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- September 16
- September 15
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- Diablo 4 has made over $150M from microtransactions, achieved over $1B in lifetime revenue
- Here's a sci-fi action RPG where your inventory is a ship designer and your skills are a tech tree
- Somewhere between Death Stranding and A Short Hike, there's Caravan SandWitch
- Confused by Warhammer 40,000? Now you can learn 40K lore with Space Marine 2's lead voice actor
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, September 15
- Pocketpair confirms Palworld isn't turning into a live-service game and won't be free-to-play: 'We are not changing our game's business model'
- Deadlock has picked up some vital tools for policing bad player behavior
- The Watch Dogs movie has finished filming, probably can't do worse than the Borderlands movie did
- Overwatch 2 gets a set of World of Warcraft 20th anniversary crossover skins
- September 14
- September 13
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- Penny's Big Breakaway studio announces layoffs: 'Evening Star has been swept up in the same turbulence that has affected so many of our peers in the games industry'
- Control 2 isn't affected by the collapse of Annapurna Interactive because the deal was signed by the other Annapurna
- Google results insist a Bugsnax sequel is coming out next month, but there's one small problem: Its devs aren't making one
- Flappy Bird makes an unlikely comeback after its creator apparently let the trademark lapse and the vultures swept right in
- PSA: Consider cranking up Space Marine 2's difficulty for co-op
- The Penguin Sale on Steam celebrates Batman's pointiest villain by slashing prices on the best superhero games around
- 'There's an alternate universe where Half-Life disappeared after release': Valve's first marketing strategist Monica Harrington says she helped navigate its way out of early disaster
- Immortals of Aveum developers find a new home at Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser's Absurd Ventures studio
- Whoops, they did it again: Bungie admits fan art was used in an official Destiny 2 collectible, says the artist will be 'compensated and credited for their incredible artwork'
- EVE players are in revolt over CCP's blockchain plans: 'None of us want this crypto slop'
- Voice actor Peter Renaday, who played Duncan in Dragon Age: Origins, has died age 89
- Look out, OpenAI's latest chatbot hallucinates less and might even count to three
- 'It's very emotional, it's really tense': Heavy lies the crown of AI dominance as Nvidia's Jensen Huang admits to getting just three hours sleep a night
- 'We can't do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence. We compute one pixel, we infer the other 32': Jensen thinks AI is integral to next-gen graphics tech
- Tony Hawk eats magical truth-telling salad, immediately confirms he and Activision have got something cooking for the first time since Vicarious Visions got swallowed
- Full Intel next-gen Arrow Lake CPU model list, specs, release dates, the works reportedly revealed
- Acer responds to claims its gaming laptop intro was misogynistic: 'Acer makes no difference in gender, our objective is to make technology available to everybody'
- All Zenless Zone Zero codes from the 1.2 livestream
- Oops: WoW's hotfix to sort out Delve scaling has random mooks dealing upwards of 12,582,896 damage, with some players 'smoked out of nowhere'
- BOE and Intel's AI display tech reportedly reduces screen power consumption by up to 65% in Lunar Lake laptops by dropping the refresh rate on parts of the panel
- Deadlock matchmaking is now open 24/7—plus there's a new, snazzier minimap and a low priority queue for bad behaviour
- Sony confirms PS5 Pro has next-gen ray-tracing tech and 'there are no other AMD GPUs that use it yet'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, September 13
- September 12
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- Until Dawn system requirements are here, and support for ultrawide and Dualsense haptics are in
- Kentucky Route Zero and Stray publisher Annapurna Interactive has collapsed, with its entire staff quitting en masse
- Someone just discovered that Balatro's 'Misprint' joker has been sending us secret messages this whole time
- WoW: The War Within's new mini dungeons are annihilating solo players while groups sleepwalk through them for 'free' loot
- Valve politely asks that you only use Steam's family sharing for 'close family members' in a 'household,' but let's be real: everyone shares their games with Discord friends
- European Consumer Organization alleges game companies including Activision, Electronic Arts, Epic, and Ubisoft are 'tricking' consumers with premium in-game currencies
- The next Helldivers 2 Warbond is almost certainly a violation of international humanitarian law
- If you get kicked out of your Steam Family, the slot is locked for a year, so you'd better get along—here's how Steam's new family sharing system works
- Cyberpunk 2077 finally has official support for AMD's FSR 3
- A year after outraging developers, blowing up its reputation, and saying goodbye to its CEO, Unity decides 'Runtime Fees' are a bad idea so it's getting rid of them
- This incredible Stardew Valley Lego build won an award and got a surprise visit from ConcernedApe
- The Steam Deck is on sale for 25% off, but maybe not the model you want
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor finally Force-pushes Denuvo out the airlock in patch focused on performance improvements
- As Team Fortress 2 veterans gaze at Deadlock with interest and envy, steadfast fans are still waiting for Valve to notice them
- The PC Gaming Show returns December 5 with a sleigh full of the latest and greatest PC games
- Want a 4 TB external SSD with solid state cooling, passkey unlocking, wireless tracking, RAID 6, and a built-in e-paper display? Yours for—squints at the screen—the price of TWO PlayStation 5 Pros
- Hasbro CEO says all his mates are using AI for their D&D games, which is apparently 'a clear signal that we need to be embracing it'
- Microsoft gaming's post-acquisition bloodletting continues as 650 more staff are set to be laid off for 'sustainable future growth'
- US Dept of Justice claims Google 'corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control'
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue, featuring a special collectible lenticular cover, is on sale now: Planet Coaster 2
- This custom Final Fantasy 14 controller uses real paint on a canvas to control the Pictomancer, you know, for the immersion
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, September 12
- September 11
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- WoW duo reach max level in The War Within without actually playing The War Within
- Amidst upset over Space Marine 2 automatically installing Epic Online Services, Epic says PC crossplay is a requirement for all multiplayer games on its store
- Payday 3's game director is stepping down after a hard first year for the heist game sequel
- Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs
- Helldivers 2 creative director says it's a better, sillier world when physics bugs can kill players for jumping past the wrong lamppost: 'Realism can suck it'
- Space Marine 2's first hotfix is live, ultrawide support and private PvE lobbies are coming soon: 'We're reading all of your feedback with great attention'
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard will have Dragon Age: The Photo Mode at launch
- AMD's RDNA 4 gaming-GPUs-for-the-people expected to launch at CES in January
- Netflix's Magic: The Gathering animated series is, according to one of its voice actors, 'not happening', before adding 'that's kind of old news'
- Konami admits Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 kind of sucked at launch, promises to 'do everything we can not to repeat that' with Volume 2
- Helldivers 2 devs casually reveal they're quadrupling the Railgun's durable damage, while CCO Pilestedt says kit like the Recoilless Rifle will become a 'delete key', and oh, do I like the sound of that
- FromSoft hands out a mega-nerf to Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, players begin printing their 'I beat him pre-patch' t-shirts to lord it over the rest of us
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's Season 1 is live—with Mythic dungeons, raids, and the new endgame activity Delves released in full
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, September 11
- September 10
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- Holy cow, The Crew 2 is on sale for $1 on Steam
- After eating it for killing The Crew, Ubisoft promises to bring offline support to The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest
- Survival game Nightingale is making big changes after the developers looked at games like Palworld and Enshrouded: 'It was really the structure that stood out'
- The company behind a 'mental health action shooter' envisions a health insurance-funded 'golden age' for gaming, and it just got FDA clearance to treat stress
- Diablo 4 player achieves 'infinite damage' by hitting so hard the game gives up on doing math
- Satisfactory breaks 100,000 concurrent players on Steam for the first time ever after its long-awaited 1.0 release
- Sonic Team director dashes hopes for a standalone Chao Garden: 'We can't just break it off and make it a thing'
- The yearly Minecraft mob vote is dead, players celebrate the death of mob democracy
- Minecraft is ditching yearly summer updates in favor of smaller, more frequent ones: 'We know that you want new Minecraft content more often'
- These shot-for-shot remakes of the Minecraft Movie trailer make the official one look fake in comparison
- As it struggles to find players, Ubisoft's XDefiant will give you $9 in funbucks if you log in a few times over the next couple of weeks
- 3 months after firing Dr Disrespect, Deadrop developer Midnight Society confirms 'significant' layoffs
- It's official: consoles cost as much as gaming PCs now
- Europe's top court orders Apple to fork over $14 billion in unpaid taxes to Ireland, even though the Irish tried to let the tech giant wriggle out of it
- After 5 years in early access, Satisfactory is finally out—here's what's new in 1.0
- Helldivers 2 heralds the flamethrower's return to its former glory, and will be releasing previews of its buff-filled September update every day until it drops
- The PS5 Pro is the most powerful games console ever released, but at $700 PC gaming has nothing to worry about
- Former Sony prez says thousands of laid-off devs can just 'go to the beach for a year' and you can't blame greedy execs: 'Things jump out in front of you and you deal with them just like any game. So get over it!'
- The first RTX 4070s with slower GDDR6 memory are now available to buy but there isn't a single reason to do so at the moment
- One of FF14's most prolific raid guide creators is a science teacher, whose first 'Hector lectures' were made with an app from his time 'teaching online during the pandemic'
- Days Gone director blows a gasket as its protagonist is 'reduced to a cartoon shill' to promote 'small game' Astro Bot—Sony's all-star romp featuring Kratos, Aloy, and Nathan Drake
- Minecraft creator Notch thinks the movie looks pretty neat, actually: 'I was expecting way worse'
- Watching Doom being played on a hologram-like volumetric display is like taking a peek at the future of gaming
- Acer says it has 'no business relationship with the company' that designed essentially the same handheld gaming PC 8 months prior
- New fan-made engine makes Black and White playable on modern PCs, because god knows neither EA or Molyneux is going to do it
- Disco Elysium's Harry Du Bois is brat
- AMD confirms it's working on a Ryzen Z2 chip for next-gen handheld PCs, even though only two vendors currently use the Z1
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, September 10
- September 9
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- Another reminder that your digital library isn't forever: Oxenfree will be completely removed from Itch.io next month
- One Baldur's Gate 3 player retaliated against Act 3's annoying wizard street performers with a frame rate-tanking, 100+ exploding barrel nuclear strike
- James Earl Jones, the legendary voice of Darth Vader, Mufasa, and CNN, has died
- The new Mobile Gaming Show will be broadcast on September 26
- Jagex announces official Old School Runescape private servers, because the grind can always get grindier
- Space Marine 2 cruises past 225,000 concurrent users on Steam within hours of full release
- 8 years after declaring it took 'courage' to remove the iPhone's headphone jack, Apple has finally decided buttons and ports are cool again
- I cannot believe Apple is still limiting the iPhone 16 to embarrassingly slow 24-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
- Embracer's Lost Boys Interactive studio hit with another round of layoffs
- Destiny 2 is abandoning big annual expansions and linear campaigns in favour of more frequent releases that are 'mysterious, weird, and not afraid to try new things'
- Literal rock star tells Rockstar 'go f*** yourself' over measly GTA 6 offer
- A book with names from a 340,000-player TF2 petition has been hardbound and sent to Valve, as part of the #SaveTF2 campaign
- Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake chips have been listed on a UK retailer website under the Core Ultra 200K branding, with specs that seem reasonable
- 'From the developer's standpoint, they love this strategy'—AMD's plan to merge its RDNA and CDNA GPU architectures to a unified system called UDNA
- Former World of Warcraft designer calls streamlined MMO levelling a mistake: 'Getting to level cap should be an accomplishment, not a blip'
- Samsung and SK Hynix spend billions more on DRAM production to feed the never-ending hunger for AI servers
- Sony makes a personal heatsink for the back of your neck and it's got a toasty-looking warming option, too
- The Epic Minimalist Entertainment System is the leader of the itsy bitsy games console committee with its reverse-engineered 1980s LED dot matrix display
- FF14's Solo Only streamer plots and grinds for 85 days to topple Susano, a boss with a 14-second countdown to an unavoidable death when fought alone—and comes out on top
- 'I don’t want AMD to be the company that only people who can afford Porsches and Ferraris can buy': AMD's Jack Huyhn says being 'King of the Hill' isn't the priority for its next-gen GPUs
- The world's worst GPU can now be yours for a mere $1,024 in the form of a 'luxury purse'
- The Fallout TV show has won two Emmy Awards
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, September 9
- This horny cyberpunk vampire RPG has already hit its goal on Kickstarter
- September 8
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- Stealth strategy takes a particularly demonic bent with this game of commando scientists vs Nazi occultists
- It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns
- Fan-favorite stunty teams are coming to Blood Bowl 3 at last
- Free DLC for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous adds a crossover with indie dungeon crawler Children of Morta
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, September 8
- Heads-up: Space Marine 2 has a photo mode and it rules
- September 7
- September 6
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- Baldur's Gate 3's latest patch is not the final update, Larian says: 'The chefs must cook'
- Once Human dev says some recent player feedback 'has been quite demoralizing'
- Streamers captured Concord's final moments as the servers went offline: 'What a huge f***ing honor'
- Roblox shows new 3D AI tool gunning for 'realtime creation integrated with gameplay'
- Roblox CEO delivers imperial announcement that the goal is '1 billion daily active users' and 10% of all global gaming revenue, thanks
- Dr Disrespect returns with 20-minute rant on Twitch ban, denies wrongdoing and says he's the victim of a conspiracy: 'They wanted to cut down the Doc, plain and simple'
- Alan Wake and Alan Wake Remastered will have different ending songs starting next week
- The Sims 4's next season of content is business as usual with two kits, a death-themed expansion, and another log-in rewards event
- These new Asus Lunar Lake laptops with 27+ hours of battery life kinda prove it's not just x86 vs Arm when it comes to power efficiency
- This $7,000 shark PC might be terrible value for money but it's 1) wicked 2) good for real sharks
- Overwatch 2 has another pricey deal: The once-free Oni Genji skin is available to players who spend $75 in the Blizzard Gear shop first
- Baldur's Gate 3 players are having their hearts thoroughly wrenched by the new evil endings to their companion romances: 'I'll never emotionally recover from this'
- Concord will reportedly still get its Secret Level episode, which feels grimly fitting given how this past year has gone
- The Internet Archive has lost the appeal for its landmark copyright case, agreeing to pay an undisclosed amount to publishers
- Qualcomm has reportedly been eyeing up an acquisition of Intel's chip design business
- Acer says its next gaming PC comes with Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake chips, which seems a little premature
- Chaotic scamp hijacks Deadlock's official Discord bot, announces a fake shutdown, immediately accuses mods of lying, and plunges chat into anarchy
- Bluetooth 6 announced with Apple-like device tracking, lower latency, and improved efficiency
- If you put hot dogs and pickles against an AM radio tower, they act as speakers. Also, don't do that
- Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, as this video shows, feels like a trial run for its inclusion in Hogwarts Legacy 2
- 'What a sad existence': The first cheaters in Deadlock have been spotted, giving players some pretty bad flashbacks to TF2 and CS
- Baldur's Gate 3's new patch has a forbidden evil ending where you get bored and peace out, just before your moment of bloody triumph
- This Lenovo AI laptop concept creepily follows you around the room with its ever-watchful screen
- Fraudster charged with $12 million in stolen royalties used 1,000 bots to stream hundreds of thousands of AI tracks billions of times
- Senior crew on a US warship installed an unauthorised Starlink dish attached to a wooden pallet and were discovered because the network was named 'STINKY'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, September 6
- September 5
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- Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 tweaked one of the game's most brutal scenes to twist the knife even more
- Slork
- You can buy every RPG Larian ever made before Baldur's Gate 3 for around $30 on Steam right now
- Some of Baldur's Gate 3's new evil endings are so nasty they're hard to watch, and there's a unique variation for each origin character
- If your favorite Baldur's Gate 3 mods don't work with the new update yet, Larian will let you stick with the older version instead
- Automatons beware: The next major Helldivers 2 patch will overhaul armor penetration later this month
- At PAX West, perennial mad lad Swen Vincke once again said Baldur's Gate 3 was somehow going to be even bigger: 'In our heads, we were going to have so many more regions to make'
- Ubisoft's slump continues: Star Wars Outlaws fails to turn things around, XDefiant numbers are sliding, and we still don't know where The Sands of Time is
- A Hogwarts Legacy sequel is one of Warner Bros' 'biggest priorities'
- Acer's just announced a 600 Hz monitor that can surely only be for those with superhuman vision
- The Silent Hill 2 devs explain why you won't need to use UI in the remake: Instead, James will just glare at things devilishly
- 'Stay tuned for November'—Qualcomm CEO teases high-performance desktop CPUs, just months after saying 'You should expect to see Qualcomm in every PC form factor'
- Global productivity to crash to zero as Balatro announces it's coming to phones
- 'We love making the game you love to play': State of Decay 2 devs prepare the last update after 6 years as attention turns to State of Decay 3
- Baldur's Gate 3 patch 7—the RPG's final major update—is here with an in-game mod browser, evil endings too vile for streaming, and new Honour Mode actions to be scared of
- Scalpers swarm eBay as Concord kicks the bucket, charging punters up to $25,000 for physical copies of the PS5 edition—and some are spending hundreds
- Arcane: Season 2 gets the mother of all trailers in the lead-up to its release in November—teases an explosive finale to the war between Piltover and Zaun
- Deadlock's best girl is (judging by the fanart) a scrunkly gargoyle with a flat cap and severe back issues, who just so happens to be an absolute sweetheart
- Looks like Intel has quietly killed the 20A process, announcing that no Arrow Lake chip will use its first Angstron Era node
- 'They clearly aren't ready for stats sites yet': Valve prevents a Deadlock tracker from getting any more information on matches
- Nvidia RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 are reportedly set to have their designs finalised this month and their TDPs might be lower than some thought
- Star Wars Outlaws director confesses being 'a little disappointed with the Metacritic' but says 'we're never going to stop improving it'
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, September 5
- The latest gameplay videos for Dragon Age: The Veilguard make me think I should play something other than a mage this one time
- September 4
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- Spectre Divide lowers skin prices just hours after launch: 'We took a swing that we thought would best set us up to support the game. Turns out we swung a bit high'
- Harebrained reveals its first game following split from Paradox: A survival-horror RPG where you blast limbs off your enemies and then attach them to your own body
- WoW's 20th anniversary event will bring Blackrock Depths as a revamped raid, a return to the opening of Ahn'Qiraj, classic dungeon timewalking, and modernized Tier 2 transmogs
- Helldivers 2 players get all wound up as galactic map briefly reveals the presence of the Illuminate, but Arrowhead CEO dismisses it all as 'fake news'
- Steam's approval process dinged this indie game remake for being a remake of the game it's remaking: 'Seems identical to the game you put out 11 years ago'
- Couch PC gaming could get a whole load more convenient as Microsoft has started testing a virtual keyboard layout for controllers
- It looks like you won't be able to uninstall Recall, the controversial AI-assisted Windows 11 screen-capping feature, and I can't say I'm too surprised
- Deadlock's pause update changed one of its most annoying features to try and stop players from turning the MOBA into a slideshow
- Intel's Navajo 'Pentium' rug is a ridiculously accurate likeness of a '90s CPU
- Atlus lead says he'd like to do Persona 1 and 2 remakes, but you're not getting them any time soon
- The first Minecraft movie trailer is here, and now I'm thinking the Borderlands film might not be the worst thing to happen to cinema in 2024
- Counter-Strike 2 pro falls foul of the SnapTap ban and fesses up: 'embarrassing and amateur'
- Acer's new gaming laptop concept has a pop-out gamepad that splits into two like a Switch controller
- Until Dawn remake dev hit by bone-deep layoffs just a month before the game comes out
- Elon Musk's monster wakes up as xAI turns on 'Colossus', the Nvidia-powered AI-training supercomputer claiming to be the most powerful in the world
- Acer joins the handheld gaming PC market with the Nitro Blaze 7 but it's late and lacking innovation
- No Man's Sky finally delivers the perfect reason to explore a few trillion planets: to go fishing
- Uwe Boll's $2.5 million Postal movie crowdfunder is a trainwreck, forced to abort after raising $850 and the game's devs say they 'have no f***** idea' who the people behind it are
- Concord players are instantly throwing themselves off maps for XP in a last-ditch attempt for achievements before the servers close in just 2 days
- Nvidia says it hasn't been subpoenaed by the DoJ, but has been in touch with investigators: 'We are happy to answer any questions regulators may have about our business'
- 'Worse than horse armour'—Age of Mythology: Retold is charging $6 for 22-year-old jpegs, giving the DLC 'very negative' Steam reviews before the game's even out
- A new Cyberpunk 2077 board game crowdfunding campaign hit its goal in 10 minutes and is now well past a million dollars
- Borderlands players cracked a secret cipher to find 'the most valuable SHiFT code we've ever made'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, September 4
- Oof, I forgot that Concord has an episode in upcoming TV series Secret Level
- September 3
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- Fresh off a cozy fuzzy animal set, Magic: The Gathering is going full horror again
- Concord developer expresses gratitude for support following the sudden shutdown: 'For all of you reaching out with love, you are the reason we make games'
- Spectre Divide launches with outrageous $90 gun skins out the gate, which only makes its broken matchmaking more annoying
- Court locks in Bungie's $4.4 million win against Destiny 2 cheat maker, refuses request for a new trial
- The new Pico 4 Ultra headset could challenge Meta Quest 3's VR dominance, but only if your country makes the shortlist
- 'There's a plane bro': A Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 calling card seemed to reference 9/11 before getting removed
- Risk of Rain 2's creators, along with 'many other' devs from Hopoo, have been snapped up by Valve—which means the end of the studio's unannounced game
- Dragon's Dogma 2 was the sign-off for Capcom legend Hideaki Itsuno, who's leaving to do his own thing after three decades at the top
- Concord is being taken offline this week as Sony looks to 'explore options' that will 'better reach our players'
- Pinch me! I'm now prepping for my dream PC port of classic Nintendo 64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie as this fan-made decompilation project hits 100%
- MSI is the first to bundle Intel's new Lunar Lake chip inside a handheld gaming PC alongside a chunky 80 Whr battery
- Intel says Core Ultra 9 288V leads AMD's HX 370 in games by 16%, Meteor Lake by 31% and the less said about Qualcomm the better
- Intel says it's built 'the most efficient x86 processor ever' in Lunar Lake and its power savings are headed for desktop soon
- Baldur's Gate 3's bear sex scene was such an 'upward turn in momentum for the game' that its animator called his mum to show it off: 'She was like, that's weeeird!'
- CD Projekt CEO confirms the developer is 'definitely planning to do more in terms of animation' after the success of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
- 'I want to incorporate more changes, I don't want to take a conservative approach': Final Fantasy 14 game director Yoshi-P expresses a desire to shake things up in the future
- The win rates for Deadlock heroes have been revealed, and in the last 11 days, one character has been played over 2.5 million times
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer says he's made the 'worst game choice decisions,' letting exclusives like Destiny slip through his fingers
- Windows 11 is now the most popular OS for Steam users worldwide, though it took longer than Windows 10 did
- Rocksteady reportedly begins a round of layoffs after Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's shortcomings, slashes its QA team's numbers in half
- Bethesda bans Doom mod about a resurrected mech-demon Margaret Thatcher because it's apparently a bit close to 'real-world politics'
- Intel's Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs won't have the instability issues affecting 13th and 14th Gen processors
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, September 3
- September 2
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- Check out the PSX vibes on spooky, lo-fi horror mystery Pinnacle Point
- Satisfactory's top-tier quantum tech will let you transmute metals like an alchemist
- WoW's auction house broke for nearly a week, thanks to a code change that made a database table go from roughly 40,000 rows to 'tens of millions'
- 'The Beatles had a 25% hit rate': Randy Pitchford reassures fans that he'll carry on 'making stuff' even after a disastrous Risk of Rain 2 expansion and the Borderlands movie
- Intel's CEO is reportedly set to present cost-cutting plan to the board and may 'slice off unnecessary businesses'. Ouch
- Deadlock dev discusses Valve's progress on perfecting MMR, 'It'll be more effective once we finish a full rewrite of the matchmaking system'
- AMD officially launches the Ryzen 5 7600X3D but in limited numbers and only through one US seller
- Mouse: P.I. for Hire devs share ambitions to make a game that's more than 'just a cool art project': A satirical metroidvania shooter with 'adult, deep, gripping storylines'
- Microsoft might be planning to let AI loose on your local video and audio files with Windows 11 'intelligent media search'
- OpenAI plans to build its own AI chips on TSMC's forthcoming 1.6 nm A16 process node
- Larian looked to popular homebrew D&D rules for Baldur's Gate 3: 'We were like—okay, we're not crazy, some people do it, so maybe we can try it as well'
- Just in time for Labor Day, Ayaneo handheld gaming PCs are now available in the US at Best Buy
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, September 2
- Crusader Kings 3 players have pet their digital cats and dogs over 11 million times
- Risk of Rain 2 creators comment on Gearbox's first DLC without them: 'It's great to see new content for the game, but it's hard to see growing pains of the new team in real time'
- A hardcore, turn-based zombie survival roguelike is getting good buzz on Steam
- September 1
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- This demake of King's Quest 6 has been 18 years in the making
- 'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike
- Frostpunk 2 will have official modding support
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, September 1
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs considered a first-person dialogue camera, weren't sure it would have cinematics: 'the next thing we know they're zooming in on a goblin toe'
- With its 10th and final update, Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is complete
