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- August 31
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- Wrath of the Lich King Classic's new group finder tool is a mess
- Lady Gaga may soon be holding a virtual concert in Fortnite
- Bethesda forced Arkane to call its game Prey, which studio founder says was 'very, very hurtful'
- Valve bans Steam curators suspected of scamming developers for free games
- Control robots and play retro games with one handy device
- Ubisoft pauses 'decommissioning' of old games, reverses course on DLC deactivation
- Intel says it's fully committed to discrete graphics as it shifts focus onto next-gen GPUs
- Paradox is changing how it releases Crusader Kings 3 DLC, and the monarchs have some concerns
- Nearly 10% of all games on Steam are now Steam Deck compatible
- The Shovel Knight roguelike is out in a few weeks
- There's a Castlevania mod that turns Doom into a ghoul-whipping platformer and nobody told me
- Mafia for free is an offer you can't refuse
- Intel hits out at RTX: 'We're definitely competitive or better than Nvidia with ray tracing hardware'
- FromSoft looks set to publish its own games after share deal with Sony and Tencent
- Intel Arc will soon deliver 'a card that's faster than the [RTX] 3060 at prices that are lower'
- AMD's Lisa Su confirms chiplet-based RDNA 3 GPU architecture
- Chinese tech titan NetEase acquires Detroit: Become Human dev Quantic Dream
- The AI tasked with keeping the metaverse safe comes with a lot of GPU firepower
- Today's Wordle 438 answer and hint: Wednesday, August 31
- Developer suspects negative Steam reviews were written by vengeful scammers
- The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection will be out next week
- August 30
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- Rocksmith+, Ubisoft's learn-to-play-guitar game, finally rocks out next week
- Our highest-reviewed game of 2022 so far is immediately on Game Pass
- Assassin's Creed Mirage will be revealed in September, according to a new leak
- Leaked images finally show us Logitech's new handheld gaming console
- Paradox Interactive's 'ultimate society simulator' arrives in October
- This Doom 2 mod is crammed so full of effects it challenges modern PCs
- This is the biggest working keyboard ever built
- John Carpenter quit Red Dead because he 'couldn't get on the damn horse'
- Kermit in Spider-Man is anything but a muppet
- Snoop Dogg and Eminem performed as their Ape NFTs, and it's somehow even worse than you'd think
- Today's Wordle 437 answer and hint: Tuesday, August 30
- August 29
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- AMD plans to support the new AM5 socket through 2025 and beyond
- Dr. Lisa Su: 'With our launch of Zen 4 we don't expect any supply constraints.'
- AMD announces its new Ryzen 7000-series CPUs are now faster than we all thought
- Hogwarts Legacy has a PlayStation-exclusive quest as if it were still 2010
- Paradox is looking for testers for a new game but it won't say what the new game is
- This game adds what's always been missing from tennis: teleportation and bullet-time
- Big Chungus may be coming to MultiVersus
- Mojang says it's learned from showing off Minecraft features too early
- Not that complicated—lawsuit over Fortnite dance 'It's Complicated' dismissed by judge
- Metaverse game CEO loses $2M in bad trades, promises to pay it back
- Mafia 4 is in development, 2K confirms
- All-women speedrunning event Flame Fatales raises $135K for charity
- Dwarf Fortress' Steam release is coming 'sooner than you might think'
- New Return to Monkey Island clip reunites Guybrush with Murray the skull
- Back 4 Blood's Children of the Worm DLC lands tomorrow, looks rad
- Diablo Immortal's Legendary Crests are being redesigned
- Clean up the streets and grab some new clients as Saul Goodman in this Marvel's Spider-Man mod
- Today's Wordle 436 answer and hint: Monday, August 29
- LG's new UltraGear curved OLED uses the same panel it supplied for Corsair's bendy screen
- CSGO Kart is CSGO with go-karts
- This year's EEK3 had survival horror, fishing horror, and a management RPG in a haunted supermarket
- August 28
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- Ex-Payday dev's studio is making a new co-op heist FPS
- Fortnite is doing an 'I Have a Dream' anniversary event, again
- An extremely loud bug is jumpscaring the snot out of Destiny players
- Expansion full of bees and mini-golf coming to Nobody Saves the World
- Here's gameplay from that goofy physics-based Mars delivery robot simulator
- Today's Wordle 435 answer and hint: Sunday, August 28
- Total War: Warhammer 3 player numbers went up tenfold after Immortal Empires released
- Cyberpunk RPG platformer Dex is free on GOG for a limited time
- Watch a Harley Quinn boss fight from Gotham Knights
- Emulating 3DS games with a Steam Deck proves that the Wii U was right
- August 27
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- System Shock 3 is up to Tencent, confirms Nightdive Studios
- Embrace the ranger fantasy in this bow-hunting FPS where the creatures hunt you back
- 90% off on Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Avengers, Thief, Guardians of the Galaxy in big Square Enix sale
- Hogwarts Legacy's system specs seem pretty reasonable for what's on offer
- Today's Wordle 434 answer and hint: Saturday, August 27
- Former Gears of War and Fortnite pro Xcells killed in shooting
- August 26
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- Netflix cancels the Resident Evil series after just one season
- Curt Schilling acts like we all just forgot about the time he blew $75M in public funds on an MMO that never came out
- Elden Ring dataminer explains why enemies smack you when you reach for a potion
- Jigging, pumping, and other fun terms I learned from this co-op fishing sim trailer
- Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's newest VR headset is coming in October
- Warframe's first-ever anime reveals its 50th warframe, free for all players
- Sifu's summer update will let you kick ass without getting your ass kicked
- One of the biggest password managers manages to get hacked
- Minecraft Legends 'brings down the tempo' of typical strategy games, Mojang says
- Wo Long's first gameplay blows its pre-rendered teaser out of the water
- The Umbrella Academy writing team will be handling Netflix's Horizon adaptation
- TinyBuild buys Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread rights in $3M deal
- Valve confirms there will be next-gen Steam Decks 'more open and more capable than the first version'
- This tech brand's anime series made me turn in my weeb badge
- Valve has made a nice little book about the Steam Deck to impress new customers
- Embracer now owns Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, and Square Enix Montréal
- Rumours of Amazon bid for EA shot down as the publisher's stock goes on a rollercoaster ride
- Creative Assembly teases a new third-person 'action project'
- So, looks like Intel's top Alchemist graphics cards will be out before the end of October
- Today's Wordle 433 answer and hint: Friday, August 26
- August 25
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- Final Fantasy 14 players are already grinding the hell out of its new relaxing farming mode
- Most of the Hogwarts Legacy Collector's Edition's $300 price tag is tied up in an electromagnetic floating wand
- 'The galaxy won't be the same' after Elite Dangerous Update 14, say devs
- Ransomware abuses Genshin Impact's kernel mode anti-cheat to bypass antivirus protection
- Hunger Games director signs up for the BioShock movie
- Microsoft won’t raise Xbox prices after PlayStation 5 price hike
- Skull and Bones PC system requirements and special features revealed
- The Minecraft RTS spinoff is inventing new enemies, too
- Retro raygun shooter They Came From Dimension X made me feel like I was in a '90s game ad
- You can turn on every apocalypse at once in next Total War: Warhammer 3 update
- Phil Spencer says Microsoft really wants Activision for mobile and PC games
- Flight Simulator is getting helicopters, gliders, and a giant wooden seaplane that only ever flew once
- The Devil In Me brings hellish inventory puzzles to the Dark Pictures Anthology
- The PC strategy RPG army swells: Absolute Tactics arrives September 15
- DICE clearly isn't giving up on Battlefield 2042
- Atomic Heart has a release date, a new trailer, and an absolute banger of '80s Soviet pop
- Customer receives Samsung's blessing to smash their SSD with a hammer
- Corsair's bendy OLED gaming monitor will be worth saving up for
- Rare upgraded AI pupper will help save us from another chip shortage
- Sony hikes PlayStation 5 price across most of the globe except the US
- One Steam bundle contains over 5,000 bees
- Nvidia 'always believed' the average GPU price should be the same as a games console
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is now playable on PC, thanks to a fan project
- New Forspoken trailer downplays the jokes to show off the open world
- After 7 months, Dark Souls 3 is back online
- Nvidia to unveil its next-gen GPU architecture in September at GTC
- You absolutely shouldn't buy this Ryzen 7000 sample CPU
- Cyber criminals demand $10M ransom to release French hospital
- August 24
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- Valve is testing a new Steam mobile app
- The three clever murder mysteries in this game demo made me hungry for more
- You can (sorta) play Destiny 2 Crucible inside Fortnite, and it's cool as heck
- Age of Empires 4 is free to play this week on Steam
- HyperX launches its first-ever line of gaming monitors
- Lies of P can't fool us: It's literally Bloodborne
- Here's why Wii U emulator Cemu going open source is a big deal for emulation—and for the Steam Deck
- RIP! Destiny 2's heavy grenade launchers have been disabled due to a massive bug
- Rift of the Necrodancer reveals a wild, rhythmic spinoff in its debut gameplay trailer
- This new 'rhythm fighting' game looks like Guitar Hero mashed up with Street Fighter
- Is this the most pointless flip in videogame history?
- Denuvo DRM that nobody likes now available for Nintendo players, too
- Here's a first look at gameplay from Layers of Fears
- Use your mech for farming, not fighting, in the first gameplay trailer for Lightyear Frontier
- Teslagrad 2 reveals its debut trailer, will be out in 2023
- Command and Conquer Remastered studio reveals a brand-new RTS
- Build sweet island castles in Falconeer spinoff Bulwark
- In this societal city builder you'll restore civilization after global climate change
- Fall of Porcupine is a Night in the Woods style story about healthcare, with a demo out now
- The father of Yakuza left Sega because he really didn't want to be CEO
- Horse girls rejoice: an open world horse game that isn't RDR2
- This Raspberry Pi-powered cat doorbell is purrfect
- How to watch the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2022
- Brace yourself, we're about to enter the era of peak gaming monitor
- Land of the Vikings is a new survival city builder that you can try now
- Crusader Kings 3 update looks to tone-down the 'border gore' of endless conquest
- Mask of the Rose joins the slew of games delayed until spring 2023
- Finally, the Quest 2 no longer requires a Facebook login
- Plex data breach crashed the service as users flocked to change their passwords
- Scars Above looks eerie, alien, and pyramidal
- A decade after its announcement, Mount and Blade 2 releases in full this October
- Hearthstone is introducing premium currency and a Battlegrounds season pass, players are unimpressed
- This PC-only Chinese RPG looks like Assassin's Creed, except you can put your sword down and get a normal job
- Microsoft's exclusive competitive FPS is still trapped on consoles
- PC Gamer wants to hear about the hardest games you've played
- August 23
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- '80s cult classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space is becoming a multiplayer horror game
- Alan Wake 2 is a sequel to Alan Wake
- The game based on The Expanse looks pretty decent, especially the zero-G bits
- FF14 made its most tragic death scene worse without telling anyone
- Ex-Battlefield devs are making a destruction-heavy FPS that sounds right up my alley
- I'm psyched about Pinocchiosouls
- The next Outlast will traumatise up to four players at once
- Dead Island 2 finally has a release date it might make
- Spotify offers Hideo Kojima money to make a show about his own genius, Kojima accepts
- Dying Light 2's first story DLC drops you into a fighting pit
- Gotham Knights is launching a whole 4 days early
- Atlas Fallen looks like Monster Hunter discovered Catholicism and then got mad about it
- This diving game about grief seems like rather a literal metaphor
- Phantom Hellcat is a hack-n-slash that wants to bring the genre 'back to its roots'
- PlayStation announces Xbox Elite Controller rival
- Rick & Morty creator's new game stars a knife that wants to eat someone's ass
- A new Homeworld 3 trailer showcases advanced tactics and hot new graphics
- Fallout 4 and New Vegas veterans team up to make new open world RPG Wyrdsong
- Return to Monkey Island arrives on International Talk Like a Pirate Day
- Goat Simulator 3 gameplay trailer simulates more goats than ever
- This is ludicrous, but Lords of the Fallen 2 is now called The Lords of the Fallen
- Here's our first look at the Dune open world survival MMO
- Hogwarts Legacy Gamescom trailer introduces wizard zombies
- The Callisto Protocol's new trailer has a simple message: Kill fast or die ugly
- Gearbox's attempt at a Telltale game releases in October
- Bungie will no longer sunset whole expansions from Destiny 2
- Destiny 2: Season of Plunder lets you yeet yourself from cannons to fight space pirates
- Destiny 2 is finally getting in-game LFG and loadout systems with Lightfall
- Destiny 2's new Strand subclass looks like sci-fi Spider-Man with magic green webs
- Hearthstone Battlegrounds is adding Quests and a Season Track in a big update coming next week
- Steam Deck's 'production has outperformed' Valve estimates, so it's shipping units out early
- Destiny 2: Lightfall will send players to the cyberpunk world of Neptune in February
- The Shrimp is a 20% gaming keypad that cares not for 'space captain' designs. Or ergonomics
- MultiVersus nerfs Iron Giant because he's 'dominating with abnormally high win rates at every skill level'
- Saudi Arabia first country to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Activision
- Twitch finally allows partners to stream elsewhere
- Nexon reveals first trailer for its new looter-shooter, beta test coming in October
- Prepare for Dragonflight with a free copy of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
- How to watch the Destiny 2 showcase
- Two of the best racing sims are about to be delisted from Steam
- Here's when Genshin Impact 3.0 unlocks in your timezone
- A new subclass, destination, and info on the next season have seemingly leaked before today's Destiny 2 showcase
- How to watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022
- This new display standard aims to demystify motion blur in gaming monitors
- Intel says Meteor Lake is still 'on schedule' for 2023 despite delay rumours
- Here's when Total War: Warhammer 3 – Immortal Empires unlocks in your timezone
- Sega confirms Sonic Frontiers release date
- August 22
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- Stardew Valley creator teases boss fight, music for upcoming project Haunted Chocolatier
- Railway Empire 2 takes the train simulation cross-continental
- Cities Skylines is ditching cars for walking in a new expansion
- Maybe videogames were right all along: outer space sounds really scary
- Minecraft Steve has a beard again
- New patch video outlines extensive changes coming to Total War: Warhammer 3 tomorrow
- Here's a glimpse of HBO's The Last of Us TV show
- Doom meets Devil May Cry in this acrobatic action mod
- Slime Rancher 2 wrangles its way onto PC next month
- MultiVersus was July's biggest-selling game, ousting Elden Ring from the top spot
- Bitcoin mining company recoups $67M in debt selling 26,200 old rigs
- Latest Windows security update is locking users out of their PCs
- Exclusive Magic: The Gathering card reveal: Coalition Skyknight
- More Sega movies are coming, with Space Channel 5 and Comix Zone adaptations in the works
- August 21
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- Build giant monsters out of parts and battle them in Kaiju Klash
- GTA creator reports Rockstar put copyright strikes on his prototype videos
- We like how you can watch dancing in PUBG's 19.1 patch
- Be a remarkably bad cop in remarkably good Half-Life 2 mod Entropy: Zero 2
- Destiny x Fortnite crossover datamined
- Today's Wordle 428 answer and hint: Sunday, August 21
- You might have missed Hell Pie, a gross-out 3D platformer that spits in God's face
- August 20
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- Indie developer Rob Hale has died, posthumously making their games free to enjoy
- Reported Days Gone movie in the works, starring the guy from Outlander
- Y'all seen this fashion police game where you shoot people with a sewing machine?
- Today's Wordle 427 answer and hint: Saturday, August 20
- This lo-fi horror game basically has you playing an extra in the X-Files
- The least likable developer on Steam may have hit the limit of its permissive moderation
- August 19
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- It's probably already too late to clean up your gaming habits for Steam's upcoming 'year in review'
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits Steam release will include a big anniversary update
- A retro publisher is updating Ikki, which literally defined the bad yet fun game
- Ooblets is oobing its full 1.00B release in Septoobler
- Boneraiser Minions gives the Diablo Necromancer fantasy a roguelike twist
- New Redfall deep-dive details the game's Dishonored DNA, open-world size
- Death Stranding is coming to Game Pass
- Saints Row full PC system requirements revealed
- Quake Champions has left Steam Early Access
- August 18
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- Embracer report suggests the KOTOR remake isn't delayed after all
- Play as Spider-Man's dead uncle's gravestone with this messed up mod
- Detroit: Become Human becomes 2½ times better when you edit in Leslie Nielsen
- That tactics game about farting donkey doodles is coming this winter
- The worst Elder Scrolls game is now on Game Pass
- It's Only Money is a 'lowlife simulator' that looks like an indie GTA Online with silly mini-games
- The most influential Quake mod of all time is back
- Thermaltake's swappable fans solve a problem no one has
- Starfield is going to Gamescom, but not with new gameplay
- Helldivers 2 is definitely real, and probably announcing soon
- Diablo 4 will have 'an army of developers' working on years of seasonal updates
- Magic goes back to Dominaria to battle Phyrexia again
- Next year's D&D releases include Planescape
- Corsair teases 10,000MB/s SSDs with its first PCIe 5.0 SSDs
- D&D 6th Edition announced (but they're calling it One D&D for now)
- An official D&D virtual tabletop system is being developed in Unreal Engine 5
- Magic Arena gets a crossover set for the first time, and it's Lord of the Rings
- Riot's new LoL trophy is being designed by fricking Tiffany & Co.
- Capes is a superhero tactical RPG where the good guys already lost
- Nintendo was working on its own cross-platform version of the Xbox Adaptive Controller
- Elden Ring has sold just under 17 million copies in six months
- Here's a 16-bit cybersamurai epic from the devs of Blazing Chrome
- Intel production halted in Sichuan China due to 60-year-high heatwave
- Just Cause devs spent two years on an Iron Man game before it got cancelled over 'company politics'
- PC Gamer UK October Issue: Monkeying around
- Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation is a form of cyberattack
- Early X670E motherboard pricing looks totally wild
- Embracer goes on spending spree: buys Lord of the Rings IP rights, Tripwire Interactive, and more
- This breakthrough tech allows Wi-Fi signals to literally break through walls
- Chrome's new update patches yet another major exploited vulnerability
- Dead Island 2 is alive and coming in February
- Twitch's zero-explanation bans continue to baffle streamers, this time a popular VTuber
- Another crypto game crashes and burns, won't issue refunds to backers because there's no money left
- Here are the games joining and leaving PC Game Pass in August
- Farthest Frontier devs didn't include churches to avoid 'drama around real world religions'
- August 17
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- At long last you can get sexy with Joker in Mass Effect 3
- Mark Zuckerberg spent $10B on the metaverse and all he got was this stupid selfie
- Wing Commander IV: Remastered revitalizes a PC gaming classic
- '90s strategy king MicroProse is back with a Cold War blend of wargaming and RTS
- Destiny 2's Arc 3.0 rework is inspired by a bonkers Jason Statham movie
- You'll never be as happy as this adorable wiggly-armed robot
- Musician turns Windows 95 into a chiptune album on an actual Sega Genesis cart
- The biggest bitcoin miners lost over $1B during this year's crypto crash
- World's biggest mod site bans mods replacing Pride flags: 'We don't want to and won't argue this with you'
- Where others failed, this mod finally adds a 3rd dimension to Doom's enemies
- Vampire Survivors has epic teaser trailers now
- Dying Light 2 teases first major DLC and looks like it's set in an arena
- Many existing PCIe 4.0 SSDs should work okay with DirectStorage says Phison
- Humankind's cities can now be turned into gargantuan cakes
- Microsoft Xbox Adaptive Controller support is coming to Linux
- Fortnite players can't get enough of DBZ's absurd finisher
- After eight years, the space MMO where players create the ships launches next month
- Amazon's take on Fallout's vaults looks pretty good in leaked shots
- Calling all Lord of the Rings fans: I've found your next gaming keyboard
- Logitech's new VR accessory brings Valve Index audio to the Quest 2
- This tiny registry tweak shows what resolution DLSS is rendering at
- There's now a permanent Stalker-themed supermarket in Kyiv where you can buy Stalker brownies and more
- Intel's Arc A380 GPU should go on sale in the US for the first time this month
- Wrath of the Lich King Classic's pre-patch arrives later this month
- Final Fantasy 16 director says series is 'struggling' to adapt
- These AI-generated Overwatch fusions are beautiful and terrifying
- August 16
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- Diablo 2 player completes pacifist Hell run previously only theorized to be possible
- EA will honor the biggest pricing error we've ever seen
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has three release dates now
- All your Overwatch skins and cosmetics carry into Overwatch 2, Blizzard reaffirms
- Tower of Fantasy has cut down on server queue times, promises unnamed 'punishments' for cheaters
- God save us: Tony the Tiger and his milk-cooled PC come to Twitch
- Activision accused of ripping off Dr Disrespect's game for a $20 Call of Duty skin
- AMD to unveil the "next generation of Ryzen processors" later this month
- House Flipper meets V Rising in this vampire hotel management sim
- Sony may be working on its own PC game launcher
- Samsung's 55-inch curved gaming monitor is going to swallow you whole
- Tinkerers rejoice! There's a new DLSS version to mess around with in your games
- Razer's excellent DeathAdder wireless gaming mouse is now even lighter
- Hacker jailbreaks control unit that stops farmers repairing their tractors, then runs Doom on it
- These new OLED gaming monitors from Asus are absolutely gorgeous
- Conflicting Ryzen 7000 price leaks tell very different stories
- One of last year's best city builders is getting free DLC
- Upcoming AI image generator will run on an RTX 3080
- Intel taps Microsoft to take care of older DX9 game support with its Arc GPUs
- Half-Life just smashed its concurrent players record thanks to a fan campaign
- It's time to go Super Saiyan in the Fortnite x Dragon Ball crossover event
- Weird FIFA Marvel crossover turns footballers into B-list superheroes
- Guild Wars 2 arrival on Steam next week means you can finally just buy the whole thing upfront
- The MultiVersus battle pass has no gleamium and that kinda sucks
- World of Warcraft's trade chat should have less spam after today's update
- Watch out: Crusader Kings 3 flavour packs are about to double in price
- August 15
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- Owlboy devs unveil Vikings on Trampolines
- Innovative deckbuilder Nadir paints a beautiful portrait of Hell
- Prospective Starfield modders are organizing early to make a fan patch
- Here's a whole roguelike about inventory management
- Richard Garriott's NFT MMO entreats you to 'buy land in the realm of Lord British'
- Multiversus' new characters include DC's Black Adam and... Stripe from Gremlins
- Unity rejects proposed takeover by AppLovin
- A new Middle-earth game is in development by the studio behind the visual effects of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy
- FTL meets Don't Starve in cooperative seafaring caper Ship of Fools, launching November 22
- Insomniac Games worked on multiplayer modes for Marvel's Spider-Man, PC files suggest
- MultiVersus Season 1 patch notes confirm Morty release date, Batman and Arya as free playable characters
- Spider-Man mods are here, you can already play as Black Cat or Stan Lee and wear the symbiote suit
- August 14
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- Cosmic horror abounds in Doom 2 mod Divine Frequency
- Steam lets you add free stuff easily now and it is absolutely majestic
- Soccer Story is a fantastical RPG about playing that beautiful game
- Squirrel with a Gun is a game about exactly what it sounds like
- You can be Master Chief in Yakuza 0 because mods are magical
- August 13
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- Hogwarts Legacy delayed into 2023, but with a firm release date
- PUBG picks up 80,000 extra players daily now that it's free
- Here's Total War: Warhammer 3's shockingly large Immortal Empires map
- All Genshin Impact codes from the version 3.0 livestream
- Some of your old favs show up in a new Jagged Alliance 3 gameplay trailer
- August 12
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- TwitchCon about-face now requires masks and more for 2022 in San Diego
- Fortnite Creative is flexible enough to make a convincing tribute to Bioshock's Rapture
- Wreckreation looks like Trackmania with a Forge mode
- Alone in the Dark is coming back with a 'completely original story' from the writer of SOMA
- Goofy survival game Space for Sale makes you a real estate mogul
- Classic-style RTS Tempest Rising hits in 2023
- Final Fantasy 14's latest patch 'Buried Memory' arrives August 23
- Major League of Legends update makes jungling easier, adds pets
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is getting a new map inspired by Shoot House
- Microsoft claims Sony is keeping games off Game Pass by paying developers 'blocking rights'
- Game engine developer Unity signs lucrative contract with US Defense
- Destiny 2 cheat maker claims it hasn't harmed the game, says Bungie should work with it
- August 11
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- Mod makes Halo's Master Chief into a Yakuza enforcer
- Tower of Fantasy player discovers upsetting bug
- This Undertale mod adds local co-op, but playing online requires some extra work
- The FCC rejects Starlink's $885M internet proposal because its speeds are too slow
- Nightingale, the fantasy survival game from former BioWare developers, is delayed
- Bungie has announced a huge nerf to a big problem in Destiny 2, plus a bunch of exotic buffs
- Path of Exile's next quarterly expansion offers an early taste of the endgame
- FIFA 23 will bring back loot boxes, EA confirms as it defends the practice
- Meta chatbot claims Mark Zuckerberg is 'cooler than Dragon Age,' but can we trust it?
- Tower of Fantasy apologizes for long launch day server queues with freebies for all
- Suffer in style with this mod that brings Devil May Cry combat to Dark Souls 3
- Texas paid this company to mine bitcoin during an ongoing energy crisis
- Will Intel kill its GPU business? I doubt it but I also don't like the odds
- Someone's selling a Steam Deck joint holder on Etsy
- Overwatch pro has no idea he's been fired, finds out at the same time as the rest of the world
- Doom and Quake are being cleaned up for newcomers in time for QuakeCon
- This is almost the sci-fi gaming desk of my dreams yet I am not worthy
- The best way to stress test a supercomputer is processing a supernova
- Is your TV mounted too high? This 80,000+ user subreddit will be the judge
- Your SSD is fast, but it's got a dirty side
- AMD's Zen 4 CPUs should perform well with DDR5-6000 memory
- The internet won't stop roasting this new Forspoken trailer
- August 10
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- Tower of Fantasy is a messy Genshin Impact with few ideas of its own
- With guns drawn, police raid home of trans Twitch streamer Clara 'Keffals' Sorrenti in latest swatting debacle
- He wanted faster internet, Comcast wanted $50,000, so he made his own ISP
- Stylish crime RPG Sunday Gold drops a free prologue and release date
- After nearly 30 years, Elite Dangerous and Planet Coaster studio CEO David Braben steps down
- Nvidia CEO reportedly hands staff a raise despite lackluster quarter for company
- Microsoft is bringing Minecraft Legends, Lies of P, and a whole bunch more to Gamescom
- A mobile ad tech company wants to buy Unity for $17.5B
- Surreal Apex Legends bug is doing a switcheroo on character abilities
- After years of 'development hell', the Half-Life 2 VR mod is finally getting a public beta
- Windows 11 used with modern CPUs could lead to encrypted data corruption
- Gigabyte begins seeding its X670E motherboards
- Spider-Man Remastered PC launch times are here
- Ukrainian refugee finally plays Elden Ring after funding a new PC with VTuber models
- August 9
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- Finally, mainstream esports acceptance: ESPN airs Microsoft Excel All-Star Battle
- The PC version of Madden 23 doesn't include its biggest new feature
- Battalion 1944 studio splits with Square Enix, announces free Legacy edition coming to Steam
- Destiny 2 fans jump on leak as evidence that a new 'poison' subclass coming
- Subnautica studio will reveal its new sci-fi strategy game at Gamescom
- Overwatch will stop selling loot boxes this month
- They're making a live-action Pac-Man movie for some reason
- Researchers find way to shrink a VR headset down to normal glasses size
- Elite Dangerous has ended a 2-year story with a big disaster and an update
- Turtle Beach is in a race to find a buyer or else risk total upheaval
- Nightdive sheds light on why Blade Runner Enhanced Edition was such a disaster
- Elden Ring update makes summoning easier and finally lets you do the Varre quest solo
- This Skyrim bard magic mod lets you use your Spice Girls collection to smite enemies
- MultiVersus smashes 10 million player milestone in just 3 weeks
- Wait, you mean I can make a battery out of just paper and ink?
- Micron's investing $40B so your next SSD, RAM, or GPU memory chips might be made in the USA
- The X-COM itch 'never goes away', says X-COM creator Julian Gollop
- GTA 6 will set creative bars 'for all entertainment,' declares publisher
- August 8
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- Apex's newest character might finally help me not suck
- Stalker 2 studio celebrates International Cat Day with a horrifying new monster
- This Skyrim mod recreates the best part of Shadow of Mordor: the nemesis system
- My most anticipated shooter of 2022 just got delayed
- Marvel's Midnight Suns is delayed, Wolverine's claws retract slightly
- Intel gets serious with its Arc Pro A-series GPUs
- Final Fantasy 14 modder tries healing with an actual book and pencil, goes about as well as you'd expect
- Nvidia's gaming sales massively down but it's working to 'adjust channel prices'
- Modder shows how to transform the Framework laptop into a tablet
- Modern Warfare 2 beta is coming in September with a frustratingly complicated schedule
- An omnipresent AI runs Tencent's RGB-fueled nightmare esports hotel
- 'Epic has been great for many indies', says X-COM and Phoenix Point creator
- Faster GDDR6X memory likely headed to Nvidia RTX 40-series is now in production
- Street Fighter 6 shows off new fighter Kimberley and the return of Juri
- Another middle finger to our robot overlords as US court rules AIs are not 'individuals'
- EVGA slashes RTX 3090 Ti price by $1000 to just $1149
- Dragon Ball FighterZ and Samurai Shodown are getting rollback netcode
- Teaser shown at EVO suggests Tekken 8 may be on the way
- August 7
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- Go listen to the first-ever gaming concert at the BBC Proms, a landmark event
- First MultiVersus tournament ends in $10K upset as underdogs break Bugs/Velma meta
- Multiversus is getting a coop arcade mode "very soon" in Season 1
- An Elden Ring Wandering Mausoleum made of LEGO is glorious
- PC screenshots of Spider-Man Remastered have leaked
- August 6
- August 5
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- GameStop's NFT marketplace sold stolen indie games
- Valorant dev tackles smurfing paranoia: 'smurfs are less common than players think'
- Tiny MMO Book of Travels lays out big plans for the future
- Zenless Zone Zero's first beta shows off its roguelike city
- Activision Blizzard earned more on mobile games last quarter than PC and consoles combined
- Steam finally adds support for Nintendo Joy-Con controllers
- I can't choose between these sweet Green Hill Zone and Dreamcast keyboards
- Far Cry 6 is free to play this weekend
- PUBG owner begins active development on lavish adaptation of Korea's biggest fantasy novels
- A leaked Stalker port is a strange new front in the war in Ukraine
- Vampire Survivors adds a bunch of OP cheat codes for the lulz
- One of the best roguelikes ever is getting a 3D remake with a rewind function
- Intel admits tuning DX11 support is going to be a 'labor of love for like forever'
- Nvidia RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 rumours suggest we're still a while away from a genuine launch
- The 'lost' Warcraft adventure game can now be played the way it was meant to be
- SK Hynix's first 238-layer memory boasts 50% faster SSD speeds, but c'mon it's not really 4D is it?
- Twitch streamers are making millions from crypto gambling sites while their audience goes bankrupt
- Meteor Lake, Intel's first chiplet processor, may now be delayed until 2024
- AMD and partners show off premium AM5 motherboards for upcoming Ryzen 7000 CPUs
- August 4
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- Microsoft is rolling out a 5-person, family sharing Game Pass plan
- The Dead by Daylight dating sim has no business being this good
- 15 years into development, Beyond Good and Evil 2 gets a new lead writer
- The forlorn ghost of Internet Explorer continues to haunt Windows 11 systems
- No more Overwatch 2 betas, Blizzard confirms
- Crypt of the Necrodancer studio stealth-reveals a sequel
- I shot my nephew in this solo dev's love letter to Final Fantasy Tactics
- Ukrainian studio Frogwares crowdfunds full-scale Sherlock Holmes remake and gets off to a flier
- Flip the script on Elden Ring's toughest foes by playing as Sekiro's final boss
- Soon a car is going to have a better gaming PC than me
- QuakeCon 2022 will feature dirty keyboards and Skyrim sweet rolls
- Fromsoft CEO Hidetaka Miyazaki to receive the top gong from Japan's industry body
- Steam Deck preorders are finally available in parts of Asia
- Koch Media got so sick of the jokes it's changed its name
- The Future Games Show is coming to Gamescom 2022
- A CPU world record has been broken by dousing a $6,000+ AMD chip in liquid nitrogen
- This Doom modder is sending Max Payne to Mars in 'Doom Payne'
- You've got until 2025 to upgrade to Wi-Fi 6 before it's yesterday's news
- Tencent makes megabucks offer to buy majority stake in Ubisoft
- Intel's Arc GPU launch appears to have gone from headache to migraine
- Blizzard probably isn't going to charge you $45 for an Overwatch 2 skin
- After 27 years on console, Tactics Ogre is finally coming to PC
- Don't worry, the Multiversus delay has nothing to do with the Discovery exodus
- Discord bot AI image generator predicts the 'last selfie ever taken'
- An invasion of Taiwan would shut down global chip production as 'nobody can control TSMC by force.'
- Samsung's next-gen 990 Pro PCIe 5.0 SSD spotted
- MultiVersus season 1 has been delayed
- Someone finally beat the $20,000 Halo 2 challenge
- August 3
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- Dead by Daylight publisher reveals a new co-op puzzle game coming in 2023
- The Sims 4 patch reminds Sims they don't want to have sex with family members
- Court ruling reveals more details about death threats against Destiny 2 developers
- I know it's a bad idea, but I want this PC gaming fish tank
- This Zelda: Breath of the Wild mod for Minecraft totally Hyrules
- Steam service returns to Indonesia, Epic Games Store still blocked
- 'Malicious actor' drains $5.2 million in crypto assets from 8,000 digital wallets in one go
- Destiny 2 streamer finds galaxy-brained use for 11 Stadia accounts running simultaneously
- One of BoardGameGeek's top games now has a Steam version
- Dead by Daylight studio's new game is a 'building-and-raiding' FPS
- Blizzard reportedly cans WoW spinoff MMO that spent three years in development
- A World of Warcraft bug caused big nerfs to some classes in Fated raids
- Upscaling isn't only for buffing frame rates, it also 'reduces latency'
- PC-controlling brain implants are here and 'the reality is that people need this technology'
- Riot is releasing a 5-part documentary on the making of Arcane
- Games Workshop made £25 million from videogames last year, and a dozen more titles are on the way
- Alternative game engine The Machinery has been cancelled, with devs told to delete all trace of it
- Multiversus will have a 50-tier battle pass when season 1 launches
- Soon you won't be able to watch a football match without seeing 'EA Sports FC' plastered everywhere
- Bren Esports owner cleared of charges in drug smuggling case (updated)
- The Steam Deck will now warn you when it is too hot or too cold to play
- AMD's record $6.6B revenue keeps 'high-end' RDNA 3 GPUs and Ryzen 7000 CPUs on track for launch this year
- It's wild that mobile game ripoffs this bad are allowed to exist
- This parody of Bo Burnham's 'Welcome to the internet' is better than it has any right to be
- August 2
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- The VRChat documentary gets VR right, but already feels old
- Malcolm McDowell announces Gloomwood delay: 'For God's sake, you can wait'
- Fallout 4 modder performs miracle, creates working ladders
- Elden Ring modder chops down giant Erdtree for a performance boost
- After popularizing self-revive in battle royale, Apex Legends is getting rid of it
- Suing abusers and cheaters is 'good business,' Bungie says
- Marvel's new card game is scrapping its unpopular monetization scheme
- After admitting their MMO 'sucks,' developer reworks the entire game
- Embalm corpses, fill out forms, and battle for your soul in DreadXP's new horror game
- CS:GO players celebrate as matchmaking tweak leads to bonus rankings
- This PC in a toilet is the good shit
- Sabrent's new NVMe SSD raises plenty of questions about DirectStorage
- Crypto firm that promised security loses $200 million in 'frenzied free-for-all' hack
- This Skyrim mod turns all the dragons into the actual state of Ohio
- Unofficial drivers bring AMD AI Noise Suppression to older Radeon GPUs
- Marvel's Spider-Man preorder price was wrong in some countries, so Steam wants you to repurchase it
- Netflix's Cyberpunk 2077 anime has a very violent trailer
- Don't expect Mortal Kombat 12 to make an appearance at Evo
- Logitech and Tencent are building a streaming handheld for Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce Now
- There's already a distinct theme emerging for the Case Mod World Series 2022
- Winamp is back from the dead
- Intel's 13th Gen 13700K reaches 6GHz milestone
- Activision Blizzard's quarterly revenue steeply declines, but Call of Duty will come to the rescue
- MultiVersus already has millions of players
- August 1
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- Reminisce about all the places you sold 53 short swords at once with this Twitter account celebrating videogame stores
- You'll never guess what you can do at a funeral in Don't Ruin A Funeral
- Half-Life 2's gravity gun meets Stalker's exclusion zone in this sci-fi FPS
- The best MultiVersus players in the world are playing the same character
- Blizzard wants to know how much people will pay for Overwatch skins
- SEC charges 11 people in alleged $300 million crypto Ponzi scheme
- Terraria devs plan to tackle crossplay after next update
- Terraria devs still had 'unfinished business' that inspired latest update
- Riot's League of Legends fighting game will of course be free-to-play
- Play Stray like a dragon with this Spyro mod
- Counter-Strike on Nintendo DS slaps
- Diablo Immortal hits 30 million players, estimated to have raked in over $100 million
- Thank this man for making our gaming PCs spew rainbows
- Axie Infinity CEO pulled out $3 million of crypto before $600 million hack was announced
- A Red Dead Online bug is turning the game into a ghost town
- A Raspberry Pi is surprisingly handy if you want to build your own vending machine
- CHIPS act passes US Congress
- Fans are bringing back tactics card game Duelyst
- There are of course nude Sephiroth mods for Final Fantasy 7 Remake
- The internet's GTA 6 takes are so bad they brought Shitty Gamer Takes back from death
