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- January 31
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- If you're looking for a new base in Enshrouded, this three-story tavern with a 25 comfort buff is the perfect fixer-upper
- Squint at the new Silent Hill 2 remake trailer and tell me it's not just the Resident Evil 2 remake
- The next Metro game is a 'story-driven VR adventure' where you turn into a 'supernatural being' while you look for your wife
- Kojima is making a new 'action espionage game' after Death Stranding 2
- Ken Levine's upcoming FPS Judas couldn't look more like BioShock 4 if it had a lighthouse, a man, and a city
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach isn't coming until 2025
- Hope you're hungry for Godzilla sushi, because the legendary kaiju is coming to Dave the Diver
- One of the few good 3D Sonic games is getting a remaster, with added Shadow
- Harold Halibut, the game about making friends while trapped in a giant spaceship stranded at the bottom of an alien ocean, now has a demo on Steam
- Alan Wake 2 patch adds 'much-requested' option to turn down the cheap jump scares that so many people hate
- EA earnings call show EA Sports FC was a game of two halves, as it fails to out-sell the last FIFA but still makes more money
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League apologises for early access server stumble by giving players a pat on the back and $20 worth of premium currency
- Well, it sure is ambitious: this game set in ancient China wants to be a city builder, farming and life sim, open world RPG, management tycoon, and 4X strategy all rolled into one
- Extended Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 reveal is illuminating but disorientating
- Witcher remake studio boss says it'll remake what's 'bad, outdated, or unnecessarily convoluted' without naming the sex baseball cards we all know he's talking about
- Minthara takes centre-stage as the new face of Sex% Baldur's Gate 3 speedruns: 'Larian tried to patch out sex speedrunning. Unfortunately for them, we are not so easily deterred'
- DMCA'd Palworld modder takes his revenge on Nintendo with a 'legally distinct pocket creatures' mod featuring yellow rat, fire fox, and Saul Goodman
- No honour among thieves as ChatGPT used to create fake leak of 50 million Europcar customer records
- Intel reportedly prepping refresh of Raptor Lake Refresh, no really
- AMD claims 'demand for Radeon is strong' but won't say exactly how strong
- WoW's experimental ban on 'GDKP' raids in Season of Discovery has set the community on fire—here's why
- Palworld player uncovers secret Mewtwo-like hidden in the game files that looks too legally actionable even for Palworld
- This mind-boggling new Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode world record boasts so many elite tricks I'm now convinced its speedrunner is an actual wizard
- Spiderweb's remaster of classic CRPG Geneforge 2 gets a March release date
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #956 for Wednesday, January 31
- Rainbow Six Siege players are already selling gun skins for hundreds of dollars in new marketplace beta
- Blood Bowl 3 gets league admin tools at last, though in beta form
- Destiny 2 game director Joe Blackburn is leaving Bungie for 'a new adventure'
- Two years after release, the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters on Steam finally achieve feature-parity with the console versions
- Pokimane is done streaming on Twitch
- January 30
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- The Long Dark creative director teases 'good things happening in the Unannounced Survival Games space'
- This bizarre Enshrouded glitch lets you fly across the entire map with a single jump
- Bungie hopes Destiny 2's new Mass Effect armor sets will be your favorite cosmetics on The Tower
- I accidentally bred one of the rarest Palworld pals, but they have the most ridiculous stats
- Activision Blizzard esports department clobbered by layoffs
- 2K confirms Spec Ops: The Line has been removed from sale because of expiring 'partnership licenses'
- Helskate's a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater-meets-roguelike with good ideas, but its Steam Next Fest demo left me feeling like it can't land its combos yet
- AI researchers find AI models learning their safety techniques, actively resisting training, and telling them 'I hate you'
- Tencent boss worried that in the face of 'significant challenges' and competition it has 'achieved nothing'
- The first Diablo and Warcraft games just appeared on Battle.net
- The plucky Raspberry Pi 5 gets the full liquid treatment with this slightly absurd water cooling kit
- Don't think of Avowed as Obsidian's Skyrim but as a Fallout: New Vegas and Outer Worlds-style take on first-person fantasy, says the studio
- Obsidian's design director would love to add the immersive sim elements of Baldur's Gate 3 into a 'Pillars-y' game: 'we have mostly 2D worlds, so that's a lot more difficult'
- Elon Musk's Neuralink has stuck a device in someone's brain and he's already talking up its theoretical uses: 'Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist'
- 2018's best platformer now has an adorable Mario 64-style tribute made by the game's original dev team for its 6th anniversary—and it's completely free
- MSI's new Claw handheld goes head to head with Lenovo and Asus at $700
- Adam Jensen voice actor says cancelled Deus Ex likely 'wasn't a Jensen story anyway' and that 'I gotta be honest, I gave up on it a long time ago'
- Real-life Team Rocket robs 35,000 Pokémon cards from a store despite using a blocked entrance, crawling around on their hands and knees, and missing a major release by 2 whole days
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #955 for Tuesday, January 30
- January 29
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- Enshrouded doesn't have PvP, but players are still getting robbed and griefed by strangers
- Indie games showcase Day of the Devs is now officially a non-profit organization
- Stormgate was already fully funded—then it earned $2M on Kickstarter
- Blizzard's late-night emergency patch saved Diablo 4's most controversial season yet
- Here are the first details on new Stormgate hero Maloc, a tanky fire-caster voiced by Chris Metzen
- Unprecedented 'inside look' at Call of Duty matchmaking debunks fan theories on SBMM and confirms our assumptions: 'Skill is not the dominant variable'
- Activision's Call of Duty general manager takes over as president of Blizzard
- Destiny's story structure 'may have become predictable,' admits Bungie as it pivots to Episodes to 'pleasantly surprise' players more often
- Neo-Victorian survival game Nightingale is holding a public stress test on Friday, but it's only for 3 hours so don't be late
- Embracer lays off 97 people at Eidos Montreal, reportedly cancels new Deus Ex game
- Pyrene is a promising roguelike deckbuilder with all the overpowered builds your synergistic heart desires
- Enshrouded has grabbed more than 1 million players in just 4 days, joining Palworld in making January an impressive month for early access survival games
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's early access bug shows the need for an offline mode
- You too can run a functional 16-bit CPU inside Microsoft Excel thanks to one YouTube hobbyist with more willpower than I shall ever possess
- George Carlin's estate sues over ghoulish AI routine featuring the late comedian's likeness and, surprise surprise, turns out it was written by a human
- Blizzard employee snags a decade of WoW game time just before being laid off, will not have to pay a cent until 2033
- Power-crazed boffin gets Doom running through the medium of gut bacteria
- Fresh AMD Zen 5 CPU details leak suggesting a likely launch date between April and June of this year
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League steps on one last rake for the road by sneaking in Denuvo DRM
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #954 for Monday, January 29
- The latest update to my favorite indie RPG adds a clockwork police state ruled by a mad god
- Visual program some adorable robots to heat up a frozen world in Craftomation 101
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 creative director outlines its 'visceral immersive combat'
- January 28
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- Check out this horde survival roguelike where you and your friends are a frog riding on a mech's shoulders
- The insanely ambitious Dark Souls 3 total conversion Archthrones just showed off a mysterious new area running on Steam Deck
- Footage of a canceled, 10+ year-old sci-fi Call of Duty developed by Tony Hawk's Pro Skater studio Neversoft has leaked online
- Dark and Darker dev claims Nexon's preliminary injunction has been dismissed, court rules that the game 'cannot be considered an infringement of Nexon's copyright or trade secret'
- Mountain keeps, hobbit holes, and sick castles: Enshrouded players are hard at work with that excellent building system
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #953 for Sunday, January 28
- Suicide Squad devs say despite being a live-service game it'll respect players' time because 'We all love playing games, but we also have lives'
- Enlisted, the 100-person shooter where everyone has a squad of NPCs, is coming to Steam
- Trap-dodging first person runner Phantom Abyss has escaped early access
- January 27
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- Twin stick crafter-shooter-basebuilder The Riftbreaker aims for a very ambitious 2024 roadmap
- Baldur's Gate 3's champion speedrunner just smashed two world records in as many days through the power of friendly fire, invisible bears, and throwing a guy off a bridge
- Enjoy the punchy, colorful combat of action platformer Anomaly Agent
- Palworld creator Pocketpair has another game in the works, and it looks like Hollow Knight with co-op and base building
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #952 for Saturday, January 27
- January 26
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- Bloodborne Kart won't be 'Bloodborne Kart' anymore after a letter from Sony, but the devs are excited to make it an original thing: 'This is a fan game no more!'
- Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone says he's 'done adding major new content' to the 1.6 update, promises it will 'absolutely' be out this year
- Hogwarts Legacy's PlayStation-exclusive content is coming to other platforms this summer along with 'additional updates and features'
- Another bunch of game studios have laid off employees, and we're not even out of January yet
- A new Witcher comic series spoils Geralt's retirement with a Western-styled 'homage to Andrzej Sapkowski, Clint Eastwood, and Sergio Leone'
- The most powerful AI processing supercomputer in the world is set to be built in Germany, and planned to become operational within a mere year. Crikey.
- Epic taunts Apple with a banana as Tim Sweeney decries new iOS rules in the EU as 'hot garbage'
- Hearts of Iron 4 beefs up Brazil and invites you to save South America from fascism in its latest DLC
- Enshrouded's promising early access has a problem—quest progression is server-wide, though Keen Games says a change is 'definitely on the team's radar'
- A livestreamed D&D one shot will take place inside the vagina of the game's biggest monster, and it's for a good cause—science and education
- Intel CEO bullish about chip roadmap and confirms Arrow Lake CPUs for this year as share price plummets 12%
- Stunned devs left scrambling for livelihoods in wake of yesterday's layoff bloodbath: 'In the end the contributions didn't matter'
- Mars helicopter borked, broken, an ex-helicopter, now abandoned and alone
- Apple App Store opens up to game streaming including Nvidia's GeForce Now
- Popular Japanese rhythm game sets cancellation record by announcing release date and closure in the same tweet
- Dwarf Fortress' missing best mode is tantalisingly close to release, just as soon as they nail down how to 'target toes with your crab pincers'
- China's AI chip industry shows signs of strain as two key players look like they might be in trouble
- Asus plotting second-gen ROG Ally handheld for later this year
- We regret to inform you that Palworld has a smutty lizard 'seeking a night of love' with humans, which raids bases in hordes of 'rampaging fangirls'
- Chaotic Pokémon collaboration with the Van Gogh museum sees one final twist as staff suspended for allegedly stealing cards and leaking insider info
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #951 for Friday, January 26
- January 25
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- Pizza Tower, 2023's best platformer, is getting a free update where you play as one of the villains with his own music and moveset: 'Think of it as a sort of New Game+'
- Blizzard's canceled survival game had been in development for over 6 years, was highly praised by employees
- A game about giant evil rats, Merciful Sisters, and other fantasy weirdos waging war in a ruined city is free in GOG's 2024 New Year Sale
- Just four months after launching into early access, Nexon's 'full contact sword action' game Warhaven is shutting down
- It's actually happening: Skull and Bones is holding an open beta in February
- Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader players have one week to snag some free DLC cosmetics before they're gone for good
- This co-op survival game looks like a mad scientist's mashup of Lethal Company and Half-Life—and there's a demo out now
- The demo for poker-based roguelike Balatro returns today with nearly 40 new jokers—plus a full release date in February
- AdventureQuest 8-bit Dungeons & Doomknights is a heavy dose of mid-2000s internet meme nostalgia that released on the NES first, for some reason
- Walls between PC and console continue to crumble as Horizon Forbidden West announces March release date
- Microsoft cuts 1,900 jobs at Activision Blizzard and Xbox, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra leaves the company, and the studio's survival game has been cancelled
- Palworld becomes second game in Steam history to hit more than 2 million concurrent players
- Palworld fights 'cheating on the official server' with new patch, but 'it is currently difficult to completely prevent all cheating immediately'
- Sony may have figured out how to block notorious cheating device the Cronus Zen on PS5. Take that cheaty-cheaters
- 11 years in, Old School RuneScape's toaster graphics are about to look better than ever
- Sneaky World of Warcraft hotfix titles players 'Champion of the Dragonflights' a whole week after a dramatic cutscene did, leads to most getting their full honours while standing around doing nothing
- 'The mother of all breaches'—26 billion records leaked including stolen user logins, so may we suggest you finally change that old password?
- Palworld players channel their inner hunter-gatherers to fell a giant mammoth by herding it into campfires, devs call it 'genius'
- The Pokémon Company releases a statement about Palworld, says it intends to 'investigate and take appropriate measures to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property rights related to the Pokémon'
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #950 for Thursday, January 25
- Intel's Arc graphics cards receive yet another major performance uplift with the latest driver
- January 24
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- Dungeons and Dragons is coming to VR
- Palworld struggled to find a dev with shooter experience in Japan before stumbling on a self-taught hobbyist who worked at a convenience store
- The survival game that got kicked off Steam over a stolen source code dispute with Ark: Survival Evolved is set to launch in February, and a playtest is happening right now
- Chinese regulators may be having second thoughts about online gaming crackdown: Proposed rule changes have been removed from government website
- Nvidia's RTX Video HDR uses AI to convert SDR video to HDR on the fly
- A new Five Nights at Freddy's game has leaked, but creator Scott Cawthon says it's okay: 'I was trying to keep it a secret for a bit longer, but now that it's out, that's fine'
- Google has updated Chrome with three AI tools for sorting tabs, making new themes, and writing text for you
- Brilliant PS4 horror game Until Dawn confirmed for PC
- The PC's greatest nemesis was born 40 years ago today
- Florida Joker issues new ultimatum to Rockstar over apparent GTA 6 trailer cameo: 'Let me voice the character'
- Final Fantasy 14 is shaking up its usual Moogle tomestone events by adding both weekly and event-long challenges
- After a catastrophic launch period, Payday 3 is assembling a veteran crew for its own daring rescue mission
- Colorado crypto-pastor and wife hawk worthless scheme to followers, spend $1.3 million living it up, but wait: 'the Lord told us to'
- MSI apologises and releases new BIOS files for its slow RTX 4070 Ti Super GPUs, thanks to being 'unwaveringly committed' to performance
- 'The key thing is that the good guys have better AIs than the bad guys' says Microsoft founder Bill Gates on the threat from artificial intelligence
- TSMC's upcoming 2nm chip tech could make for incredibly fast but painfully pricey graphics cards
- World's biggest mod site says no to Palworld Pokémon mods after taking one look at Nintendo's record of 'mercilessly submitting legal challenges'
- Secretlab's launching a slightly cheaper version of the excellent Titan Evo, starting at $449
- Baldur's Gate 3 player slays a major villain by throwing their mom at them so hard they die
- Microsoft's current OS has been shrunk to a ridiculous 100MB in size, but only by getting rid of windows from Windows
- The Day Before studio asks whether you're going to believe it or your own lying eyes as it attributes the game's catastrophic performance to a 'hate campaign' by 'bloggers'
- 'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award
- Final Fantasy 14's live-action TV series is 'dead' due to a scale that 'proved too much', with Covid-19 twisting the knife
- NSA spies panicked over 'AI' Furbies way back in the late 90s according to official document dump
- Palworld releases updated roadmap with big promises but no dates
- AMD Fluid Motion Frames finally goes official, driver-based frame generation for any DX11/12 game
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #949 for Wednesday, January 24
- Obsidian's next RPG Avowed won't have the option to do 'a pure pacifist run'
- January 23
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- There's a new Stargate: SG-1 tactics game on Steam, because the '90s are forever
- Avowed's companions won't ditch you for making the 'wrong' choices: 'It's not about maintaining their approval, it's about getting to know them'
- 2 months after killing the Overwatch League, Blizzard teams up with Saudi Arabia's esports org for 'a new era of Overwatch esports'
- Immortality developer Sam Barlow teases 2 new projects on Steam, and one of them is survival horror
- Disney looks to have figured out a limitless VR floor prototype that's a careful step towards a real-world holodeck
- Palworld beats Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 with an all-time peak player count of more than 1.8 million
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League reveals its first season, featuring a playable Joker from another universe—a camp, insecure 20-something with a rocket umbrella
- Former Pokémon legal chief says Palworld 'looks like the usual ripoff nonsense I would see a thousand times a year ' and he's 'surprised it got this far'
- Obsidian's next big RPG Avowed is looking to Vermintide's 'masterclass in having a sense of hitting and impact' to make its first-person sword-swinging feel weighty
- Obsidian's Avowed is going 'classless', ditching Pillars of Eternity's crunchy stat-heavy builds in favour of Skyrim-like ability trees
- AI Palworld accusations are currently based on vibes, a social deduction game, and the CEO's past tweets about machine-generated fakémon
- Palworld players discover you can kidnap and sell humans just like pals, although you will be warned it's not very polite
- GitHub has a copy of every open source project in its database during 2020 located deep inside a frozen mine
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #948 for Tuesday, January 23
- Dragon's Dogma 2's director didn't want his game to rely on fast travel: 'Travel is boring? That's not true. It's only an issue because your game is boring'
- Riot lays off 530 employees, will close Riot Forge: 'We're not doing this to appease shareholders or to hit some quarterly earnings number,' says CEO
- January 22
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- Palworld accused of copying Pokémon models, developer pushes back, says artists are being slandered
- Diablo 4 season 3's most powerful new items all drop off of its least popular boss
- Blizzard confirms you can't dress up your spider companions in Diablo 4 season 3, but at least you can pet them
- Tilted Towers resists the yoke of imperial aggression as the British Army gives up on its Fortnite livestream plan
- CD Projekt Red is ramping up production on The Witcher 4, and of course it's looking into using AI
- Embracer-owned Elex studio Piranha Bytes is trying to save itself from closure: 'Don't write us off yet'
- Palworld has a Pokémon mod that lets you send beloved mascot Pikachu to the mines, and it's already in trouble
- The open beta of Nvidia's RTX Remix is ready to grab: Remaster your favourite old games to give them a massive graphics upgrade
- Intel's Arrow Lake specs break cover: Say hello to DDR5-6400, wave goodbye to DDR4 and possibly Hyper-Threading
- Google cops to what we all knew anyway—it's tracking everything you do in Incognito mode
- Capcom's DRM patch just broke Monster Hunter Rise on Steam Deck
- Warhammer Fantasy is back—and now it's getting a new tabletop RPG too
- Little things that matter: Valve is making performance settings in its Steam Deck easier to understand
- Palworld's plain worse on the Microsoft Store and Game Pass right now—devs say they're 'at the mercy of the certification', making for slower hotfixes
- Palworld's developers are currently trying to fix a game-wrecking bug that permanently nerfs your character
- The acclaimed Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, a game with over 52,000 'Very Positive' reviews on Steam, is now cheaper than a coffee thanks to this massive price cut
- Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner reverse-pickpockets a boss to teleport to the dev room, defeats another boss with 'Shadowbear'
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #947 for Monday, January 22
- I never knew I wanted to be able to trap monsters in bubbles and watch them float away until I tried the demo for this upcoming magical FPS
- The most popular character name on D&D Beyond is still 'Bob'
- January 21
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- Get a retired cop back in service for her only unsolved case in this point-and-click detective adventure
- Stack cards to captain a desperate train in this frozen, apocalyptic, and totally free roguelite demo
- Painting of sailing ships in the anime Attack on Titan is actually a screenshot from Total War: Empire
- Even after 300 hours, I've never met one of Baldur's Gate 3's most elusive NPCs: a half-orc named Honk who only shows up if you kill his brother then go on a date at their restaurant
- Skill-rich action RPG Last Epoch will finally release in February
- That Pokémon with guns game, Palworld, just sold 4 million copies in 3 days and it isn't slowing down
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #946 for Sunday, January 21
- Ars Magica, the pioneering 'oops all wizards' tabletop RPG, is getting a Definitive Edition
- Check out the demo for this flashy top-down stealth action game
- Here's a farm life game but it's about a sect of Chinese fantasy martial artists
- They're making a story-driven sequel to Lunar Lander, the 1979 Atari arcade game where all you do is land on the moon
- Everyone's favorite post-apocalypse beaver city builder now has horrible, polluted water
- January 20
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- Ten years ago I wouldn't have believed you if you told me League of Legends would one day have a bafflingly adorable 'crafting RPG' spinoff
- If you can't play the Resident Evil 4 remake in VR, this first person mod might be the next best thing
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #945 for Saturday, January 20
- Halo Infinite is done with seasons, will get smaller 'content updates' from now on
- The upcoming prequel to 1999 Dreamcast game Slave Zero just got its own prequel, and it's a free Quake mod
- Microsoft says 'Russian state-sponsored' hackers gained access to 'a very small percentage of Microsoft corporate email accounts'
- January 19
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- Diablo 4 hasn't solved its worst loot problem yet, but season 3 is a step in the right direction
- Did you catch the Quake 6 tease in the Indiana Jones reveal?
- The British Army made its own Fortnite map as a recruitment tool, but Epic could block it
- Absurdly rare Team Fortress 2 hat called 'The Crone's Dome' sells for a record-setting $18,000 worth of keys because 'it's one of a kind and will not ever be unboxed again'
- WoW's dreaded druid is dead: Blizzard just 'used a sledgehammer' to nerf the boss that's been stomping Mythic raiders for the last 2 months
- The DNA of Arthur C. Clarke just burned up on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere after a failed moonshot, while Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry's ashes are off to deep space
- 18 years on, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion's unmatched comedic timing is still enough to go viral
- Type, you fools! Drop has new artisan LOTR keycaps available for pre-order and they have my axe
- PC is the most 'dominant' it's been this decade as two-thirds of devs say they're targeting the platform
- Doom (2016)'s creative director reveals the secret to balancing the iconic BFG during a major charity speedrun: 'Uh, we don't'
- Your PC might be cool, but it'll never be Colossus—an 80-year-old beast as tall as a person that could 'read Hitler's mind'
- Palworld sells 1 million copies in just 8 hours, and the servers are struggling to handle the load
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is making the utterly bizarre decision to lock New Game+ behind a $15 upgrade
- 'Today our systems hallucinate, tomorrow if we're going to use them broadly, they have to be right' – Intel's CEO thinks AI needs a lesson in reasoning to move forward
- 'A huge mistake': Master Chief actor Pablo Schreiber rails against Halo TV show sex scene, says he 'wasn't listened to' when he argued against it
- Starfield's 'biggest' update now has patch notes, which boil down to bug fixes and visual updates—also, your pet rock's going to a nice farm upstate
- 'I think this is a 10-year gap' – Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says China is majorly behind in chip manufacturing thanks to export restrictions and looks to stay that way for the foreseeable future
- All Genshin Impact codes from the 4.4 livestream
- One of the best fantasy 4Xs on PC is free while the Steam keys last
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #944 for Friday, January 19
- Game developers are growing more opposed to major acquisitions: 'Too much control in one company's hands is never a good thing'
- 31% of game developers already use generative AI
- January 18
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- After almost a decade, Bungie is letting Destiny 2 players fix their fugly guardians (and it won't cost anything)
- Blizzard reveals how hard the nerfs to Diablo 4's sorcerers and barbarians will be next season as it outlines a new balance philosophy
- The developer of strategy city builder Manor Lords expected 14,000 Steam wishlists... and wound up with 2 million
- Microsoft's answer to Civilization looks, well, a lot like Civilization, but has twists like simultaneous turn resolution
- Indiana Jones headbutts a Nazi 37 seconds into the reveal trailer for The Great Circle, coming later this year
- Obsidian reveals Avowed's dual wand 'gunslinging mage' combat and fall release
- Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is out on May 21
- Two more studios announce layoffs as 2024 continues to suck for game developers
- Call of Duty's going to Alt + F4 itself if it catches players turning on aim assist while using a mouse
- Mastodon users are crowd-running programs on a BBC Micro emulator in 2024 and the results look as spectacular as they did in '81
- Old School RuneScape player says 'see ya at a million!' after pickpocketing 500,000 NPCs in a doomed quest for treasure under multiple self-imposed restrictions
- Baldur's Gate 3 player gives every NPC a +99 to their attacks, devises a harebrained build around being an unkillable wizard that obliterates anyone dumb enough to hit their shield
- Have you discussed pirating media on the internet? These film studios might like a word
- After a 6 year brawl, Billy Mitchell is back in the record books even though Twin Galaxies 'had all our ducks in a row' for a courtroom showdown
- Tekken 8 promises to change accessibility options after potentially dangerous filters that 'may hospitalise players' were discovered
- An ex-D&D designer has made a stat block for Elden Ring's hardest fight, in case you wanted to punish your players with Malenia's scarlet rot
- Running 8GB of RAM? Now's the time to upgrade, as Microsoft seems set to make 16GB the minimum for AI PCs and Copilot
- Star-studded cinematic horror Until Dawn is getting a big screen adaptation, an 'R-rated love letter to the horror genre'
- The phenomenal original Deus Ex, as well as its underappreciated cyberpunk sequel, Invisible War, are on sale now for half the price of a small McDonald's fries
- 4 years after it was announced, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is finally making its versus mode a reality with a closed alpha: 'We put it on the shelf to marinate for a bit'
- Low-profile memory module headed to laptops might be destined for desktops too
- How to watch the Xbox Direct livestream for January 2024
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #943 for Thursday, January 18
- Magic: The Gathering meets crime fiction in Murders at Karlov Manor
- Elden Ring fans continue to embrace their nature by working themselves into a frenzy over a tiny Steam database update
- Palworld climbs the Twitch charts as streamers discover it contains bird butt grenade launchers, human trafficking, and other bizarro acts of Pal cruelty
- January 17
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- Vampire Therapist is a game about helping the living dead come to terms with their centuries-old emotional hangups
- If The Finals wants a good solo mode, it'll have to try a lot harder than this
- Rock Band 4 won't get any more DLC because we're living in Fortnite's world now
- EverQuest is kicking off a year-long anniversary celebration with a packed calendar of new events, quests, and giveaways, culminating in 2 new expansions
- The Wordle of 2014 is coming to Steam in February
- OpenAI knows its tech might get misused in major elections, but I'm not convinced it has a clue how to stop it
- Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix makes Gale less cranky when he doesn't get his way
- Diablo 4 season 3 has 2 new Uber Uniques for your companion that will give you 'bragging rights' if you can find them
- $20 extra a month gets you the pro version of Microsoft's AI Copilot. Or you could just get Valheim every 30 days, instead
- The latest piece of tech that can unexpectedly be hacked: a 'nutrunner' wrench, which had over 20 vulnerabilities that'll be patched out in January
- Open-world city builder-exploration game Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles shows off 30 minutes of all new gameplay
- Forget QD-OLED and microLED, QDEL is the ultimate in future display tech
- Blizzard puts Diablo 3 out to pasture as it starts to recycle old seasons
- Batman: Arkham Knight mod fills age-old plot hole about how the Dark Knight stays hydrated, blasts Dr Pepper toward thugs 'at a solid 112MPH'
- Disney CCG Lorcana lets you ruin your deck with 99 copies of the puppies from 101 Dalmatians, if that's your sort of thing
- Patriot is developing DDR5 RAM sticks that will run at 6400 speed and higher, no matter what the CPU can take
- US Supreme Court has had enough of Epic vs. Apple, refuses to hear appeals, Tim Sweeney says the fight to open-up iOS 'is lost… a sad outcome for all developers'
- Prison Architect 2 goes 3D, promises smarter inmates and the most improbably whimsical carceral state yet
- AMD gatecrashes Nvidia's Super launch with a temporary $90 price drop and new MSRP for the Radeon RX 7900 XT
- Sabrent says its new 14GB/s PCIe Gen 5 SSD doesn't need a huge heatsink or a fan
- Elden Ring's friendly dog actually wants to rip you to shreds
- Someone made 'probably the biggest map ever in videogame history' in Garry's Mod, a multiverse octillions of kilometres wide that's half-magic, half-maths, and wholly mind-boggling
- Legendary D&D and videogame designer Jennell Jaquays is getting a memorial megadungeon built in her honour
- This homebrew OLED-powered PS5 'tablet' is ridiculously good
- 'You won't find our games on a subscription service' says the founder of Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian, after Ubisoft forecasts a future of players 'not owning' games
- Meteor Lake muscles into the portable gaming PC market with the new OneXPlayer three-in-one X1
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #942 for Wednesday, January 17
- A dystopian sci-fi MOBA was the last thing I expected from the studio behind Dave the Diver, but it's real and playable soon
- Ubisoft director says gamers will get more comfortable 'not owning' games, and he's not wrong
- January 16
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- After translating one cult PlayStation game after another, fan translation group Hilltop Works announces its most obscure game yet: 'a hidden gem of the highest caliber'
- This trademark dispute between Remedy and Take-Two is brought to you by the letter R
- A speedrunning dog named Peanut Butter just beat an obscure 1985 NES game live for charity, is the day's goodest boy
- The Sims 4 is granting my castle build wishes, and goths to live in them, with 2 new DLC kits this week
- Square Enix says its new multiplayer party game contains AI-generated art, but don't sweat it: It's only 'about 0.01% or even less'
- 14 years in, modders have given me yet another reason to return to Fallout: New Vegas—an in-game multiplayer riddle contest with free games for the winner
- Diablo 4 season 3 will give everyone the only loot that matters: a little robot friend
- Button mashers chalk up another win as Eddy Gordo becomes Tekken 8's first DLC fighter
- You can make one of Baldur's Gate 3's hardest fights easier on yourself—without sacrificing one of the game's best cutscenes and an award-winning performance
- Stalker 2 delayed again, now has a 'final release date' in September
- 'Father of the Xbox' shares the 1990s desktop PC aesthetic of its prototype devkit
- Minecraft is gonna let you live life as 'the great white shark, the Arctic wolf, a leopardess, and more' in a BBC team-up to teach you about life on planet Earth
- This actual anime VR high school where you'll be able to get proper qualifications is the first metaverse-based project that makes any kind of sense to me
- Rockstar banned T-Pain from playing GTA Online RP while he works on GTA 6, then bought the RP mod makers anyway: 'Y'all told me I couldn't do this s*** then y'all teamed up with the people that enable the RP s*** to happen?'
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #941 for Tuesday, January 16
- Embracer-owned Lost Boys Interactive confirms 'difficult' layoffs
- January 15
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- The latest Baba Is You spinoff injects it with Into the Breach to create Mobile Suit Baba
- Ark: Survival Ascended gets powerful mod tools this month, expansion maps in February and April
- Cities: Skylines 2 studio boss warns that growing toxicity could force developers to 'pull back our engagement' with the community
- Diesel-powered city builder New Cycle invites you to rekindle hope after a solar flare wrecks the world
- Niche strategy sickos rejoice, Dominions 6 will let you cook up bizarre gods shortly
- Overwatch 2 director apologizes for the way self-healing heroes in Season 9 was announced: 'It was a mistake to talk about this lone change out of context'
- Former Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs officially reveal their first game, and yeah it sure looks like vampires
- GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him: 'I'm not worried about being replaced... I just hate these f**kers'
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League final system requirements demand an SSD but are otherwise pretty light
- Hot GPU rumour time: Intel may follow AMD in just focusing on the mainstream market with its next-gen Battlemage chips
- This Pac-Man inspired one-button corridor-gobbler just ate several hours of my day
- Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane says he 'had to have somebody explain to me what the f*ck Fortnite is' before they could add Peter Griffin to the game
- This 'gamified' AI sex toy mimics MMO mechanics by requiring an 8-week grind
- All hail RT-X: The global project aimed at creating an AI mega brain for all robotkind
- Fake crypto CEO that fronted $1.3 billion rug-pull exposed as jobbing actor who got paid $5,000 with a suit thrown in
- HP gets slapped with yet another lawsuit for blocking printers using anything other than its own inky liquid cash cow
- It's not just you: YouTube is slowing down your PC if you have AdBlock installed by making your CPU sweat—though despite the company's past behaviour, it's probably AdBlock's fault
- Analysts are calling 2023's decline in PC shipments 'unparalleled in the industry's recorded history' but suggest the only way now is up
- Baldur's Gate 3 player finds an edge case the game doesn't account for: Reverse-pickpocketing a dead wizard into the devil's inventory like a Trojan nuke
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #940 for Monday, January 15
- Reports of RTX 4090s being sold in China without GPUs scares the heck out of me
- The creator of the canceled Portal 64 demake says, 'Don't be mad at Valve here'
- I'm absolutely in love with the Atari 400 Mini, a recreation of one of the first ever gaming computers
- January 14
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- Facebook rejects ads for popular board game Votes for Women: '[It] may impact the outcome of an election or pending legislation'
- After Nebraska and Arkansas, American Truck Simulator is going to show me Missouri
- Turns out that farming is a pretty compelling addition to the horde survival roguelite formula
- The creator of Delicious in Dungeon drew portraits of the Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 cast you can use in-game
- GameStop bids a final farewell to crypto with the closure of its NFT marketplace
- A new trailer for this psychedelic metroidvania confirms that cosmic womb gardening is very good videogame subject matter
- The Max Payne remake is likely years away, but one ambitious modder cranked out an 'RTX on' remaster of the original game's first level
- Factorio 2.0 will let items on conveyor belts stack, something long thought impossible
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #939 for Sunday, January 14
- Spinoff of cute little Factory Town turns it into a sprawling spreadsheet exercise
- Sins of the Flesh, Cult of the Lamb's 'sex update', is coming out this month
- January 13
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- This stunning platformer about the only human awake on a terraformed moon has been cooking for 6+ years, and its first demo does not disappoint
- Drive little tanks and mechs in Sand Land, based on a world by the Dragon Ball creator
- Final Fantasy 14's director loves the game so much, he says he'd start over from the bottom as a contractor on it if he got fired from Square Enix
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #938 for Saturday, January 13
- Blizzard is taking a sledgehammer to the way Overwatch 2 is played by letting everyone heal themselves
- Discord's new Clips feature elicits privacy fears, but we'd actually have more privacy if everyone used it
- January 12
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- Laurence Fishburne joins Netflix's The Witcher as Geralt's best vampire buddy
- The 'biggest Starfield update yet' is coming to Steam beta next week, but it actually looks pretty small
- Capcom rolls back Resident Evil Revelations update that caused performance problems and crashes as fans accuse it of trying to sneak in DRM in order to kill mod support
- VESA updates its DisplayPort specification to version 2.1a, beefing up cable requirements for even higher resolutions and refresh rates
- The president of Sony Honda is allowed to drive an electric car on-stage with a DualSense yet I'm not allowed to play games while I drive. Typical
- 'No machine will ever replace his genius': The daughter of late comedian George Carlin speaks out against a ghoulish AI-generated comedy special, which was likely edited by real people anyway
- Starfield data miner uncovers fossilized remains of a much cooler, more hardcore game tucked away in its files: 'We had a washed version of the game'
- After 10 years, Titan Forge unveils Smite 2, bringing the god-battling MOBA to UE5 and offering goodies to old-timers
- Frore's AirJet Mini Slim seems like a significant fanless cooling upgrade, but the lack of adoption for the original AirJet is worrying
- Sony might be ready to launch an updated Dualsense controller with a much larger battery capacity
- Valve continues to improve the gaming performance of Linux open source drivers for AMD GPUs, as part of the Mesa project
- The nicest community in gaming has over 8 million members and an urgent friendly fire crisis as Deep Rock Galactic releases its 2023 stats
- Next-generation batteries may be coming faster than you think, thanks to an AI helping hand
- Minecraft Legends goes into maintenance mode 9 months after release, as devs announce they're 'going to take a step back from development'
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor adds three types of slow motion, as well as other impressive accessibility updates and performance tweaks
- Ayaeneo's Next Lite is 'the cost-effective choice' but only because it cloned SteamOS off Github and jammed a 4 year-old APU into it
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #937 for Friday, January 12
- I was already intrigued by this Disco Elysium-inspired, D&D-based RPG where you play as the world's worst cleric, but its demo blew my expectations out of the water
- January 11
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- Get ready for a year of out-of-control AI marketing: revived GameShark brand just announced peripherals that use AI to 'adapt to your play style'
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has a free demo you can play right now
- The Finals drops major nerf on controller aim assist, targets controller spoofing on PC
- Discord lays off 170 people, becomes latest company to say it grew too much during the pandemic and now needs to be 'more agile'
- That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says
- Ducky has released a limited edition Doom keyboard but I can't help but feel it's missed the mark
- Old School Runescape player grinds the worst version of a minigame for 149 long hours and abandons 88 levels of XP, just to get a cute raccoon without committing a single traceable crime
- Microsoft rides the AI wave to a $2.9 trillion market cap, beating Apple as the most valuable corporation on Earth
- Miss the days of PC Gamer cover discs? Well, here's a terrifying one from an alternate universe
- Jennell Jaquays, legendary designer who shaped both tabletop and videogames, has died
- Looks like Bethesda's Indiana Jones game now has a name
- US SEC begrudgingly approves Bitcoin trades but warns investors it's a 'speculative, volatile asset that's also used for ransomware, money laundering, sanction evasion, and terrorist financing'
- Momodora: Moonlit Farewell is a charming metroidvania about defending a village with your fellow magical girls via the power of friendship and a big leaf
- Dell founder says calm down about SHODAN-style sentient AI because 'you remember the ozone layer and all' and we fixed that
- Lenovo's Magic Bay means you can add a monster-sized removable webcam, a handy dandy perfume pump, or dedicated emoji screen to your new ThinkBook laptop
- Samsung and LG show off transparent screens at CES 2024 that have to be seen to be believed
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #936 for Thursday, January 11
- Intel's next gen Battlemage GPUs are up and running in its labs, and work on its next-next generation Celestial architecture is well underway
- I just played Lies of P on Samsung's glasses-free 3D gaming monitor—and it definitely beats a 3D TV
- January 10
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- I saw many gaming laptops at CES 2024 but the redesigned Zephyrus G14 is my pick of the bunch
- Fan-made Team Fortress 2 remake using the Source 2 engine shuts down for good after receiving a DMCA notice from Valve
- NFTs are so dead, even Elon Musk has dropped them: NFT avatars on Twitter are gone
- Unhinged Sims 4 player keeps building hidden village bunkers 'for capturing and storing men'
- Diablo 4's next season is a mystery but at least we know it starts in less than 2 weeks
- Turn 10 promises big changes to address 'top three' Forza Motorsport complaints: rides, rules, and racers
- AMD's any-game frame generation tech is officially launching out of beta with the RX 7600 XT release on January 24
- Ayaneo announces the Next Lite, the first non-Valve handheld PC with SteamOS preinstalled
- Actors' union SAG-AFTRA announces 'ethical AI' agreement with Replica, but industry veterans feel misrepresented: 'Nobody in our community approved this'
- AMD believes it has the upper hand over Nvidia in upscaling thanks to driver-based frame gen: 'they're probably going to need to do something similar'
- The new tabletop RPG from the creators of City of Mist is 'rustic fantasy' but 'not another D&D clone'
- Twitch confirms more than 500 people are being laid off: Despite earlier cuts, 'our organization is still meaningfully larger than it needs to be'
- AM4 really is AMD's gift that keeps on giving, with four more CPUs launched for the seven year old platform
- CD Projekt narrative director declares Cyberpunk 2077 'just a warm-up' as work kicks off on the sequel
- MSI stuck a transparent LED crystal film screen in its new fishbowl case and it looks genuinely impressive in action
- You can get 25 Call of Cthulhu books for around $25 in this latest Humble Bundle—including the Starter Set, a deck of monster cards, and a colouring book
- Community-voted tier sets are coming to WoW: Dragonflight, letting players decide the mix-and-matched bonuses and style for its Season 4 wind-down
- League of Legends forced to immediately redesign its new dragon champ after fans point out its alarming similarity to an actual human child
- MSI and Capcom team up to celebrate 20 years of Monster Hunter, with more MH-themed goodies than you can shake a stick at
- MSI built its own version of a Founders Edition for the RTX 4080 Super and it's just as hilariously large
- Motherboards with hidden connectors are shaping up to be one of few fun concepts that make it mainstream
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #935 for Wednesday, January 10
- Asus unveils its ROG NUC, packing up to a Core 9 Ultra and RTX 4070 graphics into a compact 2.5-liter chassis
- Melted GPU power connectors shouldn't be something to worry about with these new PSUs and connectors at CES 2024
- I don't know whether to be afraid or impressed by this PCIe 5.0 SSD with a tiny liquid cooler attached
- Valve updates its Steam policy on AI so it can 'release the vast majority of games that use it'
- January 9
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- Palworld, the Pokémon-like game that lets you arm your creatures with machine guns, put them to work in factories, or just eat them, launches on Steam next week
- Since they can't play Light No Fire yet, Hello Games fans are keeping busy by drawing dragons
- Bethesda will finally show off Indiana Jones gameplay at the Developer Direct showcase happening later this month
- Final Fantasy 14's director says the Dawntrail expansion will be a 'second rebirth' similar to A Realm Reborn
- Tribes 3 is holding its first-ever tournament later this month, and everyone is invited
- HBO's The Last of Us casts Kaitlyn Dever as season 2's most important new character
- Helldivers 2 confirms crossplay and pleasingly modest system requirements
- The flashlight did not lie: Alan Wake is coming to Dead by Daylight as a new survivor
- Hogwarts Legacy sold over 22 million copies, Warner Bros. exec brags it's 'the best-selling game of the year in the entire industry worldwide'
- 'This game means more to me than any other': The voice of Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's first hrothgar lady has been playing since before the game's 2013 revamp
- Hyte just announced the most RGB keeb we've ever seen, and it's even called it the Keeb
- Tekken 8 somehow lassoes Succession star Brian Cox to give you the breakdown on 3 decades of Devil Gene lore and cliff throwing
- BMW's latest brilliant microtransaction idea: Let them play videogames
- Nvidia's RTX Video HDR promises to bring AI-generated HDR to your simple SDR streams this month
- AMD has finally brought software-based frame generation to handheld gaming PCs and the Radeon 700M iGPUs
- Cooler Master has just unveiled the most oxymoronic small form factor PC chassis I've ever seen
- Old School RuneScape player beats worse odds than a lottery jackpot to become the second player in history to nab the game's rarest drop
- The $3,499 Apple Vision Pro finally has an actual release date, and will be on sale February 2 this year
- Intel's Lunar Lake is on track for a 2024 appearance, along with significant IPC gains in the CPU core and three times more AI performance from GPU and NPU
- MSI demos a monitor that gives you an AI helping hand in League of Legends and it might stretch the boundaries of what's considered fair
- Demon's Souls modder climbs 762 rungs into the history books using a ladder the height of the real-life Empire State Building
- Xbox insists its willy-nilly bans of Baldur's Gate 3 players from its online services are 'not automatic', suggests turning off its opt-out feature to avoid horny upload crimes
- FF14 streamer JoCat completes year-long ultrahard charity boss gauntlet with over 1,500 deaths and $60,000 raised, begins indefinite break
- Baldur's Gate 3 designer totally gets it if you were overwhelmed by the shift to the game's 3rd act, and don't worry: it'll be 'less drastic' in future games
- 'World's first gaming processor with an AI accelerator': Intel's Arrow Lake will be coming to desktop PCs in the second half of this year
- We didn't realise Lenovo's solar/mechanical charging peripherals were a wind up, but they absolutely are
- I spoke to an Nvidia AI-powered NPC about his ramen and his responses were frighteningly good
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #934 for Tuesday, January 9
- Nvidia's G-Sync Pulsar hopes to banish a form of motion blur that's plagued PC gaming for years
- Nvidia announces G-Sync is coming to GeForce Now and it works with any VRR monitor
- Intel to roll out 14th Gen's game optimization software to older 12/13th Gen hybrid CPUs after all
- The Wi-Fi 7 era officially begins with the introduction of certified devices
- January 8
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- A fan-made, 7-hour Portal 2 prequel just hit Steam for free and it's so good that I'm sad Valve stopped making Portal all over again
- Intel rounds out the Raptor Lake Refresh CPU lineup with a few cheaper chips though some are still basically Alder Lake
- Unity is laying off 25% of its workforce in what it's calling a 'company reset'
- This mouse and keyboard set harnesses the power of the sun and your furious typing to stay charged
- Alienware's new x16 R2 laptop comes with a choice of Meteor Lake processors and an RGB trackpad, so you can bask in your own personal light show
- MSI has launched a new gaming handheld, and there are two things you should know: It's the first to launch with an Intel Core Ultra processor, and for some reason it's called 'Claw'
- The most stunning screen tech from CES 2024
- Alienware's new 32-inch 4K 240Hz OLED gaming monitor is made of pure want
- CES 2024 rings the death knell for the best gaming laptop of the past decade: the ol' Razer Blade 15
- Former Stardew Valley contributor is making a new life sim set in a city, and it's already packed with little features new to the genre
- OpenAI says it's 'impossible' to create ChatGPT without copyrighted content, as if that's somehow a good excuse
- Elon Musk spent the holidays grinding Diablo 4 and leeching XP from its most popular streamers
- Dead by Daylight's flashlight teaser has a lot of fans convinced that Alan Wake is on the way
- Age of Empires developer confirms the game is mostly written in low-level Assembly code because 'we could scroll the screen and fill it with sprites as fast or faster' than competitors like Starcraft 'even though we had twice as many pixels'
- Nearly 10 years after it came out, Obsidian's isometric RPG Pillars of Eternity gets a surprise update
- Acer gets in on the dual-4K action with new 57-inch mega monitor
- Ray tracing coming to Diablo 4 in March, shadows and reflections getting a makeover
- Steam kicks off 2024 with its highest-ever concurrents and player count
- Cooler Master's new X Silent family of PSUs promise high wattage without the high noise
- Hands on: Intel's Core Ultra 7 165H is golden for gaming, if you can turn on XeSS, and mostly playable without
- Ultra-fast PCIe 4.0 storage is heading to handheld PCs, thanks to Phison's new 2230 SSD controller
- Seasoned RPG devs from Obsidian and BioWare blame the temporary death of the isometric CRPG on 'vibes-based forecasting' from retailers
- Nvidia is finally releasing the ray-tracing-everywhere-all-at-once RTX Remix creator toolkit
- Twitch's new beta combines the encoder in your Nvidia GPU with some nifty OBS integration to take the pain out of streaming
- Nvidia's officially announced the three RTX 40-series Super cards, with either a $200 price cut or a decent performance boost
- AMD announces the $329 RX 7600 XT, bringing 16GB of VRAM to its lowliest RDNA 3 chip
- At long last, AMD updates its desktop APU range with the new Ryzen 8000G series: Zen 4, RDNA 3, all in one neat package
- Watch the Nvidia CES 2024 livestream right here: It's about to get Super interesting
- Former Activision-Blizzard employee sues the company for none of the reasons you'd expect by now, accuses Bobby Kotick of saying it had 'too many old white guys'
- Watch the AMD CES 2024 livestream right here: new APUs, GPUs, and 3D chips expected
- 3M has announced a solar charging headset, so when do we get gaming peripherals with near infinite battery life?
- Somehow one of Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival's biggest surprises was its director wearing a suit
- Windows Copilot doesn't get an invite to the party as HP goes all-in on AI with its 2024 Spectre and Omen laptop range
- Larian CEO and founder Swen Vincke thinks he's cracked the first act of his next game, but 'it's not what you think and this is not an teaser for an announcement'
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #933 for Monday, January 8
- Samsung's 990 Evo SSD supports PCIe 4.0 x4 and 5.0 x2 and I hope it's the first of many hybrid solutions
- Wizards of the Coast reverses course, admits to using AI in promotional image: 'Well, we made a mistake earlier'
- January 7
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- Warhammer goes back to its original fantasy setting in Warhammer: The Old World this month
- FF14 director says there's no firm release date for new expansion because he wants to avoid another Endwalker-style delay
- Skyrim mod adds Icewind Dale's starting town so you can return to the Forgotten Realms
- Here's the full trailer for FF14 Dawntrail, including an adorable chinchilla
- Paint wizards and female catfolk are coming in FF14 Dawntrail
- Rhythm shooter Metal: Hellsinger just got a free DLC with music from FPS favorite Dusk
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #932 for Sunday, January 7
- Farming adventure Tales of Seikyu invites you to entertain monsters in your inn, and become one
- January 6
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- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown system requirements are pleasingly low
- A long-simmering project to run Deus Ex through Unreal Engine 5 looks to introduce a VR mode, modern lighting, and more previously impossible transformations to the PC classic
- Excellent 4X strategy game Old World drops its fourth DLC, adding a boatload of historical figures and wonders
- The first Humble Choice Bundle of 2024 features our favorite superhero game in years
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #931 for Saturday, January 6
- There's an Alex Jones game on Steam, and it's just as much of an embarrassment as you'd expect
- January 5
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- Wizards of the Coast has admitted to using AI art in a recent promotional image
- Valorant is getting its first new gun in 4 years, a 'high impact, double-barreled sniper rifle'
- Bossa Studios ended 2023 by laying off one-third of its staff
- This multi-million crypto rug pull has a new twist: The CEO may not exist
- Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth has died
- After 10 years survival game Rust is finally getting backpacks, but pets 'will not be released this year'
- A new Baldur's Gate 3 mod fills the game with origin character voice lines you probably missed
- Logan Paul's NFT zoo catastrophe takes an unexpected turn: He's buying back the eggs and suing his co-founders
- Okay, 'Boomer Shooter' is now an official genre on Steam
- There's a touching tribute in Baldur's Gate 3 to a BG2-loving dad with Alzheimer's: 'he listened to my description with a child-like glee I haven't seen in a while'
- ASRock tears it up with new 520Hz and 400Hz gaming monitors
- Wyrmspan is a dragon themed reimagining of hit board game Wingspan, and most importantly it still comes with premium egg tokens
- Jack Black continues to collect videogame movie roles like Infinity Stones after being cast in the Minecraft movie
- A new teaser for Arcane season 2 gives us a glimpse at Vander's dark fate
- GTA 6 fan goes full noir detective to discover a random NPC's sunscreen SPF in the most informatively unhinged way
- They're putting DRM in trains, now: Hired hackers Dragon Sector take to the Chaos Communication Congress stage and explain how they caught a manufacturer red-handed
- Customers left cold as Fanatec says Sony validation is delaying ClubSport DD+ wheel base: 'we expected to receive this approval sooner'
- Dell's new RTX 4070-powered XPS 16 laptop is an irresistible OLED beauty
- WoW's next patch drops in just under 2 weeks: game-wide dragonriding, follower dungeons, and worgens coming home
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #930 for Friday, January 5
- January 4
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- Microsoft is adding a new button to PC keyboards for the first time in almost 30 years (and it's for AI)
- This city builder just shot to the top of my wishlist because it lets you design, build, and decorate every single building in your town
- Here comes the Torment Nexus: They're making a 'metaverse' based on Ready Player One
- One of our top games of 2021 is free to keep on the Epic Store for the next week
- Larian and Microsoft working to address 'annoying and uncool' Xbox account bans caused by the unfortunate combination of Baldur's Gate 3's notorious horniness and automatic gameplay uploads
- NY Times lawsuit holds OpenAI and Microsoft 'responsible for the billions of dollars they owe for the unlawful copying and use of The Times's uniquely valuable works'
- After 5 years, NCSoft officially grants a licence to popular City of Heroes private server Homecoming: 'Your accounts and characters are safe'
- Final Fantasy 14 suspends player housing demolition across Japanese servers, following major earthquake
- It's only a few days into 2024 and Razer's already dropping a couple of 'world's firsts' ahead of CES
- You can now play the most infuriating game of all time in your browser, and for some reason I'm hopelessly addicted
- MultiVersus fans weren't hallucinating—the phantom Belgian McDonalds stickers were for a real promotion, which (possibly) confirms a mystery 24th character
- Star Citizen truly outdoes itself with a $48,000 bundle for its most loyal whales
- Portal 64 now has a playable 'first slice' with two-thirds of the game's test chambers
- The Xbox Series S two-slice toaster is here and my body is b-ready
- A year of constant updates to Windows 11 hasn't done anything to shift people away from Windows 10
- Fallout's co-creator may be retired—but he's still advising on The Outer Worlds 2, and how it can avoid the 'huge chasms' of RPG design
- Heroes of the Storm comes full circle as a mod of the game of the mod
- Sorry, Gale—unimaginable arcane power in Baldur's Gate 3 is as simple as taking off your underwear
- Asus teases a new ZenBook Duo reveal for CES 2024 and it looks like that second screen is going full-size OLED
- PC Gamer magazine's latest issue is on sale now: Homeworld 3
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #929 for Thursday, January 4
- AMD's Ryzen 8000-series APUs are looking pretty darn strong
- Warhammer co-creator Bryan Ansell has died
- January 3
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- The Finals players are tormenting each other with the unexpected power of the Goo Gun
- UK police begin first-ever investigation into sexual assault in the metaverse
- Nexon fined nearly $9M for falsifying loot box drop rates
- The best version of Bethesda's biggest RPG is finally finished, and it's free for everyone
- A Starfield modder is doing something Bethesda should have done: making pilotable mechs
- Pour one out for the late great Windows 7: Steam has finally stopped supporting Windows 7, 8, and 8.1
- Twitch's nudity laws continue to shift: Cleavage is 'unrestricted', but no underboob allowed
- After 34 years, a 13 year-old prodigy has become the first person to 'beat' Tetris by reaching the holy grail of high-level play: a 'true killscreen'
- Samsung's baffling Odyssey range of monitors just got the 4K OLED upgrade we've been waiting for
- The CCP softens its stance on live service games after plummeting stocks, reportedly removes official responsible for the panic
- A fresh easter egg in WoW teases The War Within, double-confirms that yes: the big sword stuck in the planet is still important
- Intel's 6.2GHz uber CPU expected to launch at CES 2024 as new image emerges
- A TikToker is trying to deliberately make the worst videogame of all time—and now they're trapped in a hell of their own making
- TV maker settles fake 120Hz class action lawsuit for $3 million
- 'We begged for more information, more details … all flatly declined': former Blizzard community development manager tears into Bobby Kotick over Overwatch 2's Steam launch
- The exceptional Tomb Raider reboot, a game with 140K 'Overwhelmingly Positive' reviews, is on-sale for the price of a cup of coffee
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #928 for Wednesday, January 3
- January 2
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- Baldur's Gate 3 completes its Game of the Year sweep with top honor in the 2023 Steam Awards
- Disney says Star Wars Outlaws coming 'late this year,' then quickly takes it back
- Mickey Mouse has been in the public domain for under 48 hours and there's already a horror game and 2 horror movies on the way
- Frogwares settles legal dispute with Nacon, new version of The Sinking City 'coming soon'
- 'If [money] is an issue, pirate it and buy a copy later': the devs of our favourite surprise horror hit want you to play it spoiler free—by any means necessary
- Popular Slay the Spire mod hacked to deliver malware on Christmas Day
- LG is set to unveil a tube-driven transparent OLED 'DukeBox' at CES and be still my beating heart
- AI chatbots trained to jailbreak other chatbots, as the AI war slowly but surely begins
- Matt Colville's indie RPG, a direct challenge to D&D's jack-of-all-trades fumbling, has earned nearly $4 million on BackerKit
- Steam's 2023 GOTY nominations are extremely weird, and I guess that's your fault
- Square Enix's new years resolution is to become 'aggressive in applying AI', and I'm very tired
- Monster Hunter: World just hit its highest concurrent player count in over 3 years
- Starfield enters 2024 with 'Mostly Negative' recent reviews on Steam
- Wordle today: Hint and answer #927 for Tuesday, January 2
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