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- September 21
- September 20
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- They're planning to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to power Microsoft's cloud and AI data centers
- Helldivers 2's official Super Earth National Anthem has me so full of patriotic ardor, I feel like marching in the street
- Netflix is doing a Splinter Cell animated series, and Michael Ironside isn't in it
- Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk for $15M, alleges that SpaceX invaded a plot of land it owns in Texas: 'Go **** yourself, Elon Musk'
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director says Inquisition's epilogue DLC 'should have been part of the base game'
- There's two types of news in Frostpunk 2: bad news, and good news that you slowly realize is actually bad news
- After nearly 10 years of waiting, the sequel to one of the weirdest games I've ever played is finally almost here
- The PlayStation 3 emulator now supports online matchmaking for some 2000s greats, including Armored Core 4, Ridge Racer 7 and Tekken 5
- Frostpunk 2 factions and communities explained
- The Mass Effect board game is basically a new sidequest for a 12 year old RPG, but it's sadly lacking in BioWare magic
- 'This time I'm actually cooked': The GeoGuessr World Cup final descends to chaos as players duke it out for $26,250
- I've tried the new deliberately anti-social AI-only social media app and I've never been more glad to be a little bit of a loser
- Netflix's Devil May Cry anime seems to have its voice actors mixed up, as Johnny Yong Bosch is confirmed to be voicing Dante
- Netflix announces a new Cyberpunk animated series during Geeked Week—though I've got a feeling if it was Studio Trigger making it again, we'd know by now
- AMD 'leaving billions of dollars on the table' thanks to laptop AI chip supply issues
- Parking Garage Rally Circuit is a tightly-designed shot of drifting, PS1-era graphics, and ska music straight to the veins
- I died more than 1,200 times in this panicky first-person riff on Celeste's platforming and it's now one of my favorite games of the year
- Despite some surprisingly chill Flight Simulator 2024 system requirements, the 'Ideal Spec' demands more RAM than storage
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard keeps reminding me that I'm still angry with BioWare for its crimes against the qunari
- Give it up for Ryzen AI Max+: AMD's Strix Halo uber-APU model list and preliminary specs have leaked out
- Somehow, the Magic: The Gathering animated series returned—Netflix announces that the show's still in the works after long silence
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, September 20
- Unsurprisingly, UFO 50 seems to have a big secret meta game that I've only just scratched the surface of
- League of Legends show Arcane will conclude with a 3-act finale spread across November
- In the Devil May Cry anime, Dante yells 'jackpot!' and then fires a bullet that says 'jackpot' on it so I'm a little worried about the writing now
- September 19
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- Judero review
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard will see the return of Inquisition's protagonist, and you'll be able to customize their appearance and voice
- Concord game director reportedly steps down as Firewalk developers fear layoffs or a possible closure
- A year after extraction shooter The Cycle: Frontier was shut down, it's back—well, in Fortnite at least
- Several emergency patches later, Blizzard almost has WoW's new solo dungeons figured out
- The next Black Mirror season brings Paul Giamatti, Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, and a sequel to USS Callister
- Minecraft Live returns on September 28 with 'a new look and feel'
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's character creator fixes my old nemesis from Inquisition: the lighting
- 'We don't think Hi-Fi Rush 2 is going to make us money,' Krafton chief says, but they bought Tango Gameworks anyway 'to maintain their legacy'
- Frostpunk 2: How to transfer oil and other resources from your colony to your city
- Is Nintendo suing the Palworld devs over a patent on throwing Poké Balls?
- War Game: The Making of Stalker 2 will reveal a behind-the-scenes look at game development amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- How to get more workforce in Frostpunk 2
- How to get heatstamps in Frostpunk 2
- 10 tips to get started in Frostpunk 2
- How to build a Research Institute in Frostpunk 2
- So that's why Arrowhead didn't want to buff everything: Helldivers 2 has lost some of the friction that made it special
- Samsung's just started producing what is effectively its first proper PCIe 5.0 SSD and it's faster than any currently on the market
- The holy THOCK of Awekeys' Full Metal Keycaps cannot make up for the fact that I'm a terrible typist
- GTA Online is no longer compatible with the Steam Deck thanks to its new anti-cheat software, despite BattlEye having an opt-in system for this sort of thing
- Playing 6 hours of Dragon Age: The Veilguard gave me the faith its trailers couldn't: This is the BioWare comeback fans want
- The embodiment of 2010s existential dread could get a videogame—This is Fine: Maximum Cope opens Kickstarter funding next week
- Broken Sword's remaster fixes the mistakes of the Director's Cut and is the perfect reminder that this is still one of gaming's greatest adventures
- Google finally wins a court case and gets out of a €1.49 billion fine over anti-competitive practices
- 'It is truly unfortunate': Palworld responds to Nintendo's lawsuit while also continuing to 'strive to create a game that our fans can be proud of'
- Helldivers 2 CCO Johan Pilestedt wants players to take the high road and avoid a faction war with Space Marine 2: 'You can enjoy as many games as you want'
- Project T, the Dead by Daylight PvE spin-off, has been cancelled after the playtest 'yielded unsatisfactory overall results'
- AceZone A-Spire Wireless review
- 'Please halt this activity': Not-so-open OpenAI seems to have gone full mob boss, sending threatening emails to anyone who asks its latest AI models probing questions
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, September 19
- Just as it looked like Palworld might escape Nintendo's gaze, the lawsuit has been filed: Nintendo is suing Pocketpair for patent infringement
- September 18
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- Ara: History Untold looks a lot like Civilization until you realize there's no hexes: 'We're not playing a board game, we're actually trying to simulate some of what we see in real life'
- Friendship restored with Steam: Valve has fixed the screenshot manager and all is right with the world
- Space Marine 2 devs will adjust Veteran difficulty to make it 'slightly more fair,' but they really don't want to do an FOV slider—and you can just forget about shoulder swapping
- Space Marine 2 studio boss hopes for a 'reversion' to a time before games were 'imposing morals' on players
- Keylocker review
- In a rare triumph for videogame discourse, God of War Ragnarok will have a setting to reduce puzzle hints on PC
- Square Enix confirms lower-than-expected Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 sales in newly public financial report: 'Profits unfortunately did not meet our expectations'
- Skyrim lead designer says it will be 'almost impossible' for Elder Scrolls 6 to meet fan expectations: 'Marketing departments just put their heads in their hands and weep'
- Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs could support up to 10,000 MT/s DDR5 CUDIMM RAM, but that'll be using the Gear 2 setting which is pretty rubbish for gaming
- Elon Musk goes all Star Trek as his sight-giving Blindsight brain implant gets FDA 'breakthrough' clearance
- One of the last great PlayStation Vita exclusives is finally being wrangled free from its handheld prison for a PC remaster
- GOG is delisting 29 games this September—you have 12 days to grab the ones you care about and 2 days to grab the ones you probably don't
- Magic: The Gathering will soon have 5 entire cards dedicated to Slimer, in case you want to strike fear into the heart of your local game store
- The Steam Deck's rare but troublesome 'loading throbber' issue has been fixed
- Enotria: The Last Song review
- MSI outs 'world's first' ATX 3.1-ready mobos with extra PCIe juice for power-crazed next-gen GPUs
- How translators performed the herculean task of localizing the most incomprehensibly British videogame of all time into German, Portuguese and Traditional Chinese: 'What on Earth are these characters even talking about?'
- A year later, a Bungie fan artist is still waiting on compensation for the accidental use of their work, though they say the studio's 'working to expedite the process as we speak'
- 'I had no idea what had happened': Final Fantasy 16's Ben Starr on becoming a meme, playing angsty roles, and which series summon he'd take on a date
- AI-generated lighting from Lepro should be setting the mood for your gaming sessions
- EA says it's going to use AI to fix The Sims 4's really annoying user content gallery
- AMD's new Ryzen 9000 CPUs are reportedly suffering the 'worst launch since Bulldozer' thanks to 'disastrous' sales
- HTC's next VR headset is a little less Meta Quest and a little more Apple Vision Pro in its bid to be the everything device
- Games industry hurtles further into self-parody as ESRB leaks existence of a Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster
- PC gaming made me a better drummer than I had any right to be—all thanks to an electronic kit and open source software
- 11 totally unnecessary multiplayer modes of the 2010s that you've almost certainly forgotten existed
- AMD blog fail suggests Fluid Motion Frames 2 is exiting beta in its full September driver release
- Heed the call to battle in Hero Wars: Dominion era
- Cities: Skylines 2 Creator Packs and the Bridges and Ports Expansion are being delayed so the devs don't have to 'split our focus'
- TCG Card Shop Simulator may just be one of the best games I've played all year, despite having to fight off hordes of stinky customers
- Helldivers 2's latest update looks like it's gone down smooth, with player counts not seen since June—from a balance patch, no less
- EA says it's got a 3rd and final Star Wars Jedi game cooking in speech to imperial senate of investors—oh, and 40 million people have played the first 2 already
- God of War Ragnarok release date and launch times
- Tiny Glade review
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, September 18
- EA says giving videogame characters 'life and persistence' outside of games with AI is a 'profound opportunity,' which is the kind of talk that leads to dangerous Holodeck malfunctions
- September 17
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- Arrowhead creative director agrees Helldivers 2 needs a harder difficulty mode after the 'buff everything' patch
- For the first time in 20 years, World of Warcraft will let solo players fight its hardest boss in a new 'Story Mode' raid difficulty
- Blizzard has apparently decided the best way to combat the Hearthstone-is-dying narrative is by releasing a $60 Ragnaros hero skin
- There won't actually be a Sims 5 because EA is going to 'disrupt the sequel model' by shoving The Sims 4, Project Rene, and two other games into one 'massive Sims platform'
- The next Battlefield game has been in 'nearly daily' playtesting for 'well over a year,' and a large-scale community test is planned for early 2025
- Blizzard reveals new Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred story details—it's more than just disgusting body horror
- 'The game is absolutely not dying': XDefiant boss rejects claims that Ubisoft's shooter is struggling to find players
- How to get cores in Frostpunk 2
- Burden of Command is a WW2 wargame that saddles you with anxiety over each soldier's life
- The next Sims game is doing invite-only multiplayer testing this fall
- Another Rockstar Launcher leak points to Grand Theft Auto 6 and Red Dead Redemption coming to PC
- Skate will frontside pop shuvit into early access in 2025
- If Space Marine 2 left you with a 40K craving, Humble Bundle's selling 24 Space Marine books for $18
- Logitech's new G915 X keyboard is influenced by negative Amazon reviews: Engineers looked at community feedback and 'wanted to address that'
- Logitech's new wheels and shifter accessories look to turn its 'Pro' wheelbase into a more serious racing kit
- Logitech's newest Superlight mouse won't replace the excellent Superlight 2 but its tweaked design has earned it an even longer name
- Logitech is updating every gaming mouse with its latest sensor to a possible 44,000 DPI via a free firmware update next month
- GTA Online finally gets BattlEye anti-cheat, and some fans think it's a sign of bigger things to come
- Frostpunk 2 review
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Reckoning of New York just feels like the adventures of the World of Darkness' most annoying kindred
- Core Keeper review
- Fallout 76's brahmin escort mission is finally available, so you can start fighting off deathclaws and mole people to grow your new outpost
- I've been shown Remnant 2's third (and largest) DLC The Dark Horizon, as well as its free roguelike Boss Rush mode and endgame progression system—and it's Gunfire Games' biggest flex so far
- RedMagic Titan 16 Pro review
- See how hard Space Marine 2's photo mode goes in the hands of an expert Warhammer 40,000 painter
- Dragon's Dogma 2 patch introduces a casual mode, which stops your sick pawns from blowing everyone in a town up, among other things
- Helldivers 2's buff-happy patch is here, and I'm already feeling the flames of liberty burn bright once again
- Zotac Zbox Magnus One review
- Modders are rejecting FromSoft's recent Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree nerf by restoring the final boss to his former strength
- Jason Momoa was 'really mad and yelling' on the Minecraft movie set, says Valkyrae: 'I just saw him mistreat some of the crew'
- Intel announces it will 'pause' plans for a manufacturing megafab in Germany due to ongoing money trouble
- Frostpunk 2 early access times and global release date
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, September 17
- Final Fantasy 16 PC launch times and release date
- There are weird games, and then there's Judero: a delectably Scottish adventure made out of action figures and Harryhausenesque claymation where you fight faeries, lizards, and Englishmen
- Unknown 9: Awakening feels like a AA videogame from the late 2000s, and so far that isn't a bad thing
- September 16
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- Helldivers 2 devs took fan outcry to heart and made the new Napalm Barrage an absolute monstrosity
- Project Borealis, the fan-made effort to bring Half-Life 2 Episode 3 to life, returns after years of silence with a new 'Prologue' teaser
- Baldur's Gate 3 modders are already using its jailbroken level editor to make the game's first custom maps, including a proof-of-concept level in Hell
- GTA: Vice City speedrunner gets 'ultra-copped' 98 minutes in, and then a former Rockstar dev explains the 'panic code' that caused it
- In this upcoming Netflix documentary, parents discover their son's other life in World of Warcraft after he died of a degenerative muscular disease
- 'Specialists will not be coming back': The next Battlefield will emulate Battlefields 3 and 4, 'the pinnacle' of the series, says EA
- Former Bungie lawyer says the studio's 'management failure' led to Sony 'forcing them to get their heads out of their asses'
- Starfield: Shattered Space deep dive promises cosmic horror, politics, up-close fights with giant alien spiders, and other things we could all do without
- 'PCs are difficult to set up', argues PlayStation co-CEO as he sticks up for his precious console's honour
- UFO 50 review
- Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida asks that modders please don't run amok with 'offensive or inappropriate' shenanigans now the game's on PC
- Intel was in the running to make the PlayStation 6 APU but lost out to AMD due to disputes over profit margins, report claims
- Here's what you need to know before picking up Star Wars Outlaws
- Microsoft's recyclobot uses machine learning and computer vision to open and recycle 90% of hard drive components
- A Concord Platinum Trophy hunter came back from the grave to destroy the meme of 69 (nice) players achieving plat
- Valve developer has to keep reminding players that Deadlock's anti-cheat system is coming and 'very high priority', since it's leaning mostly on player reports right now
- Flappy Bird creator says he's got nothing to do with the game's zombie comeback—'I did not sell anything'
- AMD is set to finally join Nvidia with FSR 4, using AI to power frame generation, though no word on upscaling yet
- Revisiting the D&D games of my youth really makes me appreciate how much better things are today
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, September 16
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 16, 2024)
- September 15
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- Diablo 4 has made over $150M from microtransactions, achieved over $1B in lifetime revenue
- Here's a sci-fi action RPG where your inventory is a ship designer and your skills are a tech tree
- Somewhere between Death Stranding and A Short Hike, there's Caravan SandWitch
- Confused by Warhammer 40,000? Now you can learn 40K lore with Space Marine 2's lead voice actor
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, September 15
- Pocketpair confirms Palworld isn't turning into a live-service game and won't be free-to-play: 'We are not changing our game's business model'
- Deadlock has picked up some vital tools for policing bad player behavior
- The Watch Dogs movie has finished filming, probably can't do worse than the Borderlands movie did
- Overwatch 2 gets a set of World of Warcraft 20th anniversary crossover skins
- September 14
- September 13
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- Penny's Big Breakaway studio announces layoffs: 'Evening Star has been swept up in the same turbulence that has affected so many of our peers in the games industry'
- The 'reverse' localization of PC classic MechWarrior shows just how far ahead Japanese PC tech was in the early '90s
- Control 2 isn't affected by the collapse of Annapurna Interactive because the deal was signed by the other Annapurna
- Google results insist a Bugsnax sequel is coming out next month, but there's one small problem: Its devs aren't making one
- Flappy Bird makes an unlikely comeback after its creator apparently let the trademark lapse and the vultures swept right in
- PSA: Consider cranking up Space Marine 2's difficulty for co-op
- The Penguin Sale on Steam celebrates Batman's pointiest villain by slashing prices on the best superhero games around
- 'There's an alternate universe where Half-Life disappeared after release': Valve's first marketing strategist Monica Harrington says she helped navigate its way out of early disaster
- Immortals of Aveum developers find a new home at Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser's Absurd Ventures studio
- Whoops, they did it again: Bungie admits fan art was used in an official Destiny 2 collectible, says the artist will be 'compensated and credited for their incredible artwork'
- EVE players are in revolt over CCP's blockchain plans: 'None of us want this crypto slop'
- Voice actor Peter Renaday, who played Duncan in Dragon Age: Origins, has died age 89
- Shogun Showdown review
- Look out, OpenAI's latest chatbot hallucinates less and might even count to three
- 'It's very emotional, it's really tense': Heavy lies the crown of AI dominance as Nvidia's Jensen Huang admits to getting just three hours sleep a night
- I played Roblox's hottest game that's sweeping social media and got my ass handed to me by a bunch of 12-year-olds
- 'We can't do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence. We compute one pixel, we infer the other 32': Jensen thinks AI is integral to next-gen graphics tech
- Tony Hawk eats magical truth-telling salad, immediately confirms he and Activision have got something cooking for the first time since Vicarious Visions got swallowed
- Full Intel next-gen Arrow Lake CPU model list, specs, release dates, the works reportedly revealed
- Dress to Impress codes and how to redeem
- Acer responds to claims its gaming laptop intro was misogynistic: 'Acer makes no difference in gender, our objective is to make technology available to everybody'
- All Zenless Zone Zero codes from the 1.2 livestream
- Gray Zone Warfare's first big update is coming and it feels like a game-changer
- Oops: WoW's hotfix to sort out Delve scaling has random mooks dealing upwards of 12,582,896 damage, with some players 'smoked out of nowhere'
- BOE and Intel's AI display tech reportedly reduces screen power consumption by up to 65% in Lunar Lake laptops by dropping the refresh rate on parts of the panel
- Deadlock matchmaking is now open 24/7—plus there's a new, snazzier minimap and a low priority queue for bad behaviour
- Sony confirms PS5 Pro has next-gen ray-tracing tech and 'there are no other AMD GPUs that use it yet'
- Alienware AW2725QF review
- Hollowbody is an English cyberpunk Silent Hill, for better and worse
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, September 13
- Sure, not every space game needs them, but just for the record: seamless planetary landings are cool as hell
- September 12
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- Until Dawn system requirements are here, and support for ultrawide and Dualsense haptics are in
- Space Marine 2 is a 2007 game in the best way possible
- Kentucky Route Zero and Stray publisher Annapurna Interactive has collapsed, with its entire staff quitting en masse
- Someone just discovered that Balatro's 'Misprint' joker has been sending us secret messages this whole time
- WoW: The War Within's new mini dungeons are annihilating solo players while groups sleepwalk through them for 'free' loot
- Valve politely asks that you only use Steam's family sharing for 'close family members' in a 'household,' but let's be real: everyone shares their games with Discord friends
- European Consumer Organization alleges game companies including Activision, Electronic Arts, Epic, and Ubisoft are 'tricking' consumers with premium in-game currencies
- The next Helldivers 2 Warbond is almost certainly a violation of international humanitarian law
- If you get kicked out of your Steam Family, the slot is locked for a year, so you'd better get along—here's how Steam's new family sharing system works
- Cyberpunk 2077 finally has official support for AMD's FSR 3
- A year after outraging developers, blowing up its reputation, and saying goodbye to its CEO, Unity decides 'Runtime Fees' are a bad idea so it's getting rid of them
- This incredible Stardew Valley Lego build won an award and got a surprise visit from ConcernedApe
- The Steam Deck is on sale for 25% off, but maybe not the model you want
- Fields of Mistria marriage candidates and gift guide
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor finally Force-pushes Denuvo out the airlock in patch focused on performance improvements
- As Team Fortress 2 veterans gaze at Deadlock with interest and envy, steadfast fans are still waiting for Valve to notice them
- The PC Gaming Show returns December 5 with a sleigh full of the latest and greatest PC games
- Want a 4 TB external SSD with solid state cooling, passkey unlocking, wireless tracking, RAID 6, and a built-in e-paper display? Yours for—squints at the screen—the price of TWO PlayStation 5 Pros
- Hasbro CEO says all his mates are using AI for their D&D games, which is apparently 'a clear signal that we need to be embracing it'
- Shure MV7+ podcast microphone review
- The new EVE survival MMO is using blockchain tech to create a 'boiling financial hellscape,' but don't call it a blockchain game
- Microsoft gaming's post-acquisition bloodletting continues as 650 more staff are set to be laid off for 'sustainable future growth'
- Yars Rising review
- Wild Bastards review
- US Dept of Justice claims Google 'corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by engaging in a systematic campaign to seize control'
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue, featuring a special collectible lenticular cover, is on sale now: Planet Coaster 2
- This custom Final Fantasy 14 controller uses real paint on a canvas to control the Pictomancer, you know, for the immersion
- Asus ROG Delta II review
- Finally, a game that knows the best bit of being a witch is creeping everyone out
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, September 12
- September 11
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- WoW duo reach max level in The War Within without actually playing The War Within
- Amidst upset over Space Marine 2 automatically installing Epic Online Services, Epic says PC crossplay is a requirement for all multiplayer games on its store
- Deadlock gives me the same feeling Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 did before they consumed my life
- Payday 3's game director is stepping down after a hard first year for the heist game sequel
- Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs
- Helldivers 2 creative director says it's a better, sillier world when physics bugs can kill players for jumping past the wrong lamppost: 'Realism can suck it'
- Every Deadlock hero and all abilities
- Space Marine 2's first hotfix is live, ultrawide support and private PvE lobbies are coming soon: 'We're reading all of your feedback with great attention'
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard will have Dragon Age: The Photo Mode at launch
- AMD's RDNA 4 gaming-GPUs-for-the-people expected to launch at CES in January
- The Sims 4 Life and Death expansion: what we know so far
- Netflix's Magic: The Gathering animated series is, according to one of its voice actors, 'not happening', before adding 'that's kind of old news'
- Konami admits Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 kind of sucked at launch, promises to 'do everything we can not to repeat that' with Volume 2
- Helldivers 2 devs casually reveal they're quadrupling the Railgun's durable damage, while CCO Pilestedt says kit like the Recoilless Rifle will become a 'delete key', and oh, do I like the sound of that
- Yeah, at $700 the PS5 Pro is expensive for a console, but I spent more than double that on my GPU alone
- Should you buy a Steam Deck instead of a PS5 Pro? How about instead of a new car you buy a boat?—these things are not the same
- PC vs. PS5 Pro: Making PC gaming more relevant than ever
- Ray tracing has taken its first steps at becoming the rendering norm for triple-A games but that just makes upscaling and frame generation a Hobson's choice
- FromSoft hands out a mega-nerf to Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, players begin printing their 'I beat him pre-patch' t-shirts to lord it over the rest of us
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's Season 1 is live—with Mythic dungeons, raids, and the new endgame activity Delves released in full
- DBD codes and how to redeem them
- World of Warcraft: The War Within
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, September 11
- How to make your factory way better than satisfactory in Satisfactory
- September 10
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- Holy cow, The Crew 2 is on sale for $1 on Steam
- After eating it for killing The Crew, Ubisoft promises to bring offline support to The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest
- Survival game Nightingale is making big changes after the developers looked at games like Palworld and Enshrouded: 'It was really the structure that stood out'
- The company behind a 'mental health action shooter' envisions a health insurance-funded 'golden age' for gaming, and it just got FDA clearance to treat stress
- Satisfactory review
- Diablo 4 player achieves 'infinite damage' by hitting so hard the game gives up on doing math
- Satisfactory breaks 100,000 concurrent players on Steam for the first time ever after its long-awaited 1.0 release
- Sonic Team director dashes hopes for a standalone Chao Garden: 'We can't just break it off and make it a thing'
- The yearly Minecraft mob vote is dead, players celebrate the death of mob democracy
- Minecraft is ditching yearly summer updates in favor of smaller, more frequent ones: 'We know that you want new Minecraft content more often'
- These shot-for-shot remakes of the Minecraft Movie trailer make the official one look fake in comparison
- As it struggles to find players, Ubisoft's XDefiant will give you $9 in funbucks if you log in a few times over the next couple of weeks
- Atomfall is a very British take on Stalker, where you explore a post-disaster Cumberland with a cricket bat
- 3 months after firing Dr Disrespect, Deadrop developer Midnight Society confirms 'significant' layoffs
- It's official: consoles cost as much as gaming PCs now
- Europe's top court orders Apple to fork over $14 billion in unpaid taxes to Ireland, even though the Irish tried to let the tech giant wriggle out of it
- After 5 years in early access, Satisfactory is finally out—here's what's new in 1.0
- Helldivers 2 heralds the flamethrower's return to its former glory, and will be releasing previews of its buff-filled September update every day until it drops
- The PS5 Pro is the most powerful games console ever released, but at $700 PC gaming has nothing to worry about
- Former Sony prez says thousands of laid-off devs can just 'go to the beach for a year' and you can't blame greedy execs: 'Things jump out in front of you and you deal with them just like any game. So get over it!'
- The first RTX 4070s with slower GDDR6 memory are now available to buy but there isn't a single reason to do so at the moment
- One of FF14's most prolific raid guide creators is a science teacher, whose first 'Hector lectures' were made with an app from his time 'teaching online during the pandemic'
- Days Gone director blows a gasket as its protagonist is 'reduced to a cartoon shill' to promote 'small game' Astro Bot—Sony's all-star romp featuring Kratos, Aloy, and Nathan Drake
- Minecraft creator Notch thinks the movie looks pretty neat, actually: 'I was expecting way worse'
- Watching Doom being played on a hologram-like volumetric display is like taking a peek at the future of gaming
- Acer says it has 'no business relationship with the company' that designed essentially the same handheld gaming PC 8 months prior
- New fan-made engine makes Black and White playable on modern PCs, because god knows neither EA or Molyneux is going to do it
- Disco Elysium's Harry Du Bois is brat
- Destiny 2: How to find each Cayde Stash and get the 10th anniversary armour
- AMD confirms it's working on a Ryzen Z2 chip for next-gen handheld PCs, even though only two vendors currently use the Z1
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, September 10
- I played some Little Nightmares 3, and it's the best horror about being lost and tiny in an unfathomable hellscape since Little Nightmares 2
- September 9
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- Another reminder that your digital library isn't forever: Oxenfree will be completely removed from Itch.io next month
- One Baldur's Gate 3 player retaliated against Act 3's annoying wizard street performers with a frame rate-tanking, 100+ exploding barrel nuclear strike
- James Earl Jones, the legendary voice of Darth Vader, Mufasa, and CNN, has died
- The new Mobile Gaming Show will be broadcast on September 26
- Every Sims 3 cheat for making money, building better, and the 'needs cheat'
- Jagex announces official Old School Runescape private servers, because the grind can always get grindier
- Space Marine 2 cruises past 225,000 concurrent users on Steam within hours of full release
- 8 years after declaring it took 'courage' to remove the iPhone's headphone jack, Apple has finally decided buttons and ports are cool again
- I cannot believe Apple is still limiting the iPhone 16 to embarrassingly slow 24-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
- Embracer's Lost Boys Interactive studio hit with another round of layoffs
- Destiny 2 is abandoning big annual expansions and linear campaigns in favour of more frequent releases that are 'mysterious, weird, and not afraid to try new things'
- Literal rock star tells Rockstar 'go f*** yourself' over measly GTA 6 offer
- I queued for a Final Fantasy 14 boss fight in real life and it was shockingly similar to doing it from the comfort of my PC
- A book with names from a 340,000-player TF2 petition has been hardbound and sent to Valve, as part of the #SaveTF2 campaign
- Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake chips have been listed on a UK retailer website under the Core Ultra 200K branding, with specs that seem reasonable
- 'From the developer's standpoint, they love this strategy'—AMD's plan to merge its RDNA and CDNA GPU architectures to a unified system called UDNA
- Former World of Warcraft designer calls streamlined MMO levelling a mistake: 'Getting to level cap should be an accomplishment, not a blip'
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's competitive PvP mode makes the Imperium's towering super-soldiers feel like they're made of paper
- Samsung and SK Hynix spend billions more on DRAM production to feed the never-ending hunger for AI servers
- Sony makes a personal heatsink for the back of your neck and it's got a toasty-looking warming option, too
- The Epic Minimalist Entertainment System is the leader of the itsy bitsy games console committee with its reverse-engineered 1980s LED dot matrix display
- FF14's Solo Only streamer plots and grinds for 85 days to topple Susano, a boss with a 14-second countdown to an unavoidable death when fought alone—and comes out on top
- The best Space Marine 2 PvP Builds
- 'I don’t want AMD to be the company that only people who can afford Porsches and Ferraris can buy': AMD's Jack Huyhn says being 'King of the Hill' isn't the priority for its next-gen GPUs
- The world's worst GPU can now be yours for a mere $1,024 in the form of a 'luxury purse'
- The best Space Marine 2 weapons and how to upgrade them
- Space Marine 2 classes explained and best class overall
- 10 Space Marine 2 tips to turn yourself into a flawless killing machine
- The Fallout TV show has won two Emmy Awards
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, September 9
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 9, 2024)
- This horny cyberpunk vampire RPG has already hit its goal on Kickstarter
- September 8
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- I was always mod-skeptical with Baldur's Gate 3, but being able to install them with one click has completely changed my mind
- Stealth strategy takes a particularly demonic bent with this game of commando scientists vs Nazi occultists
- It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns
- Fan-favorite stunty teams are coming to Blood Bowl 3 at last
- Free DLC for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous adds a crossover with indie dungeon crawler Children of Morta
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, September 8
- Heads-up: Space Marine 2 has a photo mode and it rules
- September 7
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- Wild Bastards is channeling its creators' previous work on BioShock with its powers and combos, and even its most normal, 'all rounder' character is a cyborg horse with a lever rifle
- Here's a little social deduction game about figuring out who's slacking off at work
- Just a few days in and people have already installed millions of mods for Baldur's Gate 3
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, September 7
- September 6
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- Baldur's Gate 3's latest patch is not the final update, Larian says: 'The chefs must cook'
- Once Human dev says some recent player feedback 'has been quite demoralizing'
- Streamers captured Concord's final moments as the servers went offline: 'What a huge f***ing honor'
- Visions of Mana review
- Roblox shows new 3D AI tool gunning for 'realtime creation integrated with gameplay'
- Roblox CEO delivers imperial announcement that the goal is '1 billion daily active users' and 10% of all global gaming revenue, thanks
- Dr Disrespect returns with 20-minute rant on Twitch ban, denies wrongdoing and says he's the victim of a conspiracy: 'They wanted to cut down the Doc, plain and simple'
- Alan Wake and Alan Wake Remastered will have different ending songs starting next week
- The Sims 4's next season of content is business as usual with two kits, a death-themed expansion, and another log-in rewards event
- These new Asus Lunar Lake laptops with 27+ hours of battery life kinda prove it's not just x86 vs Arm when it comes to power efficiency
- This $7,000 shark PC might be terrible value for money but it's 1) wicked 2) good for real sharks
- Overwatch 2 has another pricey deal: The once-free Oni Genji skin is available to players who spend $75 in the Blizzard Gear shop first
- Baldur's Gate 3 players are having their hearts thoroughly wrenched by the new evil endings to their companion romances: 'I'll never emotionally recover from this'
- Concord will reportedly still get its Secret Level episode, which feels grimly fitting given how this past year has gone
- Everyone assumes it's game over, but Intel's huge bet on 18A is still very much game on
- The Internet Archive has lost the appeal for its landmark copyright case, agreeing to pay an undisclosed amount to publishers
- Qualcomm has reportedly been eyeing up an acquisition of Intel's chip design business
- Black Myth: Wukong would feel a lot more epic if it didn't keep faking scale so poorly
- Acer says its next gaming PC comes with Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake chips, which seems a little premature
- Chaotic scamp hijacks Deadlock's official Discord bot, announces a fake shutdown, immediately accuses mods of lying, and plunges chat into anarchy
- Bluetooth 6 announced with Apple-like device tracking, lower latency, and improved efficiency
- If you put hot dogs and pickles against an AM radio tower, they act as speakers. Also, don't do that
- Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, as this video shows, feels like a trial run for its inclusion in Hogwarts Legacy 2
- 'What a sad existence': The first cheaters in Deadlock have been spotted, giving players some pretty bad flashbacks to TF2 and CS
- Baldur's Gate 3's new patch has a forbidden evil ending where you get bored and peace out, just before your moment of bloody triumph
- This Lenovo AI laptop concept creepily follows you around the room with its ever-watchful screen
- Fraudster charged with $12 million in stolen royalties used 1,000 bots to stream hundreds of thousands of AI tracks billions of times
- How to customise armour in Space Marine 2 and create your own chapter
- Senior crew on a US warship installed an unauthorised Starlink dish attached to a wooden pallet and were discovered because the network was named 'STINKY'
- The Sims 4 is now a decade old, the longest-running game in the series, and its age is seriously showing
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, September 6
- September 5
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- Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 tweaked one of the game's most brutal scenes to twist the knife even more
- Slork
- You can buy every RPG Larian ever made before Baldur's Gate 3 for around $30 on Steam right now
- 'How big can we go?': PUBG creator Brendan Greene on founding a studio to build his Earth-sized digital world
- The first Black Ops 6 beta was bland even for Call of Duty
- Some of Baldur's Gate 3's new evil endings are so nasty they're hard to watch, and there's a unique variation for each origin character
- If your favorite Baldur's Gate 3 mods don't work with the new update yet, Larian will let you stick with the older version instead
- Automatons beware: The next major Helldivers 2 patch will overhaul armor penetration later this month
- At PAX West, perennial mad lad Swen Vincke once again said Baldur's Gate 3 was somehow going to be even bigger: 'In our heads, we were going to have so many more regions to make'
- Ubisoft's slump continues: Star Wars Outlaws fails to turn things around, XDefiant numbers are sliding, and we still don't know where The Sands of Time is
- A Hogwarts Legacy sequel is one of Warner Bros' 'biggest priorities'
- Acer's just announced a 600 Hz monitor that can surely only be for those with superhuman vision
- VKB Gladiator NXT EVO F-14 Combat Edition + STECS Throttle System review
- The Silent Hill 2 devs explain why you won't need to use UI in the remake: Instead, James will just glare at things devilishly
- 'Stay tuned for November'—Qualcomm CEO teases high-performance desktop CPUs, just months after saying 'You should expect to see Qualcomm in every PC form factor'
- Shure MV6 USB Gaming Microphone review
- Global productivity to crash to zero as Balatro announces it's coming to phones
- 'People can type misinformation into a word processor': Bill Gates hand-waves the problem of AI fakery and focuses on the positives
- Dezctop Bifrost Elite 160 review
- Kinesis Form review
- 'We love making the game you love to play': State of Decay 2 devs prepare the last update after 6 years as attention turns to State of Decay 3
- Baldur's Gate 3 patch 7—the RPG's final major update—is here with an in-game mod browser, evil endings too vile for streaming, and new Honour Mode actions to be scared of
- Planning to play The War Within? Here's everything you need to know about World of Warcraft's story at the start of The Worldsoul Saga
- Scalpers swarm eBay as Concord kicks the bucket, charging punters up to $25,000 for physical copies of the PS5 edition—and some are spending hundreds
- Arcane: Season 2 gets the mother of all trailers in the lead-up to its release in November—teases an explosive finale to the war between Piltover and Zaun
- Gimmick 2's platforming offers a satisfying frustration I haven't felt since Celeste
- Deadlock's best girl is (judging by the fanart) a scrunkly gargoyle with a flat cap and severe back issues, who just so happens to be an absolute sweetheart
- How Dungeon Stalkers is trying to make the extraction genre more approachable for everyone
- Looks like Intel has quietly killed the 20A process, announcing that no Arrow Lake chip will use its first Angstron Era node
- 'They clearly aren't ready for stats sites yet': Valve prevents a Deadlock tracker from getting any more information on matches
- Nvidia RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 are reportedly set to have their designs finalised this month and their TDPs might be lower than some thought
- Star Wars Outlaws director confesses being 'a little disappointed with the Metacritic' but says 'we're never going to stop improving it'
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's skill trees might've twisted my node-loving, build-tinkering sicko arm just enough to get me excited about playing it
- Space Marine 2 early access and global release times
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, September 5
- The latest gameplay videos for Dragon Age: The Veilguard make me think I should play something other than a mage this one time
- September 4
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- Spectre Divide lowers skin prices just hours after launch: 'We took a swing that we thought would best set us up to support the game. Turns out we swung a bit high'
- Concord's catastrophic failure has made me even more worried about Bungie's Marathon
- Harebrained reveals its first game following split from Paradox: A survival-horror RPG where you blast limbs off your enemies and then attach them to your own body
- WoW's 20th anniversary event will bring Blackrock Depths as a revamped raid, a return to the opening of Ahn'Qiraj, classic dungeon timewalking, and modernized Tier 2 transmogs
- Helldivers 2 players get all wound up as galactic map briefly reveals the presence of the Illuminate, but Arrowhead CEO dismisses it all as 'fake news'
- Steam's approval process dinged this indie game remake for being a remake of the game it's remaking: 'Seems identical to the game you put out 11 years ago'
- Couch PC gaming could get a whole load more convenient as Microsoft has started testing a virtual keyboard layout for controllers
- It looks like you won't be able to uninstall Recall, the controversial AI-assisted Windows 11 screen-capping feature, and I can't say I'm too surprised
- Deadlock's pause update changed one of its most annoying features to try and stop players from turning the MOBA into a slideshow
- Spine – This is Gun Fu is shaping up to be a high-octane John Wick simulator and a lot of fun, but it'll all hinge on how its team sands down the rough edges
- Intel's Navajo 'Pentium' rug is a ridiculously accurate likeness of a '90s CPU
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 performance analysis—Blurry upscaling, mushy graphics, and so-so frame rates
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 review
- Atlus lead says he'd like to do Persona 1 and 2 remakes, but you're not getting them any time soon
- The first Minecraft movie trailer is here, and now I'm thinking the Borderlands film might not be the worst thing to happen to cinema in 2024
- Counter-Strike 2 pro falls foul of the SnapTap ban and fesses up: 'embarrassing and amateur'
- Acer's new gaming laptop concept has a pop-out gamepad that splits into two like a Switch controller
- Until Dawn remake dev hit by bone-deep layoffs just a month before the game comes out
- If Deadlock is your first MOBA, here are 6 tips to suck less at it
- Elon Musk's monster wakes up as xAI turns on 'Colossus', the Nvidia-powered AI-training supercomputer claiming to be the most powerful in the world
- Acer joins the handheld gaming PC market with the Nitro Blaze 7 but it's late and lacking innovation
- No Man's Sky finally delivers the perfect reason to explore a few trillion planets: to go fishing
- Uwe Boll's $2.5 million Postal movie crowdfunder is a trainwreck, forced to abort after raising $850 and the game's devs say they 'have no f***** idea' who the people behind it are
- Concord players are instantly throwing themselves off maps for XP in a last-ditch attempt for achievements before the servers close in just 2 days
- Nvidia says it hasn't been subpoenaed by the DoJ, but has been in touch with investigators: 'We are happy to answer any questions regulators may have about our business'
- 'Worse than horse armour'—Age of Mythology: Retold is charging $6 for 22-year-old jpegs, giving the DLC 'very negative' Steam reviews before the game's even out
- A new Cyberpunk 2077 board game crowdfunding campaign hit its goal in 10 minutes and is now well past a million dollars
- This absurd delivery game where you can smash through buildings was my favourite game at an event where I also played the Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill remakes
- Borderlands players cracked a secret cipher to find 'the most valuable SHiFT code we've ever made'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, September 4
- Is there any chance of a Concord comeback? Here are 5 other times major PC games failed to launch, and what happened next
- Oof, I forgot that Concord has an episode in upcoming TV series Secret Level
- September 3
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- Fresh off a cozy fuzzy animal set, Magic: The Gathering is going full horror again
- Gundam Breaker 4 is the ideal mech building sandbox for mobile suit sickos
- Concord developer expresses gratitude for support following the sudden shutdown: 'For all of you reaching out with love, you are the reason we make games'
- Spectre Divide launches with outrageous $90 gun skins out the gate, which only makes its broken matchmaking more annoying
- 10 major Sims 4 features I totally forgot it didn't have at launch 10 years ago
- Court locks in Bungie's $4.4 million win against Destiny 2 cheat maker, refuses request for a new trial
- The new Pico 4 Ultra headset could challenge Meta Quest 3's VR dominance, but only if your country makes the shortlist
- This reimagined NES game reminded me that remakes can be awesome, actually
- 'There's a plane bro': A Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 calling card seemed to reference 9/11 before getting removed
- Risk of Rain 2's creators, along with 'many other' devs from Hopoo, have been snapped up by Valve—which means the end of the studio's unannounced game
- Dragon's Dogma 2 was the sign-off for Capcom legend Hideaki Itsuno, who's leaving to do his own thing after three decades at the top
- Concord is being taken offline this week as Sony looks to 'explore options' that will 'better reach our players'
- Pinch me! I'm now prepping for my dream PC port of classic Nintendo 64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie as this fan-made decompilation project hits 100%
- MSI is the first to bundle Intel's new Lunar Lake chip inside a handheld gaming PC alongside a chunky 80 Whr battery
- Intel says Core Ultra 9 288V leads AMD's HX 370 in games by 16%, Meteor Lake by 31% and the less said about Qualcomm the better
- Intel says it's built 'the most efficient x86 processor ever' in Lunar Lake and its power savings are headed for desktop soon
- Lexip Kakashi Kamui Naruto Shippuden controller review
- Baldur's Gate 3's bear sex scene was such an 'upward turn in momentum for the game' that its animator called his mum to show it off: 'She was like, that's weeeird!'
- CD Projekt CEO confirms the developer is 'definitely planning to do more in terms of animation' after the success of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
- 'I want to incorporate more changes, I don't want to take a conservative approach': Final Fantasy 14 game director Yoshi-P expresses a desire to shake things up in the future
- The win rates for Deadlock heroes have been revealed, and in the last 11 days, one character has been played over 2.5 million times
- Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is downright gorgeous, and feels like it's using modern tech to fully realise the atmosphere the first game strove for
- Lexip Sasuke Revenge Naruto Shippuden review
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer says he's made the 'worst game choice decisions,' letting exclusives like Destiny slip through his fingers
- Windows 11 is now the most popular OS for Steam users worldwide, though it took longer than Windows 10 did
- Rocksteady reportedly begins a round of layoffs after Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's shortcomings, slashes its QA team's numbers in half
- Bethesda bans Doom mod about a resurrected mech-demon Margaret Thatcher because it's apparently a bit close to 'real-world politics'
- Intel's Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs won't have the instability issues affecting 13th and 14th Gen processors
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, September 3
- September 2
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- Check out the PSX vibes on spooky, lo-fi horror mystery Pinnacle Point
- Satisfactory's top-tier quantum tech will let you transmute metals like an alchemist
- Cairn might be the best climbing game I've ever played, and I wish it was released already
- Acer Predator Helios 18 review
- WoW's auction house broke for nearly a week, thanks to a code change that made a database table go from roughly 40,000 rows to 'tens of millions'
- Slow down—World of Warcraft: The War Within's best stories lie in its side quests and optional conversations
- 'The Beatles had a 25% hit rate': Randy Pitchford reassures fans that he'll carry on 'making stuff' even after a disastrous Risk of Rain 2 expansion and the Borderlands movie
- Intel's CEO is reportedly set to present cost-cutting plan to the board and may 'slice off unnecessary businesses'. Ouch
- Deadlock dev discusses Valve's progress on perfecting MMR, 'It'll be more effective once we finish a full rewrite of the matchmaking system'
- AMD officially launches the Ryzen 5 7600X3D but in limited numbers and only through one US seller
- Mouse: P.I. for Hire devs share ambitions to make a game that's more than 'just a cool art project': A satirical metroidvania shooter with 'adult, deep, gripping storylines'
- Microsoft might be planning to let AI loose on your local video and audio files with Windows 11 'intelligent media search'
- OpenAI plans to build its own AI chips on TSMC's forthcoming 1.6 nm A16 process node
- Star Wars Outlaws: Where to find the market trader in the Counterfeit Credits quest
- Larian looked to popular homebrew D&D rules for Baldur's Gate 3: 'We were like—okay, we're not crazy, some people do it, so maybe we can try it as well'
- Just in time for Labor Day, Ayaneo handheld gaming PCs are now available in the US at Best Buy
- How MechWarrior 5: Clans is bringing a narrative focus and intricate, handcrafted missions back to the storied series
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, September 2
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 2, 2024)
- Crusader Kings 3 players have pet their digital cats and dogs over 11 million times
- Risk of Rain 2 creators comment on Gearbox's first DLC without them: 'It's great to see new content for the game, but it's hard to see growing pains of the new team in real time'
- A hardcore, turn-based zombie survival roguelike is getting good buzz on Steam
- September 1
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- This demake of King's Quest 6 has been 18 years in the making
- 'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike
- Frostpunk 2 will have official modding support
- Why Doom 3 is still an important and misunderstood game
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, September 1
- Baldur's Gate 3 devs considered a first-person dialogue camera, weren't sure it would have cinematics: 'the next thing we know they're zooming in on a goblin toe'
- With its 10th and final update, Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition is complete
