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- April 30
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- 'New Vegas is a very, very important game to us,' says mildly exasperated Todd Howard, who will never stop getting grilled about New Vegas
- Fallout 76's latest update nerfs one of its most powerful weapons, but don't worry, it buffs it too
- Ex-Lego game devs formed a new studio to explore a completely different genre: Funko Pops
- An Xbox Games Showcase is coming in June and it sure looks like the next Call of Duty is going to be there
- Beautiful upcoming Sims competitor Inzoi reveals tons of weird features like sleepwalking, custom crime rates, and relationship hard mode
- 5 beginner's tips for Echoes of the Plum Grove to help you survive your first season in Honeywood
- Deliver Us Mars studio lays off all staff after funding efforts fall through
- Blizzard 'learned a lot of lessons' from having to emergency fix Diablo 4 season 3's vault dungeons, but says they'd need more work before bringing them back permanently
- Diablo 4 season 4 'Loot Reborn' will change almost everything you know about the action RPG
- Blizzard plans to make Diablo 4 boss farming better for solo players
- 'The rule of cool' is Blizzard's solution to Diablo 4's barbarian problem and it's going to 'juice up the other classes' to compensate
- Manor Lords dev has 'grand plans' for castle siege warfare but still thinks non-combat is 'a viable way to play'
- My absolute favorite little gaming laptops from Amazon Gaming Week, and one of them even has a lovely OLED screen. Mmm
- Todd Howard is a good boy after all—warned his mum that the Fallout show's full of 'sex, violence, and bad words'
- Classic PC games modded with RTX Remix just received support for one of Nvidia's newest features: Ray Reconstruction
- Roblox and Walmart are now selling real-world items in-game to anyone over the age of 13: 'It's very safe'
- Software dev joins ranks of history's greatest monsters by adding microtransactions to the original Doom
- Todd Howard wants to preserve the 'Americana naivete' by keeping Fallout mostly based in the USA: 'keep the mysterious lands mysterious'
- NASA's latest speed test logs its laser-based comms system at 25 Mbps—a connection speed usually good for online gaming—over 140 million miles through our solar system
- PSA: Empty your rucksack before you play Gray Zone Warfare for the first time
- At one with the machine—How sim racing has helped me practise mindfulness
- Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding
- Gray Zone Warfare tops Steam's best sellers partly thanks to disgruntled Tarkov players: 'at least it doesn't cost 250 dollars'
- Destiny 2 Luna's Howl god roll guide: Best perks, barrels, and magazines
- PCIe 5.0 is nearly four years old and it's still virtually worthless in gaming PCs
- Helldivers 2 devs confirm rockets aren't ricocheting, though the Eruptor's shrapnel backfire has been headshotting patriots: 'we're looking to completely remove the shrapnel effect'
- Manor Lords seems surprisingly stable for an early access game, and the developer says: '99% crashes so far are old drivers'
- Manor Lords is at its best when 'players craft their own stories' and don't rely on a dev-made tale, which 'quickly became repetitive'
- Streamer lets viewers add custom voice lines to Skyrim NPCs, immediately realises their mistake: 'I formally apologise and regret my life choices'
- Noctua teases 'something new' that looks very much like the desk fan prototype it's had on show before
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 30
- Razer forced to pay more than $1M in refunds for its RGB 'surgical N95 respirators' that were not N95 respirators
- April 29
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- That's rad: with 65 million viewers, the Fallout show is Amazon's biggest hit since The Rings of Power
- On the heels of Tarkov's worst week ever, a new rival extraction shooter is looking to woo its disgruntled audience
- Manor Lords shatters Steam city builder record with over 170,000 concurrent players
- Starfield's first expansion, Shattered Space, will be out this fall
- Bethesda beefing it with a calamitous 'next-gen' Fallout 4 update just as everyone's falling in love with Fallout again is the most Bethesda thing imaginable
- 'Cozy game with consequences' Echoes of the Plum Grove is constantly threatening me with death, taxes, and mean neighbors
- Palworld reveals 4 of the 'many more' new Pals coming in its summer update
- 'Most ambitious' Vampire Survivors update yet features 'immersive door opening action' and 'world premiere train mechanics'
- Manor Lords players delighted to discover a villager with an NSFW name, but the developer says it's historically accurate
- Jackbox Games' first-ever M-rated game promises to put the 'jack' back in Jackbox
- Today in Helldivers 2: Super Earth admits those Termicide towers we turned on last month actually made the bug population explode overnight, and guess whose job it is to clean this mess up
- The creators of one of the best detective games ever are back with a new 'open world mascot management crime drama' and I could not be more ready
- 'No Rest for the Wicked is like our Lord of the Rings,' Moon Studios boss says: 'We won't be making Ori 3 anytime soon'
- Google picks the one fight it will never win—with Sonic fans
- The tech I'm most psyched to see this year is anything but traditional PC silicon, and certainly isn't x86
- I watched the first Autonomous Racing League event and while it certainly wasn't exciting, it was unintentionally hilarious
- Nothing's made me want to reject modernity more than this videogame scholar documenting the installers of yesteryear
- Walton Goggins reveals that parts of the Fallout show were filmed at a diamond mine where 'there's still diamonds on the ground'
- Destiny 2 Hammerhead god roll guide: Best perks, barrels, and magazines
- Helldivers 2 devs explain why solo missions have more patrols, now: 'the intention is that one player has 1/4th of the patrols … they had 1/6th'
- Manor Lords dev concedes that archers aren't strong enough but promises changes: 'This will surely take a while to get right'
- Suffering so you don't have to, this streamer has doubled up on haptic suits to feel the real pain of Skyrim VR
- PSA: Here's the reason your sawpit isn't working in Manor Lords
- Where to find the 'keep surrounded by mountains' in Total War: Warhammer 3 Thrones of Decay
- Total War: Warhammer 3's Thrones of Decay is a gunpowder and steel adventure that puts the Empire and Dwarfs back on top
- Fallout 4's most popular mods are now ones that remove Bethesda's disastrous 'next gen' update
- Early benchmark suggests Intel's Battlemage GPU in Lunar Lake has lots of low-power promise
- Hades 2's technical test is shutting down today, but don't worry, you won't be deprived of your hot gods for long—early access will follow 'relatively soon after'
- This LG UltraGear 34-inch QHD ultrawide is down to just $250 for Amazon gaming week
- How Escape From Tarkov wiped out years of goodwill in one catastrophic week
- One Manor Lords player survived a battle so epic he decided to create a fake Wikipedia article about it
- How to upgrade burgage plots in Manor Lords
- Major Helldivers 2 balance patch tweaks over 24 different weapons and stratagems, adjusts enemies, slightly nerfs my beloved Quasar and Sickle, and more
- Intel points at motherboard vendors for recent CPU instability issues but the chip maker isn't entirely blame-free
- Hit sandbox MMO Albion Online braces for launch in Europe
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 29
- Manor Lords' dev asks players: Should its supply mechanic be changed?
- Check out Oddsparks, which is something like Pikmin by way of Factorio
- Counter-Strike 2 adds a lefty mode
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 29, 2024)
- Get your friends for some horrific tomb raiding in Forewarned, which just hit 1.0
- April 28
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- Dragon's Dogma 2 looks drastically different with path-tracing enabled thanks to a mod
- Escape From Tarkov dev finally caves, says people who paid $150 for the game will get access to its new mode 'in waves'
- You may be kicking yourself for deleting Destiny guns that are all of a sudden viable again, but one of the game's biggest YouTubers has been Marie Kondo-ing his friends' arsenals on camera for years
- Continuing the Fallout bonanza, Humble is offering $238 of the Wasteland Warfare tabletop game's digital sourcebooks and accessories for $18
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 28
- Remembering the weird HeroQuest novel that combined Beowulf, Discworld, Dying Earth, and American Psycho
- April 27
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- YouTube's been experimenting with ads that play while your video is paused
- A group of modders are building 'Baldur's Village' in Stardew Valley, an idyllic little town where you can date Astarion and maybe hang out with some of those other guys
- Update: Tarkov studio claims it actually doesn't have the server capacity for everyone who bought the game for $150 to play its upcoming PvE mode, but has relented on making those players pay extra for it
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 27
- April 26
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- Discord drops the hammer on data-scraping 'Spy.pet' website, says it is 'considering appropriate legal action'
- A new Stardew Valley patch is here, and we can all rest easy: it fixes Mr. Raccoon
- Wait, how did I miss that you can finally preorder Armored Core 6 model kits?
- Thanks to Fallout 4's disaster update, GOG's patch rollback feature makes it the best version of the game right now
- The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook
- The solo developer of Manor Lords, Steam's latest smash hit, named his studio after a Witcher 3 meme
- Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today
- Metro Exodus is the perfect post apocalyptic game to play if you're tired of Fallout's wasteland
- The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series: 'We're not going to do a piss poor job with a game that's part of an IP that we care about'
- The Divinity: Original Sin board game is like a huge new Larian RPG in a box, and it's one of the coolest games I've ever played
- Bulletstorm studio's mysterious Project Dagger is officially dead
- TSMC looks set to hit Intel where it hurts, announcing its A16 node with 'Super Power Rail' backside power delivery
- Fortnite fans are losing love for the airbending mythic as it continues to dominate the endgame
- Manor Lords surpassed 100,000 concurrent players within hours of release, and now it's the global top seller on Steam
- Counter-Strike gives the people what they want: 'Fine'
- This mega-ultrawide OLED gaming monitor was too hot to handle at MSRP but it's just cooled off to $1,000
- Gigabyte Aorus FO32U2 review
- Celebrating the 20th birthday of City of Heroes: an MMO resurrected by the people who loved it enough to 'bring the game back for good'
- Arrowhead Games keeps the spirit of democracy alive by making Helldivers 2 players choose which stratagem they'd like to unlock next
- I tried to make a medieval paradise in Manor Lords but now it's just full of eggs and corpses
- Helldivers 2 players complete another major order by the skin of their teeth, and some can't help but feel Joel's going easy on them
- MultiVersus fans, you were right: The character models are actually bigger in the upcoming re-release
- Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 and it's giving me all the nostalgia feels
- Idle farming sim Rusty's Retirement allows you to pour hours into farmwork whilst still doing other things
- FF14 players are struggling to complete the Yo-kai Watch event thanks to a tide of Blue Mages armed with bad vibes and missiles
- Helldivers 2 devs confirm that, no, trimming 'excess leg space in the cockpit' doesn't mean the nice Eagle-1 lady is hacking off her legs for liberty
- Fancy a borked Intel CPU for just $3.25? This Japanese Gacha machine is just for you
- Intel CEO claims Core Ultra laptop chip is 'hot' but the company's near-term outlook still isn't exactly on fire
- Elden Ring's uber boss Malenia says she has 'never known defeat', but your bank account sure will if you buy this 1:1 scale replica of her blade arm
- It took 30 years, but a speedrunner's finished Doom 2's opening level in an unbelievable 4.97 seconds
- Our top 10 Manor Lords tips for thriving in the survival city builder
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 26
- HP spends big to secure title sponsorship rights for the Ferrari Formula One team
- After 6 years, the FCC has voted to restore net neutrality regulations in a win for the open internet
- April 25
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- Hasbro says Magic: The Gathering's Fallout-themed Commander cards were 'probably our best-performing Commander set ever'
- After 10 years on Steam, Korean MMO ArcheAge is giving up on North America and Europe
- Wake up! These spider-looking phenomena just spotted on Mars are clearly Helldivers 2 bugs preparing for a surprise attack
- Arrowhead says Helldivers 2 players should avoid bullying those fancy lads with the blue preorder armor, who are canonically frozen yogurt salesmen
- Escape From Tarkov players rage as developers lock co-op PvE behind a new $250 edition, then say they'll offer previous buyers access for just 6 months (Updated)
- Remember all those Destiny 2 guns you deleted after they got sunset? Bungie admits you shouldn't have done that: 'We regret we have no recovery mechanism'
- Manor Lords release date and launch times: here's when the medieval city building gates open
- Deep Rock Galactic Survivor sails past a million sold as developers salute players' 'ravenous appetite' for space dwarf content
- Here's what god rolls you should be farming for Destiny 2: Into the Light's Brave Arsenal weapon set
- Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, and doesn't seem to change much at all
- Slay the Spire co-creator advises that 'taking risks is actually the least risky thing you can do,' arguing for the appeal of 'hyper-engaging' games
- BlizzCon 2024 isn't happening
- 'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled'
- Helldivers 2 devs send players into a frenzy as they tease 2 new potential stratagems via meme propaganda
- Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return
- My quest to find one of Stardew Valley's rarest items left me as a social outcast, but that won't stop my early-morning rummages
- State of PC gaming roundtable: Larian, Digital Extremes, CCP, Mega Crit on making games in 2024
- Dough Spectrum Black 27 review
- Manor Lords dev asks press and YouTubers to stop breaking the game: 'please restrain yourself'
- Get a superb Star Wars game and multiple Day One releases on PC Game Pass this April
- This Fallout-inspired post-apocalyptic wasteland game runs in Excel, because spreadsheets will outlive us all
- Fallout 76 was kicking my butt until I respecced into an indestructible tank
- Manor Lords won't let me get away with my usual survival city builder cheese strats, so I guess I'm actually gonna have to become a competent mayor
- US game devs celebrate as non-compete clauses, previously deemed 'a trash way to keep the talent', face a ban from the FTC—which would free up movement across the AAA industry
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Frostpunk 2
- This co-op Viking survival game is a lot different than Valheim because you can recruit NPCs, assign them jobs, and occasionally devour their souls
- Manor Lords' publisher explains why there's no price attached yet: 'We don’t want players to get scammed or cheated'
- From Fallout to Stalker, GOG's 'Post-apocalyptic Sale' has some strong discounts on well-reviewed PC games
- Jen-Hsun turns delivery driver as he hands over the first DGX H200 to OpenAI to 'advance AI, computing, and humanity'
- How to trade and earn regional wealth in Manor Lords
- How to use the marketplace in Manor Lords
- How to get more families in Manor Lords
- How to gain influence and claim regions in Manor Lords
- How to make ale and use the tavern in Manor Lords
- Don't neglect Manor Lords' most important building—the humble burgage plot
- Roll20 will cut out the alt-tabbing middleman and let you run your D&D and TTRPG games directly in Discord, which you were probably using for voice chat anyway
- The first official reference to the 'AMD Ryzen 9000 series' gives Zen 5 a name and hints at an imminent release date
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, April 25
- Total War: Warhammer 3's next free DLC gives away gold wizards, an evil crown, and a legendary lord who counts diseases for fun
- April 24
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- Steam closes refund policy loophole, finally comes up with a name for the thing where you can play a game early if you preorder
- Lords of the Fallen now has one of those masochistic enemy randomizer modes for action RPG fans looking for punishment
- Don't worry, you're not missing out by boosting straight to level 20 in Fallout 76
- Garry's Mod is removing 20 years' worth of Nintendo-related items from its Steam Workshop following takedown request: 'It's Nintendo. Need more be said?'
- Klei's new co-op brawler makes a strong first impression in early access
- 'We aren't going anywhere,' TikTok CEO says as company vows to fight US ban
- Surprise! Minecraft's brand new mob has rolled out months before the update we expected it would be in
- No Rest for the Wicked chief defends early access, says more games should do it: 'Imagine [if] Dark Souls 1 had been in early access'
- Dark Roast Cafè is an adorably satanic, cozy game where you employ quirky demons to help run your business
- HyperX Cloud III Wireless review
- Another Crab's Treasure review
- The futility of Helldivers 2's 'Menkent Line' has parts of the community feeling bot fatigue: 'We fought hard to establish a defensive line, and for what?'
- Sand Land review
- NASA manages to fix Voyager's garbled data problem, even though it's more than 15 billion miles away
- 'We are going home': PUBG's original Erangel map from Early Access is 'making a triumphant return to the battlegrounds'
- Embracer's CEO says 'I'm sure I deserve a lot of criticism' as he reflects on a company split three ways—but maintains that every 'key entrepreneur and CEO' believed in its 'mission'
- FF14 and FF16 senior translator Koji Fox says 'you can kinda tell' game director Naoki Yoshida is 'like: I'm done with dark fantasy, I want to do something light again'
- The full Snapdragon X CPU line-up has now been unveiled, and according to Qualcomm's numbers it should put the fear of ARM into AMD and Intel's laptop divisions
- Where to find The Parting Glass in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
- Homeworld 3's latest system requirements won't fill up your SSD but you'll need all the CPU and GPU you can throw at it
- Baldur's Gate 3 player summons roughly 88 minions to conquer Honour Mode with a glorious army of spore zombies, elementals, and Scratch the best boy
- Fallout London's project lead is not taking the surprise drop of Fallout 4's update well: 'That has, for a lack of a better term, screwed us over'
- Apple reportedly slashes Vision Pro headset production and cancels updated headset as sales tank in the US
- RDNA 3+ edges closer as AMD hints at refreshed GPU architecture in its Linux firmware
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 24
- Considered doomed 6 years ago, Fallout 76 is attracting record player numbers thanks to the TV series
- German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany'
- April 23
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- Why games are still full of fetch quests in 2024
- Blizzard admits WoW is rough for new players and plans to fix that: 'We know that we have a lot of work to do'
- Josh Sawyer understands why some fans are annoyed by the treatment of New Vegas in Amazon's Fallout series, but he's not one of them: 'Whatever happens with it, I don’t care'
- I almost quit Fallout 76 until I realized Bethesda still hides its most important setting in a config file
- Gloomhaven studio releases a demo for a new game and lays off more than half its employees on the same day
- Coming up with 'skeleton outfits' was one challenge of being the Fallout show's costume designer: 'We dressed skeletons right and left'
- Fallout showrunners talk about the show's take on New Vegas: 'The idea that the wasteland stays as it is decade-to-decade is preposterous to us'
- Of course Fallout fans are thirsty for The Ghoul—this isn't the first time everyone's fallen for an irradiated guy
- Grand Theft Auto 5 actor 'shot some stuff' with Rockstar for a 'James Bond Trevor' expansion that never happened
- Destiny 2: Where in Neomuna is Archie?
- Todd Howard reveals his favorite moment from the Fallout television show, and in hindsight it's really no surprise at all
- Meta is creating a Quest VR headset in the style of an Xbox, which probably means it's black with a bit of green
- Games Workshop has announced a board game based on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, but, uh, maybe don't get too excited
- 18 times the Fallout show was exactly like a videogame
- I have become obsessed with a goat in Lovecraftian dating sim Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor drops into Game Pass via EA play, which is a great excuse to try it if you noped out in 2023 due to its initially terrible performance
- Asus ROG Carnyx review
- Asus is creating the VR 'gaming headset of the next generation' built on Meta's Horizon OS lifted off the Quest 3
- Team Fortress 2's latest silly business sees the game crashing because it thought players were Gordon Freeman
- Final Fantasy 14 is bringing its Yo-kai Watch crossover back after 4 years, offering weapon glams, mounts, and a minion we crowned 'the ugliest MMO pet of all time'
- New rules to massively strengthen EU's right to repair successfully pass through European Parliament with 584 votes for, just 3 against
- Fortnite's battle royale mode was cooked up in the back of an Uber in 'like, three hours'
- EK admits fault for financial issues facing employees and business partners: 'We are committed to fulfilling our financial obligations and regaining your trust'
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's new benchmark will get a 2.0 version after player upset over lifeless eyes, flattened faces, and cursed lalafell dolphin teeth
- Asus adds 'Intel Baseline Profile' to new BIOS files to combat stability issues but the TDP is still higher than Intel's actual baselines
- DDR5-10000 memory is closer than ever after JEDEC, the managing body of the standard, extends the base DDR5 spec
- Fake Samsung 1080 Pro SSDs show up on Aliexpress, and the benchmark results are hilarious
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 23
- This Total War: Shogun 2 mod lets you play out the real historical war that inspired the FX TV show
- April 22
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- Arrowhead's latest major order is exploiting the Helldivers 2 community's greatest weakness: communication
- Fortnite is adding a toggle to disable 'confrontational emotes' including Laugh it Up and Take the L
- How do the Fallout show's Vault suits look so good? Niche Italian fabric, it turns out
- Even with my bad case of battle royale fatigue, this upcoming mecha game's 60-person battle royale/extraction shooter hybrid mode sounds pretty sick
- El Paso, Elsewhere, a Max Payne-inspired shooter about keeping your vampire ex-lover from destroying the world, is being made into a movie
- Blizzard 'remixed' one of the best WoW expansions with new items and boosted XP and it starts next month
- After a year marooned on the Epic store, Dead Island 2 debuts on Steam to 'mixed' reviews for a very silly reason
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes review
- Path of Exile studio warns of 'malicious' phishing post that appeared on Steam, tells players 'please take immediate action to secure your account'
- A Konami code variant in Castlevania has been discovered after a quarter of a century
- Valheim's 'most challenging biome yet' is now available for public testing
- Blizzard says it does pay attention to the 'shoutiest of the shouty' but WoW's Plunderstorm mode 'is not a failure'
- So many people are downloading Fallout mods after watching the show that the Nexus is straining to support all the traffic
- Tales of the Shire is Stardew Valley but with happy little hobbits
- Diablo is donating 6.66 million maggots and counting to a wildlife sanctuary in honour of Duriel the Maggot King
- Nearly 9 years after release, Fallout 4 was one of the most played Steam games this weekend
- Chart-topping city-builder Manor Lords hits 3 million wishlists four days before launch
- Doom played in space by satellite computer 'ten times more powerful than any current ESA spacecraft'
- Rewatching the iconic Crysis 2 'Ultra Upgrade' graphics trailer today in 2024, a bombastic tech showcase that changed how we talk about PC gaming forever
- With nine BIOS updates and a new warranty extension, Asus is trying its best to move forward from the ROG Ally's SD card woes
- What do you mean you've never played Half-Life: Alyx? Y'know one of the best VR headsets is down below $200 for the first time, right?
- Tales of Kenzera: Zau review
- Tattoo artist behind LeBron James' ink loses lawsuit claiming his art in NBA 2K was copyrighted
- Embracer Group embraces its new future as three separate companies including 'Middle-earth and Friends', which its CEO says 'reinforces Embracer's vision of backing entrepreneurs and creators with a long-term mindset'
- The game that's all about drawing and creativity, Gartic Phone, adds and then swiftly removes an AI mode, in 'a straight-up slap in the face to any and all artists'
- A new physics paper suggests that we may all be living in the ultimate 4X strategy game after all
- Microsoft's VASA-1 takes AI-generated video one step closer to 'aw hell, we're all doomed'
- Windows 10 users are soon to be hit with nagging prompts asking them to create an online account
- Fallout TV show sneaks in New Vegas lead designer's map of the setting
- Galax's single-slot RTX 4060 Ti is out in the wild, though sadly it appears to be a little tempestuous
- Magic: The Gathering's latest set gives you a good excuse to dig out those old cards
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 22
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 22, 2024)
- The ultimate bloatware removal tool now works on any version of Windows 11
- Toss, perch on, and leap from your magic staff in the demo for action platformer Akatori
- April 21
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- A leaked Call of Duty: Mobile skin turns a gun into a 3D animated WWII diorama where tiny little men fight and die in a miniature war, and it's so absurd I don't care how much it costs
- Brotato has a DLC and a free, 4-player local co-op expansion incoming
- After playing hundreds of hours of The Witcher 3 since 2015, I can't believe I'd never heard of this mod that squashes 5,400+ bugs and restores cut dialogue
- NieR creator insists that his decisions are based on what he thinks will sell, while also quipping that 'at first I listen to what the publisher wants from me, but later I don't'
- Boasting economist lobstermen, gas mask aliens with 120 sexes, and the best space dogfights 2003 has to offer, Underspace is a sci-fi RPG well worth your time
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 21
- If you want more Fallout in these trying times, have you considered playing Wasteland 3?
- Almost 12 years after release, 7 Days to Die finally announces it's leaving early access
- April 20
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- 9 years on, one dedicated Witcher 3 YouTuber is still finding new secrets and easter eggs in CD Projekt's masterpiece
- Metroidvania around a microscopic world to save dogs everywhere in BioGun
- Here's a chaos co-op take on getting boxes off the shipping floor and out the factory door
- Slash and shoot your way through a procedural bug hole in Ants Took My Eyeball
- For $8, you can get 373 games, digital comics, and more in a new charity bundle for Palestinian relief
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 20
- A studio helmed by StarCraft 2's multiplayer lead wants to create an RTS 'paradigm shift' with its unannounced game
- No Rest for the Wicked isn't a Diablo, but it might be one of the smartest soulslikes I've played in a long time
- Game master Joel cuts an unprecedented deal with Helldivers 2 players: Pull off the 'Martale Gambit' and he'll liberate two planets for the price of one
- April 19
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- Fallout show creators decided on their own to faithfully replicate the iconic power armor: 'Bethesda didn't know what we were doing'
- World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true
- OG Fallout lead Tim Cain defends the show's lore changes in a glowing full review—'Not that it matters, I'm not in charge of this anymore, and neither are you'
- The long-awaited sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters hits its crowdfunding target in less than four hours, and they're not kidding about that $4.4 million stretch goal
- What we want to see in Fallout season 2: Deathclaw fights, aliens and a lot more Norm
- Helldivers 2 CEO says after success, the goal now is simple—'make this the best live game you've ever played'
- Prison Architect 2's release delayed due to 'new technical challenges', has its sentence extended until September
- Telltale shares new images from The Wolf Among Us 2, says it's 'been heads down' on the game
- Twitter users have been confusing Elon Musk's Grok AI with fake news and it's all rather amusing
- Team Fortress 2 joins us in the modern age as Valve updates the 17 year old shooter to 64-bit
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- Overwatch 2 is cracking down on 'unapproved peripherals' for console to 'level the playing field for all players'
- This speedy 4TB SSD will surely solve all your storage problems for under $225
- An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards
- Dragon's Dogma 2's getting an update which nerfs dragonsplague, stops Pawns incessantly yapping, and makes them 'less likely to fall off cliffs'
- Cherry Xtrfy K5V2 review
- Today's AI may just be 'autocorrect on steroids' but it's made Linus Torvalds mellow out over Nvidia
- AMD's new uber gaming laptop APU rumoured to use chiplet design and 16 full desktop-spec CPU cores
- While everyone else gets hyped about Fallout, Todd Howard is promising some 'really good updates' for Starfield
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 isn't just bigger, it's more diverse, with Warhorse adding a 'wide range of ethnicities and different characters'
- There are few easy ways to get across the incredible complexity required to build a modern computer chip: this photograph is one of them
- An AI-controlled F16 has performed its first ever dogfight with a human pilot, coming within 2,000 feet of each other at 1,200 miles per hour
- Helldivers 2 players eradicate 2 billion bugs in less than a day, surprising even themselves
- If Fallout games were films, who'd direct them and which one would be best?
- Roccat is gone, replaced by Turtle Beach: 'We felt that time and resources would be best spent focusing under a single brand'
- Bots now account for half of global internet traffic and 'bad bots' nearly one third
- Teamgroup Z540 2TB NVMe SSD review
- Visions of Mana won't have multiplayer, but producer Masaru Oyamada wants 'to implement features like that in the future'
- Blizzard backs down on unpopular Hearthstone change, so now weekly quests will 'only' waste twice as much of your time, rather than triple
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 19
- Fallout season 2 has been confirmed, so bring on the deathclaws
- Warhammer 40,000 has slightly more women in it now and the neckbeards aren't happy
- April 18
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- All this Fallout TV show buzz and no new Fallout game to play—but so what?
- The new Helldivers 2 gun that everyone immediately declared 'garbage' is actually a misunderstood masterpiece
- A site literally called 'Spy.pet' claims to have scraped billions of public Discord messages and wants to sell them
- Stardew Valley's latest patch 'adds two inappropriate names to the list to exclude from the name generator' and I am dying to know what they are
- Braid: Anniversary Edition will feature 40 'brand new and/or alternate redesigns of original levels,' and is also delayed into May
- Don't sleep on this gorgeous fantasy city builder launching next month
- 'The concerns about claustrophobia were a major aspect' of desiging World of Warcraft: The War Within's underground zones, says director
- The Witcher on Netflix will end after season 5: 'We're thrilled to be able to bring Andrzej Sapkowski's books to an epic and satisfying conclusion'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is twice as big, introduces firearms and is coming this year
- Paradox apologizes for latest Cities: Skylines 2 boondoggle, will give refunds for the Beach Properties DLC: '[We] hope we can regain your trust going forward'
- How to have a good time with Fallout 76 in 2024 (or technically speaking, the year 2105)
- The Future Games Show Summer Showcase is back with a bang this June, and here's where and when to watch
- Baldur's Gate 3's next patch is going to start rolling out its official mod tools so you can 'overhaul Baldur's Gate 3 into the weird nightmare realm of your dreams'
- Final Fantasy XIV has a new benchmarking tool ahead of the release of the Dawntrail expansion
- Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 is bringing the blood-curdling horror the game's evil endings deserve
- Instead of making Baldur's Gate 4, Larian is working on 2 new projects based on its own IPs, and CEO Swen Vincke reckons it'll result in the studio's 'best work ever'
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 57: So the Fallout TV show is pretty good, huh?
- Manor Lords' developer doesn't 'have a game design problem with infinite money' but was forced to patch out one game-breaking exploit anyway
- Manor Lords dev reminds everyone that it's not a 'Total War competitor' or a 'fast-paced RTS like Age of Empires'
- Fallout New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says its gruelling card game is actually 'not that hard' and you cowards need to 'try again'
- Even with smart tools like this indie GameHDR app, HDR gaming on PC is still an absolute clown show
- Descent 3 programmer releases the classic space shooter's source code, including a surprise patch developed 15 years ago but never released
- It's time to suit up and squish some bugs as Helldivers 2's latest Major Order tasks us with killing 2 billion Terminids
- GTA 6 characters: everyone we know about so far
- Superheroes and XCOM collide in this brilliantly tense and tactical turn-based strategy game
- CDPR says the Witcher 4 is being 'intensively worked on' but Cyberpunk 2's still in the 'fairly early stages'
- One of Steam's best-reviewed games gets a surprise open world sequel, and it's a plunder-em-up built around rickety pirate robots
- Hades 2's technical test shows us that the Greek gods are still super hot and, by Poseidon, some of you could use a cold shower
- Baldur's Gate 3 fans are discussing what coffee each character would order, and reckon Astarion would be demanding an 'iced venti oat milk latte with cold foam' topped with 2 pumps of hazelnut
- Best RAM for gaming in 2024: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
- Boston Dynamics' Atlas bot is dead and its replacement is horrifying yet fascinating in equal measure
- Action-packed Strike Rush brings the hero shooter straight to your MetaQuest headset
- Arm laptops are almost ready for prime time, and some new benchmarks with a Snapdragon X processor will have Intel, AMD and even Apple worried
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, April 18
- Acer's curvy Predator Z57 dual UHD MiniLED 57-inch monitor hits retail for $1,999
- Oh no, Hades 2 is already sick as hell to play and it hasn't even entered early access yet
- Yes, I'm abducting my neighbors and sawing them up in a series of ritual murders, but I have a really good reason you guys
- April 17
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- If the Windows 'update and shut down' option restarts your PC instead, it's not just you
- Todd Howard confirms the Fallout show didn't retcon non-Bethesda Fallout games: 'Everything that happened in the previous games, including New Vegas, happened'
- Ready or Not studio Void Interactive confirms it was hacked in March but says 'no user-related data' was stolen
- Life By You director says modders are welcome to monetize creations however they want: 'Go for it—you don't need our permission'
- People who don't play life sims might not understand that they're 'the most complex RPGs ever written,' says Life by You director
- Arrowhead is aware Helldivers 2 players are using an 'undemocratic' exploit to easily farm Super Credits, but doesn't seem too worried about it
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's art direction leans into Warcraft's history and a 'feeling of nostalgia', says lead artist
- Jack Black sings the Double Rainbow song to unofficially confirm he's playing Steve in the Minecraft movie
- 5 years after its first appearance on Xbox One, Bohemia Interactive's console-exclusive looter-shooter Vigor is finally coming to PC
- Fallout 4 isn't the best Fallout game, but it's the best one to play today
- WoW: The War Within's new arachnophobia filter that turns spiders into crabs was mapped out by a lone developer, but 'she had a wonderful time—she likes spiders'
- Morels: The Hunt 2, an intensely chill game about gathering mushrooms and taking pictures of animals, is my unexpected new obsession
- World of Warcraft's executive producer says the game's recent maverick events like Plunderstorm and MoP: Remix are owed to a squad of madcaps called 'the live team'
- I'm so sick of games that shoot themselves in the foot just to boost phoney player engagement numbers
- I loved the Fallout TV show, but I did it in spite of Bethesda's stifling take on the wasteland
- Blizzard quietly had World of Warcraft players test run The War Within's biggest new feature last year: underground zones
- WoW: The War Within will tell its main story via delves and dungeons 'when it makes sense', giving me hope for an escape from 2 decades of raid-centric storytelling
- World of Warcraft: The War Within alpha's first zone is beautiful, melancholy, and surprisingly polished
- Gaming PCs with no visible cables are the boldest design change I've seen in a decade of building computers
- Deathtroopers is the Star Wars zombie horror game I never knew I needed
- Dwarf Fortress's graphical adventure mode launches today, includes extremely Dwarf Fortress touches like '186 animal people portraits' and a unique sound effect for walking on soap
- While everyone else is getting re-acquainted with Fallout, this maniac's bolting hundreds of mods together to turn Fallout 4 into Resident Evil 5
- The Fallout TV show has seen a humble revival of the mobile game that's been chugging along since 2015
- Want to get into Fallout on the cheap? This $800 RTX 4060 system is the perfect start
- Ghost of Tsushima recommended PC specifications promise high-performance haiku-writing samurai sim action
- This is what your PC looked like when Fallout first came out and it was wonderful and terrible at the same time
- Do reviews of 'bad' products really kill off companies? Not according to one famous tech YouTuber and we absolutely agree
- Ghost of Tsushima will bring PlayStation trophies and friends to PC for the first time, making the walls between console and PC even more meaningless
- Palworld CEO surprisingly jazzed about the big-budget clones of its game that are in the works: 'These are incredible times'
- You can now buy mythic skins in Overwatch 2 and, to nobody's surprise, they're ridiculously expensive to buy outright
- Victoria 3's first major expansion is getting punted back by 2 months so Paradox doesn't repeat the mistake of EU4's disastrous Leviathan release
- Intel will have spent over $160,000,000,000 on new fabs, assembly, packaging, testing and R&D facilities by 2030
- Fallout 3's radio host Three Dog wants to appear in season 2 of the Fallout TV series as someone 'darker than Three Dog, but just as funny'
- Logitech Playseat Challenge X review
- What are breech-loaded grenade launchers in Destiny 2?
- Helldivers 2 devs are working on bug fixes, but 'Arrowhead still has a very small team' after its surprise success, and 'there's just only so much time in a work week'
- Logitech's booked a seat on the AI hype train with its new AI Prompt Builder and forthcoming AI button-enabled mouse
- Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 17
- If the Fallout TV series gets a second season it'll have deathclaws, more than justifying its existence
- April 16
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- Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs
- It took almost 10 years, but REDkit modding tools are finally coming to The Witcher 3 and a test version on Steam is live now
- I swore I wouldn't use child labor in Frostpunk 2… but then the kids went feral, formed gangs, and started having deadly knife fights in the streets
- Gigantic walkers are back in Helldivers 2 with a vengeance, and you're gonna want to bring a 380mm barrage
- The Fallout show's Lucy was described to Ella Purnell as a 'Leslie Knope/Ned Flanders-type' who would 'star in a toothpaste commercial but could also kill you'
- Hades 2 technical test set to begin 'shortly,' signups are open now
- XDefiant is finally getting closer: a stress test starts on Friday and will run all weekend long
- Early '90s sci-fi adventure Hamlet was innovating on the survival horror genre before it even existed
- Borderlands 3 community scores a big win for science: 'These players have helped trace the evolutionary relationships of more than a million different kinds of bacteria that live in the human gut'
- Hasbro wants to make another Baldur's Gate sequel but it's early days yet: 'We certainly hope that it's not another 25 years'
- The blasphemy of playing Half-Life with a gamepad is now easier as Black Mesa gets a sudden weighty update, devs tease 'more dangerous patch' to come
- Here's a portable PS1 built from the remnants of an actual console and it only took folding the motherboard 'like a book'
- As Destiny 2 enters its latest 'We're so back' era, you can grab all of its expansions for $45 in the Steam FPS Fest
- It's weird that the Fallout TV show glosses over one of the series' biggest antagonists
- Final Fantasy 14's graphical update has committed the cardinal sin of messing with lalafell teeth, making them more terrifying than ever
- Walton Goggins 'had no idea how iconic' Fallout's 'war never changes' line was, and he's glad he didn't mess it up
- WoW's Plunderstorm event just had its rep grind cut in half until April 30—which is great news for everyone, except our online editor who just spent 2 days on it
- Elon Musk returns to his ultimate galaxy brain plan for Twitter: charging people to post
- After community suspicion, Palworld finally fixes an issue that held your Pals back from achieving their full potential
- Playseat's latest racing seat makes it crystal clear that you like F1, in case a cockpit in your room wasn't clear enough
- It may only be slim in terms of price but this misnomered $900 Legion gaming laptop packs a lot of punch
- The PC Gaming Show returns June 9 to celebrate its 10-year anniversary and the most exciting new PC games
- Updated Star Citizen minimum system requirements look gentle but they're more guidelines than actual rules
- Bethesda's official SPECIAL scores for the Fallout show characters has me asking serious questions about the rizz of Walton Ghoulggins
- Content Warning has hit 1 million copies sold, which hopefully means we'll get some more Old World locations soon
- The ray-tracing enhanced edition of Metro Exodus, the god-tier road trip game Half-Life 3 should've been, is on sale with an 80% discount
- US promises Samsung $6.4B to build more chips on US soil, which only increases the chance of a Made in USA GPU at some point
- Blizzard obliterates an orb from WoW Classic: Season of Discovery's 3rd phase for causing problems, leaves a terrifying class of Crusader-enchanted players in its wake
- Fortnite executive says its user creation monetisation is strictly '18-plus' but 'in regions where it is permissible, yes we should lower that age'
- Children of the Sun review
- My top TikTok account of the minute: this 'guy with two microscopes' that peeps inside computer chips
- Fan project to revive LawBreakers gets Cliff Bleszinski's backing, as he eyes the prize of somehow getting Nexon interested: 'That's what I'm hoping for'
- The most underrated Deus Ex game is criminally cheap on Steam, even though you all deserve to pay more after being so mean about it
- Helldivers 2 patch fixes PS5 hosts accidentally giving damage boosts to their fellow patriots, continues to tackle crashes
- My new roguelike obsession is a turn-based strategy game that makes you feel like a samurai John Wick
- Fallout fans are doing the maths on Lucy's level by the end of the TV show, and it turns out she's barely tougher than a radroach
- The best free demos to play now in the Steam FPS Fest
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 16
- Ubisoft responds as Star Wars Outlaws comes under fire for Jabba the Hutt season pass exclusive
- Desktop ATX motherboards with SO-DIMM memory slots? It's not as silly as it sounds
- April 15
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- The Fallout show's Wasteland looks so good in part because it's real: Some of it was shot in the same desert as Mad Max: Fury Road
- Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider says a Dragon Age TV series is 'a terrible idea,' and he's not very keen on Mass Effect either
- Helldivers 2 dev warns players not to 'fall in love' with datamined content that might never come out: 'Some are ancient leftovers, some are things that will pop up in the game'
- The Fallout show's loser Squire Thaddeus is the most quintessential game sidequest character
- Keanu Reeves is Shadow the Hedgehog in the third Sonic movie, fulfilling fan casting dreams
- Brace yourselves: Microsoft wants to put ads in Windows 11's Start menu
- Skybound is making an Invincible game and it wants people to invest in the company to help make it happen
- 'Just the right kind of weird:' How the secret weapon of a /pizza command let EverQuest 2 slice into WoW and accidentally end up topping Pizza Hut on Google
- Fallout 76 hits an all-time player count record on Steam following the Fallout TV series on Amazon, and the other games are spiking too
- One of Elden Ring's nastiest bosses still has an invisible tail left over from the Dark Souls freak whose assets he's built on
- Moza R5 Bundle + Performance Kit review
- Great Scott! Asus' Back to the Future cable-hiding system is no gimmick, it's the future of gaming and enthusiast PCs
- Overwatch 2's season 10 launch makes it even more MOBA than FPS
- Nixxes is 'sort of waiting for FSR 3.1' before adding AMD's frame generation to Horizon Forbidden West because it wants 'the latest and greatest before integrating it'
- World of Warcraft's Plunderstorm event proves we'll put up with anything for cool transmogs
- Helldivers 2 CEO says a transmog system is out of the question, 'Swapping one for the other is like having an apple that tastes like bacon'
- Final Fantasy 14's blacklisting functionality is getting an overdue overhaul: 'it is time we implement features to protect everyone's experience'
- All Destiny 2 Oracle locations in The Whisper mission
- Lethal Company's v50 update may 'seem antagonistic to speedrunners,' but Zeekerss stresses that it's a necessary change
- Western Digital will be shipping 4TB SD cards in 2025 for handhelds, laptops, or anything that needs tiny-BIG storage
- Harold Halibut review
- City builders continue to dominate Steam as Manor Lords becomes its most wishlisted game
- Helldivers 2 dev says melee weapons are a 'plausible' addition but they won't be Star Wars lightsabers: 'we don't want to be Fortnite'
- Intel's new LGA 1851 socket breaks cover giving us even more pins to mush with an errant thumb
- A repair shop reveals the RTX 4090 melting connector problem remains worryingly widespread
- Someone has a 'brainrot theory' about what's going on with the Brotherhood in the Fallout TV show and I kind of want it to be true
- A canceled Nintendo 64 Tomb Raider knock-off has been saved so you can emulate it today
- It's a new week with a new development in the ongoing China-US tech dispute: Now China is going to ban US chips from its telco networks from 2027
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 15
- There's a Pac-Man battle royale coming to Steam
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 15, 2024)
- April 14
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- Here's a free demo for upcoming survival crafting, monster-battling, town-builder Tinkerlands
- Former Blizzard president suggests you should be able to leave a $10 or $20 tip for the devs because 'some games are that special'
- Blasphemous dev reveals that Baldur's Gate 3 studio Larian quietly backed the game on Kickstarter for $1000 and never asked for anything in return
- Check out this town builder with a deep simulation of ecology and climate
- Elden Ring dataminer uncovers unused alternate underground zones tied to cut 'cataclysm' system that would have altered the world map as you progressed
- If you're excited to dive back into Fallout after the TV show, maybe hold off on Fallout 3 for now
- Town-building survival RPG Bellwright hits Early Access this month
- Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition update adds cross-platform multiplayer, another cut character, and more
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 14
- One of the best-reviewed survival crafting games on Steam has hit 1.0 and added 10-person cooperative play
- Deep Rock Galactic is rolling out a feature to let you play old seasons
- The Fallout: London mod has been delayed by Fallout 4's planned next-gen update
- April 13
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- Update: Fallout 4's lead writer reverses course, clarifies that main character is not actually a war criminal
- Baldur's Gate 3 actors tear into AI voice cloning: 'That is stealing not just my job but my identity'
- Discord has banned two Switch emulator devs and shuttered their servers in the wake of Yuzu's defeat
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 13
- Game studio owner suddenly lays everyone off and blames a Kotaku report that hasn't been published
- April 12
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- In this strategy city builder you'll grow your capital through 2,500 years of history
- Gigantic: Rampage Edition is a slightly shaky but mostly thrilling revival of my favorite dead game
- Original Fallout lead Tim Cain loves the new show, but remains baffled by how 'destructive' fans can act toward 'people who are trying to create things'
- Helldivers 2's new Ground Breaker armor suffers a wardrobe malfunction—it launched with the wrong passives
- One week after saying it was 'hard at work on our next project,' Immortals of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios has reportedly furloughed most of its remaining staff
- Heading Out is a stylish, narrative-focused driving game inspired by classic road flicks of the '70s and '80s
- How to have the best Fallout New Vegas experience today
- MMOs still have so much room to grow
- Bethesda design director confirms Fallout: New Vegas is still canon: 'Of course it is'
- I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn't convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven't already done better
- Inkbound review
- If you're gaming and creating content on an AM4 system this $375 Ryzen 9 5950X is the perfect drop-in upgrade
- Fallout's Vaults, ranked from worst to best
- MultiVersus fans have become convinced that the game is now slower, and they absolutely hate it
- Shelly 'Bombshell' Harrison is back, as 2000s-inspired FPS Phantom Fury hits Steam soon
- 'Meet the computer addicts' with this BBC report from 1983 that makes my daily PC habits look pretty dire by comparison
- This love letter to classic JRPGs takes an hour to get going, but then you're off on a time-travelling '90s joyride
- WoW's Pandaria Remix feels like it's emerged from an extended Pandaren brew session in the dev room
- GTA 6 fans spend a week in Miami to painstakingly recreate the trailer shot-by-shot—sans a certain bikini scene that would've cost $4,733
- 4 things I hope RPGs and open world games learn from Dragon's Dogma 2
- AI is embedded in Intel's chipmaking process from 'front end silicon design, back end, software development, all the way to manufacturing'
- Japanese indie dev tells randoms begging for keys and offering exposure to 'buy it, you piece of garbage'
- Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is
- SSD prices will continue to rise thanks to high demand and 'supply chain challenges' WD says
- Alienware 32 AW3225QF review
- 'We try not to make it painful, except when it comes to skill': Remnant 2 design leads talk adding player-driven QoL features, and the task of making a player-friendly soulslike
- Dead Space meets Half-Life, only its a 3-way co-op horror Sci-Fi game
- Japanese cops bust interior decorator that moonlighted selling hacked Pokémon: 'I did it to make a living'
- All Genshin Impact codes from the 4.6 livestream
- These two crypto-integrated handhelds are aiming to make Web3 gaming happen—because if it doesn't work the first time, try, try and try again
- Content Warning is giving you a chance to actually go viral by sending your best clips to the lost footage project
- Dragon's Dogma 2 speedrunner proves the game's most powerful strat is cardio by sprinting through the game in under 2 hours wearing just his undies
- It is now my life's quest to acquire this tiny plastic Walton Goggins from the Amazon Fallout TV show
- The PC system requirements for long-awaited Manor Lords city-building smorgasbord are mercifully modest
- Which is the best $700 AMD Ryzen gaming PC: a handheld or desktop PC?
- Steam is about to have a big sale on shooters of the first-person variety
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 12
- I tried to figure out the builds and perks of the Fallout TV show's protagonists
- Six years after Kingdom Come Deliverance, Warhorse Studios is announcing its new game next week
- April 11
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- Helldivers 2's new Eruptor gun is a beast: basically a support stratagem, but as a primary weapon
- In which I (mostly) debunk the latest Fallout controversy that claims Todd Howard used the Fallout show to 'retcon' non-Bethesda Fallout games
- Blizzard is afraid of spoiling Diablo 4 seasons with regular PTRs, but says the success of season 4's 'does point in the direction of something we'd want to continue to do'
- After winning every major Game of the Year award in 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 is now cleaning up in 2024 too
- Slay the Spire 2 ditched Unity for open-source engine Godot after over 2 years of development
- The Fallout 4 next-gen update announced in 2022 will finally be out later this month
- Steam smash hit Content Warning has sold over 700,000 copies after giving away 6 million free copies
- 5 ridiculously broken Diablo 4 season 4 PTR builds that we may never see again
- Disney Speedstorm community up in arms as premium pass can no longer be earned through gameplay: Starting with the next season, if you want it you'll have to pay for it
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 56: Our white whale games
- Our favorite gaming laptop is $700 off right now: not a bad price to secure an RTX 4080
- GOG just got its hands on a butt-ton more SNK games and now you can too, with some hefty discounts
- The best way to watch the Fallout TV show is to play this building and management sim alongside it
- I had a peek at Remnant 2's newly-announced second DLC: The Forgotten Kingdom, which fleshes out the forests of Yaesha with gorgeous vistas and machine gun pottery
- The Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh community is taking a long, hard look at itself after a player says the event stank so hard she had to leave
- 7 big ways the Fallout show adds new lore to the Fallout universe
- 'Devs are getting ground up as collateral damage': Fallout: New Vegas lead says burnout has replaced crunch as 'the primary hazard of the game industry'
- I called the Vault-Tec phone number from the Fallout show so you don't have to
- 'The matches will be sillier': Overwatch 2's competitive changes for season 10 will finally let you play with that one friend who's been stuck in bronze since 2016
- Glorious Model D 2 Pro 4K/8KHz Edition review
- PUBG has dramatically transformed over the years, swapping grittiness for cartoon outfits, but it's still as ruthless and chaotic as ever
- Todd Howard says no Skyrim show for us even as critics go wild for Fallout
- Floppy disks aren't dead yet as this San Francisco train line relies on three of them to run every morning
- Here are the World of Warcraft Cataclysm worgen and goblin class choices
- How attunement works in Destiny 2: Into the Light
- Just like the games, the Fallout show works best when it ignores the main quest and gets sidetracked
- Can somebody go check up on Silksong fans after the Triple-I Initiative's tongue-in-cheek loading screen tip, I'm worried about them
- EA's surprise megadump of classic Command & Conquer games means Europe's March game sales were dominated by 25-year-old RTSes, beating WWE 2K24 and Nintendo
- Nextorage X Series (NN5PRO) 2TB review
- Nvidia rumoured to be sticking to its regular programming with the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 launching in Q4 this year
- Helldivers 2 gets its new explosive Warbond full of high-yield treats, plus 4 new bank-breaking ship upgrades to help dispense liberty
- Scuf Envision Pro review
- How to get Whisper of the Worm and its catalyst in Destiny 2
- WoW made a big boi ludicrously hard to get then, after 0.24% of the playerbase managed it, made it smaller—'Blizzard literally stole half my dog'
- How Coupons Work at PC Gamer
- Taiwanese chipmaking bounces back after last week's 7.4 magnitude earthquake
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, April 11
- April 10
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- Gigantic: Rampage Edition launches to 'mostly positive' reviews on Steam, but server problems are once again causing headaches
- EA denies rumor that it canceled an in-progress Dead Space 2 remake
- The mystery leaker who predicted Destiny 2's new Prismatic subclass a month ago also says Destiny 3 is in development
- The coziest MMO feature is coming to Sky: Children of the Light next week: player housing
- Another Stardew Valley patch is on the way, with 'a new fishing thing, and some new mining-related stuff'
- How to add a friend in Sky: Children of the Light and unlock text chat
- The Rogue Prince of Persia revealed: a slick 2D roguelite coming to Steam in May
- Palword's PvP arena is coming this year with 3v3 action Pal battles
- Dinolords is basically Age of Empires with dinosaurs, and honestly what more could you want from an RTS than that?
- Vertical city builder Laysara: Summit Kingdom just surprise launched on Steam
- Darkest Dungeon 2 is getting a free new game mode later this year that will feature 'some of the permanence and roster management' of the original game
- Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom delivers imaginative 3D platforming without a jump button
- Hunt down a crazed sniper in a major new content update for our favorite voxel-based Deus Ex-like detective sim
- I respect a bloody arcade shooter with the courage to have a name as blunt as 'Kill Knight'
- Slay the Spire 2 releases in 2025: 'The Spire isn't what it used to be'
- Elon Musk warns city-sized power footprints will limit future AI development
- One of the most strange and cruel survival sandboxes I've played has sold 2.3 million copies
- Save $300 on this fab Ryzen-powered, RTX 4070 Ti Super gaming PC and enjoy all the best games for years to come
- I can't make it 10 minutes in this free browser-based New York Times Sim without getting fired for commie agitprop
- Star Wars Outlaws' $110 and $130 editions prompt a collective sigh from potential players tired of season passes and ill-advised early access periods
- You'll soon be able to watch Commander Riker play D&D alongside other Star Trek actors, and it's all for charity
- After two years of misery, global PC shipments have finally started to increase but only by the smallest of margins
- Rat smashers stay winning as Warhammer: Vermintide 2 gets another free update—a whole new map and enemy type
- Broken Roads review
- Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake will crank out over 100 TOPS of AI performance later this year
- Fallout TV show review: The best Fallout since New Vegas
- UK online PC retailer publicly rebukes claim it sent a customer an RTX 3050 instead of an RTX 4070 Ti
- Majority D80 Active Bluetooth Speakers review
- This Hunt: Showdown-inspired sci-fi extraction shooter is already giving me the F.E.A.R.
- The Elder Scrolls Online dev says the 'metaverse' is sinking because it ignored 20 years of games doing the exact same thing: 'It's not new, and they should stop treating it like it's new'
- Star Trek: Infinite reviews crater as Paradox announces it's dead, Jim
- Nvidia's 'Eclipse2024' X post isn't teasing the RTX 5090 or really anything at all
- Intel investigating CPU instability issues after South Korean Tekken 8 players kick up a fuss: 'Intel is aware of problems that occur when executing certain tasks'
- A behind-the-scenes video for Helldivers 2's intro cinematic brings you uncomfortably close to the 'Sweet Liberty' scream, as well as a freestyle rap
- Epic removes the item rarity system from Fortnite but some fans ain't happy, and think it's 'trying to gouge players'
- This sidescrolling horror RPG about being trapped in a nightmare is like Amnesia crossed with Deathloop
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 10
- April 9
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- Reminder: There's already a Fallout TV series you can watch now for free, and it's pretty darn good
- Helldivers 2's new mission type is the glorious Helm's Deep holdout defense that I've dreamed of for months
- Helldivers 2 reward system will get an 'overhaul' because right now it's 'about as reliable as a solar-powered watch in Malevelon Creek'
- Dredge, the vibes-heavy indie hit about fishing on a sea of otherworldly horrors, is being made into a movie
- Tekken 8's Steam rating takes a dive as fans lament 'scummy' monetisation and battle pass
- World of Warcraft Classic continues to speedrun history with Cataclysm launching next month
- The Elder Scrolls Online has made nearly $2 billion in its lifetime, 9 years after the big comeback that doubled its player count overnight
- A year and a half after its bitter breakup with NetEase, Blizzard has made a new deal to bring its games back to China—with NetEase
- EA's Iron Man game is making 'excellent progress' but still sounds like it's a long way off
- Total War: Warhammer 3's Thrones of Decay reveal has finally made me excited about the game again
- Sonic co-creator found guilty of insider trading breaks silence to accuse Square Enix producer of being 'the kind of person who would submit lies to court'
- Soulslike shooter Witchfire gets massive early access update: New classes, content, events, and they finally fixed Calamities
- Destiny 2 is so back? The Final Shape stream just showed a completely OP new subclass, an entirely new race of enemies, and a wild new type of exotic armor
- Helldivers 2 player infects a Super Earth news broadcast with an Automaton diss track—and it can actually be translated into English, thanks to advancements in R&D
- Dr. Disrespect calls Twitch 'slithery disgusting purple snakes' but still doesn't explain why he was permanently banned from the platform
- A 16-inch gaming laptop is desirable but make it an RTX 4070 model for $1,200 and I'm in
- Star Wars Outlaws is out this August, and wow does it look more jam-packed full of aliens than any Star Wars game I can remember
- President Biden says he'll hand $6.6 billion to world's largest chipmaker to stick around and expand in Arizona
- Intel Battlemage reportedly headed our way before Black Friday
- I wrote this article in record time thanks to a gamified focus tool that turned me into my own lofi girl
- Call of Duty's new Godzilla X Kong B.E.A.S.T. Glove costs $80 worth of in-game points, and it won't even corpse-launch your enemies
- Palworld tactical genius melts through the 294,000 HP of its new raid boss in seconds by spamming a frame rate-destroying platoon of dragons
- Helldivers 2's dynamism and constant evolution is incredible, and I'm utterly sick of it
- Where to get Wild Offerings in World of Warcraft
- The other shoe drops hard in Helldivers 2, as players go from celebrating total Automaton destruction to fending off a vengeful robot tide in the new major order
- Battlefield 2042 won't get more new seasons as next Battlefield game enters full production
- During a deposition his lawyer tried to keep confidential, Elon Musk says 'people are attacked all the time' on social media, but it rarely has 'a meaningful negative impact on their life'
- The starry-eyed protagonist of Amazon's Fallout TV show is brave, not naive, says her actress: 'She's tough, she can handle herself'
- Surprise! Amazon's putting out the Fallout TV show a day early as a 'thank you' to fans, and a second season seems guaranteed
- Google sums up 2023's security exploits: the good news is fixes are blocking some types of zero-day attack. The bad news is Windows has seen more than most
- This slick and experimental soulslike takes about 15 seconds to get you feeling empathy for a triangle
- After a 23-year quest, collector manages to grab a rare Castlevania copy for $90,100, all because it 'was the first game my mom ever bought me'
- This custom controller builder is making one in the shape of the Mysterious Artefact from Baldur's Gate 3, and it mostly works
- TF2 voice cast reunites to LARP their way through a beautiful recreation of 2009's Meet the Sniper video
- Helldivers 2 hotfix takes swings at a whole hive of crash culprits, so you should be able to deploy more reliably now
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 9
- It's not just OLEDs that can suffer from burn in. Your graphics card's backplate might suffer from it too
- Card game developer says it paid an 'AI artist' $90,000 to generate card art because 'no one comes close to the quality he delivers'
- Starfield mod expands the base-building system with 40 new farmable plants, massive bio-domes, and your very own Chunks franchise that earns passive income
- April 8
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- League of Legends is getting a Vampire Survivors-style PvE mode later this year
- Diablo 4 PTR players discover mysterious new items and an abandoned camp that could be clues for its next season and upcoming expansion
- Wayfinder sales halted as developer promises a major rework of the game: 'We have no plans for it to disappear like so many online-only games'
- They're not all dead: Thousands of Helldivers 2 players are still fighting robot survivors, including me
- How to watch the first episode of Fallout without an Amazon Prime subscription
- Friday the 13: The Game has been killed one more time: Fan-made 'Resurrection' project derailed by lawyers over 'cavalier disregard of copyright law'
- 'Rogue item detected': Helldivers 2 dev orders players to ignore a mysterious ship upgrade that promises 'new stratagem permits'
- You can't explore the Wasteland like you used to, but the Fallout TV show is still trying to represent the gamers with 'three archetypal main characters'
- Troy Baker says it's not him in GTA 6, and recalls when Todd Howard said 'I don't want Troy Baker in our game because he's in every game'
- Jonathan Nolan explains some of the best parts of filming the Fallout series, 'we stuck human fingers in the mouth of the Gulper'
- Dragon's Dogma 2's true ending is a high point for RPG climaxes
- 'No interplanetary boundaries can contain her rage': Baldur's Gate 3 lover and reigning wrestling champ Athena defends her title in the Ring of Honor as Karlach made flesh
- Blast the bugs in Helldivers 2 with this sweet RTX 4060 Ti gaming PC for just $930
- Throne of Bone is a devilish roguelike autobattler where you play the bad guy in a skull-driven economy
- Samsung predicts a bumper 2024, forecasting a 900% increase in profits for the first three months of the year
- The new Lego D&D crossover set is pricey, but you can snag its fun, hot-wing filled adventure as a free PDF
- 'Hang in there': A fix for all those Helldivers 2 freeze-ups should ideally land 'well before the Warbond', says community manager
- Nvidia's mainstream GPUs might increase in price worldwide, as the demand in China outstrips supply
- A comprehensive online privacy bill is one step closer after US Congressional leaders reach a tentative bipartisan deal
- There's a Dragon's Dogma 2 mod to make pawns shut the hell up and thank goodness for that
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 8
- The US seeks not just to block China's access to advanced chip making tech, it wants to ban servicing on the equipment it already has
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 8, 2024)
- April 7
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- Check out this indie fusion of Terraria and Satisfactory
- No Man's Sky lead Sean Murray celebrates a 1% improvement in Steam reviews because each point is just that much harder to earn than the last
- 9 years in, rhythm dungeon crawler Crypt of the NecroDancer just got a Hatsune Miku crossover DLC
- Helldivers 2 players just wiped out an entire enemy faction, so what on Super Earth happens now?
- The fantasy sequel to Fights in Tight Spaces is just called Knights in Tight Spaces, and it has a demo out now
- A map revamp means your giant factory-cities in Captain of Industry are going to look better than ever
- Final Fantasy 14 and 16 big cheese Yoshi-P says 'It's probably about time' they do a new Final Fantasy Tactics game
- You can get Obsidian's fantastic RPG The Outer Worlds (and all its DLC) for free on the Epic Store this week
- Mining and base-building sandbox Hydroneer has a sprawling new expansion of volcanos and glaciers
- Last Epoch cracks down on item duplicates and gold exploit: 'We don't think it's a very controversial statement to say that abusing an exploit, ruining the game for all players is not acceptable, and that doing so should result in a ban'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, April 7
- The three parts of Total War: Warhammer 3's next DLC, Thrones of Decay, will be available individually
- April 6
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- Darktide's first update for 2024 revises penances, adds puzzles, pox gas, and a new enemy
- Use towers, traps, and guns to repel spaceship boarders in tower defense-shooter hybrid Sentry
- Frostpunk 2's beta hits on April 15
- Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders'
- Cyberpunk 2077 quest lead says we still haven't found every easter egg
- Dragon's Dogma 2 modders have already cranked out a bunch of ways to mitigate its freaky digital murder plague
- WoW Classic devs on the changes they've liked most in Season of Discovery so far: 'It just sounds like utter chaos, but I've just been having a blast'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, April 6
- April 5
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- How the WoW Classic team decides what to change in the 20-year-old game
- Splinter Cell fans are getting excited about a possible update on the remake in June
- WoW Classic Season of Discovery devs are aiming for 'fun,' not 'perfect balance'
- Gamers seek legal win that would stop developers from rendering online games unplayable: 'It is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media'
- I've waited so long for this freaky Lovecraftian point and click adventure that my life completely changed in the meantime, but it's finally out on PC
- This base-building automation game looks like Factorio in space with bullet hell combat and Dyson spheres
- NASA is joining with Twitch, Microsoft, and Epic for a livestream event featuring eclipse-themed Minecraft and Fortnite games
- How to collect ascended candles in Sky: Children of the Light
- How to earn seasonal candles in Sky: Children of the Light
- Helldivers 2 cheaters are already playing with next week's new guns, plus a wild new rocket launcher
- Star Wars Outlaws story trailer will debut next week
- Formerly Japan-exclusive mecha strategy game Front Mission 2 is finally coming to PC this month
- Somehow Dark Souls was the inspiration for player messages in the kindest MMO around
- Square Enix reportedly didn't want Life is Strange: True Colors to be thought of as the 'gay game'
- 'I can't think of another space like that in Fallout 76': there's more to see in Atlantic City now part two of the Expedition is here
- Palia studio Singularity 6 is the latest studio to suffer layoffs
- Dragon's Dogma 2 players are warning each other about potentially killer pawns with rotten food and flesh
- WoW Classic Season of Discovery phase 3 is live—with a raised cap of level 50, 54 new runes, a fresh 20-player raid, and an unruly Emerald Dream
- Acclaimed indie studio Vlambeer springs back to life 4 years after declaring 'the end of Vlambeer'
- Intel's XeSS 1.3 SDK has been released with a host of new presets, faster performance and improved image quality
- Hard drives aren't dead yet as Seagate demos new multi-layer 3D magnetic tech with potential for 240TB capacities
- With a near-unprecedented official license for its fan server, one of PC gaming's great MMOs has a vibrant future: 'Let it be shouted far and wide: City of Heroes lives again'
- 10 years on, leaks have given us a long look at the canned Batman game that became Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Beat Slayer scratches both my Hi-Fi Rush and Hades itches, even if its functional soundtrack is short a few bangers
- I've spent hundreds of hours to become one of just 0.13% of Warcraft players who have Dragonflight's ultra-rare meta achievement, and WoW did it suck
- Devs on the upcoming Star Wars strategy game want to make a good first impression: 'We're gonna develop our own language that fits within Star Wars, but also feels unique to this game'
- To stay safe in Windows 10 from next October commercial customers have to pay $61, then 'double every consecutive year for a maximum of three years'
- Tekken's director reckons young people don't vibe with fighting games as much because they don't have teammates you can blame
- The black sheep of the Thief series is free on Epic Games Store, and at that price, it deserves a second chance
- Forget Helldivers, the viral hit that's swallowing all my time is this free browser game about stopping the Nazis from coming to power
- Roku has filed a patent for your TV to detect when you're paused and play 'relevant ads'. Nope, no thank you, not for me I'm afraid
- Dragon's Dogma 2 players in shambles as they discover Capcom might be pity-renting their unwanted, scraggly pawns
- The best community clips from The Finals Season 2
- Helldivers 2's next major order is to 'completely destroy the Automaton Legion'—and if the first game's any indication, the galaxy could really be robot free for a while
- Cuba's 'first major indie game' is a gorgeous platformer about bad decisions and environmental catastrophe, so long as you can get over the checkpoints
- AMD's RX 6700 XT is the best mainstream GPU for the money and right now it's just $310
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 5
- April 4
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- WoW Classic made the 'radical change' to stop testing new content with players to bring back a sense of 'mystery and discovery'
- Relic Entertainment lays off employees to give itself 'the best possible chance to survive in an increasingly volatile industry'
- Roblox executive says the company isn't 'exploiting child labor,' it's just 'offering people anywhere in the world the capability to get a job'
- Hearthstone's best mode is getting its biggest new feature next month
- This criminally overlooked golf game just got a huge update, including a new career mode
- Newly-minted Saber Interactive boss says Embracer CEO 'gets a bad rap' for massive layoffs, studio closures, and game cancellations
- Smaller games can be 'more creative,' says designer who made one of Ubisoft's most acclaimed games with a tiny team
- Helldivers 2 is getting even more guns next week, including a grenade pistol and explosive crossbow
- The System Shock remake is getting a massive patch with a revised ending, choice of female player character '8 years in the making', and a significant quality of life improvement
- Palworld's new update adds two tiers of goth girl boss, more loot, quality-of-life bumps, and the ability to slam-dunk your pals out of their lunch break
- Diablo 4's next season unshackles so many ridiculous builds it feels like you're breaking it
- PC Gamer Chat Log Episode 55: Returning to our childhood
- Microsoft Edge might let you limit its RAM usage soon including a setting just for gamers
- Upcoming pirate RPG wants to break from cliché and show 'what piracy really was'
- Warner Bros follows up Matrix movie about capitalism annihilating culture in pursuit of profit by announcing a fifth Matrix movie
- You're the cameraperson for a sexy '90s reality show in this upcoming 'thirst-person shooter'
- Battahl in Dragon's Dogma 2 is an utter nightmare, but it's taught me that sometimes, giving up is also the best way to keep going
- Want to destroy a perfectly good Razer mouse? The Zerømouse V34 has you covered, for some reason
- Diablo 4: How to get Stygian Stones and summon Tormented Echoes
- The best Heavy builds in The Finals Season 2
- With 800,000 copies of Dwarf Fortress sold, the newly minted millionaire creators' most high-roller purchase has been a Honda Civic
- The Butler is one of Lethal Company's newest monsters, and this blob-fish-looking guy has an explosive personality
- The Elder Scrolls Online devs hired a modder from one of its most popular addons to fine-tune its housing tools: 'it was really cool to get James on the team'
- US Gov report slams Microsoft over email hack—'The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred'
- Helldivers 2 player drops 16 consecutive 500kg payloads on the game's new gunship factory for science—discovers hellbombs are their only reliable kryptonite
- The launch of AMD's Zen 5 processors is close, as motherboard manufacturers begin rolling out BIOSes supporting the next-gen chips
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, April 4
- PCIe 7.0 is on track for a 2025 release, which means SSDs with speeds of up to 60GB/s should be available in the coming years
- April 3
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- FCC will vote on bringing back net neutrality regulations on April 25
- Netflix's The Witcher finally adds Zoltan, and it's Kramer's angry friend from Seinfeld
- Helldivers 2 dev nerfed everyone's favorite shotgun because it was 'hands down the best sniper rifle' in the game
- Content Warning patch adds a reporter mic, sound player, and 'party poppers'
- Former Dragon Age creative director says 'I just desperately don't want to overhype anything' in his new studio's first game
- US Gov sanctions won't impact Nvidia's RTX 4090D shipping to China (updated)
- Open-world wuxia game Where Winds Meet is holding its first beta test in North America later this month
- The Elder Scrolls Online's ingenious housebuilders are creating impossible Frankenstein wonders out of game assets and duct tape, and they took me on a tour
- Knock an extra 10% off this new AndaSeat gaming chair—dropping it and its fifth dimension armrests under $400
- MSI's 4K 240Hz monster is one of the best OLED gaming deals right now for $899
- Diablo 4 Tempering: How to add affixes to gear
- Thermaltake TGM-V32CQ review
- Content Warning is no longer free, but it's still worth getting if only to experience running terrified from the snail man
- 'We messed up!': An Apex Legends update broke the game and cost players hundreds of account levels and battle pass progression, but a fix is out
- Razer Blade 14 (2024) review
- XCOM's greatest DLC was almost a Battletech-style mech expansion before the game's camera scuppered it all: 'Our camera angle is not meant for 30 foot mechs, apparently'
- Xreal Air 2 and Beam review
- Intel's chip foundry keeps losing billions of dollars but CEO Gelsinger says this is it, this year is 'the trough'
- Somehow, KOTOR returned: Saber boss finally comes out and says 'it's obvious we're working on this' after chaos at Embracer and that the remake is 'alive and well'
- PDP Afterglow Wave review
- Helldivers 2 honours the lives lost at Malevelon Creek with an official decree from the Super Earth president, plus a cool free cape
- Building a rig with MSI's Project Zero is a glimpse into the (almost) cable-less future of PC gaming
- For their new roguelite, the Dead Cells team scrapped 2 years of work on combat and redid it in just 3 weeks: 'We need to be able to dare to kill a feature when it doesn't work'
- The new roguelite from the developers of Dead Cells has one big goal: matching the intensity of Japanese action games like Devil May Cry, but with online co-op
- The best Medium builds in The Finals Season 2
- Nightmare Kart, the now-legally-distinct, not-Bloodborne fan game has a release date—after a letter from Sony delayed the whole thing
- Valve Hardware Survey for March—AMD still can't make a dent in Nvidia's massive lead
- YouTube alone would eat up over 100 times the world's total bandwidth without video compression
- Helldivers 2 devs are aware of misaligned scopes on guns like the anti-materiel rifle, but 'it's a time consuming and an iterative process' to fix the problem
- Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD OC review
- Major Taiwan earthquake temporarily halts production at Nvidia and AMD chipmaker
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 3
- The winners and losers of today's Helldivers 2 patch: Snipers rule, Sluggers drool
- April 2
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- A software quirk caused Discord's April Fools' video to accidentally rack up more than 1.4 billion YouTube views, 8 times as many as the GTA 6 trailer
- MechWarrior 5: Clans is bringing an RTS-style tactical camera, love for gamepad players, and a new focus on storytelling to the long-running mech sim series
- Lethal Company's 'v50' update makes running uphill scarier than its new evil butlers and crying mechs
- April is a monster month for city builders and colony sims
- April Fools' phenom Content Warning draws in more than 204,000 concurrent players
- US government denies ESRB's AI-powered face-scanning 'age estimation' proposal, but it's probably not gone for good
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in April
- Former Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw finally reveals his next game: A physics-based action-adventure 'in which the world becomes your weapon'
- 'It's surprisingly close to what we had': Helldivers 2 creative director talks about making supply lines clearer after fans take matters into their own hands
- Acer's RTX 4080-powered Helios 16 gaming laptop is down just below its Black Friday price
- Arrowhead sneaks two huge enemies into Helldivers 2's latest patch: gigantic AT-AT walkers and swarming gunships
- Another Warcraft movie isn't off the table if Blizzard finds a filmmaker who really gets it, but 'that's probably a pretty small list'
- Internet speeds 1.2 million times faster than the US average are possible using the current fibre optic cable network. How does 301,000,000 Mbps sound?
- Final Fantasy 16 isn't on PC yet, but you can get the full Clive experience in FF14 right now by wearing his clothes and riding his dog, via the new crossover event
- Vtubers are doing 'next level stuff' on Twitch, says streamer who invites viewers to help break his Helldivers 2 streams
- This upcoming indie strategy game looks like Left 4 Dead in the style of XCOM
- Millennia review
- Some gamers may be able to see more frames per second than the rest of us, adding to my list of excuses as to why I suck at fast-paced multiplayer games
- 'We're not using generative AI within WoW' says franchise director John Hight, though the team's been using machine learning to cut out busywork
- My first look at Monaco 2 made me think that maybe crime could pay
- Co-op space game Jump Ship just shot to the top of my 2024 wishlist
- We had another look at Still Wakes the Deep—and there's more than just slimy, stretched-out skin in the Beira D oil rig
- Botany Manor's lead designer assures players that this cozy game is clear and straightforward, 'there's not too much strain on the player'
- Mark Zuckerberg bromances Jen-Hsun Huang, claiming 'he’s like Taylor Swift, but for tech'
- Helldivers 2's new balance update softens those annoying civilian defences and stratagem cooldown modifiers, buffs heavy armour, and increases the level cap to 150
- The best Light builds in The Finals Season 2
- TSMC makes the world's graphics chips and predicts 'within a decade a multichiplet GPU will have more than 1 trillion transistors'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 2
- April 1
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- We celebrated too soon: Helldivers 2 players spot massive cloaked gunships in the skies above Automaton planets
- How I turned my MIDI instruments into the ultimate rhythm game controllers
- PSA: You can play Diablo 4's massive season 4 update early
- This year's best April Fools' Day gaming gags: Bears, bugs, and 97,000 floppy disks
- 'April 1st will forever be a day of victory and remembrance': Super Earth congratulates Helldivers 2 community after taking back Malevelon Creek, but the timing sure is suspicious
- The modder who added seamless co-op to Elden Ring just launched an Armored Core 6 co-op mod for up to 6 players, and it even adds PvP invasions
- Halo Infinite support studio Certain Affinity lays off employees for the first time in 17 years, blames industry slowdown and 'reluctance of third party investors to fund games or game companies'
- Stardew Valley modder challenges players with an 'everything bagel' recipe that requires 134 ingredients
- PC Gamer is hiring! We're looking for a top-notch video producer to join us in the UK
- XDefiant misses another launch window, Ubisoft says a new release date will be announced after an upcoming stress test, which also doesn't have a launch date
- Content Warning, a free co-op horror game where you go viral on SpookTube or die trying, is rapidly climbing the Steam charts
- House Flipper 2 just became a platformer with a new 'The Floor Is Lava' mode, and no, it's not just an April Fools' joke
- New multiplayer survival game features crafting, base building, automatic weapons and flying. The twist? Everyone plays as a bunch of ducks
- 100-player shooter Enlisted: Reinforced halts sales on Steam due to anger over pricing and a bug that 'completely breaks' account linking
- 1998's Unreal was a big deal, but its free editing tool was the true game changer—and the origin of countless careers
- Helldivers 2 players return to site of their greatest defeat, as a new Major Order demands the liberation of Malevelon Creek
- Final Fantasy 14's newest class has inspired this buff Bob Ross to spread good vibes and turn the party into happy little clouds
- Shadow of Mordor is worth revisiting for the nemesis system alone
- Having built 500+ PCs in my time I can say this with confidence: Building is fun and rewarding but ironing out those inevitable BIOS, CPU, memory kinks is unbearable
- 'Please publish this to the main game': Arma Reforger players go wild for April Fools' gag that purports to turn the military simulator into a battle between toy soldiers
- 'We don't see a place for microtransactions in singleplayer games', says CD Projekt Red following Dragon's Dogma 2's DLC fiasco
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, April 1
