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- December 31
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- Try this cute freebie about crafting magical scrolls to pay your student loans
- The 2024 Steam Awards give Game of the Year to Black Myth: Wukong
- The Factorio 'God Factory' was one of this year's greatest gaming feats: 'Most players will never find themselves hitting the limits of the game. We are.'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, December 31
- December 30
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- Iconic shop sim JRPG Recettear is getting an HD remaster in 2025
- Here's a quirky little space sim crossed with traditional roguelike
- Infinity Nikki's 1.1 update, Shooting Star Season, is out now
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, December 30
- Rule the talking movie industry in tycoon game Hollywood Animal
- December 29
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- Here's 20 delightfully isometric minutes of Underrail 2's apocalyptic undergrounds
- PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best microphone of 2024
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, December 29
- If you ever wanted a game about digging a hole, A Game About Digging A Hole is a game about digging a hole
- Nearly 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024
- December 28
- December 27
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- Some madperson briefly, beautifully recreated the corrupted blood plague in World of Warcraft Classic
- Don't stress, Epic Games says you can still unlock Fortnite's Xbox-exclusive Master Chief skin
- I'm still reeling from the knowledge that the Windows 10 desktop background is a real photo and not CGI
- This year John Romero declared that 'gib' is pronounced like 'giblet' and it's the gif debate all over again
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, December 27
- December 26
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- Turns out that Balatro, like Tetris before it, can only be 'finished' by scoring so high it crashes the game
- In 2024 Elon Musk predicted that 'hundreds of millions' of people will have his brain chips within the next 20 years, so don't forget to hold him to it
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, December 26
- December 25
- December 24
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- Performing Hamlet in GTA Online felt like going back in time to the Globe Theatre where 'people would just throw apples at you, or there were prostitutes coming and going,' say award-winning filmmakers
- Dredge, the horror-fishing game with immaculate vibes, is free on the Epic Game Store
- The multiplayer shooter with the radioactive bears and moose artillery is holding a holiday playtest with a brand-new game mode
- Riot's co-founder says money isn't everything: 'People think we make things like Arcane to sell skins when in reality, we sell skins to make things like Arcane'
- Final Fantasy 14's battle designer admits they went a little overboard on streamlining fights, especially for melee: 'Our policy of reducing gameplay-related frustrations was sometimes taken too far'
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, December 24
- December 23
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- Warner Bros. is delisting games again: a half-dozen Cartoon Network releases have been removed from sale on digital storefronts
- For all you mayors managing your budgets, here are 5 city builders from 2024 with great discounts in the Steam Winter Sale
- Starfield is surprisingly absent from Steam's 2024 bestsellers list despite taking a top spot in 2023
- This co-op survival horror masterpiece is just $2 in the Steam Winter Sale, which could explain why it just hit an all-time high player count of nearly 100k a decade after it launched
- GTA 6 fans are convinced that a new trailer is going to release on December 27, because the moon and a license plate told them so
- Johnny Silverhand is coming to Fortnite and yup, he's got a suitcase nuke
- Resurfaced Metal Gear Solid interview shows how Kojima made Yoji Shinkawa's designs the game's beating heart: 'Hell yeah, a cyborg ninja!'
- The OG creators pitched Dead Space 4 to EA this year, but the publisher gave a flat 'no' so 'we didn't take it any further'
- 'If you're a billion dollar company advertising your game, ask permission!': Charlie the Unicorn creator chews out Warner Bros after MultiVersus ad uses his work without approval
- Fallout's original designer is fine with the direction of the modern games: 'They're both what they are, and a ton of people like it'
- AMD's next-gen RDNA 4 graphics cards are now rumoured to be called the RX 9000-series, and we might have already had a sneak peek at what they look like
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, December 23
- The best heavyweight boxer in the world dressed like Hitman's Agent 47 to clown on his opponent in a pre-fight press conference
- December 22
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- The Secretlab Titan Evo is up to AU$150 off, so now's the time to impulse buy a new gaming chair
- The outtakes from that live-action Balatro trailer are unhinged
- Per tradition, more restricted military material has leaked on War Thunder's forums for the holidays
- Amazon's Secret Level series will serve up a second anthology of game-inspired shorts
- Witcher author reveals that Geralt is 61 years old in The Witcher 3, with even weirder ramifications for Henry Cavill's Netflix performance
- Mini Mini Golf Golf is an experimental adventure about time travel and climate collapse, told through the medium of miniature golf
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, December 22
- Neon Inferno is half cyberpunk Contra, half gallery shooter
- Ubisoft says that Assassin's Creed Shadows' ninja will be 'the fastest Assassin' it's ever done
- December 21
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- WotC has published a handy guide to upgrading your D&D campaign to the 2024 rules
- With Mimimi closing shop, Hooded Horse will take over publishing for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
- BioWare considered bringing the hero of Dragon Age: Origins back for Veilguard, but with a horrifying catch: 'Do not let her see me like this'
- Stardew Valley patch fixes swears but you still can't get divorced
- Total War will ditch blood packs, early-adopter faction DLC, and its launcher
- Voin has the power of a god, anime and black metal album cover art on its side
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, December 21
- Mariah Carey was frozen in an ice block in Fortnite and then she thawed out and sang 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' and everyone went back to shooting each other
- December 20
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- After nearly 8 long years, a new Team Fortress 2 comic is finally here and the TF community is rejoicing
- CD Projekt had to nerf Ciri for The Witcher 4 after she fully unlocked her spacetime teleportation powers in the previous game: 'Something totally happened in-between'
- Larian is looking for Baldur's Gate 3 fans who 'like trying to break things' to help it do some crossplay testing
- You should definitely grab today's free Epic Store giveaway: this 'dicebuilder' might quietly be the best freebie of the season
- 11 years and $750 million later, Star Citizen now has a new star system and MMO-scale server sizes
- Sweet aunt Petunia! GSC just announced updates for the 3 classic Stalker games 15 years after release
- This fluffy keyboard is low-key heinous—but meets the exact intersection of my interests
- It's been a hell of a year, and we're going to end it by pinging a spacecraft travelling at 430,000 mph off the Sun in a presumed affront to the laws of the universe
- Diablo 4 is free until January and lets you play as its most busted class, so go on a rampage before Blizzard nerfs it
- Sony says the GPU in the PS5 Pro is mostly very old tech but previews the ray-tracing upgrades from future RDNA 4 graphics for PCs
- The Illuminate in Helldivers 2 appear to be inching closer to the black hole we left at Meridia back in June, which is also looking a lot scarier, but I'm sure it's probably fine, stop worrying about it
- A small doughnut shop in Indiana is still using Commodore 64s as register systems, 42 years after their initial release
- The maddest shooters of 2024 and 2020 join forces, as Ultrakill crosses over into Mullet Madjack
- Cyberpunk 2077 goes Santapunk with a cheeky holiday gift for the chooms, tucks the starter set 'Easy Mode' for the TTRPG Cyberpunk RED into your Steam files
- Sony decided fully four years ago to develop its own AI hardware for the PS5 Pro rather than using AMD tech and the big question is why
- Multiple Nvidia RTX 50-series placeholders have appeared on the EEC database, although I wouldn't get too excited about a hypothetical 'RTX 5090 Ti Super' if I were you
- XDefiant's closing-down content dump is enormous, unprecedented, and bleak
- Lenovo is showing off 'the future of handheld gaming' next month and Valve being involved could signal it uses SteamOS
- Ubisoft releases new Blood Dragon game... with NFTs
- All Genshin Impact 5.3 livestream codes
- WoW's Warband system is getting a facelift soon, with new campsite backgrounds and the ability to sort your alts into cute little themed groups
- Windows 11 24H2 is the unwanted holiday gift that keeps on giving thanks to Auto HDR game crashes, audio device woes, odd bouts of stuttering and more
- The legendary South Park RPG that has over 50,000 'Overwhelmingly Positive' reviews on Steam is now cheaper than a cup of coffee
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, December 20
- December 19
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- Rocksmith 2014, the one people actually like, is back on Steam due to popular demand
- A bug's letting Warframe players summon their newly-added motorcycles in more areas than intended, but the devs say it's 'rad and cool' enough to stay—as long as the bikes aren't in outer space
- Elden Ring is 40% off in the Steam Winter Sale, the cheapest it's been since this time last year
- Frostpunk 2 developer 11 bit studios cancels unannounced project and lays off employees
- Only 15% of all Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024
- My worst fears of a PlayStation-exclusive future for FromSoftware have been averted for now: Sony is forming a 'strategic alliance' with parent company Kadokawa, but hasn't bought it outright
- Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page
- My favourite extraction shooter, The Forever Winter, adds a playable character with a functional gun for a head, tackles its most divisive mechanic and introduces its biggest region yet
- Steam's 2024 Winter Sale is live
- OneXPlayer has teased a handheld PC with a removable keyboard that's getting me all sorts of excited for laptop/handheld hybrids
- PC VR wizard is gearing up to weave his magic on Ubisoft's 2023 open-world adventure
- Arrowhead Games' heart grows three sizes as it swerves away from its controversial crossover plans for Helldivers 2's Killzone collab, offers the second half for free
- 'Fallout wasn't designed to have other players': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain was extremely wary of turning it into an MMO
- This upcoming RPG is injecting a healthy dose of magic, demons, and steampunk gizmos into 19th-century Japan
- League of Legends hit by SAG-AFTRA union action as Riot delays English VO to 'respect the ongoing strike' over AI, though voice actors think it could be doing more to help
- You can now WhatsApp message ChatGPT or call it on the phone, even from an old rotary blower. What a time it is to be alive
- Skull and Bones is reportedly going to remain supported for Year 2, despite no one playing it
- Hi-Fi Rush devs brim with optimism after their near-closure experience, say they're building a place 'where people feel like the work is their baby, not just some task to be done'
- 'Negotiations are underway' for a Stalker 2 Netflix show, because bleak post-apocalyptic fiction and Chornobyl are a killer TV combo
- PEGI digs its heels in over Balatro's 18+ rating, according to its disappointed dev: 'blaming EU laws, blaming storefronts, waiting for the future'
- The game director of Elden Ring: Nightreign has delivered an ultimatum to gaming couples everywhere: Find a third wheel or play by yourself
- Intel quietly slips out another Raptor Lake refresh with the Core 200-series mobile CPU lineup
- Arm pushes back against Qualcomm in court, claiming it's not out to be a chip competitor and the current licence situation is losing them $50 million in revenue
- Stalker 2 revives A-Life with a mondo-huge 110 GB Christmas patch that marks the game's first major update
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, December 19
- XDefiant's final content patch is unexpectedly massive: 'Not all journeys end well but we can all be proud of what we accomplished'
- The mother of all XCOM 2 mods just got its first update in a year, with 9445 words of patch notes proving it worthy of the Long War name
- Steam Replay shows how your 2024 gaming habits compare to the average user
- December 18
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- Project Zomboid's new Build 42 update, 3 years in the making, is the biggest game release of 2024 for me—here's why
- 'Gooner 9/11' averted as Zenless Zone Zero's butt-obfuscation technology is rolled back in the face of horny outrage
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director asks modders to avoid making anything 'offensive or inappropriate,' Final Fantasy 7 modding community says 'yeah sure'
- 'We are beholden to the lore': CD Projekt says there are 'valid worries' about Ciri as a witcher, but 'the answers we want to give in The Witcher 4 are in line with this attitude'
- Helldivers 2 players rip into Arrowhead for 'straight-up ridiculous' Killzone crossover prices, CEO defends the choice: 'The more of this we sell, the more Illuminate-type stuff we can keep dropping for free'
- Intel reveals the four fails of Arrow Lake in a new blog post, promising more performance fixes in January
- The director of Saw and Insidious is turning one of 2024's best survival games into a TV show
- The weird cat game announced at The Game Awards is not made with AI, developers say, and has 'zero blockchain technology' or NFTs
- Ill-fated co-op slasher Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance disappears in February, though will still be playable solo
- Play a whole bunch of Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, and other Ubisoft classics for just $1
- Microsoft is Nvidia's biggest AI chip buyer of the year, and it's not even close. With ByteDance and Tencent coming out ahead of Zuck, Bezos, and Musk's outfits, too
- Call of Duty devs admit Ricochet anticheat 'did not hit the mark for integration' at the start of Season 1, and want to do better
- You can now leap across levels as a Rat Ogre in Warhammer: Vermintide 2
- The Sims creator's new life sim will let you arrange dinner with Napoleon, or 'a cage match between Cleopatra and my grandma'
- Civilization 7 will let you hand the keys to the nukes to Benjamin Franklin and Harriet Tubman, and guess what? America's just showed up
- Diablo 1 and 2 devs secure $4.5 million for a new ARPG: 'We're going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions'
- Intel says 'demand for Arc B580 graphics cards is high' but the GPU should be restocked every week
- Fallout's Tim Cain spent 6 years working on defunct MMO WildStar, twice as long as any other game, and thinks that might have something to do with why it failed
- One of Path of Exile 2’s toughest bosses gets patched to be less of a buzzkill
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, December 18
- Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages after being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs: 'This can happen to you too when you sacrifice over 2,000 hours of your time to help the industry'
- The Sims designer Will Wright says a 'Britney Spears-level' pop star loved her 'mundane' life in The Sims: 'It is so boring, it's wonderful'
- December 17
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- The Sims designer Will Wright is making his next life sim more personal by building it with your actual memories: 'No game designer has ever gone wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players'
- Be happy, Black Myth: Wukong fans, because it is literally impossible for Astro Bot to win Game of the Year in the 2024 Steam Game Awards
- Chess is now an esport as Esports World Cup adds the 1,500 year-old game to 2025 event, calls it 'the perfect example of how games evolve'
- With equal parts confusion and shame, I regret to inform you that Skibidi Toilet is coming to Fortnite
- Exodus, the new game being led by BioWare veteran James Ohlen, finally reveals some gameplay, and boy it sure looks like Mass Effect
- GTA 6 was never going to be at The Game Awards, but it is a little surprising that we haven't seen another trailer yet
- In survival game Rust, Santa Claus doesn't care if you've been good or bad or really, really bad, he still has gifts for you
- 'Neural Rendering' could be the new AI-powered sorcery in Nvidia's next-gen RTX 50-series GPUs
- The Nvidia App is damaging frame rates in some games, on some PCs, with Nvidia staffers recommending you nix the Game Filters overlay as a potential solution to the problem
- Critical metals for electronic components and gadgets jump in price, as China's trade restrictions with the US begin to bite
- 'Fight me': Ben Starr humorously responds to disappointment about Clive Rosfield in Tekken 8 by showing off his cosplay of the Final Fantasy character everyone thought it would be
- Final Fantasy 14's battle design lead says it would 'be a dream come true' to do a League of Legends crossover
- Marvel Rivals is getting its first seasonal event soon, which'll let you run around as everyone's favourite land shark to play some legally-distinct Splatoon
- Putty, not pads: Thermal Grizzly's new thermal materials might be the best thing for your graphics card just don't ask for any numbers
- Zotac website leak seemingly confirms monstrous 32GB Nvidia RTX 5090 but we're still concerned about how stingy Nvidia might be further down its new GPU range
- All of today's mighty CPUs owe a debt of gratitude to the Intel 8080, which just turned 50
- Path of Exile 2 passive skill respecs will no longer cost Scrooge McDuck levels of gold
- Tiny Glade's winter update finally lets me turn my castles into that scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- New details of TSMC's next-gen N2 chip tech aren't totally stellar but could provide a roadmap for new GPUs right through to 2031
- Nvidia's corporate blog goes full fan mode with its description of Jen-Hsun Huang: 'Tech Leader, AI Visionary, Endlessly Curious'
- Marvel Rivals is 'not considering' a role queue, no matter how annoying it is to get rinsed on a team of 6 duelists
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, December 17
- December 16
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- Borderlands 4 will cut back on 'toilet humor,' says Gearbox: 'If the word skibidi ships in the game under my watch I'm gonna cry real tears'
- 'The guns weren't doing what it says on the box': Johan Pilestedt reflects on Helldivers 2 balance changes that disrupted the positive vibes
- CD Projekt knows why we're all really here: Gwent is coming back in The Witcher 4, and the devs 'don't think anyone will be disappointed'
- Black Myth: Wukong boss is bummed out about not winning Game of the Year at The Game Awards, but has high hopes for the future of the Chinese game industry
- OpenAI claims Elon Musk 'demanded absolute control, and to be CEO' while also agreeing to ditch its non-profit status back in 2017, despite him now suing it for turning decidedly for-profit
- Gigabyte Aorus and MSI Titan laptops eat your heart out: This nearly 10 pound gaming laptop mod is even chonkier and has all the power of, er, a PS5
- 'There are lots of tombstones of great tech companies that didn’t reinvent themselves,' says Arm CEO Rene Haas of Intel's recent woes
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain hasn't made sequels to his other cult classic RPGs because they didn't sell well: 'You should have bought it'
- Shipping document suggests that a 24 GB version of Intel's Arc B580 graphics card could be heading to market, though not for gaming
- We're (probably) doomed: Experts think the Sun may produce gigantic, electronics-destroying superflares much more often than we previously thought
- I'm dumbfounded at the ridiculous designs at the Case Mod World Series this year
- It was down to the wire, but Helldivers 2 players are celebrating after giving the Illuminate the galactic boot on Calypso (Update: They're back already)
- The Nintendo Switch 2 looks like it might be following the handheld gaming PC trend and going large
- The next version of HDMI is said to launch at CES 2025, with 'a wide range of higher resolutions and refresh rates' and a new cable
- Balatro dev swings at PEGI for rating it 18+ because of its 'evil playing cards', jokes that he should 'add microtransactions' like EA Sports FC 25 to 'lower that rating to a 3+'
- It's the end of an era: Crucial starts calling time on its popular SATA SSD, the MX500
- Apple's infamous Magic Mouse is rumoured to be getting a redesign, hopefully moving that horrendous charging port
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, December 16
- Here's a mod that gives Skyrim Special Edition its own Witcher-style bestiary
- 'I've spent my entire career trying to recreate the feeling I had when I played D&D for the first time,' says immersive sim godfather Warren Spector, with new game Thick as Thieves going multiplayer because 'you don't play D&D alone'
- December 15
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- Pilot a submarine, clean up evidence, swim for your lives in this latest blend of horror comedy and chaos co-op
- Ahead of its January launch, one of the best city builders around is getting a free demo that 'allows you to play endlessly' with some of the new features coming next year
- Idris Elba would love to do a live-action Cyberpunk movie with Keanu Reeves: 'Let's speak that into existence'
- Take your friends airship scavenging and moth fishing above a ruined earth with the co-op update to Forever Skies
- If you thought Ciri sounded different in The Witcher 4's trailer, you were on the money: A new actor is stepping into the role for the long-awaited sequel
- On the 'deathiversary' of Star Wars Galaxies, the fan team keeping the MMO alive is launching its biggest update yet, which includes five new playable species
- Rogue Trader gets a fat patch adding and reworking cutscenes, voiceover, and more
- Elden Ring: Nightreign's director remembers the one big bit of advice he got from Hidetaka Miyazaki: 'Do it as you please'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, December 15
- Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is free on Epic and I bet you, like me, are suddenly much more interested in it
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake patch levels everyone up and lets you speed up cutscenes to help you replay it before Rebirth comes to PC
- In a sea of Game Awards announcements, you probably missed the debut trailer for Covenant, a gnarly 'FPS Soulslike' from veteran shooter devs looking to 'provide more than what seems possible for the price'
- Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 gets a really, really big patch adding full control of enabled content
- December 14
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- Bad news for PC Elden Ring fans: Nightreign's network test is only coming to consoles
- My favorite little Elden Ring: Nightreign feature is the first evolution of FromSoftware's iconic 'bloodstains' since 2009's Demon's Souls, and has roots in a roguelike from way back in 1987
- Tower of Mask amps up Legend of Grimrock-style dungeons with soulslike aggression
- Dustgrave: A Sandbox RPG splices Baldur's Gate 3 with Mount & Blade, and you can grab it in early access for less than $20
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, December 14
- December 13
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- Last night's surprise Helldivers 2 update also added its first FOMO weapon: The stun baton is only in the rotating Superstore right now
- In what will surely come as no surprise at all, the end of Suicide Squad means layoffs at Warner Bros.
- Larian brings back the Baldur's Gate 3 advent calendar to tease its next game
- Borderlands 4's new vault hunters get a mixed reaction from fans: some say they're 'bland,' others defend their excitement
- Elden Ring: Nightreign will include a character built around Shadow of the Erdtree's parry mechanic
- Last call for Forza Horizon 4: It's being removed from sale in 2 days, so get it while you can
- After 11 years, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag finally gets achievements (but good luck getting 100%)
- After the 'change of regime', spinning off Intel Foundry is an 'open question' for the CPU manufacturer
- The Game Awards 2024 results: All the winners
- CDPR devs are excited 'we can finally say The Witcher 4 publicly', and laugh about trying 'to learn not to call it Polaris anymore'
- Meta's deepfake-fighting AI video watermarking tool is here, and for some reason it's decided to call it the Video Seal
- The Witcher 4 might be getting some of that Cyberpunk 2077 freedom in making your own builds
- Helldivers 2's new Warbond lets you kit out as Spartan super-soldier
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's system requirements are here, and you'll need 155 GB of storage and some serious hardware to accommodate Cloud and his silly-large sword
- Planetary Annihilation successor has a bumpy landing on Steam, and the backers aren't happy: 'So bare bones that it's basically an asset show without a game'
- The Witcher 4 may have familiar faces but it's an origin story: 'A new opening, a new saga, a new beginning actually'
- Warframe's bonkers 1999 update sneaks out today: Y2K, dating, boy bands, motorbikes—it's gonna be a weird weekend
- Undisputed has added Jake Paul DLC and given the YouTube grandad-basher a rating equivalent to two-time world champion Ricky Hatton
- 'It’s a whole new kind of blerp': YouTube's AI-enhanced reply suggestions seem to be working as well as you might expect
- After 3,500,000 units sold and its Game Awards wins, Balatro does a victory lap and absorbs 8 new crossovers in its unstoppable march to turn all games into cute little cards that get you points and stuff
- Researchers have found a way to hack the memory on some virtual machines using a Raspberry Pi
- 'Is this false advertising?' Tekken 8 fan left disappointed at 'horrid and not at all like advertised' Fist Meets Fate statue
- Fans reckon that Ciri's on the path in The Witcher 4 because The Witcher 3's endgame screwed everything up
- The Witcher 4 was always going to be about Ciri, 'even when we were doing The Wild Hunt actually', but don't worry about Geralt: 'Definitely he's going to appear'
- The Witcher 4 reveal trailer has been 'pre-rendered on an unannounced Nvidia GeForce GPU' which tells us... not much actually
- My favourite Hitman game, which has over 10,000 'Very Positive' reviews on Steam, is now less than a buck
- Ciri's a full witcher now, and everything else we learned from The Witcher 4 trailer
- Larian boss Swen Vincke calls out pretty much the entire videogame industry at The Game Awards
- You weren't seeing things, Elden Ring: Nightreign's trailer saw the return of Dark Souls 3's iconic hidden megaboss, and I have no idea what it means
- Laura Bailey, Aaron Paul, and more are starring in a Telltale-like game about 911 dispatchers for superheroes
- Watch Kyle Crane activate beast mode (and drive his new car) in Dying Light: The Beast
- Naughty Dog's upcoming sci-fi game is called Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and it sure does look like it wants to be a movie
- Helldivers 2 boss hopes Illuminates will be a 'tremendous challenge' for hardened vets of the galactic war
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, December 13
- Arrowhead boss sees Helldivers 2 players pulling off 'gambits,' loves it, and 'wants to keep investing in' community war tactics
- 'Joel is now a team of people working together': Helldivers 2's game master has evolved into a hivemind
- Okami 2 is a real thing and Hideki Kamiya is directing it
- You're invited to join a family 'bound by blood' when Mafia: The Old Country releases in summer of 2025
- 'I want to thank the fans of New Vegas for not burning my house to the ground,' says Jonathan Nolan while accepting a Game Award for the Fallout TV show
- The Last Of Us Part Two Remastered hits PC in April
- Obsidian is about to make it a monster year for RPGs, with The Outer Worlds 2 coming later in 2025 after Avowed
- The makers of Overcooked have teamed up with No Man's Sky developer Hello Games to release a new local and online co-op escape room game: Stage Fright
- A new Onimusha game is coming in 2026
- Palworld's next major update arrives later this month, adding a new island and a burly enemy faction leader
- Turok Origins is a third-person co-op shooter take on the classic dinosaur action series
- The Yakuza studio is making a new action game set in 1915 Japan
- Illuminates invade! Helldivers 2's biggest update yet drops today with a new alien faction and four-person vehicle
- Virtua Fighter is back: Sega announces a new full game, details coming tonight
- This year The Game Awards finally tackled the plague of game industry layoffs
- Borderlands 4 gameplay trailer sure does look like a Borderlands game (and I'm OK with that)
- If you want to play Elden Ring: Nightreign as soon as possible, good news: It'll have a Network Test in February
- Elden Ring: Nightreign 'is not what we consider a live service game,' says FromSoftware: 'We wanted to have a game that felt like a complete package'
- Blackfrost: The Long Dark 2 will hit Early Access in 2026, and this time it'll have co-op
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is finally coming to PC next month
- Multiplayer mech shooter Mecha Break will launch in spring 2025, with 3v3, 6v6, and PvPvE modes at launch
- The World of Tanks studio is making a free-to-play mech shooter, and the playtest starts today
- Harrison Ford says Troy Baker 'did a great job' playing Indiana Jones: 'If I'd known he was so good, I would've done it myself'
- I've played the new co-op game Josef Fares revealed at The Game Awards and the level of variety is unreal
- 8 years after The Last Guardian and almost 20 since Shadow of the Colossus, Fumito Ueda's new game is finally announced—and it's sci-fi this time
- Core Keeper devs are doing more co-op survival crafting and this one has Terraria vibes
- The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri
- Keep your Baldur's Gate 4, D&D 5E RPG Solasta 2 is coming to early access next year
- Pac-Man becomes an apex predator on a world shattered by intergalactic warfare in this very strange new metroidvania coming in 2025
- Dave the Diver is heading to the jungle in 2025
- The developer of Sifu and Absolver is making a 5v5 multiplayer-only soccer game
- The new Slay the Spire 2 gameplay trailer reminded me that Slay the Spire 2 is out in early access next year: hell yeah
- Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound is a return to the series' 2D platformer roots, and it's coming in summer 2025
- December 12
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- After a year of delays, Hyper Light Breaker is finally launching in early access next month
- Psychedelic assassination FPS Cruelty Squad is getting official merch including 'Godhead Heavy Industry' hats and 'Resist Cocaine' t-shirts
- Former Destiny 2 and Marathon director is suing Sony and Bungie for $200 million over alleged wrongful dismissal
- Hunt: Showdown's weirdest-ever update has just landed
- Jen-Hsun Huang might be 'Taylor Swift but for tech', but did you know he was once praised in Sports Illustrated as being 'perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest'?
- The voice of Shadowheart, Jennifer English, would love to return to the role after Baldur's Gate 3—as long as Hasbro doesn't mess it up and 'make her into a cartoon'
- You can now buy all the Dragon Age games, from 2009 to 2024, for the same price as Veilguard was on release
- Steam's giving us all more control over update downloads, mainly because the big publishers just can't stop themselves releasing 100GB+ whoppers
- Some high-stakes poker players are cheating with an earpiece that's 'so small that you can’t take it off with your fingers' and looks like a 'James Bond movie device'
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 developers say the avalanche of weird skins is to 'maximize fun for players', whatever that means
- This $200 HD monitor boasts retro flair with funky dials and wood panelling, but I'm not entirely convinced by its nostalgic charm
- Humble Bundle's revoked all those Indiana Jones keys it gave away for free (even if it was already in your Steam library)
- One of the best party games on PC is getting a sequel
- Firefox is getting rid of its 'Do Not Track' setting and what it's being replaced with is a bit of a bait and switch for privacy concerns
- If you're too stressed to prep anything for your D&D group this month, WoTC and Kobold Press both had the exact same idea to give you an advent calendar of adventures for free
- Path of Exile 2's build-breaking patch leaves fans calling for better respec options
- Josef Fares is bragging about how good Hazelight's next game is going to be (again): 'A lot of people say I'm cocky, but it's impossible to not be cocky when you have a game like this'
- Pat Gelsinger rallies against claims some chipmakers are struggling to produce good wafers: anyone using yields as a % 'doesn't understand semiconductor yield'
- I'm bewitched by this hyper-violent fantasy FPS where you feast upon the brains, eyes, and spleens of your brutalized foes
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, December 12
- December 11
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- Assassin's Creed Shadows will have a 'Canon Mode' that will make all the correct RPG decisions for you
- 'Destiny has a long history of reinventing itself in response to feedback': Assistant director teases a Metroidvania-inspired future, talks weapon crafting and vault space, but fails to address the shocking number of bugs
- CD Projekt rolls out a new Cyberpunk 2077 beta branch so people can keep playing while modders catch up to the 2.2 update
- Microsoft adds nearly 400 games to the Xbox app as it rolls out a 'new Home experience' to all users
- Build a floating neighborhood with your friends in this vibrant MMO life sim that crowdfunded over $1.2 million
- Marvel Rivals director says Concord 'didn't bring any unique value' that would convince players to give it a shot, but admits that no one can really predict what will or won't succeed
- Star Wars: The Old Republic's modernisation update has turned some players' characters into corpses, flattened abs and introduced other quirks: 'Look how they massacred my boy'
- This 83-year-old Japanese erotic game producer playing Stalker 2 while blasting a cig is an impossibly big mood
- OG Fallout lead Tim Cain explains just how much thought went into the timeline, and why canned beans were key: 'Post-apocalypse, but not so far post- that everything's collapsed and everyone's dead'
- Detective adventure Strange Antiquities makes me want to be an apprentice thaumaturge, right after I look up what thaumaturge means
- Cyberpunk 2077's new update secretly added a Balatro-based sidequest, among other unlisted changes
- Cyberpunk 2077 update promises 'up to 33%' higher frame rates on Arrow Lake and at the very least we gained 8% in the benchmark
- Anti-Nvidia crypto lawsuit will go ahead despite Nvidia's appeal, US Supreme Court rules
- Steam has just beaten its concurrent players record once again with a whopping 39.2 million at one time
- You can pick up a refurbished Steam Deck OLED directly from Valve for as little as $439 if others haven't already scooped them all
- Space Marine 2's huge Obelisk Update adds a long-awaited new mission, reworked melee combat, bonus XP, and goat-bird-wizards hurtling towards you on living flying saucers
- Official MSI benchmarks put the Claw 8 AI+ handheld at 20% higher performance than the current best gaming handheld
- Can't wait for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2? Sink your teeth into the prequel mod instead
- Red Dead Redemption gets an RDR 2 makeover with Reality Redemption 3.0
- Nvidia's eyeing up ways to beef up its future AI chips with GPUs on top of GPUs and the power of light
- Among Us bizarrely namechecked as NBC claims suspected healthcare CEO shooter 'belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins'—devs respond, 'um'
- 13-year-old that made a killing creating a crypto and then dumping it gets 'revenge pumped', family doxxed, and even dognapping rumours emerge
- Prisma, an upcoming Persona-like indie JRPG, goes all multiverse theory by filling out your party with alternate versions of its camera-wielding protagonist
- Delta Force says its USB drive ban was a 'translation error' and it won't shunt you to the shadowrealm for keeping a thumbstick plugged in
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, December 11
- December 10
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- Well, that's a new twist: save a town by turning it into a giant pinball game in open world adventure Pinbleton Park
- Doctor Strange mains are using portals to trick entire Marvel Rivals teams into jumping off a cliff
- Forget inheriting a dumpy old farm: your cool uncle left you a 'seaplane delivery service' in this open world life sim
- People Can Fly lays off more than 120 employees as it cuts back on in-development games: 'We need to tailor our plans to our financial capacity'
- PSA: The creator of PoE's foremost loot filter released an experimental 'light filter' for Path of Exile 2, just in time to help sort all the freshly buffed loot drops
- One of my favorite cozy adventure games just announced a sequel that I'm totally psyched for
- My favourite idle farming simulator is getting a free new update including a traveling vendor, winter weather, and farmyard pets to lend a paw
- Locomoto is worth checking out if you're all about trains, but I'm more excited about character customisation
- I can finally finish Naiad two years after I played through its demo thanks to it shadow dropping during the Wholesome Snack showcase
- Factorio, but cozy? Little Rocket Lab is a factory builder with plenty of Stardew Valley vibes
- In this cozy survival game you're a mouse who knits tiny wool sweaters, bakes pies for his friends, lives in a furnished tree trunk, and I can't even go on because it's so darn cute
- If you've got a passion for baking, gardening, or giving broken things a new lease on life the reveal trailer for Piece by Piece is bound to spark joy
- Suicide Squad's fourth season will be its last, but the offline mode promised a year ago is finally here
- Cyberpunk 2077's surprise new update lets Keanu ride shotgun through the streets of Night City and makes some PC-specific improvements—and it's out now
- US Federal Trade Commission sends out the first wave of $72 million in refunds to Fortnite players that Epic used 'dark patterns to trick'
- Just to cap off Intel's annus horribilis, Time picks AMD's Dr Lisa Su as its CEO of the year
- Raspberry's Pi 500 is the perfect throwback to the 1980s golden age of home computing and I'd love to relive those moments again with a modern machine
- Path of Exile 2 devs respond to the cries of the loot-starved masses, buffing drops and promising more fixes in upcoming patches
- Meta could take a step back from designing VR headsets and lend other companies access to its Horizon OS instead
- Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40K cinematic universe signs on the line with Amazon and he's over the moon: 'A fantastic place to start'
- AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU makes its Geekbench debut with a monstrous name and RTX 4060 levels of GPU compute
- Humble has brought back its ultra-meaty RPG bundle with Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader and its 2,000+ 'Overwhelmingly Positive' recent Steam reviews, plus OG Baldur's Gate and Pathfinder
- Ubisoft celebrates the reopening of Notre Dame by reminding you all that Assassin's Creed Unity was great, actually
- Google's WIllow chip is a big leap towards usable quantum computing but its claim of beating a classical computer by a 'septillion years' is meaningless
- Star Wars: The Old Republic's big modernisation plan kicks off today, giving players an excuse to revisit old haunts
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, December 10
- China launches an antitrust investigation into Nvidia as it wrestles with the US over AI chip sanctions
- December 9
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- First it was Counter-Strike, now it's GTA RP: Fortnite unveils LEGO Fortnite Brick Life, a 'social roleplay experience in the Lego Fortnite world'
- In a launch weekend already packed with Path of Exile 2 and Marvel Rivals players, Infinity Nikki has also claimed 10 million downloads
- Path of Exile 2 gets its first hits with the nerf bat to bring mace slams, magnetic arrows, and stinky clouds in line: 'It is better to do this early'
- Healthcare CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione has connections to the videogame industry, claims to have worked on Civilization 6
- 'My plan is to get ripped': Red Dead's John Marston has an OnlyFans now
- Dauntless's launch on Steam has gone horribly, horribly wrong with overwhelmingly negative reviews: 'This update is easily, out of every game I've ever played, the worst one I've seen'
- CDPR is not done with Cyberpunk 2077 after all: 'The team still has some gas in the tank'
- 'I got slapped by CD Projekt': Doug Cockle says he doesn't actually know if Geralt is in The Witcher 4 or not, but the studio wants him to shut up about it
- Valve is adding an 'extra competitive' option to Deadlock that'll make matches harder, but only because everyone in this mode refuses to speak
- Intel researchers create a method for AI-generating frames in games without added input latency
- This eye-searingly awful cryptocurrency Christmas jumper donates 50% of its profits to a good cause and I still don't want it
- FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat
- Much to Todd Howard's chagrin, testing audiences for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle loved Troy Baker as the leading man: 'They picked you every time'
- Witcher 3 dataminers detail the enormous scrapped questline that would have brought back The Witcher 2's best character, and maybe saved the game from its worst bit of writing
- iFixit is listing some genuine Microsoft Xbox parts for up to $700, 40% more than the price of a new Xbox Series X 1 TB
- Indie games site Itch.io temporarily taken down by Funko, due to 'AI-powered' brand protection company that 'created some bogus phishing report'
- Infinity Nikki players have gone full-on Dark Souls by using the photo mode to leave puzzle hints and quiz answers for each other
- Arctic's new fan-cooled fans might be for servers but I want a gaming rig full of them for the ultimate cooling kudos
- Palantir and Anduril have teamed up to 'ensure the US government leads the world in artificial intelligence' and this is what happens when LOTR fans get to name companies
- Ubisoft has fixed some of the issues with Avatar, Outlaws and the Windows 11 24H2 update, but the big three Assassin's Creed are still borked
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, December 9
- Skyrim Special Edition's Community Shaders mod just hit 1.0 and became an essential graphical upgrade
- Witcher 3 modders datamine a quest where Geralt would have teleported to Night City from Cyberpunk 2077: 'Technologically advanced, but broken. Dying.'
- December 8
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- Witcher 3 modders just upended everything we know about how it was made with a 584-page breakdown of an early prototype that had a 150-hour main quest, all thanks to a database 'containing almost every single line of text' from its development
- Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop is a spaceship repair roguelite with excellent animation and a naughty sense of humor
- If you have fond memories of Warhammer battle reports from antique issues of White Dwarf, here's a turn-based wargame that's basically just those
- You'll be able start 'almost every, if not every' quest in Obsidian's Avowed in multiple ways, so you can feel safe wandering around doing whatever
- Get to Work is a game that finally asks the question: 'Can you climb the corporate ladder if you have rollerblades strapped to your hands and feet?'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, December 8
- December 7
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- Soulframe shows off a new teaser trailer and a cool giant wolf to hang out with
- PowerWash Simulator gives us the free Christmas DLC we didn't know we wanted
- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is free on Epic, and so is Bus Simulator 21
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure developer Deck Nine lays off staff for the second time this year
- Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is getting a gun that is also a bong, resulting in a backlash from players who are upset they got banned for toxic voice chat in a game that is 'promoting using drugs'
- Fortnite is getting a 5v5 FPS mode that's basically Counter-Strike and launches in just a few days
- Path of Exile 2 is already one of the top 20 most played games in Steam's history even though it's in early access and all the servers have been on fire
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, December 7
- Marvel Rivals players discover a little shark lad can instakill the whole enemy team by eating them and hurling himself off a cliff
- December 6
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- 'We have more levels than players': This indie dev's game was a complete flop, but he's powering through with his plan to release 20 seasons of new content anyway
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 dev apologizes for 'what can only be described as an awful launch experience'
- Ubisoft buyout talks are reportedly progressing, but there's one small hitch: The Guillemot family wants to stay in charge, but Tencent isn't so sure about that
- 'Progression is awful, this is not a mobile game': The Marvel Rivals challenge-based battle pass has players begging for but an ounce of post-match XP
- Marvel Rivals players are complaining that nobody is playing healer, and the grizzled Overwatch vets knowingly nod in solidarity
- Path of Exile 2 players are finally getting into the game: 'What we are doing right now is letting in players in batches so that we can make sure to monitor the backend and not overload it'
- AMD's Adrenalin software finally has official support for Stalker 2, Flight Sim 2024, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Over 1,800 CEOs have resigned in 2024, making this the year of the mic drop exit for head honchos
- Stalker 2 dev is happy with its Steam reviews, but wants to work hard to bring that number higher: '89% is also good—no! 89% starts from 8, and you want to start from 9'
- Google is back at it with AI, this time generating interactive 3D game worlds—but you won't catch me playing ball
- Finally, The Witcher 3 with the fat cut out: They're releasing a physical Gwent board game for true connoisseurs
- The new Borderlands 4 trailer that Randy Pitchford wasn't supposed to tell everyone about is going to debut at The Game Awards this week
- Path of Exile 2 may have sold too well, so beware queues: 'We really didn't expect to have more than a million people online at the same time'
- Remember Intel's ex-CEO saying he'd 'bet the whole company' on 18A? A South Korean outlet says the yields are just 10%, although Intel says otherwise
- Delta Force has a list of tech it'll ban you to the shadowrealm for using, including the usual cheating software but also way weirder stuff like 'USB drives' [Update: The devs say it's fine, actually]
- When Path of Exile 2 early access ends, Grinding Gear Games won't be murdering your beloved characters
- Almost 80,000 Amazon-exclusive Anker speakers were just recalled due to fire safety concerns
- All Zenless Zone Zero 1.4 livestream codes
- Preem: This face-changing LED mask looks like it's been teleported straight from Night City, and it does a decent Doom Marine too
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's devs say they'll totally make choices from the past games matter next time, though I'll believe it when I see it
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, December 6
- Riot Games announced a physical card game and fans of its digital card game, Legends of Runeterra, aren't happy about it
- Marvel Rivals just launched and already has more than 400,000 players
- The Concord episode of Secret Level is like a message from a ghost whose unfinished business is creating a global multimedia franchise
- December 5
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- Hand-drawn cat railway game Short Trip is coming to Steam
- Diablo 4 expansion's game director refuses to back down on the dungeon you can't enter unless you do it multiplayer: 'I absolutely am sticking to my guns'
- 'It’s been a little sad to see Haunted Chocolatier getting dusty on the shelf, but this is the reality of my situation,' Eric Barone says: 'Stardew Valley is a big and popular game'
- Get Doom, Prey, System Shock, Dark Forces, and all the Crysis games for less than $20 in this really good Humble Bundle
- Civilization 7 is officially 2025's Most Wanted PC game, and the creative director told us how he’s going to get you to finally finish a Civ campaign
- Monster Hunter Wilds art director says Capcom's hoping 'those who became interested in World can truly become fans of the franchise' as certified Monster Hunter sickos
- Fire off rounds and roundhouse kicks in cinematic brawler Spine – This is Gun Fu
- Total Chaos mutates from a Doom mod into one of next summer’s most promising survival horror chillers
- Celtic CRPG Legends of Awen: Rise of the Fianna tells a story about telling storytellers, hoping you'll toss it a coin next year
- Empyreal is an upcoming action RPG about carving through a giant monolith full of bad guys on your way to transcendental revelation
- Fantasy shopkeep simulator Merchants of Rosewall is releasing in March, so I can finally live out my dream of selling magical goods to innocent bystanders
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is arriving one week early, as its story trailer heralds an age of gunpowder, bloody war, and lots of medieval ultraviolence
- Watch Avowed's director set a new speed record for answering our questions about Obsidian's upcoming RPG
- 'Healing is messy, and it is bitter': The Stanley Parable's creator has used his newest game as an outlet to explore his own burnout
- I’m so ready to embrace vehicle-swapping Mad Max carnage in Drivers of the Apocalypse
- Hell Clock explores Brazil’s blood-soaked history in Diablo-like ARPG style
- Here's a colorful medieval city builder that focuses on procedural designs and organic districts
- Copa City is the first football game that's all about managing the crowds and event itself, rather than the on-pitch action
- Japanese hip-hop, biopunk weirdness and martial arts abound in the Hotline Miami inspired Sonokuni
- Island of Winds is a folkloric adventure where you meet the grim desolation and strange creatures of 17th century Iceland with witchy powers and 'empathy encounters'
- Steel Seed is coming to remind us why robots are a classic videogame enemy
- Wild Tactics throws gritty anthropomorphic animals into a world of noir tactics
- Let's Build A Dungeon is an intricate sim where you design the MMO of your dreams, then decide whether to toss it all out the window to keep players and shareholders happy
- The Thing: Remastered comes to the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted with a surprise announcement—it's out right now
- Build your dystopian corporate HQ and take tactical control of mercenaries in Aquametsis
- Sci-fi base-building game The Alters turns Man vs Self into something else entirely, and its demo is back for a limited time
- Make your fortress the last castle as Age of Darkness: Final Stand's hordes rush to a full release—with multiplayer
- 4v4v4 tactical shooter Alara Prime announces early 2025 alpha playtest
- Vice Undercover imagines an alternate past where '80s drug lords had the internet, so obviously you've gotta hack 'em
- Former Dragon Age vet's debut RPG, Eternal Strands, gets a release date—and will star Baldur's Gate 3 narrator Amelia Tyler as a dulcet, ominous voice of evil
- Tempest Rising is a modern take on Command & Conquer you probably know you want
- Fancy a Stalker/XCOM mashup that has you putting down the enemies of a tyrannical dictator? Chains of Freedom has you covered
- Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream pairs prestige TV drama aesthetics with the soul of Commandos
- Atomfall is basically British Fallout with a metal detector, and that'll do me chuck
- My favorite game of 2024, Blue Prince, finally has a release window… in 2025
- Darkwater plumbs the ocean’s depths and finds a mutant hybrid of Lethal Company and FTL
- Enter the Chronosphere is a super-creative roguelike/strategy game where time only moves when you move, and you can try the open beta now
- Watch an innocent oil worker get a high-speed gank in the debut trailer for Ready or Not's next DLC
- Tears of Metal looks like a medieval Dynasty Warriors with a roguelike knife twist, and it’s headed to Steam next year
- Wizard of Legend 2, one of this year's most under-the-radar roguelites, is getting a chonky update next week
- Deepest Fear is underwater 'immersive sim horror' where enemies hide in every drop of water
- Robots at Midnight is a futuristic take on soulslikes where a bunch of murderous automatons are threatening to kill you
- The Outlast Trials' new content update gets a December release date and spooky new story trailer
- The next major update for Half-Life-meets-survival-game Abiotic Factor looks absolutely massive
- A games tester is trapped in a nightmare VR experience run by an AI in sci-fi horror game AILA
- Mekkablood: Quarry Assault gears up for a January launch with some clean mech combat & a filthy cockpit
- Raise your very own spooky settlement with Super Fantasy Kingdom's necrotic new faction
- New Menace trailer shows off the sci-fi skirmishes that the Battle Brothers creators are making next
- MainFrames is a nostalgic PC platformer where you're just a little byte
- Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap shows off a January release date and details its roguelite facelift
- This 'brinepunk' 4-player co-op shooter has some of the coolest guns I've seen in ages, and its first alpha test starts Friday
- PlayerUnknown's survival game Prologue will hit early access in the first half of 2025
- PUBG creator Brendan Greene just released a free tech demo of his new game engine on Steam that lets you play with 'an Earth-scale world generated in real-time'
- Tombwater is a cowboy soulslike set in a mysterious cursed town that has an 'eldritch influence permeating everything'
- The Legend of Baboo makes me feel just as warm and fuzzy as its heroic pup looks
- Caves of Qud is leaving Early Access (and Earth’s gravity) in this poetic new launch trailer
- The reveal trailer for SpaceCraft doesn't give much away, but it has made me curious about intergalactic travel
- Revenge of the Savage Planet’s bizarre new trailer teases May release, home decor, and lots of goo
- Starlight Re:Volver is a roguelite action RPG disguised as a high-octane anime opening, and it's dropping next year
- Killing Floor 3 is bringing back its fireball-hurling mecha zombies, and now they have jetpacks
- 'Survival-climber' Cairn just dropped a demo so you can go hands-on with the insurmountable Mount Kami
- Money is the key to happiness (and a pet god) in greedy city builder Gold Gold Adventure Gold
- Mohrta is now one of my must-plays for 2025: A surreal, striking FPS that somehow got soulslike levels and bosses working on the Doom engine
- Sol Mates brings its own spacefaring flavor to the Overcooked formula in early access next year
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown trots out its turn-based tabletop tussles
- Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault reopens the RPG shop in 2025 with a new look
- Rogue Eclipse joins a procedurally generated campaign for Star Fox’s contested crown
- I’ve half a mind to try Henry Halfhead when it releases in 2025 after seeing its newest trailer
- Craftlings looks to occupy some beautiful place between Terraria and Lemmings
- This mod puts Wordle on all the hacking terminals in Fallout: New Vegas, and even gives you XP for guessing the words right
- Fallout: London, the DLC-sized Fallout 4 mod, is getting DLC of its own
- Shifting corporate priorities, Superalignment, and safeguarding humanity: Why OpenAI's safety researchers keep leaving
- Intel's interim CEO suggests Gelsinger's replacement should have chip fabrication experience, giving a glimmer of hope that Intel foundry could remain
- Jean-Claude Van Damme is coming to Hitman, and you better believe he's doing splits all over the place
- Marvel Rivals players will be able to complete the luxury battle pass even after the season ends which is music to my busy ears
- Charity event Jingle Jam is off to a lively start, raising £750,000 in a day with just under 2 weeks to go—plus, you can get 18 very good games if you donate £35
- I really want to believe Intel's claim that the drivers for its new Arc B580 1440p graphics card suffer from 'no known issues of any kind'
- Dungeon Clawler's early access is quickly becoming one of my favourite roguelikes, even as I get dunked on repeatedly by the cruel claw of fate
- Former Blizzard president thinks Marvel Rivals is a rip-off of Overwatch and that Black Widow is a copy of Widowmaker, or maybe he's joking—it's impossible to tell
- Valve's new 'Powered by SteamOS' branding has been unveiled, but it's more about clawing handhelds away from Windows than it is about new desktop Steam Machines
- There was a Lego James Bond pitch that never got made, presumably because of all the murder and sex involved with James Bond
- Intel just launched a brand new gaming graphics architecture but it has already designed a new generation of GPUs and it's working on the generation after that
- Tiny indie studio realises someone is selling its free games for $100+ on eBay and is totally stoked: 'We're a real developer now' it declares, adding an 'in your face!' to a homebrew convention that rejected them
- 'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action
- You can now order a real deck of Balatro cards, which is good because that game's still all I think about
- 'It was only in review builds for leak precautions': Bethesda squashes rumours that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has Denuvo DRM
- PC Gamer magazine's special new issue is on sale now: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, December 5
- The creators of Secret Level say Bandai Namco encouraged them to do 'whatever we want' with an iconic character: 'We would like audiences to wonder what the f**k they did with Pac-Man'
- December 4
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- Warhorse says Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is coming out a week early 'so you can start 2025 with the best game there is,' but I feel like there might be another reason
- A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'
- Monster Hunter Wilds is running better in recent console previews, and the game director says the PC version will see 'the same level of framerate improvement'
- December gets even worse as Friday the 13th developer Illfonic lays off employees
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets a standalone character creator and a new patch for Dragon Age Day
- Check out your gaming PC's storage chops with 3DMark's new DirectStorage benchmark
- More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, just three weeks before Christmas
- Meet The Council
- Stalker 2 is so popular in Ukraine, its launch strangled the whole country's internet for hours
- 'I've been waiting over 4 hours in the cold': Zipcar's Black Friday-related car sharing outage left some users locked out of their rides like leg-using chumps
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players think Treyarch is trying to gaslight them into believing that a hit registration error is really just 'erroneous visual blood effects'
- Intel partners with Acer once again for the new generation of Arc GPUs but it's not just gamers they have their eye on
- Some users are claiming excessive sweat is killing their Meta Quest 3 headsets, which makes me worried about the one I've literally just bought
- As Viktor mains rage over their fave being hit with the Arcane twink ray, Riot quietly tinkers with controversial skin reworks on the League of Legends test server
- Helldivers 2's departing CM reflects on being the mouthpiece for Super Earth as the game went galactic: 'Crazy, mostly in a good way'
- Turns out the Arcane creative team always had the go ahead to kill any fan-favourite League of Legends characters it wanted: 'Riot embraced whatever story we wanted to tell with any of the characters'
- WoW documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin lit a fire under Martin Hywood, a charity worker with a similar condition who's raised over £300,000 since his diagnosis
- I'm going to build my very own multi-billion dollar chip fab at home with this awesome Lego kit
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2024
- Our first 'official' look at the new Lenovo Legion Go S shows that, unlike the original, it should be a bona fide mainstream handheld
- GSC says it couldn't delay Stalker 2 to fix bugs because 'one more marathon' might have destroyed the devs: 'It has some problems, but it's a game! It's a game with soul'
- PlayStation co-CEO spits out a bizarre prediction about the future of AI and gaming—one I pray never happens
- Intel's Arc graphics cards have made their first appearance in the Steam hardware survey just as I'm getting genuinely excited about the new Battlemage B580 card
- Man who lost £500 million bitcoin fortune to bin day is fighting for a chance to find it in court, after more than 10 years in a landfill
- Hold on to your potatoes because Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's system requirements demand ray tracing you can't disable and an RTX 4090 for highest settings
- Astarion voice actor Neil Newbon offered Fallout: London modders free work, but they accidentally left him on read for nearly 2 years
- If the rumour that AMD's RDNA 4 GPU is 45% faster in ray tracing than a 7900 XTX and on par with an RTX 4080 Super in raster is true I'm buying six of 'em
- Red Dead Redemption 2 modded so wagons and horses travel at supersonic speeds—and the results are ludicrous
- Helldivers 2 hits 'Overwhelmingly Positive' recent reviews on Steam, losing 2,225 negative reviews and gaining over 29,000 positive ones in the past month
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, December 4
- Ubisoft loses faith in free-to-play CoD competitor XDefiant, will shut it down in 2025: 'Many free-to-play games take a long time to find their footing and become profitable'
- December 3
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- Fortnite's drastically diminished Save the World XP rewards was a bug, Epic says, but now it's fixed
- StarCraft 2's impossible mission has been beaten after 14 years by a guy who turned the 'Archon Toilet' into an 'Archon Bidet'
- I'm afraid there's a Helldivers 2 sex game, and yes it is called Sexdivers
- Mass Effect boss may have dropped a hint about the next game: 'Make sure you play Lair of the Shadow Broker'
- Another big Stalker 2 patch just arrived to fix the main mission, side quests, and input lag
- Intel's new second-gen XeSS 2 upscaling tech with Frame Generation matches Nvidia's DLSS for features and might have the edge on AMD's FSR
- Monster Hunter Wilds game director says the beta's missing hitstop has already been tweaked, thanks to 'very positive feedback' from hitstop-hungry veteran hunters
- OLED displays with up to five times better lifespan may be on their way sooner than you think, thanks to a manufacturing breakthrough
- Stalker 2 devs say the scrubbed mentions of anticipated NPC code A-Life 2.0 (which is busted, but there) were due to a marketing guy going rogue
- Atlyss is a considerately horny RPG where you can play the thickest furry this side of the internet, but I'm in it for the fun action and oldschool MMO nostalgia, I swear
- 'Inspired by wind-sculpted desert rocks' and bestowed with Intel Lunar Lake, the new MSI Claw handhelds might actually be worth a look
- The Finals flies to Mexico next season with a new map and a Heavy rifle with 'immense stopping power'
- Galactically petty Half-Life 2 modders ban 'anticitizens' who criticised their mod by targeting their Steam IDs, leave the proof visible in code: 'Script kiddies vibes from this lmao'
- FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki says the studio doesn't 'have any particular plans to develop Elden Ring 2', but that doesn't mean the 'Elden Ring IP' is over
- Gigabyte's new app for enabling its X3D Turbo Mode in Windows is, for some unfathomable reason, called Aorus AI Snatch
- Intel launches new Arc B580 GPU with 10% more performance than an RTX 4060 for $249 but the rumoured RTX 4070-beater is nowhere to be seen
- Master Chief and Commander: It's Halo 3 but with boats and a naval battle against a Scarab
- Critical Role's plans to make a videogame have become an 'active pursuit', says CEO Travis Willingham, after almost 10 years of growing a D&D campaign into a full-on franchise
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, December 3
- Be safe out there: long-suffering Bloodborne fans are in hysterics over a new PlayStation ad
- December 2
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- Fortnite's latest season lets players morph into lethal demon hunters who defy gravity and the God of Destruction himself, Godzilla
- Valve removes pro-Palestinian shooter from Steam after complaint from UK Counter-Terrorism police, dev says 'we see clearly the double standards'
- If you grab one of these five Cyber Monday gaming keyboard deals, promise me you'll use it for Baldur's Gate 3 and not just replying to your emails
- Russian disinfo is trying to spark a boycott of Stalker 2 by claiming it's going to draft you into the war in Ukraine somehow
- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires: 'Leading Intel has been the honor of my lifetime'
- My 10-year-old headset is falling apart, so I've found the five best Cyber Monday gaming headset deals still available
- Blizzard is delisting Warcraft 1 and 2 from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot
- Grab 29 books from perhaps the best TTRPG publisher in the business, including a fantastic alternative to D&D, for just $18 in this limited time bundle
- Arcane co-creator reminds fans 'there are always constraints', dispels theories the show was rushed or restrained by Riot's higher-ups
- How two secret Stalker 2 hacks cut my loading time from 5 minutes to 52 seconds and got me in the Zone faster
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, December 2
- December 1
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- To stop its 'strip-mining of journalism,' some of the biggest Canadian news companies are suing OpenAI to the tune of $20,000 for every article fed to ChatGPT
- Satisfactory gets weird for a month with the adorable, festive FICSMAS event
- The actor behind Half-Life's G-Man based his iconic, halting delivery on the idea he was experiencing multiple timelines at once: 'His relationship to time is very different than you or I would think'
- Pillars of Eternity director thought it had a 50/50 shot before it crowdfunded in 27 hours
- Dragon Age: Inquisition's final expansion was going to force us to blow up our home base to kill a fan favorite Origins companion
- Fallen Aces adds a pulp superhero hideout and a small, unfriendly dog
- Antonblast comes out swinging to challenge Pizza Tower's chaotic platformer rule
- New physics fighter Gladio Mori sends animators where they belong: The gladiator pit
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, December 1
