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April 30
- Valheim's mistlands tease some ancient, bronze bound stone ruins
- Be a cat, wander a neon city in Stray when it releases this summer
- Total War: Warhammer 3's Immortal Empires DLC is still a fair way off
April 29
- Dead by Daylight made one of its most popular characters gay, and opinions are all over the place
- Beautiful pixels meet brutal Vikings in this sidescrolling base-builder
- It's not just you: Mercy was completely broken in the Overwatch 2 beta
- Mountain Dew has gone too far this time
- You, too, can preorder Nvidia's next-gen data center GPU for only $36,000
- Skull & Bones leaked footage shows NPC mutinies and ship crafting
- Valve says a few games being blocked from installing on Steam Deck was just a 'technical issue'
- Nvidia's next-gen GPU 'Ada Lovelace is no longer a simple Ampere refresh' rumours suggest
- PC Gamer UK June Issue: Step into a new world of survival with Nightingale
- Rocket League's new battle royale mode is great, actually
- Former Blizzard Versailles staff have won their legal battle against the company
- This is the most bonkers game trailer of the decade so far
- You could fit the data from 25 million 1TB SSDs on this 5cm diamond wafer
- Windows 11 update fixes nasty 40 minute boot time bug
- Intel reiterates gaming GPU launch: 'We'll have the desktop SKUs coming in Q2'
- Arm China finally boots rogue CEO that's held it hostage with a 'chop' for years
- This Stanley Parable demake sends the metatextual pencil-pusher back to Quake
- Audacity releases on Microsoft Store to counter the 'ludicrous number of fake[s]'
- Latest Steam Deck update keeps the fan quiet and temps low
- This RTX 3090 Ti is cooled by no less than five fans
April 28
- Knotwords might replace Wordle as my favorite daily word puzzle
- Activision Blizzard shareholders approve Microsoft buyout, but it's not a done deal
- Stardew Valley players won't stop making increasingly unhinged Grandpa death mods
- The Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase will stream on June 12
- The mysterious Warcraft mobile game is giving nothing away before its May 3 reveal
- The fifth Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is called Modern Warfare 2, not to be confused with Modern Warfare 2
- Sonic creator Yuji Naka goes nuclear: 'I don't think Square Enix cares about games'
- Neopets jumps to 4.1M visits per month but is now unsurprisingly wracked with cheaters
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 now the highest-grossing videogame movie ever in the US
- Stalker 2 site banned by Russian authorities in petty censorship
- Dying Light 2's new game plus mode is here to shake up the horde
- Call of Duty cheaters have recently found themselves blind to other players
- RAM manufacturer reveals Ryzen 7000 will support DDR5-5200
- Meta's new high-end VR headset is coming this year but it's not for gamers
- Nvidia spent 1.8M hours testing GPU drivers in 2021
- Artesian Builds files for bankruptcy with an estimated $1.3M in unfulfilled orders
April 27
- Disney Dreamlight Valley looks like Kingdom Hearts minus the anime nonsense
- You can now transfer your Bethesda Launcher games to Steam
- QA workers on Dragon Age 4 have applied to form a union
- Maxis performed an exorcism on The Sims 4's cursed main menu
- Did Bungie accidentally leak one of next season's Destiny 2 exotic weapons?
- 'Block Quake' delivers the Lego Quake experience we didn't know we needed
- The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe launch trailer is not here
- Nike's NFT sneakers are selling for obscene amounts of money
- Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific Season 3 is out now
- Tesla's valuation nosedives alongside Musk's Twitter takeover
- Final Fantasy 14's director is already working on the next expansion's story
- Twitch is reportedly looking at ways to make itself worse
- Xbox has gone too far with this tartan controller
- Steam Deck beta update improves fan whine, but raises GPU temps
- Star Wars: The Old Republic finally lets you change your weapon's appearance
- Sifu lets you be the student or the master with new difficulty options
- Elden Ring has Jesus now
- If a 900W Nvidia GeForce card appears in the next generation the GPU industry has lost its head
- Doom Eternal update finally fixes a 2-year-old bug
- Latest Elden Ring hotfix stops bosses accidentally dying
- Maybe don't jam electrical tape in your Steam Deck to fix fan whine
- Nvidia GeForce Experience rewards for Genshin Impact are the stingiest yet
- How Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate — Daemonhunters rebuilds the tactics genre around the Space Marines
- Taiwan continues to dominate the semiconductor industry
- You're going to want a beefy GPU to turn on ray tracing in F1 22
- These 'blurple' Discord keyboards look cooler than they have any right to
April 26
- Some of Bethesda's classic Elder Scrolls RPGs are now free on Steam
- We still don't know much about Starfield, but its music is on point
- Overwatch 2 has a new way to judge other players, and I'm nervous
- Final Fantasy 14 producer asks players to stop saying "Nice job!" to opponents and then setting off fireworks on their bodies
- A bunch of old Sonic games will be delisted when the $40 remaster collection releases
- And now: a cute monster breeding game from a former genetic engineering tech
- You're telling me we could have had reversible USB cables all along?
- Fortnite is adding even more Street Fighter characters with Sakura and Blanka
- Bizarre Russian propaganda links Sims 3 to alleged Nazi assassination plot
- MSI had to sacrifice everything to hit this 10,004MT/s DDR5 RAM overclock
- Dr. Dre initially turned down GTA Online because 'I don't make things for kids'
- Elden Ring mod turns the game's first merchant into a one-stop shop
- Dying Light 2 is getting a new game+ mode this week
- That Nvidia-hacking group went after T-Mobile but the FBI snagged their data before they could use it
- Intel could flood retailers with up to eight different Arc graphics cards
- Large Steam Deck update makes it more secure, easy to use, and extends battery life
- Nvidia's next-gen GPUs to have a node advantage over AMD's RDNA3 GPUs
- Soon you'll be able to watch TV in Self-Driving cars on UK roads
- GeForce RTX 40 series rumored to stick with a PCIe 4.0 interface
April 25
- Final Fantasy creator asks Square Enix what's up with new $11,600 statue
- Call of Duty has lost 50 million players in a year
- Prove your videogame music expertise with this daily Heardle clone
- Elden Ring dataminer sheds more light on the Lands Between's mysterious coliseums
- Blue Yeti's Pro XLR microphone is $100 off right now
- Elden Ring player enlists an army of 20 Mimic Tears to pulverize bosses
- Hungry? These two new cooking sims let you kill and cook your customers
- Elden Ring enemy randomizer mod replaces Margit with someone far more sinister
- These intricate Sims 4 builds basically look like Dragon Age: Inquisition screenshots
- How to get Overwatch 2 beta access with Twitch drops
- Elon Musk officially buys Twitter
- This 'Teardown' Steam Deck skin is the next best thing to a clear plastic console
- NFT Bored Ape marketplace gets hacked, people lose 'millions' in ape pictures
- Apex Legends' next hero is Newcastle, a shield-bearing Robocop
- AMD's high-performance motherboard chipsets might be built out of chiplets
- Valheim has sold over 10 million copies
- Framework's now selling the soul of its modular laptop and the potential for PC projects are endless
- Diablo Immortal is coming to PC after all
- Companies can't get enough of good ol' tape storage for ransomware resistance
- Dying Light 2 shifted 5 million copies in February alone
- Steam Deck's Docking Station was quietly updated in a very useful way
- Big tech companies will soon be asked to bare their algorithms or get out of the EU
- Looks like the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves collection could be released this June
- AMD's AM5 platform won't support DDR4 at launch
- Half-Life's infamous tram opening is even creepier when voiced by TikTok
- AMD EXPO could be key to unlocking meteoric DDR5 speeds with Zen 4
- Several private equity firms might be interested in buying Ubisoft
- Valorant's next agent controls nightmare ink, shadow monsters
- Vampire Survivors update 0.5.1 takes us to The Bone Zone
April 24
- This fan is creating an Elden Ring demake for Game Boy
- Be a little pachinko playing goblin in Peglin
- Hyper Light Breaker publisher Perfect World is now Gearbox Publishing
- Satisfactory devs outline Update 6, new approach to reach release
- Sony is hiring a 'senior director for PC planning and strategy'
- Infinity Ward's social media goes dark, suggests a Modern Warfare 2 announcement is near
- Skyrim: Special Edition mod makes NPCs say your name instead of calling you Dragonborn
April 23
- The Bethesda Launcher will be shut down on May 11
- Raven QA union vote moves forward with NLRB approval
- Tanks in Company of Heroes 3 will get dynamically filthy
- Connect traincars in puzzler Railbound from Golf Peaks and inbento makers
- Tug-of-war RTS Warpips is a bit of cute, casual carnage
- Ubisoft officially announces Project Q after numerous leaks
April 22
- New Halo Infinite roadmap targets online co-op in August
- EVE Online prices are going up
- Overwatch League season start delayed by Covid-19 resurgence
- After years in development, witch shop sim Potionomics is finally releasing this autumn
- The Kardashian-Roblox scandal continues to be messy and dumb
- An Elden Ring VR mod is coming, and we have some footage
- CD Projekt 'looking into' menstrual leave after GOG announcement
- Upcoming RPG Asterigos will feature 'a hub-based world where choices matter'
- Two Point Campus reveals new magic course: Wizardry
- This mod turns Elden Ring into a seamless co-op adventure
- AMD won't want to use Intel fabs, but it might be tempted to
- Soulslike ARPG Achilles: Legends Untold hits Early Access soon
- Save $400 on this quality RTX 3060 HP Omen laptop
- Steam Deck fan screaming? iFixit is looking to, well, fix it
- TSMC founder Morris Chang believes US based chip production will be an 'exercise in futility'
- D&D is bringing back Spelljammer and Dragonlance
April 21
- Paradox says anyone can make a Vampire: The Masquerade game if they want to
- Godzilla and King Kong are Call of Duty: Warzone's next operators
- A new Tales from the Borderlands is coming this year
- The US wanted to mine the moon using nukes, report says
- Destiny 2 nerfs Arbalest, Renewal Grasps and St0mp-EE5 in what may be the longest balance post ever
- F1 22 launches on July 1
- Baldur's Gate 3 confirmed for release in 2023
- Halo Infinite gets a battle royale-like mode in Season 2 update
- Elden Ring's poisoned panties problem is patched
- Sega quietly updates its bewildering Sonic Origins DLC chart
- If AMD's next APUs are faster than some of its discrete GPUs I'm going to be a very happy PC gamer
- Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector DLC introduces 40k's best army
- Lost Ark gets a battle pass, new class and new continent in its April update
- Chernobylite gets free 'Enhanced Edition' update with ray tracing and more
- The House of the Dead: Remake shambling to PC next week
- Rimworld has been unbanned in Australia and is back on Steam
- Hunt: Showdown is introducing its most disruptive new enemy in years
- This accessory is made to keep your Intel Alder Lake processor from bending
- Check out this 30-second clip of Skate 4 in pre-alpha
- NASA uses Hololens to send holographic doctors into space
- AMD's Epyc processors played a key role in Mercedes' 2020 and 2021 F1 championship successes
- AMD quietly launches entry-level Radeon RX 6400
April 20
- Riot MMO producer vows not to ship the game if it's bad
- Long-running MMO Tera is closing in June
- Quake, the 26-year-old FPS, gets new accessibility options and maps
- An actual working Commodore 65 prototype is being auctioned off for thousands of dollars
- Redactle is a brutal spin on Wordle that may take you hundreds of guesses
- Magic: The Gathering prices are going up
- Saints Row will include customizable dong and nipple censors
- Here's how Doomfist and Orisa are changing in Overwatch 2
- How NetEase Games' The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War does Middle-earth justice
- Mark Zuckerberg wants you to give better high fives in the metaverse
- Nvidia's GPU-powered AI is creating chips with 'better than human design'
- PC builder creates leaning tower of RAM, somehow PC mostly still boots
- Skyrim Modmapper is a weirdly beautiful way to manage your mods
- You can now update your PS5 DualSense controller through your PC
- The keyboards in the TV show Severance have no Escape key and that's profoundly creepy
- Moody turn-based RPG The Iron Oath has just hit Steam Early Access
- Halo composer Marty O'Donnell has 'amicably' resolved his latest legal battle with Microsoft
- Peripheral company Glorious PC Gaming Race becomes Glorious as it finally ditches racial branding
- Dark Souls Tabletop RPG is being reprinted due to errors
- Long-lost N64 platformer Glover rolls out today
- US navy successfully tests giant laser against drones
- Logitech's new Lift Vertical Ergonomic Mouse is a smaller, cheaper option
- The first Tiny Tina's Wonderlands DLC features a landshark god, snake ladies
- Nvidia's fastest next-gen GPU reportedly enters testing phase
- Snoop Dogg is now a playable character in Call of Duty
April 19
- Rockstar cuts transphobic content from Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA Online
- Jane Foster's Mighty Thor is coming to Marvel's Avengers
- Elden Ring's tutorial is now impossible to miss
- Players are loving the janky silliness of Animal Revolt Battle Simulator
- Amy Hennig is taking another shot at making a Star Wars game
- World of Warcraft: Dragonflight will add playable and rideable dragons
- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic is coming later this year
- Crusader Kings 3's next DLC will spice up Spain
- 'Locked' AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D overclocked to 5.14GHz
- Final Fantasy 14 players are making their character profiles horny as hell
- Chrono Cross mod fixes horrible stuttering and FPS drops
- Spellcraft is a new 'hero collecting' strategy game from Blizzard and ArenaNet veterans
- Elden Ring's huge rebalancing 1.04 patch also patches Patches
- Roblox game claiming to have Kim Kardashian's sex tape ad was discovered by her son
- Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio to return in 'big-budget' reboots, report says
- Capping your Steam Deck display to 40Hz gives a big boost to battery life
- Dells new laptop features proprietary DDR5 module, won't take generic RAM
- This consumer grade 3D printer that prints 5x faster is on Kickstarter
- Intel’s flagship Raptor Lake CPU could run at up to 5.8GHz
April 18
- Halo Infinite players figure out how to see personal MMR
- Jason Momoa is in talks to star in the Minecraft film
- Elden Ring player 'Let her solo me' tests the reading comprehension of hopeful summoners
- You can make 'Let Me Solo Her' your spirit sidekick with this mod
- Fallout 4 mod replaces Pip-Boy with itty bitty diary
- This week's Battlefield 2042 update adds voice chat, hundreds of fixes and tweaks
- Blizzard president Mike Ybarra says it is not making an NFT game
- Portal writer urges Valve to 'start Portal 3'
- Get a free trial of PC Game Pass if you played Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, or Age of Empires 4
- The Elder Scrolls Online is free-to-play until April 26
- Intel set to overtake TSMC's process lead with 3nm node and beyond
- Intel Arc A770 matches RTX 2070 OpenCL performance
April 17
- Square Enix president continues hopeful tone on blockchain despite backlash
- This Week in PC Gaming: Ember Knights, Godlike Burger, and Trolley Problem, Inc.
- D&D Direct to reveal future of series, including videogames
- This Fallout fan turned a limited edition mini nuke into a tiny PC
- Be a wizard, ponder your orb, create a world in this incremental clicker
April 16
- Dataminer reveals cut Elden Ring questline
- Per Aspera expands ocean terraforming with Blue Mars expansion
- No More Heroes 3 is coming to PC this fall
April 15
- Apple and Second Life slam Meta over fees for metaverse creators
- China bans livestreams of unapproved videogames
- This horror fishing game is only 4 minutes long but still managed to scare me
- Star Fox actor comes out of retirement for a Half-Life 2 mod that replaces Alyx with a sexy blue fox
- Hideo Kojima shoots down Sony buyout rumor started by Hideo Kojima
- An Elden Ring scientist did the math: The Erdtree is taller than the Alps
- Stylish roguelike card game Iris and the Giant is free on GOG
- The New York Times has put the kibosh on another Wordle Archive
- Destiny 2 is adding a weekly rotator for old raids and dungeons
- XCOM 2 is free on the Epic Store right now
- French Revolution soulslike Steelrising shows off 5 minutes of new gameplay
April 14
- US government says $600M Axie Infinity crypto-heist was pulled by North Korea
- Making Overwatch 2's Sojourn was hard because 'railguns are kinda overpowered'
- AMD says DDR5 on Ryzen will reach 'speeds you maybe thought couldn't be possible'
- The Witcher 3 next-gen upgrade is not in 'development hell,' CD Projekt insists
- 'Let me solo her' is Elden Ring's first legendary player
- Cyberpunk 2077 expansion is coming in 2023
- Apex Legends goes directly to jail for a 2-week Unshackled event
- The Witcher on Netflix reveals four new cast members
- Ethereum won't ditch GPU cryptocurrency mining until much later in the year
- Exclusive Magic: The Gathering card reveal: Swindler's Scheme
- UK cops seize unofficial Club Penguin site and arrest three people
- RaidForum hacking site seized as founder arrested with six criminal counts
- AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D doesn't support overclocking or PBO. Zilch
- AMD's new Ryzen 7 5800X3D prioritises gaming above all else
- Nvidia just dropped prices for a handful of RTX 30-series graphics cards in 'restocked and reloaded' sale
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker breaks out of early access next month
- Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43.4 billion
- Microsoft goes up against massive extortion botnet
- Baldur's Gate, MythForce studio to be acquired by Aspyr
- Over 50% of Steam's top 100 games work on Steam Deck
- Computex 2022 is a go. Kind of
April 13
- Hello Games' next project isn't a No Man's Sky sequel, but it's just as ambitious
- Overwatch 2 trailer reveals the origin of Sojourn
- Teens are split on the metaverse, most barely use VR headsets, survey shows
- The Witcher 3's next-gen upgrade has been delayed 'until further notice'
- Remembering Gilbert Gottfried as the canonical voice of Clippy
- Galactic Civilizations 4 launches on April 26
- AMD's RX 6950 XT would have to really excel to justify this pre-release price
- Intel pledges to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040
- QuakeCon will remain online-only for one more year
- Weird West gets a zombie apocalypse mode and reveals update roadmap
- Turns out this Elden Ring summon can tame and ride giant enemy wolves
- Scrabble, the original Wordle progenitor, launches a new web-based game
- Become a cargo-smuggling space pirate in the No Man's Sky Outlaws update
- There's huge potential for this 'unbrickable' open source BIOS now it's running on modern Intel PCs
- Former Ethereum employee jailed for talking at North Korea crypto conference about dodging sanctions
- Bungie will offer fully-remote options for 'most current and future roles'
- Next-gen Nvidia GPUs could come with blisteringly fast 24Gbps GDDR6X memory
- SteelSeries releases Aerox successors to our favourite lightweight gaming mouse
- Chemical Haptics could bring touch sensations like cold and heat to VR
- Worldwide PC shipments declined 7.3% in the first quarter of 2022
- AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D beats the Core i9 12900K in gaming benchmarks
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising lands on PC in early May
April 12
- Skyrim mod adds Red Dead Redemption 2's sketchbook journal
- Bugsnax is finally releasing on Steam, also coming to Game Pass
- American Truck Simulator returns to its roots in the upcoming Montana expansion
- Deus Ex art director reveals new game about the horrors of humanity
- Vicarious Visions is now officially merged into Blizzard
- Upgrade your Steam Deck's GPU by turning it into a jury-rigged monstrosity
- Final Fantasy 14 is becoming more approachable as a solo experience
- Give me every single one of these Final Fantasy x Uniqlo shirts right now
- Suggested delays at Sony could point to a 2023 PS VR2 release
- Elon Musk's not joining the Twitter board after all
- Test your Final Fantasy 14 music knowledge with this Heardle spinoff
- Randy Pitchford buys the Magic Castle, 'the most unusual private club in the world'
- HyperX's new peripherals are all about colours and RGB
- An RTX 3090 Ti set to a 300W limit still beats AMD's best
- Elden Ring as an isometric, tilt-shift adventure game looks cosy
- There are hints that Intel will return to the HEDT market with Alder Lake-X
- Wearing speakers around your neck may be the new PC gaming sound solution
April 11
- They're making metaverse-flavored Coke now
- CCP rejects EVE Online NFTs: 'Not For Tranquility'
- No Man's Sky creator posts pirate flag on Twitter, hype boils over
- Japanese company calls its gaming bed setup the 'forbidden layout'
- China issues first new videogame approvals in almost a year
- Elden Ring player butt stomps their way to the elden throne
- Destruction physics and chill vibes meet in this demolition sandbox
- Hearthstone's Crab Rave is dropping beats and free stuff for Voyage to the Sunken City
- Elden Ring had a 'dream mist' collecting mechanic and questline cut from the final game
- Wingspan: European Expansion arrives on May 5
- Intel opens 270,000 square foot of new fab space to develop next-gen chip tech
- Microsoft disrupts Russian cyberattacks targeting Ukraine by seizing domains
- Sony and Lego invest $2B into Epic to help build the metaverse
- Cooking streamer's $80 fish live-yoinked by her scheming cat
- Elden Ring's game-breaking zip exploit sees speedrun record go under nine minutes
- Scientists 'reconstruct' Skyrim skeleton's face, looks like Iggy Pop
- Happy birthday, Windows 3.1
- Amazing fossils from the day of the Dinosaur-ending asteroid strike may have been found
- Nvidia believes its Grace superchip will decimate the competition
- Weird West's first patch makes it a whole lot easier to sell trash
- AMD Radeon RX 6400 graphics cards are coming soon
- Sure looks like part of an AT-ST from Star Wars hiding in the Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer
- Play Halo Infinite in third-person with this mod
April 10
- Here's an RTS where you program your units with JavaScript
- Riot Games drops vaccine and mask requirements as employees return to office
- RimWorld's Australian ban to be reviewed by Classification Board
- Looks like Flood Firefight is coming to Halo MCC this week
- Warframe's Angels of the Zariman expansion launches April 27
- Dungeon crawler Demeo brings monster hordes to PC with a goofy '80s trailer
- Kingdom Hearts 4 revealed at series anniversary event
- This streamer ate 17 cursed meals to raise money for a gaming PC
- Shotgun some cosmic horrors in Forgive Me Father
- Valve looks back at the Steam Deck's first month, and what's ahead
April 9
- Pile up cards to build villages in Stacklands
- Intel responds to Alder Lake CPU bowing issue
- There's a fix for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga insisting on a 60 fps cap
- Idris Elba says he grew up playing Commodore 64 games, never ever pirated them
April 8
- Live polygraph test for accused Call of Duty cheater ends before the good part
- The official Wordle companion bot is here to tell you how bad you are at Wordle
- Among Us makes it to Jeopardy
- 12.5 minute Elden Ring speedrun record skips all but one boss
- This Unreal Engine 5 Superman flight demo blew up on Twitter, and now its creator wants to make it an actual game
- Old School Runescape mod fired in 2018 for stealing player gold wins unfair dismissal complaint
- Final Fantasy 14 players can't decide how to eat an egg
- Where is Xur this week and what is he selling?
- A new Subnautica game is in development
- Intel clarifies that Arc-powered laptops will be available in the 'coming weeks'
- The Quarry has a 'movie mode' so you can watch it instead of playing it
- Intel's CEO may have stopped off at TSMC to ask for more chips in his travels of Asia
- Halo Infinite season 2 introduces another 'Battle Pass that never expires'
- Orcs Must Die 3: Tipping the Scales DLC slithers out today
- Ms. Pac-Man is being written-out of Pac-Man history
- System Shock 2 Redux helps to sharpen-up SHODAN
- Researchers propose a 'day zero' for the oldest computer ever discovered
- Popular Valorant Streamer banned after misogynist tirade
- No Man's Sky and Unpacking scoop up Baftas
- Rival browsers are frustrated with Microsoft's default browser options on Windows 11
- Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 2 is heading to Steam
- Galax's GeForce RTX 3090 Ti HOF smiles for the camera
- Korean MMO Black Desert is free to keep for a limited time
April 7
- Total War: Warhammer 3's first big patch is here, and so are mods
- Rogue Legacy 2 exits Early Access later this month
- Dark Souls multiplayer tags disappear from Steam, and fans are getting nervous
- Overwatch player builds motorized glove to become the ultimate Mercy main (Updated)
- PC gamers upgraded to Windows 11 at half the rate of Windows 10, Steam hardware survey shows
- Activision Blizzard is converting over 1,000 QA workers to full-time employees
- You can dunk on Elden Ring's Radahn by making him dunk himself
- Lego Star Wars dubbed 'Lego May Cry' as players continue to discover brutal new combos
- Magic: the Gathering's latest set is a noir city of crime families
- Meta is apparently creating its own digital 'Zuck Buck'. Lord help us
- Back 4 Blood DLC trailer shows off new characters, enemies, and a reloadable hammer
- Elden Ring's 1.03 patch made one of its most unusual characters easier to find
- Crytek apologizes for Hunt: Showdown problems, extends Traitor's Moon event
- Lego and Epic announce long-term partnership to 'shape the future of the metaverse'
- Rapper Tee Grizzley signs eSports partnership inside his GTA Online server
- The Matrix Awakens dev says the switch from UE4 to UE5 was 'very smooth'
- Saudi Arabia now owns 96% of SNK
- Dying Light 2 will get new game plus mode later this month
- Free crypto promises in exchange for scanning eyeballs with 'The Orb' falling through
- Get £40 off this Corsair PC bundle with RTX 3070 Ti
- GOG is returning to its 'Good Old Games' roots
- Intel teases an Arc graphics card, and it has 3x 8-pin power connectors
April 6
- Blizzard removes pro-Russia war symbol from Zarya skins in Overwatch
- Combine Wordle with GeoGuessr and you've got a new daily fixation: Wheredle
- Elden Ring players are reverse farming AFK PvPers
- Elden Ring player discovers easy counter to one of Malenia's nastiest attacks
- Whoa, Remedy is remaking Max Payne 1 and 2
- The cancelled Deus Ex movie script actually sounds pretty good
- Trying to kill children in Lego Star Wars reveals surprisingly useful exploit
- Six months after its disastrous debut, Konami's eFootball 2022 is ready to try again
- Windows 11's new security feature is so secure you'll need to reinstall the OS to use it
- Classic first-person spellcaster The Wheel of Time gets resurrected by GOG
- The spice must flow in Dune this April
- Two Point Campus has been delayed to August
- Days Gone director is moving to Crystal Dynamics
- Ubisoft ends its NFT experiment in Ghost Recon Breakpoint but promises they're 'coming to other games'
- Roblox CEO to pocket $234 million over next five years
- It's official, Assassin's Creed is coming to Fortnite
- Intel has suspended operations in Russia and calls for 'swift return to peace'
- Cyberpunk 2077 running at 72p is impressively hideous
- French President Emmanuel Macron's reelection campaign has its own Minecraft server
- Boston Dynamics' Spot is doing a big protecc at the ancient city of Pompeii
- Corsair launches newest capture card with the Elgato HD60 X
- Graphics card shipments increased by nearly 30% year over year in 2021
- Noctua launches its low profile NH-D12L dual tower cooler
- Hearthstone is selling a single card for $25 and players aren't loving it
April 5
- Emulation on the Steam Deck is already getting way more convenient
- Trek to Yomi release date is just weeks away
- Lost Ark roadmap reveals the next two classes
- Ubisoft is reportedly working on a new PvPvE shooter that looks a lot like Hyper Scape
- Reno Jackson returns as part of Hearthstone's annual core set shakeup
- CD Projekt explains why The Witcher 4 is using Unreal Engine 5
- Halo: The Official Cookbook is coming in August
- Ubisoft ends Ghost Recon Breakpoint updates
- Starfield's Vasco is basically a robotic space donkey
- F1 Delta Time, one of the first major NFT games, has shut down
- Call of Duty: Vanguard glitch has players wall-running like Titanfall
- The next Tomb Raider game is in development on Unreal Engine 5
- The Unreal Engine 5 Matrix demo is now on PC, kind of
- We've officially entered the Unreal Engine 5 era
- The spiritual successor to Hypnospace Outlaw takes you back to the '00s internet
- Honey might be the key to cooler, more efficient, biodegradable chips
- Halo Infinite's lack of updates is forcing its biggest streamers to turn to other games
- Six-core CPUs are now more popular than quad-core chips on Steam
- New Minecraft mode 'RiverCraft' teaches students about the real-world effects of climate change
- Pizza-making robots are paving the way to highly complex AI
- Watch these rats enrich their lives by driving tiny cars
- Silverstone's PS5 SSD heatsink makes basic PC SSDs compatible
- Hackers build like-for-like open-source app to try and steal crypto
- Thermalright's new M.2 heatsinks point towards a scorching hot M.2 future
- AMD Adrenalin software reportedly alters user-set BIOS CPU settings
April 4
- Your Epic Store achievements can now be seen by other people
- AMD continues its shopping spree by acquiring Pensando for $1.9B
- Stardew Valley creator isn't intimidated by the sophomore slump
- Master Chief actor won't be discouraged by Halo fans who 'hated the show before they saw it'
- A week-long showcase of Chinese games is headed to Steam this month
- Stardew Valley creator surprise reveals a boss theme song for his next game
- Valve clears up Steam Deck availability confusion just as Q2 order emails go out
- Use your Wordle skills to predict the weather in Cloudle
- Gamer says Razer headset saved their life from a stray bullet
- The UK Government has asked the Royal Mint to Create an NFT
- The Witcher season 3 is officially in production
- Monkey Island returns in Return to Monkey Island
- Fortnite raises $144 million total in fundraising for Ukraine
- Elon Musk's bought a $3.5 billion stake in Twitter, joins board of directors
- Wargaming pulls out of Russia and its home nation of Belarus
- Intel can make cryptocurrency mining chip 'without compromising the supply of new CPUs or GPUs'
- Voxel Violence mod adds Minecraft blocks and building to Doom
- This Steam Deck app pulls major game launchers into a single library
- Here's when Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga unlocks in your time zone
- He's done bourbon and NFTs, now it's time for Dr Disrespect: The Album
- Improved RDNA 2 GPUs rumoured to arrive in new black garb early next month
- Intel's retro platformer to celebrate its CEO's first year is surprisingly fun
- Massive Game of Thrones mod for Mount and Blade 2 gets early access release
- Elden Ring's latest bug fix means Radahn will kick your ass again
- Hackers target top NFT Discord bots to rob users of their cryptocurrency
- Intel inadvertently leaks the details of its flagship Arc GPU
- Phishing emails are still a big danger to PC users, even in 2022
- Intel Arc GPUs will support AV1 encode and decode
- Steam Deck software could come to other console form PCs like OneXPlayer
- Half-Life: Alyx mod Levitation promises a 4-5 hour campaign
- Court documents may explain the disappearance of Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory
April 3
- Bandai Namco may collaborate with another American fantasy novelist after George R. R. Martin
- This guy beat Elden Ring without ever attacking
- World of Warcraft's next expansion may be dragon-focused according to a leak
- Nightmare Reaper is a pretty dang cool roguelite looter-shooter retro FPS
- Here's classic Doom with ray tracing
- Building is back in Fortnite
- Game Pass 'family plan' is reportedly in the works
April 2
- Patrick's Parabox is your new indie puzzle darling
- The first episode of the Halo TV series is free on YouTube
- Activision Blizzard ends, then quickly reinstates employee vaccination requirement
- Graphical Dwarf Fortress keeps looking better with new character sheets
- Relaxing walking game A Short Hike has a 99 person multiplayer mod now
April 1
- Silent Hill-like horror game Abandoned is not cancelled, developer says
- State of Decay studio Undead Labs faces allegations of sexism and bullying
- This FPS is basically Bejeweled with guns (and it has a story)
- Over 2,000 people watched someone read a book in Twitch's 'Silent Reading' category
- AMD reminds us that its mobile GPU is more powerful than Intel's
- The Witcher is getting an official cookbook, and it is not an April Fool's joke
- The PC Gaming Show will return June 12
- Our favourite gaming chair is £30 off right now
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake mod gives Cloud a keytar sword