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- October 31
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- The reigning Pope of 1-bit mystery games is back with a Halloween treat: a haunted house game you can play in your browser
- Stressing out waiting for Dragon Age: The Veilguard to download? Here's some Dragon Age ASMR to help mellow your mood
- Return of the Phantom, which is basically The Phantom of the Opera but with time travel, is free on GOG
- To 'appease the people who thought the game was too long,' an Alien: Isolation modder trimmed the campaign length down to a svelte 46 seconds
- Apex Legends ditches Steam Deck support: EA says Linux is 'a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats'
- World of Warcraft players have waited 11 years for this flying mount to finally spread its wings next month
- Ain't no party like a Black Ops 6 double XP weekend party because a Black Ops 6 double XP weekend party has Nuketown
- The director of World of Warcraft documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin says it's 'a coming of age story': 'We're trying to capture a human being'
- Dig VR announces collector's edition with two real-life excavators and a trip to America that costs £499,985 more than the game by itself
- Horizon Zero Dawn's fresh remaster is the best way to enjoy the game, even on handheld gaming PCs
- Matthew McConaughey is dropping daily Exodus trailers like some kind of deep space David Attenborough, and they have 100% convinced me to pay attention to this game
- Congratulations to the perhaps 7 people who were waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 to hit their MacBooks
- It looks like the role of Lara Croft in Amazon's live-action Tomb Raider show is currently a race between Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner and Bohemian Rhapsody's Lucy Boynton
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 accounted for 19% of all Comcast's traffic last week, and it's the first in the series in years actually worth its huge download size
- Reddit just turned a profit for the first time in 20 years and its Google and OpenAI partnerships played a surprisingly small part in it
- Arkane's founder left because Bethesda 'did not want to do the kind of games that we wanted to make', and that's how it ended up with Redfall
- AMD confirms Ryzen 7 9800X3D will cost $479, highest clock speeds ever for 3D V-Cache and fully unlocked for overclocking
- AMD's top Ryzen AI mobile chip featuring Zen 5 and a juiced GPU is headed to a handheld gaming PC next month
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies players have found an easter egg that'll give you 2,000 free points, but you have to be good at trick shots
- Before you play Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you really should change the annoying wayfinding settings
- Baldur's Gate 3 players have downloaded 50 million mods since official support was added, and Larian is 'glad [it] could facilitate' 10,000 players renaming Withers to Bone Daddy
- A huge discount to Batman: Arkham Asylum, the superlative superhero game with over 47,000 'Overwhelmingly Positive' reviews on Steam, is the Halloween gaming treat I've been waiting for
- What the heck, my BIOS screen is 1080p now
- Motherboard manufacturers beat AMD to the punch confirming Ryzen 7 9800X3D as the first 9000X3D chip to launch next week
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, October 31
- October 30
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- Black Ops 6 is massively outselling last year's Call of Duty even though it's on Game Pass, which probably tells you how Modern Warfare 3 went
- Lionsgate and Red Barrels are bringing 'the Outlast Universe' to the big screen
- Steam now requires developers to tell people when their games have kernel mode anticheat
- World's biggest modding site announces new paid mods policies, with caveats—'as long as it isn't to the detriment of the free modding ecosystem'
- Despite making significant changes to survival game Nightingale, developer Inflexion Games says it hasn't been 'commercially successful enough' to avoid 'dozens' of layoffs
- Suda51 still isn't 100% sure he knows who's behind famed Twitter account Wario64, which made him the face of gaming deals: 'I probably met him... and he literally ran away'
- All new MacBooks now come with a baseline 16GB of RAM, a year after Apple brazenly claimed 8GB of RAM on a Mac was 'analogous to 16GB' on PCs
- A super-smart chimp and a rat with a Tamagotchi on his ass leading a lab animal jailbreak: It's not a Disney movie, it's an upcoming first-person horror game
- The M4 Pro chip inside Apple's ludicrously tiny new Mac Mini would make for an unbelievably good handheld gaming PC
- If Dragon Age: The Veilguard has got you in a Thedas mood, make sure you grab this brilliantly cheap deal on the official Dragon Age tabletop RPG
- One Deadlock player found a glitch that can 'increase a character's scale' so much that 'they grow larger than the map and die instantly'
- AMD's Dr. Lisa Su predicts AI GPU market will grow to $500 billion by 2028 or 'roughly equivalent to annual sales for the entire semiconductor industry in 2023'
- Apex Legends' CEO announces that a 'large systematic change is required' after EA didn't hit monetisation goals
- Monster Hunter Wilds' arachnophobia filter turns mosquitos into, okay, brace yourself—raunchy humping slimes that over 100,000 people think are jumping their bones
- Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was a 'dumb move', says founder and former president
- The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns to reveal the 25 most-anticipated PC games this December
- Extreme overclockers might need new mounting frames for AMD 9000X3D chips, as Thermal Grizzly says two 'are likely incompatible without modifications'
- Ubisoft's got yet another NFT project, and man do I feel bad for the artists whose great work is being wasted on this garbage
- AMD's AI GPU business has barely been going for a year but it's already as big as its entire CPU operation
- The Red Dead mods are here, including cursed beardless John, resurrected Arthur, and Neon Genesis Evangelion in the old-timey theatres
- EA's CEO assures players Apex Legends won't be pulling an Overwatch 2 because live service sequels have 'almost never been as successful' as the original
- AMD posts record revenues and says RDNA 4 is 'on track' for early 2025, but why are gaming GPUs the one thing it can't get right?
- Ayaneo's teasing us with concept photos of its 'Code: REVO' handheld, a codename 'symbolizing the innovative strength that leads gamers to walk into a whole new dimension of Ayaneo handhelds'
- Here's exactly how the transgender and non-binary options in Dragon Age: The Veilguard work
- Russia has fined Google $2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or more money than actually exists on Earth, all because it's upset about some YouTube channels
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard expects you to recreate your Inquisitor from scratch right at the start of the game, so now's a good time to go remind yourself what they looked like
- FF14 director Yoshi-P says transphobic abuse sent to Wuk Lamat's English VA 'breaks my heart', pleads for players to 'refrain from personal attacks'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, October 30
- October 29
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- Electronic Arts chief says Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a 'return to what made BioWare great'
- Monster Hunter Wilds almost ruined Palicoes by letting them speak English, but thankfully you can revert them to meows
- I set $5 as an arbitrary maximum price while browsing GOG's Halloween Sale, and the number of good games I got genuinely surprised me
- Black Ops 6 is hiding the next Call of Duty: Warzone map in plain sight
- Blizzard is investigating claims that upcoming Hearthstone hero skins are AI generated
- Mass Effect director says the next game won't feature any Veilguard-style aesthetic switchups: 'Mass Effect is photorealistic and will be as long as I'm running it'
- 13 years after Shadows of the Damned's notoriously difficult development with EA, Suda51 has fully healed from the 'injury' of rewriting the game 6 times: 'I actually have a lot of really fond memories of the experience'
- Rebellion's just surprise rebooted a '90s classic and released it on Steam
- Concord isn't coming back, and the developer is done for too: Sony says it considered its options and apparently 'the best path forward is to permanently sunset the game and close the studio'
- Amid complaints about Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's maps and spawn points, Treyarch slams the emergency fan service button that adds Nuketown
- Disney Dreamlight Valley just announced its second DLC featuring 4 new characters, along with a free update coming in December
- Introducing the Beth Deck, a 3D-printed gaming handheld that can be 'assembled in 15 minutes' using the guts of a Framework laptop
- Gearbox will fly fan with terminal illness to see Borderlands 4 early—says he's been 'floored' by the kindness, donations, and the gamers who helped him get in touch
- Overwatch 2's director announces 'a small balance patch' for the new Junkenstein's Lab mode, which has managed to attract 15% of the daily players 2 weeks after launch
- Don't be afraid of Dragon Age: The Veilguard's hard 'Underdog' difficulty—if you're hoovering up all the sidequests and collectibles, it's pretty much perfect
- The Outlast Trials is celebrating Halloween by bringing back a fan-favourite program with bigger and better jumpscares
- Performance figures emerge for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D ahead of release and it's already beginning to make me regret buying a 7800X3D a couple of weeks ago
- The Day Before studio is up to its old tricks, asking people to design maps for free in a contest whose lucky winner will get their work in a game, a free copy, and no money whatsoever
- UK prime minister reckons new laws will help publishers fight back against unapproved AI data scraping
- Balatro was only supposed to have 120 jokers but 'instead of correcting' a publisher mistake, LocalThunk 'just made 30 more' of them
- Stardew Valley creator has bested his own cursed minigame to snag 100% achievement completion on Steam
- Shinji Mikami applauds the Resident Evil 4 remake for taking 'the half-assed scenario that I just wrote up in 2 weeks' and fleshing it out
- WoW massively buffs rewards for its anniversary event a week after its release—which would be the fourth time in a year it's had to do similar
- No Man's Sky dev pulls out all the stops to fix a player's buggy save with 611 hours of playtime at risk: 'I promise to hawk that bug and fix it'
- A new AI image generator has popped up without a named creator or any explanation, and it's seemingly already surpassing its competition
- AMD drops a possible hint about how AI could be used in its next-gen upscaler package, FSR 4
- 'This really hurts': Path of Exile 2 early access has been delayed by three weeks
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, October 29
- Bungie has finally broken its silence on Marathon, but without the promised gameplay and practically no details—gulp?
- Comics legend Alan Moore calls out 'reflexive belligerence' of pop culture fandom: 'Fan attitudes have toxified the world'
- Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered system requirements are pretty much identical to Forbidden West
- October 28
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- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief praises Dragon Age: The Veilguard as a 'binge-worthy Netflix series' and says that it knows what it 'wants to be'
- The new Call of Duty Zombies mode is bananas: players are going bowling, turning into superheroes, and crafting jet guns
- Suda51 thinks Shadows of the Damned has a better shot today than it did in 2011: 'Weirder, more non-standard games feel much more natural to players nowadays'
- The Oregon Trail, the game about breaking your arm and dying of dysentery, is being made into an 'action-comedy' movie with musical numbers
- As if the $50 Red Dead Redemption PC port wasn't enough of an insult, you can get Red Dead Redemption 2 for less than that on Steam right now
- Steam's big Halloween Sale returns for 2024, and it's live now
- As US politics goes totally off the rails, Kamala Harris says to hell with it, let's start a Fortnite map
- After more than 10 years on Steam, DayZ sets another new concurrent player record
- I know what these weird ocean-bound liminal spaces in Google Street View actually are and they're still giving me the creeps
- An AI version of a beloved British broadcaster who died last year is doing an 'autonomous' podcast series
- One of Baldur's Gate 3's cut NPCs is an Oscar-winning liar who probably would've rinsed my bleeding heart out of 50 gold, if I'm being honest
- The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam
- Skyrim mod lets you shank NPCs as Agent 47 in a Hitman Contracts-style assassination mode
- Dead Estate wraps up 3 years of free expansions with a fond Good Night
- Randy Pitchford appears to hint at 'seamless' loading in Borderlands 4, is asked to elaborate, says 'I will absolutely elaborate', doesn't elaborate, leaves
- Silly Polly Beast is a stylish, spooky survival horror game where you're packing some serious firepower
- Tim Cook says his daily routine involves using 'every [Apple] product' which sounds genuinely exhausting
- Microsoft's word-soup has made Windows 11 updates noticeably quicker via the 'parallel processing of component manifests' complementing 'the parallel hydration of newly serviced components using reverse and forward differentials'
- Obsidian says choices both big and small will matter in Avowed, and 'the choices you get and the outcomes in front of you are going to depend on what you're able to find'
- Deadlock's latest patch buffs three of the most annoying heroes but manages to leave out the biggest thorn in my side
- The Mighty Nein animated series is 'definitely more than halfway done', says Critical Role CEO—which'll make not one, but two famous D&D campaigns turned into TV
- Former Intel execs are fighting over whether splitting the company in two is a good idea and if the US government should step in to cleave it in twain
- Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all making AI systems that will run your PC for you, doing online tasks like filling out forms, research, and even a spot of shopping
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, October 28
- October 27
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- This visual novel about hunting supernatural oddities in urban environments will definitely be one for the Persona crowd
- Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz dusts off his controller to stream Crazy Taxi on Twitch: 'The Republicans will accuse me of never having a Dreamcast or something'
- Factorio's expansion is setting record high player counts yet again so I'm expecting the world's IT infrastructure to collapse and innovation to stagnate any day now
- JRPG Ys 10: Nordics comes to PC with a heap of PC-specific features
- Helldivers 2 gave players a deliberately awful, crusty rifle from 1903 but they love it because they can bayonet charge bugs like sci-fi Waterloo
- Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy set will include Emet-Selch from FF14 and Kefka from FF6 as well as the more obvious choices
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, October 27
- The GTA Trilogy's excellent SilentPatch just got a big update and went open-source
- Vermintide 2 is getting a progression rework in time for the official release of Versus mode
- ColdRidge, the game about cowboys doing 4x-style exploration, hits release
- October 26
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- Gear up to explore some sky whales, build a few towns when survival crafter Towers of Aghasba releases next month
- Weird aesthetics abound in point-and-click cosmic gothic Blood on the Thames
- Life is Strange co-creator says 'nothing justifies' the vitriol the series' current devs are getting while allowing that 'we would not have written things the same way'
- Hideo Kojima games have already gotten big reappraisals 5-10 years after release, now the auteur says he wants to make games that will impress space aliens centuries into the future
- Multiplayer mech shooter Mecha Break teases a 'pilot combat mode' where you leave the cockpit and run around like reverse Titanfall
- Valve giveth, and Valve taketh away: Team Fortress 2's BLU Scout is once again wearing the 'wrong' pants after a 17 years-in-the-making fix was reversed a day later
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, October 26
- October 25
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- You're not going to see 'Peter Griffin or anime characters coming to Hunt,' says Crytek in response to fears that its Scream crossover means it's Fortnite now
- Diablo 4 boss asks if the new class dealing billions of damage should be 'fixed' or not
- This surrealist horror game made entirely in PowerPoint will get your Halloween started right
- US copyright law 'forces researchers to explore extra-legal methods' for game preservation, say historians who are 'disappointed' after being denied a DMCA exemption
- Cancel your weekend plans because this cozy cowboy life sim just went into open beta and you can play it for free
- The next Helldivers 2 Warbond is going full baddies mode with armor and weaponry from the Ministry of Truth
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is effectively banned in Kuwait, so Activision is issuing refunds for pre-orders: 'We remain hopeful that local authorities will reconsider'
- Capricious Valve fixes 17 year-old Team Fortress 2 bug that made Scout's pants the wrong color, almost immediately un-fixes it
- The boxing game that only exists because most big publishers won't touch the sport has now sold over a million copies
- Deadlock adds 6 new heroes only available for veteran players, but none of that matters anymore because Valve has renamed Slork
- New SteamOS makes Steam Deck a better machine with bug fixes, microSD improvements, and even 'improved battery life by up to 10%' in some situations
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 includes an arachnophobia setting that plucks all the zombie spiders' legs and leaves them as floating, horrible leeches
- Critical Role's blockbuster animated series The Legend of Vox Machina announces Season 4—which means the return of D&D's biggest bad to streaming TV
- After promising full self-driving updates for years, Elon Musk finally admits that most existing Teslas may never be able to drive themselves
- Mouse, keyboard or headset? Try to guess the Logitech product from the model name alone in our silly little quiz
- Intel's former CEO pushed for the chip maker to buy Nvidia for $20 billion in 2005—the GPU company is now worth $3.5 trillion
- The most iconic, some would say best version of Windows was released 23 years ago today
- The Outlast Trials devs reveal more upcoming content for the end of the year after a 'cyber incident' set them back
- Silent Hill 2's new patch fixes its last patch in possible meta commentary on recursive horror
- Intel wins half of an ancient $1 billion antitrust case dating back to ye olde Pentium 4
- Microsoft CEO's new $79.1 million pay package represents a massive 63% increase despite a year of layoffs and cybersecurity failures
- Destiny 2 players have spent a week trying to prove one of the biggest conspiracy theories in the game's history, and it turns out that 'Weightgate' is real: 'An issue has been found in our code where some random perk combinations are harder to earn'
- G.SKILL and Kingston break the 12,000MT/s DDR5 memory barrier with Intel's new Arrow Lake CPU
- Inspired modder makes Fruit Ninja but it's a Counter-Strike 2 aim trainer
- WoW stays true to form by dropping a $90 dinosaur mount during a controversial balance patch—and of course players are buying enough of them to gather in herds
- Designing Silent Hill cost its original art director his love life: 'I never had any girlfriends, coz I had no time for it'
- Factorio has Silicon Valley tycoons like Elon Musk under its spell, and one $7 billion CEO is letting employees expense the game
- The recent ultra-violent RoboCop FPS that lets you atomise the skulls of criminal scum is going for a fraction of full price
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, October 25
- October 24
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- Modder adds something big that's been missing from Starfield: daily routines, schedules, and inner lives for NPCs
- Borderlands fan with terminal illness asked to see Borderlands 4 early and Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says 'we're going to do whatever we can to make something happen'
- Do you want to go to Boston? Because CD Projekt is looking for people to come to its studio to help test some new stuff
- A former Nvidia employee discovered the world's largest known prime number and all it took was some free software and a few thousand datacenter GPUs
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's launch trailer brings a summer blockbuster vibe to BioWare's newest RPG
- 'It is an affront to God': Fans react with horror and delight as Monster Hunter Wilds unveils its nastiest freak yet
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief calls out Ubisoft's 'broken strategy': If gamers need to get used to not owning games, 'developers must get used to not having jobs'
- Actually, 1890s Colorado is a reasonable place for the Scream guy to show up, says Hunt: Showdown developer: 'We believe the latest Ghost Face Rampage DLC fits into the dark, supernatural atmosphere'
- Overwatch 2 will return to 6v6 in 2 test modes next season, but Blizzard won’t keep them around if they don’t attract 'a surge of players’
- Balatro adds new card backs from Stardew Valley, Cyberpunk 2077, Slay the Spire, and Binding of Isaac, and they're all free
- This streamer's Twitch chat can actively ruin his game by activating a modded headset that temporarily blinds him or setting off an IRL jumpscare
- Today's Google Doodle is an alarmingly compelling card game about defeating mankind's oldest enemy: The Moon
- Three—yes, three—upcoming Legion Go handhelds are rumoured to sample the entire generational mix of AMD Z2 processors
- The Sims 4 is adding—no, I'm not kidding—customizable grieving styles, the ability to finally bone the Grim Reaper, and changes ghost needs to important things like 'Goo Waste'
- Overthrown is another cozy city builder, but this time you're a killer queen who can lift buildings and murder bandits
- Dead Island is getting a new co-op horde mode: 'It's pure survival, and it's not for the faint of heart'
- Still cringing about your first internship? At least you didn't try to sabotage an AI project from one of China's biggest tech firms
- What's the best way to deal with an army of the dead? Send some Cajun toads after them, of course
- Baldur's Gate 3 holds up shockingly well in first person—so well, in fact, that Larian head Swen Vincke's been gobsmacked by his own game: 'Just look at it'
- Relax and get yourself in the Zone with half an hour of Stalker 2 ASMR
- Blizzard announces Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct, teases that you won't want to miss 'a single surprise'
- Star Wars Outlaws gets a patch that makes it more save-happy, less punishing in stealth, and stops NPCs causing 10-car speeder pileups
- 'I was hopeful': one lucky shopper ordered an RTX 4070 Super from Amazon for $40 and it wasn't just a rock in a box
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's new set of patch notes reveals that aim assist will be 'much weaker at point blank range'
- SAG-AFTRA flexes its metaphorical K/D ratio 3 months into voice acting strike over AI: 'More than 120 games from 49 companies have now signed'
- This new keyboard built with switches also used in ATMs across Japan has led me down a rabbit hole of typing championships where contestants compete for a golden keyboard
- D&D's upcoming 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide looks to actually guide dungeon masters, including a 4-step plan to making a story with a satisfying climax
- You might want to hold off installing the latest Game Ready Nvidia GeForce driver if you're using Corsair iCUE or Bluestacks
- Roblox scrambles to fight the 'pedophile hellscape' allegations with changes to pre-teen accounts that don't seem like enough
- Cutting through the 'fake news', Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says Blackwell's design flaw was '100% Nvidia's fault' and there are no tensions with TSMC
- Ayaneo is desperate for you to feel the hype for its upcoming handheld, declaring 'The future has arrived'
- For Halloween, No Man's Sky is going full-blown cosmic horror for a fortnight
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, October 24
- 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment'
- What exactly is up with Black Ops 6's 'Enhanced Headphone Mode' and its $20 paid tier
- October 23
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- Blizzard coins 'Meat or Treat' for Diablo 4's upcoming Halloween event and I refuse to say it like that
- An anime catboy just taught Bernie Sanders what vtubers are during a Twitch stream
- For the 30th time—yes, we're still counting—Ubisoft reassures everyone that Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still happening
- The latest Cities: Skylines 2 patch addresses homelessness and pollution issues in an already-fraught election year
- Minecraft is dropping VR support next year
- Fallout: London celebrates the near-eradication of humanity by surpassing 1 million redemptions on GOG
- Fallout 76's next major update will be a 'traditional MMO-style dungeon' which will host 'the biggest boss in a Fallout game'
- Fallout 76's playable ghoul will be able to 'rip the face off a deathclaw' among other ungodly perks, according to the Fallout Day Broadcast
- Space Marine 2 will walk back unpopular difficulty changes, public test servers are coming to help avoid hassles like this in the future
- Ubisoft made a good Prince of Persia game, so of course it's disbanded the team shortly after release
- You can now turn your Raspberry Pi 5 into a proper retro gaming PC with official hardware as the manufacturer just released its own PCIe 3.0 SSDs
- I played the banned Skyrim mod that turns it into World War 2 and, no kidding, it's honestly kind of incredible
- Monster Hunter Wilds open beta is coming next week, with a full character creator and two hunts
- No More Room in Hell 2 might be too early for early access, with Steam reviews flagging endless technical issues and major server problems
- Intel's 14th Gen CPUs are now so cheap it might be worth rolling the dice on those supposedly solved instability issues
- Remember that Redditor who claimed to be scammed by Overclockers UK? The company just slapped down a paper trail to suggest 'the customer was trying to defraud us'
- The Day Before developer cancels second Kickstarter after it whimpers out with $2,200 of funding, immediately goes all-in on a third game in the same announcement
- FF16's Ben Starr will host the 42nd Golden Joystick Awards this November
- Telltale heaves a long, dog-tired sigh at 'unsubstantiated Reddit threads', reassures fans that The Wolf Among Us 2 is still being made, honest
- AMD might not give up on AM4 just yet as it looks like more refreshed 5000-series chips are on the way
- Arm is reportedly cancelling Qualcomm's chip licence but it probably won't stop Snapdragon X 'AI' PCs from being made
- Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like it
- Gorgeous deck-building shop sim Potionomics just got a patch that fixes all my problems with it—plus voice acting, and an option to smooch everyone in a single playthrough
- The real shocker with Disney Dreamlight Valley's Halloween event is that it's the same as last year
- I'm #62935 on the waitlist for Daze, an expressive messenger app that's already got over 150,000 signups
- Metaphor: ReFantazio director Katsura Hashino is already working on a new game
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, October 23
- October 22
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- Sony carves off more of Bungie: The Creative Studios team is now officially a part of PlayStation Studios
- US Army asks if Microsoft could please make its Kill-O-Vision headsets a bit cheaper
- Under pressure from pro-Israel group, Twitch bans several Arab streamers over a month-old TwitchCon panel
- Assassin's Creed Shadows drops promised early access for its big collector's edition, but it's also going to be $50 cheaper than planned
- Life sim Inzoi is still set to release in early access this year, Krafton confirms
- Two years after unveiling a new studio aimed at building 'the next big thing in gaming,' Netflix has closed it down
- This gaudy Ghost Face cosmetic isn't exactly helping Hunt: Showdown 1896 players escape the feeling of corporate crossover creep
- Dress to Impress revokes the ability to colour its Halloween hot dog costume after, to nobody's surprise, players wield it to create penis outfits
- A new method to circumvent Windows 11's 'annoying' system requirements just came out
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree streamer manages to complete a 1HP, 1FP, and 1 stamina playthrough after 55 hours and 1,900 deaths
- 'Nap with incredible ease': Secretlab add-on turns your gaming chair into a recliner for some reason
- Pal-dora's Box yawns open as Sega sues MementoMori developers over mechanic patents, seeking 1 billion yen in damages
- Spooky survival game Angst knows just I want: Survival mechanics that get out the way of my quest to steal a sad orb from the guy in the basement
- Cast your eyes upon this deeply cursed setup: Windows 95 on a hacked Nintendo 3DS
- The good news is you can 3D print your own trackpad. The bad news? It's called the Ploopy
- Factorio's player count is through the roof after the Space Age expansion, ripping thousands of engineers away from their day jobs
- Victoria 3 is marking its 2nd birthday with DLC, 'a new discrimination system' and famine, and isn't that nice?
- Caves of Qud, our favorite science fantasy roguelike where you can clone, befriend, and eat yourself, is leaving early access in December after 15 years of development
- Asus China's general manager shows off the deep details of Intel's Arrow Lake chips in new reveal
- Helldivers 2 players have formed the 'Freedom Alliance' to organise their own community orders
- Intel and Samsung plan to join foundry forces to combat TSMC says a major Korean newspaper
- Amazon's Secret Level confirms its previously-leaked cast—which includes former governor of California and killer android Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Cult of the Lamb is releasing an EP where metal legends rework the game's chiptunes, and the first track is a total banger
- Asmongold's self-improvement kick sees him clean biohazard kitchen, evict a wolf spider, then declare himself an 'expert' on racism
- Fake online reviews and false testimonials are now banned by America's FTC
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, October 22
- October 21
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- PvPvE is 'a holy grail of game design,' says Space Marine 2 director, and he's got no plans to chase it: 'A lot of studios are trying to find it and a lot of them fail'
- Grab a sweet discount on the award-winning Geekom A7 mini PC with this pre-Black Friday deal
- Blade Runner 2049 producers sue Elon Musk, Tesla, and Warner over AI-generated image used in Cybercab promotional event
- Call of Duty's most despised weapon is skipping Black Ops 6
- Hi-Rez Studios is closing 2 games as it continues to refocus on Smite 2
- Twitch silently stopped sign ups from both Israel and Palestine for over a year, gets caught out, says it was all 'to prevent uploads of graphic material'
- Silent Hill 2 remake patch improves performance but sadly stops James teleporting through peepholes and falling into the void
- Valve says its 'not really fair to your customers' to create yearly iterations of something like the Steam Deck, instead it's waiting 'for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life'
- 'Please try not to binge it': Vampire Survivors finally releases a Castlevania DLC with 20 new characters, 40 new weapons, and 'a monstrously large stage'
- Elon Musk's X changes its terms of service to steer user lawsuits towards a Texas court instead of California. Which is fine. Just happens to be a completely different Texas court district to where X is actually headquartered
- Meta takes 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' to its logical conclusion as iFixit finds the Meta Quest 3S is mostly the same as the Quest 2
- Dave the Diver creator says 'story DLC' is coming, jokes about expanding into a 'Dave cinematic universe' with new games
- Bethesda and Amazon are ploughing ahead with Fallout season 2: Shooting starts next month
- The curse of horde shooter balance: Fans take to Steam in protest as Space Marine 2 gets unpopular patch—devs promise course correction within the week
- It's alive! YouTuber shows how ZX Spectrum can be resurrected using only new parts
- This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop
- 6 months after release, the studio behind Tales of Kenzera has put its team 'on notice for redundancy' as it scrambles to find funding
- AMD's spoiling Intel's Arrow Lake party with Ryzen 9000-series price cuts and the promise of 'next-gen gaming' X3D chips arriving November 7
- Former Bethesda lead is sceptical of The Elder Scrolls' return to 'fiddly stat sheets', even in the face of Baldur's Gate 3's success
- The Snapdragon X dev kit that we thought looked pretty cool turned out to be so bad that Qualcomm ended up cancelling it
- Squadron 42, which was 'feature-complete' and just needed 'polish' in 2023, is now targeting a 2026 launch
- World's grainiest video purportedly shows an RTX 5090 under testing, but Zotac confirms it was simply an RTX 4070 Ti Super on a test bench
- 'We've been struggling with this for some time': Fallout: London devs pray they've defeated the dreaded train crash bug after sharing a 'living document' full of bug fixes
- As Netflix's The Witcher Season 4 loses another star, once again I feel compelled to tap the 'this no-budget YouTube fan film does the Witcher better' sign
- D&D campaign-turned-animated series The Legend of Vox Machina uppercuts fans with some brutal departures from the source material, and I'm here for it
- Fallout 1 fan-remake taps out just 2 months after it got a meaty demo, but promises it's not because of 'infighting' or Bethesda meddling
- Channel your inner Professor X by turning your gaming chair into Cerebro with this strap-on 7.1.2 surround sound speaker
- Silent Hill 2's development was rough on Bloober Team because of online 'hate', but now that it's proved itself it wants to 'show what we can do on our own' with Cronos: The New Dawn
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, October 21
- Final Fantasy 7 retranslation mod promises English-speaking players an experience 'as close as possible to that of Japanese-speaking players'
- October 20
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- Grab yourself the latest issue of PC PowerPlay today
- Build and automate little terraforming factories in open world survival game Eden Crafters
- Here's an adorable, cozy little multiplayer chatroom fishing game
- PSA: Silent Hill 2 remake has a soft lock glitch at the end of Brookhaven Hospital
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, October 20
- October 19
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- There's going to be a Smurfs tabletop roleplaying game which is either an incredible or horrible idea
- The final trailer for Factorio: Space Age teases some sick looking planetary adventures
- The creator of Dusk and Iron Lung is making a gruesome but surprisingly funny horror game about beating killer cultists with lead pipes and 2x4s
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, October 19
- 'We will not pay for our bosses mistakes' — French union denounces Don't Nod's plan that could impact up to 69 workers
- October 18
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- Space Marine 2's free 4K texture pack takes up more space than the entire base game, and you're gonna need some serious hardware to run it
- Sony's PC ports are speeding up: Spider-Man 2 arrives on PC in January 2025
- Fallout: London's latest patch makes more than 1,000 fixes and changes: 'The mod should be as solid as a rock'
- This modder's 'final love letter to Dark Souls 2' is a massive mechanical overhaul and just the excuse I needed for a Majula homecoming
- 'Catch and remove cheaters within one hour': Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 anti-cheat team sets a lofty goal for the new game
- The maker of an Assassin's Creed Shadows statue featuring a one-legged torii says the design was 'insensitive' and will be changed
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii moves its launch up by a week to avoid being hunted by a monster
- I fed Google's new notebook summarisation feature my article about the potential dangers of AI scraping and it's as creepy and self-aware as you would think
- Amazon's God of War TV show is starting over from scratch after the showrunner and executive producers all quit
- 'UFO 50 has taken over my life': A fan has built a playable LX computer and plans to sell the blueprints for the parts on Etsy
- PlayStation loses fight in EU courts to stop sale of 'parasite' mods because, among other reasons, a book author can't stop 'the reader from skipping to the end'
- Denuvo opens its own Discord server to rehabilitate its image, has to shut it down 2 days later after players flood in to bully it
- Metaphor: ReFantazio's director does the smart thing, avoids reading comments as much as possible: 'Constantly looking at reactions isn’t good for your mental health'
- 'We are a small team with an indie spirit': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs say the game won't suck up 100s of hours of your life as they spill the beans on price
- Square Enix lawyers elbow in to shut down Yoko Taro fan archive, bafflingly, 6 months after he'd thanked its creators for all the love
- Bioshock and Doom Eternal head up the best batch of 'freebies' Amazon Prime's ever offered
- The AI opt-out models Meta, Musk's X, and the UK gov are proposing are simply not a good enough way for us to protect ourselves from data scraping
- Amazon follows Google's lead to invest in small nuclear reactors, making for a headline that feels dreamt up in the '50s
- Players are loving Subnautica 2's first terrifying trailer thanks to a crustacean cameo: 'More big ol crabs hype'
- 'We apologize for not meeting the community's expectations:' Tekken 8 makes a rare acknowledgement of fan backlash after failing to include a $5 stage in its season pass
- Galaxy-brained NPCs thinking too much were the source of Dragon Dogma 2's performance woes in towns, say devs
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, October 18
- October 17
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- Activision says it fixed a 'workaround' in Call of Duty anti-cheat that banned 'a small number of innocent players,' but a cheat maker claims they could ban anyone by typing two words into chat
- Fullbright drops a surprise horror game on Steam, and it's all about giant spiders hiding in disgusting toilets
- Hacker accused of manipulating Bitcoin prices with a fake SEC tweet was arrested after allegedly searching 'what are some signs the FBI is after you'
- Nidhogg studio 're-reveals' its new project: A stylish action-exploration game where you race bicycles and save the world
- Former Sony exec says focusing on high-budget blockbusters is 'a death sentence' for the games industry
- The 5 most popular Steam Next Fest demos are all multiplayer because the people thirst for PvP
- Scandal erupts at World Conker Championships as triumphant 'King Conker' caught with painted steel replica: 'The whole thing is nuts'
- Remedy's multiplayer Control spinoff looks even weirder than I expected: A co-op FPS where you shoot goo and garden gnomes at murderous monsters from another dimension
- Arma 4 finally has a release target, and I'm sorry to say you're going to be playing Grand Theft Auto 6 for two years before it comes out
- After the success of Silent Hill 2, Bloober Team is making an original mature-rated sci-fi horror, Cronos: The New Dawn
- It Takes Two has somehow sold an astonishing 20 million copies, Hazelight teases new game with EA
- I didn't realise how much I needed a comparative thermal paste database until now—here's +1 rep to Igor's Lab for this world first
- 2K reveals free-to-play hero shooter Project Ethos, an extraction game with a minor 'roguelike' twist
- Not just a fashion statement: Prada enters the space race, co-designing suit for Artemis III moon mission
- Nvidia might be in the blame game with TSMC over Blackwell chip failures, but that doesn't mean it will go back to Samsung
- Steam has taken down 'over 260 materials containing illegal content' from its Russian store, brags the country's media censorship agency
- Let Me Solo Her escapes 180-day Elden Ring ban after the FromSoft cops sent him down for installing Fortnite dances
- Riot announces new League of Legends exalted skins tier days after more layoffs, but you can't get it the usual way—instead, you'll have to roll the dice
- Researchers seem to have cracked 6G wireless, achieving speeds over 9,000x faster than the 5G average at 938 Gbps—would download Black Myth Wukong in 1.1 seconds
- Fair play, Exodus—having ex-Bioware devs and Matthew McConaughey on board is neat, but your freaky flesh spaceships have my attention
- Skyrim lead says Bethesda was knocked back by furious response to Oblivion Horse Armour DLC, but it sold 'millions' anyway: 'You're all making fun of it and yet you buy it'
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, October 17
- The US FTC just dealt a deathblow to bad gyms and skeevy subscription services with a new 'click to cancel' rule
- October 16
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- Sony's failed shooter Concord has been updated dozens of times on Steam in October, and I'm starting to feel a comeback
- Diablo 4 player lands a 235 trillion damage hit with its new class and the pile of overpowered bugs keeping it at the top of the meta
- Asmongold steps back from OTK and says 'I need to fix my f***ing life' after racist rant about Palestinians: 'I have been slowly devolving into the most mean-spirited, rude, nasty, callous, psychopathic version of myself'
- Modders achieved an unprecedented time-to-ogre by putting Shrek in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero before its official release date
- 10 years on, the most infamous gaming Kickstarter of them all is still trying to reach the finish line: 'I want to explicitly state that this project is not dead'
- They just put a jetpack in Hades 2
- The developer of Rogue Legacy has officially released its source code 'in the pursuit of sharing knowledge'
- This $300 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners statue is a snapshot of the most horrific moment in the anime
- IO Interactive's James Bond game will feature a young 007 'that the gamers can call their own'
- Riot Games lays off more employees but says the League of Legends team will be 'even larger' in the future
- Overwatch 2 disturbs fans with a tweet telling them to look at Kiriko's 'grippers,' proving yet again that corporate accounts ruin inside jokes
- There may be a use for the Copilot key after all, but not quite yet—Microsoft is toying with the idea of allowing us to change what it opens
- Google Chrome update creates permissions nightmare for ad blockers, rendering uBlock Origin inaccessible on newer Chromebooks
- Diablo 4 cow-hunting boffins find some actual cows as part of their latest discovery
- Larian teases 'something so small before something so big' as Baldur's Gate 3 gets its 28th hotfix
- Phantom Blade Zero devs say they don't want to water down the game for foreigners—in fact, quite the opposite
- You can try a taster of the Dead Cells dev's next roguelike Windblown ahead of its early access debut later this month, courtesy of Steam Next Fest
- I went to PAX Australia and all I got was a glimpse of this $17,000 gaming PC in the shape of Medusa that's a commentary on AI's inability to grasp the importance of mythology stories in human culture
- 200 Bandai Namco employees reportedly moved into 'expulsion rooms' designed to bore them into quitting, though the company maintains its innocence
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, October 16
- October 15
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- Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the BBS and internet pioneer, has died
- Diablo 4 players dust off the other keys on their keyboards as Blizzard prepares to kill the one-button spiritborn build this week
- Asmongold suspended from Twitch following racist tirade about Palestinians
- Six-shooter buffs in the latest Helldivers 2 balance patch have spawned a galaxy of Hulk-deleting Revolver Ocelots
- Steam Deck app that unified your Epic and GOG games on Steam removed by Valve days after it appeared on Steam
- In its next Tron game, Bithell Games is doing a Groundhog Day on The Grid
- Intel and AMD team up to defend x86
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't have Denuvo, but that means it also won't have a preload period on PC
- Garry from Garry's mod finally gets the ultra-rare achievement for playing with Garry
- Microsoft has finally managed to settle against 10 gamers in court
- Flashy MOBA battle royale Supervive is opening its doors during Steam Next Fest—and it's already got that Blizzard/Riot polish from its expat devs in spades
- Overwatch 2's latest patch has taken a sledgehammer to Sombra's kit, leaving the DPS hero in the dirt
- Google's AI dream will be powered by miniature nuclear reactors in 'world first' deal, though the timeline seems optimistic at best
- RuneScape developer Jagex is making an open world survival game, and it's looking for testers
- Skyrim's lead designer admits Bethesda games lack 'polish,' but at some point you have to release a game even if you have a list of 700 known bugs
- Will AI grow so powerful it can threaten us? Chief Meta scientist says: 'Pardon my French, but that’s complete B.S.' Which is the attitude I would expect from any company with so much skin in the AI game
- The world's smallest 'ruler' can measure down to a mere 0.1 nm—the width of a single atom or as small as TSMC and Intel would like their transistors to be
- The first 3D V-Cache Zen 5 chip could arrive just in time to spoil Intel's Arrow Lake party but whenever it does appear, you can be sure it won't be cheap
- As Microsoft rolls out its Windows 11 24H2 update, owners of certain Western Digital SSDs have been greeted with constant Blue Screens of Death
- Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
- Tiny Glade celebrates over 500,000 players with a much-needed quality-of-life patch
- The culmination of Helldivers 2's 60-day patch plan canonises John Helldiver—less importantly, there's been major buffs to grenades, sentries, and the long-avoided anti tank mines
- Overwatch 2 just made it easier to mute and report annoying players in the upcoming Season 13 patch
- Excess stock and poor SSD sales look set to pull flash memory prices down by up to 10%
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, October 15
- October 14
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- Legendary game designer Jordan Weisman's next project is an open world deck-building pirate romance tactical RPG
- This upcoming first-person sim puts you in charge of a military base in an alternate future where we're still fighting World War 2
- A Destiny 2 mobile game has been announced, but it sounds like Bungie's involvement is minimal
- Terrifier, the indie horror film that managed to make 10x its budget while Joker: Folie à Deux flails in the water, is getting a videogame
- Robot vacuum cleaners are being hacked to spy on your family, chase pets, hurl verbal abuse, and the makers claim users 'do not need to worry excessively about this'
- 'As far as I know, there's only one person in the world who could do that.' Nvidia's CEO praises Elon Musk for a 'superhuman' feat
- Dead animals speak thanks to an AI museum exhibition: 'Can we change the public perception of a cockroach by giving it a voice?'
- Xbox Game Studios' new boss is the Rare boss
- Don't be fooled by New World's rebranding—Aeternum is not a new game or spiritual successor, it's just an update
- Lunacid's Halloween update brings jack-o-lanterns to Wing's Rest, but most importantly a number of bug fixes and an update on language localization
- The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing
- 'Correctness comes first. Performance improves next.' Fedora Asahi Remix project brings Windows PC gaming to Apple silicon Macs
- Metaphor: ReFantazio's director looked to classic fantasy like Lord of the Rings before deciding doing that 'would lack that originality that defines us'
- Unleash countless eldritch nightmares upon your table with 25 Call of Cthulhu TTRPG books and a Lovecraftian colouring book for less than a dollar apiece
- Baldur's Gate 3 takes the crown in the PC Gamer Top 100: 'To be named alongside so many of these games today is truly an honour—enough to tug at the heartstrings of even the most cold-hearted Lolth-sworn drow'
- We have Final Fantasy 11 to thank for everything being on Discord, now—the app's co-creator made its prototype to talk strategy with his MMO buds
- Frostpunk 2 player manages to cram 1 million citizens into their city and only suffers half a dozen game crashes, 'I wouldn't fully call it stable!'
- Games that 'look like they were designed by a bunch of people in a CEO boardroom' aren't exciting or interesting to Metaphor: ReFantazio's director
- Payday 3 dev reflects on 'disastrous' launch—'The game just felt unfinished… it was a bad experience'
- Leaker suggests the RTX 5090 won't have a 'significant price increase' and even with AMD down for the count here's how we think the RTX 50-series will line up
- Cult of the Lamb built a replica of the Lamb's temple and officiated two genuine weddings at PAX Australia
- Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director heaves a big sigh as scalpers predictably ruin it for everyone: 'All you’re doing is making someone sad'
- Pining for more USB Type-C ports on your motherboard? ASRock's solution is a wee bit extreme
- Over a million players have flooded back into GTA Online to check out a new Call of Duty-like zombie mode
- Elon Musk wants your Tesla to have a mind of its own—and that includes driving off without you
- SpaceX's Starship 'chopstick landing' technique just made every Kerbal Space Program enthusiast go green with envy
- Nvidia might be considering using sockets for its next AI mega GPUs but that's not going to happen with its GeForce graphics cards
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, October 14
- PAX Australia's cosplay competition was won by a meticulously outfitted Halsin
- October 13
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- I can only assume this upcoming Witcher children's book takes it easy on the folk horror, fantasy racism, and brutal violence I associate with the series
- Epic wants its Fortnite-Disney metaverse project to be 'what every Disney fan has ever wanted,' but don't expect Mickey Mouse to pick up an assault rifle
- Check out the micro-strategic base defense action of Thronefall
- Incredibly, you can now play Teardown in third person
- Y2K beat em up Star Wars: Episode 1 - Jedi Power Battles is back for some inexplicable reason
- Pokémon dev Game Freak appears to have suffered a 'teraleak' that includes 25+ years of never-before-seen Pokémon art, assets, documents, and even canceled movies
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, October 13
- October 12
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- Starship Troopers: Extermination brings its chaotic 16-person bug fights to a 1.0 release
- The developers of the final 2D Fallout game had no idea their publisher was gasping for air: 'We weren't told anything about Interplay's financial problems'
- Lead Skyrim designer argues that Bethesda's primeval Creation Engine is 'perfectly tuned' to the studio's needs, so an Unreal switcheroo probably isn't in the cards
- 14 years after it first released, the original Red Dead Redemption's long-absent PC port costs a 'commercially accurate' $50
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, October 12
- October 11
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- Elon Musk shows off bartending robots at a recent Tesla event, but some attendees say the automatons were being controlled by people
- CD Projekt boss pushes back on 'conspiracy theories' against diversity in gaming: 'We live in times where anyone can record complete nonsense and make a story out of it'
- This homebrew plugin that lets you install GOG and Epic games on your Steam Deck is getting a standalone Steam release
- The sequel to one of the best murder mystery games ever is only a month away, and there's a new demo out now
- This murder mystery farm sim will let you accidentally romance the killer, but I might just do it on purpose
- A new Tomb Raider Remastered series is coming in 2025, complete with the game so bad it 'almost killed the series'
- Sega hasn't made a good Shinobi game in decades but hey Shogun is popular, so we're getting a Shinobi movie
- Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'
- Influencer sociopathy reaches new heights as local idiot wrecks 200k car on livestream while checking phone, then asks bleeding passenger to keep recording
- You'll soon be able to watch a Grand Theft Auto Online production of Hamlet in theatres across the US as Machinima achieves total cultural victory
- This is the Disco Elysium successor to get excited about: Multiple writers from the original announce a manifesto to create an RPG 'with complexity and ambition to rival our wretched and wonderful world'
- Our favourite silly headphone creator is back at it again with two more stunningly impractical and gloriously outrageous designs
- 'We are experimenting with a different approach': Valve finally adds ranked play to Deadlock, and the countdown for the first match starts now
- MSI has just dropped a whole host of gorgeously horrible hardware to celebrate Stalker 2's impending release
- Overwatch 2 Season 13 is introducing map changes, which means that one of the worst maps ever may finally be fun to play
- Naughty Windows 11 24H2 hasn't been tidying up its toys, leaving an undeletable 8.63 GB update cache for some users
- AI in games might've just proven itself useful for a change—Activision claims Call of Duty's seen a 43% drop in 'disruptive voice chat' since the start of the year thanks to its robo-snitch
- Say happy 25th birthday to 'the world's first GPU', the almighty 120 MHz Nvidia GeForce 256
- A Disco Elysium successor studio has been announced for the second time today, meaning there are now 4 companies battling for the title of ZA/UM's true inheritor
- Helldivers 2's 60-day patch, which was due this weekend, is now a 63-day patch because oops, turns out there's a Saturday in the way
- This overlooked Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles roguelike is even better on PC than it was on Nintendo Switch—and there's a free demo available now
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 is rumoured for a CES 2025 reveal but I kinda think people need to calm down over its unconfirmed memory specs
- The new iPhone's beta AI has been summarising breakup texts and we can't figure out if that's taking the sting or the soul out of interpersonal communication
- Metaphor: ReFantazio is the new fastest-selling game in Atlus' history, selling a million copies in its first day
- Artists teach a choir of GPU fans to sing with AI and the result is not as soulless as you might think
- There's now a third studio boasting Disco Elysium veterans trying to follow up the beloved RPG—here with a spiritual successor 'psychogeographic RPG'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, October 11
- The HyperX Cloud Alpha is our favourite wireless gaming headset, and it's currently AU$90 off as part of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is trouncing the fighting game competition on Steam, with nearly double Street Fighter 6's all-time players record
- October 10
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- After years of waiting, Steam Deck will be officially available in Australia from November
- Satisfactory 1.0 finally has mod support, and the revamped mod manager now supports dedicated servers too
- RuneScape creator's new MMO gets a one-day delay, and it's the US government's fault
- Former GTA dev says GTA 6 has 'no competition' so won't release until Rockstar's '100% happy', before cracking a joke about the PC version: '2027 for you I'm afraid'
- Henry Cavill will take a break from PC gaming and Warhammer to go film a Voltron movie this fall
- Whoops, Blizzard just leaked all the cards from Hearthstone's next expansion
- Overwatch 2 teases a new tank hero in its season 13 trailer and his name could be 'Spiker'
- Spooky Stardew-like farm sim Everholm launches in November
- Thanks to its all-encompassing Randomizer mod, Deus Ex has gotten a festive Halloween update with game modes and modifiers to turn it into a survival horror game
- Persona series director says Atlus's flashy menus are 'actually really annoying' to design
- The Streak is over: For the first time in 20 years, a Football Manager game is delayed
- The first game from Mike Morhaime's new company is 'a couch co-op tactical adventure' that aims to recreate the experience of tabletop gaming
- I never thought I'd see the day: FIFA's esports World Cup is being played in Konami's eFootball
- Find love and abandon god with this $20,000 fully customisable Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion sex doll
- October Prime Day was bangin' this year because we're nearing the end of a generation—this might mean last calls for value this Black Friday
- Intel Core Ultra 200S desktop CPUs deliver 'one of the largest power reductions Intel has seen in quite some time' but may fall short of 14900K in some games
- 'We've managed to keep the lights on… until now': Cosy dino game Paleo Pines is asking players for help amid 'a sudden drying up of publishing and investment opportunities'
- Fraudsters sentenced for tricking Apple out of more than a whopping $2.5 million by sending in convincing fake iPhones for repair
- Mark Zuckerberg reckons he's a Civilization 'grandmaster' who could beat 'anyone in the world,' and we should all brace ourselves for his Twitch career
- Change your passwords: Attackers claim a 'catastrophic security breach' of the Internet Archive, with 31 million emails and hashed passwords captured
- Bandai Namco says sorry for disqualifying a top Tekken World Tour contender whose country wasn't listed among the 189 eligible options
- To mark the launch of Metaphor: ReFantazio, Sega is going to make someone a real-life noble, but there's a catch—you'll be joining the nobility of an illegitimate nation in the North Sea with only one resident
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, October 10
- The Kamala Harris campaign is going to stream World of Warcraft tonight to court the gamer vote
- October 9
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- Former Blizzard president planned to 'cut down' on microtransactions in Diablo 4 and reboot Overwatch before the Microsoft buyout
- Nintendo fans wished for new hardware, the monkey's paw curled, and they got an alarm clock
- 'Nobody, and I mean nobody, at Bethesda is patting themselves on the back while ignoring our players': Starfield design director reassures fans that developers are paying attention to community concerns
- Free yourself from stick drift with a Hall effect 8Bitdo controller on sale for $40
- Former Bethesda and BioWare devs are making a Stardew-like with Redwall animals, and oh my god look at this little mouse farmer carry a pumpkin
- Black and White's AI programmer just won a Nobel prize: 'an incredible honor, it's the big one really'
- 'Evade 2 Win' Diablo 4 build lets you cartwheel through hell at 100 MPH with its new class
- More Embracer Group layoffs: Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios is cutting jobs for the second time in a year
- Roblox clashes with an 'activist short-seller' who's going after its share price with accusations that it's running a 'pedophile hellscape' and lying about user numbers
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't have an arachnophobia mode because it won't have any spiders
- Killing Floor 3's dynamic tech that makes zed heads 'flower' when you shoot them will haunt me for the rest of my days, but also I have to see more
- I asked Amazon's AI to show me the best Prime Day deals and thankfully I'm still better at this than a bot
- Silent Hill 2 devs explain how they were able to stay true to James' character, 'he had to be not too cool and not too good-looking'
- The US government is deciding whether to break Google apart and try to end its monopoly on search
- Samsung's most durable 4 TB external SSD costs less than $0.06 per GB this Prime Day
- Silent Hill 2 got an emergency patch after a 'huge translation mistake' spoiled the whole game for Italians
- 87% of eBay's trading card experts 'earn less than a living wage,' say union organizers
- Do svidaniya Discord: Russia straight-up bans it for enabling 'terrorist and extremist purposes'
- This hand-crafted puppet of Nix is so cute it makes me want a Star Wars Outlaws movie
- We've collectively spent 11,000 years playing Balatro, fans reply it's gotta be more than that
- Helldivers 2 players are constructing a 'Democratic Space Station' in the runup to Liberty Day, which some think is just so that the Illuminate can steam in and blow it up
- Silent Hill 2 players are modding away the fog and freeing the camera to discover hidden detail in the remake
- Logitech's budget wireless gaming mouse is down to sub AU$50, which kinda makes me want to buy two
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, October 9
- The next game in the Like a Dragon series was almost a fishing game: 'I wanted to make a game called Like a Dragon: Tuna'
- October 8
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- Bloodlines 2 is 'a bit more of an action RPG,' Paradox exec says: 'People who have seen it talk about Dishonored'
- Blizzard canceled a roguelike version of Diablo 4 with permadeath and Batman: Arkham-style brawls
- The FPS/mecha hybrid from the creator of Cruelty Squad, which was an immersive sim designed to make you feel sick, will be out next year
- After botching the Cree nation in Civ 6, Firaxis established a partnership with the Shawnee to ensure 'authentic, sincere' representation in Civilization 7
- 'I can assure you that Spectre isn’t going anywhere': Spectre Divide chief says the game isn't dying, so please stop saying it is
- Here's another headache for Ubisoft: Lawsuit alleges it illegally shared Ubisoft Store customer data with Meta
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard will offer 5 'curated' difficulty levels, including a Nightmare mode that you're stuck with once you start
- Sci-fi author sues Bungie, says it nicked ideas from his Wordpress blog for Destiny 2's blowout first campaign
- Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down
- Ubisoft's grudging return to Steam continues as Assassin's Creed Valhalla finally gets achievements 2 years after launch
- A '90s-inspired action RPG made by one person has been funded on Kickstarter in less than 7 hours
- In the wake of some of the year's biggest releases, the balance of power on the Steam top wishlists charts has shifted
- Cities: Skylines 2 launched too early, says Paradox deputy CEO, but early access wouldn't have been a solution: 'A dev team that thinks they're going to have a nicer ride on an early access game, I think fool themselves'
- Red Dead Redemption 1 is coming to PC with a bunch of enhancements this month, a year after its very confusing Switch and PS4 port
- Even after cancelling Life By You, Paradox would make another life sim, 'but in a different way'
- Paradox wants to get out of the RPG business: 'If Bloodlines 2, God willing, is successful, Bloodlines 3 [will be] done by someone else'
- YouTuber hero-scientist reveals the hidden lie at Morrowind's heart: Its rivers aren't rivers at all
- Roblox's Dress to Impress is getting a spooky Halloween update with over 30 haunting hairstyles and a pose that will scar me for life
- Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred is live and there's no better time to jump in
- Say goodbye to stick drift with these super-cheap Hall effect gamepad deals for Prime Day
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, October 8
- 'There were so many meetings': A former Bethesda developer explains why he quit during Starfield and started a solo project
- October 7
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- A school shooting videogame made by the parents of a victim aims to change minds about gun control: 'This is not a scary game, it's an educational game'
- Metaphor: ReFantazio's ReViews are in, and the Persona follow-up looks like 2024's unanimous RPG hit
- 7 Minutes in Hell is the latest co-op horror game on Steam that wants to get you screaming over proximity chat
- 'God it was gutting' to see the Fallout fanbase response, says Fallout Tactics lead: 'fervent and passionate and often horribly toxic'
- A new Pathologic game is coming in 2025 and in case the first two weren't weird enough, this one has time travel
- Alien: Isolation is finally getting a sequel
- Jon St John is on TikTok and he'll say whatever filth you want in the Duke Nukem voice
- Age of Empires 2 in first-person? Sure why not
- Duake lets you play Quake as the Doomguy
- Iconic Dungeons & Dragons RPG Planescape: Torment was a 'B-Team' project that started life as 3 different games—including a 3D dungeon crawler
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, October 7
- Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Unreal Engine 6 will be a 'metaverse' joining Fortnite and other Unreal games, including an upcoming 'persistent universe' in development with Disney
- 343 Industries becomes Halo Studios, confirms switch to Unreal Engine: 'The original Halo franchise was a graphics showcase, it was best-in-class… and that's what Halo needs to be again'
- October 6
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- A 31-year treasure hunt has finally ended
- The Case of the Golden Idol has done so well that it's getting a free definitive edition upgrade
- A Quake 2 Remaster dev has rebuilt the game's unique PlayStation port from scratch and released it as a free add-on
- Meta will use pictures and voice recorded by its Google Glass-style Ray Ban 'smart glasses' to train AI
- Grunn is a very normal gardening game that is not a horror game at all
- The lead dev on life sim Inzoi was sick of making MMOs where everyone was mean to each other and wanted to create a game like The Sims he could enjoy with his son
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, October 6
- Chappell Roan still swears by The Sims 2: Double Deluxe: 'I knew every cheat code, so I would make everybody pregnant and everybody woohoo'
- October 5
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- Survival hit The Planet Crafter terraforms a whole new world in its first DLC
- Here's a charity bundle with a ton of World of Darkness tabletop RPG books
- Welcome to shooter bizarro world: First Fortnite goes FPS, now Halo Infinite's adding a third person mode
- The team that made Minecraft console edition is now making their own blocky builder
- One Tekken 8 modder has crowbarred all of Baldur's Gate 3's origin characters into the fighting game
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, October 5
- October 4
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- Diablo 4's once extraordinarily rare 'uber' uniques will be easier to get next season, but with a small catch
- I just squeezed more eggs in one hour than you have in your entire life
- Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered will require a PSN account, and you can't buy the originals on PC anymore
- David Hayter is cranking up Metal Gear Solid fans again, teasing 'a role I've not played since...'
- Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader and its new expansion are on sale for 40% off
- Larian says 40% of all current Baldur's Gate 3 players are now 'embracing utter chaos with mods'
- This pixel art road trip RPG's reveal trailer is the only thing that's ever made me nostalgic for my crappy first car
- My Time at Evershine has passed $1.7M in crowdfunding and its developer wants it to become 'a must play series in the cozy/simulation RPG space'
- Games Done Quick is quickly putting together a speedrunning marathon in support of Hurricane Helene relief
- Steam Game Recording gets 4K and ultrawide monitor support in the latest beta update
- Earth Defense Force 6 drops controversial Epic account requirement for players on Steam
- BioWare announces that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has gone gold and is on track for its Halloween release
- Fortnite is coming for the FPS
- As Ubisoft struggles and shareholders sweat, Tencent and the Guillemot family are reportedly looking at a buyout
- Public-facing Valve dev shows why most Valve devs don't have much to do with the public: 'I'm just the only one dumb enough to be on Twitter'
- Anime fans rejoice! World's first holo fan allows you to rep your best girls in style
- Overwatch 2 is introducing new rewards to incentivise Competitive play, but be warned, only 'the most dedicated players will reach the highest prestige'
- This redditor's PC was overrun with '50 to 100' baby spiders and now my day is ruined
- Voting is now open for the 42nd Golden Joystick Awards, so you can help crown the PC Game of the Year
- Forcing users to periodically change their passwords should go the way of the dodo according to the US government
- Avatar: The Last Airbender may finally get the respect it deserves as Saber Interactive helms a new RPG based on the animated series
- Gaming is a good thing for the workplace, apparently—so if you'll excuse me, I'm off to 'do some extensive training'
- Harvard students make utterly dystopic smart glasses that can instantly dox anyone they see
- This cursed Skyrim mod flips the entire game horizontally like Mario Kart's mirror mode and it's weirdly very upsetting
- Civilization 7's system requirements are here and they look downright breezy, plus you'll only need 20 GB of storage space
- 'Game development doesn't proceed at a constant pace': Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's devs explain why there are 2 difficulty settings but won't say a word about a possible release date
- This ortholinear Mobius strip keeb is twisting my melon, man
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, October 4
- Star Wars Outlaws' hectic speeder wipeouts won't happen as often with its major new update
- October 3
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- This bowhunting game created by a Bethesda veteran plays like if you made a whole game out of Skyrim's stealth archer playstyle
- Paradox scrupulously avoids saying 'Nazis' in the new Hearts of Iron 4 expansion announcement, which is all about Nazis
- Counter-Strike 2 gives the people what they want: tiny sausages hanging from their guns
- The Sims 4's Life and Death expansion is indeed adding that Grim Reaper career everyone wanted
- Just as I'd made peace with my conveyor belt spaghetti, this Satisfactory player started building cathedrals
- Kvark is a Sovietcore boomer shooter that looks like Half Life if it happened in early '80s Czechoslovakia, and it's somehow become my favorite FPS of the month
- Solo dev says he's bucking against the survival 'formula' that makes them stale, and if you want to actually make an axe from scratch does he have the game for you
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's next free update, Jungle Getaway, will introduce two new characters
- Despite the looming Nintendo lawsuit, PUBG publisher Krafton is bringing Palworld to mobile devices
- Shhhhh, Noctua confirms its first ever decibel-dampening power supply will launch this year
- Asus has now made it clear if a product sent for repair will be fixed under warranty or if it'll cost ya
- A deep South Fallout sequel with a 'guerilla warfare' vibe was planned, but then Interplay bit the dust
- 'Subconsciously, we were all ready to die': Stalker 2 developers secretly prepared for Russia's invasion
- Unreal Engine 5.5’s MegaLights allows devs to use "orders of magnitude more" light sources—even on older hardware
- Samsung debated selling off its manufacturing arm as 3 nm yields remain low and the chip giant's stock price drops
- Bethesda honcho says Starfield is 'the best game we've ever made' in massive bout of amnesia
- Not all Space Marines are created equal: Space Marine 2 dev asks players to be nice on the off chance you come across Henry Cavill
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, October 3
- October 2
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- A Valve engineer used ChatGPT to find a new matchmaking algorithm for Deadlock, and now it's in the game
- The portals to hell have legs and health bars in Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred's Season of Hatred Rising
- 6 years after successfully crowdfunding a game about orphans in a cyberpunk warzone, the studio making it has closed: 'We've been so close to a release, several times, and there's a lot to regret after all the work done'
- Larian boss Swen Vincke cruelly hints at a 2029 release for the studio's next game, only to yoink it away: 'It was just a joke'
- 'Apple and Google have a totally broken vision for the world': Epic CEO Tim Sweeney vows to 'keep fighting on until there's an ultimate victory'
- Windows 11 24H2 is finally here and Microsoft's calling it a 'full OS swap', it's just a shame the new Windows update still has Recall
- The lead on one of Fallout's least-loved entries says over-enthusiasm led to its hated hairy deathclaws: 'At the time, I know it was sacrilege'
- Frostpunk dev's quietly very cool survival game where you manage relationships with your alt-universe selves gets delayed to next year
- Nvidia's RTX 4060 is THE dominant GPU, boosting its desktop market share by 34% in a single month on Steam's Hardware Survey
- Modder puts desktop-grade RTX 4090 card into custom laptop. Machine weighs as much as small dog
- Final Fantasy 14 suspends housing demolition on North American servers after Hurricane Helene causes devastating damage across multiple states
- Starfield's Shattered Space expansion hasn't been a smashing success on Steam: 'Less content than any Skyrim DLC'
- The Rocky Horror Show is getting its own videogame for Halloween, and it's a retro 2D platformer for some reason
- AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 is out now and hands Radeon gamers a new AI-optimised frame generation option in most games
- Leaked screenshots claiming to be from the next Sims game Project Rene have surfaced and fans are in shambles over them
- Devolver has a new label dedicated to making games based on comics, films, TV shows and 'cult heroes'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, October 2
- October 1
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- Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios lays off employees to ensure 'long-term success'
- Switch emulator Ryujinx goes offline after creator gets an offer from Nintendo they can't refuse
- Destiny 2 is adding new maps and factions to the superb Onslaught mode next week, but Bungie confirms no new 'shiny' weapons
- 'Dungeon crawler' enters the Merriam-Webster dictionary alongside 'touch grass' and 200 other new words and phrases
- Vtuber Ironmouse breaks Twitch subscriber record, surpassing 320,000 paying viewers
- The games industry is undergoing a 'generational change,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: 'A lot of games are released with high budgets, and they're not selling'
- After years of silence, the legendary life sim Spore has crawled back to life like a 3-eyed amphibian emerging from a primordial alien sea
- Steam's Turn-based RPG Fest is offering lots of discounts on leveling up your guys
- Tim Sweeney says Epic Games is now 'financially sound' after last year's layoffs and Bandcamp fumble
- Grab more D&D 5e adventures than you'll ever have time to play for just $18 in Humble Bundle's latest absurd offering
- Cyberpunk 2077 engine lead says some of its legendary launch bugs happened because the alternative was even worse: 'Either you show a T-pose, or you hard crash… we prefer not to hard crash'
- Now might be the time to switch from GeForce Experience to the Nvidia App as it finally allows for easy driver rollback
- I've been learning what Deadlock's items actually do, thanks to this player-made build calculator that I can keep open in my tabs
- Despite being one of the biggest selling points of Apple Intelligence, Apple will not be investing in OpenAI
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard devs talk redesigning the game after BioWare bailed on the whole live service thing in 2021: 'I never personally saw it as a reboot'
- WoTC forced to take over popular Magic: The Gathering competitive format after community tantrum over card bans involves 'credible threats of physical assault'
- Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update is reportedly a borkfest that breaks mouse, keyboard, WSL 2 and Wi-Fi functionality
- Bethesda says it took cues from the best game in its history for Shattered Space, but it's not winning fans over to 'an already catatonic game'
- AI bots are using a 'YOLO' model to beat Captchas in just another way computers are better than you
- 'They are tearing each other apart like pulled pork': Minecraft players are shipping two of the creepiest mobs around after Minecraft Live
- AMD's new RDNA 4 gaming-GPU-for-the-masses said to be delayed but will probably still be available before the Nvidia competition
- Monster Hunter will get its own Fender guitar in 2025, joining the hallowed company of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Yngwie Malmsteen
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, October 1
