchise history'
- Cozy gamers rejoice: Witchbrook finally has a release window, and yes, you can fly around on a broom with your friends
- Path of Exile 2 director isn't worried about ARPG competition, in part thanks to seasons: 'So long as people are willing to come back and play our game for a month four times a year, then I'm good'
- The biggest update since Path of Exile 2's early access launch is coming next week, bringing a new class and a bunch of endgame changes
- Inzoi cheats list: how to use the money cheat and move objects freely
- StarCraft fans taunted by the announcement of a new StarCraft... board game
- 'Medieval Batman' completes Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 pacifist playthrough with zero kills and 535 knockouts
- Ubisoft and Tencent are forming a new company that will take control of its most successful franchises: Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six
- Promising '90s style point-and-clicker Rosewater rides out today, featuring trail-worn cowpoke authors and weird alt-universe science
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Eagle OC Ice SFF review
- OpenAI's GPT-4o model gets image generation update for all of your anime-style selfie needs
- My favourite, most underrated anime golf game series is actually getting a PC entry for the first time in its nearly 30-year history
- A modder keeps turning Monster Hunter traps into Lego bricks so that the monsters will know true pain, and they've just done it again
- You've probably been pronouncing Balatro wrong all along, but 'it's kind of a gif/jif situation'
- 'I can't really say what they were thinking' says whistleblowing modder, as Final Fantasy 14's attempt to thwart stalkers falls terribly short of the mark
- Nacon Rig M2 Streamstar review
- Raidou Remastered is finally bringing the historical Shin Megami Tensei supernatural sleuth spinoff to PC this June
- Greedfall 2 aims to turn around a disastrous early access launch with a combat overhaul and a big new boat
- The team behind Shredder's Revenge has a Marvel beat 'em up on the way with a whopping 15 characters and unsurprisingly gorgeous pixel art
- All Atomfall endings and how to get each one
- Final Fantasy 14's latest raids have me fully convinced that Square Enix can still cook, even as job design lags behind
- 'Diabolical': Genshin Impact's English cast gives new VO the cold shoulder after he frames replacing a striking actor as an 'opportunity to carry the flame'
- Epic’s 2025 Spring Sale kicks off with some big discounts on recent hits and a pair of cat-themed giveaways
- After a not-so-subtle tease 2 months ago, and 4 years since it was originally announced, Grand Cathay from Total War: Warhammer 3 is finally coming to the tabletop wargame
- Humanoid robot Neo Gamma gifts Nvidia CEO a studded leather jacket and may even be able to one day wash up a cup without dropping it
- Inzoi roadmap for 2025: What's planned for all 4 Inzoi game updates this year
- Opal Flutterfin locations in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
- Last year's best RTS gets its first piece of DLC alongside a meaty free update
- How to craft a pickaxe in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
- Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile tested: The needle hasn't moved on performance but this is the first time I'd consider ditching my desktop for a gaming laptop
- 10 The First Berserker: Khazan tips to smash your foes
- Crysis Remastered Trilogy activates maximum value mode as upgraded version of the legendary, hardware-crushing FPS series is currently 60% off
- Inzoi launch times and release date
- World of Warcraft's started swiping good ideas from one of its most popular user-made UI addons, and it's honestly about time
- 'We want to increase the cost of silence': Hunt: Showdown 1896's latest update brings a new event, a massive list of bugfixes and a tougher challenge for stealthy players
- Mindbending free multimedia adventure ENA: Dream BBQ is out now, has activated all my neurons and opened my third eye
- MSI GeForce RTX 5080 Ventus 3X OC White review
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Doom: The Dark Ages
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, March 27
- Total War: Warhammer 3's army of Cathay has broken containment and is making its way to tabletop Warhammer at last
- Tickets for PAX Australia 2025 are on sale now
- March 26
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- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's masterful quest design can be summed up by one wonderfully weird search for a magic stone
- Kings under the Mountain! 33 Enshrouded players spent 10,000 hours to recreate this iconic location from The Lord of the Rings
- Mecha Break developer is considering unlocking all mechs following open beta feedback
- Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics lays off 17 employees 'to better align our current business needs and the studio's future success'
- What will we do at the end of the world? If MMOs are any indication: mostly what we already do, plus a lot of dancing
- 'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm
- Pillars of Eternity is getting turn-based combat to mark its 10th anniversary, and that means PC Gamer editors will soon be arguing about combat mechanics again
- It doesn't really make sense that soccer star Ronaldo is now a Fatal Fury character, but if you follow the money you can see how it happened
- Today's RPG fans are 'very sensitive to feeling like they wasted time' when they die, says Metaphor: ReFantazio battle planner—but Atlus still made combat hard anyway
- A new Game of Thrones RPG is coming to Steam today with a cast of 'familiar faces,' which is good because it's really the only way to tell it's a GoT game at all
- The Outlast Trials puts its already paranoid players under surveillance for a time-limited story event
- Old armor continues to fall victim to Final Fantasy 14's bizarre two-channel dye system, unless you're super into changing the colour of teeny-tiny eyelets: 'Why even bother at this point?'
- How to claim The First Berserker: Khazan pre-order bonus and deluxe edition DLC
- As if your work meetings weren't already fun enough, now Otter has a new all-hearing AI agent that remembers everything anyone has said and can join in the discussion
- By the time Bethesda was on Starfield, you'd 'basically get in trouble' for breaking schedule, says former dev: 'A lot of the great stuff within Skyrim came from having the freedom to do what you want'
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide adds a psychic horde murderzone mode and makes Ogryns even smashier
- Age of Mythology Retold's new Chinese pantheon expansion takes a bold stance on updating an old game: Just make good new stuff
- 'World’s smallest LEDs' could lead to accurately lit screens with 127,000 pixels per inch and much more immersive VR
- As layoffs and studio closures continue to deathroll the western AAA industry, analyst points out 5 of 8 major Japanese companies hit all-time share prices this year
- I love the 8BitDo Retro C64 keyboard but I'd pick its cheaper NES-themed model near its lowest price ever during Amazon's Big Spring Sale
- From pixels to pinot: The Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper hill was real and this is what it looks like now
- Publishers 'don't want to be anywhere near' Grand Theft Auto 6 when it launches: 'It's proving to be very stressful'
- MSI Claw 8 AI+ A2VM: the greatest gaming machine you can take anywhere
- Become Dragonforged, achieve dominance
- 'Ok, so dragon builds are a thing now': galaxy-brained Helldivers 2 player incinerates a bile titan with a hover pack and a flamethrower
- Where to find a signal redirector in Atomfall
- How to upgrade weapons in Atomfall
- Should you report Morris Wick in Atomfall?
- Should you free Doctor Garrow in Atomfall?
- Where to find June's key in Atomfall
- Should you choose GEN ERA or GEN MOVE in Atomfall?
- Where to find the church cellar key in Atomfall
- Atomfall hidden cache locations
- Atomic battery locations in Atomfall
- 7 things to find first in Atomfall
- 10 Atomfall tips to thrive in post-apocalyptic Cumbria
- No Man’s Sky lets you unearth ancient, angry mechs in the astro-archaeology filled Relics update
- I'm not yelling 'we're so back!' yet, but Final Fantasy 14's patch 7.2 story could be the first sign the MMO is returning to what made it so critically-acclaimed
- Following 24 hours of Denuvo-based backlash, Inzoi is taking a surprising step and removing it entirely: 'We want to sincerely apologise for not aligning more closely with player expectations'
- How to use Soulstones in The First Berserker: Khazan
- How to unlock the blacksmith in The First Berserker: Khazan
- All Assassin's Creed Shadows romance options for Naoe and Yasuke
- Ubisoft scores a legendary ratio against Elon Musk on his own platform—which hopefully marks a final end to all the Assassin's Creed Shadows' culture war nonsense
- Total War: Warhammer 3 rolls out a cool Kislev overhaul, changes befitting Tzeench’s magic, new projectile units and creakier skeletal horses
- 'We're actually getting GeoGuessr on Steam before GTA 6': the Google Street View puzzler arrives on Valve's platform this April
- Former music-pirating platform Napster to be reborn rather ironically as a metaverse for musicians to connect with their fans after $207 million deal
- Don't panic! The 'Do Not Send Voice Recordings' option Amazon just removed was only used by 0.03% of customers and they can still have it
- Intel is reportedly 'working to finalize commitments from Nvidia' as a foundry partner, suggesting gaming potential for the 18A node
- Hmmm, upgrades: Nvidia App gets an optional AI assistant and custom DLSS resolution scaling
- Now I shall demand the cookies! Proposed new browsing agreement turns the tables and lets users dictate terms to websites
- Former Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger becomes executive chairman of a 'Technology Platform Connecting the Faith Ecosystem' to work on Christian AI using DeepSeek
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 26
- March 25
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- One year later, City of Heroes' officially recognized fan server has me praying it's the future of dead MMOs
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' first hotfix addresses stability issues and a photo mode crash
- CD Projekt says it's not using generative AI on The Witcher 4 because it's 'quite tricky when it comes to legal IP ownership'
- The 5th highest-rated game on Steam in 2022 is back with a multiplayer sequel
- After punishing my graphics card with Monster Hunter Wilds, I've returned to the rock-solid frame rates of my old hunting grounds: Windows XP
- Game Informer is back from the dead: 'The whole team has returned'
- From Palworld movies to Palworld TV shows: 'Everyone under the sun pitched us every idea you can imagine,' says Pocketpair's communications director
- The Witcher 4 won't be out until sometime in 2027 at the soonest, CD Projekt says
- After 23 years of making Dwarf Fortress, even its creator is still 'terrified' of drowning all his dwarves with aquifers: 'Part of the problem is we are just not good at videogames'
- A unique aspect of Japanese architecture turned out to be a key reason the Like a Dragon games can reuse assets so effectively—and deliver more compact, memorable open worlds than western cities
- Pacific Drive developers change their mind: A year after refusing to give it mid-run saves, it's getting mid-run saves
- Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime's new company is putting Sea of Thieves-style shenanigans in space with a new crew-based shooter
- Here's that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 mod that turns everyone into skeletons you asked for
- Forget REPO, Monster Hunter Wilds and Assassin's Creed Shadows, Steam's current global top seller is an early access game about managing a drug empire
- Former Bethesda dev who quit Starfield to go solo says it's 'much less stressful as an indie' without daily meetings or 'office politics': it's 'very refreshing to just care about the game'
- I'm convinced being a ghoul in Fallout 76 is the best way to vibe in West Virginia, thanks to these powerful perk cards and my new true love: Radiation
- Ubisoft says don't compare Assassin's Creed Shadows' success to Valhalla: The latter launched in Covid's 'perfect storm' and feedback on platforms 'less affected by review bombing' is stellar
- Thunder X3 Lab-X review
- Dwarf Fortress' creator is so tired of hearing about AI: 'Press a button and it writes a really sh*tty, wrong essay about something—and they still take your job'
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 won't have typical RPG romantic relationships, but it will feature 'romantic feeding'
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, but I'm not too worried—I've played it, and it's looking great
- AMD's next-gen 'Gorgon Point' APU outted and seemingly sticks with RDNA 3.5 graphics which is disappointing for handheld gaming PCs if accurate
- Playing a few hours of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has put a lot of my worries to rest
- Random characters kept swearing in Obsidian's font-obsessed murder-mystery when its procedural error system ran amok: 'Naughtiness abounded'
- Discord drops big update with 'completely new' in-game overlay and new dark themes for the desktop client
- Minecraft's never going free-to-play because as it stands it's 'the best deal in the world'
- After 17 years, devs of the only roguelike where players ask 'the best way to get the most limbs' can't believe its success: 'More people have bought Caves of Qud than are in this stadium, how do you reckon with that?'
- Oh my God, it's happening: Monster Hunter Wilds is finally bringing a fan-favorite sea snake home from the war
- Tony Hawk apparently intervened to get Bam Margera into Pro Skater 3+4: 'No, you're gonna do it'
- Monster Hunter Wilds' first title update is overflowing with new stuff: A long-awaited Grand Hub, Arch-tempered Monsters, Arena Quests, and most importantly, fashion
- Steel Hunters is like a more tactical Titanfall, but as an extraction shooter it's undermined by boring loot
- AMD's CEO claims 9070 XT sales are 10x higher than all previous Radeon generations but that's just for the first week of availability
- Second Steam listing this year found hiding 'new and clever' malware. This time through a fake demo link on developer's website
- With Nvidia Ace taking up 1 GB of VRAM in Inzoi, Team Green will need to up its memory game if AI NPCs take off in PC gaming
- AMD says 'there is a ton of interest' in FSR 4 and that it is 'working very hard to make sure the next blockbusters that come out are enabled with FSR 4 technology'
- Samsung has a crack at ye olde glasses-free 3D monitor thing but its new cheaper 49-inch ultrawide OLED is far more interesting
- 'Never thought I'd go back': Helldivers 2 players steel themselves to return to the site of its most infamous battle, Malevelon Creek
- 'It's a bittersweet victory': Meta has been forced to stop ad-tracking one individual in the UK after settling a years-long court case
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is a hit and Steam played a 'significant role' in that: 27% of activations were on PC and it's the 2nd-biggest AC launch of all time
- Blizzard plans to revive WoW Classic Hardcore characters 'at our sole discretion', after DDOS attack puts major streamer guild OnlyFangs in the ground
- 'You just have to make them think this world is real, and this world can hurt you': The Outlast Trials devs discuss a changing horror genre and an insatiable need for scares
- 'Is this a practical way to play your Steam games? Nope, not even a little bit.' But getting Steam running on Armbian and a single board computer really is a thing
- How a Microsoft exec managed to pitch Microsoft Word through the genius tactic of being able to actually use it in a 'type-off' demanded by clients: 'I was the only one who'd actually been a secretary'
- Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box
- US pressures Malaysia to stop banned AI chips potentially entering China by monitoring 'every shipment that comes to Malaysia when it involves Nvidia chips'
- While Waiting is a game all about chugging through life's most mundane tasks with a heaping side order of whimsy
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 25
- Magic: The Gathering's Tarkir: Dragonstorm set isn't just about dragons
- March 24
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- Powder enthusiasts seem pretty pleased with new physics-based realistic snowmobile sim Sledders
- As Civilization 7 struggles to keep up with Civ 5 player counts, a new patch is coming tomorrow with still more UI changes and gameplay tweaks
- Despite making a roguelike where you can have countless arms and legs, Caves of Qud's creators say the ideal form is a limbless sphere: 'We started in perfection and only moved farther from God'
- Metaphor: ReFantazio battle director says turn-based RPGs can still be just as popular as action RPGs: 'I personally believe turn-based games have a long future ahead of them'
- Assassin's Creed Shadows streamer goes viral after confronting whining commenters: 'Normal people don't get upset about this sh***'
- 'This is just the beginning': Assassin's Creed Shadows dev team thanks fans for their support and promises more to come in the future
- The Witcher 3 devs had to practically remake the game engine to make official modding possible
- Skyrim realism mod fixes your vampire girlfriend, giving her a voice and look more suited to someone who just got out of a coffin after 2,000 years
- 'No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense': Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth uses decoy pages to trap web-crawling bots and feed them slop 'as a defensive weapon'
- Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did'
- One of Valve's original executives shares a very simple secret to its success: 'You can't use up your credibility' by trying to make bad games work
- 'We essentially created a virtual headset': Scientists transmit inaudible sound using ultrasonic beams to create single person 'audio enclaves'
- Ultra-realistic life sim Inzoi has officially shoved Hollow Knight: Silksong and Deadlock out of the way to become Steam's most hotly-anticipated game
- In the year of our lord 2025, Mojang is finally adding shaders to Minecraft, making reflective lighting and water effects more accessible for all
- If you've ever wanted to upgrade a laptop with 'modular AI units' then Compal might just have the very thing you're looking for
- TCG Card Shop Simulator finally adds the ability to decorate our stores, and suddenly all my profits are being spent on adorable Pigni posters
- Dune: Awakening system requirements are here, complete with Razer Sensa HD haptic support to 'feel the rumble of your ornithopter's seat'
- The First Berserker: Khazan review
- Gabe Newell had his eyes on a social network in the '90s that 'was not in a games context at all'—meaning Valve-owned social media could've been a very real thing
- All Assassin's Creed Shadows allies and how to unlock them
- MSI has gone so heavy with 12V-2x6 power sockets in its latest high-end PSUs that many AMD and Intel graphics cards have no way of being powered
- The latest Minecraft Live uncovered the tragic truth of the Nether's most bothersome mob, which has unlocked new levels of guilt
- The RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti are rumoured to be mere weeks away, with board partners reportedly required to ensure at least one MSRP model at launch
- Minecraft Spring to Life update: everything you need to know about the newest drop
- Playable GTA 6 map nuked without warning by Take-Two lawyers: 'My guess is that the map was probably a little too accurate'
- Noctua's pumpless 'thermosiphon' liquid cooling unit is expected to be released in 2026 and has already given me a free lesson in basic thermodynamics
- Hollow Knight: Silksong gets SteamDB updates, and at this point I can't tell if the end is nigh or if I'm just hope-poisoned
- HP settles the class action lawsuit which claimed its printer updates 'act as malware', avoiding either a big payout or admitting wrongdoing
- 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties
- The 2012 source code for AlexNet, the precursor to modern AI, is now on Github thanks to Google and the Computer History Museum
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 24
- Shadow of Mordor's beloved nemesis system exists because the publisher threw a tantrum about second-hand sales
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 24, 2025)
- March 23
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- Silent Hill f is no longer banned in Australia, but it still sounds pretty messed up
- 'Google must divest the Chrome browser:' DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next
- One of the worst games ever made is coming to Steam, but we won't know how cruel this joke is until we see the price tag
- Dune: Awakening promises us a breath of fresh air, skipping early access for a full launch with no monthly subscription in May
- 'The dream of the tech industry is to sell off your company at an overinflated price and retire,' says actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach, 'And I feel that's being done with game studios right now'
- Medieval colony sim Norland is getting a 'damn big update' that completely overhauls the game's mechanics: 'We're rolling out some radical changes to the core gameplay'
- Assassin's Creed Shadows hits 2 million players, putting it on track to be the series' most successful game yet
- Eagle-eyed streamer spots that Roberta Williams' portrait in King's Quest 4 is based on her author photo on the back of the game box: 'I never noticed it before.'
- 'You’ve been asking, and we’ve been listening': Myst remake adds a whole new world to the classic adventure, one originally introduced in another overhaul from 25 years ago
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets a crumb of support as EA offers free weapon skins to coincide with a 50% discount
- Another round of Baldur's Gate 3 unearthing reveals Minthara can end up living in a sewer, an unused beach ending, and more
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 23
- Ark devs distance themselves from AI-generated trailer: 'we did not know that they were doing it'
- March 22
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- A beta of backyard FPS Neighbors: Suburban Warfare is out now, and the balance discussion is hysterical: nerf trash can lids and children
- Wreckfest 2 has hit early access for your car-obliterating combat racing enjoyment
- Monster Hunter director joined an online hunt, carted first: 'I feel bad about that'
- An FPS studio pulled its game from Steam after it got caught linking to malware disguised as a demo, but the dev insists it was actually the victim of a labyrinthine conspiracy
- I downloaded this bear-obsessed comedy FPS to kill time before Doom: The Dark Ages and discovered the most underrated shooter on Steam
- Former Age of Empires 2 dev claims Microsoft demanded its first expansion should have a Korean faction, because 'StarCraft sold 3 million copies in Korea'
- Chaotic courier sim Deliver At All Costs will crash through your letterbox this May, and its latest trailer is even weirder than I expected
- I played the lost videogame sequel to 1984, and came away more nostalgic than ever for gaming's awkward adolescence in 1999
- A bizarre mod that adds human poop to Skyrim led me on an enlightening journey into Viking sanitation: 'Your world will certainly be more immersive, but it will also certainly smell worse'
- This upcoming Korean tactical shooter features 'situational awareness AI' that reminds me of the uber-smart clones from Monolith's FEAR
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 22
- The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst
- March 21
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- Somebody finally figured out casual Counter-Strike
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s getting a new roguelite wave defense mode that sounds a whole lot like a souped-up take on Killing Floor
- 'Players don't explore': former Grand Theft Auto 6 and Red Dead Online designer lays out the perils of 'open world fatigue'
- Nearly 2 years after its last update, the excellent Battle Brothers gets 'a bucket load of fixes' and free new content
- Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio's UI designer is open to accessibility options for players who find the stylish menus overstimulating: 'That is something we understand we'll need to work on and provide in the future'
- Outer space inspired DayZ's Dean Hall to become a modder and game developer, and now he's making a Kerbal successor called Kitten Space Agency
- Split Fiction is reportedly at the center of a bidding war for its movie rights
- Seekers of Skyveil, the MOBA—extraction shooter mashup, is shutting down less than a month after release: ‘We have no choice but to bring this short journey to an end’
- Gabe Newell is hooked on Stalker 2 and once he's got the fourth ending (!) will 'figure out what I'm going to play next'
- Like a Dragon series director sums up why sidequests are essential to a great RPG with a single metaphor: 'a good main dish alone will not earn you a Michelin star'
- Bethesda marks Oblivion's 19th with a sweetroll, a candle, and absolutely no happy birthday gift for fans eager for the still-unannounced remaster
- Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'
- Helldivers 2 composer recalls stomping around his apartment and channeling 'Super Patriotism' to capture Arrowhead's satirical vision in music: 'The satire works because the music believes it's a pure patriotic love without irony or criticism'
- REPO dev says it wasn’t actually inspired by Lethal Company, and started as a singleplayer cleaning game: ‘It was nice, but far from what REPO is now’
- 'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback
- Logitech G PowerPlay 2 mouse pad review
- Inzoi's 'Smart Zoi' AI system sounds great on paper but seeing it in a live demo didn't exactly wow me
- Getting to level 50 in Fallout 76 to become a ghoul actually isn't as daunting as it seems, which is why I created a new character
- A Jensen Huang-signed version of this golden Asus RTX 5090 will be auctioned off to support relief efforts for the California wildfires
- Nvidia CEO sets sights on making 'several hundred billion' dollars worth of electronics in the USA over the next four years, increasing the chance of your next GPU being made in America
- 'We all got laid off', says former Deck Nine narrative designer, after no-one was around to pick up Life is Strange: Double Exposure's GDC Awards win
- Monster Hunter Wilds' first free update will feature 'a whole host of new additions' and a majestic water wyvern for players to blow sky high
- Ichiban Kasuga makes like a dragonfish and joins Dave the Diver’s latest DLC on April 10th for some fisticuffs and a few rounds of karaoke
- All Assassin's Creed Shadows Tea Ceremony answers
- You can win an MSI RTX 5080 in Taiwan if you collect nine dragon figurines given away with *checks notes* MSI RTX 50-series GPUs
- PC Gamer vindicated by Swen Vincke: Larian boss calls Balatro his personal GOTY as it sweeps top prize from devs at GDC awards
- Colorful iGame RTX 5070 Ti Vulcan OC review
- After a controversial coding slip-up fed stalkers info on their victim's alts, FF14 wipes the slate clean to try and fix its mistakes
- Look Outside is a survival horror RPG where you absolutely should not look outside
- Microsoft announces DirectX Raytracing 1.2 claiming 'game changing' performance benefits but it looks like the important stuff is already in Nvidia's RTX GPUs, even the old ones
- This fighter is Marvel Vs Capcom for classic mecha anime sickos, launching into early access with a strategy RPG story mode on its heels
- Microsoft crawls back to Steam ahead of schedule by leaking a screenshot of an app where you can launch Steam games through Xbox
- Assassin's Creed Shadows canon mode explained
- Assassin's Creed Shadows guided exploration explained
- Assassin's Creed Shadows immersive mode explained
- Dive into Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium's exhilarating new update [Aphelion]
- Atomfall review
- The first non-Steam Deck SteamOS handheld is now available for preorder, and Lenovo may be aiming for the ROG Ally X's throne
- Ghoul players in Fallout 76 are starting to place their camps in the most radioactive areas of the map, and regular humans aren't happy: 'I had to inject 30+ radaway into my veins'
- Friendship ended with human race: Boffins declare the 'meme Turing test' has been passed, and AI is now making funnier captions on average than you useless lumps
- Baldur's Gate 3's stress test update fixes heartbreaking bug that wiped out Honour Mode runs at the last possible moment
- Acer Predator Z57 gaming monitor review
- X-Com creator Julian Gollop unexpectedly takes over sequel to sprawling board game adaptation, and you can try out the closed beta next week
- CEO Jensen Huang reveals that Nvidia is now making chips in the USA but will that help with gaming GPU supplies?
- After Ubi came crawlin' back to Steam, Assassin's Creed Shadows blasts past a million players in under 24 hours and has already smashed Valhalla's player record
- Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich'
- Mackie CR3.5BT + CR8SBT subwoofer review
- Animal Use Protocol's dysfunctional chimp-rat alliance drags the Stasis series into a horrible new first-person era
- GOG's version of Silent Hill 4 has been updated with missing content from the original console game
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, March 21
- Wizards of the Coast throws a bone to players who miss vanilla Magic: The Gathering with a dragon-themed set called Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- March 20
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- Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is getting a new mountain next month and a whole bunch more throughout the year, including a game editor
- 'The Middle East's answer to Marvel Rivals' is an 'AI-powered', crypto-infused hero shooter that looks like hot garbage
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director was 'starving for new turn-based RPGs,' and figured if he wanted them, there would be others out there who'd want to play his game
- Wield a brinerevolver as a brinehunter in Abyssus, the briniest ‘brinepunk’ shooter this side of the Mariana Trench
- In this airship-building survival game, I faced an enemy worth punching trees over: 'The hubris of man'
- If you were worried Onimusha 2 won’t be hard enough, I have great news: Hell mode is here to ruin your life
- Electrified sticky notes and spontaneous combustion: Remedy's new co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is built for chaos and 'joyful discoveries'
- Painkiller is back, and maybe they'll finally get it right this time
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is heading to the ocean with a Viking-themed naval expansion this summer
- The Finals new season is here, toting permanent team deathmatch and a giant minigun
- Nightdive's remaster of System Shock 2, the peak of immersive sims, finally has a release date
- Wizards of the Coast gaming head says Baldur's Gate 3 'certainly raised the bar' and changed how they think about big budget D&D, but they still want 'different entry points' including smaller games
- Balatro's publisher doesn't know how big the 1.1 update will be or when it's coming: 'He's just gonna show up one day and say, here's 100 new jokers'
- Bloober Team’s new horror label just unveiled an isometric survival horror game straight out of a comic book: ‘Avoid the Horned Man at all costs’
- After suspending development in 2024, People Can Fly brings Project Victoria back to life as survival-extraction shooter Lost Rift
- Marketing guy invents the concept of 'Real Steam' to explain why 'magic' games, AKA good games, end up selling: 'Don't tell Valve'
- 'Humans still surpass machines': Roblox has been using a machine learning voice chat moderation system for a year, but in some cases you just can't beat real people
- Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope says 'it's a tragedy' his 2013 immigration sim now feels so on-the-nose: 'You want your work to be relevant, but at the same time, wow, I really wish it was not that f***ing relevant'
- Gordon Freeman joins a retro pandimensional deathmatch in crossover mod Quake Champions Classic
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has convinced me that Ubisoft will never make a good RPG
- Sugar 1 is a shape-shifting handheld with two screens and rotatable controllers that make it look like a legally distinct transformable robot
- 'Searches for Invisible Woman went up 3,000%': Marvel Rivals devs innocently reflect on how popular some of their heroes have become
- Monster Hunter Wilds player spits in the face of creation, fuses Nata with Arkveld like they're doing a Full Metal Alchemist villain speedrun
- All Assassin's Creed Shadows Twitch Drops and how to get them
- Getting Half-Life 2 to work on 8 MB of VRAM means turning it into an eerily befitting voidscape: 'there were absolutely no effects left'
- You can finally try out Old School RuneScape’s first new skill in nearly two decades right now
- Helldivers 2 CCO Johan Pilestedt says the industry's got it backwards by putting features over fundamentals: 'We talk way too little about the core philosophy'
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows sneakily tones down the mess players can make across Japan’s religious sites in its day one patch
- 'A developer who actually listens': Marvel Rivals' devs fix accidental Peni Parker nerf just 9 short hours after saying they would
- ChatGPT faces legal complaint after a user inputted their own name and found it accused them of made-up crimes
- 'There might be a party. I wasn't invited,' says Jensen Huang of the rumoured TSMC proposal to join forces and run Intel's chip fabs
- Samsung 9100 Pro 2 TB SSD review
- It's turtle time: Endless Legend 2's first faction is the fortification-loving Kin of Sheredyn
- Over 110 players and 10,000 units clash as this free RTS celebrates its growing multiplayer scene with some of the biggest multiplayer battles ever fought
- Balatro's first demo could be edited with Notepad to unlock the whole game—the solution? 'Bury it as soon as possible' with a 'newer, shinier version'
- Karl Urban as Johnny Cage and Adeline Rudolph as Kitana look like good additions to the Mortal Kombat 2 movie, but I think a flawless victory is still far from certain
- 'Hasbro pushed Sigil out of the nest': D&D's latest layoffs happened because the 'distinct monetization path' for its virtual tabletop Sigil never materialized
- Nvidia confirms 'open issue' with Varjo Aero VR headsets and RTX 50-series graphics cards after affected users ask for help
- How to become a ghoul in Fallout 76
- Meet Luna, the new AI robot dog who teaches itself using a digital nervous system and software 'that allows any machine to learn like humans and animals do'
- A single RTX 4090 managed to brute force crack an Akira ransomware attack in just 7 days
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, March 20
- Game dev union marches through industry event to demonstrate that it's about 'taking action and organizing change'
- Inzoi's attempt to do everything has left it a shallow imitation of The Sims, and I'm not sure it understands what makes those games so special in the first place
- March 19
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- Grab this ridiculously overpowered Yasuke armor as soon as possible in Assassin's Creed Shadows
- Balatro's LocalThunk isn't 'trying to pull a Banksy', he just 'wanted to be left alone to make his game'
- This is why the Minecraft movie is called A Minecraft Movie
- The warframe with a guitar that shoots fire is out today alongside a bunch of metalcore-inspired skins, cementing Warframe's spiral into Y2K madness
- Johan Pilestedt warns that Helldivers 2 took 4 more years than planned because Arrowhead skipped pre-production and dove right in: 'Always do your homework before you start spending millions and millions and millions of dollars in making a game'
- Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says developers need to start taking more risks: 'Safe bets are a death sentence for the studios that try to make them'
- A pair of Split Fiction players will be heading to Sweden for an early look at Hazelight's next game after completing a secret challenge so tough, some developers can 'barely' beat it
- Arrowhead’s CEO got a call from PlayStation when he said players could save their money and wait to buy Helldivers 2 until the servers were fixed: They ‘asked me what the f*** I’m smoking’
- New Ark DLC gets AI-generated trailer so awful that the original developer's washing its hands of the whole thing, and fans are in uproar: 'This is disgusting and you should be ashamed'
- The United Nations asked Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead if it'd give a talk on psychological manipulation: ‘Could we brainwash an entire community to fight for a fascist state? … Would we be okay with that? Turns out, yeah’
- It's not for PC gamers but Razer's new AI QA Copilot could ultimately benefit every PC gamer out there, and it's looking like it could be a killer app that AI needs right now
- I honestly thought Razer's Sensa haptics stuff was just a gimmick until I tried it with a sim racing setup, and now I'm absolutely sold
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sold 5 times more than the original in its first month
- Best skills in Assassin's Creed Shadows
- Here's how to watch the Future Games Show 2025 Spring Showcase
- Nvidia has cut the MSRP of RTX 50-series FE cards in the UK and Europe and that means... not a whole lot right now
- Microsoft's Adaptive Joystick is geared towards 'players with limited mobility' and is available now for just $30
- Silksong's weary hollows tossed another scrap of hope from Xbox on high, as a blog post namedrops it next to other 'upcoming games'
- Game developers launch North America's first industry-wide union 'to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status'
- Rejoice! PCI Express 7.0 hits 'final draft' status enabling bandwidth that you probably won't notice on devices that won't appear for years
- American Truck Simulator’s latest teaser is just a sound effect and no one seems to agree on what exactly it means
- Microsoft is finally rolling out its controller-friendly virtual keyboard for a better Windows handheld gaming PC experience
- Expelled! review
- Palworld's Crossplay Update does far more than let you play with console buddies, adding photo mode, a drafting table and 'dimensional Pal Storage'
- It's not looking good for D&D's virtual tabletop Sigil, as Hasbro follows a quiet release by reportedly laying off 90% of the people working on it
- While we despair of RTX 50-series supplies and wait on next-gen Rubin, Nvidia reveals its next-next GPU architecture will be known as Feynman and is due in 2028
- Some Fallout 76 players have encountered a 'major game-breaking bug' which either makes it impossible to complete the ghoul quest or just makes you temporarily invisible
- Major performance issues aside, over half of Monster Hunter Wilds’ sales are from Steam alone
- People expecting Inzoi to be some sort of Sims killer are going to be very disappointed
- Assassin's Creed Shadows unlock times for each region
- Remember those fiddly screw-locks for VGA and DVI-D? Bet you didn't know USB-C also has them
- After launching as an Epic Store exclusive, World of Goo 2 dribbles onto Steam this spring: 'We’re grateful to Epic for funding development of the game'
- The nail-biting, 100-hour BIOS update stream which garnered 88,000 peak views ends with a cut to black
- Razer is collaborating on a gaming CAPTCHA to combat AI-powered bots, and of course the first game to use it is the worst Web3 nonsense I've ever seen
- Nvidia reveals Vera, a new CPU with 'custom' cores which could be very exciting for its upcoming premium PC processor
- 'You are hereby conscripted': Fallout 76 players demand newly-transformed ghoul players help them mine radioactive ore
- Marvel Rivals' devs like throwing in curveballs 'to make the roster more interesting,' meaning we'll probably get more characters like Squirrel Girl and Jeff the Land Shark
- Monster Hunter Wilds' next set of event quests let you snag a snazzy earring, plus armor and weapon decorations
- This Redditor rocked up to Best Buy and bought an RTX 4060 gaming PC for cheaper than its extended warranty, saving $1,195 and their friend from buying a console
- 'We balance for fun, first and foremost': Marvel Games' executive producer discusses Marvel Rivals' priorities and why competitive balancing comes second
- Nvidia's GTC keynote inevitably went all in on AI but I'm definitely here for the Isaac GR00T robots
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 19
- Inzoi will cost as much as a Sims 4 expansion pack and until it leaves early access 'all DLCs and updates will be free'
- In good news for Sim-murdering sickos, Inzoi has '16 different types of deaths'
- March 18
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- Nvidia's expanded Zorah demo tells us how AI is the future of graphics: 'There's no rasterization going on at all. This is all ray traced and the amazing part is that it's actually faster than rasterizing'
- Sennheiser says it 'will not become a gaming brand' but its new HD 550 are a good excuse to use audiophile headphones for gaming
- After years of playing as stupid, boring humans in Fallout, you can finally channel your inner Walton Goggins and become a ghoul in Fallout 76
- Hasbro will be ready to share news about the future of Baldur's Gate 'in pretty short order'
- World of Warcraft Classic’s Season of Discovery may be teasing a legendary weapon that players have speculated is in the game for two decades
- Get in here, stalker: Stalker 2’s Patch 1.3 is here with a whopping 1,200 fixes
- I'm creeped out by this trailer for a generative AI game about people using an AI-powered app to solve violent crimes in the year 2028 that somehow isn't a cautionary tale
- After 12 days and 100s of wipes, World of Warcraft's latest world first raid ends in anticlimax: 'That's the boss?!?'
- AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia are all excited about cooperative vectors and what they mean for the future of 3D graphics, but it's going to be a good while before we really see their impact
- New super-thin '2D' metal sheets could enable ultra-low power chips and can you guess how they're made? Yup, by squishing stuff really hard
- Larian's Swen Vincke subtweets anyone still fixated on singleplayer games' commercial viability: 'They just have to be good'
- 'People like to hate EA, I don't know why': Split Fiction's Josef Fares says he has a good relationship with his publisher, but 'nobody believes' him
- The Silent Hill F system requirements look pretty modest at first but that's only for all my 720p gamers out there
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows PC performance analysis: Ray tracing, upscaling, and frame generation are all optional, but only two of them are worth using, though not the ones you might think
- Assassin's Creed Shadows review
- Don't expect to unlock Yasuke for a while in Assassin's Creed Shadows
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- How to unlock and complete Shadow Projects in Assassin's Creed Shadows
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- How to get and upgrade rations in Assassin's Creed Shadows
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- Endorfy Fortis 5 Dual Fan review
- PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
- AMD claims it has 45% gaming GPU market share in Japan but jokingly admits it 'isn't used to selling graphics cards'
- This HyperX headset is quite literally for the clouds as it has the option for winged ear plates
- Cities: Skylines 2 celebrates 10 years of Cities with more nuanced homelessness and six new DLCs
- Rockstar hornswoggles lapsed GTAO players with $3 million welcome-back offer that actually requires you to spend money to get most of it
- 'I'm not a gamer,' says God of War Amazon series' new showrunner, unwittingly kicking a hornet's nest despite years of acclaimed writing experience
- Ratings board gives away Silent Hill f's gut-churning tricks, listing face-slicing, arm-sawing and, worst of all, 'exposed buttocks'
- The best game design schools, ranked by the Princeton Review 2025
- Helldivers 2's next warbond'll let you be a real space cowboy, and draw on those Automaton scum with a lever-action rifle
- Cataclismo review
- The Half-Life 2 RTX demo is out now and well worth a go… if your graphics card can take it
- XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 OC review
- 'I made the world's worst keyboard': This YouTuber's homemade board has over 1,000 keys and types in words, not letters
- "Eager to get me on my knees, Raphael?" Baldur's Gate 3 mod lets you romance the silk-tongued cambion devil, although maybe you shouldn't, yeah?
- Chinese graphics card maker claims RX 9070 supply will be 'stable' from April while AMD commits to more MSRP graphics cards though admits it's something 'we don't directly control'
- Cherry MX 8.2 TKL Wireless XAGA review
- Zenless Zone Zero developer finally embraces its divine domain as the god of jiggle physics, goes mad, adds them to cat balls
- Space Marine 2 CEO puts the boot into the Saints Row team's twitching corpse from his private jet: 'Who's going to fund them for the next game after that disaster?'
- The future of robots is looking ever more meaty as MIT researchers grow first bidirectional muscle tissue machine
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 18
- Ark 2 is still on: The next Ark expansion 'leads into the events of Ark 2,' says Studio Wildcard
- It was 'super popular to hate Palworld' after launch, says community manager: 'A lot of companies might crumble under the threats, under the pressure'
- 'It was a very depressing day': Palworld community manager reveals studio's reaction to Nintendo lawsuit
- March 17
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- A gorgeous ground-up remake of Counter-Strike 1.6 is on its way to Steam, and one of the game's original creators says 'it really gives me old vibes'
- Help, I can't move forward in this chill crafting RPG because I'm too wrapped up in building bases and making sick tools
- There's a new Portal game and it costs $12,500
- Beast Games opens casting for season 2: MrBeast lost a ton of money on season 1 but apparently not enough that he won't do it again
- Rise of the Ronin's PC troubles continue as players report disappearing saves on Steam
- Former Treyarch studio co-head and Black Ops 3 director is heading up a new first-party PlayStation studio
- 'I want to raise this glass to our fans, to our community': 4A Games celebrates Metro 2033's 15th anniversary and hints at next Metro game
- Lenovo Legion Go S (Windows) review
- Ubisoft reportedly has an anti-harassment plan in place for Assassin's Creed Shadows developers
- This MSI Afterburner file unlocks 36 Gbps RTX 50-series memory overclocks for, y'know, the few people that actually own a card
- Avowed's new patch just gave you 6 more talent points to muck around with, along with a heap of fixes and improvements
- Silent Hill 2 remake and Indiana Jones are at historically low prices this Steam Spring Sale—so long as you don't buy them directly from Steam
- Cherry Xtrfy K4V2 TKL review
- A new and improved desktop experience just landed on Steam Deck and SteamOS is readying 'support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'
- Monster Hunter Wilds players wonder if frenzied monsters are a little undercooked, as one slaps a sickly bird into a fine paste in just 25 seconds
- This Pathfinder Humble Bundle lets you level up your TTRPG library and donate to charity at the same time starting at just $5
- MSI MAG CoreLiquid A15 360 review
- Inzoi is giving eager life simmers another free taste of its gorgeous character creator, with a bonus build mode demo for the architecture nerds
- You can grab Undertale for less than $1, as the genre-defining indie RPG beats its all-time player peak for the first time in 10 years
- Age of Empires 2 team continues to cook while delivering 'legendarily long' 8,000-word patch notes about 'the biggest updates' the 26-year-old game has ever had
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure reportedly a 'large loss' for Square Enix, says analyst, who adds: 'The company's IP fundamentally varies too much between good and bad'
- Would you like to taste fish soup in VR? Me neither, but this electronic tongue does it anyway
- 'REPO is fun': Lethal Company creator recants their criticism of the new co-op horror game after trying to move a grand piano through a mansion
- MSI RTX 5090 Suprim SOC review
- Your Discord friends list may soon appear directly in the games you play
- KOTOR remake returns for annual tradition of reminding you it's still alive, but no you can't hear anything more about it until it comes back next year to say it again
- A rather pleasing Windows 11 update bug automatically uninstalls Copilot and unpins it from the taskbar, which is jolly nice of it
- Valorant dev accepts there's too much random crap cluttering up the screen: 'The balance team generally agrees with this take'
- New headset reads minds and uses AR, AI and machine learning to help people with locked-in-syndrome communicate with loved ones again
- 92% of Nvidia users turn on DLSS... if they've been lucky enough to bag an RTX 50-series card at launch AND have the Nvidia App installed
- This palm-sized PC has removable memory, a flip up screen, and a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 17
- Deconstructeam's next game is about training to shoot a single fireball at an impossible target
- We asked two parkour athletes to rate the realism of Assassin's Creed's acrobatics, and a surprising 'crime against parkour' might actually be one of the most realistic things they saw
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 17, 2025)
- MechWarrior 5: Clans is getting DLC with playable Elementals and a fight on the outside of a spaceship
- March 16
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- 'I feel worried about this art form:' Unsurprisingly, the real Aloy from Horizon isn't a fan of AI Aloy
- REPO's first update will add a new map and a 'duck bucket' so we can finally give that pesky quacker a time out
- Wyrdsong, the RPG from ex-Bethesda talent, isn't dead—but it's no longer an open world: 'We're down to a skeleton crew'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 16
- 2011 was an amazing comeback year for PC gaming
- My new most anticipated RPG let me be a kleptomaniac gourmand set loose in a noir city on a quest to make 'the perfect sandwich'
- March 15
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- The Day Before studio reportedly sues Russian website for calling infamous disaster-game a 'scam'
- I played the notoriously ratings-board-ravaged Manhunt 2 and was quite glad for the censorship actually
- The best Battlefield game of the last decade is 95% off until Thursday
- The hottest farming sim since Stardew Valley just got its second major update, adding lava caves and pets you unlock by having a 'pet dream'
- Grab the brilliant Doom 2016 for its lowest price ever
- Dune Awakening's latest trailer offers a glimpse of its massive coriolis storms, which reshape swathes of the map each week for 'infinite exploration'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 15
- March 14
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- 'What are most games about? Killing': Black Mirror Season 7 includes a follow-up to 2018 interactive film Bandersnatch
- Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have
- Ubisoft is reportedly talking to Tencent about creating a new business entity to manage Assassin's Creed and other big games
- 'It really truly changed my life in every possible way': Lady Dimitrescu actor says her Resident Evil Village role was just as transformative for her as it was for roughly half the internet in 2021
- Monster Hunter Wilds' new gyro controls are a fantastic option for disabled and able-bodied players alike
- Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam
- Possibility Space owners sue NetEase for $900 million over allegations it spread 'false and defamatory rumors' of fraud at the studio that ultimately forced it to close
- Fragpunk review
- Rise of the Ronin review
- 2024 was Steam's 'best year ever' of users buying newly released games—but I wouldn't celebrate the end of the forever game era just yet
- Valve tracked 1.7 million Steam users who joined in 2023 to see if they stuck around—they did, and they spent $93 million
- The Bazaar could be the future of autobattlers, if it stops strangling itself to death with its own microtransactions
- Varjo Aero VR headsets seem to be not working on RTX 5090s, and its community is opting for strange solutions while waiting for an Nvidia driver release to fix it
- Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' and at least one AI model seems to agree
- Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.2's trailer has me finally hyped to get stuck back in—and to go to the moon and pilot some mechs, because why not
- World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm CPU
- Soundcore Liberty 4 Pro review
- Fortnite comes to Snapdragon: Epic Games announces upcoming Arm support for its Easy Anti-Cheat software
- 'We've been keeping fans waiting for an awfully long time': We finally got to see more of Silent Hill f and boy, does it look great
- Penne for your thoughts: This pasta display can show three individual frames and it's trying its best, okay
- The hooligan hacker guild that tore up WoW's newest raid (twice) just posted video evidence of the whole thing, and it's got me feeling weirdly nostalgic
- Finally some good vibes from Intel as stock jumps 15% on new CEO hire and Arizona fab celebrates 'Eagle has landed' moment for its 18A node
- Asus appears to have quietly changed the design of its Q-Release PCIe slot after claims of potential GPU pin damage
- Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale, who played femshep, 'saw no line' before she recorded them for Bioware's flagship trilogy: 'It was all cold reading on the spot'
- SteelSeries QcK Performance mouse pad review
- After years of complaints about Windows Task Manager displaying CPU utilization incorrectly, a fix is finally on its way
- How to find a barber and change hairstyle in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Sony's fixing the wrong panel problems while showing off its new 'RGB LED' backlight tech with outrageous colours and brightness
- All Genshin Impact 5.5 livestream codes
- Super Nintendo consoles appear to be running ever-so-slightly faster as they age and speedrunning detectives are hot on the case
- Marvel Rivals' growing roster of heroes scares me, but the game's director seems sure that all is under control: 'Everything is progressing smoothly'
- Three lucky folks in India can win the dubious honour of buying an RTX 5080 GPU at Nvidia MSRP
- Get ready to argue with your weird Uncle on Facebook again. Meta is rolling out its new fact checking solution to it's 190 million users in the United States
- Fresh leak suggests Intel's on-again-off-again Arrow Lake CPU refresh is back on the menu (boys)
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, March 14
- Go ahead and complain the discounts aren't as steep as they used to be, but Steam just had its biggest year ever for seasonal sales
- 'The future of hardware at Valve is bright': Valve celebrates the success of Steam Deck and Steam OS
- March 13
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- The best deals in the 2025 Steam Spring Sale
- One of my favorite indie RPGs is getting a follow-up made with FromSoftware's 25-year-old Super Mario Maker for first person dungeon crawlers
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 now has Steam Workshop support, and of course one of the first mods lets you adjust the 'jiggle physics'
- Microsoft unveils Copilot for Gaming, an AI-powered 'ultimate gaming sidekick' that will let you talk to your console so you don't have to talk to your friends
- 'Siege 2 was never on the table': Rainbow Six Siege X director explains why the 10-year-old FPS doesn't need a sequel
- The best Monster Hunter Wilds mods
- Monster Hunter Wilds weapon tier list
- Winning $2.6 billion in this poker videogame has completely ruined fake poker for me
- After holding out for 10 years, Rainbow Six Siege is finally going free-to-play (kind of)
- This RuneScape-looking 'simulated MMORPG' has all the nostalgia without the drama because all the other 'players' are NPCs
- Hello Sunshine is a desert survival sandbox where you live in the literal shadow of the colossus
- Pirate Bay co-founder and far-right politician found dead after plane crash
- 'Don't let your kids be on Roblox', Roblox CEO tells parents, before comparing himself to Walt Disney and declaring the platform 'the future of communication'
- Fate: Reawakened gives the nostalgic 20-year-old action RPG series a new lease on life
- Praise be to the Omnissiah! Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 is officially in development
- Group allegedly trying to smuggle Nvidia Blackwell chips stare down bail set at over $1 million
- Rainbow Six Siege is getting its first permanent mode in 10 years, and it throws every Siege rule out the window
- Despite Disco Elysium Mobile aiming to 'captivate the TikTok user,' it looks surprisingly decent—but it's still insulting to Disco's ousted creators
- The Steam Spring Sale 2025 is here
- Monster Hunter Wilds' best change is to its layered armor, letting me finally run amok with dressup the way I should have always been able to
- Venerable browser-based MMO Urban Dead is closing this week after a 20-year run, not with a bang but with a whimper
- Saudi Arabia buys Pokémon GO maker for $3.5 billion with a 'B'
- 4 short months after saying 'We'll have to adapt and change', Netflix's AI games VP adapts and changes into a person who isn't working there anymore
- Monster Hunter Wilds players can't stop blowing themselves to smithereens with its rollable barrel bombs
- The PC Gaming Show returns this June
- Alienware 27 AW2725Q QD-OLED review
- If you don't let us scrape copyrighted content, we will lose out to China says OpenAI as it tries to influence US government
- 'What do you mean real actors?': Astarion's VO, who shared an awards category with Idris Elba after Baldur's Gate 3, remembers the dark ages of mocap
- 'More evolution than revolution': PowerWash Simulator 2 is coming late 2025, and it's bringing online multiplayer and split-screen co-op with it
- The latest big game on Steam is Fragpunk, or as I like to call it, 'kitchen-sink Counter-Strike'
- Crusader Kings 3 saddles up for a long-awaited return to the east with its first Asian DLC, Khans of the Steppe
- All Marvel Rivals characters: current roster and upcoming heroes
- LocalThunk gave up making Balatro for 3 months but resumed because 'I was bored but the internet was out so I couldn't play Rocket League'
- Ranking AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards by their visual design, cuz, you know, I can't buy one for MSRP so have to kill my time somehow
- As a real life museum employee, I'm a bit confused by the amount of pirate ghosts in Two Point Museum—but it's not going to stop me trying to make the most realistic exhibits I can
- This gaming PC build smashes together the very latest components but if I did it again, I'd do it differently
- 'No AI used': Netflix's Devil May Cry showrunner confirms that all of Kevin Conroy's lines were recorded before he passed
- AI will be crammed in more of the graphics pipeline as Nvidia and Microsoft are bringing AI shading to a DirectX preview next month
- Nvidia says it's sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks. I'd bloody well hope so given there was essentially just the RTX 4090 for competition
- I just played Half-Life 2 RTX, a fully ray-traced overhaul of the original, and its meaty headcrabs have me hankering for more
- Looks like a reference design AMD RX 9070 XT card has shown up in China, but let's not get carried away with thoughts of MBA cards just yet
- WoW flexes its MMO player housing system in a new blog post, and it really might just beat FF14's dated furniture placement into the dirt
- In a world of WoW Classics and Old School RuneScapes… could Final Fantasy 14 ever do the same?
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, March 13
- Spectre Divide and its studio are shutting down after just six months: 'The industry is in a tough spot right now'
- Ubisoft backflips, says Assassin's Creed Shadows will support Steam Deck at launch, but I doubt I'll actually want to play it there
- March 12
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- 'Diversify your fashion endgame' with this Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 mod that gives Henry fly new gambesons, pourpoints, and caftans
- There's hope yet for Classic Offensive after its Steam rejection: The team behind the Counter-Strike 1.6 revival mod is in touch with Valve about its 'concerns'
- Here comes Intel's new CEO: a semiconductor veteran that won the same prestigious award as Jensen Huang and Lisa Su
- 8 months into their strike, videogame voice actors say the industry's latest proposal is 'filled with alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to AI abuse'
- Dune: Awakening confirms air-to-air combat in ornithopters
- LocalThunk forbids AI-generated art on the Balatro subreddit: 'I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds'
- Oh great, the full Inzoi system requirements are posted and I'm barely above the minimum specs so I guess my Zois will be beautifully blurry
- BioWare veteran says a big delay is better than lots of little ones, because sometimes you just gotta 'burn it down and take the other fork in the road'
- Rise of the Ronin is another crappy PC port, performance patch coming 'soon'
- The state of Final Fantasy 14 in 2025: It's in a weird spot, huh?
- A dead MMO that launched with a now-cancelled TV show in 2013 is coming back 4 years after servers were shut down
- Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed
- OpenAI is working on a new AI model Sam Altman says is ‘good at creative writing’ but to me it reads like a 15-year-old's journal
- 'This is essentially a fraudulent project': Some scientists are firing shots at Microsoft's recent quantum computing claims
- This impractical method of getting a 1-second capture time in Monster Hunter Wilds can make you the fastest hunter alive—on paper
- Lego is going to make its videogames in-house from now on, says it would 'almost rather overinvest'
- We've just got a first look at Vergil in Netflix's upcoming Devil May Cry series alongside another key character from Devil May Cry 3
- More affordable sub-$1,000 RTX 50-series laptops likely coming in May as RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 models spotted online
- Audio-Technica ATH R50X review
- GTA 5 publisher takes legal aim at account-selling site for allegedly raking in 'millions in revenue', while recruiting hackers to keep its cogs turning
- XFX is letting you add customisable 3D printed wings to its Quicksilver RX 9070-series graphics cards
- Corsair K70 Pro TKL review
- So, wait, now TSMC is supposedly pitching a joint venture with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom to run Intel's ailing chip fabs?
- Marvel Rivals is carrying on the tradition of chaotic patches after buffing two of the most annoying heroes, but I main one of them, so I'm not complaining
- One of the biggest victories of Monster Hunter Wilds' streamlining is I don't have to deal with those awful gimmick fights anymore
- Some Sapphire RX 9070/9070 XT graphics cards have hard-to-spot foam inside that must be removed or it 'may result in a decrease in cooling capacity or product failure'
- Gemma's English VA is right with us on Monster Hunter Wild's confusing menus, which makes me feel a little better for having to Google symbols all the time
- Haunted printers turning on by themselves and printing nonsense has to be one of my favorite Windows 11 bugs ever
- This water-cooled gaming laptop packs a full-size desktop RTX 5090 and even fits in a backpack, but I sure wouldn't want it in mine
- Samsung's handheld prototype delivers folding phone screens to Switch-like gaming hardware, and I am absolutely here for it
- Corsair's Custom Labs is now available in Europe, allowing you to make your gear as cute or ugly as you want and no-one will stop you
- Trump says the United States is already talking to potential TikTok buyers: 'We're dealing with four different groups, and a lot of people want it ... all four are good'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 12
- The latest Monster Hunter Wilds event quest gives piles of Armor Spheres for hunting a Chatacabra, making this a very bad week to be a frog in the Forbidden Lands
- March 11
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- Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?'
- Here's a roguelite dungeon crawler Steam reviewers call 'a botanical Diablo' and 'like Cult of the Lamb' except you manage a mystical garden
- Oops! Bungie rolled out Destiny 2's Rite of the Nine event three weeks early, and new loot is already dropping
- No Rest for the Wicked developer Moon Studios is now 'fully independent' after acquiring the rights to the game from Take-Two
- Attention, fashion hunters: There's a Monster Hunter Wilds mod to disable all those obnoxious glowing buff effects that distract from your fits
- Should Age of Empires and Quake be in the 'World Video Game Hall of Fame'? You can vote for them to be inducted this year
- The Fallout season 2 leaks continue with videos of the New Vegas set, including a sign for Mr. House's casino
- BlizzCon 2025 isn't happening, meaning the event will miss its 20th anniversary, but it will return in 2026 to 'meaningfully elevate this iconic celebration'
- World of Warcraft guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on the game's new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again
- The best baseball player alive is coming to Fortnite, and so is his dog
- How long can a live service game last? Theoretically, 'forever,' says Mecha Break developer: 'The last game I was in charge of has been alive and well for 16 years'
- Naughty Dog's next game is definitely steering clear of controversy: 'Let's do something that people won't care as much about. Let's make a game about faith and religion'
- We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks
- Coder faces 10 years' jailtime for creating a 'kill switch' that screwed-up his employers' systems when he was laid off
- New modder tool makes it easier than ever to swap AMD's FSR 4 scaling for Nvidia's DLSS or Intel's XeSS and vice versa
- Gigabyte seemingly mocks Asus' recent Q-release debacle with a video swapping out an RTX 5070 Ti 100 times
- It's another day of Disco Elysium-related announcements trying to kneecap each other: Studio ZA/UM has put out a teaser for its first new game since 2019, and it's not Disco Elysium 2
- If you've ever wanted to trap your D&D character in dice like a fly in amber, 3,700+ people are paying Hero Forge close to $400,000 in Kickstarter funds for the pleasure
- 'I was recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale': Inzoi director admits he now sees 'why so few companies have attempted to develop a life simulation game'
- PCG's best city builder of 2024 is adding a map with a gigantic hill in the middle: the perfect spot for your next castle
- NZXT H7 Flow review (2024 Edition)
- I wish Monster Hunter Wilds wasn't so afraid of letting me play Monster Hunter
- Microsoft is reportedly prepping a handheld Xbox for later this year with new consoles coming in 2027
- WoW's nerfed its poor Delve companion into a dwarf-shaped crater after his tank spec made them too easy, and people aren't happy
- After REPO 'kinda blew up', its developer asks the community for advice on how to make matchmaking lobbies
- After suing a Disco Elysium writer to prevent him from making his own game, a tech CEO who's allegedly banned from the Disco Elysium subreddit is trying to crowdfund a spiritual successor
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review
- The latest Windows 11 dev build gives you the ability to snap together commonly paired apps for access in a single click, and I'm already sold
- Limbo and Inside studio demands compensation from co-founder Dino Patti for alleged 'unauthorized use of Playdead's trademarks and copyrighted works'
- Some Monster Hunter Wilds players are skipping the endgame weapon grind because they just freaking hate how they look
- The SteelSeries QcK Performance series has reignited my excitement over the simple pleasure of a quality mouse pad… and trying to click skulls with pinpoint accuracy
- 'My own voice was driving me f***ing insane': GTA Vice City actor admits even he couldn't get past his own, notoriously difficult mission
- All active Blue Lock Rivals codes in April 2025 and how to redeem them
- Specs for Nvidia's new RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti GPUs leak out and that 5060 might actually be half decent. If it's priced right
- Asus' new monitors purify 90% of airborne dust from your desktop and I've definitely seen some gnarly gaming setups that would benefit
- The AMD x Sony collab gave us FSR4 and a version will appear in PlayStation next year, too, having 'already started to implement the new neural network on PS5 Pro'
- Where to find sticks in Hello Kitty Island Adventure
- A BIOS update could be all that's stopping you or someone else from jailbreaking your old AMD CPU
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows is just around the corner, so come and see the last 17 years of the series' PC graphics at max 4K settings
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 11
- March 10
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- 'Don't you know what he did?': The truth comes out in The Last of Us Season 2 trailer
- 'Creepy,' 'ghastly,' 'rancid': Viewers react to leaked video of Sony's AI-powered Aloy
- I’m not sure what’s weirder: that someone made a sequel to a completely forgettable 37-year-old game I played as a kid, or that it was actually worth the wait
- Split Fiction sells 1 million copies over 2 days
- The original Verdansk map is returning to Call of Duty: Warzone, to celebrate which we get a soldier crying to Nat King Cole
- More than 5 years after launch, Control gets a surprise patch that lets everyone play the Hideo Kojima mission
- Swen Vincke stamps seal of approval on Stardew Valley mod that yoinks the Baldur's Gate 3 cast out of D&D and into a cosy pastoral life
- Nvidia says it really has sorted RTX 50-series black screen issues this time around as yet another driver fix finds its way to release
- Overwatch 2 is launching another Le Sserafim collab with 'more transformative' skin designs, guided by Blizzard Korea Studio's keen eye for Korean trends and street style
- I never thought a handheld PC bloated with Windows could replace my Steam Deck, but after gaming on an old OneXPlayer 2 Pro I can see now I judged it too harshly
- Warner Bros says it will replace certain DVDs damaged by 'disc rot', but you might not get the same movie you sent in for replacement
- This Amazon-bought fake AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is actually a 14-year-old Bulldozer chip with a cheap sticker on it
- Rebellion CEO says Evil Genius 3 could happen but wonders 'what else could we do with it other than a base-building game?'
- Asus ROG Swift PG27UCDM review
- Wanderstop review
- All FragPunk codes and how to redeem them
- The Forever Winter, my favourite extraction shooter, just overhauled its most contentious feature for the second time: 'It was a hell of a rollercoaster to make the adjustment'
- A recently launched and now terminally sideways Moon lander contains Imagine Dragon's Starfield song, which seems eerily fitting
- A lot is going on for Cities: Skylines' 10th anniversary—from freebies to new creator packs—but there's still a big ol' elephant in the room
- Japanese game producer argues that thick thighs on anime girls are a natural byproduct of economic recession
- Hideo Kojima really just went 'screw it' and made Metal Gear Stranding
- If you've captured them for a minute, monsters in Monster Hunter Wilds are legally allowed to leave
- Razer Handheld Dock Chroma review
- At least it's not NFTs this time: The new Wizardry RPG is a gacha game
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 10
- March 9
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 10, 2025)
- Death Stranding 2's PS5 release date is in June, let's hope it doesn't take 8 months to hit PC this time
- You can theoretically beat Doom: The Dark Ages without using a gun, but 'You'd have a hard time, that's for sure,' says the game's director
- Fallout-themed Doom mod Vault 666 has multiple endings, an OP Dogmeat companion, and a Ron Perlman-impersonating narrator so good, I was worried it was AI-generated at first
- Doom: The Dark Ages won't end with the Slayer in a coffin waiting for the start of Doom 2016: 'That would mean that we couldn't tell any more medieval stories'
- Path of Exile 2 speedrunner dominates official race with the game's 'worst' class
- Rust's crafting update gives the survival sim real-time food cooking and pies to rival Monster Hunter, but the tastiest treat is the ability to make and throw 'bee grenades'
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2's director had big plans for a third entry in the series, with your squad reuniting for an impossible mission amid a war between Russia and the US over Alaska
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 celebrates 7 years of rat bashing with a new versus map and double XP for all players, but its hotly anticipated weapon pack 'won't be coming out this year'
- One of the best city builders of the last decade is currently 90% off on Steam
- Company of Heroes 3 is free to try and 50% off, so it's the best time to check out the beefy 2.0 overhaul
- Rebellion CEO puts the studio's recent avoidance of layoffs down to control of scope and cost: 'Sometimes we say, guys, this game's too big'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 9
- The Baldur's Gate 3 mod for Stardew Valley is out, so here's another opportunity to romance Astarion
- 'I think only the shotguns are the same,' says Doom: The Dark Ages director, otherwise the guns are brand-new or significantly transformed
- March 8
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- Silent Hill gets a soccer league in FEAR FA 98, and you can play the demo now
- Parents are suing Epic over Fortnite item shop 'FOMO' timers they say are inaccurate and manipulative
- Doom: The Dark Ages already sneakily revealed its 'new Marauder,' and the devs hope he'll be just as challenging, but a little less frustrating
- This brutalist life sim gave me a free tenement block to renovate, but my mushroom addiction kept getting in the way
- Blood Typers is a budget-priced fusion of Typing of the Dead and co-op survival horror
- Planet Coaster 2's spring roadmap splashes down, with 'round-bottomed flumes' coming in March and buildable restaurants arriving in April
- Bandai Namco will celebrate Pac-Man's 45th birthday with museum displays, live experiences, and an official cookbook featuring 'a maze of imaginative recipes'
- Microsoft's Civilization 7 competitor escalates tensions with Firaxis' embattled 4X, announcing that nukes are coming with its impending diplomacy update
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 8
- The best part of The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion is just coming up with fun small business ideas
- The sickest gun from Doom: The Dark Ages' trailer is called the 'Skullcrusher' and does such horrible things to demons, the game's lead dev boasts id has 'the best gore in the industry'
- March 7
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- The next Monster Hunter Wilds update is set to launch on March 10 and will ensure that when you chop off monster parts, the right monster parts get chopped off
- The official Balatro Timeline documents the history of 2024's biggest game as its developer went from 'obsessed' with making it to 'shocked' at the reception
- How to get disruptive customers to leave in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies
- We all deserve better than this
- Battlefield playtest gameplay is leaking all over the internet, and fans seem cautiously but genuinely excited: 'Okay, we might be back'
- The Resident Evil movie reboot bidding war is over, and the winner is… Sony, who did every one of those other pretty terrible Resident Evil movies
- Hearthstone card reveal: If it's wrong to love a magic blue owl, I don't want to be right
- All the Avowed ending choices and epilogue-affecting decisions
- Half-a-dozen 2000AD games were in the works before fizzling out: 'The games you get to see are a tiny representative of the number that get started—sadly'
- REPO is my new favourite co-op horror game, which combines Lethal Company's looting loop with Content Warning's zany monsters
- Following a disastrous beta test, Killing Floor 3 is delayed less than three weeks before launch: 'We've realized we missed the mark'
- Intel is still using TSMC for 30% of its wafer demands: 'We were talking about trying to get that to zero as quickly as possible. That's no longer the strategy'
- I've never wanted a keyboard with cheese keycaps and a little mouse on it until I saw this one
- AMD clawed back 7% graphics market share from Nvidia at the end of 2024, but the outlook for the whole industry in 2025 looks iffy
- Capcom cooked up some extremely cursed Palico outfits in Monster Hunter Wilds
- Best Marvel Rivals crosshairs and reticle codes
- Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced is a bitter-sweet return to Rockstar's money-making machine
- Starfield promises it still exists as silence drives fans to space-madness, but it mostly just annoys everyone: 'They are deliberately choosing not to communicate more'
- Sniper Elite CEO reckons Swen Vincke is right to snarl at short-sighted publishers: 'You could argue that their business at senior level isn't making games… their business is managing their shareholders' perceptions'
- Phasmophobia is getting a big rework for one of its oldest maps, turning the Bleasdale Farmhouse into a horrifying and confusing maze
- Google is rolling out an even more AI-heavy search engine mode because 'power users want AI responses for even more of their searches'
- GTA 5 Enhanced performance analysis: Forget max settings, my advice is to enable Very High RT and enjoy the show
- As a Stalker sicko, the 2 hours I just spent with Atomfall have made it one of my most-anticipated games this year
- 'Don't despair' says AMD to PC gamers as it continues to 'encourage' AIBs to supply MSRP-priced 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs
- AMD's new RX 9070 GPUs sold out within 10 mins at launch, unless you were willing to pay ever more ludicrous prices
- Nvidia denies reports that the 'missing ROPs' debacle is hitting its RTX 50 laptop GPUs and could delay their launch
- Nvidia RTX 5060 graphics cards are said to be revealed 'in about 10 days' and are expected to 'be on the shelf a month later'
- President Trump wants to kill the $52 billion CHIPS Act: 'a horrible, horrible thing'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, March 7
- Man builds Monster Hunter switch axe, complete with working flamethrower, because why not
- Longtime Monster Hunter producer promoted to head of all game development at Capcom
- March 6
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- Minecraft Live returns in March with everyone's favorite kind of content: 'exclusive movie content'
- EVE Online studio CCP Games hires former Iceland Central Bank economist for its crypto game, because nothing says 'fun' like 'removing currency controls and fostering emergent value systems'
- My favourite AA stealth series starring a loathsome centuries-old goblin is getting a new instalment
- Monster Hunter Wilds' true difficulty isn't the battles: it's navigating the horrible menus
- Robocop: Rogue City is getting a 'standalone expansion' that sounds an awful lot like The Raid
- Monster Hunter's food looks so tasty it's apparently driving up demand for cheese naan in Japan
- Survival sandbox Core Keeper gets explosive next week with a whole new skill tree devoted to bombs and grenades
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's upcoming 1.2 update has a ridiculous 34 pages of patch notes
- Dark and Darker delisted again, this time from the Epic Games Store
- Nacon's promising Revosim RS Pure direct drive racing wheel lets you use your phone as a dashboard and settings tool, but it feels like it could do with a little work
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and BioWare have to offer
- The world's first 'body in a box' biological computer costs $35,000 and looks both cool as hell plus creepy as heck
- WWE 2K25: Every superstar on the roster
- Frogwares shows off The Sinking City 2's first in-game footage and launches a Kickstarter safety net: 'After 3 years of this horrid war hanging over our daily lives, we've learned to adapt'
- The tough luck continues in Dead in Antares, the newest addition to the long-running series about people trying not to lose their heads in bad situations
- After 31 years in games, Persona director Katsura Hashino just got a 'Newcomer Award' and $5,000 from the Japanese government
- Capcom is punishing me for wanting to play Monster Hunter Wilds with my friends
- Final Fantasy 16 is the latest game to be freed from the shackles of Denuvo, though its 7-year-old predecessor still remains in DRM jail
- How to get Hunter Symbol III in Monster Hunter Wilds
- Brace yourself for Discord to get worse: Reports swirl that the company is in talks with bankers about opening itself up to shareholders
- Seeing how much I hate its ads, YouTube tries to sell me yet another subscription tier with Premium Lite rolling out in the US
- I don't care about being able to kill everybody and steal the Mayor's pants in an RPG like Avowed, and I'm tired of pretending it's mandatory
- Dragon Age voice actor says his favourite way to play Inquisition is as a woman who romances himself, which is apparently 'the best'
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford rants at internet randoms (again), insists we should 'root for' the Borderlands 4 team or 'we'll all pay the price', then whips around and says 'I love criticism'
- AMD Radeon RX 9070-series launch day live: The promise of a ton of reference priced stock is a tantalising one but likely won't last long
- FragPunk launch times and release date
- US Justice Dept announces $10 million bounty on at-large 'hacker-for-hire' cabal it says targeted China critics, religious missionaries, and the Treasury
- Nintendo wins major French piracy case with EU-wide consequences: 'Significant not only for Nintendo, but for the entire games industry'
- AI helps turn highschool project into world saving tech which promises to devour 150 tons of fast-fashion plastic each year
- Japanese companies begin stockpiling in response to new Trump tariffs: Cue a ton of PS5 stock and stale cans of coffee
- Meta's Orion AR glasses still have no 'killer use case' but want devices to hang out on your face, on your wrist, and now in your pocket too
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Turns out updating drivers fixes brand new game. Again
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, March 6
- A demo for a lost videogame based on George Orwell's 1984 has emerged from the memory hole
- Firaxis says it's 'entering our Sukritact Age' as it hires popular modder to work on Civilization 7
- The thing I'm most excited about in Assassin's Creed Shadows is my hideout: 'a little over one acre of fully customizable land' to build on, decorate, and fill with pettable baby deer
- March 5
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- Why did Monster Hunter Wilds dedicate so much effort to its environments, only to completely drop the actual 'hunting' from Monster Hunter?
- The Hand of Fate devs are back with a bullet heaven called Hordes of Fate
- Cities: Skylines 2's asset editor remains a distant dream: Colossal Order is still working on it but says it's 'proven more technically challenging than initially anticipated'
- Ubisoft reveals Assassin's Creed Shadows preload and unlock times
- Epic's war against the Fortnite fraudsters sees it simultaneously name and shame alleged ne'er-do-wells as its high-powered lawyers sue them
- It sure sounds like Inzoi will be multiplayer—eventually, in some capacity—according to comments by its developers
- The Witcher show finally adds a character exclusive to the games, too bad he's 'exceptionally loathsome and arrogant'
- All Monster Hunter Wilds event quests and rewards
- Looks like we won't be seeing Western Digital SSDs in our gaming PCs as the company hands the reins back over to SanDisk
- After a run of RTX 50-series launches with seemingly little availability and mega price tags, I'm left wondering 'is that it?'
- Early backers of game decry 'bait and switch' after it backtracks on monetisation promises, dev chooses to stir the pot: 'Seeing Reddit lose it today lets me breathe a huge sigh of relief'
- '3 hours of my life that I'll never get back': A Minecraft modder did the lord's work, creating a mod that adds Jack Black's voice to the game
- Everything we know about Destiny 2 Rite of the Nine
- The first Monster Hunter Wilds event quests let you wear an adorable forest creature as a helmet, which means my headgear is locked in for the next few months
- Steam users react ecstatically to update that lets them access their heaving game notes via the web, also it fixes Monster Hunter Wilds video recording
- D&D's new virtual tabletop is a glossy and cool idea that's already struggling with its identity in a world where jpegs and imagination are free
- Blades of Fire is a God of War-style action game coming to PC from the creators of Metroid Dread, and it's almost definitely a spiritual successor to Severance
- Lenovo's clever solar-powered laptop can turn 20 minutes of sunlight into an hour of video playback but sun-powered mobile gaming still isn't a goer
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's March patch brings zoomer haircuts for Henry and the return of the hardcore mode that can kill you before the game even starts
- Google asks Trump's DOJ to please, please, please reconsider parting it from Chrome
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review (Asus Prime OC)
- Marvel Rivals announces a new limited-time game mode, Clone Rumble, and manages to pull off a comic caper that players only thought was possible in theory
- Best Buy outs a load of non-MSRP RTX 5070 cards and many are priced above $700 and up near RTX 5070 Ti levels. Ouch!
- Finding a new and inventive way to annoy everybody, Activision has company use AI to generate fake advertisements for games that don't exist
- Alienware launches two new OLED gaming monitors and one of them is its cheapest yet at $550
- It launched upside down and on fire, but busted and brilliant Stalker 2 has attracted 6 million players to the Zone in the last 3 months
- Nvidia RTX 5070 launch day live: Heaps of non-MSRP cards and a handful of MSRP ones released today, but surprise surprise, stocks are low
- How to unlock Jasmine and Aladdin in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Suikoden 1&2 HD Remaster review
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 5
- When PC RPGs were at their crunchiest and most hardcore in the 1990s, Farland Story set itself apart by… being cute?
- The unofficial Civilization 7 manual: everything Civ 7 doesn't tell you about its rules and systems
- March 4
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- 'He came. And now he must go,' and that's why Pinhead is leaving Dead by Daylight in April
- Civilization 7's 'first major update' tweaks balance and fixes some UI issues, but don't expect an overhaul
- Monster Hunter Wilds sells 8 million copies in 3 days, 'the fastest any game has done so in Capcom’s history'
- Legendary 1990s publisher Acclaim is back from the dead, and a pro wrestler famous for clobbering people with a guitar is on its advisory board
- Monster Hunter Wilds feels easy at launch—but after a decade of fighting post-release elder dragons and Master Rank monsters, I'm not worried about the light warmup
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake is real, and it's coming in July with new skaters, parks, music, and more
- Three women livestreaming on Twitch harassed by man who then goes for them while making repeated death threats: 'This happens off-camera to women all the time'
- How to transfer your GTA 5 save file to GTA 5 Enhanced and accept Rockstar's Online Policies if needed
- Will another Avengers game be assembled? 'We would definitely be open to it' says Joe Russo, co-director of Avengers: Doomsday
- Civilization 7 needs some big expansions to feel complete, and I'd start with one that adds the years after 1950
- Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced launch is going poorly or well depending on how you look at it: It's got a 'mixed' rating on Steam and is one of the most-played games
- What's the difference between Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced and Legacy?
- Kingdom Come 2 and Avowed have revealed to me the grand unified theory of game design: A good game is when you can steal back the money you just spent at a shop, a bad game is when you can't
- This mash-up of side-scrolling beat-'em-up and fantasy roguelike feels like it could be the future of a classic genre
- Nvidia loses over $200 billion in valuation in a single day, as Trump's tariffs continue to roll out
- It might be hard to imagine even worse GPU prices but the CEOs of Best Buy and Target both predict tariffs will push consumer prices up and fast
- We need a better name for AI, or we risk talking past each other until actually intelligent AGI comes home mooing
- The creators of Disco Elysium unofficially consulted on fascinating upcoming RPG Rue Valley during a brutalist architectural tour of Belgrade: 'It was completely unexpected'
- I was wrong, the Logitech G PowerPlay 2 charging mouse pad isn't smaller than the first one, it's just the official dimensions were listed incorrectly since 2021
- Split Fiction review
- Saying what we're probably all thinking, Zotac cautions, 'Do not use third-party cables, angled adapters, or other cable accessories'
- Knights in Tight Spaces review
- ASRock Z890 Taichi Lite review
- This DIY 'infinite contrast' screen uses an old projector in a seriously clever way and makes monitors with full-array dimming look like absolute garbage
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 3 has been delayed, as the devs say they're 'taking the time to deliver a great experience' for what will be a 'big moment' for Call of Duty
- Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition review
- Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip rumoured to pack 18 cores and a new CPU architecture, but we're still waiting for gaming to really be a goer on the original Snapdragon X
- How to farm materials in Monster Hunter Wilds
- uBlock and a handful of other popular Google Chrome extensions have been axed overnight, but some of them just require turning off and on again
- Former Ultima Online lead says MMOs have 'been in a rut for a long time', and that cozy games like Animal Crossing have been filling a non-theme park hole
- Jeff the Land Shark's creator tells whiny Marvel Rivals players who can't deal with her hero to buck up: 'Sounds like a skill issue to me, if my boy is beating your ass every night'
- TSMC and Trump announce massive $100 billion investment in the US including 3 new fabs but it's reasonable to ponder whether it will actually happen
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 4
- This Yu-Gi-Oh! retro collection transported me to a simpler time in TCGs, before Pot of Greed was banned and the Avengers were in Magic: The Gathering
- Monster Hunter Wilds dominated Steam so hard this weekend that a new game from a Nintendo legend attracted a mere 5 reviews, and another dev tweeted they hadn't sold 'a single game' since Wilds released
- March 3
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- The PC game releases we're most excited about in March
- I've been playing Monster Hunter for 10 years and even I'm terrified of this Wilds speedrunner deleting a Tempered Gravios in 37 seconds
- Twitch streamer Hasan Piker suspended after saying Republicans would 'kill Rick Scott' if they really cared about Medicare fraud
- There's already a Monster Hunter Wilds mod to change your appearance without a DLC voucher
- There's 'sort of' sex in Inzoi, its developers tell terminally horny life sim players asking about getting freaky and watching their Zois shower
- Just 2 weeks before the release of its next game, another studio falls victim to the relentless drive to be 'agile'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 modder snaps, transforms all women, animals, and doors into fleshy spheres but turns all men invisible: 'It’s just spheres. Experience spheres!'
- This is the coolest pricing gimmick I've ever seen: the temperature in London determines the price of this videogame
- AMD says its ghostly 'Toyshop tech demo is truly not reflective' of what FSR4 will look like when it ships with the RDNA 4 cards this week
- I'm as excited as the next guy for AMD's 9070-series launch but the lack of reference cards has me worried about how real its MSRP will be
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 feels like a French Persona, with an impressive combat system that I should love, but which I actually hate
- MSI pulls its MSRP RTX 50-series cards from its online store, not that we ever saw any of them in stock
- 'The market is large enough to accommodate both games': NetEase is confident it can make space for Marvel Rivals and Overwatch 2
- After AMD's RX 9070 XT presentation, I can safely say even this Nvidia die-hard believes the hype
- Giant Vigorwasp location in Monster Hunter Wilds
- Forget Gondor, Drop's latest LOTR-themed keyboard has my approval because it's got a tiny little sword on the Enter key
- Broadcom and Nvidia are claimed to be testing manufacturing on Intel's 18A process node, and even AMD is reportedly interested
- You might mock Microsoft's new emoji button in Windows 11 but as someone that's explained how to quickly access emojis and special characters too many times, I get it
- The Grand Theft Auto series has now sold over 440 million copies, and say g'day to Rockstar Australia
- Space Marine 2 dev acknowledges its FOMO events are 'a source of frustration and stress for everyone', says it'll fix things and isn't trying to make 'a full live service game' by stealth
- It Takes Two follow-up Split Fiction's system requirements are here, and it's verified for Steam Deck and potato-PCs alike
- Freeware tool CPU-Z now warns you if your GPU doesn't have the correct number of ROPs
- Marvel Rivals is considering 'crossover events and promotions with other media' but all players want is more comicbook and movie skins
- Windows 10, 32 GB of RAM, and the RTX 4060 all surge to the top spot in the Steam Hardware Survey, seemingly due to a huge influx of Chinese-language user data
- Ex-Intel CEO Craig Barrett suggests the company should 'fire the board and rehire Pat Gelsinger to finish the job he has aptly handled over the past few years'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 3
- March 2
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 3, 2025)
- The New Vegas remake of the Fallout 3 that never was just got its first demo, not to be confused with the straight-up remake of the cancelled Fallout 3 or, indeed, Fallout 3
- I just started playing Monster Hunter Wilds and this monster health bar mod might be the first one I install
- Is Monster Hunter Wilds' borked PC performance because of a spelling error in the game's config files? Probably not
- No-Skin is an incredibly simple horror roguelike about the worst party ever, full of strong booze, bad conversation and eldritch violence
- Rusty Rabbit turns Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu into a fluffy bunny
- Steam just cracked 40 million concurrent users for the first time, meaning Valve's user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations
- The Local is a free and blazingly-fast tribute to surf maps and bunny hopping
- Mozilla is already trying to backtrack on Firefox's controversial data privacy update, but it might be too little, too late
- Monster Hunter Wilds finally makes sense to my Dark Souls-pilled brain thanks to the Dual Blades
- An $8 cooperative horror game is rocketing up Steam's top sellers list: 'Never occurred to me Lethal Company was missing physics until I played this'
- Total War: Warhammer 3's next patch will overhaul its Kislev faction, which Creative Assembly has 'identified as the most in need of a deep review and rethink'
- Tread carefully, Atomfall's world includes 'exploding sheep' that can 'infect you with spores that creep into your lungs'
- Apparently the canceled Twisted Metal game would have been a battle royale where you could get out of your car for some reason
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 2
- Steam Next Fest's most-played demo is a game almost everybody hates
- March 1
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- I wrote one-sentence reviews of over 70 Steam demos to help you decide which to try before Next Fest ends
- What's the biggest game on your computer, and is it really worth the space?
- Wait a minute, Geralt of Rivia actor Doug Cockle was in Baldur's Gate 3 this whole time
- Avowed's rarest ending has only been seen by 0.2% of players and demands you make the correct choice at every major quest to not get your head chopped off
- Runescape is finally wrapping up one of its earliest storylines, 24 years after the first quest debuted
- It turns out you can get Baldur's Gate 3's best assassin armor without killing a baby angel elephant and joining a cult, all you have to do is pickpocket a ghost
- Paleontologist says Monster Hunter's monsters are 'a little' realistic, but if a lizard swallowed something that big it would have to sleep for a month
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Seikret makes travelling easier than ever, but I had a much better time when I dared to explore the old fashioned way: On foot
- There's one reason I come back to this one rapid trigger gaming keyboard over the rest, and that's great software
- I'm so desperate to play Grand Theft Auto 6 that I downloaded this unfinished open-world game set in 1990s Slovakia
- As it unveils its roadmap, Eternal Strands' dev defends the 'slippery' feeling of its physics-based player character, saying it 'can't be as snappy or reactive as it is in games that rely on animation'
- Nvidia RTX 5070 hands-on preview: a sneak peek at my unreleased RTX Blackwell card hitting triple digit frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and Avowed at 4K
- You can save rare hunts for later in Monster Hunter Wilds, so you can come back for that Rey Dau gem when it's convenient
- One of the best Return to Castle Wolfenstein mods just got an update that turns the WW2 FPS into a Killing Floor-style wave shooter
- Shockingly, nobody bought the $386,000 special edition of Dying Light that came with parkour lessons and a full-size custom zombie survival shelter
- Japanese boffins invent the 'world's smallest shooting game' by using an electron beam to blast particles one billionth of a metre in size
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 1
