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January 31
- Silent Hill returns, as DLC for a party game
- Factorio 1.1 allows beautiful blueprint flipping, other quality of life changes
- Garry's Mod successor Sandbox is looking lit in new development update
- Here's Halo deathmatch and CTF maps in Dark Souls, for up to 18 players
- This week in PC gaming: Nioh 2 finally hits PC, a new squirrel surveillance sim arrives
- Mysterious Total War: Warhammer teaser hints at something, honestly your guess is as good as ours
- Plague Inc: The Cure is out right now and totally free
- Warner Bros. filed a patent for the Mordor games' nemesis system
January 30
- With a Black Lotus sold at $500k, Magic: The Gathering hits a new level
- Rust is getting delivery drones so your clan can be murder Amazon
- Lawsuit claims Valve is abusing its market dominance to keep prices high
January 29
- Uh oh, this ghillie suit is literally turning Call of Duty: Warzone players invisible
- Major Session update basically makes it Rodney Mullen's Pro Skater
- Overwatch League's LA Valiant drops all its players in move to China
- BioMutant developers went silent for so long so they could fix bugs without crunching
- HROT is a new retro-FPS that looks like Dusk in the mid-80s Soviet Union
- Hitman 3 DLC is 'definitely' coming, IO Interactive says
- Ashwalkers is a grim outdoor hike from Dontnod co-founder Hervé Bonin
- Intel's Rocket Lake is looking red hot... for all the wrong reasons
- Riot mocks Valorant hackers, says it will ban anyone who 'rides the cheat bus on the highway to hell'
- Old School Runescape is coming to Steam next month
- Cooler Master unleashes four new high-refresh QHD gaming monitors
- It took a global effort to take down the 'world's most dangerous' malware botnet
- Left 4 Dead 2 finally gets an 'uncut' update in Germany
- Leaked benchmarks put Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti GPU within a whisker of RTX 3090
- Destiny 2 is scrapping weekly bounties and ramping up recoil
- Intel kills off ridiculous Core i9 10900K packaging
- Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator is free-to-keep on Steam for a limited time
- This USB microphone is on sale for $6 on Amazon for some reason
January 28
- Immortals Fenyx Rising now has a free demo and new DLC
- Fortnite is getting a Gangnam Style emote because I guess it's 2012 again
- Rocket League is getting an NFL mode with ball carrying and out-of-bounds rules
- Ninja Theory's 4v4 hero brawler Bleeding Edge will get no further content updates
- Glitchpunk is a top-down action game that looks a neon version of Grand Theft Auto 2
- Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition is free on the Epic Store
- Valve bans 37 CS:GO coaches caught cheating with a spectator bug
- Alba: a Wildlife Adventure helps plant over 450,000 trees
- Sonic seems to be getting a new voice actor after 10 years, but who should play him next?
- Almost 750 million free games were claimed on the Epic Games Store last year
- Cyberpunk 2077's game-breaking Down On The Street bug has been fixed
- Intel is getting the team back together as it hires another engineering veteran
- Evil Genius 2: World Domination will be out in March
- Here's how to find Assassin's Creed Valhalla's secret bow the right way
- Resident Evil Village actor Jeanette Maus dies aged 39
- You can play Cyberpunk 2077 on the gaming PC inside the new Tesla Model S
- Activision refuses to adopt diverse hiring practices across the company
- Corsair's wicked fast MP600 Pro Hydro X SSD comes with its own water block
- Nvidia RTX 3080s are being sold on eBay for an average of $1,300, 85% over MSRP
- This Soulcalibur 6 mod lets you dunk on Geralt as Bernie Sanders
- Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 hard drops on Steam in March
- Wall Street Bets Discord server returns following ban
- Tomb Raider will get the Netflix anime treatment
- Massive Fallout: New Vegas mod The Frontier taken offline by its creators
January 27
- The White House is 'monitoring the situation' as Reddit pushes GameStop stock even higher
- Scavengers Studio suspends creative director after harassment allegations
- Here's 28 seconds of a Korean acapella group making Windows startup sounds you didn't know you needed
- CDPR shuts down Cyberpunk mod that let players have 'sex' with Keanu Reeves
- Tencent acquires a minority stake in Life is Strange developer Dontnod
- EA reveals its new Skate studio, Full Circle
- Fallout 76 now lets you stash 50% more junk
- One week on, Hitman 3 has recouped its development costs
- Intel's $475m assembly plant investment may pave way to more complex chips
- Can Apple build the perfect VR headset? The turtlenecks are certainly trying
- Yes, every NPC in Hitman's Sapienza map will fit inside a single meat freezer
- Intel's first Xe graphics card only works with Intel CPUs and mobos
- Firefox update kills Adobe Flash support and protects against evil supercookies
- Behold this stunning ray-traced Minecraft recreation of The Lord Of The Rings' Minas Tirith
- Intel's making some seriously beefy GPUs too, just so you know
- With 28 flavours, graphics card names mean almost nothing for next-gen Nvidia gaming laptops
- Psyonix promise fixes after Rocket League's new arena gave some people seizures
- AMD says CPU and GPU supply will be tight until second half of 2021
- GameStop share price hits a new record high after Elon Musk tweets about it
- Blackwood, the next chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online, will be out in June
January 26
- Fall Guys mid-season update will bring a new level, costumes, and another ridiculous name
- GeForce Now beta is coming to Australia in mid-2021
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum delayed to 2022
- Cyberpunk 2077 adds official modding support
- Kevin Hart joins the Borderlands movie cast
- We regretfully demand a visual novel based on these sexy diseases
- Sea of Thieves' first season goes live this week, Plunder Pass details revealed
- Biomutant evolves into a game with a release date
- GPU manufacturers are shipping the first Intel graphics cards to OEMs right now (Updated)
- Now you can play The Elder Scrolls in an Elder Scrolls chair, wearing your Elder Scrolls ring
- New Skyblivion video shows progress with landscapes, caves, and working quests
- Apex Legends cranks the mayhem up to 11 in its Season 8 gameplay trailer
- The Tomb Raider movie sequel has a new director
- Capcom is charging $1500 for Chris Redfield's boring Resident Evil Village coat
- Hearthstone's bugged Journal notification is a terrible itch that none of us can scratch
- Hidden Deep looks like Another World meets the Thing
- Nvidia's touch-sensing trackball promises mouse-like accuracy in a controller
- IO's studio director says its Bond game could be a trilogy
- Intel’s revolutionary 10nm Alder Lake CPU rumoured to be go for September
- Cooler Master said screw it, we're designing our own PSU line in-house
- Cooler Master's new convertible test bench is the ultimate PC flex
- No Man's Sky's very own Rapture is too big to visit
- Grab a month of EA Play for 99 cents
- Over 19 million players grabbed a free copy of Star Wars: Battlefront 2
- TSMC to prioritise production of chips for cars, not your next graphics card
- Celeste Classic 2: Lani's Trek is a free sequel to the original PICO-8 platformer
- This guy built a mining rig in the back of his BMW 'just to annoy gamers'
January 25
- Ninja still fears gossip over streaming with women
- Dragon Age 4 will be set in Tevinter
- This competition to 'win' a 30k job playing games for a year is really weird
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's pro scene starts 2021 with a bang
- Here's what Burnout 3: Takedown looks like inside Grand Theft Auto V
- This keyboard was built for the sole purpose of spamming emotes in Discord
- Runescape is now owned by the world's second-largest private equity firm
- Prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origin finds its lead
- Asus is launching a 'whisper quiet' ROG Strix PC case fan in April
- Gabe Newell believes brain interfaces will create games 'superior' to reality 'fairly quickly'
- Take-Two Interactive takes down GTA Online cheat site, makes it donate proceeds to charity
- In case you missed it: Boston Dynamics robots dancing to '60s rock and roll
- System Shock remake pre-orders arrive alongside a 'final demo' next month
January 24
- Dorfromantik is a bucolic little cityscaping puzzler
- The Hitman 3 Dubai speedrun record? 9 seconds
- PSA: Cyberpunk 1.1 patch introduces save-killing Down on the Street bug
- This week in PC gaming: 3 more Yakuza games, The Medium releases
January 23
- Here's a mod to put Gravity Gloves in Skyrim VR
- Steam's Big Adventure Event celebrates adventure games in all their forms
- Tencent acquires majority stake in Don't Starve studio Klei Entertainment
January 22
- Minecraft's infamous 'Herobrine' world seed has been found
- Cyberpunk 2077's 1.1 patch goes live with fixes and 'stability improvements'
- Euro Truck Simulator 2's tribute to vaccine truckers leads to anti-vax confusion, studio apologizes
- Activision turns Tony Hawk 1+2 developer into a full-time Blizzard support studio
- 35 CS:GO players banned for betting on matches
- Hacking allegations rock a $250,000 Warzone tournament, before descending into chaos
- Halo 3 is getting new armour for the first time in over a decade
- What Cyberpunk 2077's Johnny Silverhand looked like before he became Keanu Reeves
- AMD RX 6800 XT leads the RTX 3080 by up to 14% in Hitman 3 with latest drivers
- Dead by Daylight announces colorblind mode following controversial comments by designer
- Intel confirms radical 10nm Alder Lake CPU is go for later this year
- Watch this GeForce RTX 2070 get modded from 8GB to 16GB of GDDR6 memory
- Take a look at BioWare's cancelled Jade Empire successor, Revolver
- Samsung says its new 90Hz OLED gaming laptop screens will rival standard 120Hz panels
- Asus appears to have strapped a tiny TV to an ROG liquid cooler
- Intel 7nm production looking good says new CEO Pat Gelsinger
- Endless Legend, Space and Dungeon are free to try all weekend
- Nvidia wants you to know 'Max-Q branding is not going away.'
- Indie studio claims that Apex Legends 'rips off' one of its characters
- The Terminator and Sarah Connor are in Fortnite now
January 21
- Hitman 3's banana is one of the best weapons in the game
- Resident Evil Village will include a 6-player deathmatch game called RE:Verse
- Resident Evil Village coming in May, watch the bonkers new trailer and gameplay
- Hearthstone's Darkmoon Races mini-set is live, China-themed bundles and hero portraits on the way
- Puzzle Quest 3 is finally happening, will be out later this year
- A photo of Bernie Sanders at the inauguration is making its way into every videogame
- Galactic Civilizations 3 is free this week on the Epic Store
- New Age of Empires merch celebrates the series' true heroes: sheep
- Apex Legends sends its Season 8 launch trailer out with a bang
- This Skyrim mod turns Solitude into a kaleidoscopic acid trip because why not
- These wireless earbuds let you game across PC, laptop, or Nintendo Switch
- Dyson Sphere Program's planetary production lines enter early access
- Activision Blizzard is currently valued at $72 billion
- Intel's new 'high performance CPU project' tempts Nehalem's lead architect out of retirement
- Try this Nvidia hotfix GPU driver if your games are crashing or SteamVR is stuttering
- Razer's Blackwidow V3 gaming keyboard now comes in Quartz Pink
- Hitman 3's save transfer site is buckling under the pressure
- Critters for Sale is a psychedelic point-and-click fever dream, out in 2021
- Newegg runs raffle where the prize is a chance to pay full price for PC parts
- Golf With Your Friends bought by Team17 for £12 million
- This high-res Sonic hack crams entire stages onto a single screen
- Minecraft gets glowing squids in its new Caves & Cliffs snapshot
- These shoes are an RTX 3080-powered PC
- Valorant's worst map just got a major rework
January 20
- Twitch suspends Donald Trump's account 'indefinitely'
- So, who's making Call of Duty: Warzone now?
- Epic announces Fortnite Competitive 2021 schedule, $20 million prize pool
- These are the 31 gaming companies Tencent invested in last year
- Magical 3D platformer Balan Wonderworld is getting a beefy demo on Steam next week
- Check out some magic harpoon fighting in Olija, an upcoming game from Devolver
- Gabe Newell says Valve has 'games in development that we're going to be announcing'
- Google Chrome finally kills off Adobe Flash
- This fan-made Skyrim trailer uses entirely AI-synthesized voice acting
- EU Commission fines Valve and five PC publishers €7.8 million for 'geo-blocking' games
- Nvidia Shield devices are now Xbox Series X/S and DualSense controller friendly
- Nvidia confirms there will be no RTX 3060 Founders Edition (Updated)
- This 27-inch QHD 165Hz monitor nails it for $235, but you probably can't buy it
- This AI controlled Lego sorting machine is what my childhood dreams were made of
- MSI RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards just for crypto miners mooted
- Innersloth explains why Among Us updates are 'taking so long'
- This $1000 Elder Scrolls wedding ring will guarantee a 'no'
- Call of Duty pro ZooMaa retires due to recurring wrist injury
- These are the gaming mice that support Nvidia's low latency Reflex technology
- Genshin Impact is finally trying to fix its Resin problem
- New Chinese 7nm GPU rivals Nvidia and AMD for performance
- 7 years on, Company Of Heroes 2 finally gets 64-bit support
- Vertex, the ultimate event for 2D and 3D artists, returns on 25 February
- Nvidia’s RTX 2060 and 2060 Super GPUs rumoured to be returning
- Team Ninja have no plans for Nioh 3 'at this point'
January 19
- Bloober Team reveals The Medium system requirements and a new trailer
- Xbox Game Pass for PC is getting 8 new games this month, including Yakuza
- Take-Two Interactive patent could point to a bigger, better world for the next Grand Theft Auto
- Destiny 2 patch notes: Shatterdive and Whisper of Fissure nerfs, out of bounds and raid glitch fixes
- Horizon Zero Dawn PC updates will be slowed so Guerrilla can focus on its next game
- Celeste B-side composers haven't been paid royalties in almost two years
- Darkmoon Races is Hearthstone's first 'mini-set', with 35 new cards
- This procedurally-generated Counter-Strike map has 'tens of millions' of variations
- Fortnite adds a football gamemode, Pelé's goal celebration, and 23 club strips to boot
- Samsung unveils 870 EVO SSDs, which are about as good as SATA drives are going to get
- Arctic is releasing its first new thermal compound in nearly a decade
- Auto Chess closes the loop by announcing a MOBA spin-off
- Now may be a great time to upgrade your RAM, as pricing could be about to rocket
- Highfleet is a bombastic RTS with flying battleships and serious FTL vibes
- All objections to this Ace Attorney reddit bot are overruled
- Make the cast of TF2 recite old memes with this AI text-to-speech tool
- Nvidia says G-Sync Ultimate was 'never defined by nits alone' after dropping 1000+ nits HDR requirement (Updated)
- A new game in the PUBG universe will release on PC and consoles 'by next year'
January 18
- Nuts launch date trailer introduces a big mystery: Why do these squirrels have TNT?
- Ninja Theory's upcoming game takes place in an absurdly photorealistic apartment
- This free puzzler is a clever twist on the Minesweeper formula
- CD Projekt promises a 'vigorous' defense against a second Cyberpunk 2077 lawsuit
- Viking survival game Valheim comes to Steam Early Access in February
- Here's a mind-blowing Terraria map of an Evangelion holding a battleship
- Hydroneer's new Power and Logic update adds complex customization options
- This Bioshock recreation is the big daddy of all Fallout 76 shelters
- Apex Legends' new hero is Fuse, an Aussie hothead with a killer moustache
- Lenovo’s Legion 7 is the 1440p 165Hz 16-inch gaming laptop you desperately want
- Hitman 3's launch trailer is a thrilling murder holiday
- Here's one new graphics card no one is rushing out to buy: the 256-core Pascal GT 1010
- Call of Duty: Warzone outflanks thirdparty stat-tracking apps with a change to privacy settings
- Corsair's full-featured K95 RGB Platinum is on sale for $130 right now
- Intel gives up on making Optane SSDs for consumer desktop PCs
- Google Stadia fans are excitedly guessing what a mysterious 'Project Hailstorm' could be
- This Skyrim mod turns NPCs into adoring fans of the Dragonborn's abs
- Samsung is brewing up next to nothing bezels and sci-fi under-panel cameras for laptops
- Former head of Team Ninja, Tomonobu Itagaki, has set up a new studio
- The first Mini-ITX Nvidia Ampere graphics cards are on the way
- Bloodborne PSX is a lo-fi demake of the Fromsoftware slasher
- Control hits Xbox Game Pass for PC this week
- The creators of Skyrim's massive Enderal mod are making a commercial game
January 17
- Owners of Hitman 2 on PC will get its levels free in Hitman 3 after all
- What does an architect think of Cyberpunk 2077's Night City?
- Spaceship RTS Falling Frontier looks like The Expanse in a very good way
- Cloud Climber is a free walking sim about exploring surreal towers
- After Star Wars Battlefront 2 was given away by Epic, the servers crashed
January 16
- Path of Exile hits all-time player high in wake of latest update
- Hitman 3's Epic Store exclusivity means Hitman 2 levels won't be free (Update: IO says it's going to fix this)
- Dwarf Fortress' upcoming mouse support, tooltips, and good UI are messing with me
- Cyberpunk 2077 staff knew how bad the bugs were before launch, report confirms
- Here's a bit more detail about that in-engine Stalker 2 trailer
- Massive Fallout mod The Frontier releases, bringing the apocalypse to Oregon
- Steam Lunar New Year Sale dates have leaked
- Nicolas Cage's next movie is a blatant Five Nights at Freddy's ripoff
January 15
- Hades dev responds to translation criticism, says it paid pros and community members alike
- The Future Tech Awards have arrived with support from five special sponsors
- New shots and details of the Mortal Kombat movie reboot that is 'definitely not gonna get a PG-13 rating' (Updated)
- Future Tech Award Winners 2020
- DisplayPort 2.0 monitors built for high refresh 4K/8K delayed until later this year
- Nvidia's RTX 30-series GPU supply could be constrained until May, CFO says
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's settlements won't sit around waiting to be bombed
- Intel's CEO in waiting tells staff that the company must make better CPUs than Apple
- Grapple Hoops is the Titanfall basketball game I didn't know I needed
- AMD reunites Raja Koduri with his baby: an RX 6800 graphics card
- PC sales are the healthiest they've been in a decade
- Epic's legal battle with Apple and Google comes to the UK
- Eve Spectrum is delayed again as other monitor makers close the spec gap
- Man offers local authorities £50m to help in his hopeless quest for lost bitcoin fortune
- EKWB launches a golden liquid cooler for users 'who want their PCs to sparkle'
- Nod to Source 2 ray tracing support found in Artifact's game files of all places
- Bungie's vast library of Halo stats goes offline next month
- PC gaming's very own Nintendo Switch has raised $1m in just 8 hours on Indiegogo
- MSI begins AM4 BIOS rollout for Re-Size BAR support on Nvidia GPUs
- Watch a spoooky live-action trailer for The Medium
- Axiom Verge just got a surprise Randomizer mode
January 14
- Bungie details Stasis Shatterdive nerf coming in Destiny 2's next update, plus revamped rewards for season 13
- Bomber Crew is free until Saturday in the Humble Store Winter Sale
- Battle.net just got a total makeover
- Riders Republic, Ubisoft's extreme sports MMO, is delayed
- Become an alien tycoon by selling used parts in Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
- Ghost Recon Breakpoint is crossing over with Rainbow Six Siege later this month
- Outriders system requirements announced: 'If you bought a desktop from the last six years, you'll be fine'
- A new Resident Evil Village teaser has fans thirsting for a very tall vampire
- Prison Architect's new expansion lets inmates brew booze and grow 'herbs'
- The most lust-worthy laptops of CES 2021
- Star Wars Battlefront 2: Celebration Edition is free on the Epic Store
- 18 years after release, this Simpsons Hit & Run mod stitches the game's entire world together
- Best bros Ajax and Diomedes are coming to A Total War Saga: Troy
- One of Asus' new 4K 144Hz gaming monitors might even be affordable
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla update grounds floating ships and stops whales fleeing in mid-air
- MSI's top motherboard for Intel's next-gen gaming CPUs costs more than my rent
- This Xtrfy gaming mouse aims to be the last word in FPS accuracy
- Blue Fire will release February 4, looks a bit like a 3D Hollow Knight
- Even AIs can't help but turn into hateful jerks on Facebook
- LG's 'Smart Bed' with 55-inch translucent TV is peak CES, but we're into it
- Take-Two gives up its attempted acquisition of Codemasters
- EK's backplate water block turns your GPU into a liquid-cooled sandwich
- A spot of cel-shading turns Cyberpunk 2077 into a convincing Borderlands sequel
- MSI is making a 7,000MB/s SSD for gamers
- MSI's ridiculously thin RTX 3060-powered gaming laptop sits shorter than a dime
- The next D&D book goes to Candlekeep for a series of short adventures
January 13
- Elder Scrolls Online reveal event delayed to avoid clash with presidential inauguration
- We're giving away 2,500 beta keys for the zero-G shooter Boundary
- CD Projekt apologizes for Cyberpunk 2077 again, new update roadmap pushes back DLC for fixes
- Bethesda says its Indiana Jones game will not impact Starfield or Elder Scrolls 6
- EA is still making Star Wars games, with 'a number of projects' ahead
- Call of Duty: Warzone drops a second, stronger nerf on the dominant DMR 14
- Steam had 120 million monthly users in 2020
- Hogwarts Legacy, the Harry Potter RPG, is delayed until 2022
- Password trouble means $240 million in bitcoin is two incorrect attempts from destruction
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey has been delayed on PC, but not by much
- A Fallout 76 'militia' has been banned from Facebook for the second time
- Intel to begin shifting CPU production to TSMC later this year
- Top engineer Pat Gelsinger to return to Intel as new CEO
- These Nvidia RTX 3060 specs have us a little worried about its real-world gaming performance
- Graphics card prices are increasing, but EVGA will honour pre-tariff MSRPs in its GPU queue
- Ubisoft is working on an open world Star Wars game
- Dead Cells' Fatal Falls DLC has a homicidal pet sword that flies, and a new trailer
- PNY just took the SSD speed crown with a new drive rated to hit 7,500MB/s
- There are AMD Ryzen 5000 laptop chips still using the slower Zen 2 architecture instead of Zen 3
- AMD's new 65W Ryzen 5000 desktop chips are for OEMs only
- Overwatch has a new Tokyo-inspired map and Hanzo challenge
- AMD's RDNA graphics are heading for your smartphone
- Tim Schafer has wrapped up work on Psychonauts 2's script
- The ESA pauses political contributions following US Capitol attack
- Twitch's new PogChamp rotation results in racist harassment and threats
- Call of Duty: Warzone streamer wins the gulag while playing a recorder
January 12
- More than two billion tweets about videogames were posted in 2020
- Mundaun, a hand-pencilled tale of horror in the Swiss Alps, is coming in March
- Grand Theft Auto 5 voice actors recreate the 'Lamar Roasts Franklin' scene
- The Sims 4 is getting a Paranormal Pack just in time for 3 months after Halloween
- Of course this Razer N95 respirator has RGB lighting
- Razer's Project Brooklyn looks like an epic highchair for gamers
- Call of Duty: Warzone is getting DLSS and you should definitely turn it on
- The Asus ROG Flow X13 is the most exciting laptop at CES 2021
- Nvidia's AI smarts make RTX 30-series gaming laptops twice as efficient as last gen machines
- Nvidia's $999 RTX 3060 gaming laptops offer 30 percent higher performance than a PS5
- New Razer Blade gaming laptops pair QHD panels with Nvidia's new RTX 30-series GPUs
- Nvidia announces RTX 3060 12GB for $329, launching late February
- AMD introduces new HX mobile processors for laptop gaming
- AMD's new Ryzen 9 5900HX laptop chip topples Intel's top CPU for portable gaming
- Play Call Of Duty: Cold War's zombies mode for free all week
- AMD confirms RDNA 2 gaming laptops and mainstream RX 6000 graphics cards in H1 2021
- Watch the Nvidia GeForce RTX: Game On Special Broadcast Event with us - live updates
- Bethesda reveals a new Indiana Jones game being made by Wolfenstein studio MachineGames
- The Capcom hack may have affected just under 400,000 peoples' data
- AMD CES 2021 Keynote - live updates
- Tune in here for the Nvidia GeForce Special Event and the latest in gaming laptops and GPUs
- Stronghold: Warlords has been delayed until March because multiplayer is 'simply not ready'
- Intel pits Xe against Big Navi using 7nm 'enhanced' process for its gaming GPU
- Netgear announces a $600 router that connects in a way your Wi-Fi 6 model can't
- How to watch AMD's CES 2021 keynote with CEO Lisa Su
- These are the Intel Z590 motherboards desperate for your attention
- Viewsonic unleashes new 144Hz 4K and 240Hz QHD gaming monitors
- Return to Castle Monkey Ball is exactly what you think it is
- Jane Austen's MMO for socialites shuts down
- Warcraft director Duncan Jones wrote an entire script for a Full Throttle movie, and you can read it here
- This Cyberpunk 2077 mod makes Night City's weather appropriately crap
- Riot and Bungie team up to sue cheat maker
- GhostWire: Tokyo will apparently release in October
January 11
- Calls to nerf Warzone's DMR are bleeding into the real world
- Intel demos Alder Lake CPU with new enhanced 10nm SuperFin process. Are we on SuperFin+ now?
- Hitman 3 locations revealed in this spoiler-free travelogue
- TheGrefg shatters Twitch record with more than 2 million viewers during Fortnite skin reveal
- Intel just announced Rocket Lake blasting off early 2021 with 19 percent IPC boost
- Intel's creating a new level of Ultraportable gaming laptop all its own with 35W Tiger Lake CPUs
- Hearthstone Battlegrounds players are using a Windows firewall exploit to get extra turn time
- Lucasfilm Games returns as the official home of Star Wars games and more
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition may be coming in March
- OnlyCans is a thirst trap-soaked game about sexy sodas
- Riot changes Valorant's ranking system to be 'much easier to understand, more fair'
- Kingston's Ghost Tree is a surprisingly cool name for a next-gen 7,000MB/s SSD
- LG outs 160Hz 1ms 4K panel, plus first OLED monitor, 40-inch 5K2K model and more
- Defunctland's VR amusement park revives a long-dead Disney ride
- New benchmarks show Intel Rocket Lake chips leading Comet Lake and AMD Zen 3 in single-core
- AMD views Ryzen 5000 CPU temperatures up to 95C as ‘typical and by design’
- Brits spent more on games in 2020 than TV shows and movies combined
- The latest Intel Rocket Lake motherboard leaks show Asus has hit peak ROG
- Polish regulator investigates CD Projekt over Cyberpunk 2077's troubled launch
- Nvidia's mobile Ampere GPUs and answer to AMD Smart Access Memory set for CES reveal
- More Final Fantasy games are arriving on Xbox Game Pass in 2021
- An ironic Rainbow Six: Siege exploit let strangers enter private lobbies uninvited
- Warzone's infinite stim glitch is back
- LG releases smallest OLED panel yet, heading for your PC... soon?
- Dead By Daylight is getting a new HUD, animations, matchmaking, and more
- Five years after release, Planetary Annihilation: Titans is still being updated
- Gotham Knights' heroes level up while you're not playing them
January 10
- The Stardew Valley Expanded mod is ready for 1.5 with a big new farm
- Nightdive shows VR controls for System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition
- Side-scrolling comic beat em up Scott Pilgrim vs The World coming this week
- AGDQ 2021 brings in $2.7M in charitable donations
- This week in PC gaming: CES 2021, indie games kick off the new year
- Tetris champion Jonas Neubauer has died
- Play Pokémon on your computer, in Twitter, in someone's avatar
- The Borderlands movie is about to start filming in Hungary
- No More Room in Hell 2 pops up a Steam page
January 9
- Ancient Abyss is a speedy, Zelda-like Dungeon Crawler
- Create sound effects for games (or just for fun) with this awesome tool
January 8
- Cyberpunk 2077 flying mod lets you soar over Night City
- Microsoft Flight Simulator is too slow to keep up with this third-party F-15 add-on
- Techland confirms Dying Light 2 lead writer has left but says 'exciting news' is coming
- Dragon Age 4 executive producer reveals some new concept art
- Fallout 76 testing stash size increases and better Pip-Boy sorting
- Hearthstone (finally) nerfs Edwin VanCleef and Boggspine Knuckles
- Twitch will rotate in a new PogChamp emote every 24 hours from now on
- Teamfight Tactics will pick up the pace with a new 'simpler and much faster' mode this year
- League of Legends' new champion can possess any player he helps kill, and gets a free Ult for doing so
- The first Intel Rocket Lake Z590 motherboard looks like an overclocking beast
- Acer's new Predator gaming monitor brings 275Hz to a 1440p IPS. Absolute monster
- John Lin's physics sandbox returns with the best water I've ever seen
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive removes bots from competitive
- Far Cry 5 mapmaker perfectly recreates a block of dismal Edinburgh flats
- You can now buy NZXT's H1 case without worry it will catch on fire
- Here's another Switch-a-like PC prototype, but it's about time someone pulled the trigger
- Call Of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War goes nuclear in next week's mid-season update
- Download Nvidia's latest driver update to fix newly disclosed security flaws
- Hi-Rez Studios reveals 2021 plans for Rogue Company, Paladins, and Smite
January 7
- Neverwinter's next expansion returns to some of its first zones
- Epic now owns Bink Video maker RAD Game Tools
- What should replace the PogChamp emote on Twitch?
- Twitch bans Trump
- This Witcher 3 mod gives Geralt a snowboard to shred the slopes of Skellige
- Path of Exile 2 is most likely coming in 2022
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 goes free on the Epic Store next week
- PUBG's new reputation system wants you to play nice
- Steam client beta adds extended support for PS5 and Xbox controllers
- Doom comes to Fall Guys on January 12
- MicroLED displays are heading for CES 2021, but not to your PC
- FIFA's Ultimate Team is a 'long way' from gambling, says former EA Sports president
- A brief summary of the cheating scandal surrounding YouTube's biggest Minecraft speedrunner
- Zachtronics turned a lockdown hobby into a free competitive card game
- Adata's DDR5 RAM is optimised for 'latest Intel platforms' and coming to CES 2021
- Intel's 11th Gen desktop CPUs could be split between two different architectures
- Duracell spokesman claims Xbox controllers still use AA batteries because of a 'constant agreement' with the battery maker
- Warzone players think the nerfed DMR is still OP
- Mortal Kombat 11 mod adds a stomach-churning first-person camera
- Noctua's passive cooler has been delayed, again
- Biomutant is expected to launch within the next few months
- Apex Legends developer Respawn is working on a new project
- Twitch removes PogChamp emote: 'We can't in good conscience continue to enable use of the image'
- A lost Tomb Raider remake has resurfaced, and you can play it
January 6
- Job listings suggest the next inXile game will be a first-person shooter RPG
- Koei Tecmo is suing the makers of a nude-modded Dead or Alive DVD
- CD Projekt says alleged developer post about Cyberpunk 2077's cut content is 'simply not true'
- The storming of the US Capitol is currently Twitch's top stream
- These Diablo 3 speedrunners beat two world records with one outrageous run
- Outriders is delayed until April 1, but a demo is coming in February
- Call of Duty: Warzone's most annoying guns have finally been nerfed
- This new Intel motherboard is so adorably tiny, I can't even
- What Remains Of Edith Finch comes to Xbox Game Pass this month
- Dishonored co-creator Harvey Smith is working on a new project
- Gigabyte joins MSI in confirming Intel's next-gen Rocket Lake CPUs are arriving in March
- Competitive Call Of Duty: Warzone players are cheating their way into bot matches
- Microsoft's getting ready for some "reinvigorating" Windows 10 UI updates
- Sunlight is a hand-painted hike from the creator of Among The Sleep
- Intel’s Xe DG2 graphics to get 512 EUs and AMD-rivalling shader power
January 5
- Hitman 3's 'persistent shortcuts' will encourage exploration by making it easier to get around
- Everspace 2 comes to Steam and GOG on January 18
- Call of Duty: Warzone has eaten Modern Warfare
- The Sinking City is returning to Steam and other storefronts, but the legal battle isn't over yet
- One of these Among Us cookies is a habanero-flavored imposter
- Minecraft Earth is closing in June
- Pathologic studio's new game is an 'emotional' adventure about life in post-Soviet Russia
- This Warzone player somehow brought a full loadout into the Gulag
- Tech tariffs and scarcity add up to big PC hardware price hikes, and Asus is kicking it off
- Bloks is a cutesy god game by way of Tetris
- Almost every Persona soundtrack is now available on Spotify and Apple Music
- AMD RX 6700 XT and RX 6700 rumoured for a late March launch
- Cyberpunk 2077 mod allows a new, fully voiced romance option for male Vs
- The Medium braces for release with 14 minutes of new footage
- A prolific Flash developer is preserving one of his games with a Gameboy port
- Leaks point to an Nvidia RTX 3060 Ultra in the making
- The Sims 4 x MAC Cosmetics collaboration palette gets taken down [Updated]
- Linux founder lambastes Intel for 'pushing shit to consumers' and not promoting ECC RAM
- A Slay the Spire board game is coming
- A contentious Call Of Duty: Warzone app let players manipulate SBMM
January 4
- Beloved World of Warcraft cosplayer Jarod Nandin has died
- Runescape celebrates its 20th anniversary with a 'Grand Party' and special rewards
- Rust tops a million peak viewers on Twitch, thanks to dozens of big-time streamers
- This Arma highlight reel makes for a great videogame war movie
- The next big Teamfight Tactics update will swap in 20 champions this month
- Bethesda teases 'the future' of The Elder Scrolls with a map and a cryptic tweet
- LG to showcase worlds first convertible, bendable gaming monitors at CES 2021
- Hitman 3 will retroactively optimise the first two games
- Stardew Valley's appetising new mod overhauls the cooking experience
- Over 100 million PCs still run Windows 7 a year after Microsoft ended support
- MSI suggests Intel's next-gen gaming CPUs are launching late March
- Valve permabans match-fixing esports club and five Dota 2 pros, including a former winner of The International
- Apex Legends enters the ring for this week's Fight Night collection event
- Nvidia gaming laptop GPU specs leak, but is it really an RTX 3080?
- Epic spent some of that Fortnite cash on an actual mega mall
- Here's your Cyberpunk 2077 third-person mod
- Psychonauts 2 update says it's almost finished, will be out in 2021
January 3
- Red Dead Redemption 2 is Steam's game of the year 2020
- Diablo 3's Darkening of Tristram returns this month
- Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 kicks off today
- Nier: Automata's final secret was found nearly 4 years after its release
- Cyberpunk 2077 speedrunners have found a bunnyhop exploit
January 2
- Bee tycoon sim Hive Time gets chat integration, other new additions
- Age of Empires 4 is being played right now
- Steam cracks 25M concurrent users as the new year begins
- Former Little Nightmares devs' upcoming sci-fi game has strong action horror vibes
- The final Binding of Isaac expansion comes in March
- Death Stranding's Chiral Network is nonsense, but there's science behind it