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- May 7
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- Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is coming this summer, now with more marines and a 'massive variety of new xenomorphs' to slice 'em up
- Indie shooter devs pull a reverse-Concord: No one played their game, but they 'make it free to play and keep the servers online indefinitely' anyway
- Some pro gamers change mouse pads every few months, and that makes me wonder how often I should change mine
- People are shaming a Redditor for not emptying their 300 GB recycle bin and I realised mine is just as bad
- Customizable SCUF Reflex controllers – now $50 off
- Microsoft reiterates that it's totally fine with Edge storing passwords in cleartext, despite security researchers' concerns
- Old School RuneScape needs 'to do a bunch of work to stop the game exploding soon', as a problem from 2018 rears its ugly head
- Morrowind in Elden Ring mod makes mindblowing progress in video 'dedicated to that one guy that commented this project was not going to come out'
- Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore
- 47% of PC Gamer readers prove to be sensible upgraders, but 3% of you are sickos who will start looking for your next upgrade straight away
- The Nintendo Switch 2 could see a $50-100 price hike says report as pesky investors complain about the launch price
- Google isn't scanning your Gmail to train Gemini, it's letting Gemini scan your inbox to provide 'personalized insights' but I'm not sure that's better
- Atari just bought the rights to the big daddy of PC RPGs, and a reissue campaign is afoot
- My most-anticipated but frequently delayed Zelda-like is finally releasing later this month after 6 years in development
- May 6
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- Stranger Than Heaven sure looks like a Yakuza series prequel in its first 30-minute deep dive, oh and Snoop Dogg is here
- Take-Two chief is 'deeply disappointed' that we still don't have a new BioShock game
- Civilization 7 is profitable, says Take-Two CEO, even if they 'got it wrong' with the Ages system
- Civ 7 is getting 'by far the most-requested addition' later this month, but I'm more interested in whether it'll finally feel fully baked
- Far Cry 2 and Assassin's Creed Hexe creative director launches a new studio, a few months after surprise exit from Ubisoft
- More than 10 years after Ubisoft took it down, one of our favorite games of 2010 is back on Steam
- Mortal Kombat 2 movie reviews are in, and it's being called everything from 'enjoyably violent' to 'depressingly rizzless'
- Mozilla, Stop Killing Games and more team up to tell the UK to stop making the internet worse
- Palit clarifies Galax closure claims were simply a 'miscommunication', and it is 'already working on the next generations' of graphics cards
- Today I learned the real reason why Geralt calls all of his horses Roach
- CCP Games is no more: EVE Online studio changes its name as it goes independent and enters an AI research partnership with Google DeepMind
- Here are 55 new photos of Gabe Newell's $500 million superyacht for your peasant eyes
- Using 'trillions of anonymised productivity signals', Microsoft thinks nearly half of people like AI in their work
- IO boss says surprise! Not only is 007 First Light imminent but that fantasy RPG it announced years ago is 'Very, very far' along too
- Ubisoft says 'Nice try' after Assassin's Creed multiplayer game, Invictus, leaks with a 'heavily altered' image
- Valve releases the CAD files for the Steam Controller and its Puck, no doubt ushering in an era of unholy 3D printed creations
- I found 200 Crude Gold Bars in a single spot in Crimson Desert, which amounts to 1,500 silver for only ten minutes of trouble
- Elon Musk said Gabe Newell gets 'two thumbs up from me' for the OpenAI board but Jeff Bezos is 'clueless'
- Ubuntu servers restored after DDoS attack sends services down for days
- Disgusting! Depraved monster adds effective quest markers to Morrowind, shows no remorse
- Coal in Old School RuneScape has, in theory, outperformed cryptocurrency Ethereum this year
- 'We now expect second half gaming revenue to decline more than 20%': AMD feeling the sting of the memory supply crisis
- This month's Humble Choice is offering one of the best turnbased sicko RPGs of the century for an all time low $15—plus you get 7 other games including Diablo 4
- May 5
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- 'The team has weathered a lot': Subnautica 2 design lead says the community kept the dev team going 'when it was at its hardest'
- Steam Deck verification criteria continues to confuse as Masters of Albion is marked Unsupported, despite devs considering it 'fully optimised for handheld'
- This is Chort, a Final Fantasy 14 dungeon boss of absolutely no real significance, but a hero to us all
- Xbox creator becomes first console designer to bake bread using wild yeast illicitly collected from Microsoft campus
- MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy lays off even more people
- Microsoft ends Copilot AI on Xbox to help 'get the business back on track,' as new CEO simultaneously welcomes AI executives into the fold
- No, China hasn't made it illegal to fire humans and replace them with AI—but yes it's made it much more expensive for companies to do so
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced combat will be 'more demanding' than the original
- Valve says Steam Controller sold out 'faster than we anticipated' but previously told us it has knobs it can turn to get more
- Surprise: The studio making Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is full of former BioWare devs
- I just built a $70,000 digital PC and visualized its terrible airflow in 3D with this neat part-picking website
- 'A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017': Time to update your kernel
- Microsoft Edge saves passwords in cleartext 'by design' and researchers argue 'this turns into a credential harvest' on shared PCs
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance has its own $180 perfume, and it's crucial you remember 'These are not distant notes, but fragments of a world you already know'
- Bank of America thinks Take-Two should charge more for Grand Theft Auto 6
- Sit down, relax, and see how a magnetic keyboard switch is made with Wooting's CEO
- Resident Evil Requiem's director teases more Leon Kennedy: 'We could bring him back when he's 70'
- Linux century marches on as Discord brings updater parity with Windows and easy installs for more distros
- Windrose should no longer threaten to significantly reduce your SSD's lifespan thanks to a fresh patch
- Nvidia confirms some user data may have been stolen in the Armenian GeForce Now breach, but not passwords
- Remedy’s latest financials aren’t too bad considering Firebreak flopped, which the CEO puts down to its ‘structurally more efficient budgets’
- There's a website to competitively guess gaming mouse shapes, and it's a better use of my time than doomscrolling
- Baldur's Gate 3 cast 'changed the game' for videogame actors, says Dragon Age: Inquisition lead: 'We too deserve to stand up and be counted'
- Elon Musk considered calling OpenAI 'Freeman' because of the bonkers rationale that the Half-Life protagonist represented 'what we are essentially trying to achieve'
- I love the thought of geysers in Minecraft, but hate the fact I know just how my friends will use them
- Resident Evil Requiem's director admits they needed to raise the bar for their zombies to 'keep having that thrilling experience'
- 'In China we have now dropped to zero': CEO Jensen Huang bemoans Nvidia's market share and calls for US to export AI 'like crazy'
- What colour car would James Bond never drive? IO had to have multiple meetings just to figure it out for 007 First Light while huge plot decisions went down easy
- YouTuber makes the most of the unused space beneath their monitors with custom desktop aquarium with actual fish in it
- 'I did catch my son using an eyebrow pencil to draw a moustache on his face, and it verified him as 15 years old': New report details the effects of the Online Safety Act thus far
- GameStop CEO baffles CNBC anchors in bizarre interview
- Microsoft ended MS-DOS support 20 years ago, but the latest update for the best roguelike ever made still supports it anyway
- May 4
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- Randy Pitchford says Gearbox has a firm no-AI policy after posting an AI-generated image of an AI working at Gearbox
- eBay resellers are turning a tidy profit on Steam Controllers
- Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players seem close to finding the secret cow level and the final clue might be on a newly discovered cow island
- Gabe Newell makes surprise appearance in an ad for the yacht company he bought last year, riding around in his $500 million boat
- I never understood the appeal of a jumbo novelty d20 until I saw one inspired by one of my favorite new RPGs
- PC players aren't Grand Theft Auto 6's 'core' audience, Take-Two CEO says, and that's why we have to wait for it
- 6 months after Windows 10 was put to pasture, over a quarter of Steam users are still on the dying OS
- The Steam Controller sold out in 30 minutes, utterly breaking Steam in the process
- GameStop confirms $56 billion eBay acquisition bid, promises $2 billion in cuts at the company if the takeover is successful
- Warcraft 3 Legacy is finally back on Battle.net
- Marvel once caused a problem for Capcom by insisting 'Juggernaut can't jump'
- May 3
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- Former Elder Scrolls Online boss was told in 2001 that 'There's already enough MMOs out there, no one is ever gonna play a new one'
- Former Elder Scrolls Online boss describes Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin closing as a turning point at Xbox: 'I know where this is going'
- A Utah age verification law targeting VPN users goes into effect this week
- Skyrim has been the most-played 'Unsupported' game on Steam Deck for 5 months
- Nearly 40 years after launch, NetHack just got a 5.0.0 release with over 3,000 patch notes
- A group of Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players hijacked the top leaderboard ranks not for glory, but to promote their expertise at making the strongest character builds
- In the 33 months since Baldur's Gate 3 launched, it's hardly ever fallen out of the top 5 most-played games on Steam Deck
- XCOM is getting a miniatures game from the company that brought Fallout to tabletop
- The creator of Infinite Craft has a new game where you explore a secret-filled social hub as your mouse cursor
- There's a game coming out this year where you fight your Steam backlog, and it's more dangerous the more you've spent
- You're not crazy, that one sewer puzzle in Half-Life 2 really was harder 22 years ago
- May 2
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- Fallout designer Tim Cain thinks influencers have changed how people make and play games: 'more people seem to be abdicating their own judgement to that of people they see online'
- One-time Google competitor Ask.com, formerly Ask Jeeves, throws in the towel after almost 30 years: 'Jeeves' spirit endures'
- After 9 years and 2 new Mortal Kombats, it looks like NetherRealm is finally making Injustice 3
- New Crimson Desert update lets you 'rematch' defeated enemies and adds new legendary creatures
- After days of speculation over hard-coded anti-goblin bias from OpenAI, the company had to release an official memo on 'Where the goblins came from'
- South Korean Supreme Court orders Dark and Darker dev Ironmace to pay $3.84 million to Nexon
- GameStop reportedly wants to buy eBay, a company with four times its market value
- As it celebrates its 5th birthday, New Day RP might be GTA roleplay's most accessible server—proving the scene doesn’t need to be intimidating to be rewarding
- May 1
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- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era sold 250,000 copies and 'broke even on development costs' in 1 day
- Blizzard decides 'Limitless Rage' barbarian items should actually have a limit after watching them rampage through Diablo 4 dealing quadrillions of damage
- The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories
- Far Far West is a surprise hit on Steam, but its players have one demand: A yeehaw button
- Far Cry 4 director pushes back against Far Cry TV showrunner calling game stories 'pointless' and executes a drive-by on Alien: Earth 'which turned into a kind of weird Peter Pan gets a dog story'
- Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk 'personally called [Satya] Nadella' to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computing power
- Hit cowboy co-op shooter's servers are struggling, developer says its service provider 'is currently drinking mojitos instead of helping'
- Indie dev apologizes for rough game launch, commits to turning it around: 'The critique is fair ... we got work to do'
- YouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer
- This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient print-outs in order to make it open source
- Everyone's favorite egg-shaped rodent might be getting the Superlight treatment, meaning Logitech could once again snatch the budget gaming mouse crown
- Zach Cregger's Resident Evil film 'takes place alongside the events of Resident Evil 2' without actually engaging any of the characters
- ROG Xbox Ally X owners can now choose between AMD's FSR upscaler or Microsoft's NPU-powered Auto SR for better performance, though only for docked gaming
- Valve on the Steam Machine delays: 'Obviously we're bummed that this is the state of things'
- Obsidian returns to The Outer Worlds after 3 years to add a whole new weapon type, fix bugs, and delist its OG version
- It's not confirmation of a Pragmata sequel, but Capcom has teased that its latest venture could have a future among its pantheon of iconic franchises after a tough development
- As Steam player counts continue to dominate conversations around multiple games, it turns out 45% of you don't actually care that much for the metric
- 'We undercalled the level of enthusiasm': Apple's Tim Cook says supply is constrained for the MacBook Neo, but 'we could not be happier with how things are going at the moment'
- A treehouse bundle in WoW costs a whopping $75, and while I know exactly who Blizzard's made it for, that doesn't mean I feel good about it
- If the RAMpocalypse doesn't price them into oblivion, the next generation of hot handheld gaming PCs could well be Intel-powered
- Steam Deck restocks or a pile of Steam Frames and Machines? Either way, Valve's been importing a whole heap of 'game consoles'
- EA now lets you pre-order battle passes in Battlefield 6 for exclusive rewards, because of course it does
- Making black versions of Noctua's beige fans is 'less like painting a wooden fence... and more like changing the colour of a carbon-fibre Formula 1 part'
- Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a 'sustained, cross-border attack'
- The Empire's most OTT lord finally gets his due, portrayed by a YouTuber hamming it up in Total War: Warhammer 3
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000 will have destructible terrain elements: 'That forest, if you don't like it, you don't have to keep it'
- Subnautica 2 is the latest behemoth to mess with other games' launch plans at the last minute: 'we need to dodge the Leviathan'
