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- August 31
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- Call of Duty: Warzone cheater stars in official anti-cheat ad, keeps on cheating anyway
- VVVVVV gets its first update in seven years, and it's a big one
- Say goodbye to Apex Legends' best movement exploit
- Dead Space reboot shows off its 'super precise' alien carving technology
- Surviving Mars will soon let you drill underground, accidentally abandon colonists on asteroids
- A game where you're the ship that blocked the Suez Canal
- CD Projekt hires community mod makers to work on Cyberpunk 2077
- This realistic glass block in Minecraft is ludicrously impressive
- Windows 11 launches on October 5
- Hacker kids' parents sued over $780k of stolen cryptocurrency
- South Korea passes law with major implications for Apple vs Epic
- Kaspersky blocked 5.8M malware attacks 'disguised as popular PC games' last year
- Man invades live TV show demanding GTA6
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection is bringing the Flood to Firefight
- August 30
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- Yakuza series creator reportedly in talks to join China's NetEase
- DrLupo signs exclusive streaming deal with YouTube
- It will soon be a lot harder to die early to high rollers in Hearthstone Battlegrounds
- Stranger Things 3 is being removed from Steam and GOG, but may soon appear on Netflix's gaming app
- 11th Gen Intel laptop processors are breaking new ground for PC gamers
- Valheim update will let you barf up all those new meals you cook
- No Man's Sky fan modding Sean Murray's head into the game as a form of playful protest
- Destiny 2 player discovers highest DPS, one-shotting toughest raid boss solo
- Resident Evil film reboot reveals Claire, Leon, and the rest of the gang
- Shadow Tactics standalone Aiko's Choice will be out in December
- China really doesn't want young people to play online games
- Henchman Story is a superhero satire from former Outer Worlds writer
- Bring life to a barren world in upcoming roguelite Sandwalkers
- Bleak fantasy RPG Vagrus: The Riven Realms gets October release date
- Fractal Design recalls the fan hub in its Torrent case, get your free replacement
- The Ascent gets another performance patch to address stuttering and bugs
- New Saints Row reboot video has actual gameplay footage
- Sovereign Syndicate is an RPG with tarot instead of dice where you can play an alcoholic minotaur
- August 29
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- The NoSkyrim mod has been banned from Nexus Mods
- Nuclear Throne, Sludge Life, and Broforce devs team up for a slick little card game
- Norman Reedus says he's 'in negotiations' for more Death Stranding
- Here's the trailer for chapter 2 of Fallout 4's best mod
- This week in PC Gaming: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Lake, and Pax West
- Final Fantasy 14 birthday cake will make you want to eat a moogle
- Get three more Leisure Suit Larry games free
- August 28
- August 27
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- Microsoft adds a few more CPUs to Windows 11 compatibility list, but the upgrade process still seems like a mess
- A sports documentary parody about League of Legends players is in the works
- World of Warcraft's next update will remove more developer names
- Starfield will have a 'pleasure dome' where you can get super-high on alien fish
- Peaceful online RPG Book of Travels will no longer launch this month
- Here's why Halo Infinite's campaign wasn't at Gamescom
- Intel XeSS should work on AMD RDNA 2 and Nvidia Ampere, Turing, & Pascal GPUs
- Saints Row devs 'not backing down' over reboot criticisms
- AMD loses more graphics card market share to Nvidia, says report
- Indie dev leaves industry 'indefinitely' thanks to exploitation of Steam's refund policy
- Halo Infinite system requirements
- Blizzard will no longer name characters after real people
- Blasphemous gets a final expansion in December and a sequel is on the way
- August 26
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- Fallout veteran leaves Bethesda after 15 years
- Nintendo exclusive Bravely Default 2 hits Steam next week
- Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl confirmed for PC in latest trailer
- Bungie confirms no new Darkness subclass coming to Destiny 2 next year
- DokeV developers explain what that weird GTA: Babies game is actually about
- This FEAR-like FPS looks cool, also reminds us that sea cucumbers can eject their own organs to scare predators
- In Far: Changing Tides your ramshackle sailboat transforms into a sweet submarine
- Kerbal creator's Balsa flight simulator is launching an open beta right now
- In this spooky metroidvania, your best friend is a teddy bear ghost
- Watch Jeff Goldblum react to a pair of new dinosaurs announced for Jurassic World Evolution 2
- Cute voxel 'fishing RPG' Moonglow Bay is coming soon
- Soulstice's combat has my Devil May Cry senses tingling
- Sci-fi soulslike Dolmen shows off its bug-smashing arsenal ahead of next year's release
- Sail across massive deserts in open world action RPG Sands of Aura
- Barter with frogs the old-fashioned way in cute indie game Trading Time
- Build a beaver empire in Timberborn next month
- Rustler is basically old-school Grand Theft Auto set in a 'historically inaccurate' medieval world
- Project Relic is full of Dark Souls, but looks like it's still seeking its own
- Life is Strange: True Colors shows how empathy is a superpower in a new trailer
- World of Warships uses bonus code to say 'FK U' to streamer, uses another code to apologize
- Overwatch's McCree is being renamed
- New Phasmophobia ghosts are available today
- Skate reboot is confirmed for PC
- One of July's biggest Steam hits was a free chicken-stacking game you can finish in 5 minutes
- I'm pretty sure people would buy Corsair's gigantic joke cooling fan
- You can now watch Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech in Fortnite
- How to watch the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2021
- South Korea is getting rid of its controversial gaming curfew law
- Watch these amazing Skyrim Sopranos mashups ya goombas
- This liquid cooler's CPU block is also a 1440p monitor with its own HDMI input
- 'Maybe' Nvidia will release a GeForce GPU that's faster than the RTX 3090 this year, leaks suggest
- Townscaper's seaside dioramas make for adorable 3D prints
- Discord shoots for $15bn value as social media exodus continues
- Saints Row: The Third Remastered is free on the Epic Games Store
- Saints Row modder and Volition community developer Mike Watson, aka IdolNinja, has died
- August 25
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- Hellish pixel platformer Valfaris goes 2.5D in forthcoming sequel
- Kinguin backs down, removes Frostpunk 2 preorder key listing
- Game that looks like GTA: Babies baffles world with context-free Gamescom trailer
- Possible new Naraka: Bladepoint characters appear in digital art book
- Windows 10's security was thwarted yet again, this time by SteelSeries peripherals
- Death Stranding Director's Cut looks mad as a hatter
- New World open beta starts September 9
- Martial arts game Sifu gets February release date in new trailer
- The Saints Row reboot will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store on PC
- Valheim's Hearth and Home update releases on September 16
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt comes to Steam Early Access on September 7
- Far Cry 6 story trailer confirms the bad guy is really bad
- Jett: The Far Shore release date announced in new trailer
- Looks like the business, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga does
- Park Beyond is a theme park sim from the Tropico devs
- Here's our first real look at Cold War horror game The Outlast Trials
- Riders Republic is in open beta from now until August 28
- Become a lamb and lead the sheep in Devolver's cute, dark Cult of the Lamb
- TMNT: Shredder's Revenge adds April O'Neil as a playable fighter in new trailer
- I dunno about Call of Duty: Vanguard, but those reload animations sure butter my biscuit
- Call of Duty: Vanguard's gameplay reveal is full of sniping, climbing, and running
- Halo Infinite releases December 8
- Guacamelee dev's new game Nobody Saves the World turns you into a transforming robot egg
- Dream Cycle is an 'ever growing' action-adventure from the creator of Tomb Raider
- Midnight Suns is a Marvel RPG from the XCOM team that plays 'completely different' from XCOM
- King of Fighters 15 release date announced
- Everspace 2 gets an all-new demo with no time limit
- How to watch Gamescom 2021's Opening Night livestream
- Hunt: Showdown's new event introduces deadly bows and throwing axes
- Activision Blizzard HR accused of shredding documents relating to abuse allegations
- Destiny 2's new anti-cheat comes with a performance cost, Bungie warns
- Dr Disrespect is 'suing the fuck out of' Twitch
- Own an AMD Ryzen CPU? Download the latest chipset drivers for 'critical security fixes'
- Intel is building up its Xe-HPG GPU drivers to take on AMD and Nvidia at their own game
- A massive restock of Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs is happening at Best Buy today
- Google has killed Discord's best music bot
- Wasteland 3's final expansion is Cult of the Holy Detonation
- Final Fantasy 4 pixel remaster gets a release date
- Into the Pit is a spellcasting FPS roguelite with lashings of Heretic and Bloodborne
- August 24
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- Crypto-hacker who stole $600 million finally gives the rest of it back
- Activision says it is 'evolving' Warzone's anti-cheat after player claims he was hardware banned
- Has science gone too far? Crusader Kings 3 is being ported to consoles
- Bungie co-founder Jason Jones looks back at the 'buckets of blood' that went into Halo and talks future of computing
- Magic: the Gathering crossing over with Fortnite, Street Fighter, Lord of the Rings, and more
- The 7 most important things coming with Destiny 2's The Witch Queen expansion
- State of Decay 2 celebrates 10 million lifetime players with remastered map
- Stray Blade is a new Souls-like with 'ironman' combat and a witty wolf
- Forza Horizon 5 shows off its stunning take on Mexico
- Ketchup and mustard-colored Borderlands ships will splash onto Sea of Thieves this week
- Age of Empires 4 briefly turned the Xbox showcase into a lecture about trebuchets
- Competitive multiplayer is coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Dying Light 2: Stay Human trailer showcases new parkour moves and brutal melee combat
- Oculus is doubling the Quest 2's storage on new base models for free
- Black Geyser is a CRPG where greed is bad, actually
- Gjallarhorn is coming to Destiny 2 as part of Bungie's 30th anniversary celebration
- Destiny 2's The Witch Queen expansion introduces weapon crafting
- Apex Legends developer admits it 'missed the mark' with Seer, slams him with nerfs
- Broken Roads is an isometric Aussie Fallout
- This texture pack turns Minecraft blocks into Lego bricks
- Battlefield 2042 cheats are already being sold two months before launch
- How to watch the Gamescom 2021 Xbox stream
- Final Fantasy 14 director has mostly bad news about the server issues
- Destiny 2's The Witch Queen expansion continues to leak like a sieve
- Over half of Windows 11 survey respondents said they plan to upgrade
- Here's how to try Windows 11 right now without installing a thing
- EA is letting developers freely nick Apex Legends' ping system
- Some hero built an old-school Lego space computer that really works
- John Carmack visits Elon Musk's SpaceX Starbase, selfies ensue
- Destiny 2: The Witch Queen teaser shows a very intimidating Savathûn, who is taller than Lady D
- August 23
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- Unity employees reportedly aren't happy about the company's military dealings
- Try Call of Duty: Vanguard's new multiplayer mode in September open beta
- Fortnite finally adds Morty to its Rick and Morty crossover
- Fallout: London mod writer gets a job at Bethesda
- Samsung's DDR5 RAM stacks up to 512GB into a tiny 1mm die
- Modders finally bring Titanfall wallrunning to Apex Legends
- Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot failing at parkour is strangely humbling
- Streamer explains why Twitch hate raids aren't easy to avoid
- Neill Blomkamp ripped his ear off in a Warthog while filming Halo
- Struggling to boot Resident Evil Village? This incoming patch might help
- Windows 10’s security is easily thwarted just by plugging in a Razer peripheral
- It's looking likely that AMD will introduce onboard graphics with Zen 4 Ryzen CPUs
- Stardew Valley to host $40k tournament, is sort of an esport now
- WWE 2K22 will be out in March, here's a trailer
- August 22
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- Solve the puzzle of adorable spaceship engineering in Sunshine Heavy Industries
- Here's a PC case that looks like a Warhammer 40k super-heavy tank
- American McGee's Alice 3 exists, but only as an outline
- This week in PC Gaming: Psychonauts 2, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, and Gamescom 2021
- James McAvoy was so hooked on Oblivion he had to burn the disc
- The Quake remaster brings back a cut section of E2M6
- Skyrim Anniversary Edition comes with everything in the Creation Club
- After months of 'hate raids', streamers plan #ADayOffTwitch
- August 21
- August 20
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- Sony continues to walk the line between pissing off PlayStation owners and putting its games on PC
- Top Twitch streamer Amouranth says investigators 'strongly suspect' fire at her house was arson
- Call of Duty menu meme asks how many CoDs is too many
- Almost a decade after shutting down, Curt Schilling's 38 Studios is finally sending employees money it owes them
- Halo Infinite's campaign co-op and Forge mode are coming months after launch
- Syberia: The World Before brings back Benoit Sokal's strange world in December
- GTA's drunk cousin returns: Saints Row is being rebooted
- Scaramouche is returning to Genshin Impact, this is not a drill
- Atari denies it is owned by Soulja Boy
- Leaked AMD 600-series mobo specs lack PCIe 5.0 support
- Hideo Kojima loves 12 Minutes so much he wants to make a new adventure game
- Elon Musk’s building Tesla Bots now, but don’t panic: he says you can run away from them
- Windows 11 Insider Preview ISO download is out: Here's how to do a clean install of Microsoft's new OS
- Rainbow Six Siege tournament scuppered by IRL structural damage
- Destiny 2's next season announced following leak
- A recent Windows 10 update broke Alt+Tab switching on some PCs, here's how to fix it
- Genshin Impact fans aren't happy with its 'broken' new character
- Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector is adding progression systems and more factions
- August 19
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- Epic Games Store freebies this week include Yooka-Laylee
- Destiny 2's Primary weapons are getting infinite ammo in the next season
- Google once considered teaming up with Tencent to take over Epic Games
- Deathloop PvP will be 'the ultimate test' for players
- Microsoft just unveiled the $60 Xbox Stereo Headset, available for pre-order now
- Skyrim is getting a free fishing update and a new Anniversary Edition later this year
- The Witcher showrunner: 'We need a great Season 2 if we have a hope of having a Season 3'
- Intel's Xe Super Sampling might give Nvidia's DLSS a run for its money
- 'There is a lot of room for optimisation' for gaming on Intel Alder Lake CPUs
- This retro shooter turns Cthulhu into a comic book gore bath
- 11 Bit Studios calls out 'shitty scammer' selling Frostpunk 2 on Kinguin
- Call of Duty: Vanguard dev used San Francisco's creepy red sky to make Stalingrad on fire
- Call of Duty: Vanguard Zombies is being developed by Treyarch
- Call of Duty: Vanguard will launch with way more maps than Black Ops – Cold War
- Good news, Call of Duty: Vanguard runs on the Warzone engine
- Call of Duty: Warzone will finally get a new anti-cheat system this year
- Call of Duty: Vanguard is a post-WW2 game about hunting down Hitler's successor
- The Quake remaster is available now
- Intel Alder Lake contains clever silicon to boost performance on Windows 11
- This Steam account is dedicated to the number 69, which is nice
- Nvidia sold fewer CMP mining GPUs than it expected
- Battlefield 2042 datamine reveals a Tarkov-esque game mode
- Intel's Alchemist graphics cards will be built on TSMC's 6nm process node
- Quake remake rated by the ESRB, more information expected today
- A new Ace Combat game is in development
- Intel XeSS is Alchemist's answer to DLSS and FSR, and can work on anyone's GPU
- Alder Lake's small cores are more exciting for PC gaming than you might think
- Intel EUs are gone! The new building block of its 'gaming first' graphics card is the Xe-core
- Asus launches a 4K 144Hz monitor that ticks all the right boxes for PC and console gaming
- IRL Sims stream controlled by viewers goes as well as you'd expect
- Team Fortress 2 remake now has Half Life: Alyx's liquid shader because Demoman needs good whisky
- El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron gets firm Steam release date
- Myst remake hits PC and Game Pass on August 26
- Splitgate will stay in open beta indefinitely
- August 18
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- Skyrim's 'treasure fox' myth has been explained
- Return to a time when horny videogames made you type: Leisure Suit Larry is now free
- This Sesame Street survival horror game turns Elmo's World into hell
- Chivalry sells 1 million copies, resulting in 7,969 flute-related deaths
- Get a look at some real adventure game logic in this 13-minute Life is Strange: True Colors video
- Top-ranked League of Legends player arrested in Chinese internet cafe after his name is announced to everyone
- The Epic Games Store's equivalent to Steam Direct is in beta
- What working on Amazon's Lumberyard engine was like
- Call of Duty: Warzone hackers are running out of cracked accounts to sell
- Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu will be in the new Super Monkey Ball game
- AMD AM5 socket specs leak including info on monster 170W chip
- Dying Light 2's parkour, combat, and factions to be detailed at Gamescom
- AMD's next-gen GPUs could embrace DisplayPort 2.0 for 8K HDR gaming
- Diablo 2: Resurrected gets an open beta this weekend
- Here come the first DDR5 memory kits with RGB lighting
- I need these gorgeous IRL Minecraft blocks
- Hellraiser's Pinhead is now playable on the Dead by Daylight test server
- 'Aggressive monetisation' is driving prominent players away from World of Warships
- Mass shooting recreations keep finding their way onto Roblox
- During development, the cart in Skyrim's intro was defeated by a single bee
- August 17
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- Among Us dev wishes they could have worked with Epic on Fortnite's 'Impostors' mode
- Indie dev turning down half a million dollars sparks conversation about hostile publisher contracts
- It looks like Will Smith is going to do the 'Bim Bam toi' in Fortnite
- The hacker who stole and gave back $600M has been offered a job and reward from the company he stole from
- EA explains botched decision to remove Ultima Underworld and Syndicate from GOG
- This guy made a real-life aimbot
- Players knew Cyberpunk 2077's first free DLC would be small, but not this small
- Ubisoft Singapore under investigation for alleged workplace harassment and sexual assault
- Nvidia's old 16-series GPU outperforms the RTX 3050 in a budget gaming laptop face off
- Pinocchio is Dark Souls now, sorry
- Fortnite has a new Among Us-style game mode
- Street Fighter V update fixes Sakura's borked face
- Intel's Alchemist GPU looks promising in this gameplay video
- PNY's new DDR5 RAM kit should arrive in time for Intel Alder Lake
- Outriders developer doesn't even know how many copies the game sold
- Apex Legends streamer grinds to top rank in a marathon 54-hour session
- AMD's newest GPU drivers reduce power usage in YouTube, but only at 4K
- Book of Soulsborne fan art sails past the half million mark on Kickstarter
- California claims Riot is delaying its sexual harassment investigation
- Noctua will offer free CPU cooler mounting kits for Intel Alder Lake
- Mortal Shell’s new roguelike expansion is free-to-keep for a limited time
- August 16
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- New Valheim video outlines upcoming changes to blocking and staggering
- Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2 comes to Steam Early Access in October
- Blizzard aims to slow down Hearthstone with slew of nerfs coming tomorrow
- Not Tonight 2 leaves Brexit behind for racism and greed in the US
- Stranger Things will depart Dead by Daylight in November
- Norton and Avast merge to form super-cybersecurity company
- Wonder Woman is coming to Fortnite
- FF14: Shadowbringers soundtrack is now on Spotify
- 8 months after launch, Cyberpunk 2077's minimap is getting fixed
- Riot is considering giving Valorant the K/DA treatment
- Call of Duty: Vanguard will be revealed in Warzone on Thursday
- Intel Alchemist is the new name for its DG2 graphics card launching in Q1 2022
- Nvidia's mining limiter hacked: LHR GPUs now 70% effective
- Streamer gets blown backwards into a huge new Metal Gear Solid glitch
- Man arrested after Overwatch and Halo voice actor murdered in Brazil
- Owner of vanquished ROM site isn't even allowed to play Nintendo ROMs anymore
- Intel fails to convince judge to overturn $2.18B damages over CPU patent infringements
- Looks like Pinhead from Hellraiser is coming to Dead By Daylight
- There's a scythe that cuts reality in Amid Evil's expansion
- August 15
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- Upcoming immersive sim Core Decay's getting a demo this year
- John Romero is making Sigil 2, but he's using Doom 2 this time
- Security flaw for unlimited Steam Wallet funds found, fixed
- This week in PC Gaming: Marvel Avengers DLC, Humankind, and Twelve Minutes
- Valve made an ad for the Steam Deck
- Cultic is a Blood-inspired retro shooter, you can play a demo now
- Here's what the PowerSlave remaster will look like
- EA might ban beta leakers from Battlefield 2042 after release
- August 14
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- A possible Alan Wake 2 is now in "full production"
- Ladies speedrun for charity in Flame Fatales, kicking off August 15th
- Boyfriend Dungeon will update with 'more accurate' content warning about stalking
- Half-Life 2 community gets highest amount of concurrent players since literal records began
- Skate across a burning city for love in Fire Tonight
- Firaxis is looking for a narrative lead with a 'knowledge and passion for world history'
- Gigabyte responds to failing PSU reports: adjusts overpower protection and offers exchanges
- August 13
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- Here's some sick Doom armor modded into Fallout 4
- You can get a Diablo 2: Resurrected beta key by watching Twitch streams right now
- Why some Overwatch casters have stopped saying McCree's name during matches
- Oh hell yeah, get almost all the Jackbox games for $20
- The Steam reviews for Lawn Mowing Simulator are revealing very strong feelings about lawn mowing
- STALKER 2 will use Unreal Engine 5
- 3D Realms launches the second Realms Deep, a 'shooter-focused' digital event
- Halo Infinite's bots aren't teabagging you, at least not on purpose
- AMD claims its largest share of the overall x86 CPU market in 14 years
- AMD's best CPUs are back in stock at the MSRP, making them unprofitable for resellers
- Bugsnax is coming to Steam in 2022
- QuakeCon 2021 schedule briefly mentioned a 'revitalized' Quake
- New CS:GO music kits include polka-metal and a disco grenade
- Art of Rally's big free Kenya update is out today
- Back 4 Blood sound effect that resembles a racial slur was a randomization accident
- August 12
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- Mad with power, fishing sim developers release an entire expansion about scallops
- It sure sounds like GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas are getting a remaster this year
- Hacker steals over $600M in cryptocurrency, returns over half of it
- Twitch attempts to curb 'gambling meta' by banning promotion, but some streamers say it isn't enough
- Leaked Call of Duty: Vanguard images show a return to World War 2
- Heads up, your first Naraka: Bladepoint match will be a bot match
- Here's 20 minutes of Skyblivion footage that'll make you wish the mod was out now
- A familiar face returns in this new Battlefield 2042 short film
- Next-gen PCIe 5.0 motherboards inch closer with Phison's new chip
- Frostpunk 2 announced, takes place 30 years after we 'survive the unsurvivable'
- Nine Inch Nails guitarist and Spec Ops: The Line director team up to make a 'cosmic horror game'
- Holy crap, there's a brand new graphics card selling for UNDER its MSRP right now
- If you truly despise Windows 11’s Start menu, there’s an app for that
- Here's a fresh look at American Truck Simulator's next state, Wyoming
- Dead By Daylight's latest patch improves Pyramid Head's 'flat rear'
- Someone built Hollow Knight's Forgotten Crossroads hot spring in Minecraft
- Metal Slug Tactics gameplay footage shows off its chunky sprites and vivid backgrounds
- After a flood of 'hate-raiding', Twitch responds to calls to do more for marginalized streamers
- August 11
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- Apex Legends lead game designer fired for remarks made in 2007
- Life is Strange remaster delayed to 2022
- Diablo 4 director, lead level designer, and WoW designer depart Blizzard
- Here's a co-op farming game with mechs
- Chucklefish's charming adventure RPG Eastward comes in September
- Axiom Verge 2 is out today
- Twitch streamers will now get more insight into their suspensions
- How many game developers does it take to make a banana explode good? About six
- I can't stop laughing at how small Nvidia's new graphics card is
- The Ascent's cyberpunk city looks even better in first-person
- Chivalry 2 update adds new maps, a new mode, and best of all, the return of Arrow Cam
- Simlish ASMR is something I didn't know I needed until now
- Rumoured Intel laptop chip could deliver desktop graphics card frame rates
- Try out the new Stony Peaks biome with Minecraft's latest 1.18 experimental snapshot
- Discord malware is a persistent and growing threat warns Sophos
- Nvidia's new GPU driver primes your PC for Naraka: Bladepoint and Back 4 Blood
- The latest Everspace 2 update has 150+ changes, including new missions inspired by PC classic Descent
- Soviet immersive sim Atomic Heart is in the final stages of development, will have 2 endings
- Here's 12 minutes of Forza Horizon 5 gameplay footage
- Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition gets 2 new civilizations, 3 new campaigns
- Here's when Naraka: Bladepoint unlocks in your time zone
- August 10
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- Diablo 2: Resurrected open beta kicks off next week, but some players will get in sooner
- The Fallout tabletop RPG emerges from the vaults
- Players are unhappy about Rocket League's new casual mode rules
- Idris Elba is Knuckles
- Swoop around Skyrim with Breath of the Wild's paraglider
- Further Take-Two copyright notices fan GTA 3 remake rumors
- Dr Disrespect is starting his own game development studio
- Stardew Valley is coming to Game Pass
- Superman's in Fortnite now, here's how to get him
- It's PUBG free week, go get some chicken
- This Stardew Valley phone app is a must-have for serious farmers
- Crafty Apex Legends players are managing to make Seer's ultimate even scarier
- These are the lost features of Windows 11 that passionate users are demanding return
- The Amiga 500 is getting a miniature console makeover
- Upgraded Aya Neo Pro costs almost double the most expensive Steam Deck
- Matt Damon is a huge Myst fan, didn't want The Bourne Conspiracy to be an FPS
- Hackers threaten to leak 112GB of Gigabyte's confidential docs
- PAX Australia 2021 is cancelled
- Rocket League's next season starts this week, brings cowboy stuff
- August 9
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- Cookie Clicker is coming to Steam
- EVE Online's record-setting war ends with a whimper
- If Valve won't remake Team Fortress 2, these modders will
- Razer will test its absurd RGB face masks on the public soon
- Forza Horizon 5's map is here and the volcano is basically Mount Doom
- Valheim is nerfing some of your favorite foods
- Xbox cloud streaming is now available in the Windows app
- Don't buy it: AMD RX 6600 XT for $1,200 on Newegg ahead of release
- This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS
- Star Citizen wraps up its first star system with the game's own cloud city
- A pair of Gigabyte PSUs appear prone to catastrophic failure
- Yup, there's a bathtub in The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf's new trailer
- Fortnite pulls emote after an animation glitch makes it accidentally NSFW
- A Minecraft builder has recreated the entire Breath of the Wild map
- No Man's Sky teases new expansion, Frontiers, in 5-year anniversary video
- Catch Lady Dimitrescu and The Duke at this summer's Future Games Show
- AMD is crushing Intel in desktop CPU sales at several popular retailers
- Back 4 Blood hit almost 100,000 concurrent players during last weekend's beta
- Cancelled Power Rangers game would have been an Arkham-like co-op brawler
- Mods restore Crazy Taxi's analog controls, product placement, and more
- The next South Park game will be 3D, and developed in-house
- August 8
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- Watch a trailer for Gearbox's canceled Duke Nukem prequel
- Apex Legends cross progression and new-gen update are still coming, eventually
- Splitgate, Back 4 Blood rank in top 10 on Steam over the weekend
- This week in PC Gaming: Button City, Assassins Creed Valhalla DLC, and Free Guy
- Take-Two is working on three more remasters or re-releases
- The Steam Deck will not boost performance while docked
- Here's Skyrim with over 500 mods and ray tracing
- August 7
- August 6
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- Ultima Underworld and Syndicate return to GOG, and now they're free
- This Genshin Impact player spent 7 hours using glitches and 'ice bridges' to break into its new zone
- Elden Ring appears on Steam
- New report reveals more of the 'frat boy' culture and abuses at Activision Blizzard
- The Ascent's latest patch adds ray tracing to Game Pass version, squashes co-op bugs
- Google considered buying Epic Games, according to updated court documents
- Steam Deck can stream games for up to 8 hours
- Valve says there is 'tons of opportunity' around different colours for future Steam Decks
- Valve teases more answers about Steam Deck upgradability and replacement parts
- Valve is working with AMD to ensure Steam Deck is chill with Windows 11
- Valve is creating a Steam Deck API for devs to quickly optimise games
- I gave Sensorium's new breed of AI NPC a Blade Runner Voight-Kampff empathy test
- Hackers targeted Titanfall and Apex Legends in a scheme to revive a cancelled free-to-play spin-off
- Apple employs 500 people to check every single App Store submission manually
- Epic has sunk $500M into the Epic Games Store, doesn't expect to make a profit until 2027
- Splitgate dev drastically shortens queue times and increases server capacity
- Olympic gold medalist gets welcomed home with Russian version of 'Toss a Coin to your Witcher'
- Asus is rolling out BIOS updates to alleviate likely Windows 11 upgrade headaches
- Season 2 of The Witcher begins with A Grain of Truth
- Streets of Rage 4 developer Dotemu gets acquired by Focus Home
- Hitman 3 smells the roses with a free and permanent Dartmoor Garden Show event
- Garry's Mod's Garry is helping get anti-cheat software running on the Steam Deck right now
- Cow surfing is Minecraft's rad new way to travel
- Extreme Sports MMO Riders Republic gets a public beta later this month
- One of Skyrim's most popular modders is pulling his work from Nexus Mods
- Evil Dead: The Game delayed for ‘polish’ and a singleplayer mode
- August 5
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- Destiny 2 abilities will see big changes in Season 15
- FIFA Ultimate Team's new Preview Packs actually boosted loot box sales, EA says
- Coca-Cola and State Farm are pulling back from the Overwatch League
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition sold even better than EA expected
- Only one of Epic's 'first wave' of exclusives made money, and it wasn't Metro
- Firefox has lost 46M users over the last three years
- Nvidia's second book all about ray tracing is out now and totally free to read
- I spoke to a mutating AI NPC this morning and now it thinks it's God
- Wrestling With Emotions: New Kid on The Block is the wrestler dating sim I didn't know I needed
- The Asus x Noctua RTX 3070 better be all kinds of beige and brown
- Duke Nukem studio 3D Realms and eight other studios just got bought up
- This 3dfx ruse is so cruel because I just want its new GPUs to be true
- I’m intrigued by this mini PC with a mobile AMD Ryzen 9 APU for lightweight gaming
- Here's when you can watch Gamescom's Opening Night Live
- Don't count on Supergiant making a direct Hades follow-up
- A Plague Tale: Innocence and Speed Brawl are free on Epic Games Store this week
- EA doesn’t get enough credit for how it handles acquisitions, apparently
- Allegations of 'toxic culture' at acclaimed indie studio Fullbright
- PUBG teams up with hugely popular K-pop group Blackpink
- August 4
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- Use your texting skills to catch a serial killer in this detective game
- Defensive Activision Blizzard executive deletes her Twitter account
- Destiny 2 assistant director reassures PvP players that they have not been abandoned
- Less than one month before launch, New World is delayed again
- '90s Amiga mascot Zool is being exhumed for reasons unknown
- A huge FPS documentary is in the works, featuring key figures from the genre's history
- This Skyrim third-person mod looks dope
- Street Fighter 5's final character is a link to Street Fighter 6
- Far Cry 5 is free to play this weekend
- Steam suggests there are more RTX 3090 cards online than the entire RX 6000-series put together
- Knights of the Old Republic's cinematics in Unreal 5 will make you pine for when Star Wars was good
- What GPU shortage? AMD and Apple's gorgeous new graphics card comes with two
- Final Fantasy 14 director recommends these raids for making the most out of Endwalker
- Grime, a Metroidvania that lets you absorb enemies, is out now
- Battlefield 2042 begins limited playtesting next week
- Hades, Lumines Remastered and MS Solitaire join Xbox Game Pass in August
- Left 4 Dead 2 survivors come to Zombie Army 4
- Second Life is banning gacha style transactions next month
- August 3
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- A class-action law firm is looking to make money off its own Activision Blizzard lawsuit
- Rust wants you to die underwater more so it's adding sharks
- Blizzard's head of HR gone, too
- Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick: 'People will be held responsible for their actions'
- Diablo Immortal delayed to 2022
- Age of Empires 4 beta begins later this week
- Activision Blizzard workers reject CEO Bobby Kotick's response to their demands
- Linux takes 1% of Steam market share as interest in Steam Deck rises
- The Wayward Realms, the RPG from former Elder Scrolls devs, is 'several more years' away
- There's a new Shorter Games With Worse Graphics Bundle on Itch.io, and it's exactly what it says it is
- Final Fantasy 10's Tidus almost became gaming's second plumber
- Halo voice man does Destiny lines and boy he's still got it
- Blizzard's president is out, studio to be co-led by a woman for first time in its history
- Valve and AMD buddy up to improve Steam Deck CPU performance on Linux
- Here’s why I’m not excited about the recent crash in GPU memory pricing
- Stardew Valley's biggest mod now lets you become friends with Shane's chicken
- Nvidia suggests it's a matter of 'when, not if' publishers will rejoin GeForce Now
- Rainbow Six Extraction's monsters infect Siege with a month-long event
- Tencent stocks plunge amid fears of a Chinese government gaming crackdown
- A Stardew Valley fan recreated Pelican Town in Minecraft
- Splitgate dev 'can't just buy more servers' to deal with exploding player numbers
- T-Mobile branding removed from Overwatch and Call of Duty League websites
- August 2
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- GTA Online players are walking in endless circles to earn free stuff
- Take-Two boss says inclusion and diversity are of 'paramount importance'
- Valheim speedrunner takes down every boss in reverse order, a world-first
- Take-Two confirms it's announcing a new game soon. Will it be Marvel XCOM?
- Gearbox confirms early 2022 release for Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
- Windows 96 is a throwback to classic Windows that runs entirely in the browser
- Man defends against package thieves using machine learning AI, flour, and very loud sirens
- Here's your first look at The Lord of the Rings TV show
- Bannerlord patch adds duel mode for multiplayer, ironman for singleplayer
- Former Elder Scrolls devs announce 'Grand RPG' The Wayward Realms
- Tales of Arise has fishing and farming, and a demo is on the way
- Minecraft's most anarchic server brought to its knees by griefers
- Google may start licensing out its Stadia game streaming platform to 'industry partners'
- Halo Infinite battle royale? Dataminers think they've found proof
- The Windows 10 gaming performance fix is out, here's how to get your PC up to date
- Half-Life 2 is being remastered, but not by Valve
- SkateBIRD delayed to September
- Assassin's Creed has a 'culinary codex' coming, also known as a 'cookbook'
- Now is the best time to preview Windows 11 as it lands in the beta channel
- Life is Strange: True Colors lets you join LARP sessions and play arcade games
- Global chip shortage expected to last until first half of 2023, says STMicro's CEO
- Marvel's Avengers shows signs of life as War for Wakanda dated for mid-August
- The Ascent's broken Game Pass edition is getting fixed, developer promises
- Final Fantasy pixel remasters review-bombed on Metacritic
- Age of Empires 4 shows off naval battles, camel riders
- Assassin's Creed game director is directing the Dead Space remake
- August 1
