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- August 27
- August 26
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- 'A violation is upon you': Valve called out for breaking its own rules with Deadlock's Steam store page
- Microsoft softens language about killing off the Control Panel, but it's still clearly gonna kill off the Control Panel
- 'This game is going to easily—and I mean easily—take over': Major streamers, early fans, and esports players share their Deadlock hype after Valve opens the floodgates
- Report says well-known videogame accessibility advocate may not have actually existed
- The Black Myth: Wukong map mod is here to make your Journey to the West a little easier
- I let out a 'hell yes' when I saw this game stars a worm-fox trapped on a dying world, and an even louder 'yes dude, yes' when the trailer got to the Metal Gear mechs
- Starfield modders are already trading in Bethesda's new buggy for Halo's Warthog and Luke's landspeeder
- Steam surpasses 37 million concurrent users for the first time ever thanks to Black Myth: Wukong
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard drops a 10-minute combat deep dive video, and it might just have sold me on giving BioWare's latest RPG a whirl
- Tropico 4 is free on GOG to kick off the 2024 Back to School sale
- Descending is a free Iron Lung-style horror game where you drill a giant borehole for the glory of your country
- Valve developer shares video of an even earlier version of Deadlock, in which the player battles Half-Life 2 enemies with Left 4 Dead weapons
- Gloomwood, aka Thief with guns, is getting cutscenes 'done in an early 1900s animated horror style' to introduce major areas and encounters
- Gamers hoping to build a Ryzen 9000-series system with an affordable B850 motherboard are set for a long wait
- Scientists say they not only taught hydrogel how to play Pong, but to get better at it over time
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, August 26
- A super fan of Dungeons & Dragons' Githyanki made a Baldur's Gate 3-infused Doom map where you can just hang out and talk to them
- Andrzej Sapkowski has finished writing another Witcher book
- MSI's X870 and X870E motherboards come with an auxiliary 8-pin power connector, which could indicate some scary next-gen GPU power consumption levels
- August 25
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- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will have challenging puzzles, but also a creative hint system through Indy's camera: 'We don't want you to go to YouTube to look up the solution, because that's immersion-breaking and bad'
- Flip patties with friends to fill orders in cozy cook-em-up Galaxy Burger
- Doom E1M1 remade in Doom Eternal is honestly kind of quaint
- Click Click Dig is a charming little pixelated idler
- I am so here for this zombie game set in a medieval market town
- This $10 bundle is incredible value on 7 modern detective games
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, August 25
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard is getting a prequel in the form of an audio drama podcast
- Here's how a martial artist created the motions for Baldur's Gate 3 monks
- After years of speculation about whether Avowed takes place before or after Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian casually revealed it's a sequel through a preview quest poking fun at the events of Pillars 2
- August 24
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- Players seem to like Concord, but its $40 price tag has led to a tepid first weekend on PC
- Sekiro was so influential, even the next big BioWare and Obsidian RPGs are adding parries and stagger meters
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs say an Indy game 'could never be a shooter, should never be a shooter,' so they're embracing his signature whip, improvised brawls, and disguise-based stealth instead
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, August 24
- August 23
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- After four months, hundreds of leaked gameplay videos, and everybody you know having played it, Valve finally admitted Deadlock exists
- After 20 years of patience and negotiations, RPG veteran Brian Fargo managed to buy back a lost haul of memorabilia from Fallout, Baldur's Gate, and more: 'It was like a very exciting version of Storage Wars'
- Black Myth: Wukong is already one of the fastest-selling games of all time, moving almost as many units in one week as Elden Ring and Cyberpunk did in their first months
- After Borderlands comes crawling back to Steam, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford responds to people mocking his old predictions about Steam being killed off by the Epic Store: 'Epic is not pressing their advantage'
- Dough's gorgeous 4K 144Hz IPS monitor just hit $369
- Steam just updated its reviews system to show when a user has 'played primarily on Steam Deck'
- LG says its new 'Dream OLED' tech cracks the pesky problems that prevent OLED gaming panels being brighter and lasting longer
- Bungie's pre-Halo FPS Classic Marathon Infinity just launched on Steam for free, meaning you can now play the entire Marathon trilogy for the low price of nothing
- Asus has finally come up with the easy-release GPU slot we've all been crying out for
- Asked about SAG-AFTRA's strike for better AI protections, Amazon Games Boss claims AI 'has nothing to do with taking work away' from actors because 'for games, we don't really have acting'
- You can tell the new Heroes of Might and Magic game is meant to be a throwback to when the series was good because they're not insisting we call it Might and Magic: Heroes this time
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, August 23
- August 22
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- This upcoming 'survival-action game' looks like Stalker crossed with an episode of your mom's favorite British murder-mystery show
- Warcraft VP on what Blizzard should've done differently over the last 20 years: 'We should have listened more'
- Despite being one of the biggest Unreal Engine 5 games ever, Stalker 2's locations are almost entirely hand-crafted: 'It took a lot of time, took a lot of effort, but we're happy with the result'
- As scandal surrounds the MrBeast empire, MrBeast lawyers up and goes into bunker mode
- World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas says the Worldsoul Saga is letting Blizzard give its villains some much-needed character: 'Dragons are really cool, but it's hard to grasp the motivations of a being the size of a city'
- 'People are pro crabs': WoW's artists tested leg angles and other features before choosing crabs for its new arachnophobia mode
- This city builder swaps traffic jams with human sacrifice, because you're the mayor of a huge Cthulhu cult
- Someone finally figured out a good use for NFTs: Peter Molyneux is using 'land' sales from his failed blockchain game to fund the development of his new project
- These AMD Ryzen 7500G and 7300G chips don't officially exist but they're making me wonder why we bother with naming schemes
- Final Fantasy 16, Black Myth: Wukong and Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade all require over 100 GB, so I thought you might like this 2 TB SSD for $140
- Terrifyingly good Humble Bundle deal nets you 11 Resident Evil games for less than the price of Resi 4 remake
- 'It's very important for us to get this right': Songs of Conquest devs ask players what they think the upcoming DLC should cost
- 'I can look and it goes where I want it to': Neuralink participant is using his brain chip to play Counter-Strike 2 with just his mind
- Original Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says 'critique of capitalism was never the point' of the games and if anything they're about how 'war is inevitable given basic human nature'
- Laid-back puzzler Wilmot's Warehouse is getting a sequel, in which Wilmot ditches his job to do jigsaw puzzles at home
- An aerospace engineer quit her job to make this cozy city builder full of adorable gourd people
- Silent Hill 2 remake lead drops cryptic easter egg hints, says finding all the hidden goodies 'Will take you more than 20 hours for sure'
- Bohemia Interactive reveals a Minecraft competitor and a horse-themed comedy platformer, but remains silent on the status of Arma 4
- Final Fantasy 16 PC system requirements are here and surprisingly light for one of the PS5's best-looking games
- AMD admits its chips actually have gaming 'parity' with Intel's 14th Gen, suggests lacklustre Ryzen 9000 performance could be because we're not fiddling with Windows' backend
- Concord dev reflects on the last 8 years of development, 'We don't get a lot of launch days in our careers'
- Seeing Black Myth: Wukong running on GeForce Now may have finally convinced me that cloud gaming is the future
- The creators of Blasphemous are making a real-time tactics game about escaping from a haunted Spanish monastery
- Asus unveils its X870/X870E motherboard lineup at Gamescom 2024 and they look pretty darn good
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 22
- August 21
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- Journey to the Savage Planet developer says Google only wanted 'monstrous' games with major licenses for Stadia: 'They were very strange'
- Riddlemaster Randy Pitchford says the Borderlands 4 teaser contains 'several secrets'
- BioWare spent more than 200,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC: 'Getting the PC experience just right was crucial to us'
- Thousands of Sims fans are flocking to the limited time demo for Inzoi Character Studio to make effortlessly gorgeous Zois
- Fashion hunters rejoice as Monster Hunter Wilds ditches gendered armor: Capcom confirms 'all characters can wear any gear'
- How to watch the Future Games Show's Gamescom showcase today
- Even Phil Spencer's been bugging Todd Howard to get vehicles in Starfield: 'Come on Todd… I'm tired of walking'
- I can't decide whether I want this AI customer service chatbot Rickrolling users to actually be real… but I'm still here for it
- The Windows 11 dev build has an accessibility feature to use a single webcam across multiple apps at the same time but it may get more use as a streaming tool
- Civilization 7's new narrator is Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie
- LG's utterly stellar 4K OLED gaming monitor is already $300 cheaper than when I tested it last week
- There might soon be a new go-to cheap gaming CPU as AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D is rumoured to launch early next month
- Twitch launches new Drop Ins collaboration feature but doesn't let streamers opt out: 'You can't turn it off'
- Secret Level's turning 15 games into animated shorts, but all we want to know is if that's actually Keanu Reeves piloting a mech
- Mafia: The Old Country studio clarifies lack of Italian voice acting, says they're doing it in Sicilian for that real Mafioso 'authenticity'
- Blizzard will inject a little WoW into Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred with a new co-op dungeon and party finder
- 9 things we know about Inzoi from its new gameplay reveals
- Rumoured Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU with cheapo GDDR6 memory is now official
- Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford predicted that the Epic Games Store would kill off Steam 5 years ago, now the internet is mocking him as Borderlands 4 comes crawling back
- 'We won't see another game reach these heights until probably GTA 6': Palworld community manager congratulates Black Myth: Wukong for its continued success
- AMD's game-tastic next-gen 9000X3D V-Cache CPU spotted on Asus motherboard website
- Samsung's glasses-free 4K 3D monitor concept has been turned into a gaming display you can actually buy
- Games Workshop officially bans the use of AI in its Golden Demon painting competitions
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, August 21
- August 20
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- We asked Black Myth: Wukong's developer about the controversy over its founders' past sexist remarks, but GameScience's only reply was 'No comment'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 imagines a medieval Europe that's mostly swords in its latest Gamescom gameplay teaser
- Stellar Blade studio says a PC version is coming 'in the near future'
- 'If you fire it up, there's a build of Civilization 1 on there': The PC that Sid Meier used to make the first Civilization has a whopping 16MB of memory and still works
- With Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Black Myth: Wukong, and Star Wars Outlaws, ray tracing in games is slowly becoming an Nvidia-exclusive
- The First Berserker: Khazan shows off its angry anime Conan in a new Gamescom trailer
- 'Mafia 4' officially revealed as Mafia: The Old Country, set in 1900s Sicily during the 'origins of the mafia'
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming in December, drops a big new trailer at Gamescom
- Monster Hunter Wilds reveals a horrifying spider and an electric apex predator in its Gamescom trailer
- He's baaack: Peter Molyneux announces new god game Masters of Albion, and honestly it looks really good
- Blizzard is bringing mercenaries back with Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred and one of them is a literal demon
- Marvel Rivals reveals December release date, Captain America and the Winter Soldier join the team
- Infinity Nikki looks like a fever dream of open world dress-up and I can't wait to come down with a case of it
- I didn't realize how much I wanted to shepherd a pack of big hairy beasts through the mountains until I saw the trailer for Herdling
- Watch a latex-clad billionaire punch out poor people in the debut gameplay trailer for Batman: Arkham Shadow
- New Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 gameplay shows a meaty chunk of campaign we'll all forget about once we click 'Multiplayer'
- We can finally get our hands on Path of Exile 2 when it hits early access this November
- Starfield expansion Shattered Space is out September 30, but you can drive its new moon buggy today
- Survival MMO Dune: Awakening announces early 2025 release
- We got another look at the rock-em-sock-em robots of multiplayer mech game Mecha Break at this year's Gamescom Opening Night Live
- Civilization 7 releases this February, first gameplay trailer shows off new art style, navigable rivers
- Thanks to Tarsier Studios' new horror game Reanimal, I'll never look at a sheep in the same way again
- Embark's next shooter is ditching free-to-play so devs can 'focus more on the fun' and not 'encouraging players to make purchases'
- Dying Light: The Beast is a revenge story for Kyle Crane: 'basically like the movie Old Boy's premise, but with zombies'
- Dying Light: The Beast is a standalone game starring Kyle Crane that started out as DLC, and will be free for owners of Dying Light 2 Ultimate Edition
- 'The greatest simulation game known to man and goat returns': Goat Simulator is back, and the first stop is Cash Grab Penitentiary
- Borderlands 4 is coming in 2025
- MudRunner follow-up RoadCraft is all about natural disasters, heavy machinery and, yes, more mud
- Even Disney has realized that trying to use the Disney+ terms of service to wriggle out of a wrongful death lawsuit was a terrible idea
- Internet Archive preserves and releases 1980s PC radio show that interviewed legends including Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, and Jack Tramiel
- Microsoft gave Todd Howard an exclusive 1,000-Gamerscore achievement in 2016, and we finally know what it is
- The Borderlands movie was so wretched that someone's made a 3-minute song just from the bad reviews
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time to 'add more endings to the game' along with some extra polish
- Valve says 'we've decided to draw a clear line' and bans Snap Tap keyboard automation from Counter-Strike 2
- Black Myth: Wukong smashes Palworld and Counter-Strike 2 to become the second most-played Steam game of all time less than a day after launch, and it's gaining on PUBG's gold medal
- Nvidia's new partnership with MediaTek has just killed the module which made G-Sync monitors so damned expensive
- Pokémon Worlds competitor gets disqualified straight after winning the quarter-finals, thanks to a rude hand gesture
- Deja vu? For some reason the best gaming laptop I've personally tested keeps getting cheaper
- US lawmakers believe TP-Link networking products come with an 'unusual degree of vulnerabilities' leaving them vulnerable to hackers
- Black Myth: Wukong crushes Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077's all-time player records on Steam with 1.2 million and counting
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, August 20
- August 19
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- Madden NFL 25 stumbles out to a 'mixed' rating on Steam, which means it's no worse than any other Madden game on PC
- Larian released a teaser for the new evil endings coming in Baldur's Gate 3's next patch, and they really weren't kidding about the evil part
- 'Britain's Bill Gates' among 6 missing after luxury yacht tragedy off coast of Sicily: 'We should have found something by now'
- Black Myth: Wukong has some bonkers streamer guidelines about not using the game to spread 'feminist propaganda' or discuss anything about China
- Final Fantasy 16 is finally coming to PC in September, and a demo is available right now
- This Nvidia GPU paired with one of the best AMD Zen 4 CPUs feels like we're finally getting the sub-$1,000 gaming PCs we deserve
- Microsoft closes another door for bypassing the TPM 2.0 requirement in Windows 11
- The Mechanism Gaming Pillow acts like a third arm for your gaming handhelds and I'm not ashamed to say I kinda want one
- A movie adaptation of 1993's Sega fighting game Eternal Champions is on the way, for some reason, so get ready to watch a caveman fight a cyborg kickboxer
- Dead Cells takes a bow with its 'final major update,' calling an end to 7 years of development that spanned 35 updates, 5 DLC, and 2 studios
- Borderlands to release on streaming services less than a month after its catastrophic cinematic debut
- OneXPlayer is back with another external GPU and this time uses a graphics chip so new, not even its maker has announced it
- Cheap but very cheerful? PowerA's wireless controllers feature Hall effect sensors and start at just $50
- You can finally pick different power modes for battery or plugged in with the latest Windows 11 Insider build, ending the tyranny of one power setting for all
- Silksong thirst is now so outrageously high that Geoff Keighley has to announce that it won't be at his show so people don't lose their minds
- Zotac Gaming officially launches its Zone handheld gaming PC with a super fancy AMOLED HDR screen
- The Future Games Show at Gamescom promises Civ 7 deep dives and fresh Rings of Power news, here's how to watch it
- I give you the smolest gaming PC: A tiny desktop playing tiny Doom is the ultimate '90s nostalgia hit
- Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake desktop CPUs are reportedly only 7 weeks away from launch
- MSI's PBO Enhanced Modes take Ryzen 9000 series chips off the leash, giving you up to 15% extra performance
- Go on roguelike dives to keep evil gods asleep in Feed the Deep
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, August 19
- You can now watch all 14 weapon previews for Monster Hunter Wilds
- 'Don't get lacerated!' is a bullet-point feature in limb-lopping survival horror game The Lacerator
- The new highest-level Steam user in the world spent over half a million dollars to do it, has a 'Discord Kitten,' a $9,000 Counter-Strike gun with a racial slur on it, and potential beef with the guy in third place
- Design little towns for adorable vegetable people in this cute sandbox
- The FDA just cleared 'Traumagel,' a wound-treating gel with 'the color and texture of hummus' that sounds like a real-life FPS medkit
- August 18
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- According to a creator of the ambitious H2M Modern Warfare 2 mod shuttered by Activision, the multi-billion dollar corporation was worried the free project would disrupt Black Ops 6's sales
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, August 18
- You can play the original and best version of Diablo in your browser (again)
- Total War: Warhammer 3's dwarfs will be able to turtle properly in the next update, and the other reworks seem decent too
- August 17
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- Vampire Survivors update rolls out new dark arcanas, but the best part is a retired guy in his rocking chair
- Y'all have to see these gruesome starfish monsters coming in Factorio: Space Age
- It's no wonder Dragon Age: The Veilguard was Steam Deck Verified so quickly: it'll run on a 10-year-old graphics card that was new when Inquisition came out
- After Helldivers 2 cheaters undercut its latest Major Order by turning in millions of bug bits at once, Arrowhead canceled the whole thing with an in-universe justification: 'The ones submitting false samples have had their pet fish summarily executed'
- List of the UK's richest game devs and influencers puts Garry's Mod creator neck-and-neck with Rockstar founders, but the richest of all is a different pair of gaming brothers worth £12.5 billion
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, August 17
- August 16
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- Sorcerers were doing too much magic for Diablo 4's servers to handle, so Blizzard nerfed their most popular build
- Ubisoft reveals full Star Wars Outlaws system requirements and PC-specific features
- Runescape's latest content roadmap includes group ironman mode, a new skilling boss, and exciting advancements in woodcutting
- Exoborne is making the extraction shooter less punishing, and taking storytelling notes from Hades
- The spiritual successor to old school pick-up-and-play Call of Duty Zombies is out now, on sale for $10 and gloriously free of battle pass nonsense
- PowerWash Simulator meets Pulp Fiction in this first-person scrubber where you clean up after horrific murders
- Neo-Victorian survival sim Nightingale is getting 'handcrafted realms,' more boss fights, and an all-new campaign in a major update coming later this summer
- Swen Vincke was worried that the 100-hour Baldur's Gate 3 would be too short, which is why Larian made a ton of extra areas they wound up cutting: 'I've notoriously always been bad at judging the length of our games'
- Black Myth: Wukong review roundup: 'An interesting and exciting reimagining'
- Hunt: Showdown enjoys highest-ever player count after 1896 update, but player complaints about UI are pushing down its Steam review score: 'I've never seen such a bizarre reaction to so much amazing content'
- The VR version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is 'on hold indefinitely' as Meta and Rockstar shift their focus to other things
- 'Without using these inventions, Western Digital would not be able to compete in the market': WD owes $262,000,000 in damages over a HDD patent dispute
- Super-svelte CAMM2 memory can deliver higher clock speeds, lower latencies, costs, and even better system cooling says MSI
- Grab this mighty fast RTX 4080 Super and save more than $140 off the MSRP
- Arm reportedly spooling up major new GPU architecture to take on Nvidia
- After Morrigan's surprise cameo in Dragon Age: The Veilguard's release date trailer, VA Claudia Black says she 'wasn't lying … I honestly thought they were done with my fave mage'
- About half—50 in total—of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks' staff will be taken on by new publisher Krafton
- You had one job: Outlook, Word and OneNote may 'unexpectedly close when typing' says Microsoft
- Deliriously funny rhythm tooter Trombone Champ is getting a VR version
- You can get 650 hours of classic RPG in Humble's latest bundle, featuring original Baldur's Gate, Pathfinder, and Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader
- Leaked Intel Arrow Lake CPU benchmarks show generational performance regression but that might not be the whole story
- Many of Epic's exclusivity deals were 'not good investments,' says Tim Sweeney, but the free games program 'has been just magical'
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney accuses Apple of 'malicious compliance' as Fortnite finally returns to iOS, but only in Europe and with a convoluted install process
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a $150 'edition' that doesn't actually include the game, though you do get 22 inches of Rook's shiny blade
- The FTC is banning fake reviews, false testimonials and all sorts of shady consumer deception with an ominous sounding 'final rule'
- Lonely Mountains: Downhill is getting a skiing-themed sequel, making it the second winter sports game announced this month
- 2K removes its pointless launcher from Civilization 6, while also announcing that Civilization 7 players will never have to suffer launching the game twice for no reason
- All Genshin Impact codes from the 5.0 livestream
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, August 16
- August 15
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- Get ready for Nicolas Cage to do an incredible John Madden voice in a biopic about his life and the videogame
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard is bringing back the heinously ugly original sin of preorder/digital deluxe cosmetics, but I'm weirdly nostalgic for it now
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's latest trailer is the best showing the game's gotten yet—BioWare really should have led with this months ago
- The next Stellaris expansion will let your space empires harness 'the majesty and menace' of new cosmic storms, which I'm sure can only go well
- Dr Disrespect says he's coming back soon, deletes his admission of inappropriately texting a minor: 'We have lots to talk about'
- Activision kills ambitious H2M Modern Warfare 2 mod one day before its release
- Some of the world's biggest game companies are joining together to make us all look at this truly awful horse
- Oops! Bungie accidentally changed the names of a 'high number' of Destiny 2 players, says a fix 'will take some time' to figure out
- 'I'm still amazed that it all came together and actually works': YouTuber spends 14 months building a glorious gaming laptop from desktop parts
- The most wishlisted cozy game on Steam is launching in September
- Unbelievably beautiful life sim Inzoi is doing a limited time demo of its character creator next week
- Upcoming Sims competitor inZOI is getting full mod support on launch and a surprise character creation demo much sooner
- The lead writer of Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge was extremely squeamish at first, which shows you can do just about anything if you set your mind to it
- Helldivers 2 player is plagued by trampolining Terminids in 'the most ridiculous bug I've ever encountered in a video game'
- Someone's already overclocked the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and 9950X above 7.4 GHz
- Blizzard disables trading in Diablo 4 for the third time in a year, as another dupe bug wreaks havoc on its economy
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdree's success deftly parries 'extraordinary losses' caused by a recent cyberattack on FromSoftware's parent company
- Beefy medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has been delayed until February
- A mysterious World of Warcraft teaser has people wondering if an animated show is on its way
- Intel sells all its Arm shares, likely raising almost $150 million, AKA peanuts in tech
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard arrives on October 31, preorders are live now
- One of the best 2 TB gaming SSDs is now under $140 and it's the perfect upgrade for any PC
- PC Gamer magazine's landmark 400th issue is on sale now: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 15
- Skyblivion shows off some gorgeous Oblivion locations and some boring Oblivion quests in its latest trailer
- August 14
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- GitHub, the go-to site for open source software, is currently down
- Steam's new 'Helpfulness' system for user reviews is here to fix Steam's 'Helpful' system for user reviews
- Persona 3 Reload producer dashes any remaining hopes for the return of Portable's female protagonist: 'It is likely never going to happen'
- Josh Sawyer says Fallout: New Vegas has deathclaws in Goodsprings as a warning to Fallout 3 players expecting another easy ride: 'You can't just slide all over the map and not feel the heat'
- Newsflash: That bargain MSI 4K 240Hz OLED gaming monitor is actually available to buy for once
- Steam's latest beta removed the 'open screenshot location' button and it's sending me into an existential crisis
- Valve issues new rules outlawing links in Steam page descriptions, hopefully bringing an end to the plague of demos pretending they're 'prologue games'
- Pray the kids don't kick over your priceless T-Rex exhibit in Two Point Museum, an upcoming new addition to the Two Point universe
- Fallout: London sets a new record by becoming the 'fastest redeemed game ever on GOG'
- The Final Fantasy 9 upscale mod just got a surprise update after 3 years, including a 'full rework' of its backgrounds, 120 fps, ultrawide, and more
- Mordhau pugilists raise thousands of dollars for a fellow player's medical bills in a fistfighting contest against cancer
- AMD might give the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X a big post-launch TDP boost in the name of chasing higher performance
- Overwatch 2's highly anticipated space girl hero drops next week with season 12
- Leximan is a charming indie romp where you grab words out of the air to solve problems—like helping Dave, who has been on fire for 27 minutes
- Live your fantasy of being a game dev in this sim where you build an MMO, manage your team and investors, and even play your own game
- If you want to have fun while looking silly, check out the Roto VR Explorer, a super spinny chair that aims to solve motion sickness while VR gaming
- Even Uwe Boll is dunking on the abominable Borderlands movie—'Now you wish I directed!'
- Blizzard is still updating Heroes of the Storm on an almost monthly basis, and I just think that's nice
- XCOM 2 is just $3 on Steam for a day—cheaper than the bus I took into work this morning, or 1/5th of a World of Warcraft subscription
- Rumoured new AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D could be our first sub-$200 3D V-cache gaming CPU
- Unsurprisingly, the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X don't seem to be selling very well right now
- Final Fantasy 14 player is so sick of one particular healing spell, they've built an entire website to explain why you shouldn't use it: 'I finally have had enough'
- Valve is 'continuing to work on adding support' for other handhelds, but 'SteamOS isn't ready to run out of the box' just yet
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, August 14
- August 13
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- Somehow, Baldur's Gate 3 isn't done winning yet: It's just claimed the most prestigious award for science fiction and fantasy writing
- A massive free update and a 50% discount sends Cult of the Lamb rocketing up the Steam charts
- Josh Sawyer would head up a new Fallout game if Microsoft asked, but he'd have to do it his way: 'Who wants to work on something where the one thing they want to explore is not possible to explore?'
- Black Mirror creator offers a new premonition of humanity's self-wrought tech apocalypse, and it's Balatro on phones: 'It's possibly the most addictive thing ever created'
- Helldivers 2 game director says a Chargers rework and an update to fire damage are part of a 60-day update plan: 'What matters most now is action, not talk'
- Call of Duty 4 is one of the best-selling Steam games right now, but only because you need it to play an ambitious Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer mod launching this week
- Josh Sawyer doesn't like Baldur Gate 3-style romances and that's part of why he doubts a new Pillars of Eternity would be a hit: 'I feel like I'm kind of out of touch with that audience'
- Russian chess player faces jail after video shows her allegedly poisoning opponent with mercury: 'I've never seen anything like this'
- This awesome mod sees TF2 come to CoD Zombies—which is all the more impressive considering it'd typically be the other way around
- A robot trained with AI to beat average randos at table tennis is a much more impressive thing than you might think
- Once the apple of Microsoft's eye, Paint 3D will be fully killed off in favour of its elder sibling Paint
- Jonathan Nolan and the writers didn't catch it, 'but boy, Reddit caught it': Fallout's makeup department hid a sneaky easter egg in one episode that fans 'jumped on' immediately
- A Red Dead Redemption PC port was proudly 'announced' on the store page for the PS4 version, of all places
- Space Marine 2 settled on 3-player co-op because having 4 lore-accurate 40K marines made it too much of 'a massacre'
- Our pick for the best 14-inch gaming laptop is down to $1,700 and it's an RTX 4070 and OLED-equipped beauty
- Doom running on a Def Con attendee badge at 50 fps is the highlight of the otherwise messy backstory to this year's popular hacking conference
- Black Myth: Wukong's most-wishlisted status means its new benchmarking tool is the 18th most played 'game' on Steam right now
- Borderlands grosses $16 million globally, leaving it roughly $60 million shy of breaking even—and that's before the theatres take their cut
- Dazzling Doom 2 mod upgrades the legendary FPS with full-blown ray tracing, looks hellishly good
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, August 13
- August 12
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- Stalker 2 devs' 35-minute in-depth gameplay video and promise of an 'authentic' experience that'll kill you dead finally has me fully on board the hype train to The Zone
- We can all see that Valve's unannounced shooter Deadlock just hit over 18,000 concurrent players, Gabe
- Bethesda's updated Doom remasters have opened a portal to a hellish dimension of uncredited mod uploads: 'This is a massive breach of trust'
- Baldur's Gate 3's rarest ending has only been unlocked by 34 players, and it requires an obscenely specific sequence of poor decisions
- Hunt: Showdown is going offline for 48 hours to prepare for its biggest update ever
- Randy Pitchford is posting through it after Borderlands bombs bad
- Baldur's Gate 3's lead mocap choreographer reveals Lae'zel's combat stance is based on a real technique that came to an ancient samurai master in a dream
- 'It was such a chore, every day': the surprising reason Ella Purnell was 'part of the biggest challenge' for the Fallout TV show's makeup department
- Ex-Twitter VP says if Elon Musk keeps stirring up unrest, 'get an arrest warrant'
- Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month
- 'Free doesn't pay our bills': Mega-mod Fallout London's developers plan to build their own indie studio
- This is the RTX 4080 Super gaming PC I'd buy as a dopamine-crazed serial hobbyist if I had a couple grand lying around
- Reports say Intel could have bought a $1 billion chunk of OpenAI seven years ago but its then-CEO thought it wouldn't pay off
- 'Let Super Earth burn': Helldivers 2 players are committing treason to protest its latest patch—allowing a tide of bots to creep worryingly close to home
- Arrowhead CEO says 'we need to do better' after incendiary response to flamethrower nerfs in Helldivers 2: 'Me just talking about it isn't enough, actions matter'
- Millions of AMD CPUs found vulnerable to 18-year-old 'Sinkclose' deep-system flaw but it's pretty difficult to exploit
- The Borderlands movie squeaks in at $8.8 million over its US box office weekend, which is about 6% of what it cost to market, distribute, and make
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, August 12
- Hi-Fi Rush lives: PUBG owner Krafton has acquired Tango Gameworks from Xbox
- August 11
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- Despite imminent delisting, Sega says Sonic Generations will still be available via a bundle
- The original Doom-inspired roguelike will return this year as Jupiter Hell Classic
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, August 11
- Arkane founder says Skyrim is an immersive sim, and Baldur's Gate 3 is 'immersive sim-adjacent'
- Geralt's voice actor confirms he'll be in the next Witcher, but not as the main character: 'Geralt will be part of the game'
- August 10
- August 9
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- Bungie promises to address the 'uncertainty' surrounding the future of Destiny 2 following massive layoffs last week
- Scientist survival in Abiotic Factor gets the obligatory water area next week, complete with fishing
- You can get every Dragon Age game yet made for just $10 in EA's August Steam sale
- Doom Eternal's new official mod support includes 'the very same tools' used to create the game
- Monster Hunter fans are so hungry for Wilds gameplay that Capcom's new 60-second weapon clips are racking up millions of views
- Kingmakers, the game about going back in time with an M4 tank, doesn't have a release date yet, but it does somehow have a movie deal
- Fallout 4's best modder is bringing Doom to Starfield and bards to Skyrim
- Olympic heroes like Noah Lyles are going for the only gold that matters: The one in League of Legends
- Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is still holding out hope for the Borderlands movie: 'Let's give the film a chance'
- Creating your own Microsoft Copilot chatbot is easy but making it safe and secure is pretty much impossible says security expert
- New SteamOS beta hints at an imminent general install with ROG Ally support added
- 'I dunno what the negativity is for, people had fun': Palworld dev comes to Helldivers 2's defence after stats-tracker decrees both games burnt out
- Phew: Blizzard clarifies you'll get every transmog from WoW's quests like in The War Within beta—and retroactively, no less
- Hey, when did 1000 W PSUs get so affordable? This Super Flower Platinum is $125 right now
- I want a 4K OLED gaming monitor so bad and with both Alienware and Samsung's available for $200-plus off I'm going to sell my dog, probably
- Landlords are so drunk with power they've started advertising apartments made in The Sims 4 on real estate websites
- Major browser providers scramble to patch an 18-year-old vulnerability affecting MacOS and Linux systems but Windows remains gloriously immune
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a 'seriously satisfying RPG' that lets you live the life of a medieval knight in a 'rich and reactive open world', has its price slashed by 83%
- God of War Ragnarök needs a chonky 190 GB of SSD space but the rest of the system requirements seem pretty reasonable
- AMD keeps chipping away at Intel as latest figures show increased market share in PCs, laptops and servers
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, August 9
- August 8
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- Grand Theft Auto 6 is still on track for fall 2025, and there's still no sign of a PC version
- Arrowhead boss says he's not upset by the latest Helldivers 2 balance uproar: 'I'd take this ANY day of the week over nobody giving a s**t'
- Splitgate 2's first gameplay is here, and yep, adding classes changes everything
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies mode will introduce powerful new technology previously thought impossible: saving and coming back later
- Brother, your world faces exterminatus unless you watch this new Space Marine 2 gameplay footage right now
- Id Software just surprise launched Doom + Doom 2, a 'definitive' bundle that adds cross-platform multiplayer and in-game mod support to every retro Doom
- The modders recreating the original Fallout in Fallout 4's engine are releasing their first demo today
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's combat is 'more technically demanding on the player' BioWare says, which is why we'll only be controlling one character
- Critic reviews of the Borderlands movie are absolutely savage
- Arkane founder was saddened by the closure of Arkane Austin, but says immersive sims aren't going anywhere: The studio is gone, but 'the people survive'
- I've been watching this dude play Grand Theft Auto 4 with the traffic at 9999999 'warp speed' and it's both hilarious and some sort of surrealist masterpiece
- Borderlands film goes from disaster to farce as the guy who rigged Claptrap says neither he nor the model artist are credited
- Dragon Age director says BioWare learned an important lesson from the disaster that was Anthem: 'Know what you're good at and then double down on it'
- Bought a pre-built Intel 13th/14th Gen gaming PC? Here are the warranty extensions different PC builders say they're offering
- Turkey just straight-up banned Roblox for 'child exploitation'
- Next-gen Intel Arrow Lake CPUs rumored to consume at least 100 W less power at high frequencies
- Warner Bros execs pine for the Hogwarts Legacy glory days as games revenue plummets 41% thanks to Suicide Squad's abysmal performance
- Hunt: Showdown's tradition of dropping horrifying little freaks into the Wild West continues with the 'Hellborn,' a roaming fire demon that hurls molten lava balls
- The next game from Dishonored co-creator Raphael Colantonio is a first-person immersive sim with a structure between Prey and Fallout: New Vegas—'We favour density over size'
- World of Warcraft: The War Within gets a new 2D cinematic, reminds us that Xal'atath is an ancient knife piloting a corpse puppet for kicks
- 'Now it is war': Elon Musk and Twitter accuse an advertising alliance, which includes EA and Twitch, of conspiring against the platform and breaking US antitrust law
- Sony says the 220 layoffs at Bungie were made in the name of—you guessed it—things like 'portfolio optimization' and enhancing 'the efficiency of the business'
- Corsair ditches 80 Plus for PSUs: here are the Cybenetics ratings it'll use instead
- MSI and Asus roll out first Intel instability fix for a range of motherboards with 0x129 microcode BIOS
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 8
- August 7
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- YouTube is testing a new Twitter-style community notes feature, which is good because YouTubers sure do love to lie
- A mischevious dagger slid Diablo 4 players free XP boosts under the table before Blizzard caught it
- Lone Echo developer Ready at Dawn has reportedly been closed by Meta
- Bungie can't catch a W: Rather than buffing the drop rate of Destiny 2's most-wanted exotic items, the latest patch nerfed it into dust
- Previously unreleased Life By You screenshots are making life sim fans even sadder that it got cancelled
- Fans of MOBAs and extraction shooters should sign up for Seekers of Skyveil's playtest on Steam and prepare for its closed beta next month
- The first impressions of the Borderlands movie are out, and include slightly worrying phrases like 'disaster' and 'visually repulsive dud'
- A pedophile used Roblox to groom, abduct and sexually assault a 15-year-old girl, a full 18 months after the community had outed him as a predator
- Baldur's Gate 3 anniversary statistics cement the popularity of Astarion, kissing, and being turned into a cheese wheel
- StarCraft 2 spiritual successor Stormgate launches to a mixed rating on Steam, but Frost Giant is undaunted: 'Mixed reviews are to be expected at this stage'
- Balatro has sold 2 million copies, free 'major gameplay update' coming next year
- I've never needed anything more than 'the world's first medieval electronic instrument,' a pre-Baroque beatbox that looks like a Pentiment/DJ Hero collab
- NIS America says Trails and Ys RPG fans won't have to wait so long for future English releases: 'We want to bring that timeline down'
- Micron touts world's first PCIe Gen 6 drive with epic 26 GB/s speeds but it's not hitting your PC for years
- Republican vice prez candidate JD Vance nurses a secret passion for Magic: The Gathering, says his wife
- 'My thighs were absolutely killing me': Red Dead Redemption 2's Roger Clark discusses the perils of crouch running
- We're getting a Civilization 7 deep dive at The Future Games Show at Gamescom, hosted by GTA's Michael de Santa and RDR2's Sadie Adler
- Warframe is gearing up for its wildest expansion yet with The Lotus Eaters update on August 21
- One of Logitech's finest mice and one I use often—the Pro Wireless gaming mouse is down to $61 right now
- Logitech says it has 'no plans' for a subscription mouse—let's keep it that way
- Intel CEO says Panther Lake CPU on its new 18A node is already up and running with production slated for next year
- New world's thinnest LPDDR5X memory from Samsung could bode well for handheld gaming PCs
- 'Everything's held together with duct tape': Fallout London's project lead discusses all the bugs, including the infamous train crash
- UK Royal Mint's 'urban mining' extracts more gold from old motherboards and other junk than you might think
- AMD's new Ryzen 9000 CPUs are officially up to $50 cheaper than the old 7000 series were at launch
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, August 7
- Here's what Karlach and Astarion get up to if you leave them at camp: Joining a D&D actual-play show
- Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz once endorsed a high school Valorant team
- Final Fantasy 14 is a load-bearing MMO helping to keep Square Enix profitable
- I thought Diablo 4 had already evolved into a great action RPG, but its latest season just made it even better
- August 6
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- Fallout: London devs are working on a 'HUGE' patch, offering 'dedicated 1-on-1 troubleshooting sessions' to help players with installs and crashes
- Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio will reveal more about his next game in a few days, says fans of Dishonored and Prey 'will be happy'
- Helldivers 2's loudest players go nuclear over another unpopular nerf, but Arrowhead CEO keeps calm: 'Some are going 'Buff everything!' Others are saying 'It's too easy!' Most are just playing.'
- The maker of this retro city builder wants to include events like bank robberies, police chases, and zombie outbreaks
- Once Human is revealing the inner Sims player that even my loud FPS friends have inside them
- Bloober Team knows fans don't really trust it with the Silent Hill 2 remake, so it's asking for the next-best thing: 'Give us a chance'
- Hidden Final Fantasy 16 profile in latest Nvidia driver has fans hyping themselves up for a surprise Gamescom PC launch
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 system requirements are out, and you probably won't need to buy a new PC to play it
- IRL Squid Game competitors complain it was too real, reporting injuries and poor treatment as they fought for $5 million beneath a grinning MrBeast: 'We're all just looking up at the sky, screaming at him like he's god'
- It turns out that Elden Ring players can kill Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss with the power of friendship and a strange bug
- Larian releases Baldur's Gate 3 anniversary video celebrating the fans, and boss Swen Vincke says you ain't seen nothing yet: 'We're gonna take all of that energy and convert it into something new, something shiny, something big'
- 'The ongoing conversations around ARM vs x86 power are based on a false premise,' says Intel's VP of technical marketing
- Alan Wake 2 fan notices a sound cue gives the game away about its villain early on, Remedy sound dev gasps 'Finally someone noticed'
- 'I hate the thought of Balatro becoming a true gambling game': LocalThunk is making sure casinos can't get their hands on his game even after he dies by literally writing it into his will
- A Dead by Daylight and Five Nights at Freddy's collaboration was just announced, something I am shocked has taken this long to happen
- High on Life is getting a TV show adaptation produced by Curb Your Enthusiasm's JB Smoove: 'It's a case of game recognizing game!'
- It turns out that music was the endgame for Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone: 'I've always dreamed of people appreciating my music'
- Descenders Next is the follow-up to my favourite extreme biking sim, but it won't have bikes at launch
- Banned Twitch streamer Adin Ross gets Donald Trump on a Kick stream, gifts him a Rolex, then they sit together in a Trumped-out Cybertruck listening to Elvis' 'Can't Help Falling In Love'
- There still might be more RX 7000-series AMD GPUs on the way as rumours suggest two under $250
- Slim, light, and OLED: Both these Asus gaming laptops are heavily discounted right now and I reckon they're absolute stunners
- 'Google is a monopolist' says US judge in ruling on exclusivity deals to get Google Search on all your platforms all the time
- Cult of the Lamb's next major content update will be an interactive digital comic: 'Where all your choices will take you on a colourful adventure'
- Yakuza producer still won't put Kiryu in a goddamn fighting game, or possibly any future videogame for that matter: 'I think going cross-medium is the better way to go about it'
- Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP's release date has been bumped up, plus a price tag reveal that's raised a few eyebrows
- GeForce GPU giant has been data scraping 80 years' worth of videos every day for AI training to 'unlock various downstream applications critical to Nvidia'
- Final Fantasy 14 hunter spent 3 days collectively losing their minds trying to spawn a monster with sunglasses, mass crying sessions, and alpacas… only to find out they just needed to wait
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, August 6
- August 5
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- House Flipper 2 update adds 150 new items, including towels, decorative moss, and weeds
- Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra is now CEO of one of those technically-not-gambling daily fantasy sports apps
- The follow-up to Palworld could go 'beyond AAA', but Pocketpair's CEO only wants to pursue projects that 'are interesting as indie games'
- Star Wars Outlaws' $40 season pass comes with 2 story packs, including a run-in with Lando Calrissian later this year
- Nightingale devs say they're 'not satisfied' with the game, its reception, or its player numbers, but they've got big improvements coming
- Fallout: New Vegas director on the art of making sure all your points in persuasion aren't wasted: It's 'all about feelings … but you use numbers to arrive at that feeling'
- 'Our 33-year legacy deserves a genuine goodbye': Game Informer staff tweets one last goodbye after all of their work was deleted, then GameStop nukes the account from orbit
- Diablo 4 players finally unearth a secret ring they've been looking for since it launched over a year ago—and it's utter trash
- Crusader Kings 3 is, unexpectedly, the latest videogame to receive an official comic book
- Lae'zel's actor shares the 'one and only audition' that got her the role in Baldur's Gate 3, featuring threats, bullying, and more urine drinking than I expected
- Monster Hunter Wilds introduces Focus Mode, for those moments when you absolutely must hit that Tigrex in its tender nethers
- The performer for Baldur's Gate 3's smooth-talking devil, Raphael, thought the RPG was a musical
- I can't decide which of these $2,000 RTX 4080 Super gaming PCs I'd rather pick *checks feed* oh wait, yeah it'll be the AMD one
- World of Warcraft dev says the game's 500-strong union, spurred on by 2021 controversies, has been aided by the move to Microsoft
- A decade after buying Oculus VR, Meta's Reality Labs' losses are spiralling out of control, with no end in sight
- All the small things: Lenovo's website may have hinted at an upcoming Legion Go 'Lite'
- The Call of Duty ban wave continues as Activision dishes out over 65,000 account bans across Warzone and Modern Warfare 3
- Rust dev is bored of paying Unity '$500k a year' to fix its engine and promises that his Garry's Mod successor won't hoodwink devs with fees
- Elon Musk says his brainchip patients will soon 'outperform a pro gamer', then takes a big old puff and says 'let’s give people superpowers'
- Microsoft, Meta and more might have to wait for their shiny new AI hardware as Nvidia's Blackwell server GPUs are reportedly delayed
- HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 debuts its first proper teaser—showing us Abby and a mysterious maybe-therapist played by Catherine O’Hara
- Workstation builder Puget Systems' report shows the stability problems with Intel's CPUs can be managed if only you 'mistrust the default settings on any motherboard'
- Devs turn to Patreon after Humble Games collapse leaves studio without support: 'We lost access to the pipeline of critical systems without warning'
- This 3D printed laser chip-hacking device uses a $20 laser pointer, costs $500 to build, and was developed so that 'people can do this in their homes'
- Sega files mysterious 'Yakuza Wars' trademark right after Like A Dragon studio teases fans that the next game will leave them 'surprised'
- After players reject the stratagem 3 times, Helldivers 2 devs snap and demand they kill 1.5 billion enemies or suffer the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines as punishment
- A new Darksiders game is in development: 'The Four Horsemen will ride again'
- Steam's favourite GPU, the RTX 3060, is nearing its end as Nvidia gets ready to issue the last batch of chips
- A codenamed Valve project found in a voice actor's résumé has Half-Life fans putting on the clown makeup yet again
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, August 5
- August 4
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- Baldur's Gate 3 was so big that Larian has developed a 'Simpsons did it' problem: 'Whenever we're talking about things, we say we did that in BG3'
- Crafting in crafting games may suck, but it seems surprisingly decent in the updated rules for Dungeons & Dragons of all things
- Elden Ring's latest patch tried to sneak a big 'ole chair into a boss arena like we wouldn't notice and immediately ponder the lore implications
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, August 4
- Don't expect Dragon Age: The Veilguard before October at the absolute earliest
- August 3
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- Mega streamer Kai Cenat is streaming Bloodborne to call attention to fan demand for a PC port: 'PlayStation, FromSoft, this is one of the most highly requested games for a remaster and a PC version'
- To celebrate Baldur's Gate 3's first birthday, Larian announces a 'Channel From Hell' on YouTube for 'community-focused' and 'never-before-seen' videos
- Larian's not holding back for its next two RPGs: 'The machine was meant to make large games'
- All Zenless Zone Zero codes from the 1.1 livestream
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, August 3
- August 2
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- Dishonorable Elden Ring players bypass Shadow of the Erdtree's greatest duel without even entering the boss room
- Ark 2, blink twice if you're OK: Xbox announces a playable demo of the survival crafting sequel at Gamescom and then unannounces it
- Fallen London is getting a tabletop RPG for its 15th anniversary
- Payback, a Destiny spinoff that was not, in fact, Destiny 3, was cancelled two months before the latest mass layoffs at Bungie
- Valve's former economist says Steam could produce 'better macroeconomic forecasts' than Goldman Sachs with the power of crowdsourcing and brownie points
- Valve unintentionally set the stage for today's digital economic hellscape, according to its former economist in residence
- Car destruction lovers rejoice, Wreckfest 2 is on the way
- We've finally gotten a closer look at Titan Quest 2, and it sure looks a lot like Diablo 4
- With its 'immersive and realistic world' and 'complex life simulation on a scale hardly ever seen before', the Gothic 1 Remake looks even more wonderfully over-ambitious and janky than the original game
- Game Informer, the longest running US gaming magazine, shuts down after 33 years
- There's a free open beta for 'adaption shooter' Ascendant on Steam this weekend
- New Path of Exile league crushes concurrent player record, introduces city builder mode, shakes up the metagame
- A Fallout: London modder has taken it upon themself to cure the rampant dog food addiction that is more sinister than you'd think
- Helldivers 2 CEO goes straight to the tap, asks the Reddit think tank for ideas on how to use their oodles of in-game resources
- Woah, an RTX 4070 Super deal that actually drops this fresh 40-series GPU well under MSRP
- Larian nearly made Baldur's Gate 4, it was partially playable and 'something that you all would have liked', but the studio didn't want to spend another 3 years on it
- Founder takes down the Nexus Mods of romhacking after 20 years because 'lines were crossed' by 'a most dishonest and hate filled group,' but others tell a different story
- Old School RuneScape developers left mystified as players, whipped up into a religious fervour, demand that gaming's loudest mole-rat get even louder
- Broken CPUs, workforce cuts, cancelled dividends and a decade of borked silicon—how has it all gone so wrong for Intel?
- Upscaling is the new normal according to Star Wars Outlaws system requirements
- NZXT will rent you an RTX 4070 Ti Super system for $169 a month or $2,028 a year but we can find deals a lot better than that
- Paradox indefinitely delays Prison Architect 2, just like it did with Life By You before it was scrapped
- Bungie was reportedly going to pull the trigger on layoffs regardless of The Final Shape's success, due to leadership under-delivering on 'financial promises' to Sony
- You officially have no excuse not to play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided now Prime Gaming is doling out free GOG copies of the game
- Intel extends its warranty support for 13th and 14th Gen CPUs by two years but its RMA procedure has been anything but straightforward for some
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch event has been fixed, removing 90-minute wait times and turning its weekly quests into account-wide dailies
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, August 2
- August 1
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- Once Human patch speeds up motorcycles and makes respeccing easier
- Blizzard could've let Diablo 4's weakest classes ride it out until the expansion, but it's showering them in buffs for season 5 instead
- Intel is laying off 15,000 people: 'We are making some of the most consequential changes in our company's history'
- Arrowhead posts shocking found footage of elusive Helldivers 2 game master Joel
- Avowed delayed to February to 'give players' backlogs some breathing room'
- We'll see what makes Civilization 7 different on August 20 when Firaxis shows off the first gameplay of its 'revolutionary new chapter' in the grand strategy series
- Sins of a Solar Empire 2 comes to Steam this month, after almost two years of Epic exclusivity
- If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe
- It's so funny that Valve's new shooter that it won't admit exists has a public subreddit
- Promise Mascot Agency is a game where you can entice a big, sobbing tofu guy with employee benefits, and I think that's beautiful
- Hearthstone content creator tells Blizzard to give away a Golden Legendary in order win back fans. Blizzard replies: 'OK'
- During a $10,000 Elden Ring speedrun contest, the "holy grail" of glitches emerges as speedrunners learn to run across the sky
- Do you also have strong '90s memories of Tomba from a PS1 demo disc? You can relive the magic in its unlikely remaster now
- Star Wars Outlaws devs were stunned by the internet's response to its sexy, sexy droid: 'There's nothing sexy about sitting in the skintight suit'
- Baldur's Gate 3's Harpers just can't catch a break—sleuth discovers Jaheira's redshirts have a block in their code that nerfs their damage in half
- Former Bungie devs show fury and sorrow over layoffs, following the revelation that CEO Pete Parsons allegedly spent at least $2,414,550 on vintage cars in the past 2 years
- D&D's upcoming VTT, codenamed Project Sigil, will come with Baldur's Gate 3 minis—further cementing WoTC's plans to franchise the heck out of it
- Shareholders sue CrowdStrike over consequences of catastrophic worldwide IT outage and I don't think an Uber Eats voucher will cut it this time
- Activision rolls out a Call of Duty: Warzone ban wave and promises that Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer is next: 'Leaderboards have been purged'
- As rage factories howl about Kay Vess' looks, Star Wars Outlaws lead says there's no point engaging with 'bad faith' criticism: 'No nuance and no possibility of real dialogue'
- Logitech's 'forever mouse' could mean peripherals go the way of coffee beans, TVs, and printer ink by pushing a subscription
- A law firm is investigating whether to launch a class action case against Intel for 13th/14th Gen CPU instability issues
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 1
