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April 30
- Here comes that city builder set on the back of a giant space turtle
- Water is life and death is permanent in this tense, laconic, $3 sci-fi adventure
- This Doom-powered, nautical shooter boldly asks 'what if Spongebob was on Adult Swim in 2006'
- Be a mushroom postal worker delivering to woodland animals in this cozy platformer
- You can finally be a woman in Persona 5 Royal, thanks to a massive mod project
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #680: Sunday, April 30
- CoD's Season 3 update broke the game for a bunch of players, and they're so upset one sent the devs a pizza
- League of Legends' AI bots are getting a major reboot
- Don't Starve Together goes on sale for the cheapest it's ever been, breaks concurrent player record
- Be a robo-judge hunting down dystopian criminals in the demo of Mega City Police
April 29
- Absolute madlad mods layers into MS Paint
- This windswept platformer is going to have entirely embroidered character art
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #679: Saturday, April 29
April 28
- Sony confirms more PC ports are coming, because it's making a ton of money
- Modder wires ChatGPT into Skyrim VR so NPCs can roleplay and remember past conversations
- This 'edutainment horror' game that just released on Steam is creeping me out
- This huge Tiny Tina's Wonderlands mod sounds like almost a completely different game
- EA kinda sorta apologizes for poor Star Wars Jedi: Survivor performance, cites high-end hardware as a problem
- Twisted Metal TV show teaser gives us our first glimpse of live-action Sweet Tooth
- Vampire Survivors is being made into an animated series
- Modders are turning Spelunky 2 into a sprawling Metroidvania, and you can try it right now
- The current version of Windows 10 will be its last
- Cyberpunk 2077 fans will get 'hands-on opportunities' with the Phantom Liberty expansion before it launches
- The best co-op survival game of 2022 is getting animal companions and a creative mode
- Judge knocks back Elon Musk's ridiculous claim in fatal Tesla crash lawsuit: His statements about auto-driving safety could have been deepfaked
- Sci-fi trumps fantasy as Honkai: Star Rail surpasses Genshin Impact's launch numbers
- This weekend is your first chance to buy a handheld PC with AMD's powerful new chip
- As the CMA recriminations rumble on, Microsoft signs yet another ten-year deal with a cloud platform you've never heard of
- Ingenious Counter-Strike players are exploiting Steam's new notes function to score noscopes
- Age of Empires 2's next DLC makes a fan-favourite game mode official and brings over all the first game's civs
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Steam reviews hit 'mostly negative' as players slam performance issues—'F*** us PC gamers right?'
- Intel promises an avalanche of new CPUs and chip tech despite record losses
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #678: Friday, April 28
- New Steam feature lets you pin windows over games, including guides, notes, and web pages
April 27
- Cassette? Vinyl? Nah, this noise rock group surprise-launched its new single in an FPS
- April the twenty-seventh be with you, I guess: Star Wars Day sales just started a week early
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's first performance patch helped, but it still needs serious work on PC
- The woods are filled with suffering and Slavic horrors in this survival city builder's new gameplay trailer
- Hmmm, scientists hooked up a goldfish's brain to a computer helmet
- No, you won't have to wait until the endgame for Diablo 4's mounts
- Redfall's PC system requirements revealed, but they're lacking a pretty big detail
- You can buy Armored Core with a little mech for $230, but for near double the price they throw in a little house for him too
- Fallout: London modders just released a massive WWI-era gun you can try in Fallout 4
- Wow, one of the PS2's great puzzle games just came out on Steam
- Dotemu's next classic resurrection is the secret best Might & Magic game
- My favorite detective game of 2022 has more cases to solve this May
- One of the greatest RPGs ever made and a classic Star Wars space sim head up Prime Gaming's free games this May
- Here's when Star Wars Jedi: Survivor releases in your time zone
- AMD's figured out why Ryzen CPUs were burning up, BIOS fix already rolling out
- Gobsmacked Microsoft president says UK's regulator blocking the Activision deal is company's 'darkest day'
- This randomizer mod turns the best Elder Scrolls game into a beautiful fever dream
- Befriend a behemoth and build a custom tarot deck to escape exile in Deconstructeam's next narrative adventure
- Armored Core 6 gameplay trailer reveals August release date
- Mr. X can now chase you through the cloud as Resident Evil lands on GeForce Now
- Respawn CEO would 'love' to make Titanfall 3, but 'It has to be the right thing'
- Meta promises next-gen Quest VR headset coming at price 'accessible for lots of people'
- The Last of Us gets another whopping patch as Naughty Dog admits there's more to be done
- Here we go again: Counter-Strike 2 has a Half-Life reference
- 'Super duper' Grounded update really does look super until you realise they added fricking wasps
- Leaked $700 pricing for the Extreme ROG Ally could kill the Steam Deck for me
- Elden Ring legend completes ludicrous 'all Malenia' challenge run that replaced every enemy with the game's hardest boss
- Cities: Skylines concludes 8 years of city building with a final expansion on May 23
- All it takes is a €50 mod to keep this AMD GPU chill and in complete silence
- Alien Isolation mod tools deliver Ridley Scott's original vision of a Xenomorph stalking Dust 2
- PC Gamer UK June issue on sale now: Diablo 4
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #677: Thursday, April 27
- Popeye is coming to World of Warships, so you can stop asking for it
- This AI-made pizza ad is truly messed up
- Get Humankind's new DLC free for a limited time
- In this 4X strategy city builder you chain floating islands together to build an empire
- This could be the end for Microsoft's bid to buy Activision Blizzard, but some analysts think it still has a chance
April 26
- Bugsnax studio releases 4 free games on Steam, including one called Snakedate about a snake trying to get a date
- MSI just had to unlaunch its RTX 3060 Ti Super 3X because it's not actually 'Super'
- Everyone is lining up to talk to a trash can in Honkai: Star Rail
- Former Control lead designer launches a new studio with NetEase
- Black Mirror season 6 is coming to see if it can be scarier than the tech dystopia we already live in
- Quantum Break is back on Steam and PC Game Pass
- Shuhei Yoshida says AI could help game development but 'creativity is more important'
- The PC industry has surely hit rock bottom as multi-billion dollar losses predicted for Intel this week
- New World and Lost Ark players aren't happy as Amazon closes forums in favor of Discord
- 3 decades after the first game, Flashback 2 has a release window
- The Starfield open beta at the top of Google search is an obvious scam
- Evil Dead actor Bruce Campbell shoots down idea of Ash Williams in Mortal Kombat 12: 'They need to come to our house'
- 42 years on, The Oregon Trail gets free DLC
- Rumoured AMD chip is the gaming laptop APU we've been waiting for
- After 9 months, Warzone 2's chillest mode returns to the game today
- UK regulators block Microsoft's Activision acquisition in potentially fatal surprise blow
- Hang in there, we're winning this thing: Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti price now rumoured to have dropped to $399
- Experience gaming's wildest ending for less than $2
- Engineers added ChatGPT to a robot dog and now it can talk
- Grab $70 off a 1TB 990 Pro SSD in Samsung's storage sale
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #676: Wednesday, April 26
April 25
- Trombone Champ gets truly nasty, adds the hellish Flight of the Bumblebee
- Star Trek: Resurgence is now set to arrive in May
- Former World of Warcraft lead developer hints at something big coming to Classic
- FTX collapse has done lethal damage to an up-and-coming card game
- Hideo Kojima laments that Metal Gear Solid 4's digital battlefield 'is no longer science fiction'
- Asus has been building the ROG Ally for 5 years and here are the hideous prototypes to prove it
- The most ambitious and flawed Total War has just received its first update in years
- Metacritic promises stricter moderation to tackle 'abusive and disrespectful' user reviews
- The Witcher season 3 teaser video reveals June debut date and two-part release schedule
- This massive mod voice acts all of Hollow Knight, even the item descriptions
- NetEase is not suing Blizzard—The Chinese court system confused one angry man with a corporate behemoth
- Nier: Automata has sold 7.5 million copies and there's still no sign of a sequel
- The ROG Ally doesn't need the Deck's Verified system because of Windows and its AMD Z1 chip
- Asus ROG Ally launches May 11 with pricing 'for sure... below $1,000'
- Dead Island 2's development hell has paid off with 1M launch weekend sales
- Epic's antitrust case against Apple looks dead in the water
- EA asks leakers to please knock it off with the Jedi: Survivor spoilers
- Memory overclocking being blamed for AMD Ryzen chips burning themselves to death
- Diablo 4's full version wants twice as much storage as the beta
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #675: Tuesday, April 25
April 24
- Epic Games boss defends Twitter, calls #BlocktheBlue supporters 'losers and goons'
- Apex Legends' next hero gets a new story trailer ahead of gameplay reveal
- Fan unwittingly scores new Magic: The Gathering cards early before Wizards of the Coast gets 19th century on his ass: 'The Pinkertons took everything.'
- The Witcher season 3's first teaser just dropped and yes, that's still Henry as Geralt
- The billion-dollar Call of Duty series is getting an official boardgame, and for some reason it needs a Kickstarter
- This Halo 1 Mario Kart mod is as ludicrous as it is impressive
- This wonderfully '90s RTS looks like a lost Command & Conquer game
- Intel Meteor Lake's Adamantine spine could boost GPU and boot performance
- If you die in PvP while playing Diablo 4 hardcore, you're dead bucko
- Vampire survival game says screw it, let's add Frankenstein's monster
- Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski isn't bringing back LawBreakers after all, and he's 'kinda over the whole making games thing'
- AMD's RX 7600 and Nvidia's RTX 4060 Ti release dates rumoured around Computex next month
- NetEase is not suing Blizzard after all [Updated]
- Mike Laidlaw explains how the Dragon Age writers' room tackled companions
- Square Enix's free 'AI tech preview' has a Steam user rating of Very Negative and deserves it
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #674: Monday, April 24
- Users report AMD Ryzen 7000X3D series CPUs randomly burning out
- This retro-futuristic platformer about rescuing spacemen on an alien moon might be the perfect Steam Deck game
- Diablo 4 will have a a 'pinnacle boss' intended to be your character's final challenge
April 23
- 16-year-old LOTRO invites you to go loot the Witch-king's house for its anniversary
- More of the internet could disappear as load-bearing image host Imgur announces deletion of old content and NSFW images
- Toasterball is kind of like pong but with toast instead of paddles
- Immersive sim Consortium delisted to make way for a remaster, free to owners of the original
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #673: Sunday, April 23
- Josh Sawyer: 'The most compromised games I worked on were Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2'
- Explore an anime version of Tokyo in this free Unreal Engine 5 demo
- Sony likes this studio's unannounced service game so much it bought it
April 22
- Dual-wielding god solos Elden Ring's hardest boss in 15 seconds... on New Game +7
- For those about to game on a 23.8-inch 1440p monitor, I salute you
- High-speed OLED monitors are pouring in with AOC announcing €999 contender
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #672: Saturday, April 22
April 21
- Zero-gravity FPS Boundary is quietly one of April's coolest new releases
- 'We're running at a f**king wall, and we're gonna crash'—CD Projekt's lead quest designer on big budget RPGs
- Four more Ubisoft games are headed to Steam this summer
- Markiplier is making a feature film adaptation of a $6 horror indie game where you pilot a windowless submarine under an ocean of blood
- The cute cozy cat game we've been watching for 6 years is finally coming out
- Stardew Valley creator shares early concept doodles on Twitter, and now fans want a full art book
- Over a million people have played the XDefiant beta
- Dark and Darker lawyers fire back at Nexon: 'nothing more than anti-competitive bully tactics designed to put a small indie firm out of business'
- BS your way through interviews and first dates with this ChapGPT-powered AR monocle
- Intel Arc GPU performance bumped by over 70% in Cyberpunk 2077 thanks to XeSS
- Garry's mod wrestles with the complexities of just outright banning Nazi stuff
- Victoria 3's first gameplay DLC lets you invite Marx and Lenin to your place for tea and revolution
- Alone in the Dark, Trine 5, and more to be shown off at THQ Nordic's summer showcase
- Acer's new RTX 4090-powered PC is puny but hella powerful
- The hot new use for graphics cards: pretending to be a quantum computer
- Bad news: Your progress from the last Diablo 4 beta doesn't carry over into May's 'server slam,' and you'll have to hit level 20 all over again to get the new reward
- Deathloop exists because Dishonored 3 ain't happening
- The Lemmings-alike where you're a Shiba Inu saving humankind is out in weeks and has a buckwild new trailer
- I'm enjoying the surface level absurdity of Microsoft updating DirectStorage 1.2 for the benefit of ye olde hard drives
- This new football game may well give EA a run for its money (sorry PES)
- Nvidia reportedly cutting supply on slow selling RTX 4070 GPU
- Street Fighter 6 isn't out yet but it's already announced its first 4 DLC characters
- Massive Dota 2 patch makes the map 40% bigger, changes the UI, matchmaking, so much other stuff it's basically Dota 3 now
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #671: Friday, April 21
April 20
- Hooray, a Street Fighter 6 demo just dropped! Oh wait, PC gamers can't play it until next week
- If Diablo 4's not your thing, Men of War 2 is having an open beta on the same weekend
- Twitter finally purges blue checks from formerly 'verified' accounts, including many game studios and developers
- This computer interface you wear like a mustache will let you open doors and play games with your lips
- Stop the 'prophetic birth of a new miracle child' in this deeply weird Metroidvania
- The Division Heartland is a spinoff that mixes extraction shooter with survival elements in small town America
- [Deep breath] Tom Clancy's The Division 2 Warlords of New York Expansion Year 5 Season 1 Broken Wings Descent Mode will be on public test servers tomorrow
- Blizzard asks Diablo 4 fans to 'come slam our servers' in May 😏
- Unrecord dev posts noclip video to prove the realistic bodycam FPS isn't 'fake'
- Worst boss ever? Tech CEO applauds employee for selling family dog for the good of the company
- The voice of Claptrap becomes the voice of Pisstrap in Postal 2's surprisingly big 20th Anniversary Update
- 2022's best detective game is getting a new case this month
- Sonic may have just taken the crown for the coolest-ever Lego set
- Atari buys up over 100 'groundbreaking and award-winning' games from the '80s and '90s and says 'many' will be re-released
- Paper Mario PC ports beckon as coder completes full decompilation of the N64 classic
- Candy Crush mom ends up in the semi-finals of a $250K tournament she didn't even know she'd entered
- If these benchmarks are true, the ROG Ally's graphics are gonna slap
- Seagate agrees to pay US gov $300m for selling Huawei some hard drives
- Please stop doing war crimes in multiplayer games, it's upsetting the Red Cross
- We might be getting another Diablo 4 beta soon
- Wordle hint and answer #670: Thursday, April 20
- The freakily photorealistic 'bodycam FPS' we glimpsed last year now has a trailer and Steam page
April 19
- Big update this week on future of The Division, including Heartland and Resurgence
- The balls on this guy: An author is suing Amazon and JRR Tolkien's grandson claiming they infringed on his Lord of the Rings fanfiction
- Google employees reportedly begged it not to release 'pathological liar' AI chatbot Bard
- Ubisoft's MouseTrap works, and console players are dancing on cheat hardware's grave
- Dark and Darker devs apologize for buggy playtest, but I for one am glad I torrented it
- Here's another e-waste crisis for the e-waste crisis pile: 'Chromebook churn'
- Thank the dark ones: Cult of the Lamb is getting a big free DLC update this month
- Netflix will finally stop mailing people DVDs this year
- The best-named game of the year finally has a release date, and it's just 4 months away
- OK things are getting silly now: This streamer beat Elden Ring with her brain
- More people have played The Sims 4 than live in France
- Rogue Trader shows off one of Warhammer 40K's most interesting locations for the first time in a videogame
- A fan favorite is returning as Darkest Dungeon 2's final launch character, and he's looking worse than ever
- The Day Before announces a beta test and pledges a return to Steam
- Sean 'Day9' Plott launches his own game studio to make a 'multiplayer PC strategy game'
- MSI's Afterburner graphics overclocking app gets its first proper update in years
- Age of Empires 2 gets some all-timer patch notes as it finally stops monks hiding in relics and dying when they drop them
- PUBG developer's NFT metaverse platform is coming this year and still sounds like nonsense
- You've got one week to try Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer for free
- Dev makes classic game free to celebrate release of remake, accidentally does it early and almost gives away the new one, before Valve saves the day
- Techland wants to know who you'd like to play as in Dying Light 3
- Gollum dev says it's charging for the precious Elvish-language DLC because it had to train voice actors in how to speak it
- Resident Evil 2 and 3's ray tracing options are already back
- Intel quietly ditches its Bitcoin mining chips
- Wordle hint and answer #669: Wednesday, April 19
April 18
- Controlling Overwatch 2's new hero won't feel like playing a flight simulator anymore
- This Marvel Snap card is so completely broken, everyone is getting it for free
- Lead designer at Naughty Dog says Star Wars Battlefront 3 was 'legit incredible' and LucasArts cancelling it was 'an absolute crime'
- If an irradiated wasteland filled with murderous monsters isn't bad enough on its own, now you can add AI Joe Rogan to it
- Bungie says it has 'irrefutable evidence' against Destiny 2 streamer accused of leaking confidential content
- Elon Musk says his TruthGPT AI is 'unlikely to annihilate' humanity
- Man steals Pokémon cards on the job in 'largest' theft the game has ever seen, tries to sell his haul, but the law is super effective
- Bowser released from federal prison but has to pay Nintendo for the rest of his working life
- If there's one thing AI has done for us, it's killed Zuck's metaverse
- Counter-Strike skin sells for $400K, probably the most expensive gun in videogame history
- Asus says its Steam Deck rival may be coming 'sooner than you expect'
- Wordle hint and answer #668: Tuesday, April 18
- The world's most disgusting grenade is now available in Overwatch 2
April 17
- Fans of a sweatier Call of Duty are championing Ubisoft's free-to-play XDefiant
- With yet another senior departure, it seems like just about all of Halo's leadership has changed over in the last 2 years
- Spotify is killing Wordle-like music game Heardle next month
- Diablo 4 has officially gone gold
- A new multiplayer Harry Potter game promises all the online Quidditch you can't play in Hogwarts Legacy
- Former Halo Infinite creative lead Joseph Staten joins Netflix to head up an all-new 'AAA multiplatform game'
- Valheim is getting a creative mode and some truly brutal hardcore difficulty options
- The new steampunk adventure game from the makers of Myst recommends 32GB RAM and this is why
- Artist wins prestigious photography prize with AI, refuses the award, gets scrubbed from the competition, and says we need to talk about banning AI from this stuff
- Calling for a pause on AI experimentation then spending millions on GPUs for a new AI project has real Musk energy
- Mega Man re-releases add warning about 'insensitive cultural depictions' but leave the games unchanged
- Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti rumoured to cost $450 at launch in May
- The Mario movie is the highest grossing videogame movie ever, knocking Warcraft off the top spot
- Sega splurges $776 million on Angry Bird creators Rovio
- American McGee wants to move on from Alice and asks fans to do the same
- Diablo 4 is bafflingly refusing to implement map overlay at launch
- Wordle hint and answer #667: Monday, April 17
- Over 2,400 Steam users had their accounts restricted for marking a negative review as helpful
- Latest patch for The Last of Us fixes more crashes, lets you rebind the arrow keys
April 16
- That Renfield movie with Nic Cage has a Vampire Survivors-style tie-in game, and it has no right to be this good
- Stardew Valley is getting a surprise update with new content
- This grappling hook horde survival shooter's free demo already has me hooked
- The Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition remaster has an optional HUD with a Doom-style ouch face
- CA clarifies how to unlock Ulrika in Total War: Warhammer 3
- Organ Trail the movie has nothing to do with the zombie game, was inspired by a typo
- Wordle hint and answer #666: Sunday, April 16
- The story of Rockstar's logo is a glimpse at the chaos of its early days
- The Gollum collector's edition really is called the 'Precious Edition'
April 15
- Discord has finally added voice messages
- Resident Evil 2 and 3 have had their ray tracing options put back
- Upcoming The Last of Us first person mod zooms in on Naughty Dog's broken world
- Wordle hint and answer #665: Saturday, April 15
- Diablo 4 dungeons won't waste your time with boring objectives and dead ends when it launches this June
April 14
- Vampire Survivors' latest DLC is a perfect $2 jolt of the game I fell in love with last year
- You're dead and stalked by Death Stranding monsters in this indie game about grief
- Dark and Darker is still kicked off Steam, so Ironmace is 'going old school' with BitTorrent for the latest playtest and fans are loving it
- Hackers want a 'minimum 8 figures' in ransom payment for data they stole from Western Digital last month
- Starfield quietly drops Russian language support and Bethesda won't say why
- Aggressive Nintendo copyright strikes on YouTube push Breath of the Wild multiplayer modders into taking down mod
- 'We have to move fast': US regulators start work on a probably-futile attempt to avoid an AI apocalypse
- 'It's like a shirt someone made with their inkjet printer in 2006': Fans hate Konami's new Silent Hill 2 garb (but they're wrong)
- Nvidia says 83% of RTX 40-series gamers enable ray tracing
- Cliff Bleszinski teases news about LawBreakers, the excellent arena shooter that died 5 years ago
- Destiny 2 fashionistas will finally be rewarded for their sense of style earlier than planned
- Street Fighter 6 is promising 'big news' with Lil Wayne on 4/20
- Don't let your chonk graphics card sag or it might actually die
- Ghostwire: Tokyo inexplicably adds Denuvo over a year after its release
- It's surprisingly easy to trick an AI chatbot into telling you how to be a very bad boy
- You too can dress like a Minecraft character for the low, low price of $4,350
- Get the Peaky Blinders stealth puzzle game that was delisted on Steam free for a limited time
- Wordle hint and answer #664: Friday, April 14
- The maximum number of Total War: Warhammer 3 mods you can install just went up to 65,534
April 13
- Diablo 4's respec cost isn't changing before launch
- Bungie announces major crackdown on third-party peripheral cheaters, bans incoming
- The guy who leaked Ukraine War plans on Discord got busted because of his Steam profile
- Call of Duty dips into 'pay-to-win' with $12 bundle that gives you actual gameplay advantages
- This modder is making the coolest keyboard ever by putting little OLED screens in the keycaps
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is delayed to 2024
- The musical RPG from the former lead writer of Dragon Age finally gets a release date
- Idea for your next build? Someone stuffed a gaming PC inside an old Sony Trinitron CRT monitor
- EA's new battlemage FPS had me at '25-hour singleplayer campaign'
- Elden Ring creator Hidetaka Miyazaki is the second game dev in history to make Time's 100 most influential people list
- Why the hell did no-one tell me I could actually make the Prt Sc button useful?
- Beloved Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings 3 releases tomorrow, so you can finally give the series a decent ending
- Bandai Namco games are coming to GeForce Now. But no, not Elden Ring
- Live: Where to buy the Nvidia RTX 4070 today
- Nvidia's RTX 4070 is out but what about AMD's response?
- You haven't got much time left to grab 14 classic Star Wars games for just $21—including both KOTORs, all the Jedi Knight games, and more
- Steam Deck-friendly Windows Handheld Mode shown off in leaked Microsoft Hackathon vid
- I am beyond outraged that the Super Mario Bros theme is the first piece of videogame music inducted into the Library of Congress
- Lofi Girl's vanishing act left music lovers panicking, but she returned with a new friend
- First Zen 6 rumour puts AMD's far future CPU on 2nm tech
- Wordle hint and answer #663: Thursday, April 13
April 12
- Redfall will only do 30 fps on Xbox consoles, and people are starting to worry
- Modders rejoice! Bringing ray tracing to PC gaming classics just got way easier
- Holy cow, a new Trine game is coming out this summer
- Oops, Overwatch 2's new hero is actually a giant slingshot
- Valve is about to slash the file sizes of the Steam Deck's SSD-hogging shader caches in half
- Ubisoft drops Rainbow Six Siege streamer after he makes a bunch of racist 'jokes'
- You're a cyberpunk T. Rex using your tiny arms to fix electronics in this 'ironic' retro adventure about customer service, time travel, and true love
- Endless Dungeon is delayed into October
- Diablo 4 borrows from MMOs but is still about 'overpowered builds' and 'blowing up screens of monsters'
- CS:GO player destroys entire opposing team with single 'one in f**king billions' miracle shot
- Survive prison by recruiting an army of alien rats in this turn-based RPG
- Intel just made it easier to make Arm chips in its own fabs
- AI-driven NPCs are living lives and planning parties all on their own
- Some of the first non-bugfix mods for The Last of Us give Joel and Ellie a wardrobe worthy of Hot Topic
- AMD trash talks Nvidia for not giving gamers enough VRAM
- Lucasfilm wanted Jedi: Fallen Order to be a shooter featuring a bounty hunter or smuggler
- Forget the Dead Space Remake, this free PS1 demake is the true retelling of Isaac Clarke's story
- Wordle hint and answer #662: Wednesday, April 12
April 11
- Blast-from-the-past FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun gets a release date
- Build a big city (that fits on a small table) in this cute card-based city builder
- Nintendo goes after Discord to find out who leaked the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom art book
- PC Game Pass comes to 40 more countries
- If you thought things couldn't get stupider, someone just held a CO2 reader up to a PC to prove 'bitcoin mining has zero carbon emissions'
- Dead Island 2 system requirements revealed
- EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history
- People are horny for Stanley Parable's narrator now, I guess
- Discord's upping its puny file upload size limit for all users
- It's just getting silly now: Microsoft inks 10-year deal to bring Activision games to a UK mobile phone network
- Cyberpunk 2077's fancy RT Overdrive graphics is now live and ready to bring your GPU to its knees
- Resident Evil 4 actor strikes back at harassers: 'not the first time an actor of colour faces racist and sexist harassment, for simply participating'
- Portal writer Erik Wolpaw still wants to make Portal 3, but Valve's 'flat structure' makes it a challenge
- Cronus cheaters are getting sniped across the biggest FPS games
- PC sales are down but can everyone please chill out
- Run away from your problems and win an Xbox in Redfall's free choose-your-own browser game
- Nvidia's RTX 4070 matches RTX 3080 in leaked benchmarks
- Unbrick your Wii U with a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico
- Wordle hint and answer #661: Tuesday, April 11
April 10
- One-shot sniper rifles are returning to Warzone this week
- ZeniMax promises 'a proper resolution' after using Elder Scrolls Online fanart in a paid skin without permission
- Speedrunners are already making a mockery of Resident Evil 4's hardest difficulty
- Riot will let you pay to turn your Valorant guns into Counter-Strike guns
- Wordle players should try this new daily puzzle from the New York Times
- QuakeCon will return in-person for 2023, but with some big changes
- Let's Build a Zoo will soon let you build an aquarium, too
- Wonderful, an AI can crack the most common passwords almost instantly
- In 2021 a YouTuber offered $10K to whoever could make a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod, and now you can play it
- Dead by Daylight kills its new healing system after blowback from players
- This gleefully silly FPS takes inspiration from one of Titanfall 2's best levels
- Capcom removes Denuvo from Resident Evil Village
- Play all of Half-Life: Alyx without VR thanks to this mod
- Wordle hint and answer #660: Monday, April 10
- After complaints about 'free' Ark: Survival Evolved upgrade being sold in a $50 bundle with Ark 2, it'll now be in a separate bundle for $60
April 9
- Get ready for a culinary throwdown when Cook Serve Forever launches in May
- Here's the final gameplay trailer for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Tekken 8 will have crossplay, a series first
- Wordle hint and answer #659: Sunday, April 9
- This immersive sim will be set in a gas station that might also be hell
April 8
- One of the best spaceship strategy games is free for a limited time on Steam
- No Alice sequel, says EA
- Wordle hint and answer #658: Saturday, April 8
- Halo creative lead Joseph Staten leaves Microsoft 3 months after heavy layoffs at 343 Industries
April 7
- Supplice is a new retro-FPS made by Doom modders, and it really feels like old-school Doom
- Blizzard fixes Overwatch 2 'bug' that it purposefully added in 2019
- World's best chess player loses tournament after 'horror mouseslip'
- The Last of Us on Steam finally gets its first big patch, but it still has the jitters
- I can't believe this keeps happening: leaked Ukraine War plans spread in part through a Minecraft Discord server
- Call of Duty's next season might actually make everyone happy
- In this 'inverse city builder' the island you're building on is slowly shrinking
- Take-Two dismisses lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto modders
- Sons of the Forest's latest patch notes are more disturbing than I expected
- Samsung cuts chip production as profits implode
- Resident Evil 4 Remake gets surprise microtransaction DLC that lets you pay to upgrade your guns
- F.E.A.R. inspired shooter Trepang2 blasts onto Steam this June
- Nvidia's RTX 4070 is unofficially official but still hasn't actually been announced
- Nvidia's low-latency Reflex tech will give older GPUs a boost in Counter-Strike 2
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two is now completely playable in VR thanks to a mod
- Resident Evil 4 Remake's Mercenaries mode is available to play now
- Wordle hint and answer #657: Friday, April 7
April 6
- 5,700-word Wild Hearts patch notes promise better performance for 'some CPUs' and other PC improvements
- Sony patented a 'deformable elastic' controller that heats up in your hands, and I can't say I'm in love with the idea
- Play this MOBA-like PvP game's public alpha this weekend so I can stop trying to describe it
- Soothe angry mystical creatures by beating them senseless in a lovely luminous soulslike coming later this month
- Pour one out for Diablo 3 as Blizzard prepares its final new season
- Quantum Break has been removed from Steam and Game Pass, but it's alright
- Dying Light is free on the Epic Games Store
- This new Steam game turns Tetris into a dungeon crawler, and it's pretty darn cool
- EA unveils FIFA's new look and warns of marketing blitz for the ages
- It took 10 years to make it happen, but the sequel to one of my favorite tower defense games is finally almost here
- One of the most influential FPS games inspired the new map in Overwatch 2 season 4
- The PC Gaming Show will return on June 11
- Cisco trashes $23M worth of tech to avoid it being sold in Russia
- ChatGPT is 'so wildly incorrect' that an Australian whistleblower is suing it for defamation
- Five Nights at Freddy's movie gets a release date only eight years after it was announced
- Final Fantasy 14 is giving its second expansion away for free
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's system reqs are out, and I guess I'm buying a new hard drive
- AMD's Zen 5 CPU is scary fast according to performance numbers from the actual father of Zen
- Bohemia has a new 'RTS/FPS crossover' coming, and it's giving me Battlezone vibes
- PC gaming's obsession with high-end hardware is only going to get worse according to analysts
- Sega's April Fool's joke has become its best-rated Sonic game on PC
- Wordle hint and answer #656: Thursday, April 6
- Bethesda added a 'newvegas2' branch to Fallout 4, fueling rumors of a New Vegas follow-up
April 5
- Bungie responds to Lightfall complaints and details improvements to come: 'The initial experience we delivered didn't provide the clarity we planned for'
- YouTuber bypasses ChatGPT's ethical constraints to make it generate working Windows 95 keys
- 'There will be a Chirper, for sure' in Cities: Skylines 2, says Colossal Order CEO
- Blizzard president Mike Ybarra reveals Diablo 4 unlock times two months ahead of launch
- Diablo 4's endgame challenges are MMO dailies in disguise
- Here's 16 minutes of gameplay from a new Pokemon-inspired 'monster collecting RPG' coming to Steam later this month
- Area man destroys Elden Ring's pantheon of bosses with a Bop-It
- Amazon share price rises after it lays off even more workers, this time in its gaming divisions
- It's the final end of an era: Former Stadia boss Phil Harrison has left Google
- No Man's Sky's next major update adds new ships and spooky corrupted planets
- Forget the rocket launcher, you can annihilate one of Resident Evil 4 remake's toughest bosses with a couple of eggs
- Your PC is all powerful but can it run Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive mode?
- Snoop Dogg was so eager to quit FaZe Clan's board that he may have dumped around 214K shares to do it
- Bing's AI image generator allows artists to 'limit' its access to their art, but not outright block it
- Nvidia's RTX 3060 is the new Steam Survey king but something fishy is going on
- Wordle hint and answer #655: Wednesday, April 5
- Agony spin-off Succubus VR has been banned from Steam
- Xbox's new controller is made of one-third reclaimed materials
- Wooting's three-buttoned UwU keyboard starts at $50
April 4
- Free Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC releasing alongside Chaos Dwarfs detailed
- Super Mario Bros movie review round-up: 'Chris Pratt doesn't ruin the movie' but it's still not that great
- Cities: Skylines 2 developer says multiplayer would make the 'core player experience' worse
- Activision is tormenting Call of Duty cheaters in order to study them, stealing their weapons and turning their enemies invisible
- Here's something to do while you wait for Diablo 4: Plot out Diablo 4 characters with this incredibly handy build planner tool
- Cyberpunk 2077's new 'Overdrive' ray tracing mode actually kind of looks worse to me
- The Last of Us gets another hotfix, but the 'camera jitters' fix has been delayed
- HyperX's new adorable gamer gear-themed pet toys are kind of paw-some
- Catan creator Klaus Teuber has died
- This Elden Ring first-person mod certainly did not put its foolish ambitions to rest
- Overwatch 2's new support hero can sabotage his own team, but Blizzard hopes players will behave
- Crusader Kings 3's second expansion promises enough pomp and circumstance to distract everyone while you 'murder a quarrelsome rival'
- My ultimate childhood Flash game just got a Steam release
- Evo Japan acknowledges its big comeback was 'flawed' and promises to do better next time
- Resident Evil 4 mod makes Ashley a bloodthirsty mouse that lives in Leon's hair
- Intel reportedly bets big on sales of its next-gen Arc graphics cards
- We're teaming up with SpecialEffect and EPOS for an all-year gaming giveaway!
- Monster Energy tries to bully indie dev out of using the word 'monster', but chose the wrong guy to pick on
- TikTok owner made $80B last year, probably not squirming over £12.7m fine for collecting children's data
- Player mutiny forces 19-year-old MMO to retract new 'pay-to-raid' feature two weeks after announcing it
- Upcoming 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitors from Samsung and LG look pretty much perfect
- Samsung's chip boffins couldn't help but tell ChatGPT their secrets
- The spiritual successor to one of the best and least-played management games ever is getting a sequel
- Naughty Dog says Steam Deck support is at the bottom of the list while it tries to get The Last of Us working on PC
- Get up to 60% off SteelSeries peripherals in this Easter sale
- Wordle hint and answer #654: Tuesday, April 4
April 3
- Diablo 4 boss has reassuring words for buildcrafters: Respeccing won't be 'prohibitively expensive'
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor design director on starting production in Covid-19 lockdown and still finishing in record time: 'I don't know how we did it'
- I knew Capcom was doing pretty well, but its stock is skyrocketing
- Activision settles esports salary cap lawsuit with Department of Justice
- 'Free' Ark: Survival Evolved upgrade turns out not to be free, and a lot of players are mad
- It's a great week for city builders: 3 new ones are coming to Steam on Wednesday alone
- Overwatch 2's new support heals with flowers and can yank you out of danger
- Help, everyone's turning Resident Evil 4's Ashley into a mouse and now Capcom is in on it too
- Ethernet co-inventor finally bags a Turing Award, half a century later
- It only took 16 years for Team Fortress 2's voice cast to actually play the game
- The ROG handheld PC is real and Asus announced it in the worst way
- The RTX 4070 just leaked, looks like a match for an RTX 3080 without frame gen
- New DirectX 12 preview could pave the way for PCs to become more like an Xbox or PS5
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves directors are considering leaving Faerûn for another setting in a sequel
- I found a Skyrim mod that adds skooma hallucinations, now I'm a drug addict with an imaginary goat
- Wordle hint and answer #653: Monday, April 3
- Voice actor who played Ada Wong in the Resident Evil 4 remake wipes her Instagram after harassment
- Here's 23 free game prototypes from the creators of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
- Obviously, this is a fast-paced roguelike where you are a crab with a gun
- Everything's underwater but you and your friends in survival game Sunkenland
- Cyberpunk life-sim RPG Citizen Sleeper's third, final free DLC is live
April 2
- This upcoming FPS is a love letter to soul patches, JNCOs, nu metal, and everything else 1999
- I had my weekend turned on its head by this stop motion-animated pagan fever dream of a game
- 76 of the top 100 most-played games on Steam are playable on a Steam Deck
- Resident Evil fans vote for their favorite character, pick Leon
- Naughty Dog apologizes to Last of Us players on PC
- Wordle hint and answer #652: Sunday, April 2
- Learn D&D or enjoy a solo session with this official browser game
April 1
- Kratos calls for ceasefire in console wars
- I hope Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's new weapons take a page from this modder's sick custom movesets
- Rounding up the games industry's best jokes, japery, and doggone tomfoolery from April Fools 2023
- That Musk-signed open letter calling for a pause on AI development is getting blasted by the very researchers it cites
- Thank goodness Corsair's 'Elite Tactile Distractors' aren't a real product, or else I'd never get anything done
- Wordle hint and answer #651: Saturday, April 1
- Dark and Darker dev starts and then pauses GoFundMe for Nexon legal battle: 'The reality of the situation is that their end goal is to bleed us dry in court fees'