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March 31
- E3 2023 organizer says the big game companies were 'enthusiastic' at first, but then 'the mood changed'
- Ark 2 delayed until 'end of 2024'
- Can you tell Hag's End from Hag Rock? Prove it with this Skyrim Geoguessr-style game
- Sonic the Hedgehog was murdered
- Italy bans ChatGPT
- A reality show contestant tried to sneakily suggest Elden Ring baby names to his bride to be, but he can't fool us
- Marvel's Avengers gets its final update, unlocking all the cosmetics for everyone
- I played DayZ creator Dean Hall's next game, which is like RimWorld in a submarine
- GOG's Spring Sale is giving away its last free game, a turn-based tactical RPG set in the deepest reaches of space
- Windy Meadow will take players back to the world of one of 2022's best narrative adventures
- CD Projekt boss confirms it's reassessing its multiplayer Witcher game: 'We don't want to carry on with projects that we are not aligned with'
- This flying car from Blade Runner feels right at home modded into Cyberpunk 2077
- AMD's affordable $85 A620 motherboards should fix Ryzen's price premium
- Bubsy the Bobcat creator & Bend studio co-founder Mike Berlyn dies at 73
- Vampire Survivors is getting a new DLC incredibly soon, and it's definitely not basically Fire Emblem
- A PS VR2 price cut 'will be needed to avoid a complete disaster' after reportedly slow launch
- Players collectively spent over 7000 years in Diablo 4 in its two beta weekends
- All Genshin Impact codes from the version 3.6 livestream
- Vampire Survivors beats out Elden Ring and God of War to score Best Game win at BAFTAs
- Samsung teases petabyte SSDs as today's drives just keep getting cheaper and cheaper
- The PC and car modding scenes have a lot in common and I've found just the PCs to prove it
- Get up to $150 off in Vertagear's gaming chair sale
- Wordle hint and answer #650: Friday, March 31
March 30
- Slightly Hotter Wizard makes Stardew Valley's wizard hotter, slightly
- The Australian government wants to slap games with loot boxes—like FIFA—with a mature rating
- The official D&D Virtual Tabletop is looking pretty slick
- Dark and Darker studio fires back over DMCA takedown fiasco: 'We hope that Nexon will stop making baseless claims'
- The Last of Us gets another hotfix, developers are 'closely watching player reports to support future improvements and patches'
- Cyberpunk 2077 devs announce that they'll announce something about Phantom Liberty in June
- Watch this absolute maniac solo Destiny 2's latest raid boss and then lose his mind
- E3 2023 is cancelled
- The next Magic: The Gathering set features a monkey so strong, they told him he couldn't play
- CD Projekt CEO says Polaris 'is Witcher 4,' company quickly takes it back
- The book industry's got a lot to learn from Elden Ring, says one of the world's top fantasy authors (no, not George R.R. Martin)
- Apple's mixed-reality headset should appear at WWDC in June, and you know it's gonna cost a lot
- The Foxhole devs are making a medieval warfare MMO that supports 1000s of players at once
- This Japanese grand strategy titan celebrates its 40-year anniversary with a western release in July
- Another classic Nintendo-exclusive RPG finally comes to PC next month
- Why not turn Left 4 Dead 2 into some kind of kawaii anime nightmare?
- Latest rumour prices Nvidia's upcoming RTX 4070 at $599
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is so cheap right now that it might as well be free, but you'll need to be quick
- MMO gets its first new skill in 17 years, or it will when players stop fighting over which one should be added
- Bobby Kotick says Sony's being a baby about Microsoft deal: 'They would just like to prevent our merger from happening'
- Square Enix goes full Shinra with Final Fantasy 7 NFTs
- Forspoken will get its DLC 25 days after Square Enix eats its developer
- PC Gamer UK May issue on sale now: Star Trek: Resurgence
- Latest Windows 11 test build crams ads into your start menu
- Wordle hint and answer #649: Thursday, March 30
- Naughty Dog investigating The Last of Us's poor PC performance
- Park Beyond, the gravity-defying park sim, gets beta ahead of June release
March 29
- The Chinese versions of Blizzard's games may have been shut down over a big misunderstanding
- Electronic Arts is laying off 6% of its workforce
- Nightdive reassures fans about the Atari deal: 'Not only will we be doing as much as we ever did, but we'll be doing more of it'
- You can try Nexon's new tactical shooter for free this week
- Finally, a game that lets us fight the human menace as goblins
- Tony Hawk almost put his name on a 'more technically difficult' skating sim before Activision called
- D&D is coming to Minecraft
- Bloober Team wants you to know it never said Silent Hill 2 is done, no matter what Google Translate says
- Tech luminaries including Musk and Wozniak beg AI pioneers to hit the brakes
- Disney CEO axes metaverse unit and almost everyone in it, with another 6,950 cuts to go
- It took the original Resident Evil 4 a year to hit 3 million sales, but the remake has done it in 2 days
- Nvidia's RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti rumoured to launch in May and could struggle even at 1080p
- The Last of Us' PC port is bad, but the bugs are great
- Man caught obviously smuggling CPUs under his clothes
- Wordle hint and answer #648: Wednesday, March 29
March 28
- Add The Last of Us Part 1 to the list of bad PC ports
- Attention PC survival games: please steal all the cool ideas from the new Zelda
- How to play the original Fortnite map with Fortnite Creative 2.0
- Intel's next-gen GPUs absolutely need to match up to these rumoured specs to be relevant
- 'NFT For Britain' idea proves too stupid even for UK government
- A huge boost to stream quality is headed our way very soon thanks to AV1 on YouTube via OBS
- AMD details its Nvidia DLSS 3 Frame Generation-fighting tech
- Company of Heroes 3 update introduces more than '1,300 bug fixes, changes and improvements' along with free and premium cosmetics
- Kerbal creator figured out an ingenious way to redesign his new flight sim's map: import it from Cities: Skylines
- Kerbal's creator is back with a new model vehicle sim, says 'early access is not what it used to be'
- This mod that automatically drops all the junk you pick up in Fallout might be the most important ever made
- Workers allege crunch and intimidation at Ubisoft's Just Dance studio
- Newegg's new ChatGPT-based AI PC builder has some funny ideas about cheap gaming PC builds
- EU proposes rules to make it harder to exaggerate how eco-friendly a product is
- The perfect PC OLED just became less likely as Japanese manufacturer goes bust
- Steam will ditch Windows 7 and 8 support next year
- GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is coming to Steam this year
- Ubisoft joins Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft in skipping E3 2023
- Wordle hint and answer #647: Tuesday, March 28
March 27
- Don't bother playing loads of CS:GO now if you want in on the Counter-Strike 2 test, Valve doesn't care
- Former Dragon Age boss Mark Darrah returns to work on Dreadwolf
- Diablo 4 quest designer explains how they put the RP in RPG with one simple choice
- One of John Wick 4's most exhilarating moments was inspired by a top-down indie shooter
- This Vampire Survivors-like has convinced me that imitation isn't such a bad thing
- Former Sims lead says men would lie about how they played during focus groups: 'Actually, what you did is you redecorated that bathroom'
- The Last of Us Part 1 preloads are live on Steam
- Surprise! The hit fighting game Multiversus was only in 'open beta' and now it's shutting down until sometime next year
- Resident Evil 4 remake has a funny Easter egg that lets you skip the first major fight
- I can't wait for this ambitious, procgen Deus Ex-like to hit early access next month
- Diablo 4 rogue almost solos world boss designed for 12 players, and would have if a necromancer didn't nick in and steal the kill at 1% HP
- Makers of one of Slay The Spire's most beloved mods announce full game
- Chris Avellone accepts 'seven-figure payment' to settle libel suit with those who accused him of sexual misconduct
- Nvidia kicks crypto to the curb: 'doesn’t bring anything useful for society. AI does'
- Say goodbye to absurdly cheap Game Pass: Microsoft is killing the $1 trial
- Watch this person recycle a bottle by 3D printing a Raspberry Pi case
- Wordle hint and answer #646: Monday, March 27
- Be a swamp devil, cause chaos, steal stuff, in this lo-fi immersive sim
March 26
- Fight rat hordes with steam guns in this tactical, squad-based survival RPG
- CS:GO smashes player records as Counter-Strike 2 hype mounts
- Wordle hint and answer #645: Sunday, March 26
- Here's a game about being the spirit of nature after we've killed all the animals
- Tractor makers are scrambling to get their gear into Farming Simulator
March 25
- Dark and Darker delisted on Steam following legal action from Nexon
- Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, author of 'Moore's Law,' dies at 94
- Wordle hint and answer #644: Saturday, March 25
March 24
- CS:GO's next Paris Major will be its last
- Wordle's hardest word caused 60% of players to break their streaks
- Sludge Life is free on Steam because Sludge Life 2 is coming later this year
- Genshin Impact developer's turn-based RPG will launch next month
- It looks like Counter-Strike 2 will cancel matches immediately if Valve detects a cheater
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is finally coming in May
- Last long enough in this sci-fi survival colony builder, and you can buy the whole planet
- Gamers once again repressed by the state as judge throws out lawsuit against Activision acquisition
- A 'psychological deck builder' about facing your fears is free on GOG
- We haven't heard the last of Lance Reddick in Destiny 2: Bungie says there are 'performances yet to come in the game'
- UK regulator U-turns on Activision acquisition, takes Microsoft's side on Call of Duty
- Fugitive 'cryptocurrency king' behind 2022's $40B crash arrested fleeing Montenegro with fake documents
- Pioneering MMO designer details the hard lessons learned about griefing, skinning pets, and 'time to penis'
- Team Fortress 2 players forlornly gaze at Counter-Strike 2 reveal: 'Maybe our day will come in another decade'
- Wordle hint and answer #643: Friday, March 24
March 23
- Go-Go Town is a cozy mix of life and management sim: 'Instead of conveyor belts like Factorio, we've got people belts'
- Creative Assembly's extraction shooter Hyenas gets a playable alpha tomorrow
- This mythological hunting game from an ex-Skyrim dev is coming sooner than I thought
- Witchfire reveals a surprisingly deep magic system at the Future Games Show
- If you thought your neighbors were noisy, imagine living next to an engine-powered crypto-mining plant
- CD Projekt has financially written off and seemingly rebooted development on its Witcher spinoff game
- Anime dating sim that can prepare your taxes was removed from Steam but its developers say they want to disrupt corporations, not steal your social security number
- Are we finally going to get a modular gaming laptop that sticks?
- You can try out this CoD Zombies-like co-op shooter for free in a limited-time demo
- The Diablo 4 open beta will have long queue times at launch too, Blizzard warns
- Warhammer 40,000's new edition looks accessible, nostalgic, and perhaps a bit less appealing to Nazis
- This frost Sorceror build in Diablo 4 is so OP it basically makes the game play itself
- Your RTX 40-series GPU will face its biggest challenge yet next month
- Former Grand Theft Auto producer teases his new project, a futuristic game-within-a-game called MindsEye
- These are the 34 jobs OpenAI suggests will secure you against the AI revolution
- Unreal's new MetaHuman Animator can turn an iPhone video into a scarily accurate game animation in three minutes
- The funniest thing about Counter-Strike 2 is that Valve won't let cheaters and douchebags in
- Counter-Strike 2's reveal has sent the game's skins market wild
- Counter-Strike 2 comes with Half-Life: Alyx's most needlessly impressive graphics quirk
- Domestic violence charges against High On Life creator Justin Roiland dropped due to 'insufficient evidence'
- Blizzard and Nvidia investigating reports Diablo 4 is killing RTX 3080 Ti GPUs
- Elden Ring just got ray tracing, but you might not want to use it
- As EVO Japan fast approaches, Tekken 8 is almost done with its first batch of character reveals
- Wordle hint and answer #642: Thursday, March 23
- Atari is buying System Shock remake studio Nightdive for $10M
- Lords of the Fallen drops the 'The' and its former engine
March 22
- Lawsuit over police killing in 2017 Call of Duty swatting is finally settled for $5 million
- Community and esports reaction to Counter-Strike 2: 'Quit Valorant, it's done, it's f***ing over'
- Dwarf Fortress has now racked up 600,000 copies sold on Steam
- Epic will share 40% of Item Shop revenues with Fortnite island creators: 'There's no need to design cunning monetization loops' anymore
- UE5's new procedural game-building tools are a little bit impressive
- How to watch the Future Games Show Spring Showcase
- Counter-Strike 2 is real, free, and everything carries over
- Arkane may drop Redfall's always-online requirement
- Uh oh! Final Fantasy 16's squeeze holes have gamers in a flap
- Blizzard offers free housecleaning so you can mainline Diablo 4 this weekend
- Bill Gates says the AI revolution is as fundamental as 'the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone'
- Watching Nvidia's CEO explain how GPUs are made makes me feel like I almost understand. Almost
- XCOM designer Jake Solomon is done with turn-based strategy for now: 'I felt like I didn't have anything more to say'
- EVE players are in revolt over CCP's blockchain plans—'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again to chase your player base away with crypto'
- Nvidia is selling its GPUs to help speed up the process of... making GPUs
- Dwarf Fortress's Tarn Adams needs your help finding a very special guitar
- Wordle hint and answer #641: Wednesday, March 22
March 21
- It's Morbin' Time again, thanks to the new Marvel's Midnight Suns DLC
- Aliens: Dark Descent looks surprisingly decent in this first gameplay footage
- Blizzard says Diablo 4's repetitive dungeon designs are intentional
- Blizzard addresses Diablo 4 beta test complaints: This was not a 'marketing beta'
- Good news, edgelords! Destiny just dropped an (almost) all-black shader for everyone
- Three Battlefield games—but not Mirror's Edge!—are being removed from sale forever
- Raja Koduri, a leader in Intel's graphics division, is leaving the company to work on AI
- Mask of the Rose, my most-anticipated game of 2023, just got delayed
- This keyboard designed for a single rhythm game is literally UwU
- EVE Online studio CCP Games is making a blockchain game
- Nvidia says its new AI tools are like a chip foundry for large language models
- Alienware's 500Hz 1080p gaming monitor is yours for $829 because of course it's unfeasibly expensive
- Diablo 4's Barbarian is due for a buff, but you might want to enjoy your OP frost Sorcerer while you can
- Yup, PC monitor sales have cratered too and are getting worse
- Respawn reckons Apex Legends will be around for '10, 15 years or more' and it's opened a new studio to make it happen
- Watch Nvidia's GTC 2023 keynote right here today
- This upcoming AI will make a video from just a written prompt
- The final issue with Intel's best budget gaming chip has now been laid to rest
- Jen-Hsun plans on sticking around as Nvidia CEO in meat and robot form for another 100 years or so
- Ferrari held to ransom as client database hacked
- Over a million Diablo 4 players picked up a puppy last weekend, and you've still got one more shot
- Wordle hint and answer #640: Tuesday, March 21
- Anime take on Resident Evil 4 is creepier than non-anime Resident Evil 4
- How deep was Deus Ex's simulation? A literal piece of paper could set off a laser trap
March 20
- Diablo 4 players react to the beta test: 'Seems to be Blizzard back in their old form'
- This fan tribute to Lance Reddick as Destiny's Commander Zavala is going to make me well up
- Twitch lays off more than 400 employees as Amazon cuts another 9,000 jobs
- Modder creates tribute to their Elder Scrolls-loving mum so 'she can live on in every adventure I take in Tamriel'
- GOG's Spring Sale kicks off with a free game for everyone
- We're one step closer to a meaty cyberpunk future as scientists create a 'living computer' using 80,000 mouse brain cells
- Life By You aims to be 'one of the most moddable and open life-simulation games' ever made
- Pro overclocker bricks AMD's best gaming chip without really trying
- One year on, there have been more deaths in Elden Ring than there are people living on Earth
- The next Meat Boy game parodies a '90s Sonic spinoff
- Smuggler tries to scoot 84 SSDs into China, gets busted
- Disco Elysium fans blast 'absolutely demonic' ZA/UM execs for new photo mode: 'it wasn't enough to rob the creators of their own work, you had to turn it into this meme ridden sludge, too'
- Valve's slow burn trolling of Counter-Strike fans continues with reveal of 'CS2' trademark
- Windows 11 apps may soon annoy us with more notifications
- Wordle hint and answer #639: Monday, March 20
- Return to Silent Hill movie casts its stars, promises 'iconic monsters' and 'new designs'
- 256GB Quest 2 VR headsets are $70 off
- This fixed-camera survival horror mod is like a Half-Life and Resident Evil teleporter accident
- Banjo-Kazooie creators must lick 25-year-old chocolate BAFTA due to a poll
March 19
- Total War makers open a third development studio
- Steam may get a system to let players take 'game notes'
- After a decade of hanging on, Google officially discontinues the last of its Glass headsets
- Check the demo for towering city builder Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles
- Wordle hint and answer #638: Sunday, March 19
- Disco Elysium studio declares 'resolution' of legal battle while two of its ousted founders insist the fight continues: 'they will not silence us'
- Here's a narrative sci-fi adventure about exploring a (literally) broken world
March 18
- Vermintide 2 is getting another free level
- Monster Train dev's unique turn-based action RPG is coming in May
- This upcoming FPS had me at 'fully simulated centrifugal gravity space station level'
- First Kerbal Space Program 2 patch fixes a mountain of bugs
- Oops, all Malenia: fan-favorite Elden Ring player replaces every enemy with secret megaboss and tries to beat the game
- Wordle hint and answer #637: Saturday, March 18
March 17
- Destiny players are gathering in the Tower to pay last respects to Lance Reddick
- Yu Suzuki wants to sell you Virtua Fighter JPEGs because NFTs refuse to die
- How much sex will you have in Starfield? 'None,' says the Australian government
- Destiny, John Wick actor Lance Reddick dies at age 60
- What a surprise—the Diablo 4 beta test servers are being crushed and people can't get in
- Turns out you can connect a PS VR2 to a PC, it's just not very good
- Intel Arrow Lake CPUs coming early 2024 but without Meteor Lake on the desktop
- Two of the best adventure games of the '90s that you never played are getting remasters
- Capcom's Exoprimal is doing a beta test this weekend too
- 11 minutes of the new Layers of Fear shows off all its glitzy, spooky UE5 graphics tech
- Dying Light studio remembers it's working on an 'exotic open world' fantasy RPG a mere 7 years after announcing it
- The team behind the great Half-Life 2 VR mod releases an Episode 1 version today
- Wordle hint and answer #636: Friday, March 17
- Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep is free to keep on Steam
March 16
- Rust developer cancels community event due to death threats
- After 15 years of development, the 'reactive puzzle game' Storyteller is out next week, so here's a launch trailer
- Hyper Light Breaker trailer shows off first gameplay in 'infinite open worlds'
- Streamer who got busted with deepfake porn of other streamers is now crusading against deepfake porn
- Razer would very much like you to not set fires or bash anyone over the head with its 'first-ever glass gaming mouse mat'
- You can get the most underrated hidden gem of 2022 for just 6 bucks on Steam right now
- Steam Decks are on sale for 10% off right now
- The Future Games Show Spring Showcase airs next week with over 45 games
- Shroud and Sacriel are making a new survival game with Splash Damage
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin comes to Steam with a discount next month
- Disco Elysium gets a supercharged photo mode, free for everyone
- Just when you thought PC HDR gaming couldn't possibly get more awkward this happens
- Blizzard bans 120K WoW Classic botters and makes it harder to roll Death Knights
- The 2023 Steam Spring Sale is live
- Making like a tree is expensive with this all-wood wireless keyboard from Japan
- Someone dropped over $150K on a CS:GO gun skin and I think it's time for the revolution
- Heinz brings baffling tomato and soil corporate synergy to Fortnite
- Transferring game files between PCs or a Steam Deck just got a whole lot simpler
- Get a freebie copy of Redfall with your Nvidia RTX 40-series GPU or laptop buy
- Diablo 4 supports DLSS 3 at launch, devs 'excited by the high frame rate'
- Yippee, a motherboard that'll fit Corsair's ridiculous 192GB DDR5 RAM kit
- Dwarf Fortress just announced its 'cutest update ever' and baby, it's babies
- Starfield subreddit surfaces Pedro Pascal movie that is like The Last of Us but with a 'very Starfield-y vibe'
- Wordle hint and answer #635: Thursday, March 16
- Asus's new motherboard hides ports on the back for cable management
- 32 years later, Toxic Crusaders is getting a new beat 'em up
- Halo Infinite's new update is good (now do it again)
March 15
- Ghostwire: Tokyo is getting an expanded campaign, a roguelite mode, and a dodge button
- 8 D&D classics including Spelljammer and a Silver Box bundle are headed to Steam and GOG
- SteamOS 3.5 is almost here, includes a fix for the Steam Deck's sneakiest performance bug
- A new Magic: The Gathering card will be printed exactly once—not one run, but just one card
- In Call of Duty's latest update, Modern Warfare 2 got all the love
- Sims 4 'infant stretching' bug terrorizes players with unusually long babies
- After 2 years of prototyping, a new studio from Diablo 3's director has settled on a project: 'Man, do we want to make this game'
- As the Diablo 4 beta approaches, we can't help but dread a demon from our past: Error 37
- Microsoft's fight with Sony now has it signing Call of Duty deals with platforms we've never heard of
- Diablo 4 preloading for the early access beta has started
- The only Resident Evil 4 remake I need is this incredible Lego version
- Square Enix's NFT game has a new trailer, but I'm more interested in its absolutely dystopian project report
- Nvidia's CPU hogging bug finally and fully nixed with official driver release
- New ChatGPT bot is out, promises to hallucinate less
- Modders use AI to give Skyrim's Dragonborn the voice of Master Chief, and I am once again asking if this is actually legal
- Cities: Skylines puts out its final DLC roadmap before it goes away for good
- Snag almost any AMD graphics card plus The Last of Us for hella cheap
- Wordle hint and answer #634: Wednesday, March 15
- Bring back wireless mouse charging mats
- Get the worst value gaming PC ever with this F1 sim rig
- Yes, the giraffe in HBO's The Last of Us finale was real, his name is Nabo and he lives in Calgary
March 14
- Valve teases CS:GO players with another 'Counter-Strike 2' reference, this time in the Steam backend
- Was anyone else obsessed with Terminal Velocity in the '90s? It just got an update
- Indie dev accused of using stolen FromSoftware animations removes them, warns others against trusting marketplace assets
- Valve likes the idea of an OLED Steam Deck, too, but says it isn't as simple as it sounds
- Reddit is down (update: looks like it's back)
- Minecraft 1.20 features are now included in the latest game version as an experiment toggle
- Meta is laying off another 10,000 employees
- The Chaos Dwarfs, one of Total War: Warhammer 3's most anticipated factions, finally come to the game next month
- The detective noir Tron game from the Thomas Was Alone creator has a new trailer and releases next month
- The Last of Us season 2 on HBO could get 'radically' different from the game
- Bloober CEO defends Konami: 'They do know what they are doing'
- The launch of Star Citizen's biggest update has been a shambles, and players are frustrated: 'This is embarrassingly bad'
- System Shock has had a last-minute delay until May: 'We are after all merely human'
- Hogwarts Legacy silently shuts up annoying NPC
- Notoriously salty Runescape player gets comeuppance as their 20,000 hour 'skiller' account is hacked and renamed 'Same Password Everywhere'
- Lets champion these stellar Raspberry Pi gaming handhelds for Pi day
- Microsoft finally adding missing taskbar functionality to Windows 11
- Cities: Skylines YouTuber managed to 3D print their incredible city square
- This 21 SSD add-in card should sort you out for game storage for at least a decade
- ASRock cuts prices of its Intel Arc graphics cards so low you may actually want one
- Wordle hint and answer #633: Tuesday, March 14
March 13
- That co-op farming game with mechs has been delayed
- I can finally enjoy The Witcher 3 again now that they've fixed the grass shadows
- WoW 'hardcore' players currently use an addon to prove their runs are legit, but may be getting official servers soon
- Hitman is 'a little bit on hiatus' as IO Interactive focuses on James Bond and its new fantasy RPG
- Sons of the Forest patch fixes NPC's chaotic behavior, but it turns out a lot of players liked him that way: 'I hate Kelvin now'
- Battlefield 2042 is free-to-play on Steam this week
- Kerbal Space Program 2's negative reception could start to turn around this week, if the first big patch isn't delayed
- This new Cyberpunk 2077 texture mod makes Night City more eye-popping than ever
- This management sim is basically Theme Hospital in space
- Of course the first thing modders did for the Resident Evil 4 demo was put Leon in a thong
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beats its all-time player record for the second time in a month
- PSU manufacturers warned against using 600W GPU power plug design due to temperature rise risk
- The king of beat 'em ups gets huge patch with over 300 tweaks and changes
- Konami offers the tiniest sop to Castlevania: 'Fans always want more, and we do too'
- Wordle hint and answer #632: Monday, March 13
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 track takes longer to complete than the universe will exist
- Kill monstrous hordes until you can delete magic forever in tactics RPG The Last Spell
- Total War: Warhammer 3 will get more Legendary Heroes and expand Cathay
- A massive Darkest Dungeon overhaul mod adds an entirely new campaign
March 12
- I won't say no to an out-of-the-blue update to this three-year-old, free, Mario-themed FPS demo
- Bans for 46 players in cheating case hit Dota 2 esports, including 21 lifetime bans
- STALKER 2 developer suffers Russia-linked security breach: 'We have been enduring constant cyberattacks for more than a year now'
- Wordle hint and answer #631: Sunday, March 12
- Soulslike dev accused of reusing FromSoftware animations
- Atomic Heart patch adds FOV slider, removes mouse acceleration
- Put another notch on Google's axe, Stadia's switch to a licenced streaming platform is dead too
March 11
- I downloaded 'The Elder Scrolls 6' but I'm starting to think it might not really be The Elder Scrolls 6
- Cliff Bleszinski once considered making Gears of War 4 an FPS: 'Can you imagine chainsawing a Locust in first person?'
- Wordle hint and answer #630: Saturday, March 11
March 10
- The Outlast Trials will finally launch into early access in May
- I'm convinced World of Warcraft is about to surprise us with its first ranged support class
- Fortnite drops Windows 7 and 8 support
- I thought I was a Resident Evil pro until I tried the max-difficulty hell mode hidden in RE4's demo
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 celebrates 5 years with a free weekend and special anniversary level
- United 1944 is a WW2 shooter where you make your own guns
- Fatal Frame director talks about all the ghosts he's seen: 'spirits have been a frightening presence in my life since I was young'
- I'm beyond excited that Ghost Trick, one of the greatest DS games, is finally coming to PC on June 30
- Square Enix says Forspoken reception was 'challenging', sales 'lacklustre'
- The new game from Tripwire Interactive is having an open beta this weekend
- There's only a few months left before time loop FPS Lemnis Gate becomes unplayable on PC forever
- This 'laptop' has two years of battery life but we're not sure how well it runs Cyberpunk
- Sons of the Forest's first big update makes enemies more threatening, adds a hang glider, and quells Kelvin's tree-chopping bloodlust
- Nvidia's going to be using TSMC, not Intel's Arizona fabs
- This physics-heavy, melee-focused immersive sim reminds me of Deus Ex: Invisible War in all the right ways
- A big surge in VR and AR headsets came to an end last year
- AM5 motherboards for Ryzen 7000 CPUs finally hit $125
- Wordle hint and answer #629: Friday, March 10
- Resident Evil 4 remake just got its aptly titled Chainsaw demo
- The same devs who ported A Link to the Past to PC are reverse-engineering another SNES classic
March 9
- Epic Games CEO says AI companies shouldn't be 'hoovering up everybody's art data'
- Robocop: Rogue City is delayed, but at least we've got a new gameplay trailer
- D&D RPG Solasta is getting gnomes, tieflings, and a high-level campaign
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is reportedly delayed
- Discord says it's still not recording your voice chats or livestreams
- The Last of Us Part 1 will have important PC-specific features, calls for RTX 2070 Super to hit 1080p 60 fps at high settings
- Try this story-driven fantasy card-battler for free before it launches in April
- Remember Human: Fall Flat? Turns out over 40 million humans paid up
- Rune Factory 3 Special has a release date on PC, invites you to fall in love with one of its hyperabundant bachelorettes
- Studio makes its beloved destructible FPS free in bid to keep it alive
- Discord is injecting AI into every server, starting with ChatGPT
- Epic isn't done with Epic Games Store exclusives, it's just focused on big ones
- Sony's latest volley against the Activision Blizzard acquisition: What if Microsoft straight-up sabotages COD?
- This Final Fantasy 14-inspired Puma collection has me in a chokehold
- Epic launches self-publishing tools, calls out Valve again: 'Steam has created a real problem for the industry'
- Epic gave away 'nearly 700 million' free games last year, will keep it going this year
- For the first time in World of Warcraft's history, Horde and Alliance players will be able to join the same guild
- Advance Wars-like tactics game Wargroove is getting a sequel and yes, the armoured pups are back
- Suck it up, Valve's going to make us wait years for Steam Deck 2
- Wordle hint and answer #628: Thursday, March 9
- Call of Duty is getting Shredder
- Bing's secret mode lets you talk to AI Keanu Reeves and other celebrities
- New Genshin Impact character is so bad that players around the world are begging for fixes
March 8
- Dark and Darker studio raided by police following 'stolen' code allegations
- FML, Starfield comes out just a week after Baldur's Gate 3
- One of the worst PC ports of the year has started its redemption arc
- Hunt: Showdown's finally adding the roaming bosses fans have been clamouring for
- League of Legends MMO producer leaves Riot: 'It's the right time to hand over the reigns'
- 'Manufacturers will put a screen on anything' I say staring at a distro plate with a 7-inch monitor built in
- In the year of our lord 2023, Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks to make the animatronic mouse dance
- Everyone's favourite Fallout now has voice acting for over 40 NPCs, thanks to modders
- Starfield is coming in September
- Storing trillions of your Discord messages is waaaaay harder than you thought
- The Outer Worlds' new version is getting slammed on Steam—'Spacer's Choice Edition: now with 200% more performance issues!'
- Baldur’s Gate 3’s free upgrade didn't make me buy the RPG, but this sure as hell did
- That 2D League of Legends RPG from the Moonlighter devs just got an imminent release date and a gameplay trailer
- AMD could offer 'an exciting sneak peek' of FSR 3 at GDC event on March 23
- Grab Nvidia and AMD's new GPU drivers here to save your CPU and maybe even your Windows install
- Wordle hint and answer #627: Wednesday, March 8
- Space camp for adults exists and it's open to anyone
- This software lets you dip your toes into Quantum computing for free
March 7
- Dota 2's new ghostly gunslinger hero is live
- Overwatch 2 developer calls smurfing 'the bane of my existence'
- It's a big week for multiplayer FPS games
- Take-Two confirms layoffs following 'exponential growth in recent years'
- Rainbow Six Siege mouse spoofers scramble to support forums after new anticheat 'Mousetrap' unexpectedly kicks in
- Romania's got a new government AI advisor: 'My role is to represent you, like a mirror.'
- Finally, a 3D printer that prints chocolate
- Twitch starts to address 'deepfake porn', and the first thing to go is that phrase
- Aragami studio Lince Works is closing: 'The last couple of years have been particularly difficult'
- This cordyceps fungus computer is a bit too 'Last of Us' for comfort
- AMD has effectively announced a $100 price cut for the RX 7900 XT
- Dark and Darker promises 'absolutely no pay to win,' but admits it can't survive on sales alone
- Someone thought they spotted a massive easter egg in the Cities: Skylines 2 trailer
- Microsoft and Intel follow Nvidia with their own streaming video upscaling tools
- Tarkov publicly shames 6,700 'scum of the earth' cheaters by publishing their nicknames after banning them
- Intel puts TSMC on notice with step towards Angstrom era chips
- Wordle hint and answer #626: Tuesday, March 7
- SSDs shot into space to help with ISS computing
- Scientists are getting closer to cyberpunk robotic human augments
- Evidence is mounting for an upcoming Minecraft Bedrock world editor mode
March 6
- Overwatch 2 scientist confirms it's not just you, Cassidy's ultimate sucks
- Kai Cenat crushes Ludwig's subscriber record to become the new King of Twitch
- Here's how to sign up for the closed beta of The Finals, our most anticipated FPS of 2023
- Blizzard filled a deconsecrated French church with Diablo 4 murals
- Cities: Skylines 2 will have hailstorms, rat infestations, and 150 map tiles in a single city
- Why Counter-Strike players think Valve is about to announce 'Counter-Strike 2'
- Crusader Kings 3: Tours and Tournaments is coming this spring
- Figment is free on Steam, but only until Figment 2 comes out
- Former Sims studio head is now making a competing game called Life By You
- Cities: Skylines 2 coming this year: 'the most realistic city simulation ever created'
- This new turn-based game from the creators of BattleTech is inspired by Indiana Jones and XCOM
- Frogwares' Lovecraftian Sherlock Holmes remake has a release date and a new, spooky trailer
- Why are War Thunder images appearing in the background of Russian propaganda clips?
- Researchers translate brain waves into scarily accurate images using Stable Diffusion AI
- Destiny 2 players are repeatedly killing themselves in a 4-year-old raid for clout
- A Golden Girls parody of Persona exists, and you can play it later this year
- Steam's most hardcore city builder overcomes Trotskyite sabotage to return to the platform
- Both AMD and Nvidia's latest drivers can do very bad things to your gaming PC
- 16 years later, a new Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi game is happening
- The Olympics is putting on an esports event without any actual esports games
- How Intel caught up to AMD's graphics card sales: Bad maths
- Dead by Daylight is inevitably becoming a horror movie
- Wordle hint and answer #625: Monday, March 6
- Larian confirms Baldur's Gate 3 early access owners get Digital Deluxe Edition upgrade free
- You have to see this amazing fan-made Star Trek Shuttle PC
- The SteelSeries Destiny 2: Lightfall themed peripherals are gorgeous
- New Alien movie starts filming this month
- Check out this deckbuilder that uses poker hands for combat resolution
- The Elden Ring player who fought its hardest boss over and over until an expansion announcement is hanging up his sword: 'I had been doing it so long'
- Cross Pokemon with The Binding of Isaac and you get this cheerily violent roguelike
March 5
- This offbeat FPS traps you in an arena shooter-themed afterlife where something is going horribly wrong
- Here's a little puzzle game about being a consultant for pirates
- Wordle hint and answer #624: Sunday, March 5
- The Witcher remake studio is also making an isometric RPG with turn-based combat
- Skyrim mod adds AI voice acting for all the Dragonborn's dialogue
- Young workers don't know how to use office printers, scanners, ancient desktop PCs
- Sons of the Forest devs have "big plans" for AI buddies Kelvin and Virginia
March 4
- Deleted Artstation page purportedly shows another unrealized version of Doom 4
- This gruesome RPG is combining biological horror with the claustrophobic labyrinths of PC gaming's past
- Warframe's next expansion is a bizarre roguelike journey into a villain's psyche
- Wordle hint and answer #623: Saturday, March 4
- Square Enix's crypto-loving president likely to be ousted in favor of a different, still crypto-loving president
March 3
- Dead Island 2 gameplay shows off bridezilla zombie, has the vibe of pro wrestling
- Atomic Heart's lustful fridge has people grossed-out, confused, inexplicably thirsty
- Pathfinder maker bans AI-generated art, text in its games
- Overwatch 2 characters are canonically One Punch Man fans, because why not?
- RuneScape player finally pulls off ridiculous ironman challenge he set himself 8 years ago: 'Life? No.'
- The Sims 4's next expansion will make Sims actually care about each other's personalities
- Hunt: Showdown is getting one of the rarest things a game can get: an engine upgrade
- The fix is in for the Intel ethernet chip that keeps dropping out
- Reddit hunts down streamer's stolen 'dream car', finds confused man who demands $10,000 before fleeing to massage parlour
- Wo Long's technical issues are driving players up the wall, but its controls could be a bigger problem
- PC memory market went down the pan in 2022 like everything else
- No Vampire Survivors sequel for us unless its creator comes up with something 'radically new'
- Valve just enabled native ray tracing on the Steam Deck and it actually looks pretty wild
- LG trash talks Samsung for OLED burn-in issues
- Wordle hint and answer #622: Friday, March 3
- People just won't stop buying RTX 3060 graphics cards
- Nvidia driver's 'csgos2.exe' reference reinvigorates CS:GO update speculation
- Popular VTuber caught up in Hogwarts Legacy controversy is retiring
March 2
- Casting spells with my voice in Hogwarts Legacy is very silly, kinda cool
- Co-op fantasy tavern sim Innchanted is coming out this month
- This is not a place of honor: up to $36 million worth of Funko Pops to be entombed in landfills
- Skate's janky playtest videos are making unfinished games look cool
- Here's an entire scene from Twister (1996) remade in Kerbal Space Program
- Microsoft's charm offensive with COD deals has reportedly paid off with the EU
- The Future Games Show returns March 23, featuring over 50 games
- 'There is no doubt that I knew the facts'—Sonic creator admits insider trading guilt on first day of trial
- Engineers teach their 1-milliwatt neural chip to play Doom, say this is serious work yo, everyone nods
- Telltale delays the Wolf Among Us 2 till at least next year, because if it's half-baked 'we're going to get torn to shreds'
- These gloriously atrocious volume control designs are sending me
- PC Gamer UK April issue on sale now: Warframe: The Duviri Paradox
- You've got one week to nab 69 games for $30, and for a good cause too
- 'I was deranged'—Half-Life writer's regret at publishing Episode 3 story
- Games consoles now deliver fully one quarter of AMD's revenues
- First-person shooters have been getting perspective wrong all along
- Wordle hint and answer #621: Thursday, March 2
- Meta's hardware roadmap includes multiple new Quest headsets, and more emphasis on AR
- And the award for the saddest patch notes ever goes to Babylon's Fall
- Rainbow Six Siege player hacks drone that hacks drones to somehow kill player with their own claymore
- Sons of the Forest update stops you from accidentally eating severed arms
- Stop exaggerating about AI, US government warns tech companies
March 1
- Kerbal Space Program 2's unfinished features may have been unearthed by dataminers
- That was quick: Speedrunner beats Sons of the Forest in under 9 minutes
- Racecar driver says steering F1 champ Max Verstappen's car like playing Call of Duty with 'sensitivity up to the highest it will go'
- New Deep Rock Galactic spinoff is a Vampire Survivors-style auto-shooter (with mining)
- Tekken 8 continues to go incredibly hard with new Jin Kazama trailer
- Activision fired two testers for 'profane' language, now a major tech union is filing charges
- Raise a glass to one of the biggest games of 2023 having rec specs from 2014
- Ford files patent to allow self-driving cars to drive away from owners who don't keep up with payments
- Sure looks like the next Gears of War is ramping up production
- The face of Final Fantasy doesn't like the term JRPG, once considered it 'discriminatory'
- Square Enix snuffs out Luminous, the studio behind Forspoken
- Wordle hint and answer #620: Wednesday, March 1
- Sons of the Forest is the funniest videogame on the internet right now