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May 19
- Why we're still playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10 years later
- Haunted looking art director livestreams apology for Marathon theft scandal, but chat is merciless: 'Would write an original comment, but I don't see any good ones to plagarize'
- The legend who made Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood infinite has made its Thieves' Guild go on forever as well
- Microsoft wants everyone to use an open-source technology to create an 'agentic web' where AI agents interact with other AI agents
- As the follow-up to one of the greatest city builders, Anno 117: Pax Romana has a big toga to fill, and I think it might deliver the goods
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'PC gaming is now 30 years old,' and I'm here to say 'um, actually'
- Kojima says his next espionage game will keep us waiting another '5 or 6 years', but then he might finally get around to directing a movie: 'I’m getting older, and I would prefer to do it while still young'
- Oblivion player breaks the bank to keep paranoid elf alive throughout his murderous rampage: 'I have created Super Saiyan Glarthir'
- Here's how US tariffs have affected PC gaming hardware, from paused shipments to new investments
- The PC Gaming Show returns June 8 with great hosts, amazing games, and a live on-air PC build and giveaway
- Doom: The Dark Ages City of Ry'uul secrets and collectibles (Chapter 15)
- Infinity Nikki devs have published a notice regarding the abysmal 1.5 update: "To all stylists, we offer our deepest apologies"
- Thanks to the Computex, we now know that there's an RTX 5070-like GPU inside Nvidia's 'supercomputer at home' DGX Spark
- Asus has announced the world's first 610 Hz gaming monitor, and a 'Super TN' panel is the price you pay for that speed
- Take-Two CEO stresses that GTA 6's delay is necessary to 'make the best thing anyone's ever seen' even though he doesn't 'play videogames at all'
- WoW's latest patch fumbled the landing, but it looks like it'll get its future player housing feature exactly right—with complete kitbashing freedom
- Asus just solved the biggest issue with its BTF graphics cards on most motherboards and in the process found a way to supercharge its GPUs over 600 W
- Red Dead Redemption 2 is reportedly coming to Nintendo Switch 2 as early as this year, and a 'next-gen update' for other consoles could mean good news for PC players, too
- Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang boasts that one spine of its new NVLink Fusion tech can 'move more traffic than the entire Internet'
- Nvidia RTX 5060 review live: we've been black-listed for this review, but I'm a professional so we're doing this live!
- There are only 666 of this ROG Astral RTX 5080 Doom Edition being made and I'd go to Hell and back to get one if it wasn't $2,000
- Intel claims its next-gen 'Panther Lake' mobile chips will combine the power efficiency of Lunar Lake mobile with the performance of Arrow Lake-H desktop
- Asus is bringing two great features to ergonomic keyboards with its upcoming ROG Falcata
- 'We are doing our best to resolve most of it': Stellar Blade's PC release will be restricted in 130 countries as the devs fight to have it lifted
- Intel's next batch of CPUs might still be called Core Ultra 200S, possibly because the Arrow Lake refresh won't be much of a boost
- Wizkids offers full refunds for nightmarish Baldur's Gate 3 miniatures, as they 'did not meet our expectations or that of our Wizards of the Coast partner'
- I'm actually jealous of the workstation that gets to use this Maxsun graphics card containing two Intel Arc GPUs and 48 GB of VRAM
- Cozy castle builder literally hits next level as Tiny Glade announces stairs, its 'biggest and most complicated change' yet
- Jensen says 'even Crysis' can run on Nvidia's RTX Pro Server enterprise platform and now I kinda want one just for funsies
- Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's Nvidia's new Taiwanese office
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 19
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 19, 2025)
- In its latest update, Enshrouded's terrifying monsters have players asking 'are we the baddies?'
- There's a unique game over in Baldur's Gate 3 you can only get by rolling 20 on a bunch of Constitution saving throws, then being an absolute dunderhead
May 18
- Sure, why not, the next Dead by Daylight crossover is with Assassin's Creed Shadows
- 'More darts, more farts': Rust dev makes 'fart darts' for hack week, and you can probably guess what they do
- One of our most anticipated survival horror stealth games shows off more of its monster juice power-up system, which looks like an unholy cross between Hitman and Mario Odyssey
- This aggressively vaporwave offroad driving game by a car mechanic turned solo dev just got a Steam demo
- 'They don't really make life decisions without asking ChatGPT': OpenAI boss Sam Altman thinks young people turning to chatbots for life advice is 'cool'
- Baldur's Gate 3 has an ultra-rare Act 3 scenario where zombie versions of the tiefling refugees show up in their usual spots acting like everything's normal
- Wait, there's a Lord of the Rings movie about Gollum coming in 2027?
- Czech mayor gifts $200 Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 collector's edition to country's Prime Minister, elevating the game alongside the Witcher 2 in the company of CRPG state gifts
- Netflix is going to make its ad breaks even more annoying with AI-generated garbage
- 'The vibes have never been worse' Bungie's morale is reportedly in 'free fall' following its art theft fiasco
- Netflix's long-awaited Gears of War movie might actually have a director, and it's the guy who helmed Bullet Train and codirected John Wick
- MSI's clever new 500 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor can detect when you leave the screen and turn itself off to begin its anti-burn-in cycle
- After raising over $800 million from its community, Star Citizen's developer delays the release of a new ship upgrade as players baulk at having to pay for it
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 18
- Mud-and-blood medieval horror game Blight: Survival gets even muddier in the Marshlands biome
May 17
- Baldur's Gate 3 has a secret like Diablo's Cow Level I never saw after 460 hours: A magical sheep companion named 'Harvard Willoughby' you summon by killing a comedian and ringing two bells
- House Flipper 2 is having a free weekend, and just got co-op
- You've got to play my dark horse GOTY candidate if you too are a sicko for one of the ultimate RPG gimmicks: a trash level 1 sword that can be forged into a god slayer
- If the original Grand Theft Auto came out today, we’d call it a roguelike
- The Skyblivion and Oblivion Remastered romance continues to blossom, as Bethesda invites the modders to its studio for tea and sweetrolls
- Take-Two CEO reckons Civilization 7's mixed reception is just history repeating itself: 'Every time we've come out with a new platform iteration of Civilization, there's been some consternation on the part of consumers'
- REPO developer teases the game's 'most powerful weapon' yet, a mountable cannon that will 'turn your cart into a battle tank'
- Two Warhammer 40,000 games will be delisted from Steam on Monday, and one of them is currently on a 90% discount
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 17
May 16
- You cannot beat the final boss of No Rest for the Wicked's latest saga
- Another Sony live service shooter may be in trouble as Jade Raymond exits the studio making PvP heist sandbox Fairgames
- Finally, some good news: The world's only Warhammer academic conference is returning in September to present more talks like 'The ethical implications of the Imperium’s war with chaos and the inverted meaning of order'
- World of Warcraft game director on the woeful patch 11.1.5: 'It's not the experience our players are expecting or deserve'
- Clair Obscur's director has an old YouTube channel full of masterful no-hit Devil May Cry videos because of course he does
- I did Liberation Day tariffs in Victoria 3, and it all went well until the famine in Colorado, the 2 lost wars with Canada, and the president beating a man to death with a stick
- The Xbox 360 reveal was 20 years ago and is a time capsule from a world where Elijah Wood roamed free, MTV was still cool, and giant tech companies paid Pimp My Ride to make hideous custom consoles
- Veteran indie dev says success on Steam these days is impossible to predict: 'Why did Balatro take off? You could write a million f***ing essays and none of them will be definitely right'
- The first ever third-party game to come to Steam probably doesn't get the respect it deserves—mostly because no one remembers it
- After Oblivion subreddit bans 'low effort' sexy flame Atronach posts, users respond with high effort sexy flame Atronach posts—'deleting this would be a travesty'
- Someone flipped a switch on Elon Musk's Grok AI so it wouldn't stop banging on about 'white genocide' and South African politics, xAI blames 'an unauthorized modification' but doesn't say who did it
- Fortnite added an AI-powered Darth Vader and—surprise—players immediately tricked him into saying slurs
- Soundcore Liberty 5 earbuds review
- Amassing over $10,000 worth of retro GPUs over 14 years, this avid collector says they were astounded it started with a $28 purchase
- The new Acer Nitro PG1 is the first portable monitor I actually want thanks to 4K resolution and up to 144 Hz refresh
- The wacky Pokémon exhibition that puts Poké-fossils alongside real fossils is coming to the United States
- Doom: The Dark Ages Spire of Nerathul secrets and collectibles (Chapter 14)
- MSl's new PortalX website 'eliminates the need for software' to control your gear's RGB lighting and I'm happy to ditch the PC apps
- Antec heard you like screens so it stuck a 5-inch screen on a water cooler just where you didn't need one
- Kojima has a mind tomb: a USB stick filled with ideas for his staff to use after he dies 'kind of like a will'
- Take-Two CEO gets all philosophical yet again about GTA 6, says its delay is to support his team's 'search for perfection'
- Tim Sweeney is recommending a 'fake adware version of Fortnite' to iOS users that's been 'approved by Apple', unlike the real Fortnite
- After Helldivers 2, Arrowhead's next game will be '100% funded by ourselves', though CEO Shams Jorjani says there's no hard feelings over Sony's boneheaded PSN shenanigans
- Doom: The Dark Ages Sentinel Command Station secrets and collectibles (Chapter 12)
- How to complete the Jungle Bungles duty in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Rumours of an Arm-based CPU from AMD just won't go away as analysts reckon Arm is eating into the PC processor market
- The Stellar Blade PC system requirements are here and even an entry-level graphics card from 2016 can run it
- Welp, Fortnite's iOS version is 'offline worldwide' after Apple continues to shuffle its feet around bringing the game back to the US App Store
- Oblivion guru found a way to save the Emperor and his bodyguard in the original game, getting the drop on his assassin like the fantasy secret service
- This new armor for Oblivion Remastered has upgraded my elven rogue perfectly
- Where to find Valerian in Kingdom: Come Deliverance 2
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 16
- Steam's monthly top-seller list is automated now, and goes all the way back to 2004 when it's just Half-Life 2
- Here's the Summer Game Fest 2025 schedule, including where to watch each showcase
May 15
- Civil war breaks out in Helldivers 2 as players spawn infinite mechs to crash each other's games
- Hideo Kojima says most Death Stranding playtesters told him 'it was a terrible game,' and he's a little bummed Death Stranding 2 is testing way better
- Avowed lets you replace spiders with orbs in the first of its major updates coming this year
- Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets
- The king of Elder Scrolls meme videos wishes Bethesda still made NPCs like Oblivion's: 'I am a big fan of the Radiant AI system and honestly a bit sad to see how much it was toned down'
- Dune: Awakening beta players extracted nearly 9 million liters of blood last weekend, enough to fill 3 Olympic-size, extremely gross swimming pools
- Stellar Blade comes to PC next month with new armor to cover up Eve's woefully exposed ears
- A year after Bandai Namco killed its anime MMO, Blue Protocol is getting a second, different anime MMO in the same universe
- Today's Wordle is the 5th toughest ever, ending streaks for 50% of players
- YouTube's top brains crack making its ads even worse: Using AI to insert commercials at moments you're 'most engaged' with its videos
- With its 1.6 update, Star Wars Outlaws has finally fixed its janky as hell speeder combat
- The Asus tool PC gamers use to update drivers, fix bugs, and improve security, turns out to have a bit of a security issue itself
- With hardware prices in cloud cuckoo land, now's the time to love the rig you're with. And here's how to make that PC love last
- Incredible news: Stalker 2 fixes corpse-eating and sausage blood in big ol' patch which also gives enemies less of a death wish
- US senator introduces online porn ban proposal to 'safeguard American families', making a tired old 'won't somebody think of the children' argument familiar in videogames
- Nvidia might launch a GeForce RTX 5080 Super/Ti with 24 GB of VRAM sooner than we thought
- GTA 5 Enhanced may have 'Mixed' reviews on Steam, but the update has opened new doors for modders pushing the boundaries of reality in a sandbox now over 10 years old: 'We have an amazing opportunity to take things further'
- Turns out, Super Mario 64 can trap you in a menu for 2.25 years—as long as you wait that long beforehand: 'This is a fair punishment'
- Critical Role's Matt Mercer and Laura Bailey are hosting this year's Future Games Show summer event
- While we're in the GTA 6 waiting room, the Epic Games Mega Sale has the next best one on discount
- Kingdom Come 2's first expansion feels like the base game's best parts distilled, but don't expect a game-changer
- For the first time since launch you'll finally be able to craft saddles in Minecraft
- There's a rug in Oblivion that's just a real life rug you can get
- The best-looking GTA 5 visual overhaul mod of all time lands today—these exclusive screens are so lifelike they'll make you question what is real
- Keychron M5 review
- Blight: Survival—everything we know about the medieval co-op horror game
- Don't tease me like that, Intel: Commenters on X are told to 'stay tuned' for Arc B770 news under a post about Computex
- Bad news for General Grievous fans: Fortnite's big mid-season patch has been delayed, leaving us another 24 hours without the bonus Star Wars battle pass track
- Ancient ThinkPad laptops, beloved by a certain kind of hardcore hardware fan, can be resurrected with a bespoke Meteor Lake mainboard, bringing the 2000s machine right up to date
- The Assassin's Creed Shadows delay worked out so well for Ubisoft its CEO decided, hey, let's do a couple more for the road—and save 100 million more euros while we're at it
- All Doom: The Dark Ages missions and how long it takes to beat
- AMD all but confirms the RX 9060 XT will be announced on May 21
- The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no
- All free Monopoly Go Dice Links for May 2025
- All Doom: The Dark Ages Twitch Drops and how to get them
- This is the ugliest GPU I've seen in a long, long time and weirdly I think I want one
- It sounds like a six-word horror story, but 'Ransomware running directly from your CPU' is now a real thing
- VPN cancels lifetime subscriptions, having previously been unaware it was selling them
- Hideo Kojima is heading to Sydney Film Festival for a live discussion with Mad Max creator George Miller
- YouTube suspends major AI movie trailer accounts with over 2 million total subscribers from revenue-earning partner program
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 15
- Doom: The Dark Ages secrets and collectible locations
- Where to find the purple secret key in Siege Part 1 in Doom: The Dark Ages
- Best Sentinel Shrine upgrades to get first in Doom: The Dark Ages
- Best Doom: The Dark Ages weapons and how to unlock each
- Doom: The Dark Ages artillery cannon locations in Siege Part 1
- Doom: The Dark Ages The Forsaken Plains secrets and collectibles (Chapter 10)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Hebeth secrets and collectibles (Chapter 2)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Siege Part 2 secrets and collectibles (Chapter 7)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Village of Khalim secrets and collectibles (Chapter 1)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Hellbreaker secret and collectible (Chapter 11)
- How to open the fire door in Doom: The Dark Ages' Hebeth mission
- Doom: The Dark Ages secret dragon landing zones in The Holy City of Aratum
- Doom: The Dark Ages Ancestral Forge secrets and collectibles (Chapter 9)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Siege Part 1 secrets and collectibles (Chapter 6)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Holy City of Aratum secrets and collectibles (Chapter 5)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Abyssal Forest secrets and collectibles (Chapter 8)
- Doom: The Dark Ages Sentinel Barracks secrets and collectibles (Chapter 4)
May 14
- These 5 upcoming roguelike deckbuilders caught my eye because they have big twists on the usual formula
- Oblivion Remastered has reminded me how lucky we are to have an independent Elder Scrolls wiki in the hallowed UESP
- False alarm: Valve confirms that nobody hacked into over 89M Steam accounts and that your passwords are safe
- Lucasfilm declares creative bankruptcy with an AI-generated Star Wars film that's just 2 minutes of mostly normal animals jumbled together
- Helldivers 2 has still got it
- A new Marvel Rivals item lets you skip losses in ranked and players worry the climb has become meaningless
- Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix quietly removes artifacts of a cut storyline never meant to be heard
- Oblivion Remastered hero returns to the game's golden age by spending 7 hours arranging books just to topple them like dominoes
- Ubisoft's extreme sports game is being turned into a movie… and honestly, I'd watch 90 minutes of people doing snowboard stunts and wingsuit flights in the Alps
- Co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is so deadly that even the objectives are trying to kill you
- Superstar modders have decompiled Mario Party 4, meaning native PC ports for GameCube games may one day be a reality
- I don't want a Morrowind remaster, I want Bethesda to write a fat cheque for the OpenMW team
- MSI Raider 18 HX AI A2XW gaming laptop review
- Hideo Kojima has an idea for a game where you age and die, 'but no-one would buy it', then immediately suggests one where you eventually forget how to move
- Stonking Half-Life remake Black Mesa is the cheapest it's ever been on Steam, offering Barney Calhoun in glorious 4K for a mere 2 bucks
- If you're into ambient rainfall sounds, why not use headphones with 'two half-gallon basins' and plenty of real water sloshing around everywhere
- This looks fungi: a first-person roguelike 'double deckbuilder' where you use a separate deck for exploring, smash locked doors open with your head, and feast on the corpses of mushroom monsters
- Apparently a new 'advanced' Zotac Zone will be announced at Computex and it looks like it might use a bespoke Linux OS
- I was starting to get bored of decorating in cozy games, but the demo of Twinkleby has reminded me that nothing needs to be picture perfect as long as you're having fun
- Morrowind modders continue to astound, add object physics with 'pure lua' to a 23-year old game
- Intel has announced a load of new bugs afflicting its chips and this time it's not just CPUs but also GPUs that are involved, hooray!
- DayZ creator says Unity is accusing his studio of violating its software license based on the email addresses of two people who never worked there: 'This raises some serious questions about how Unity is scraping this data'
- After saying negative reviews 'might just cause our death' and 'we've got a few months left in the oven', No Rest for the Wicked CEO claims he never said they were in 'immediate financial danger', actually
- Oblivion Remastered mod makes its best part last forever: A Dark Brotherhood freelancer mode with infinite contracts and a gacha-style reward system
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds creative director says survival crafting has more in common with MMOs than you might think: 'It's almost like the genre was born from MMOs'
- The latest Nvidia driver lets you run ancient CPUs in Windows again without crashing
- Windows 10 version of Microsoft 365 apps will be supported until 2028—but this isn't the Microsoft u-turn you may think it is
- All 3 original Stalker games get 'fully remastered and optimized' versions next week, free for OG owners, and I can't wait to get shredded by an anomaly from the comfort of my sofa
- Tales of the Shire: everything we know about the cozy hobbit life sim
- 'I missed it, I missed it all': the guy behind the Metal Gear song that goes with everything was 'two years' late to the meme because nobody told him about it
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 skater list: everyone confirmed so far
- Don't swap out your pants just yet, Helldivers 2 might be getting another update next week to coincide with the battle for Super Earth
- Intel admits it doesn't have any 'significant' commitments from customers to make advanced chips in its fabs
- Expert criticizes Gigabyte's alleged use of 'viscous paste with questionable long-term performance' instead of tried and tested GPU cooling solution
- Grab 900 of your closest internet strangers and hit the road, online
- UK House of Lords backs amendment to AI bill thanks to peer vote that forces companies to reveal copyrighted material used in training AI models
- Xbox and Audeze have teamed up to give our favourite wireless gaming headset for audiophiles a gorgeous floral trim and I am in love with this unusual take on gamer chic
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 14
- Microsoft's upcoming OneDrive update bypasses security protocols between business and personal files
May 13
- Doom: The Dark Ages feels like a console game first and PC game second
- Diablo 4 players discover forbidden power combo that melts everything—including the servers
- 10 million Monster Hunter Wilds sales helped Capcom post its 8th consecutive year of record profits
- Marvel Rivals is breaking its original battle pass out of the vault for a limited time
- Even 19 years later, Oblivion's Whodunit quest is RPG chaos at its best
- A Minecraft Movie is out on digital so now your kid can throw popcorn around the living room instead of the theater when the chicken jockey shows up
- Nintendo's lawsuit isn't slowing Palworld down as it prepares for a summer collab with Terraria
- This Factorio-ish sim is threatening to devour hours of my time, and I haven't even gotten to the part where I make my own starships yet
- Microsoft is firing 3% of its staff, totalling just under 7,000 employees
- Google's logo has changed, and if the past's any indication, this might be the most expensive gaussian blur in history
- I don't care what you say, there's still no place in my life for modular hardware to slot into
- Charting the GTA 6 map: Vice City, Ambrosia, and everything in between
- Nintendo Switch 2 mouse controls shown off in latest clip makes me wonder why anyone would use it on the home screen
- Silver Palace may look like your ordinary anime game, but it's hiding a deliciously violent combat system underneath all those waifus
- Now it's AMD's Ryzen 9000-series processors alleged to be suffering from terminal voltage spikes and we're not sure if any CPUs are totally safe
- Stellaris 4.0 added babies to the galaxy, along with a bug that implies they are edible
- OG Infinity Ward dev says Call of Duty's gone the way of The Simpsons: 'It kind of feels like they've run out of ideas at times'
- Forget the Tarrasque—tabletop's biggest bad is now the biblically accurate Bristle Boar, a horrifying Pathfinder 2e monster that only exists because of a typo
- The new Pope picked his name for 'the defense of human dignity' amidst the AI revolution
- A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer from 5 years ago resurfaced, and it's a delightfully bare-bones look at the primordial soup that spawned the full game
- RTX 5060 retail listings spotted at Best Buy but I hope they're a placeholder as only one is at MSRP
- OpenAI CEO whines to Congress about pesky regulations, once more insists the tech's impact will be 'as big as the internet, maybe bigger'
- Labyrinth of the Demon King review
- WD Black SN8100 2 TB NVMe SSD review
- 'We cannot take any more Sexy Flame Atronach posts': The Oblivion community is hornyposting so hard about the remaster's Atronachs that the game's subreddit had to ban it
- Final Fantasy 14 vocalist says he's 'so thankful' that composer Masayoshi Soken is 'still here and still with us' after battling cancer
- 'Multiple crises' in Nvidia's supply chain may see 'prices increase across the board' for its GPU partners, making your chances of ever getting an MSRP card pretty damned low
- Jump scare! The Sinking City Remastered has surprise launched on Steam, and it's free to anyone who owns the original game
- Super Earth is under attack, and Helldivers 2's trouser-browning update is finally here—with weapon customisation, new Illuminate troops, and an inevitable battle on democracy's home turf
- Samsung's world-first 500 Hz OLED is the ultimate no-compromise esports monitor but it's painfully pricey at nearly $1,500
- 5,000 pixels per inch, beyond 8K and 15,000 nits: Samsung's new OLED for VR headsets sounds completely bananas
- AI experts are calling for safety calculations akin to Compton's A-bomb tests before releasing Artificial Super Intelligences upon humanity
- This $24 Lucky Miner USB stick is a 210.7 trillion-to-one lottery ticket where the prize is a single BTC
- Celebrate 100 years of quantum mechanics by learning about quantum computing
- Fallout season 2 teaser trailer confirms a December release, and drives the point home that we're going to New Vegas
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 13
- 'Too many games let their players succeed' says developer of notoriously tough survival RPG Kenshi, and 'that's mind-numbingly boring to me'
May 12
- The SteamOS era is imminent: Valve adds a new compatibility rating for games that’ll run on ‘any device that’s not a Steam Deck’
- Dune: Awakening's stabby stunlock PvP exploit is being fixed, says Funcom: 'We've got this covered'
- Oblivion Remastered has an unleveled, legendary sword you can grab right after leaving the starting sewers⁠—just bring a lot of arrows or magicka potions
- US senator announces a bill requiring geotracking in high-end GPUs to prevent the Chinese government from wielding the ruinous power of your Nvidia RTX 4090
- Clair Obscur player tanks their way through the entire game without dodging or parrying to prove a point: You can finish it without 'gamer reflexes'
- Sean Murray pours one out for No Man's Sky permadeath player who stranded himself in bittersweet space purgatory: 'All I can do is sit in my ship, watch the lightning storms, and wait for my oxygen to run out'
- You're not imagining things: Oblivion Remastered's standard difficulty is way too easy, a single step up is insanely frustrating, and one modder has the math to prove it
- Nintendo look away: Palworld and other creature collecting games are cheap on Steam right now
- I wish Ubisoft had ever made the game it promised with Assassin's Creed 1, but instead the series just spiralled into a weird identity crisis
- All Elden Ring Nightreign classes and abilities
- Elden Ring Nightreign's story is told in part through playable memories, so FromSoftware really is delivering lore through whacking things
- ThunderX3 Flex Pro Ergonomic Office Chair review
- Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 gaming laptop review
- AceZone A-Blaze wireless gaming headset review
- Fallout show actor says they know its 'endpoint' and it's sometime in season 5 or 6, which means we've still got loads of time to scream at each other about New Vegas
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director got on the RPG train early, playing FF8 'when my brother and I could barely read'
- Pimax's fancy-looking Dream Air SE Micro-OLED VR headset weighs under 150 grams and is much more affordable than the standard model
- Iron Galaxy has explained why Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 won't feature the career mode: 'Our goal here is to make the ultimate package'
- Musk's Colossus data center for Grok is at the centre of an environmental row over air quality in South Memphis
- Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford spiels about how wonderful Borderlands 4 is going to be, then gets all coy about the price but jokes 'maybe we'll sell you that minimap that you guys want'
- Arctic Freezer 36 review
- Cooler Master Hyper 612 Apex review
- WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere
- Cash Cleaner Simulator is the next legally obscure sim to take the internet by storm
- The FBI says that elderly Cisco Linksys router you've been meaning to replace may be under serious threat from cyber criminals
- Even in early access, Blacksmith Master is a well forged ingot of cozy management and metalwork
- One day the silicon in this $7000 Asus RTX 5090 will be worthless, but you'll still have a whole 6 grams of solid gold to make up for it
- Oblivion Remastered has a new texture error, and this one mucks up a gag from the original game
- Trump administration reportedly fires the head of the US Copyright Office as it tries to tackle AI's use of copyrighted materials
- Bam Margera is officially returning to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 as a Secret Skater
- US and China talk it out at Geneva, agreeing to suspend ultra-high tariffs for 90 days, but PC parts don't seem to be part of the deal
- Ouch—Warner Bros throws Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League under the bus in the most corporate way possible, side-eyes it for closed studios and cancelled games
- Doom: The Dark Ages is unplayable on handheld gaming PCs at the moment but it's not because the hardware isn't good enough
- Doom: The Dark Ages launch times, release date, and advanced access period
- The Gothic 1 Remake demo has been updated based on fan feedback
- The tower defense comeback continues with Rift Riff, a 'remarkably forgiving' game about interdimensional juice raids
- Killing Floor 3's new release date is late July
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 12
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 12, 2025)
- REPO devs are making that new Overcharge mechanic kick in later on—alongside other difficulty scaling
May 11
- A unique horror strategy game about drilling for oil released on Steam last week
- There's another Risk of Rain 2 expansion on the way
- Can't wait for Dune: Awakening? Play the Dune TTRPG while you wait for just $1 with this Imperium RPG bundle
- FTC delays enforcing 'click to cancel' rule that would finally bring the hammer down on companies that make it as annoying as possible to cancel subscriptions
- This Half-Life mod remakes Valve's classic shooter to be both longer and wider, and it has radically altered my perception of the original
- 14 years later, the best way to play Dark Souls is with the new Seamless co-op mod
- Black Mirror's interactive episode Bandersnatch is being removed from Netflix, as 'the technology has served its purpose'
- The best FPS of 2024 simply cannot stop adding new maps, introducing 37 new arenas, 4 new weapons, and a 'Horrible Smelly Head' in its latest update
- MechWarrior 5's beefy story expansion is out, and it has the most videogame title I've ever had the pleasure to read
- Timberborn's latest update adds ziplines and tubeways for rapid beaver deployment and stops your rodent residents from throwing down in sudden fits of breakdancing
- The Final Fantasy Magic set will have 15 different Cids, and you can have them all in your deck at once
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 11
- After conflict between the staff of gaming site Giant Bomb and owner Fandom, 'Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb'
- Characters from The Witcher and Five Nights at Freddy's are joining Dead by Daylight, with a hint of The Walking Dead to follow
May 10
- PC gaming remains undefeated: Nintendo now says it has the right to brick your Switch if it thinks you're pirating games or modifying the console
- One of the most visually stunning roguelikes just overhauled its graphics to look even gnarlier, but you can still toggle back to the OG art style at will
- Elden Ring's upcoming update will add two new starting classes, one of them equipped with a top-tier DLC weapon it used to take dozens of hours to grab
- Finally, this Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 camping mod means I'll never have to scour Bohemia for a place to sleep again
- Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'
- After a decade of development, Roboquest's developer is calling time on its roguelite shooter: 'There's no way we can continue to provide content for players with over 1,000 hours of gameplay'
- Celebrate Star Wars being good again with up to 85% off EA's Jedi and Battlefront games until May 15
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 10
May 9
- How World of Warcraft's add-on changes will affect the most popular mods
- Randy Pitchford asks fans to 'play the game first' before judging Borderlands 4's new minimap-free HUD
- Nearly 200 Overwatch developers at Blizzard form a new union: The Overwatch Gamemakers Guild
- Death Stranding 2 sounds like everything I hoped it'd be
- 'We heard your feedback': Funcom just reversed course and opened up the Dune: Awakening beta weekend to anyone who preorders the survival MMO
- The voice of Disco Elysium's Ancient Reptilian Brain performed the game's famous karaoke scene live and in costume
- Fallout Season 2 filming just wrapped, so now's a good time to check in on any New Vegas sickos you know and make sure they're not getting too worked up
- As Fortnite gears up for an App Store relaunch, Epic is cranking up its Rewards program to encourage people to use its payment system instead of Apple's
- Co-founder of crypto platform Celsius, which went bust with a billion-dollar hole in its finances, sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for 'orchestrating one of the biggest frauds in the crypto industry'
- Publisher who resurrected lost pirate game Captain Blood says it's 'a 3 or 4' by today's standards, but that's half the fun: 'All its charms, all its flaws, all the vibes are from that era'
- Europa Universalis 5's unusual, year-long reveal was a lesson Paradox learned from Imperator's mixed reception: 'I wanted to do it a little bit earlier, but marketing people tend to get panicky when you start talking'
- Quake finally makes it into the World Videogame Hall of Fame
- Sure, man: The $200 deluxe edition of the Gex Trilogy remaster includes a 3-foot inflatable Gex and box art from legendary illustrator Yoshitaka Amano
- Rockstar says GTA 6's second trailer is now the biggest video launch of all time, whatever that means
- Mafia: The Old Country system requirements have been revealed, and Unreal Engine 5 continues to be the thorn in your budget build's side
- 'First we do Wordle': Pope Leo XIV plays games like Wordle and Words With Friends with his brother, and did so before the Conclave
- A year later and over six months since the last patch, Intel is STILL releasing updates to fix instability problems with its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs
- 'It was eye-opening': How a WoW documentary inspired Muscular Dystrophy UK's Liam Quinn to raise money and build community in the haven of videogames
- I watched one video of Oblivion Remastered on a CRT and now I'm lightly obsessed with the TikTok account that did it
- Overwatch 2 remembers it can collab with videogames outside the Blizzard catalogue, bringing Street Fighter 6 to the battlefield
- How to play Dune: Awakening multiplayer
- AMD's upcoming RX 9060 XT GPU listed on Amazon for a depressing $449 for the 8 GB version and $529 for the 16 GB option
- We just got our first look at one of Elden Ring: Nightreign's new bosses, Libra Creature of Night
- Doom: The Dark Ages PC performance analysis: Always-on ray tracing isn't a problem and even a cheap gaming laptop copes just fine
- Doom: The Dark Ages review
- HP Omen Max 16 gaming laptop review
- MIT researchers debunk one of the greatest misconceptions in science: Eggs are stronger at the sides after all
- All Honkai: Star Rail 3.3 livestream codes
- Oblivion Remastered mod makes being a stealthy murder king easy, boosting your sneak attack damage modifiers from good to Grim Reaper
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's first patch reveals the sword that was part of a 2 billion nuke build was doubling all damage by mistake
- Trucker takes their gaming rig on the road inside their big rig 'and yes, [I] occasionally play Truck Simulator'
- This aluminium keyboard feels like it fell straight out of one of my abandoned sci-fi drafts—but thanks to its onboard word counter, I might just finish it now
- Legions of Helldivers 2 players are currently banging their head against a password terminal, as Arrowhead plays coy with a new reveal
- A software engineer taught AI to hunt bugs by interfacing an LLM with debugging tools and has released the open source code: 'It's like going from hunting with a stone spear to using a guided missile'
- Valve is using Steam Deck's beta build to test 80% battery limit
- Razer's newest gaming headset goes on your chair instead of your head
- Razer announces travel-sized Basilisk Mobile mouse with dedicated AI prompt key alongside ultra-low-profile portable Joro keyboard
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 9
- D&D's artificers are getting revised for the 2024 rules update in a book that will also let you play a guy who has a magic GPS and knows where everyone is at all times
- A Chrono Trigger revival seems inevitable at this point, with its creator admitting 'I want to do something' after recent mistranslation incident
May 8
- Bodega cats, trash pandas, and a great white shark: the real stars of the GTA 6 reveal are all the animals hiding in plain sight
- I couldn't have played Clair Obscur without its accessibility settings, and now it might be my GOTY
- Alien: Rogue Incursion will escape its VR shackles and become a normal bug-hunt shooter later this year
- How do you get fresh blood in a 22-year-old, infamously impenetrable MMO? EVE Online hopes it's a 'player-created gig economy' that has veterans making missions for newbies: 'We're 100% sure that you will do a better job'
- Outer Wilds studio finally confirms it's working on a new game but says it will be 'years' before it's ready to share details
- Titan Quest 2 early access delayed due to 'a lot of noise' from ARPG competitors, but the developers say closed playtest results have been 'incredibly motivating'
- The Dune: Awakening team is confident servers won't implode at launch: 'This is not our first rodeo'
- Eric Barone says he 'might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2,' but not because it'd make a zillion dollars: 'I honestly don't care about money that much'
- Schedule 1's latest update adds a jukebox, because drugs without music is just kind of a drag, man
- Dune: Awakening beta weekend release date and times
- EB Games is coming back to Canada, 'with community, nostalgia, and innovation at its heart'
- Bill Gates says Elon Musk's DOGE cutbacks are directly responsible for kids dying: 'The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one'
- Death Stranding was all about connection, but after Covid-era metaverse hype, Kojima says that 'maybe it's not such a good thing to connect so much'
- Palworld devs 'disappointed' as they patch out a game mechanic to appease Nintendo, but 'the alternative would have led to an even greater deterioration'
- Europa Universalis 5 feels like the ultimate grand strategy game, drawing on Paradox's entire history—and it makes me feel like an idiot
- The mod that aimed to recreate Counter-Strike 1.6 in CS:GO is now officially cancelled following 'abrupt actions by Valve that prevent us from releasing' the project
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's soundtrack tops Billboard's Classical Album Chart with 18 million streams since launch
- Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding 2 has so much tactical espionage action that even his own staff 'worried it was getting a little Metal Gear-ish'
- Lae'zel's voice actor was recording Baldur's Gate 3 lines a mere 2 days before giving birth: 'I'm gonna be here right up until the due date, just you watch'
- I never thought I'd say this about Alienware but its new Aurora laptops show we're truly in the sleek and smart era
- Mojang has just killed support for Minecraft VR, an underrated but very flawed VR experience
- This transparent HDD from Buffalo is both beautiful and woefully impractical—just how I like my tech
- Frostpunk 2's first major content update introduces 'several long-requested community features' like a massive new map and an easier survival experience
- Mafia: The Old Country gets an August release date, and don't worry, I won't be cracking a joke about making an offer you can't refuse
- Here's how long it would take 12 RTX 5090 GPUs to crack your password… and a reminder that just adding more characters still works
- Helldivers 2 is finally adding a sword, and while I'm not soiling my breeches over it as Arrowhead's CEO decreed, it does look very cool
- What is a fairly fancy appetizer in Disney Dreamlight Valley?
- Diablo 4 players aren't happy with the latest $150 Berserk collaboration, accusing it of being boring and overpriced
- Sennheiser and the company that now makes its audiophile headphones have just been fined €6 million over price fixing
- Peak Sekiro-like Nine Sols gets a 40% price cut ahead of its 1-year anniversary, and if you've ever liked parrying in a videogame, you need to play this thing
- How to unlock the uncrafting station in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- With the GPU market a hellscape right now, here are the PC gaming upgrades you actually CAN do
- How to complete the Clean Your Room duty in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs to issue its first nerf to an ability that does 2 billion damage: 'We gave it a big damage boost—and clearly overdid it'
- One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China
- Synergy's full release has more challenges like tricky soil, illness, and death, which will all slowly tear down your paradise
- The new GTA 6 trailer draws on base PS5 footage
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 8
- Oblivion's gloriously exploitable magic is even more busted in the remaster, letting one player turn into a high-speed leap wizard who can cross Cyrodiil in seconds
- Upcoming NBN price increases are another great reason to change providers—I switched last week, doubling my speed and saving AU$15 a month
- Calling all cozy mystery fans: the follow-up to 2022's best puzzle game gives you even more ways to play detective
May 7
- Spanish TV news uses Dark Souls 3 boss fight to illustrate, with 100% accuracy, how the conclave will elect a new Pope
- EA thinks it got Battlefield right this time, projecting confidence to investors in advance of a summer reveal: 'When we get it right, Battlefield is a giant franchise and often the biggest shooter in the year'
- FTC loses bid to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which already happened in 2023
- Confusion reigns as report of an A24 Elden Ring movie emerges, disappears, and emerges again
- Oblivion Remastered guide: Everything you need to return to Cyrodiil
- Props for the honesty: Tim Sweeney says the reason 'people characterize the Epic Games launcher as clunky' is—wait for it—'because the Epic Games launcher is clunky'
- The latest GTA 6 trailer confirmed its most exciting feature: A bunch of logos for pretend companies
- Oblivion Remastered mod finally fixes the loot levelling, so no longer do you need to complete quests then wait forever to hand them in
- Electronic Arts CEO feels 'very good' about the next Battlefield's launch now that Grand Theft Auto 6 is out of the way
- I pride myself on keeping up with Steam's under-the-radar gems, but April was packed with enough new games to keep me busy for the rest of 2025
- Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 players find a way to do 2,177,438,000 damage, which is enough to kill the hardest endgame superboss over 45.8 times
- As support for Windows 10 counts down, End of 10 asks 'why not Linux?'
- Hazelight's Split Fiction sells over 4 million copies in 2 months
- Intel slashes the price of its Core Ultra 265K CPU from $399 to $299, making it a killer deal for gamers despite all the early issues
- Check out this brilliant video breaking open a bricked Nintendo Switch 2 chip to see what makes it tick, and why we're looking at around Steam Deck GPU performance from the new console
- On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down
- How to complete the Calmer of Chaos Dreamlight Duty in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Fallout 76's spring limited-time event, The Big Bloom, has begun, which means pollen, allergies, and flower crowns
- Leaked pics of a supposed Asus ROG Ally 2 show an Xbox-branded handheld gaming PC that is very peculiar to behold
- GPUs and monitors from MSI: Collaborate to dominate at 4K and 240Hz
- The BioWare we loved is mostly gone, but '2017 is when EA finished digesting' it, says Dragon Age studio veteran
- How to complete the It's All Nonsense quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- AMD says it's set to lose out on $1.5B worth of AI GPU sales due to export restrictions, but Dr. Su hails its latest Ryzen chips as 'the CPU of choice for gamers' after huge rise in sales revenue
- How to complete the Furniture Fluster quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Gigabyte's thermal gel 'is crawling out' of place on some RTX 50-series cards
- 'We didn't have a serious plan': The hardest part of creating Go Wayback, according to Brendan Greene, was just figuring out if it could actually work
- How to get New Land Beyond in Destiny 2
- Nvidia and MediaTek rumoured to announce new Windows on Arm laptop chips at Computex 2025
- Grand Theft Auto 6 dropped a whopping 84 brand-new screenshots and illustrations, and here's every single one
- Forget megabucks Nvidia GPUs, apparently all you need to run an LLM is a Pentium II CPU from 1997
- The US DOJ recommends Google break up its ad-tech platform in light of illegal monopoly claims. Google disagrees, unsurprisingly
- The Art of Warhammer Video Games is a 208-page book covering 30 years of Warhammer games
- A dead Chinese Borderlands MMO is being revived
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, May 7
May 6
- I really don't want to cosplay as Darth Vader in Destiny 2, so I'm even more queasy about the announcement of a whole Star Wars-themed expansion
- The GTA 6 trailer shows Jason and Lucia working out: is Rockstar bringing back some of San Andreas' RPG-lite features?
- Well that didn't pan out: Former Rockstar boss said in 2018 that he was glad not to be releasing GTA 6 in the Trump era, but here we are with GTA 6 releasing in the Trump era
- The new GTA 6 trailer opens with a self-referential gag that reminded me of how wild the 2022 hack was
- The GTA 6 map will include a 'lush' national park in the mountains featuring 'hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals'
- Starfield gets a new beta update on Steam with bug fixes, a 'Very Low' display setting, and no new content
- The details and takeaways you might've missed in the new GTA 6 trailer
- Starbreeze reclaims Payday 3 publishing rights from Plaion, says it will 'significantly accelerate our content development roadmap'
- Bungie announces the next four Destiny 2 expansions, and yes, the second one is literally just Star Wars
- Microsoft unleashes an AI agent on your unsuspecting Windows settings, but initially only if you have a Snapdragon X-powered PC
- I'm already totally enamored with Grand Theft Auto 6's Jason and Lucia, and I've had them for less than 5 minutes
- The new GTA 6 trailer just dropped and the thing I'm impressed with most are its beer bottles
- How to access the open beta for the new REPO update
- GTA 6's preposterously gorgeous second trailer has me thinking 'no-one does it like Rockstar' isn't just a compliment, but an omen
- Apple Mac Studio M4 Max review
- Tales of Seikyu is coming to early access this month, meaning I can finally continue my journey into its enchanting world of dateable yokai
- Rockstar just dropped a ton of new GTA 6 details
- Deadlock goes full second breakfast by having another, secret playtest tucked inside the first one—with all-new heroes and a redesign of everyone's favourite gargoyle gal
- GTA 6's second trailer is here to help numb the pain of it being delayed
- Intel Arc Celestial discrete GPUs have hit pre-silicon validation and that makes me a little more hopeful for their eventual launch
- Overwatch 2 is preparing to answer the internet's current obsession: Who would win, 1 gorilla or 100 men, and it's all going to be livestreamed
- Tales of the Shire wants to make sure 'every detail is just right' when starting your hobbit life, but the character creator still looks incredibly disappointing
- Nvidia announces RTX 5060 release date of May 19 for both the $299 desktop GPU and $1,099 gaming laptops
- LG's new OLED technology literally stretches the boundaries of display tech and promises to turn almost any surface into a screen—or should that be the other way round?
- ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why
- Analyst claims Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is selling twice as fast as any other recent JRPG has on Steam—and it's got me wondering what the secret sauce is
- Revenge of the Savage Planet review
- 'He's very good at finding really cool people': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director found its composer on Soundcloud and lead writer on Reddit
- The Month of Meh event is underway in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, finally letting you take photos with a strange man dressed as an egg
- One redditor scored an Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU with 3x the memory of a RTX 5090 for only twice the MSRP
- 8BitDo announces new Ultimate 2 wireless controller with TMR joysticks and Hall Effect switchable triggers
- How to watch the Destiny 2 Edge of Fate livestream
- Cryptocurrency investors are being targeted for ransom, kidnappings, and mutilations across France, with abductors demanding between $6M and $10M in crytpo funds
- Acer Predator SpatialLabs View 27 3D gaming monitor review
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 6
- Squid Game Season 3 teaser respawns Player 456 in the lobby for one more round
May 5
- 'It is very touching and very stupid': Katamari Damacy creator can't wait for us to experience the final scene of his new game
- Everyone is a boat in this 'MOBA meets Vampire Survivors' game inspired by a Warcraft 3 mod
- 'Henry is worse than the Black Plague': Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio marks 3 million copies sold with some sobering statistics
- Skype dead at 22
- An 8,500-hour countdown clock is ticking down to an Ecco the Dolphin remaster and sequel reveal
- V Rising is doing big numbers on Steam after its recent update, plus it's 50% off
- 'I am about to cry my eyes out': 2000s toys-to-life phenom Webkinz, which I may or may not still have a shelf full of plushes from, is somehow back 5 years after the death of Flash
- Oblivion Remastered is already the third-best-selling game of 2025 in the US, industry analyst says
- There's now a free 'shareware' version of horde-battling RTS Diplomacy is Not an Option
- This dreary low-poly delivery game pairs Animal Crossing villagers with soul-crushing gig work and I can't wait to play it
- After 2 decades of snacking, a new World of Warcraft spell renders vendor food partly obsolete
- Space Marine 2's Astartes Overhaul mod brings Terminators to the campaign, NPC Dreadnoughts to operations, and 12-player lobbies
- The Gears of War remaster that's been rumored for years is coming to Steam in August
- The first big REPO update is available to test
- Stellaris' new Biogenesis expansion lets you be a sapient planet or home-grow your own cosmic leviathan
- Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion's power-suits will let you beat giant monsters to death with their own body parts
- This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy
- How to complete the Paranoia quest in Oblivion
- This Doom themed Harley Davidson is the most metal game collab I've seen since The Dark Ages
- In The Shadow Syndicate you're a dog detective who shoots people in bullet-time and wears a cursed ring
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, May 5
- 75,000 people are playing a fantasy football game where you guess the new pope: 'You have to choose 11 cardinals, the ones you think are the most papal'
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 5, 2025)
May 4
- 'You can't escape us': Devolver plots to release a game on GTA 6's release date, no matter when that is
- Tales of the Shire embraces a 'clutter-core experience' with grid-free decorating for your hobbit house
- May the 4th brings free and discounted Star Wars games from Prime Gaming, Steam, and more
- Inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Oxygen Not Included, adorable side-scrolling city-builder Ratopia burrows out of early access
- Star-trekking sandbox roguelike Approaching Infinity launches after more than 12 years in development
- Doom mod Blitz: Race Against Time only gives you half a minute per map, so it's a good thing Doomguy runs at 50 mph
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, May 4
- Bungie's attempt to dismiss the Destiny 2 copyright case using YouTube videos describing 'vaulted' elements of the game has been shut down by a judge who is not going to sit through a 10-hour lore explainer
- Fallout 1 and 2's source code isn't lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: 'I made it a quest to snapshot everything'
May 3
- EVE Online studio CCP is making a medieval-style tome of epic poetry inked with the blood of players to commemorate the game: 'It turns out, to store information, a really good way is to take blood and write on calfskin'
- Valve only wants to make new Half-Life games if they push the medium forward, but what could it push forward next?
- Blizzard accidentally left a placeholder item in Diablo 4 and a couple of lucky players went god mode with it
- Once hidden in a Friday Night Funkin' fangame, surreal free exploration sandbox Garn47 gets a major makeover with the 'Glorgle update'
- Sea Of Stars' 8-hour epilogue expansion won't cost you a penny when the circus comes to town on May 20th
- Oblivion isn't enough? Morrowind just got a whole lot bigger, as community mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt adds the sprawling metropolis of Narsis
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, May 3
May 2
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor celebrates the Grand Theft Auto 6 delay: 'WE'RE IN WITH A SHOT! GOTY!'
- This 'narrative simulator' about a delivery driver in deeply rural Russia is giving me serious Mudrunner meets Disco Elysium vibes
- Lead Diablo artists say the best way to design endless spiky armor sets is to go look at anything that isn't Diablo: 'You can come back with a fresh mind and create new things'
- Elden Ring Nightreign's overview trailer lays it all out for the quirky co-op spinoff
- Following its huge win over Apple, Epic says it will take even less money from developers who use its store
- Grand Theft Auto 6's delay makes me think we won't be playing this thing on PC until 2027, or god forbid even 2028
- The Breach update for No Rest for the Wicked is an overhaul so massive that old save files just won't cut it
- Nvidia denies 'tall tales' that chips are being smuggled in fake baby bumps and alongside live lobsters
- I feel like I can finally say we're at a point where buying new PC gaming gear doesn't mean settling for less
- AMD has released the slightly underwhelming official specs of the RX 9070 GRE, y'know, the card you probably can't buy anyway
- Fanatical's running a $3-a-pop Bethesda bundle, so it's time to finally put down Oblivion Remastered and play Morrowind, the actual best TES game
- Parts for that high-performance Intel Battlemage gaming GPU have been spotted again and I still want it to teach Nvidia's RTX 5070 a $400 pricing lesson
- If you HAVE to upgrade your GPU today, these are the five graphics cards I think are worth looking at
- 'I'd say chances are good': While the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 team is still figuring out where to go next, DLC is likely
- Microsoft says it wants to completely ditch passwords as it makes passwordless login the default for all new accounts
- Marvel Rivals Season 2.5 release date, Ultron abilities, and more
- Mod adds Dark Souls-style player messages to Oblivion Remastered so you can write 'Try finger but hole' in front of Patrick Stewart
- There's another Pathfinder 2e bundle on Humble with nearly $700 of books for $57, including an adventure that'll let you go full Mortal Kombat with your friends
- Take-Two shares tank after GTA 6's delay, CEO Strauss Zelnick assures panicky investors it'll still make more money than god and it's 'steadfast in our commitment to excellence'
- US federal judge on Meta's AI copyright fair use argument: 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work'
- How to join the Mages Guild in Oblivion
- Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed until May 2026: 'We need this extra time to deliver at the level of quality you expect and deserve'
- Meta's AI app wants to 'get to know you' and can warn you if you should be 'worried about bears'
- Intel's all-important Panther Lake mobile chip rumoured to launch later this year with just one model and it won't be getting the exciting graphics option
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's publisher says Oblivion Remastered 'didn't seem to harm us at all', in fact, it may have helped: 'Everybody was thinking and talking about the genre'
- Oblivion's one-room waterfront shack is the perfect player home
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 2
- The best Oblivion Remastered mods
May 1
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in May
- DrLupo admits to cheating in $100,000 online chess tournament, faces brutal backlash from Reddit: 'Dude went from 'what's a horsey?' to 'I can see 15 moves ahead' in 2 minutes'
- Stadium's roadmap for Overwatch 2 is planned out for the next three seasons, with more heroes, maps, and custom games on the horizon
- 'Stadium is Overwatch 2's most-played mode': Blizzard confirms Stadium's success with 7.8 million hours played across 2.3 million matches in the launch week alone
- Oblivion is a lot better now that I can read
- French President Emmanuel Macron gives a shout-out to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Instagram: 'You are a shining example of French audacity and creativity'
- Gaming website Polygon lays off union staff, editor-in-chief departs following sale to Game Rant owner Valnet
- Bethesda gives full-throated shout-out to Skyblivion fan remake after giving the whole dev team free Oblivion Remastered keys: 'I think what they're doing is very special'
- Original Oblivion developers gather to watch the 2006 documentary on the making of the game, and Todd Howard sums up the feeling: 'This is going to be really f**king awkward, watching this'
- At 34 seconds, Jack Black's chicken song from A Minecraft Movie just became the shortest ever to crack the Billboard Hot 100
- Borderlands 4 looks like more of the same yet again—and in 2025, that's not enough
- Amid tariff woes, 8BitDo stops shipping product from China-based warehouse to US customers
- League of Legends world champion Shushei dies at 36: 'One of the first greats of our game'
- Skyrim lead designer makes it sound like there's gonna be loading screens in Bethesda games for years to come yet, bucko: 'We just didn’t have a choice, really'
- Silksong got a release date for an Australian museum exhibit before anything else, and I wish I was kidding
- The RX 9060 XT rumour mill flip-flops again: we shall have an 8 GB version of AMD's card after all
- Foundry VTT creator does what Hasbro won't with D&D, trashes the idea of AI in tabletop roleplaying game industry as a 'betrayal'
- Gigabyte MO34WQC2 OLED gaming monitor review
- Turtle Beach Recon 70 review
- WoW's idea to clamp down on combat add-ons is misguided, especially since it could keep improving its base experience without, uh, doing that
- Modding turf war erupts as 'notoriously controversial' dev puts out an Unofficial Oblivion Remastered Patch one week after the game came out [Update: Modder responds]
- LG's new 'Hybrid Tandem' tech apparently solves the blue light problem which could mean near-flawless OLED gaming monitors
- This colour E-ink monitor is very pretty but the price means you may be better off strapping 7 Kindle Colorsofts together
- How to get black soul gems in Oblivion Remastered
- Oblivion Remastered contains an incredibly neat easter egg to one of the nerdiest viral videos of the early 2010s
- 'We as the developers do not feel like we are being robbed by anyone': Drug Dealer Simulator developer says it 'would not pursue any legal actions against Schedule 1 in any shape or form' if it had its way
- Nobody told me you could cheese the hell out of Oblivion Remastered's lockpicking minigame and I've only broken 3 lockpicks since discovering it
- Turns out that the earliest versions of Windows 7 took longer to load depending on your choice of desktop wallpaper
- Assassin's Creed Shadows announces more difficulties, more immersion options, more Jesuits, and a bo staff in its year 1 roadmap
- PC gaming can't stop getting Ws, as Microsoft shares it's being weighed down by console and hardware revenue woes
- 'China is right behind us': Jensen Huang says we need to 'accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world'
- How to complete the A Taste of Home quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley
- I spent the day using GameSir's new GameHub app, potentially corrupting my phone and gaming PC, so you don't have to
- More Intellimouse than eXtreme gamer, Cherry's new wireless gaming mice give understated office chic in the best possible way
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 1
- US court slams Apple for 'obvious cover-up' in major Epic victory that could see Fortnite return to iOS soon