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- February 15
- February 14
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- Just two weeks after launch, 'extraction survival horror' game Level Zero: Extraction ends development: 'It's no longer feasible for our relatively small teams to sustain the game'
- Epic gave away nearly 600 million games in 2024, and it's 'not slowing down' for 2025
- France's biggest game industry union puts together a 'Grève Bundle' to support striking workers
- David Bowie's time on Omikron, and his madcap scheme to buy up a load of old satellites and 'relaunch Ziggy Stardust from space'
- Dark and Darker developer did not commit copyright infringement, court rules, but has to pay Nexon nearly $6 million anyway
- We can now pinpoint the exact year videogames turned from God's light thanks to the discovery of a 'nude code' for Smurfette in 1984
- 3DMark benchmarks show off AMD's big daddy Strix Halo laptop chip in action and I'm a little underwhelmed
- Presumably much to Miyazaki's dismay, Elden Ring Nightreign is decidedly void of poison swamps: 'Maybe no one wanted to include it'
- I have seen the future, and it's this 3D-printed air raid siren honking its baleful tones over my neighbourhood as the waters rise
- Arm reportedly plans to make its own CPUs from this summer with future chips said to be powering a revolutionary Jony Ive-designed AI device
- Nightdive's spent 6 years on its update of System Shock 2, so it's now the '25th Anniversary Remaster' and will finally announce its release date on March 20
- Don't worry about missing Elden Ring Nightreign's network test on PC—nobody could play it on console either
- You can nab Owlcat's first Pathfinder CRPG for $45 or $4 right now, depending on whether you want a library's worth of TTRPG books too
- A web3 free-to-play survival game found to be a front for installing malware on your PC has finally been removed from Steam
- Anyone who raises an eyebrow at paying $85 for a Deep Rock Galactic mug must know they are 'the most complicated mug made industrially on Earth'
- Overwatch 2 players are hoping that the upcoming perks will dissuade the heinous act of counterswapping
- Intel is reportedly in talks to spin off its chip factories into a partnership with arch rival TSMC and now I think I've seen everything
- Despite a 'teamwide oops, guess we made it too hard moment,' Hyper Light Breaker has 'no regrets' about its mixed-response early access launch, and now it's got a roadmap so everyone can 'git gud'
- AMD is finally spilling the beans about the RX 9070 series during a live stream on February 28
- All Honkai: Star Rail 3.1 livestream codes
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti GPU officially goes on sale February 20 and the RTX 5070 is go for March 5
- A 'Musk-led consortium' of investors say they'll withdraw $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI—but only if it stays non-profit
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, February 14
- Obsidian says it won't chase huge profits or grow aggressively, and that's how it's going to last 100 years in the RPG business: 'Are we serious? Yes'
- February 13
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- Despite everything, Assassin's Creed Shadows preorders are 'tracking solidly,' Ubisoft says, 'in line with those of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the second most successful entry of the franchise'
- Bobby Kotick says he'd never have raised World of Warcraft's subscription by even a dollar because 'it's a prickly audience, you don't wanna do too much to agitate them'
- After years of running awkwardly close to the Winter Sale, the Steam Autumn Sale will start 2 months early this year
- Elden Ring Nightreign director didn't want to 'encroach too much' on the lore fans hold sacred by including Dark Souls bosses, but admits 'I thought it'd be kind of fun'
- Rockstar launched an official Discord server yesterday, and it's already a jungle in there
- Neil Druckmann wasn't going to cast Laura Bailey in The Last of Us Part 2 because 'she's in everything,' but changed his mind after studying her audition 'frame-by-frame'
- Those mad lads at Obsidian were bluffing us: Avowed does have a tiny bit of companion romance, as a treat
- Josef Fares doesn't care what EA thinks, he'll never make a live service game: 'It will not happen with a Hazelight game, ever'
- Avowed may run on a 9-year-old GPU, but Steam Deck looks like a no-go unless you like sub-30fps upscaled at minimum settings
- Twisted Metal Season 2 teases a character from the games so ridiculous I can't wait to see how they're gonna pull it off
- A black hole just annihilated a beloved Helldivers 2 planet, and now it's on a direct course for Super Earth
- Avowed fooled us all into thinking you have to commit to playing in first or third person, but you can actually swap on the fly like in Fallout or The Elder Scrolls
- The sci-fi adventure game from Deus Ex's art director now has Adam Jensen's voice actor, a September release date, and more techno-freak horror vibes than you can shake an augment at
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Steam page lets slip it'll have DLC bosses and player characters
- If the AMD RX 9070 XT is as beefy as these leaked specs and benchmark makes out, low Nvidia 50-series stocks might not matter
- Overwatch 2's upcoming hero is a DPS with an explosive crossbow, a bola that pulls enemies together, and a whole bunch of annoying ways to zip around
- Ancient MMO Tibia is getting its first new class in 28 years
- 10-series and other old GPUs should be able to run Assassin's Creed Shadows says director, and my RTX 3060 Ti sheds a single hopeful tear
- Assassin's Creed Shadows will let you take your pick from the frame gen and upscaling buffet as 'a mix and match approach is possible'
- New EU regulation finally cuts massive CPU boxes down to size
- You can get Marvel Rivals' new Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman Valentine's Day skins for free—the only catch is that you need to find a streamer first
- Monster Hunter: World continues to fly off the shelves as anticipation for Wilds reaches critical mass
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, February 13
- Capcom is so devoted to samurai authenticity with the new Onimusha, it went and licensed the face of Japan's most legendary actor
- Minecraft movie villagers look like what I imagine Hell is
- Former GTA producer's GTA-like shooter will come out before GTA 6
- February 12
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- Stellar Blade launches on Steam in June
- Turns out the reason Total War: Warhammer 3's campaign AI sometimes played too defensively was a bug that made it overreact to the presence of even a single hero
- Tides of Annihilation looks like Elden Ring if it was based on Arthurian legend and set in modern-day London
- An all-new Five Nights at Freddy's game is coming in June
- Lies of P: Overture will take Pinocchio back in time to the beginning of the Puppet Frenzy
- Borderlands 4 gets a release date and another acrobatic trailer
- Sonic Racing CrossWorlds looks like a return to the over-the-top arcade fun of All-Star Racing Transformed, and we'll get to play it this month
- Monster Hunter Wilds' first free title update DLC will add Mizutsune and 'additional updates' and event quests
- Lost Soul Aside, a spectacle fighter where your dragon pal turns into a hoverboard, is coming out in May
- Civilization 7 patch 1.0.1 addresses 'key areas of player-reported issues' including UI and tooltip improvements
- Diablo 4's second expansion won't be out until 2026
- Nvidia didn't send the Monster Hunter Wilds devs any RTX 5000 cards before their CES reveal, so official DLSS 4 support is still in progress
- Bobby Kotick reckons the Warcraft film was 'a terrible idea' for Blizzard, and in the end 'was one of the worst movies I've ever seen'
- Jeff Minter is remaking another Atari classic, and yeah, it is definitely a Jeff Minter game
- With Adventure mode squared away, Dwarf Fortress is entering a 'new era of development' as its devs shift focus toward future features
- The Alters is altered again: 11 Bit Studios' survival game about creating alt-universe versions of yourself on a hostile alien world is delayed
- Overwatch 2 is getting radical changes that might finally help that '2' make sense, starting with a third-person mode and over 160 hero perks
- Overwatch 2 is bringing loot boxes back from the dead
- After more than a year and 2 million sales, Alan Wake 2 is finally turning a profit for Remedy
- New research says ChatGPT likely consumes '10 times less' energy than we initially thought, making it about the same as Google search
- Meta might've done something useful, pioneering an AI model that can interpret brain activity into sentences with 80% accuracy
- Designed in just a few weeks, this $5 indie game about digging a hole has journeyed to the centre of Steam's top sellers chart
- Warhorse announces official modding support for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, turning Bohemia into a canvas for all manner of pervert ambitions
- 'This task is both more wonderful and dreadful than you could imagine': After 638 days of drawing badly until Civ 7 is released, one dedicated YouTuber can finally put their skills to rest
- Zotac beats those dastardly GPU scalpers by selling RTX 50-series graphics cards to actual gamers courtesy of their Discord channel
- Crysis 4 is officially 'on hold' as Crytek lays off 15% of its workforce, saying it 'cannot continue as before and remain financially sustainable'
- Here's Linux running inside a PDF, running inside a browser, running on a Windows PC
- Geralt will definitely appear in The Witcher 4, Doug Cockle confirms (again): 'I can't wait to see what they do'
- Subnautica 2 dev sounds foghorn about 'fraudulent links' being sent to community members: 'We will never contact anyone by Steam DM for any potential playtests'
- The best budget 4K monitor is now even more tempting, with this $50 saving on its usual sale price
- Looks like Neverwinter Nights 2 has been freed from rights hell and is due an imminent enhanced edition release, but Beamdog says it ain't us
- Elden Ring Nightreign release date set for May, will cost $40
- Give your Wikipedia rabbit hole deep dives a dollop of dopamine by reading them in an 'anti-algorithm' TikTok-style feed
- TSMC reportedly plots 2027 start date for its 3 nm US fab, but will that be in time to save next-gen GPUs from tariffs?
- Nvidia confirms RTX 50-series laptops can be pre-ordered from February 25 and will be 'available starting March', stock willing
- 'It's nice to have options': Blizzard thinks Avowed's new cross-buy feature is breaking down barriers
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 graphics card rumoured to be delayed from February until March but that could actually be good news
- Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins sure are excited for everyone to see Fallout season 2: 'No one's going to be able to predict what happens. There's some big twists this time around'
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 12
- There are already Civilization 7 mods that improve the UI, unlock all civs, and add 'ludicrous'-sized maps
- February 11
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- Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft
- To make its fantasy extraction game, this studio of ex-Blizzard devs had to teach itself the art of third-person combat design: 'There's a science to how those are built'
- Here's our first look at Karl Urban in Mortal Kombat 2 as 'Johnny ******* Cage'
- Karlach voice actor offers a pre-emptive no thanks to Disco Elysium successors that don't include the original project lead: 'Miss me with that casting call'
- Doug Cockle says that playing Geralt again is like 'slipping into a warm bath': the voice is 'part of me now'
- 2 years into Unity's long downward spiral, even more employees are being laid off as CEO says it's still 'stretched across too many products'
- The best Far Cry game of all time now has achievements on Steam
- The unwelcome workaround for Nvidia's RTX 50-series black screen issues is to hobble your gaming monitor with a 60 Hz refresh rate
- With great self-awareness WinRAR releases official $150 merch: 'What better way to support the software you’ve NEVER paid for than by buying a WinRAR bag?'
- GOG's bespoke cut of The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall gets delisted tomorrow, so you've got a day to grab it for free as the store works out how 'to publish and maintain such projects better' in future
- Surely not again: Worrying analysis shows Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card may be prone to melting power connectors
- If you failed to get an RTX 5090 and still want an upgrade, all signs suggest the RTX 5070 Ti will launch on February 20
- I've found a rare treat: A 250 Hz 14-inch RTX 4070 gaming laptop that's dropped in price to $1,300
- I'd be a nervous wreck, but Monster Hunter Wilds' producer is 'very confident' following up Capcom's bestselling game ever
- Marvel Rivals players use the power of overwhelming negativity to encourage the devs to abandon plans for a mid-season rank reset
- Do goblin dice math, slap your D&D players with severed troll limbs, and take revenge on Shakespeare in this year's wonderfully weird ZineQuest RPG kickstarters
- Dragon Quest 12 is still coming, says Yuji Horii, but they're determined to make a game 'worthy of the posthumous work' of the late Akira Toriyama and composer Koichi Sugiyama
- Judging by the demo—out now—Ruffy and the Riverside might be one of this year's best platformers
- Man who chucked $750 million of bitcoin into a dump now wants to buy the whole dump
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii system requirements suggest it could be your next Steam Deck must-play
- What we want from RDNA 4: PCG hardware team reveals hopes and dreams for AMD's next gaming graphics card
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 11
- February 10
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- This long-running cozy tavern life sim on Steam just added online multiplayer, so now you can design and run a medieval pub with your pals
- Elon Musk kicks off $97.4 billion effort to buy OpenAI by immediately starting social media beef with Sam Altman
- The Human Torch, the Thing, and a rank reset are coming to Marvel Rivals next week
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has a secret dark ending for Bohemia's worst criminals
- Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea
- Discord finally adds an Ignore feature so you can gently silence someone's rancid vibes
- Inzoi's game director teases plans for ghost Zois getting shackled to the mortal realm, karma-starved and seeking redemption if they die with a bad rep
- Civilization 7's new patch temporarily disables crossplay between PC and console so Firaxis can 'expedite updates to the PC'
- Take-Two chief says PC has become a 'more important part of what used to be a console business,' but he's still not committing to a Grand Theft Auto 6 release
- LocalThunk had made hobby games in the past, but realized Balatro was something special when a friend revealed he had played it for '20, 30, or 40' hours
- Rainbow Six Siege coach and manager 'ejected' from the $3 million Invitational after raging like big babies
- Hearts of Iron 4's new DLC lets you cast off the Brits as India, cast off the Brits as Iraq, resist the Brits as Iran, or ignore the Brits as Afghanistan
- OpenAI boss suggests there's the equivalent of Moore's law for AI and it's 'unbelievably stronger'
- We asked a PSU expert which adapters or extensions are okay for the RTX 50-series. His answer: 'DO NOT BUY adapters or extenders, they can all be dangerous'
- This RTX 5080 gaming PC is $100 cheaper than last week's best RTX 5080 rig, and it's probably also the best way to get your hands on a high-end GPU right now
- TennoCon 2025 sold through all 3,000 tickets in about 30 minutes, presumably off the back of massive demand for last year's customisable mums
- PSN crapping out means we all get an extra day of the Monster Hunter Wilds beta, even us on PC
- Former WoW designer tips hat to Marvel Rival's shifting meta as an antidote to MMOs with stale class design 'you have to change the meta continually'
- In a mere decade 'everyone on Earth will be capable of accomplishing more than the most impactful person can today' says OpenAI boss Sam Altman
- Just in case you've forgotten all about them, AMD posts a less-than-convincing argument as to why AI PCs are better than any other type of PC
- Hell has frozen over, pigs are flying, and a Square Enix game has actually managed to exceed the publisher's ludicrous sales expectations
- I've been testing Nvidia's new Neural Texture Compression toolkit and the impressive results could be good news for game install sizes
- Final Fantasy 14 is, you guessed it, still making bank for Square Enix as Dawntrail rakes in the big bucks, though it might not be all sunshine and tacos
- The best way to play Diablo 1 on pretty much anything just got an update for a 20-year-old Apple OS that runs on a dead chipset, one lunatic somewhere presumably rejoices
- The definition of overkill: Cooling an RTX 4090 to a claimed 20°C with a household air conditioning unit
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 10
- Steam makes its ban on games that rely on in-game ads even more explicit, so no 'watch this to continue playing' stuff will be making its way to our PCs
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 is so realistic it's been used in a driver fatigue experiment
- February 9
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- Stealth tactics game Commandos: Origins will be out in April
- Oh hell yeah, someone's making a game about customizing and off-roading RC cars in your backyard
- Civilization 7 is coming to VR on Meta Quest 3, in case you'd like a full-size Benjamin Franklin to lecture you about stuff
- This third-party retro UI for Discord looks like—and even runs on—Windows 98
- Blizzard co-founder and Diablo designer thinks new ARPGs have 'cheapened' the genre with fast leveling, throwaway loot and enemies
- Sony offers 5 free days of PlayStation Plus but no explanation for 24-hour 'operational issue,' Capcom to extend Monster Hunter Wilds beta to make up for downtime
- The creator of the Elden Ring Seamless co-op mod is now infusing unlimited multiplayer into Dark Souls 3
- Abiotic Factor's massive Dark Energy update, which adds teleporters, pocket dimensions and black hole grenades to the Half-Life inspired survival sim, is out now
- Sony enforcers execute a legal visceral attack on the BloodbornePSX demake, continuing its mission to eradicate all traces of FromSoft's beloved RPG on PC
- The best unofficial Alien game is getting a spiritual successor where you carve up derelict ships and manage drones with 'personality quirks'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 9
- Forbidden Solitaire is an upcoming horror game about a cursed CD-ROM from the spookily distant year of 1995
- Here's a Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth mod to make catching chocobos trivial
- February 8
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- Stimulation Clicker distills a decade of internet brainrot into exposure therapy that makes you stupid—plus, it's free!
- Marvel Rivals leak suggests a PvE mode involving a boss fight against a giant squid is on the way
- A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
- Helldivers 2 game master Joel offers a look back on the first anniversary of the galactic war
- Update: The PlayStation Network appears to be coming back online after nearly a day's outage, but there's still no word from Sony on what happened
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's latest update leads with a fancy datavault for your battle-barge, but I'm far more interested in the new tyranid unit with a cannon on its back
- Resident Evil Re:Verse is reversing right off Steam, as Capcom claims it has served its 'original, celebratory purpose' despite mostly negative reviews
- Superb Bloodborne-inspired racing game Nightmare Kart is getting free DLC featuring sniper rifles and supercharged penny farthings
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, February 8
- February 7
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- Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'
- PUBG's top-down tactical shooter spinoff Project Arc now has an official title, and a demo is coming to the Steam Next Fest later this month
- Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick takes a moment to remind us once again that 'there's no such thing' as artificial intelligence
- PC Gamer's simulated Super Bowl 2025 predicts Eagles victory, player getting hit so hard he flies out of the stadium and into the parking lot
- Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
- Square Enix thanks the thirstiest fans in the world for buying Tifa figures and a $2,600 statue of Nier: Automata's 2B
- Forget hunting: You should play the Monster Hunter Wilds beta this weekend to spend as much time as you want in the character creator
- Balatro 1.1 will include new jokers plus a revamp of a really confusing existing one
- MultiVersus is somehow using its dying breath to go full looney tunes and put out what may be one of its best patches, and now fans want it to be saved
- Rocksteady is looking to make a new singleplayer Batman game, but Warner's Wonder Woman game is struggling
- Newly unveiled Nintendo Switch 2 patent confirms mouse functionality and gives more details on exactly how it will work, and I don't know if I like it
- Sweet liberty, the Illuminate are moving an entire wormhole across Helldivers 2's galaxy map to slam dunk it into Super Earth like a basketball
- Marvel Rivals devs conducted 'exhaustive research' to come up with the game's roster of heroes and abilities so it could live up to 'exceptionally high player expectations'
- Manor Lords, the best city builder of 2024, hits 3 million sales as players continue to fill its maps with muddy medieval towns
- Netgear says certain router owners should 'download the latest firmware as soon as possible' to patch a critical vulnerability
- AMD asks what you want from RDNA 4. PC gamers reply: 'er, just make sure we can actually buy it, oh and don't worry about ray tracing'
- Sports Interactive announces the shock cancellation of Football Manager 25, but fans are weirdly pleased: 'Better to be honest and admit a mistake'
- Hi-Rez will only be giving 'minor updates' to Smite and Paladins now it's laying off around 70 employees, but don't worry, Smite 2 is the 'primary focus of the newly streamlined operations'
- We just gave this 4K gaming projector a very positive review and for $599 on pre-order it's a genuine bargain
- Vanished for a year, early access dev returns to announce a crisis taught them 'videogames ain't it' and end development on 'singleplayer EVE' they've been making since 2017
- WoW has raised over $2 million for charity CureDuchenne by selling a cute little fox, after being inspired by The Remarkable Life of Ibelin documentary
- Final Fantasy 14 promises crackdown on stalking exploits with actual solutions now, rather than politely asking the plugin creator to stop
- Nvidia is 'investigating the reported issues with the RTX 50-series' cards after RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 owners (and some RTX 40-series folk) report black screen problems
- If you installed Windows 11 with certain security updates and a USB stick, you may not get any more security updates warns Microsoft
- A Marvel Rivals player has uncovered 'one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities a game can have' that'll let cheaters take over your PC and find your passwords
- Doom on a dongle: Turns out the Apple Lightning to HDMI adapter has more than enough grunt to blast imps with aplomb
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, February 7
- The Monster Hunter Wilds beta is now live
- Magic: The Gathering is being turned into a live-action movie as the beginning of 'a multimedia universe'
- February 6
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- I'm sorry to say Rockstar still won't tell us when (or even if) Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming to PC
- Rust goes medieval with the Primitive update: siege weapons, swords and shields, and maybe a few jewel-encrusted assault rifles
- Harrison Ford points to Troy Baker's Indiana Jones for why he's not worried about AI actors: 'You don't need artificial intelligence to steal my soul'
- Ubisoft's grudging crawlback to Steam continues with achievements for Watch Dogs 2 added a mere 9 years after release
- Spider-Man 2's first PC patch is live with 'several crash fixes,' UI improvements, and an auto-save backup
- As Civilization 7 languishes with a 'mixed' rating on Steam, Firaxis says improving the game's wildly unpopular UI is 'our top priority'
- Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 is so big, it needed its own patch before it even released, and we're one step closer to a Permanent Booming Blade Economy
- The organizers of E3 announce a new event called iicon, but it's not open to the public and you probably don't want to go anyway
- Paradox is the new owner of Jagged Alliance 3 and Surviving Mars developer Haemimont Games
- If showing off that you actually own an RTX 5090 isn't enough, why not show off that you own a golden one for double rarity points
- ZA/UM gets away with $165 plastic bags because its execs know hypocritical moaners are the same 'ones ordering the expensive items' anyway, says former Disco Elysium writer
- NASA is hosting the first Twitch stream from space and I'm already picturing the chat with equal parts fear and excitement
- This Steam Deck mount looks silly, but greatly reduces the risk of dropping Valve's handheld on your face while gaming in bed
- Bill Gates laments Pat Gelsinger's failure to save Intel: 'I was hoping for his sake, for the country's sake that he would be successful'
- Former Dragon Age developers are not happy with EA CEO's suggestion that The Veilguard should have live service features: 'I'd probably quit'
- EA CEO says the magic words 'Apex 2.0': It won't happen until after the next Battlefield, but 'this will not be the final incarnation of Apex'
- Square Enix's Chocobo Steam Deck is cute, fluffy, and unfortunately gets in-KWEH-dibly warm
- Why pay more? This 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor is perfectly priced at just $153
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater finally has a confirmed release date: August 28
- Marvel Rivals' destructible environment was apparently the 'first major technical challenge' the devs had to overcome
- In a first tariff-induced hit against the PC gaming sector, ASRock is talking about increasing costs and moving its graphics card manufacturing away from China
- Civilization 7 is off to a rocky start as it receives 'Mixed' Steam reviews from its premium backers: 'Comparing this unfinished mess to the Civ 6 release is night and day'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says it deliberately avoids the 'instant gratification' of modern games, channelling the best of Bethesda like Morrowind and Oblivion
- Arm won't keep chasing after Qualcomm on the grounds of licensing shenanigans—but the legal jostling isn't over
- 'No lotteries, and no onerous upkeep': World of Warcraft takes a cheeky potshot at Final Fantasy 14's egregious housing system as it readies up to unleash its own
- Disco Elysium game director Robert Kurvitz praises the first Fallout: 'It makes other post-apocalyptic worldbuilding seem like an amusement park'
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, February 6
- February 5
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- Rooster Teeth returns from the dead, under the ownership of one of its original founders
- Less than 4 months after revealing his studio's new game, Michael Condrey has reportedly been given the boot by 2K Games
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 honors Elden Ring legend Let Me Solo Her in touching Easter egg
- Iron Galaxy lays off 66 employees in a 'last resort' effort to 'enable our long term survival'
- Civilization 7 live launch coverage: reviews, tips, and the latest news
- Psychologist says 'there's a real sense of effort' to The Sims 4's emotional realism, from Maslow's Hierarchy to personal pep talks
- After The Sims 1 + 2 rereleases stumbled out to mixed reviews, EA issues a patch that boldly declares they 'should now launch in most situations'
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sells more than 1 million copies in just 1 day
- Microsoft nixes details of its Windows 11 TPM 2.0 security bypass though there are still other ways of getting the latest OS on 'unsupported' hardware
- Sony winds down manufacturing of recordable blu-rays, leaving a void Verbatim is only too happy to fill
- War Thunder players take a break from leaking classified information to review bomb their beloved game for adding an auction house
- After 75 hours, I finally cracked what I was doing wrong in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's terribly explained alchemy system
- The first RTX 50-series laptops are listed at retailers and dare I say it, is that reasonable pricing I see?
- Doctor Strange's portals were 'particularly challenging' to add into Marvel Rivals, as they created 'unprecedented performance demand' for Unreal Engine 5
- The next game from Cruelty Squad's creator, a 'policing and punishment simulator', has dropped a new trailer showing off its gruesome mech combat
- I use this SteelSeries wireless gaming headset for work every day and it has just hit its lowest-ever price at $70 off
- Sim racers rejoice, F1 champ Max Verstappen says you're getting a '90 to 95%' accurate experience even without that megabucks motion rig
- AMD sees record revenue of $25.8 billion in 2024 thanks to data center growth—gaming last seen tumbling into a ditch
- Steam now warns you if that early access game you're eyeing up has been abandoned by its devs
- AMD's CEO Dr Lisa Su claims 'highest sell-out in many years' for desktop processors and the company is 'catching up with some demand' for gaming CPUs
- AMD's new RDNA 4 GPUs are officially arriving in 'early March' and they'll need to be stellar to rescue the company's nosediving gaming graphics division
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 rockets past the first game's peak player count as it pips into Steam's top 100 most-played games
- Helldivers 2's latest warbond adds a stratagem I've craved since the galactic war started, a portable hellbomb
- Make Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 feel even more like The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion with this charming potato mode mod
- UK government says it won't change the rules on publishers taking videogames offline after selling them: 'We have no plans to amend existing consumer law on digital obsolescence'
- Overwatch Classic is bringing back the worst period in the game's history: The dreaded Mercy Moth Meta
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 5
- The Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark is here, and my poor RTX 3070 is now crying sub-60 fps tears
- Will Wright says the original Sims AI was actually too good: 'Almost anything the player did was worse than the Sims running on autopilot'
- It sure sounds like Electronic Arts thinks cutting Dragon Age: The Veilguard's live service components was a mistake
- February 4
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- Monster Hunter Wilds will have a photo mode and new 'hunter profiles' to help you show off your character
- Next Battlefield game set to release sooner than I expected, before April 2026: 'We're looking for this to be the biggest Battlefield we've ever made'
- Capcom can't stop spilling the beans on new Monster Hunter Wilds monsters
- Cozy undead gardening game Greenheart Necromancer is apparently 'a mixture of 'witchcore' and 'whimsigoth' with a healthy dose of 'grandma chic''
- Capcom announces a remaster of samurai classic Onimusha 2, coming to Steam this year
- That was fast: a modder already added an 'unlimited save game' feature to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- After working on Ultima Online for 26 years, producer Bonnie Armstrong is stepping down to 'work in my greenhouse, play with puppies, and snuggle with my hubby'
- That Just Cause movie we've been hearing about since 2011? It just got a new writer and director (again)
- Destiny 2's latest season will run a lengthy 5 months, implying a July launch date for Frontiers
- The metaverse could be a 'legendary misadventure,' Meta executive says, if Reality Labs doesn't turn things around in 2025
- Bill Gates says 'you can be cynical' about the tech bros' motivations in cosying up to Trump, but he's doing it too because the President is 'making decisions about global health and how we help poor countries'
- Opera has unveiled 'the world’s first browser with mindfulness at its core' and, to my surprise, I might be convinced
- Old AM4 CPUs including the Ryzen 5000 still make up 50% of AMD's sales today
- Dune: Awakening says no to David Lynch and Sting in his underwear: 'The vision for the IP right now is the Villeneuve vision'
- Epic talks shop about stuttering in games that use its Unreal Engine and offers solutions to the problem
- 'We launched ray tracing and DLSS to a thud' reveals senior Nvidia suit reminiscing on the troubled launch of Nvidia's first RTX GPUs
- Man charged with $65,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency heists was reportedly discovered through chatting on Discord with a company they allegedly stole from
- Nothing says 'communism' like this $165 poverty-chic plastic bag based on Disco Elysium, aka 'the level of greed that they talk about in the Bible'
- Since Path of Exile's expansion has been delayed, players are instead getting a month-long event featuring 'whacky ideas that never quite made it off the brainstorm board'
- AI may move at the speed of light but Nvidia's machine learning model for frame generation took 6 years to develop
- Ugh! Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has a body-odour 'broadcasting' system where your stink can alert nearby NPCs
- Need for Speed is effectively on hold while Criterion musters entirely around Battlefield, but EA assures players the racer will return in 'new and interesting ways'
- Destiny 2 is the latest game to feel the SAG-AFTRA strike as it warns Heresy will be missing an unknown chunk of voiced dialogue
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's guns are very, very bad, but that's what makes them so fun: 'We knew it was going to be a meme weapon, but we were cool with it'
- This 4090-equipped water-cooled copper PC 'looks like a steam engine' and I'm in love
- 'Put them on the slides': How Jensen Huang invented and then announced Nvidia's DLSS AI upscaling tech in just two weeks
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, February 4
- Alleged Fallout season 2 set photo reveals the return of New Vegas' beloved roadside attraction turned sniper nest, Dinky the T-Rex
- February 3
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- Gaming's largest lobbying group says Trump's tariffs 'would negatively impact hundreds of millions of Americans' and do serious damage to the videogame industry
- 'I feel extremely insulted by this': Platinum removes most of its games from its website, erasing the last signs of life for Project GG
- While you're waiting for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, try this free Steam demo of a roguelike kingdom-builder where your peasants won't work unless you're looking directly at them
- 'I cannot believe this': Composer Winifred Phillips was 'blown away' after winning a Grammy for a remake of a 44-year-old RPG
- New US administration begins purging US government websites, President Trump says 'it doesn't sound like a bad idea to me'
- Multiversus director addresses fans angered by its upcoming closure: 'You're entitled to what you say and think, but when there are threats to harm it's crossing the line'
- AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D CPUs are rumoured to launch at the end of March at roughly the same time as the RX 9070-series GPUs
- The first 10 seconds of gameplay for the next Battlefield looks a lot like Battlefield 3, playtest signups are now live
- Got the Nvidia 50-series and AMD X3D stock-out blues? Skip the waiting lists with this surprisingly well-priced RTX 5080 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming PC
- This hacked 3D printer-turned-tattoo machine has a built-in panic lever, which I would be hammering furiously at every opportunity
- There's a whole world of MMOs you probably don't know about, and the best way to play them just got basically its own Steam Workshop
- Spider-Man 2's PC launch woes are woe-ier than you think, as it looks like GPU-powered DirectStorage is hobbling performance
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's developer is 'fed up' of being dragged into the culture war: 'It seems like someone is always trying to brand us somehow, and we are just trying to make a cool videogame'
- UK retailer expects more RTX 5090 stock in '3 to 16 weeks', so, err, adjust your diaries accordingly
- We're getting a warm and a cold cow in Minecraft, and even though it's not our beloved Moobloom, it's still a win for variant enjoyers
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 live launch coverage – Reviews, performance analysis and all the latest news
- Intel will be keen to forget 2024 despite its products selling well because its foundries still keep on swallowing money
- Put away your pitchforks, the first report of an RTX 50-series graphics card melting a cable was actually down to an ol' RTX 4090 under load
- Marvel Rivals' ranked distribution for Season 1 is pretty evenly spread except for the 482,526 players just sat in Bronze 3
- The official Assassin's Creed Shadows artbook just got leaked on a hentai site before someone snatched it back down
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, February 3
- Here's an Elden Ring mod to give you the rad moveset of Sekiro boss Great Shinobi Owl
- February 2
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- The best FPS of 2024 just got a surprise free update with 30 new maps, 9 new weapons, and just one cheeky cosmetic
- BioWare has reportedly lost at least half its staff, with fewer than 100 people left and the studio a ghost of its former self
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser's new project looks like nothing special, to be perfectly honest
- The Sims 1 and 2 Legacy Collections launch to 'Mixed' reviews on Steam as EA investigates 'various issues'
- Killing Floor 3 splatters onto PC on March 25, but you can get your hands dirty a month early via its closed beta
- Besiege celebrates a decade of building deadly contraptions with a reworked sandbox mode, adjusted level designs and slow-motion explosions
- Techno Banter channels Yakuza and Bojack Horseman as you destroy club rejects with words
- Palworld developer 'blown away' by the response to its new publishing arm, which has received 150 game pitches just one week after opening
- After a decade of delays, Defenders Quest 2 is finally out, bringing with it wild character designs and nostalgic tower defense shenanigans
- Civilization 7's post-launch roadmap will bring the Bermuda Triangle and Mount Everest to all players in March
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 2
- EVE lays out a busy 2025 focusing on player customization and fan-favorite events
- 'Borderlands 4 does have some open-world-like features,' says Gearbox, before clarifying it isn't an open world game 'in the traditional use of that term'
- Roll7's stylish skate games OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome have both been delisted on Steam
- February 1
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- The true victims of Multiversus closing are the people who bought that $100 Founder's Pack
- NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as 'a monopolistic crime against the consumer'
- Sony bullies Bloodborne 60 fps mod off the internet with DMCA takedown as it continues to let the FromSoft classic gather dust on PS4
- I didn't think Factorio needed swarms of robot ants, but the trailer for this upcoming factory sim has convinced me it missed a trick
- Snowrunner follow-up RoadCraft shows off its roadbuilding and logistics automation in a new trailer, and I'm already in love with its mobile quarry
- Split Fiction's latest trailer shows off its side-stories, which let you fly through space and ride giant desert fish in worlds 'completely different' from the main adventure
- DeTechtive 2112 is a slick-looking cyberpunk shooter that seems great on paper but is really just Hotline Miami but worse
- Nightdive's remaster of Doom + Doom 2 gets multiplayer mod support, spectator mode for co-op play, and stops you from losing your mind searching for red doors
- Butcher's Creek is a short, sweet and brutal FPS video nasty from the maker of Dusk
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, February 1
- Drone operator who damaged LA firefighting plane was Peter Akemann, who co-founded Treyarch back in the '90s
