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- April 14
- April 13
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- Diablo 4's respec cost isn't changing before launch
- Bungie announces major crackdown on third-party peripheral cheaters, bans incoming
- The guy who leaked Ukraine War plans on Discord got busted because of his Steam profile
- Call of Duty dips into 'pay-to-win' with $12 bundle that gives you actual gameplay advantages
- This modder is making the coolest keyboard ever by putting little OLED screens in the keycaps
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is delayed to 2024
- The musical RPG from the former lead writer of Dragon Age finally gets a release date
- Idea for your next build? Someone stuffed a gaming PC inside an old Sony Trinitron CRT monitor
- EA's new battlemage FPS had me at '25-hour singleplayer campaign'
- Elden Ring creator Hidetaka Miyazaki is the second game dev in history to make Time's 100 most influential people list
- Why the hell did no-one tell me I could actually make the Prt Sc button useful?
- Beloved Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings 3 releases tomorrow, so you can finally give the series a decent ending
- Bandai Namco games are coming to GeForce Now. But no, not Elden Ring
- Live: Where to buy the Nvidia RTX 4070 today
- Nvidia's RTX 4070 is out but what about AMD's response?
- You haven't got much time left to grab 14 classic Star Wars games for just $21—including both KOTORs, all the Jedi Knight games, and more
- Steam Deck-friendly Windows Handheld Mode shown off in leaked Microsoft Hackathon vid
- I am beyond outraged that the Super Mario Bros. theme is the first piece of videogame music inducted into the Library of Congress
- Lofi Girl's vanishing act left music lovers panicking, but she returned with a new friend
- First Zen 6 rumour puts AMD's far future CPU on 2nm tech
- Wordle hint and answer #663: Thursday, April 13
- April 12
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- Redfall will only do 30 fps on Xbox consoles, and people are starting to worry
- Modders rejoice! Bringing ray tracing to PC gaming classics just got way easier
- Holy cow, a new Trine game is coming out this summer
- Oops, Overwatch 2's new hero is actually a giant slingshot
- Valve is about to slash the file sizes of the Steam Deck's SSD-hogging shader caches in half
- Ubisoft drops Rainbow Six Siege streamer after he makes a bunch of racist 'jokes'
- You're a cyberpunk T. Rex using your tiny arms to fix electronics in this 'ironic' retro adventure about customer service, time travel, and true love
- Endless Dungeon is delayed into October
- Diablo 4 borrows from MMOs but is still about 'overpowered builds' and 'blowing up screens of monsters'
- CS:GO player destroys entire opposing team with single 'one in f**king billions' miracle shot
- Survive prison by recruiting an army of alien rats in this turn-based RPG
- Intel just made it easier to make Arm chips in its own fabs
- AI-driven NPCs are living lives and planning parties all on their own
- Some of the first non-bugfix mods for The Last of Us give Joel and Ellie a wardrobe worthy of Hot Topic
- AMD trash talks Nvidia for not giving gamers enough VRAM
- Lucasfilm wanted Jedi: Fallen Order to be a shooter featuring a bounty hunter or smuggler
- Forget the Dead Space Remake, this free PS1 demake is the true retelling of Isaac Clarke's story
- Wordle hint and answer #662: Wednesday, April 12
- April 11
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- Blast-from-the-past FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun gets a release date
- Build a big city (that fits on a small table) in this cute card-based city builder
- Nintendo goes after Discord to find out who leaked the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom art book
- PC Game Pass comes to 40 more countries
- If you thought things couldn't get stupider, someone just held a CO2 reader up to a PC to prove 'bitcoin mining has zero carbon emissions'
- Dead Island 2 system requirements revealed
- EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history
- People are horny for Stanley Parable's narrator now, I guess
- Discord's upping its puny file upload size limit for all users
- It's just getting silly now: Microsoft inks 10-year deal to bring Activision games to a UK mobile phone network
- Cyberpunk 2077's fancy RT Overdrive graphics is now live and ready to bring your GPU to its knees
- Resident Evil 4 actor strikes back at harassers: 'not the first time an actor of colour faces racist and sexist harassment, for simply participating'
- Portal writer Erik Wolpaw still wants to make Portal 3, but Valve's 'flat structure' makes it a challenge
- Cronus cheaters are getting sniped across the biggest FPS games
- PC sales are down but can everyone please chill out
- Run away from your problems and win an Xbox in Redfall's free choose-your-own browser game
- Nvidia's RTX 4070 matches RTX 3080 in leaked benchmarks
- Unbrick your Wii U with a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico
- Wordle hint and answer #661: Tuesday, April 11
- April 10
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- One-shot sniper rifles are returning to Warzone this week
- ZeniMax promises 'a proper resolution' after using Elder Scrolls Online fanart in a paid skin without permission
- Speedrunners are already making a mockery of Resident Evil 4's hardest difficulty
- Riot will let you pay to turn your Valorant guns into Counter-Strike guns
- Wordle players should try this new daily puzzle from the New York Times
- QuakeCon will return in-person for 2023, but with some big changes
- Let's Build a Zoo will soon let you build an aquarium, too
- Wonderful, an AI can crack the most common passwords almost instantly
- In 2021 a YouTuber offered $10K to whoever could make a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod, and now you can play it
- Dead by Daylight kills its new healing system after blowback from players
- This gleefully silly FPS takes inspiration from one of Titanfall 2's best levels
- Capcom removes Denuvo from Resident Evil Village
- Play all of Half-Life: Alyx without VR thanks to this mod
- Wordle hint and answer #660: Monday, April 10
- After complaints about 'free' Ark: Survival Evolved upgrade being sold in a $50 bundle with Ark 2, it'll now be in a separate bundle for $60
- April 9
- April 8
- April 7
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- Supplice is a new retro-FPS made by Doom modders, and it really feels like old-school Doom
- Blizzard fixes Overwatch 2 'bug' that it purposefully added in 2019
- World's best chess player loses tournament after 'horror mouseslip'
- The Last of Us on Steam finally gets its first big patch, but it still has the jitters
- I can't believe this keeps happening: leaked Ukraine War plans spread in part through a Minecraft Discord server
- Call of Duty's next season might actually make everyone happy
- In this 'inverse city builder' the island you're building on is slowly shrinking
- Take-Two dismisses lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto modders
- Sons of the Forest's latest patch notes are more disturbing than I expected
- Samsung cuts chip production as profits implode
- Resident Evil 4 Remake gets surprise microtransaction DLC that lets you pay to upgrade your guns
- F.E.A.R. inspired shooter Trepang2 blasts onto Steam this June
- Nvidia's RTX 4070 is unofficially official but still hasn't actually been announced
- Nvidia's low-latency Reflex tech will give older GPUs a boost in Counter-Strike 2
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two is now completely playable in VR thanks to a mod
- Resident Evil 4 Remake's Mercenaries mode is available to play now
- Wordle hint and answer #657: Friday, April 7
- April 6
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- 5,700-word Wild Hearts patch notes promise better performance for 'some CPUs' and other PC improvements
- Sony patented a 'deformable elastic' controller that heats up in your hands, and I can't say I'm in love with the idea
- Play this MOBA-like PvP game's public alpha this weekend so I can stop trying to describe it
- Soothe angry mystical creatures by beating them senseless in a lovely luminous soulslike coming later this month
- Pour one out for Diablo 3 as Blizzard prepares its final new season
- Quantum Break has been removed from Steam and Game Pass, but it's alright
- Dying Light is free on the Epic Games Store
- This new Steam game turns Tetris into a dungeon crawler, and it's pretty darn cool
- EA unveils FIFA's new look and warns of marketing blitz for the ages
- It took 10 years to make it happen, but the sequel to one of my favorite tower defense games is finally almost here
- One of the most influential FPS games inspired the new map in Overwatch 2 season 4
- The PC Gaming Show will return on June 11
- Cisco trashes $23M worth of tech to avoid it being sold in Russia
- ChatGPT is 'so wildly incorrect' that an Australian whistleblower is suing it for defamation
- Five Nights at Freddy's movie gets a release date only eight years after it was announced
- Final Fantasy 14 is giving its second expansion away for free
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's system reqs are out, and I guess I'm buying a new hard drive
- AMD's Zen 5 CPU is scary fast according to performance numbers from the actual father of Zen
- Bohemia has a new 'RTS/FPS crossover' coming, and it's giving me Battlezone vibes
- PC gaming's obsession with high-end hardware is only going to get worse according to analysts
- Sega's April Fool's joke has become its best-rated Sonic game on PC
- Wordle hint and answer #656: Thursday, April 6
- Bethesda added a 'newvegas2' branch to Fallout 4, fueling rumors of a New Vegas follow-up
- April 5
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- Bungie responds to Lightfall complaints and details improvements to come: 'The initial experience we delivered didn't provide the clarity we planned for'
- YouTuber bypasses ChatGPT's ethical constraints to make it generate working Windows 95 keys
- 'There will be a Chirper, for sure' in Cities: Skylines 2, says Colossal Order CEO
- Blizzard president Mike Ybarra reveals Diablo 4 unlock times two months ahead of launch
- Diablo 4's endgame challenges are MMO dailies in disguise
- Here's 16 minutes of gameplay from a new Pokemon-inspired 'monster collecting RPG' coming to Steam later this month
- Area man destroys Elden Ring's pantheon of bosses with a Bop-It
- Amazon share price rises after it lays off even more workers, this time in its gaming divisions
- It's the final end of an era: Former Stadia boss Phil Harrison has left Google
- No Man's Sky's next major update adds new ships and spooky corrupted planets
- Forget the rocket launcher, you can annihilate one of Resident Evil 4 remake's toughest bosses with a couple of eggs
- Your PC is all powerful but can it run Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive mode?
- Snoop Dogg was so eager to quit FaZe Clan's board that he may have dumped around 214K shares to do it
- Bing's AI image generator allows artists to 'limit' its access to their art, but not outright block it
- Nvidia's RTX 3060 is the new Steam Survey king but something fishy is going on
- Wordle hint and answer #655: Wednesday, April 5
- Agony spin-off Succubus VR has been banned from Steam
- Xbox's new controller is made of one-third reclaimed materials
- Wooting's three-buttoned UwU keyboard starts at $50
- April 4
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- Free Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC releasing alongside Chaos Dwarfs detailed
- Super Mario Bros movie review round-up: 'Chris Pratt doesn't ruin the movie' but it's still not that great
- Cities: Skylines 2 developer says multiplayer would make the 'core player experience' worse
- Activision is tormenting Call of Duty cheaters in order to study them, stealing their weapons and turning their enemies invisible
- Here's something to do while you wait for Diablo 4: Plot out Diablo 4 characters with this incredibly handy build planner tool
- Cyberpunk 2077's new 'Overdrive' ray tracing mode actually kind of looks worse to me
- The Last of Us gets another hotfix, but the 'camera jitters' fix has been delayed
- HyperX's new adorable gamer gear-themed pet toys are kind of paw-some
- Catan creator Klaus Teuber has died
- This Elden Ring first-person mod certainly did not put its foolish ambitions to rest
- Overwatch 2's new support hero can sabotage his own team, but Blizzard hopes players will behave
- Crusader Kings 3's second expansion promises enough pomp and circumstance to distract everyone while you 'murder a quarrelsome rival'
- My ultimate childhood Flash game just got a Steam release
- Evo Japan acknowledges its big comeback was 'flawed' and promises to do better next time
- Resident Evil 4 mod makes Ashley a bloodthirsty mouse that lives in Leon's hair
- Intel reportedly bets big on sales of its next-gen Arc graphics cards
- We're teaming up with SpecialEffect and EPOS for an all-year gaming giveaway!
- Monster Energy tries to bully indie dev out of using the word 'monster', but chose the wrong guy to pick on
- TikTok owner made $80B last year, probably not squirming over £12.7m fine for collecting children's data
- Player mutiny forces 19-year-old MMO to retract new 'pay-to-raid' feature two weeks after announcing it
- Upcoming 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitors from Samsung and LG look pretty much perfect
- Samsung's chip boffins couldn't help but tell ChatGPT their secrets
- The spiritual successor to one of the best and least-played management games ever is getting a sequel
- Naughty Dog says Steam Deck support is at the bottom of the list while it tries to get The Last of Us working on PC
- Get up to 60% off SteelSeries peripherals in this Easter sale
- Wordle hint and answer #654: Tuesday, April 4
- April 3
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- Diablo 4 boss has reassuring words for buildcrafters: Respeccing won't be 'prohibitively expensive'
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor design director on starting production in Covid-19 lockdown and still finishing in record time: 'I don't know how we did it'
- I knew Capcom was doing pretty well, but its stock is skyrocketing
- Activision settles esports salary cap lawsuit with Department of Justice
- 'Free' Ark: Survival Evolved upgrade turns out not to be free, and a lot of players are mad
- It's a great week for city builders: 3 new ones are coming to Steam on Wednesday alone
- Overwatch 2's new support heals with flowers and can yank you out of danger
- Help, everyone's turning Resident Evil 4's Ashley into a mouse and now Capcom is in on it too
- Ethernet co-inventor finally bags a Turing Award, half a century later
- It only took 16 years for Team Fortress 2's voice cast to actually play the game
- The ROG handheld PC is real and Asus announced it in the worst way
- The RTX 4070 just leaked, looks like a match for an RTX 3080 without frame gen
- New DirectX 12 preview could pave the way for PCs to become more like an Xbox or PS5
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves directors are considering leaving Faerûn for another setting in a sequel
- I found a Skyrim mod that adds skooma hallucinations, now I'm a drug addict with an imaginary goat
- Wordle hint and answer #653: Monday, April 3
- Voice actor who played Ada Wong in the Resident Evil 4 remake wipes her Instagram after harassment
- Here's 23 free game prototypes from the creators of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
- Obviously, this is a fast-paced roguelike where you are a crab with a gun
- Everything's underwater but you and your friends in survival game Sunkenland
- Cyberpunk life-sim RPG Citizen Sleeper's third, final free DLC is live
- April 2
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- This upcoming FPS is a love letter to soul patches, JNCOs, nu metal, and everything else 1999
- I had my weekend turned on its head by this stop motion-animated pagan fever dream of a game
- 76 of the top 100 most-played games on Steam are playable on a Steam Deck
- Resident Evil fans vote for their favorite character, pick Leon
- Naughty Dog apologizes to Last of Us players on PC
- Wordle hint and answer #652: Sunday, April 2
- Learn D&D or enjoy a solo session with this official browser game
- April 1
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- Kratos calls for ceasefire in console wars
- I hope Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's new weapons take a page from this modder's sick custom movesets
- Rounding up the games industry's best jokes, japery, and doggone tomfoolery from April Fools 2023
- That Musk-signed open letter calling for a pause on AI development is getting blasted by the very researchers it cites
- Thank goodness Corsair's 'Elite Tactile Distractors' aren't a real product, or else I'd never get anything done
- Wordle hint and answer #651: Saturday, April 1
- Dark and Darker dev starts and then pauses GoFundMe for Nexon legal battle: 'The reality of the situation is that their end goal is to bleed us dry in court fees'
