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- December 31
- December 30
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- You can play Toss A Coin To Your Witcher in Beat Saber now
- This 144Hz MSI gaming monitor is on sale for $200 right now
- The Radeon RX 5600 XT could be AMD's answer to the GTX 1660 Super
- AverMedia hints at an external 4K60 HDR capture device coming in 2020
- Indie dungeon crawler Tower of Time is free on GOG
- Specs for nearly a dozen Intel Comet Lake CPUs may have leaked
- God game The Universim enters beta with fancy new planets
- Gray Zone is a sci-fi RTS releasing in Early Access next year
- Superhot VR grosses over $2 million in a single week
- December 29
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- Sci-fi logic puzzler The Talos Principle is today's free game on Epic
- Re-fight the galactic civil war with this gorgeous Star Wars Empire at War mod
- More people are playing The Witcher 3 right now than on launch day in 2015
- This deep simulation of space economics is surprisingly compelling
- 25-year-old game thought lost until creator sees someone stream it
- December 28
- December 27
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- MSI undercuts the competition with a 165Hz 27-inch gaming monitor for $350
- MSI's 17-inch gaming laptop with an RTX 2060 is on sale for $1,099
- Get a 1TB NVMe SSD from Western Digital for just $150 today
- With kinetic gun-fu and tense thrills, Trepang2 is an indie FEAR
- RetroArch update adds a screen reader to emulated games using AI
- This VR glove aims to bring the sense of touch to virtual objects
- Butcher some cosmic horrors in Doom 2 mod Shrine
- Hyper Light Drifter free on Epic Store today
- December 26
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- Whispering Hills turns Fallout 4 into a foggy, Silent Hill-inspired horror
- Best of Steam 2019 highlights top sellers, most played, and Early Access success
- Here's 25 great games for $1 or less on sale for the holidays
- EVGA's GeForce RTX 2070 Super XC Gaming is on sale for $490
- Oculus Quest backorders now extend to late February, except at Amazon (for now)
- Nvidia claims RTX 2080 Max-Q laptops are faster than next-gen game consoles
- DS4Windows 2.0 release makes pairing a DualShock 4 to your PC easier than ever
- December 25
- December 24
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- This Minecraft Holiday Yule Log brings back that old-fashioned festive feeling
- Go spelunking for treasure in Goblet Cave
- Jeff Kaplan is sitting in front of the Overwatch Yule Log again
- Make drugs and smoke in puzzler Molek-Syntez
- Celeste is free for the day on the Epic Games Store
- Titanfall 2 is only $5 or £4.49 right now
- Dead Cells' Legacy update brings back old versions of the roguelike
- Black Mesa: Xen is finally out, but it's still in Early Access
- A Fallout 76 hack let thieves steal players' inventories
- Destiny 2's new Guardian, Saint-14, will notice if you wear his helmet
- December 23
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- Ubisoft is putting a free Rainbow Six Siege operator under everyone's tree
- Forget the fruitcake, Raspberry Pi has been served over 30 million times
- Get Ape Out free on the Epic Games Store
- This fast Alienware gaming monitor with G-Sync is on sale for $340
- The Witcher season 2 will have a 'much more focused' story
- G.Skill announces a bevy of high-performance DDR4 RAM kits up to 256GB
- Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition's official Christmas mod might not be entirely historically accurate
- Star Citizen's first system now has its final planet
- The Witcher 3 has as many players as Red Dead Redemption 2 on Steam
- December 22
- December 21
- December 20
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- Halo: Combat Evolved testing could begin in January, 343 Industries says
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- Dig through a pile of indie deals in the Itch.io Holiday Sale
- CD Projekt has a new deal with The Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski
- Stadia now has achievements
- I'm excited Adata is getting into gaming PCs and monitors, and you should be too
- Origin's Holiday Sale is now live, with games up to 85% off
- Get a new Apex Legends skin and ten free games with Twitch Prime this month
- Save up to 50% on select PC games at the Microsoft Store
- Popular 3DMark 11 benchmark heads to the chopping block alongside Windows 7
- Get TowerFall Ascension for free on the Epic Games Store today
- World of Warcraft's playable foxes and cyborg gnomes are arriving in January
- Toripon is a wholesome game about photographing your many bird friends
- Test PUBG's first flying vehicle this weekend
- Red Dead Online is covered in snow, with free gifts coming soon
- December 19
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- Rainbow Six Siege goes anime with the Nighthaven Collection trailer
- Nexus Mods reports security breach, 'small number' of user records accessed
- Stadia acquires Journey to the Savage Planet developer Typhoon Studios
- This pint-sized Radeon RX 5700 would be a perfect fit for a small form factor PC
- The Epic Games Store Holiday Sale kicks off with $10 coupons and free games
- The Witcher's Henry Cavill just wants to stay home and play games
- Distant Worlds 2's first screenshots and details have been revealed
- AMD's Adrenalin 19.12.3 GPU driver fixes a litany of bugs for Radeon owners
- The Witcher: Total War swaps hunting monsters for building empires
- Resident Evil Ambassadors have been invited to test another new game
- Rainbow Six Siege's core dev team is moving on
- Endzone: A World Apart is a post-apocalyptic city builder heading to Early Access soon
- Australia, you can grab the Razer DeathAdder Elite for just under $45 today
- December 18
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- The Witcher Netflix release date: What time exactly does the show air?
- Star soccer player Mesut Ozil removed from PES 2020 in China over tweets criticizing the government
- World War Z studio Saber Interactive is going to work on Killing Floor 2
- Hearthstone is getting its fastest nerfs ever, but will they be enough to stop Shaman?
- Conan Chop Chop will be out in February
- 15 years after release, Gish is getting a new update
- Adata announces stylish XPG Hunter DDR4 memory for desktops and laptops
- Puma's 'gaming socks' cost $105 and don't even have RGB lighting
- Fortnite is giving away a Millennium Falcon glider for Winterfest
- Here's how GOG brought Blade Runner back
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is bringing back classic maps and Cranked today
- You can play Horizon Zero Dawn, one of the best PS4 exclusives, on PC soon via PS Now
- Free-to-play sci-fi shooter Ironsight debuts on Steam today
- Resident Evil 3 Remake system requirements are very manageable
- Want more Fortnite Star Wars skins? By god, you're getting 'em
- Borderlands 3 is now on Stadia, but it's an old version from October
- December 17
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- Warcraft 3: Reforged is coming in January
- Over 200 million baddies have been slain in Garry's Mod
- The Forgotten City is being completely overhauled, but that means it's delayed too
- Respawn job listings point to another singleplayer Star Wars game
- This RTX 2070 Super-powered gaming desktop is on sale for only $1200
- Apex Legends is getting a $3 million pro league next year
- The world’s first 280Hz monitor has been spotted at a retail site in Taiwan
- Steam's biggest new games in November include Empires, Kingdoms, Farmers, and Jedi
- Putin still uses Windows XP, like your gran
- Sony’s new $30 DualShock 4 attachment adds back buttons and an OLED display
- Total War: Three Kingdoms' Mandate of Heaven prequel DLC is coming in January
- Kerbal Space Program creator's new game, Balsa Model Flight Sim, is coming next year
- Ghost Recon: Breakpoint update 1.1.0 has been delayed until January
- This Red Dead Redemption 2 mod lets bears ride horses
- MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries lacks VR support, but it hasn't been ruled out
- December 16
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- Mark Hamill is joining Ninja for some Fortnite streaming
- Players are apparently hacking human NPCs into Fallout 76
- Russian internet company sues Twitch for $3 billion, seeks to have it blocked
- Postal 2, a very bad videogame, is free on GOG
- PewDiePie says he's taking a break from YouTube next year
- Save $70 on Razer's Nari Ultimate, one of our favorite wireless gaming headsets
- Lexar is working on a 7GB/s SSD for 2020
- Corsair is buying Scuf, a maker of high-end gaming controllers
- No Man's Sky now has an audio creation tool that lets you make cosmic beats
- Battlefront 2's The Rise of Skywalker trailer is some great Star Wars
- PlayerUnknown's Prologue isn't a sequel or a shooter
- Play the Halo: Reach campaign in third person with this mod
- This Cyberpunk 2077 Minecraft city is a blocky masterpiece
- Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition is bringing back Seth
- December 15
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- December 13
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- The Outer Worlds is getting DLC next year
- Turns out the new $6,000 Mac Pro isn't a very good cheese grater
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps gets a new trailer and release date
- Save up to $127 on these high-end gaming chairs
- This overclocked Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 is a deal today at $190
- The Wolf Among Us is free on the Epic Games Store
- Windows 7 users now get a fullscreen pop-up reminder that support ends soon
- The Epic Games Store is giving away 12 free games before January
- Red Dead Online's boozy Moonshiners update is out now
- Frostpunk: The Last Autumn is a prequel expansion set before the world froze
- Hearthstone's powerful Galakrond Shaman is already getting nerfed
- Control's free end-game Expeditions mode is out now
- Unlock the world with a piece of chalk in free puzzle game Chalkboard
- Disco Elysium leads The Game Awards with four wins
- Fast & Furious Crossroads announced, coming to Steam next year
- CONV/RGENCE is a League of Legends platformer starring Ekko
- The Wolf Among Us 2 is happening
- The Elder Scrolls Online is going to Skyrim
- Naraka: Bladepoint is a multiplayer melee combat game with a striking visual style
- Gears Tactics arrives in April
- Team-based tactical shooter Nine to Five announced at The Game Awards
- Magic: Legends is an MMO set in the Magic: The Gathering universe
- Former Arkane bosses reveal their new game, an action-RPG called Weird West
- Apex Legends' Holo-Day Bash is live now, with a new LTM and holiday cosmetics
- Ruined King is the first singleplayer League of Legends game
- Sons of the Forest is a demon-hunting sequel to the 'terrifying' survival game The Forest
- Dark Alliance, the D&D action RPG, is heading to Icewind Dale in 2020
- PlayerUnknown's next game gets a beautiful rainy teaser
- Warframe's Empyrean expansion is live on PC now
- Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is the first Xbox Series X game
- Xbox Series X looks like a PC tower, every Microsoft studio working on exclusives
- Gearbox reveals Godfall, a fantasy action RPG coming next year
- A new Final Fantasy 7 Remake trailer appears at The Game Awards
- Sharks take revenge on humans in a new Maneater trailer
- Grand strategy game Humankind will let you design your own leader
- Rainbow Six Siege is getting a Stadium map, if leaked footage is real
- December 12
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- Henry Cavill reads a story from The Witcher book The Last Wish, and it's pretty great
- Sayonara Wild Hearts, the neon motorcycle rhythm game, is now on Steam
- Here are the Radeon RX 5500 XT cards that are available right now
- Baby Yoda is now in The Sims 4
- Insurgency: Sandstorm is free to play until Tuesday
- An ugly Windows XP sweater is all I want for Christmas
- The Escapists is free on the Epic Games Store
- Conan Exiles is free to play this weekend
- NZXT's H700 mid-tower PC case is on sale for $80, its lowest price ever
- Sea of Thieves gets a tutorial to help new players set sail
- The Witcher's final, epic trailer sees Ciri on the run from a Nilfgaard creepo
- Fortnite's leaked annual pass was a prototype that Epic has no plans to release
- Planet Zoo is getting some 'festive' DLC next week
- Red Dead Redemption 2 mod RedM lets you mess around in multiplayer
- Forza Horizon 4 is getting a free battle royale mode, and it actually looks pretty cool
- Rocket League's new Blueprints get a price reduction
- December 11
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- Resident Evil Resistance stars a poor bastard named 'Martin Sandwich'
- A weird Fallout 76 bug breaks your armor when you reload your weapon
- Play demos of 13 upcoming games on Steam before the Game Awards
- WD’s aggressively priced Blue SN550 SSDs could be the affordable option to beat
- Oculus Quest is giving VR the boost it needs for mass adoption
- Newegg is killing its Premier shipping membership, new ‘loyalty program’ coming
- Steam Holiday Sale date confirmed, award nominee reveals begin today
- Wasteland 2 is free in the GOG Winter Sale
- The first prequel comic for Marvel's Avengers is out today
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting a photo mode today
- Resident Evil 2 Remake has blown past the original's lifetime sales
- The Survivalists is a survival sandbox follow-up to The Escapists
- GTA 5 is getting a new radio station hosted by Danny Brown
- December 10
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- Predator: Hunting Grounds is a brutal asymmetrical shooter coming to PC next year
- 547 days after being revealed, Platinum's Babylon's Fall suddenly reappears
- Axiom Verge 2 is coming next year
- Overwatch Winter Wonderland returns with an all-Mei Snowball Deathmatch
- Detroit: Become Human system requirements are out, a demo is on the way
- China orders ban on all foreign hardware and software for government PCs
- I ticked every option on Apple's new Mac Pro and the price topped $53,000
- Nvidia's latest GPU driver is primed for MechWarrior 5 and Detroit: Become Human
- Destiny 2: Season of Dawn is now underway
- Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons is live
- The annual update to AMD’s Radeon Adrenalin Software is here and it’s a big one
- Indies with 'choose your own adventure' descriptions are getting trademark infringement notices
- Gamechangers campaign offers free games to voters in this week's UK election
- Shovel Knight: Showdown and King of Cards are out today
- Resident Evil 3 Remake is coming to PC in April
- Louis Vuitton is selling League of Legends t-shirts for more than $800
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake timed exclusivity ends in 2021
- Killing Floor 2: Yuletide Horror brings an all-new boss, weapons
- December 9
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- Henry Cavill introduces The Witcher and his world in a new Netflix video
- Epic sues Dancing Pumpkin Man over Fortnite emote cease-and-desist letter
- Minecraft: Bedrock Edition has full crossplay support now that PS4 has opted in
- GOG Galaxy 2.0, the all-libraries-in-one launcher, is now in open beta
- Ashen's Epic Store exclusivity ends, it's now on Steam and GOG
- Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries gets a launch trailer and final system requirements
- If you're still running last year's Windows 10, prepare for a forced update soon
- Hand tracking is headed to Oculus Quest ahead of schedule
- If there’s such a thing as gaming phone, the Asus ROG Phone II Ultimate is it
- Upcoming film Free Guy stars Ryan Reynolds as a rogue NPC stuck in a GTA-style game
- BioShock is returning, but it's still several years away
- The Witcher showrunner's original Netflix pitch had Ciri as the protagonist
- This Red Dead Redemption 2 mod lets you spawn a flyable hot air balloon
- Death Come True is an FMV game from the creator of Danganronpa
- Remember Hocus Pocus? It's back in Doom form
- Twin Peaks VR finally gets a trailer, ahead of its release this month
- Tropico 6's first DLC is out now
- December 8
- December 7
- December 6
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- The Elder Scrolls: Legends development has been halted
- Humble Choice goes live with Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Phantom Doctrine, and 8 more
- The Suicide of Rachel Foster is a Gone Home-meets-Firewatch mystery in an old hotel
- Google Fiber axes cheaper 100Mbps plan for new subscribers
- Rust has tubas now
- This case reminds me of Keith Courage for the Turbo Grafx-16
- Battlefield 5 is getting Wake Island and custom games next week
- Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for some reason
- I Am Jesus Christ is a 'realistic' sim where you fight Satan
- Spintires: Chernobyl's new teaser gives off Death Stranding vibes
- Minecraft is YouTube's most popular game of 2019, with 100 billion views
- Phoenix Point has been delayed on Xbox Game Pass and the Microsoft Store
- It's all downhill from here in free, turn-based skiing game Alpine Alpaca
- Bungie reveals more changes coming in Destiny 2: Season of Dawn
- December 5
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- Riot is teaming with outside studios to make single-player League of Legends games
- Watch 13 minutes of Borderlands 3's first expansion
- GTA Online's Diamond Casino Heist will be the game's 'most complex operation' ever
- Imperator: Rome is free to play until Sunday
- While we wait for MSI’s 240Hz portable gaming monitor, here’s a 60Hz version
- Three new heroes have come to Hearthstone Battlegrounds in the latest update
- Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons solo adventure to add 35 new cards in January
- Patriot wants to light up you PC with fast RGB SSDs up to 2TB
- Jotun: Valhalla Edition is this week's Epic Games Store freebie
- A US congressman has pleaded guilty to using campaign funds on Steam
- This memory kit with RGB lighting doubles as a mirror in a pinch
- Rocket League players aren't happy with loot boxes being replaced by a shop
- Gloomhaven's big Frosthaven expansion sounds more like a sequel
- Cyberpunk adventure Beyond a Steel Sky is being released in 2020
- This Red Dead Redemption 2 mod will let you switch sides and become a lawman
- Get a free Apex Legends skin inspired by Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Star Wars Battlefront 2: Celebration Edition launches today
- The Division 2 is getting santa hats, snowballs and permadeath
- December 4
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- Henry Cavill shows off a Witcher fight scene on Jimmy Kimmel
- Sylvanas Windrunner is coming to Hearthstone as a new Hero skin
- Dragon Quest Builders 2 has a 'jumbo demo' available right now
- Xbox Game Pass for PC is getting 9 new games 'soon'
- GTFO, the co-op horror survival shooter with the silly name, hits Early Access next week
- Destiny 2: Season of Dawn livestream reveals Armor 2.0 changes and Sundial gameplay
- Rune 2 publisher sues Human Head Studios for abandoning the game
- AMD processor usage is now over 20% according to Steam hardware survey
- DayZ gets a new map, bears
- AMD driver adds support for RX 5300M, fixes crashing issue in The Outer Worlds
- Nvidia study finds gamers have better K/D ratios at higher framerates
- Solve Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard next week
- Heroland, the light-hearted RPG from Mother 3's creators, is out on Steam
- Asus went nuts overclocking this white-themed RTX 2080 Ti
- The Outlast Trials is a 4-player survival horror set during the Cold War
- For Geralt's voice in The Witcher, Henry Cavill drew inspiration from the games
- A Plague Tale sequel is rumoured to be in the works
- Diablo 4 is introducing new stats and getting rid of Ancient items
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous announced
- Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Shifting Tides and its new Operators are out now
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's big Season One update has arrived
- The new Five Nights at Freddy's game is a sidescrolling shooter
- December 3
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- Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down as Alphabet CEO and president
- In the Valley of Gods is officially on hold as Campo Santo works on Valve projects
- Hearthstone's Winter Veil festivities begin next week with a new Tavern Brawl and card bundle
- Destiny 2: Season of Dawn teaser reveals the return of Saint-14
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection hits the top of the charts on Steam
- The Vatican's Minecraft server is overwhelmed by demand and DDoS attacks
- Play as the Mandalorian in this Star Wars Battlefront 2 mod
- Red Dead Online will let you become a booze baron with your own speakeasy
- Resident Evil 3 Remake art has been spotted on PSN
- Valve has run out of Steam Controllers and is cancelling orders
- Halo: Reach will let you bypass anti-cheat so you can use mods
- Stardew Valley just got its first big post-1.4 patch
- One of the most underrated Metroidvanias on Steam is getting a sequel
- December 2
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- You can now buy a vinyl record full of mechanical keyboard sounds
- Find out when Halo: Reach unlocks in your time zone tomorrow
- Riot will pay $10M to settle gender discrimination lawsuit
- Quantic Dream ordered to pay former employee over failed 'security obligations'
- YouTube eases restrictions on violent content in game-related videos
- Red Dead Redemption 2 patch fixes memory bugs, save corruption, and improperly lit fur
- Starship Troopers: Terran Command is a survival RTS based on the movie
- A Death Stranding sequel wouldn't be a direct follow-up, according to Kojima
- EVE Online's mobile spin-off, EVE Echoes, is now in open beta
- Star Citizen has raised over $250 million
- December 1
