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- August 16
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- The VR version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is 'on hold indefinitely' as Meta and Rockstar shift their focus to other things
- 'Without using these inventions, Western Digital would not be able to compete in the market': WD owes $262,000,000 in damages over a HDD patent dispute
- Super-svelte CAMM2 memory can deliver higher clock speeds, lower latencies, costs, and even better system cooling says MSI
- Grab this mighty fast RTX 4080 Super and save more than $140 off the MSRP
- Arm reportedly spooling up major new GPU architecture to take on Nvidia
- After Morrigan's surprise cameo in Dragon Age: The Veilguard's release date trailer, VA Claudia Black says she 'wasn't lying … I honestly thought they were done with my fave mage'
- About half—50 in total—of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks' staff will be taken on by new publisher Krafton
- You had one job: Outlook, Word and OneNote may 'unexpectedly close when typing' says Microsoft
- Deliriously funny rhythm tooter Trombone Champ is getting a VR version
- You can get 650 hours of classic RPG in Humble's latest bundle, featuring original Baldur's Gate, Pathfinder, and Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader
- Leaked Intel Arrow Lake CPU benchmarks show generational performance regression but that might not be the whole story
- Many of Epic's exclusivity deals were 'not good investments,' says Tim Sweeney, but the free games program 'has been just magical'
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney accuses Apple of 'malicious compliance' as Fortnite finally returns to iOS, but only in Europe and with a convoluted install process
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a $150 'edition' that doesn't actually include the game, though you do get 22 inches of Rook's shiny blade
- The FTC is banning fake reviews, false testimonials and all sorts of shady consumer deception with an ominous sounding 'final rule'
- Lonely Mountains: Downhill is getting a skiing-themed sequel, making it the second winter sports game announced this month
- 2K removes its pointless launcher from Civilization 6, while also announcing that Civilization 7 players will never have to suffer launching the game twice for no reason
- All Genshin Impact codes from the 5.0 livestream
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, August 16
- August 15
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- Get ready for Nicolas Cage to do an incredible John Madden voice in a biopic about his life and the videogame
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard is bringing back the heinously ugly original sin of preorder/digital deluxe cosmetics, but I'm weirdly nostalgic for it now
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's latest trailer is the best showing the game's gotten yet—BioWare really should have led with this months ago
- The next Stellaris expansion will let your space empires harness 'the majesty and menace' of new cosmic storms, which I'm sure can only go well
- Dr Disrespect says he's coming back soon, deletes his admission of inappropriately texting a minor: 'We have lots to talk about'
- Activision kills ambitious H2M Modern Warfare 2 mod one day before its release
- Some of the world's biggest game companies are joining together to make us all look at this truly awful horse
- Oops! Bungie accidentally changed the names of a 'high number' of Destiny 2 players, says a fix 'will take some time' to figure out
- 'I'm still amazed that it all came together and actually works': YouTuber spends 14 months building a glorious gaming laptop from desktop parts
- The most wishlisted cozy game on Steam is launching in September
- Unbelievably beautiful life sim Inzoi is doing a limited time demo of its character creator next week
- Upcoming Sims competitor inZOI is getting full mod support on launch and a surprise character creation demo much sooner
- The lead writer of Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge was extremely squeamish at first, which shows you can do just about anything if you set your mind to it
- Helldivers 2 player is plagued by trampolining Terminids in 'the most ridiculous bug I've ever encountered in a video game'
- Someone's already overclocked the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and 9950X above 7.4 GHz
- Blizzard disables trading in Diablo 4 for the third time in a year, as another dupe bug wreaks havoc on its economy
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdree's success deftly parries 'extraordinary losses' caused by a recent cyberattack on FromSoftware's parent company
- Beefy medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has been delayed until February
- A mysterious World of Warcraft teaser has people wondering if an animated show is on its way
- Intel sells all its Arm shares, likely raising almost $150 million, AKA peanuts in tech
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard arrives on October 31, preorders are live now
- One of the best 2 TB gaming SSDs is now under $140 and it's the perfect upgrade for any PC
- PC Gamer magazine's landmark 400th issue is on sale now: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 15
- Skyblivion shows off some gorgeous Oblivion locations and some boring Oblivion quests in its latest trailer
- August 14
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- GitHub, the go-to site for open source software, is currently down
- Steam's new 'Helpfulness' system for user reviews is here to fix Steam's 'Helpful' system for user reviews
- Persona 3 Reload producer dashes any remaining hopes for the return of Portable's female protagonist: 'It is likely never going to happen'
- Josh Sawyer says Fallout: New Vegas has deathclaws in Goodsprings as a warning to Fallout 3 players expecting another easy ride: 'You can't just slide all over the map and not feel the heat'
- Newsflash: That bargain MSI 4K 240Hz OLED gaming monitor is actually available to buy for once
- Steam's latest beta removed the 'open screenshot location' button and it's sending me into an existential crisis
- Valve issues new rules outlawing links in Steam page descriptions, hopefully bringing an end to the plague of demos pretending they're 'prologue games'
- Pray the kids don't kick over your priceless T-Rex exhibit in Two Point Museum, an upcoming new addition to the Two Point universe
- Fallout: London sets a new record by becoming the 'fastest redeemed game ever on GOG'
- The Final Fantasy 9 upscale mod just got a surprise update after 3 years, including a 'full rework' of its backgrounds, 120 fps, ultrawide, and more
- Mordhau pugilists raise thousands of dollars for a fellow player's medical bills in a fistfighting contest against cancer
- AMD might give the Ryzen 9600X and 9700X a big post-launch TDP boost in the name of chasing higher performance
- Overwatch 2's highly anticipated space girl hero drops next week with season 12
- Leximan is a charming indie romp where you grab words out of the air to solve problems—like helping Dave, who has been on fire for 27 minutes
- Live your fantasy of being a game dev in this sim where you build an MMO, manage your team and investors, and even play your own game
- If you want to have fun while looking silly, check out the Roto VR Explorer, a super spinny chair that aims to solve motion sickness while VR gaming
- Even Uwe Boll is dunking on the abominable Borderlands movie—'Now you wish I directed!'
- Blizzard is still updating Heroes of the Storm on an almost monthly basis, and I just think that's nice
- XCOM 2 is just $3 on Steam for a day—cheaper than the bus I took into work this morning, or 1/5th of a World of Warcraft subscription
- Rumoured new AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D could be our first sub-$200 3D V-cache gaming CPU
- Unsurprisingly, the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X don't seem to be selling very well right now
- Final Fantasy 14 player is so sick of one particular healing spell, they've built an entire website to explain why you shouldn't use it: 'I finally have had enough'
- Valve is 'continuing to work on adding support' for other handhelds, but 'SteamOS isn't ready to run out of the box' just yet
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, August 14
- August 13
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- Somehow, Baldur's Gate 3 isn't done winning yet: It's just claimed the most prestigious award for science fiction and fantasy writing
- A massive free update and a 50% discount sends Cult of the Lamb rocketing up the Steam charts
- Josh Sawyer would head up a new Fallout game if Microsoft asked, but he'd have to do it his way: 'Who wants to work on something where the one thing they want to explore is not possible to explore?'
- Black Mirror creator offers a new premonition of humanity's self-wrought tech apocalypse, and it's Balatro on phones: 'It's possibly the most addictive thing ever created'
- Helldivers 2 game director says a Chargers rework and an update to fire damage are part of a 60-day update plan: 'What matters most now is action, not talk'
- Call of Duty 4 is one of the best-selling Steam games right now, but only because you need it to play an ambitious Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer mod launching this week
- Josh Sawyer doesn't like Baldur Gate 3-style romances and that's part of why he doubts a new Pillars of Eternity would be a hit: 'I feel like I'm kind of out of touch with that audience'
- Russian chess player faces jail after video shows her allegedly poisoning opponent with mercury: 'I've never seen anything like this'
- This awesome mod sees TF2 come to CoD Zombies—which is all the more impressive considering it'd typically be the other way around
- A robot trained with AI to beat average randos at table tennis is a much more impressive thing than you might think
- Once the apple of Microsoft's eye, Paint 3D will be fully killed off in favour of its elder sibling Paint
- Jonathan Nolan and the writers didn't catch it, 'but boy, Reddit caught it': Fallout's makeup department hid a sneaky easter egg in one episode that fans 'jumped on' immediately
- A Red Dead Redemption PC port was proudly 'announced' on the store page for the PS4 version, of all places
- Space Marine 2 settled on 3-player co-op because having 4 lore-accurate 40K marines made it too much of 'a massacre'
- Our pick for the best 14-inch gaming laptop is down to $1,700 and it's an RTX 4070 and OLED-equipped beauty
- Doom running on a Def Con attendee badge at 50 fps is the highlight of the otherwise messy backstory to this year's popular hacking conference
- Black Myth: Wukong's most-wishlisted status means its new benchmarking tool is the 18th most played 'game' on Steam right now
- Borderlands grosses $16 million globally, leaving it roughly $60 million shy of breaking even—and that's before the theatres take their cut
- Dazzling Doom 2 mod upgrades the legendary FPS with full-blown ray tracing, looks hellishly good
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, August 13
- August 12
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- Stalker 2 devs' 35-minute in-depth gameplay video and promise of an 'authentic' experience that'll kill you dead finally has me fully on board the hype train to The Zone
- We can all see that Valve's unannounced shooter Deadlock just hit over 18,000 concurrent players, Gabe
- Bethesda's updated Doom remasters have opened a portal to a hellish dimension of uncredited mod uploads: 'This is a massive breach of trust'
- Baldur's Gate 3's rarest ending has only been unlocked by 34 players, and it requires an obscenely specific sequence of poor decisions
- Hunt: Showdown is going offline for 48 hours to prepare for its biggest update ever
- Randy Pitchford is posting through it after Borderlands bombs bad
- Baldur's Gate 3's lead mocap choreographer reveals Lae'zel's combat stance is based on a real technique that came to an ancient samurai master in a dream
- 'It was such a chore, every day': the surprising reason Ella Purnell was 'part of the biggest challenge' for the Fallout TV show's makeup department
- Ex-Twitter VP says if Elon Musk keeps stirring up unrest, 'get an arrest warrant'
- Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month
- 'Free doesn't pay our bills': Mega-mod Fallout London's developers plan to build their own indie studio
- This is the RTX 4080 Super gaming PC I'd buy as a dopamine-crazed serial hobbyist if I had a couple grand lying around
- Reports say Intel could have bought a $1 billion chunk of OpenAI seven years ago but its then-CEO thought it wouldn't pay off
- 'Let Super Earth burn': Helldivers 2 players are committing treason to protest its latest patch—allowing a tide of bots to creep worryingly close to home
- Arrowhead CEO says 'we need to do better' after incendiary response to flamethrower nerfs in Helldivers 2: 'Me just talking about it isn't enough, actions matter'
- Millions of AMD CPUs found vulnerable to 18-year-old 'Sinkclose' deep-system flaw but it's pretty difficult to exploit
- The Borderlands movie squeaks in at $8.8 million over its US box office weekend, which is about 6% of what it cost to market, distribute, and make
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, August 12
- Hi-Fi Rush lives: PUBG owner Krafton has acquired Tango Gameworks from Xbox
- August 11
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- Despite imminent delisting, Sega says Sonic Generations will still be available via a bundle
- The original Doom-inspired roguelike will return this year as Jupiter Hell Classic
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, August 11
- Arkane founder says Skyrim is an immersive sim, and Baldur's Gate 3 is 'immersive sim-adjacent'
- Geralt's voice actor confirms he'll be in the next Witcher, but not as the main character: 'Geralt will be part of the game'
- August 10
- August 9
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- Bungie promises to address the 'uncertainty' surrounding the future of Destiny 2 following massive layoffs last week
- Scientist survival in Abiotic Factor gets the obligatory water area next week, complete with fishing
- You can get every Dragon Age game yet made for just $10 in EA's August Steam sale
- Doom Eternal's new official mod support includes 'the very same tools' used to create the game
- Monster Hunter fans are so hungry for Wilds gameplay that Capcom's new 60-second weapon clips are racking up millions of views
- Kingmakers, the game about going back in time with an M4 tank, doesn't have a release date yet, but it does somehow have a movie deal
- Fallout 4's best modder is bringing Doom to Starfield and bards to Skyrim
- Olympic heroes like Noah Lyles are going for the only gold that matters: The one in League of Legends
- Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is still holding out hope for the Borderlands movie: 'Let's give the film a chance'
- Creating your own Microsoft Copilot chatbot is easy but making it safe and secure is pretty much impossible says security expert
- New SteamOS beta hints at an imminent general install with ROG Ally support added
- 'I dunno what the negativity is for, people had fun': Palworld dev comes to Helldivers 2's defence after stats-tracker decrees both games burnt out
- Phew: Blizzard clarifies you'll get every transmog from WoW's quests like in The War Within beta—and retroactively, no less
- Hey, when did 1000 W PSUs get so affordable? This Super Flower Platinum is $125 right now
- I want a 4K OLED gaming monitor so bad and with both Alienware and Samsung's available for $200-plus off I'm going to sell my dog, probably
- Landlords are so drunk with power they've started advertising apartments made in The Sims 4 on real estate websites
- Major browser providers scramble to patch an 18-year-old vulnerability affecting MacOS and Linux systems but Windows remains gloriously immune
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a 'seriously satisfying RPG' that lets you live the life of a medieval knight in a 'rich and reactive open world', has its price slashed by 83%
- God of War Ragnarök needs a chonky 190 GB of SSD space but the rest of the system requirements seem pretty reasonable
- AMD keeps chipping away at Intel as latest figures show increased market share in PCs, laptops and servers
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, August 9
- August 8
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- Grand Theft Auto 6 is still on track for fall 2025, and there's still no sign of a PC version
- Arrowhead boss says he's not upset by the latest Helldivers 2 balance uproar: 'I'd take this ANY day of the week over nobody giving a s**t'
- Splitgate 2's first gameplay is here, and yep, adding classes changes everything
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies mode will introduce powerful new technology previously thought impossible: saving and coming back later
- Brother, your world faces exterminatus unless you watch this new Space Marine 2 gameplay footage right now
- Id Software just surprise launched Doom + Doom 2, a 'definitive' bundle that adds cross-platform multiplayer and in-game mod support to every retro Doom
- The modders recreating the original Fallout in Fallout 4's engine are releasing their first demo today
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's combat is 'more technically demanding on the player' BioWare says, which is why we'll only be controlling one character
- Critic reviews of the Borderlands movie are absolutely savage
- Arkane founder was saddened by the closure of Arkane Austin, but says immersive sims aren't going anywhere: The studio is gone, but 'the people survive'
- I've been watching this dude play Grand Theft Auto 4 with the traffic at 9999999 'warp speed' and it's both hilarious and some sort of surrealist masterpiece
- Borderlands film goes from disaster to farce as the guy who rigged Claptrap says neither he nor the model artist are credited
- Dragon Age director says BioWare learned an important lesson from the disaster that was Anthem: 'Know what you're good at and then double down on it'
- Bought a pre-built Intel 13th/14th Gen gaming PC? Here are the warranty extensions different PC builders say they're offering
- Turkey just straight-up banned Roblox for 'child exploitation'
- Next-gen Intel Arrow Lake CPUs rumored to consume at least 100 W less power at high frequencies
- Warner Bros execs pine for the Hogwarts Legacy glory days as games revenue plummets 41% thanks to Suicide Squad's abysmal performance
- Hunt: Showdown's tradition of dropping horrifying little freaks into the Wild West continues with the 'Hellborn,' a roaming fire demon that hurls molten lava balls
- The next game from Dishonored co-creator Raphael Colantonio is a first-person immersive sim with a structure between Prey and Fallout: New Vegas—'We favour density over size'
- World of Warcraft: The War Within gets a new 2D cinematic, reminds us that Xal'atath is an ancient knife piloting a corpse puppet for kicks
- 'Now it is war': Elon Musk and Twitter accuse an advertising alliance, which includes EA and Twitch, of conspiring against the platform and breaking US antitrust law
- Sony says the 220 layoffs at Bungie were made in the name of—you guessed it—things like 'portfolio optimization' and enhancing 'the efficiency of the business'
- Corsair ditches 80 Plus for PSUs: here are the Cybenetics ratings it'll use instead
- MSI and Asus roll out first Intel instability fix for a range of motherboards with 0x129 microcode BIOS
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, August 8
- August 7
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- YouTube is testing a new Twitter-style community notes feature, which is good because YouTubers sure do love to lie
- A mischevious dagger slid Diablo 4 players free XP boosts under the table before Blizzard caught it
- Lone Echo developer Ready at Dawn has reportedly been closed by Meta
- Bungie can't catch a W: Rather than buffing the drop rate of Destiny 2's most-wanted exotic items, the latest patch nerfed it into dust
- Previously unreleased Life By You screenshots are making life sim fans even sadder that it got cancelled
- Fans of MOBAs and extraction shooters should sign up for Seekers of Skyveil's playtest on Steam and prepare for its closed beta next month
- The first impressions of the Borderlands movie are out, and include slightly worrying phrases like 'disaster' and 'visually repulsive dud'
- A pedophile used Roblox to groom, abduct and sexually assault a 15-year-old girl, a full 18 months after the community had outed him as a predator
- Baldur's Gate 3 anniversary statistics cement the popularity of Astarion, kissing, and being turned into a cheese wheel
- StarCraft 2 spiritual successor Stormgate launches to a mixed rating on Steam, but Frost Giant is undaunted: 'Mixed reviews are to be expected at this stage'
- Balatro has sold 2 million copies, free 'major gameplay update' coming next year
- I've never needed anything more than 'the world's first medieval electronic instrument,' a pre-Baroque beatbox that looks like a Pentiment/DJ Hero collab
- NIS America says Trails and Ys RPG fans won't have to wait so long for future English releases: 'We want to bring that timeline down'
- Micron touts world's first PCIe Gen 6 drive with epic 26 GB/s speeds but it's not hitting your PC for years
- Republican vice prez candidate JD Vance nurses a secret passion for Magic: The Gathering, says his wife
- 'My thighs were absolutely killing me': Red Dead Redemption 2's Roger Clark discusses the perils of crouch running
- We're getting a Civilization 7 deep dive at The Future Games Show at Gamescom, hosted by GTA's Michael de Santa and RDR2's Sadie Adler
- Warframe is gearing up for its wildest expansion yet with The Lotus Eaters update on August 21
- One of Logitech's finest mice and one I use often—the Pro Wireless gaming mouse is down to $61 right now
- Logitech says it has 'no plans' for a subscription mouse—let's keep it that way
- Intel CEO says Panther Lake CPU on its new 18A node is already up and running with production slated for next year
- New world's thinnest LPDDR5X memory from Samsung could bode well for handheld gaming PCs
- 'Everything's held together with duct tape': Fallout London's project lead discusses all the bugs, including the infamous train crash
- UK Royal Mint's 'urban mining' extracts more gold from old motherboards and other junk than you might think
- AMD's new Ryzen 9000 CPUs are officially up to $50 cheaper than the old 7000 series were at launch
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, August 7
- Here's what Karlach and Astarion get up to if you leave them at camp: Joining a D&D actual-play show
- Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz once endorsed a high school Valorant team
- Final Fantasy 14 is a load-bearing MMO helping to keep Square Enix profitable
- I thought Diablo 4 had already evolved into a great action RPG, but its latest season just made it even better
- August 6
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- Fallout: London devs are working on a 'HUGE' patch, offering 'dedicated 1-on-1 troubleshooting sessions' to help players with installs and crashes
- Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio will reveal more about his next game in a few days, says fans of Dishonored and Prey 'will be happy'
- Helldivers 2's loudest players go nuclear over another unpopular nerf, but Arrowhead CEO keeps calm: 'Some are going 'Buff everything!' Others are saying 'It's too easy!' Most are just playing.'
- The maker of this retro city builder wants to include events like bank robberies, police chases, and zombie outbreaks
- Once Human is revealing the inner Sims player that even my loud FPS friends have inside them
- Bloober Team knows fans don't really trust it with the Silent Hill 2 remake, so it's asking for the next-best thing: 'Give us a chance'
- Hidden Final Fantasy 16 profile in latest Nvidia driver has fans hyping themselves up for a surprise Gamescom PC launch
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 system requirements are out, and you probably won't need to buy a new PC to play it
- IRL Squid Game competitors complain it was too real, reporting injuries and poor treatment as they fought for $5 million beneath a grinning MrBeast: 'We're all just looking up at the sky, screaming at him like he's god'
- It turns out that Elden Ring players can kill Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss with the power of friendship and a strange bug
- Larian releases Baldur's Gate 3 anniversary video celebrating the fans, and boss Swen Vincke says you ain't seen nothing yet: 'We're gonna take all of that energy and convert it into something new, something shiny, something big'
- 'The ongoing conversations around ARM vs x86 power are based on a false premise,' says Intel's VP of technical marketing
- Alan Wake 2 fan notices a sound cue gives the game away about its villain early on, Remedy sound dev gasps 'Finally someone noticed'
- 'I hate the thought of Balatro becoming a true gambling game': LocalThunk is making sure casinos can't get their hands on his game even after he dies by literally writing it into his will
- A Dead by Daylight and Five Nights at Freddy's collaboration was just announced, something I am shocked has taken this long to happen
- High on Life is getting a TV show adaptation produced by Curb Your Enthusiasm's JB Smoove: 'It's a case of game recognizing game!'
- It turns out that music was the endgame for Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone: 'I've always dreamed of people appreciating my music'
- Descenders Next is the follow-up to my favourite extreme biking sim, but it won't have bikes at launch
- Banned Twitch streamer Adin Ross gets Donald Trump on a Kick stream, gifts him a Rolex, then they sit together in a Trumped-out Cybertruck listening to Elvis' 'Can't Help Falling In Love'
- There still might be more RX 7000-series AMD GPUs on the way as rumours suggest two under $250
- Slim, light, and OLED: Both these Asus gaming laptops are heavily discounted right now and I reckon they're absolute stunners
- 'Google is a monopolist' says US judge in ruling on exclusivity deals to get Google Search on all your platforms all the time
- Cult of the Lamb's next major content update will be an interactive digital comic: 'Where all your choices will take you on a colourful adventure'
- Yakuza producer still won't put Kiryu in a goddamn fighting game, or possibly any future videogame for that matter: 'I think going cross-medium is the better way to go about it'
- Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP's release date has been bumped up, plus a price tag reveal that's raised a few eyebrows
- GeForce GPU giant has been data scraping 80 years' worth of videos every day for AI training to 'unlock various downstream applications critical to Nvidia'
- Final Fantasy 14 hunter spent 3 days collectively losing their minds trying to spawn a monster with sunglasses, mass crying sessions, and alpacas… only to find out they just needed to wait
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, August 6
- August 5
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- House Flipper 2 update adds 150 new items, including towels, decorative moss, and weeds
- Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra is now CEO of one of those technically-not-gambling daily fantasy sports apps
- The follow-up to Palworld could go 'beyond AAA', but Pocketpair's CEO only wants to pursue projects that 'are interesting as indie games'
- Star Wars Outlaws' $40 season pass comes with 2 story packs, including a run-in with Lando Calrissian later this year
- Nightingale devs say they're 'not satisfied' with the game, its reception, or its player numbers, but they've got big improvements coming
- Fallout: New Vegas director on the art of making sure all your points in persuasion aren't wasted: It's 'all about feelings … but you use numbers to arrive at that feeling'
- 'Our 33-year legacy deserves a genuine goodbye': Game Informer staff tweets one last goodbye after all of their work was deleted, then GameStop nukes the account from orbit
- Diablo 4 players finally unearth a secret ring they've been looking for since it launched over a year ago—and it's utter trash
- Crusader Kings 3 is, unexpectedly, the latest videogame to receive an official comic book
- Lae'zel's actor shares the 'one and only audition' that got her the role in Baldur's Gate 3, featuring threats, bullying, and more urine drinking than I expected
- Monster Hunter Wilds introduces Focus Mode, for those moments when you absolutely must hit that Tigrex in its tender nethers
- The performer for Baldur's Gate 3's smooth-talking devil, Raphael, thought the RPG was a musical
- I can't decide which of these $2,000 RTX 4080 Super gaming PCs I'd rather pick *checks feed* oh wait, yeah it'll be the AMD one
- World of Warcraft dev says the game's 500-strong union, spurred on by 2021 controversies, has been aided by the move to Microsoft
- A decade after buying Oculus VR, Meta's Reality Labs' losses are spiralling out of control, with no end in sight
- All the small things: Lenovo's website may have hinted at an upcoming Legion Go 'Lite'
- The Call of Duty ban wave continues as Activision dishes out over 65,000 account bans across Warzone and Modern Warfare 3
- Rust dev is bored of paying Unity '$500k a year' to fix its engine and promises that his Garry's Mod successor won't hoodwink devs with fees
- Elon Musk says his brainchip patients will soon 'outperform a pro gamer', then takes a big old puff and says 'let’s give people superpowers'
- Microsoft, Meta and more might have to wait for their shiny new AI hardware as Nvidia's Blackwell server GPUs are reportedly delayed
- HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 debuts its first proper teaser—showing us Abby and a mysterious maybe-therapist played by Catherine O’Hara
- Workstation builder Puget Systems' report shows the stability problems with Intel's CPUs can be managed if only you 'mistrust the default settings on any motherboard'
- Devs turn to Patreon after Humble Games collapse leaves studio without support: 'We lost access to the pipeline of critical systems without warning'
- This 3D printed laser chip-hacking device uses a $20 laser pointer, costs $500 to build, and was developed so that 'people can do this in their homes'
- Sega files mysterious 'Yakuza Wars' trademark right after Like A Dragon studio teases fans that the next game will leave them 'surprised'
- After players reject the stratagem 3 times, Helldivers 2 devs snap and demand they kill 1.5 billion enemies or suffer the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines as punishment
- A new Darksiders game is in development: 'The Four Horsemen will ride again'
- Steam's favourite GPU, the RTX 3060, is nearing its end as Nvidia gets ready to issue the last batch of chips
- A codenamed Valve project found in a voice actor's résumé has Half-Life fans putting on the clown makeup yet again
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, August 5
- August 4
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- Baldur's Gate 3 was so big that Larian has developed a 'Simpsons did it' problem: 'Whenever we're talking about things, we say we did that in BG3'
- Crafting in crafting games may suck, but it seems surprisingly decent in the updated rules for Dungeons & Dragons of all things
- Elden Ring's latest patch tried to sneak a big 'ole chair into a boss arena like we wouldn't notice and immediately ponder the lore implications
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, August 4
- Don't expect Dragon Age: The Veilguard before October at the absolute earliest
- August 3
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- Mega streamer Kai Cenat is streaming Bloodborne to call attention to fan demand for a PC port: 'PlayStation, FromSoft, this is one of the most highly requested games for a remaster and a PC version'
- To celebrate Baldur's Gate 3's first birthday, Larian announces a 'Channel From Hell' on YouTube for 'community-focused' and 'never-before-seen' videos
- Larian's not holding back for its next two RPGs: 'The machine was meant to make large games'
- All Zenless Zone Zero codes from the 1.1 livestream
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, August 3
- August 2
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- Dishonorable Elden Ring players bypass Shadow of the Erdtree's greatest duel without even entering the boss room
- Ark 2, blink twice if you're OK: Xbox announces a playable demo of the survival crafting sequel at Gamescom and then unannounces it
- Fallen London is getting a tabletop RPG for its 15th anniversary
- Payback, a Destiny spinoff that was not, in fact, Destiny 3, was cancelled two months before the latest mass layoffs at Bungie
- Valve's former economist says Steam could produce 'better macroeconomic forecasts' than Goldman Sachs with the power of crowdsourcing and brownie points
- Valve unintentionally set the stage for today's digital economic hellscape, according to its former economist in residence
- Car destruction lovers rejoice, Wreckfest 2 is on the way
- We've finally gotten a closer look at Titan Quest 2, and it sure looks a lot like Diablo 4
- With its 'immersive and realistic world' and 'complex life simulation on a scale hardly ever seen before', the Gothic 1 Remake looks even more wonderfully over-ambitious and janky than the original game
- Game Informer, the longest running US gaming magazine, shuts down after 33 years
- There's a free open beta for 'adaption shooter' Ascendant on Steam this weekend
- New Path of Exile league crushes concurrent player record, introduces city builder mode, shakes up the metagame
- A Fallout: London modder has taken it upon themself to cure the rampant dog food addiction that is more sinister than you'd think
- Helldivers 2 CEO goes straight to the tap, asks the Reddit think tank for ideas on how to use their oodles of in-game resources
- Woah, an RTX 4070 Super deal that actually drops this fresh 40-series GPU well under MSRP
- Larian nearly made Baldur's Gate 4, it was partially playable and 'something that you all would have liked', but the studio didn't want to spend another 3 years on it
- Founder takes down the Nexus Mods of romhacking after 20 years because 'lines were crossed' by 'a most dishonest and hate filled group,' but others tell a different story
- Old School RuneScape developers left mystified as players, whipped up into a religious fervour, demand that gaming's loudest mole-rat get even louder
- Broken CPUs, workforce cuts, cancelled dividends and a decade of borked silicon—how has it all gone so wrong for Intel?
- Upscaling is the new normal according to Star Wars Outlaws system requirements
- NZXT will rent you an RTX 4070 Ti Super system for $169 a month or $2,028 a year but we can find deals a lot better than that
- Paradox indefinitely delays Prison Architect 2, just like it did with Life By You before it was scrapped
- Bungie was reportedly going to pull the trigger on layoffs regardless of The Final Shape's success, due to leadership under-delivering on 'financial promises' to Sony
- You officially have no excuse not to play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided now Prime Gaming is doling out free GOG copies of the game
- Intel extends its warranty support for 13th and 14th Gen CPUs by two years but its RMA procedure has been anything but straightforward for some
- World of Warcraft: The War Within's pre-patch event has been fixed, removing 90-minute wait times and turning its weekly quests into account-wide dailies
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- Once Human patch speeds up motorcycles and makes respeccing easier
- Blizzard could've let Diablo 4's weakest classes ride it out until the expansion, but it's showering them in buffs for season 5 instead
- Intel is laying off 15,000 people: 'We are making some of the most consequential changes in our company's history'
- Arrowhead posts shocking found footage of elusive Helldivers 2 game master Joel
- Avowed delayed to February to 'give players' backlogs some breathing room'
- We'll see what makes Civilization 7 different on August 20 when Firaxis shows off the first gameplay of its 'revolutionary new chapter' in the grand strategy series
- Sins of a Solar Empire 2 comes to Steam this month, after almost two years of Epic exclusivity
- If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe
- It's so funny that Valve's new shooter that it won't admit exists has a public subreddit
- Promise Mascot Agency is a game where you can entice a big, sobbing tofu guy with employee benefits, and I think that's beautiful
- Hearthstone content creator tells Blizzard to give away a Golden Legendary in order win back fans. Blizzard replies: 'OK'
- During a $10,000 Elden Ring speedrun contest, the "holy grail" of glitches emerges as speedrunners learn to run across the sky
- Do you also have strong '90s memories of Tomba from a PS1 demo disc? You can relive the magic in its unlikely remaster now
- Star Wars Outlaws devs were stunned by the internet's response to its sexy, sexy droid: 'There's nothing sexy about sitting in the skintight suit'
- Baldur's Gate 3's Harpers just can't catch a break—sleuth discovers Jaheira's redshirts have a block in their code that nerfs their damage in half
- Former Bungie devs show fury and sorrow over layoffs, following the revelation that CEO Pete Parsons allegedly spent at least $2,414,550 on vintage cars in the past 2 years
- D&D's upcoming VTT, codenamed Project Sigil, will come with Baldur's Gate 3 minis—further cementing WoTC's plans to franchise the heck out of it
- Shareholders sue CrowdStrike over consequences of catastrophic worldwide IT outage and I don't think an Uber Eats voucher will cut it this time
- Activision rolls out a Call of Duty: Warzone ban wave and promises that Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer is next: 'Leaderboards have been purged'
- As rage factories howl about Kay Vess' looks, Star Wars Outlaws lead says there's no point engaging with 'bad faith' criticism: 'No nuance and no possibility of real dialogue'
- Logitech's 'forever mouse' could mean peripherals go the way of coffee beans, TVs, and printer ink by pushing a subscription
- A law firm is investigating whether to launch a class action case against Intel for 13th/14th Gen CPU instability issues
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