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- June 28
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- It would take a lot to get OG Fallout lead Tim Cain to return to the series: 'The very first question out of my mouth is 'What's new about it?''
- Space Marine 2 public beta test is cancelled so developers can focus on 'optimization, polish and fixing remaining issues'
- This Skyrim mod makes tableware so gloriously beautiful I can't stop staring at it
- They're gonna let us kill Conor McGregor in Hitman
- 24 years later, you can finally pet the dog in Deus Ex thanks to its all-encompassing Randomizer mod
- Player laments the fall of Soulcalibur, Tekken director Harada responds with a literal essay about it: 'I don't think the fire of Project Soul has been extinguished'
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree claws its way back to a 'Mostly Positive' rating on Steam: 'Don't listen to the negativity. Big sword still go brrr'
- A new action-RPG inspired by Dark Messiah of Might and Magic looks almost too good to be true, and some people are worried it's The Day Before all over again
- Less than a month after joining work on the Sands of Time remake, Ubisoft Toronto lays off 33 employees 'to ensure it can deliver on its ambitious roadmap'
- FBI puts a $5 million bounty on the missing Cryptoqueen—'We will probably know within a few weeks if it’s worked'
- Palworld's newest major update Sakurajima adds tons of new Pals and buildings, but you won't be able to kidnap tower bosses anymore
- Pink Mercy is back in Overwatch 2, and apart from ruining years of black market accounts, it vaulted the FPS onto Steam's best-sellers list
- Dawntrail's opening hour made my heart so full, which is almost enough to distract me from these mysterious gimp suits
- One of Final Fantasy 14's easiest raids accidentally goes turbo hard mode thanks to a bug wiping the entire group
- Damn Yoshi-P wasn't lying, Final Fantasy 14's servers really are beefed up and Dawntrail-ready
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree player does an 'all-hit' run of the DLC's final boss, refusing to dodge, block, parry, or even heal until the job is done
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Steam numbers have dwindled into the low hundreds, placing it side-by-side with Gotham Knights
- Mark Zuckerberg accuses AI competitors of attempting to 'create God'
- AMD's FSR 3.1 finally arrives, sporting an improved upscaler for less ghosting, flickering, and shimmering in games
- I'm now hooked on Starfield, and it's all thanks to its recent game-changing upgrade
- All Zenless Zone Zero codes from the 1.0 livestream
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's 7.0 graphics update really is a game-changer—breathing life, colour, and atmosphere into the 11-year old MMO
- Ageing Windows 10 PCs will live on an extra five years thanks to third-party security patches
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 28
- June 27
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- Multiple Assassin's Creed remakes are in the works, according to Ubisoft CEO: 'There are worlds in some of our older Assassin's Creed games that are still extremely rich'
- Paramount rounds out a grim month for media preservation by nuking 25 years of Comedy Central video
- Elden Ring folk hero Let Me Solo Her has been reborn in Shadow of the Erdtree as Let Me Solo Him
- Hidetaka Miyazaki says Elden Ring might be as big a game as he ever wants to make: 'Where FromSoftware is right now, in terms of scale, I would say Elden Ring is really the limit'
- The Dr Disrespect fallout continues as YouTube, 2K Games, Turtle Beach, the NFL, and others cut ties with the disgraced streamer
- Frostpunk 2 delayed because its developers want to add features 'you deserve to see in-game on day one, not in a patch added after the release'
- Despite all the difficulty grousing, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has sold 5 million copies in less than a week
- 1980s court documents show Nintendo considered 'Kong Dong' and 'Kong the Kong' before settling on the name Donkey Kong
- Yeehaw! 'Red Dead Redemption meets Stardew Valley' in cozy cowboy life sim Cattle Country
- The 2024 Steam Summer Sale is live
- Star Wars: Bounty Hunter remaster is coming in August, and fans are more than a little nervous after the disastrous Battlefront Classic Collection
- The deadliest weapon in Shadow of the Erdtree is a bottle of perfume that can evaporate the DLC's final boss in 13 seconds, thanks to hitbox buffoonery
- The latest attempt to revive Tribes looks cooked after three months
- Nothing brings me more pain than knowing Wordle could have been called Mr. Bugs' Wordy Nugz, but the creator thought otherwise
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail gets its own in-universe tourism website, complete with activity recs, recipes, and small-print about dying horribly
- FromSoftware all but gets on its knees and begs Shadow of the Erdtree players to take their Scadutree supplements, posts a map to one on Steam
- 'I absolutely suck at video games': Hidetaka Miyazaki discusses how he prepped for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- With or without DRAM, both of these super fast 2 TB SSDs are great value for money at just 7 cents per GB
- I've just been put to shame: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree player parries its final boss into the dirt like they're Gwyn, Lord of Chumps
- The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is so good at gaming, AMD might give more juice to the Ryzen 7 9700X in order to beat it
- Intel claims its optical interconnect chiplet technology is 'like going from using horse-drawn carriages to using cars and trucks'
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 27
- Future Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC will expand the popular Immortal Empires campaign instead of the controversial Realm of Chaos because 'Immortal Empires is the quintessential Warhammer experience'
- June 26
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- This twin-stick shooter is a Desert Strike throwback except your helicopter talks, drinks blood, and defends the world from a lizard-man invasion
- Look out, Shadowplay: Steam now has a built-in 'Game Recording' feature that will automatically record gameplay videos you can clip, share, and export
- DRDR, Frank's in the news: Capcom announces Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
- The latest friendship-ruining co-op game on Steam is a punishing platformer where you're chained to your pals, and it's about to crack 100,000 concurrent players
- The game about clicking a banana finally keeps track of how many times you click the banana
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide's latest update adds new weapons and a mission to reactivate an icy AdMech foundry
- Scientists create a face for robots out of 'cultured human cells' and it's something that I wish I could unsee now
- The new game from the maker of El Paso, Elsewhere is about a man in a chair in the corner of a dark hotel room, and yes, he wants to watch
- This bizarre, vague Kickstarter promises a "multimedia fantasy RPG experience" including a D&D-compatible sourcebook, an actual play series, an animated short film, a vinyl soundtrack, a scented candle, and (somehow) more
- After 1,070 deaths, almost 100 hours, and one therapy session, streamer Kai Cenat finally beats Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- This punchy HDR400 1440p Gigabyte gaming monitor has an IPS panel and rocks 144 Hz refresh for just $200
- Race to uncover the Bigfoot of Baldur's Gate 3 cutscenes hots up as YouTuber dangles $500 carrot in front of anyone who can find it
- Ever wanted to rip open an NFC travel card to see how it all works? One engineer has done just that and it's way cooler than you'd think
- This Baldur's Gate 3 mod turns the game into a chaotic roguelike, which is great if you just want to slay some monsters like you're in an old school D&D campaign
- Grab your popcorn as Microsoft lands in hot water again with the EU for its 'insufficient' changes to how it bundles Teams
- Zenless Zone Zero's producer has spent an ungodly amount of time playing Street Fighter 6, which makes the whisperings of a collaboration even more understandable
- Helldivers 2 director weighs in on Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's difficulty: 'A game for everyone is a game for no one'
- Zenless Zone Zero's launch roster won't quite match the numbers of Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, but its producer says the team is going for 'quality not quantity'
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's latest patch buffs your power in its earlier hours, with 'other balance adjustments' to come—also, you may need to turn ray tracing off again
- Intel denies Lunar Lake laptop chip delay but reports say Arrow Lake could actually go on sale first
- MSI is using cut-down RTX 4090 GPUs in at least one of its RTX 4070 Ti Super models, with a higher TGP but no extra performance
- GOG is bringing the original Resident Evil trilogy back from the dead, and to digital PC storefronts for the first time
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 26
- June 25
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- MMOs 'don't give people the tools to build community anymore,' says EverQuest 2 creative director
- Following AI art complaints, Pokémon Company boots contest finalists who allegedly already robbed themselves of the joy of drawing a little guy
- Forza Horizon 4 is being removed from sale because of expiring licenses, but at least it'll keep running after it's gone
- Former Halo and Destiny producer says live service model is 'much better for developers and players' than the '$60 boxed product model'
- Dr Disrespect finally confirms the reason for his lifetime Twitch ban, admits to messages with a minor that were 'in the direction of being inappropriate'
- Farming Simulator 25 announced, with a collector's edition that includes a 'USB ignition lock' that lets you turn a real key to start your virtual tractors
- Late Microsoft co-founder's treasure hoard of artefacts to be auctioned, includes a letter Einstein sent to Roosevelt that ultimately led to the Manhattan Project
- Dead by Daylight's new survivor is 'a legendary character that epitomizes the spirit of survival instinct,' and her name is Lara Croft
- Total War: Warhammer 3 is giving away a big dog that summons little dogs for free
- Nearly 6 months later, Palworld devs confirm Nintendo never drew so much as an inch of its legal sword over bootleg Pokémon allegations
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree may still take inspiration from Berserk, but this mod will turn you into the best sorcerer from Jujutsu Kaisen
- John Romero says that what set Wolfenstein and Doom apart 'was our speed—the speed of the game was critical'
- 404 deaths and 32 hours deep into his DLC marathon, Elden Ring streamer Kai Cenat tells difficulty critics to 'put your big boy pants on, go out there, and go fight'
- Most Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree mods just make the DLC easier, including a 'Journalist mode' which lets you take 50% less damage
- Grab a 512 GB original Steam Deck for less than the 256 GB version thanks to Valve's 15% off sale
- It's been a frustrating 18 months since launch but we'll finally be getting PCIe 5 SSDs worth a damn this year
- A Stardew Valley modder has decided to weed out the weak with a hardcore mode that'll delete your save if you look at the wiki
- Nvidia loses $500 billion in the biggest short term loss in company value in all of recorded history. A year ago that would have killed it yet today it will barely notice
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's preliminary patch notes are here—showing fixes to those annoying stealth quests and the ability to banish NPC-crowding players to the shadow realm
- If you'd like to play Elden Ring as a powerful bare-fisted Dryleaf monk (but don't want to wait 100 levels), this mod lets you get Shadow of the Erdtree's gear right away
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 25
- June 24
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- Dr Disrespect fired by the game studio he co-founded: 'It is our duty to act with dignity on behalf of all individuals involved'
- Dr Disrespect dismisses ex-Twitch employee's allegation that he was banned over DMs with a minor: 'I didn't do anything wrong, all this has been probed and settled'
- Shadow of the Erdtree's unmasked NPC faces prove once again FromSoftware is the king of completely unnecessary details
- EverQuest players want 'a hard game' because 'the challenge leads to a sense of accomplishment,' says designer
- Tim Cain reveals his involvement in the cancellation of Interplay's Fallout 3: 'I don't think it would have been a game you would have liked playing'
- Avowed's devs tap the it's not Skyrim sign for the third time in a year (at least), and 'don't love' to compare games, anyway
- 'Devastating loss': Digital lending library, Internet Archive, removes 500,000 books after being sued by publishers
- The eco-puzzler Terra Nil is getting its first major update featuring a 'dramatic overhaul of the wildlife system'
- Best Buy has jumped the gun on Amazon Prime Day by launching its Member Deals Days and here are four good reasons to avoid it
- Black Desert celebrates its 10th anniversary with a brand-new class: a pipe-smoking swordsman who can summon an army of ghost archers
- Please be nice about FF14: Dawntrail spoilers if you're in early access, says Square Enix, as some players will start 'at the official launch or play at their own pace'
- Bungie patches an unknown exploit, but players think it has something to do with an AFK loot farm in private Crucible matches
- War Thunder somehow released official art with the debris cloud of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster as background
- LG brings tandem OLED panels to laptops, claiming three times the brightness and double the lifespan of current self-emissive screens
- The first technical deep dive of the Zen 5 architecture is here, with preliminary benchmarks supporting AMD's IPC claims
- As Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree continues to pound players into the dirt, Bandai Namco calls them out in the most devastatingly polite way possible
- Why bother using spinning fans to cool your PC when you can just spin your whole rig?
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 24
- Its five year plan complete, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic releases its industrial city-building into 1.0
- Thanks to the abridged version of actual-play RPG series Critical Role, I might make it through a whole campaign for once
- June 23
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- More details on MS Flight Simulator 2024, including full 3D landscapes in 30 biomes
- There is an early power up in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree that basically turns the game into Sekiro, but the description is so vague I didn't realize how good it was until 40 hours later
- FIFA will host an actual Rocket League world cup complete with national teams
- Mad with power, researcher and Minecraft fan creates a way to voxelize the whole world
- Model viewer forensics reveal that Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's Dancing Lion boss is actually two little guys piloting it around
- Check out this hilarious indie about a robot reporter working for a sci-fi newspaper
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 23
- Larian gave Baldur's Gate 3 its acclaimed reactivity by approaching it as 'weird Dungeon Masters'
- Diablo 4's adding a wave-based roguelite mode in Season 5
- June 22
- June 21
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- Lowering Elden Ring's difficulty would attract more players but would also 'break the game itself,' says director Hidetaka Miyazaki
- The latest Space Marine 2 gameplay overview promises 'seemingly endless waves' of Tyranids, chill hangouts on the Battle Barge
- Shadows: Awakening, an isometric RPG where you play a soul-sucking demon, is free on GOG
- Zero-G PvP shooter that sold 100K in a day is closing after a year—publisher blames developer, developer blames them right back, players just review bomb it
- Pirate game not seen since 2010 will finally release this year
- Miyazaki 'went a little too far' with Elden Ring's poison swamps but says he learned a lesson, which unfortunately is that he needed to come up with new and different ways to kill everyone
- Cyberpunk life sim Nivalis is now set to come out in spring 2025, and I'm more excited for it than ever
- Extreme overclocker Vince 'Kingpin' Lucido is working with PNY on its GPUs—and potentially the next-gen Nvidia cards
- 'Seems the Spear is cursed': Even in an otherwise good Helldivers 2 patch, the FAF-14 Spear can't catch a break as it starts crashing games
- Xbox executives just cannot give a straight answer to questions about Tango Gameworks
- Super-tiny capacitors could enable a 'whole new realm' of ultra-efficient devices, maybe even handheld gaming PCs with more than 15 minutes of battery life
- Riot unveils League of Legends' summer event and, by jove, I think that's just Vampire Survivors
- 'We just happened to release it into the market at the right time': Even after Elden Ring's DLC victory lap, FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki still wears the 'soulslike' crown with humility
- Relax with our very favorite already-affordable gaming chair, it just got even cheaper at $220
- This 20,000HP AI-generated rocket engine took just two weeks to design and looks like HR Giger's first attempt at designing a trumpet
- CD Projekt sends in Geralt to help its devs kill Mohg as it congratulates Shadow of the Erdtree on eclipsing Witcher 3's record review scores
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's release has busted the Seamless Co-op mod, but its creator has a fix incoming 'as soon as possible'
- Intel's Lunar Lake mobile CPUs reportedly delayed until the end of the year, missing the big back-to-school period
- 6 months after revealing plans to become 'aggressive in applying AI', Square Enix's president announces he's being careful in applying AI
- The Hollow Knight: Silksong delirium reaches its pitchfork stage as former playtester saying the game isn't 'in dev hell' gets eviscerated for it
- You can grab all 3 Dragon Age games and all their DLC for a measly 10 bucks on Steam right now
- US Gov announces upcoming ban of Kaspersky antivirus software for US customers—including future updates—citing an 'unacceptable risk to national security'
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 21
- June 20
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- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is out now and tearing up the Steam charts
- Ubisoft uses the Beyond Good and Evil remaster to promise us for the 29th time—yes, we counted—that Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still happening
- Embracer embraces a 'human-centric' AI policy, says vague stuff about how it will 'massively enhance game development'
- Sony accidentally leaked an unannounced Helldivers 2 stratagem by getting its rocket launchers confused
- In Dune: Awakening you 'physically fly' your ornithopter between servers on an overland map filled with 'hundreds of other players'
- The original Counter-Strike mod is 25 years old, Valve calls it 'the greatest videogame ever made'
- Elden Ring's big patch is causing big problems for Steam Deck players
- Elden Ring's pre-Erdtree patch makes a big, surprise quality-of-life change: You can finally summon Torrent for the final fight against the big boss
- WoW's devs will continue to use private auras, which limit UI addon functionality, in The War Within: though they'd like to be selective to avoid cures 'worse than the disease'
- Dev promises that Steam sensation Banana has 'no scamming', after fellow dev's shady faux-Bitcoin past sees his fruits confiscated
- This RTX 4080 Super is cheap enough at $950 to make it exceedingly tempting
- This generative AI-powered LEGO 'printer' turns text prompts into dreams. I mean, LEGO pixel art
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is hard as nails, says Miyazaki: 'We've really pushed the envelope in terms of what we think can be withstood by the player'
- Miyazaki says don't worry, the shiny new weapons in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree shouldn't outpace your old favourites
- Is Apple feeling OK? Reports indicate it's suspending work on the Vision Pro 2 to focus on making—wait for it—a cheaper version
- After accidentally releasing its Beyond Good & Evil remaster, Ubisoft has now accidentally announced it
- Windows-powered Arm devices are compatible with 'more than 1,200 games at 30 fps or higher' and now support BattlEye and Denuvo
- A new hero has emerged as Elden Ring players help each other prepare for the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC—the fearsome Let Me Comet Him
- I've played Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree for 15 hours and haven’t seen like half the bosses in this launch trailer, which is fine
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Lords Mobile is getting ready for the next battle as it kicks off collaboration with THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 20
- June 19
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- History is your murder playground in Assassin's Creed x Magic: The Gathering
- Elden Ring speedrunners are racing to see who can kill Mohg the fastest, which is a good reminder that most of you still haven't finished the job
- Intellectual property law has come for the word 'Meeple'
- Here's everything from the June 2024 Nintendo Direct that's coming to PC
- Square Enix has a plan for dealing with Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's inevitable server crush, which includes saying 'we apologize for the inconvenience' 5 separate times
- Fallout: Nuevo Mexico dev team breaks months of silence, confirms the big New Vegas mod we liked so much last year is 'on hold' as lead developer steps back from the project
- Huh: SimCity 2000's library has an essay about cities written by Neil Gaiman
- FromSoftware's boss doesn't talk much about his personal life, but he now gets recognized in public, which Miyazaki says 'keeps me on my best behavior'
- Former dev from sunken Sims competitor Life by You alleges the team had 'the rug pulled' from under them—despite outperforming the company's internal metrics
- 'It's done on our end': Helldivers 2's infamous review bomb cape is ready, but Arrowhead is looking for 'the right time to release it'
- Sure, you could be boring or you could buy one of the best wireless gaming mice for its lowest price in a real stand out color
- Habbo Hotel: Origins is a delightfully strange and chaotic time capsule from the internet of the early 2000s—and a fresh start for a game marred by controversy
- Fallout: New Vegas modders come fully unglued in a race to see who can do the stupidest possible thing to a missionary's hat, and it's lasted nearly a month so far
- Monster Hunters can now flatten everything with the Sax-a-Boom, a toy instrument best-known for a Jack Black skit
- Hackers claim to have carried off an enormous data heist on AMD, selling info on employee and customer information, future products and specs
- SSD prices could steady or even drop as NAND chip makers boost production
- 'Sekiro was a big turning point': After Elden Ring Hidetaka Miyazaki says, 'there's one more level we can crank it up to'
- Intel clarifies what BIOS settings 13th/14th Gen CPUs should be used for power and current
- Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company, but will somebody please think about poor old PC gamers?
- Baldur's Gate 3 foreshadowed one of its biggest Act 3 twists with music even earlier than I thought—but don't worry if you didn't catch it: 'That was exactly the idea'
- XFX's new Magnetic Air graphics cards let you hot-swap fans, solving the apparent plague of fan hub axle separation. What do you mean you've never heard of it?
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 19
- June 18
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- Call of Duty's new Fallout crossover dresses up Price and the lads in stretchy blue jammies, and I'm sorry but it's not a great look
- Not even Riot wants to try competing with Fortnite on user-generated content: 'I'm not gonna go pick that fight with Epic'
- The father of Final Fantasy teamed back up with Square Enix after 21 years to break his latest RPG out of Apple Arcade jail
- The voice of Mass Effect's sexy bird man Garrus will be the voice of Avowed's sexy fish man Kai
- A PEGI rating for the OG 1996 Resident Evil has me once again preparing to enter the world of survival horror
- 737 days since the last Silksong news, and not a whisper from this year's Nintendo Direct—I'd like to say fans are coping well but, y'know
- AMD's new 890M mobile GPU could be over 30% faster than the 780M currently used in most handheld gaming PCs
- Cities: Skylines 2 warns players about an oncoming 'death wave' that'll kill your elderly, 'The older your citizens are, the more severe it will be'
- An origami USB connector and a games console that'll fit in your wallet—two entries in a contest to make business cards exciting
- Fetch the popcorn: US government sues Adobe, says it's 'trapped' consumers with a subs model that's 'absurdly hard to cancel' and 'ambushed' them with late fees
- Todd Howard says Bethesda won't be remaking the first Fallouts because 'some of the charm of games from that era is a little bit of that age'
- Hours after cancelling its only game, Paradox shutters its 24-person Life by You studio
- Helldivers CCO Johan Pilestedt reminds players (twice) that he's not solely responsible for the latest good patch, and wants 'to clarify that I did not cook'
- The company that invented the AIO cooler has seen its share price plummet 40% due to a slump in demand
- Emulation proves the inevitable Achilles' Heel of Qualcomm's new PC chips when it comes to gaming
- Tough day at the office? How about a mandatory photo montage to calm you down, ordered by an AI that's monitoring how close you get to breaking point
- Todd Howard confirms that Starfield will get more DLCs after Shattered Space for 'hopefully a very long time'
- 'Work with the players ... otherwise you shouldn't be doing it': Heads at Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios say you ought to 'really mean it' going into early access
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 18
- June 17
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- Bandai Namco just surprise-dropped 2 classic Baten Kaitos RPGs on Steam
- Just days after saving the children, Helldivers 2 players are ordered to annihilate bug children in a weeklong nuke-a-thon
- The two most-played games on Steam today are Counter-Strike 2 and this game where you click a banana
- Todd Howard responds to controversy over Starfield's $7 mission: 'We hear the feedback'
- To create its cast of Baldur's Gate 3 companions, Larian came up with 'hundreds and hundreds' of character concepts: 'It was a huge, huge list'
- Paradox cancels life sim Life by You, CEO says they gave the studio 'a fair shot' but now 'believe it is better to stop'
- Manor Lords players overwhelmingly vote against changing historically accurate yet NSFW character name
- The guy who fought Malenia over and over until Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree was announced is back for one last dance
- Embracer has closed Alone in the Dark studio Pieces Interactive
- This RTX 4070 gaming laptop has the best OLED display I've ever seen for the money
- Dungeon Clawler is a roguelike claw machine game, which is just as frustrating and moreish as it sounds
- Hero coder finds bug in Lunar Lander after 55 years—'I suspect everybody else was just happy to play the game and have fun'
- 'Cheating and exploiting undermine the integrity of our game': Over 600 Star Citizen accounts have been suspended for racking up in-game currency
- This 8-bit demake of Baldur's Gate 3 was made for a 40-year-old laptop, and it's a massive shot of pure 1980s gaming nostalgia
- Karlach's infernal engine was a late addition to her character in Baldur's Gate 3: 'One of the last things that fell into place was the heart'
- Intel found a bug in its high-end CPU microcode is 'potentially contributing to instability' though 'is not the root cause' of those long-reported game crashes
- Lords of the Fallen 2, which is technically Lords of the Fallen 3, is due in 2026 and will probably be an Epic exclusive
- FromSoftware boss addresses gaming industry layoffs: 'As long as this company's my responsibility, I would not let that happen'
- Asus agrees to a whole raft of US warranty service improvements after it meets with Gamers Nexus
- Final Fantasy 14's healers have had enough and are going on strike, after streamer tears through Dawntrail's first dungeon preview without needing them at all
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 17
- Classic indie Shovel Knight is geting a definitive edition
- June 16
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- Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is coming in September
- Baldur's Gate 3 fan discovers second, hidden approval score for Shadowheart that unlocks dialogue I've never seen in 300 hours of play
- Monster Hunter Stories finally has its PC port
- A Destiny player known for soloing the game's toughest activities was stumped by its new mission that won't load without a second player—until he resolved to play two Guardians at once
- Senior World of Warcraft dev says we might see single player 'story mode' versions of legacy raids in the future
- In 1989, a Nintendo bigwig licensed SimCity on the spot by sliding a million dollar check across the table
- FromSoftware says Elden Ring's popular Seamless Co-op mod is 'definitely not something we actively oppose,' and may even 'consider ideas like that with our future games'
- Total War: Warhammer 3's next DLC will focus on the ogres, the greenskins, and Khorne
- After 12 years at Blizzard, Warcraft general manager John Hight announces departure: 'I've been so honored to serve all of the heroes of Azeroth'
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 16
- An award-winning photo was disqualified from the AI category of a competition because it turned out to be real
- June 15
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- The next game from Heaven's Vault studio Inkle is about a 1920s school for girls
- Files allegedly obtained in the 2021 CD Projekt hack indicate Cyberpunk 2077 was once planned to have a level or DLC set on the Moon
- There'll be a limited edition Lamborghini PC case that looks a lot like every other PC case
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard leads say it will be 'mission-based' rather than open world, with no fetch quests or busywork: 'You're not going to be gathering shards in the Hinterlands'
- 'I'm still in the process of making my ideal fantasy RPG,' says FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki: 'While Elden Ring is not quite it, it's getting close'
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, June 15
- June 14
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- Dying in Spelunky sometimes makes me mad, but it always just makes me laugh in comically brutal roguelike Lucky Tower Ultimate
- As the newly released World of Warcraft was dominating the 2000s, Blizzard's then-president had his own priorities—working on StarCraft 1 patches
- Maxis canceled The Sims in the '90s, but it was saved by an unlikely hero: Electronic Arts
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard can be played entirely offline and won't have microtransactions: 'Our focus is on making this the most complete singleplayer game we possibly can'
- Wizard with a Gun developer Galvanic Games is closing: 'Sales are not strong enough to sustain our studio'
- I'm already in love with New Blood's latest, the pulp noir immersive sim Fallen Aces, and you can get it for just $10
- I asked Dark Souls director Miyazaki about his now-legendary Undead Dragon quote, and he had a great response: 'Something beautiful needs something depraved or tragic to embolden that beauty'
- Skyrim player killing Nazeem every single day until The Elder Scrolls 6 is released has now done it 1,000 times, celebrates with a Nazeem-only battle royale
- Elden Ring is getting a beefy content update with new inventory features and hairstyles alongside the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion
- Bill Gates has written a book about his childhood called, you guessed it, Source Code
- Helldivers players saved the children, so Arrowhead Game Studios is making a donation to the Save the Children charity
- Microsoft president grovels before Congress, takes responsibility for a 'cascade' of cybersecurity errors
- While other companies do expensive crossovers with Fortnite, Renault's been modding its little electric car into Garry's Mod, Palworld and Stardew Valley—and the mods actually look good
- Assassin's Creed Shadows executive producer says Elon Musk is just 'feeding hatred' with his reaction to the game's Black protagonist
- Tell Me Why, a narrative adventure from the creators of Life Is Strange, is free to keep on Steam right now to celebrate Pride month, and… hold on, haven't we done this before?
- Microsoft chickens out of rolling out Recall to all Copilot+ PCs, choosing instead to push the all-seeing AI tool out to Windows Insiders first
- Qualcomm touts Intel-beating gaming performance for its Snapdragon X Arm chip, promises gaming app plus monthly GPU driver updates
- Steam Next Fest's 10 most played demos of June 2024 include an adorable building game, a surprising turn-based strategy spin-off, and a survival shooter where everyone's a duck
- Err, is XFX working on swappable GPU fans?
- Pay no attention to AMD's horribly misleading benchmarks for its 'new' Ryzen 5000 XT CPUs
- This ChatGPT-powered robot koala bear is giving me serious Five Nights at Freddy's vibes
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 14
- Hatsune Miku is returning to Magic: The Gathering for a second bite of the pie
- The studio that made one of the first MMOs just announced a new one after 27 years
- June 13
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- Senior Riot devs say the League of Legends playerbase is getting older, with fewer newbies jumping in: 'Candidly, it's not the same situation it was 10 years ago'
- Jackbox players rejoice: A free 'Megapicker' is coming soon that can launch the specific Party Pack game you want to play
- Terraria creator has a new 'no questions asked' refund policy: 'Personally defeat me in PvP'
- Hidetaka Miyazaki 'knows for a fact' other FromSoftware devs want a Bloodborne PC port: 'If I say I want one, I'll get in trouble, but it's nothing I'm opposed to'
- Monster Hunter Wilds director aims to push hardware 'to the max' to bring the world to life: 'Any Monster Hunter game where I'm director is always going to be focusing on the ecosystem'
- Minecraft 1.21, the Tricky Trials update, is out now
- Metal Gear Solid Delta's producer is up for the challenge of reviving one of gaming's greatest series, and wants fans along for the ride: 'Please keep watching, and keep us honest'
- After 6 years, Blizzard is finally bringing back the rarest Mercy skin in Overwatch, and there's a new version too
- Cities: Skylines 2 kills off its (virtual) landlords to save players from the cruelty of soaring rent prices
- Ultimate power: These two mega-PSUs are ready for the most demanding of components, all without draining your wallet
- Destiny 2's new exotic mission is the best Bungie has made in years, but some solo players are furious about having to speak to each other
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree shows some uncharacteristic mercy with identical system requirements to the base game
- Everywhere, an upcoming multiplayer sandbox game with a powerful creation suite under the hood, will be opening its toolkit to closed beta testers soon
- Helldivers 2's enormous balance patch means business—weapons are getting buffed, galactic map supply lines are here, solo patrols are sensible again, and the worst mission modifier is gone
- 'The CPU is the weakest link in computing'—Flow says it can boost CPU performance up to 100x with its proprietary companion chip
- Hands on with the Zotac Zone gaming handheld: It's got a gorgeous screen, but the competition is ramping up
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 13
- June 12
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- Obsidian CEO responds to worries Xbox could shut them down, too: 'I'm not worried about tomorrow'
- Armello studio League of Geeks is 'going into hibernation for the foreseeable future' and may not be back
- Microsoft backs up Geoff Keighley after he ignited console warrior outrage over the Gears of War: E-Day trailer
- Epic Games Store leak points to upcoming releases of Final Fantasy 9 remake, The Last of Us Part 2, and more
- Valve is being sued in the UK for $843 million for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers and abusing its dominant position' with Steam
- Helldivers 2 is hiring a second game master to help Joel carry the weight of a galaxy, and 'inconvenient working hours are expected'
- With Shadow of the Erdtree, FromSoftware wanted to build a map 'that's not quite open field and not quite legacy dungeon,' but instead 'blends the two together'
- According to the game's director, the $500 League of Legends Ahri skin wasn't meant for the average fan, but instead 'players who are willing to spend $200 a month on their hobbies'
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P implies that Dawntrail's story will have something to do with the Twelve and the Ascians still, and my brain is on fire
- AMD's greatest gaming CPU won't be beaten by AMD's latest gaming CPU, and that's according to AMD
- Monster Hunter Wilds director says changes to the ecosystem are persistent: 'Even as you return to base, the world outside is moving on and continuing where you left it in the background'
- Monster Hunter Wilds' hunting horn will be more like World's than Rise's, but Capcom promises new moves: 'If you're a fan of the hunting horn, I'm sure you're going to love it in Wilds'
- Helldivers players now have to choose between unlocking a sweet new weapon or going in to save a 'Hospital for Very Sick Children'
- Fallout 76 is giving us an outpost that you can customise like 'your house in Skyrim' but you'll have to run the gauntlet first
- Grab an RX 7800 XT or RX 7700 XT and you can pick two games to keep from Lies of P, Avatar, Starfield and, my fav, CoH3
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's romanceable companions won't just wait around for you to woo them—also, they're all canonically pansexual
- Could Arm's legal battle with Qualcomm over technology licences stop Copilot+ PCs from really taking off?
- MediaTek is aiming to do a Qualcomm and make Arm chips for Copilot+ PCs, targeting a 2025 release
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 12
- June 11
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- One day after trumpeting its big Summer Game Fest reveals, Sumo Group is laying off 15% of its workers and closing Timbre Games
- Nimbly dodging confirmation of a rumored Xbox handheld, Phil Spencer says he's excited about 'the work that the team is doing around different form factors'
- Here's a 'friendly PSA' for Shadow of the Erdtree: Only 39% of Elden Ring players have beaten the optional boss necessary to reach the DLC
- With Helldivers 2's largest ever patch just days away, Arrowhead opens up about its slower update schedule going forward: 'We're definitely not resting on our laurels or being complacent'
- Elden Ring's developers know most players use guides, but still try to cater to those who go in blind: 'If they can't do it, then there's some room for improvement on our behalf'
- Killed by Google in 2021, Discord's most popular music bot is back from the dead
- Horse Armor rides again: Bethesda is charging $7 for a single Starfield mission and after months of minimal post-launch support, unhappy fans are feeling ripped off
- A new trailer for the League of Legends animated series Arcane reveals the second season will be its last
- Casper Van Dien is loving the Starship Troopers renaissance but finds it mind-boggling some still take it at face value: 'My grandfather fought against the Nazis, and it's not a pro-war film—Everybody f***ing dies!'
- At just $850, this is the cheapest RTX 4060 gaming laptop I've seen in a very long time
- TSMC's chairman hints at potential higher prices for Nvidia—'I think those products are really valuable...but I am thinking about showing our value as well'
- Fans are afraid they'll turn Snake into a walking corpse after Konami announces that any injuries will 'leave their mark permanently'
- FOMO is alive and well—Life is Strange: Double Exposure has a 2-week early access period if you cough up some dough for its Ultimate Edition
- Obsidian's Avowed shows off a 25-minute deep dive—revealing a 3rd person mode, a first look at its RPG mechanics, and a flirty wizard in need of a vase
- AMD's new Ryzen AI laptop chips aren't officially supported on Windows 10, thanks to its NPU and Copilot+
- This Acer Helios gaming laptop shines bright with a 240 Hz IPS display and an RTX 4070 for just $1,400
- Fresh rumours claim Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell cards won't have a wider memory bus or more VRAM—apart from the RTX 5090
- The Legend of Vox Machina, Critical Role's animated retelling of the D&D campaign that made it famous, gets a release date and trailer for its 3rd season
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 11
- June 10
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- XDefiant will get team deathmatch in 'a couple weeks' because we hassled them about it lots
- One of my top early access games is finally getting a second level: a 3-hour underground factory-city with an overhauled, Thief-style stealth system, a new RPG hub area, and an explanation for where all those FPS crates come from
- A modder has already brought Doom: The Dark Age's new 'Shield Saw' to the 1993 original, and it's pretty close to perfect
- Vile treachery: When you 'ran' on the Citadel in Mass Effect, it just changed the FOV to make it look like you were going faster
- WB Games promises Suicide Squad 'will complete its currently announced roadmap'
- Repeatedly delayed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake is now set for release in 2026 and no longer has 'remake' in the title
- It's been 729 days since the last appearance of Silksong, and the Hollow Knight fans are in a bad way
- A new Anno city builder is coming in 2025, this time set in Ancient Rome
- I'm slightly less panicked about Dragon Age: The Veilguard after seeing 24 seconds of gameplay
- Casper Van Dien says Helldivers 2 may be 'a good tribute' but now he's Johnny Rico again, and Starship Troopers fans better 'come in here and help us kill some damn bugs—Yeah!'
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will not depict 9/11, Treyarch confirms
- Bungie's surprise showcase did not announce Destiny 3, but Destiny 2 is getting vampire hunting, the return of the Dreadnaught, and something codenamed 'Frontiers' in 2025
- OutRage: Fight Fest is a nifty 16-player brawler that's trying to do punch-'em-up Fall Guys, but I'm just not sure there's enough depth to get people hooked
- Ryzen 9000 X3D chips could be with us by September, just three months after AMD's Zen 5 launch
- Dark and Darker developer is 'looking to make amends' because its free-to-play model is 'not well designed'
- Grab either of these 2TB NVMe drives for just $140 and enjoy ultra fast loading times in all your games
- Obsidian CEO confident Avowed will be out in 2024: 'There's a lot of work ahead in the next while, but it's not, like, 'Oh crap'
- Treyarch is doing what it does best by taking Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 back to its roots with a round-based Zombies mode
- Microsoft makes Recall an optional feature on Copilot+ PCs after it 'heard a clear signal' from the public
- Has Dragon Age lost its identity, or am I just being grumpy about BioWare’s new take on it?
- Phil Spencer continues to dance around Hi Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks' closure, says he has 'to make hard decisions that frankly are not decisions I love'
- Powercolor's Edge AI aims to significantly reduce GPU power consumption without a big hit in frame rates
- The ultimate Ultima retrospective series has now covered Ultima 4 and Ultima 5
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 10
- The next Call of Duty will yet again require a constant internet connection to play the singleplayer campaign on PC, and for the first time on console as well
- Age of Mythology: Retold will be out in September and is coming to Game Pass day one
- June 9
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- The new Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons book is a vital piece of gaming history
- Let's count all the ways I'm gonna die horribly in the new Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl trailer
- Gunboat God is a hectic seafaring shoot 'em up with Cuphead and Luftrausers vibes
- 'Grow your cult… with your friends': Worship's new trailer shows off how much chaos you can cause in this dark roguelike
- Dead Cells developer shows off upcoming roguelite Windblown and its stylish, fast-paced 3 player co-op
- Stormforge shows survival crafting co-op isn't just for fair weather friends
- Airframe Ultra is Wipeout crossed with Road Rash
- Embark on a journey through Icelandic folklore in upcoming adventure game Island of Winds
- Gone are the days of cows and chickens in farming sims, I'm replacing my farm animals with yokai in Tales of Seikyu
- With a roguelike time loop twist, Every Day We Fight takes a whole new approach to the turn-based strategy genre
- Rise of the Golden Idol goes full Columbo as it transports the first game's 18th-century murder solving to the 1970s
- Grit and Valor – 1949 looks like a real-time World War 2 Into the Breach
- Dwarf Fortress co-creator has been helping out with Streets of Fortuna, a sandbox RPG in a procedurally-generated city where you can be an art thief, a chef or a big ol' flirt
- Dread, tension, and tough choices abound in stealthy zombie survival game Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
- Still Wakes the Deep launch trailer sets the scene for a grizzly ship-bound cosmic horror
- Hotel Galactic is a cozy Ghibli-inspired crafting and management sim where you'll host adorable intergalactic visitors
- Surreal platformer Screenbound has you platforming in 2D and 3D simultaneously with the help of a magical little Game Boy you're constantly holding up to your face like the world's most indoor kid
- Captain your own flying island base in wind-powered crafting survival game Aloft's new co-op demo
- Absurdist magical XCOM-alike Tactical Breach Wizards is coming this August, with its free demo available to try right now
- You're not just solving word puzzles in Lok Digital, you're advancing civilization for these adorable inky little worm dudes
- Blue Prince is a choose your own mystery game where you have to decide what's behind the next door
- Slavic witchcrafting game Reka is equal parts cozy and creepy and it's coming to early access in August
- Beat down 'Robillionaires' in '80s anime-inspired FPS Mullet Madjack
- '83 is a milsim going for 'accessible realism' in a timeline where the Cold War exploded
- Magic and gunpowder-powered 'souls-lite' Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is bringing a demo to Steam Next Fest
- Splodey is a platformer that 'does away with the jump button' in favor of magical propulsion platforming
- Escape From Tarkov teases new features and movement toward full release in a new trailer at the PC Gaming Show
- Americana-infused job sim Star Trucker is cleared for launch in September
- The Factorio expansion will have a gooey swamp planet, complete with organic products that can spoil
- Go-Go Town! looks like every cosy city builder's dream, and I am entirely too giddy about the fact I can high-five every animal
- The demo is out now for The Crush House, the 'thirst-person shooter' where you create a reality show to please divorced dads, drama queens, and 'butt guys'
- Cat Quest 3 teases seafaring cat combat and a free demo
- The Land of the Magnates is an adventure into Middle Eastern myth with 'complex puzzles requiring quick thinking'
- Collect a corrupt city's debts in roguelite narrative adventure Debtors' Club
- Strategy RTS Renaissance Kingdom Wars is bringing 'epic battles with thousands of soldiers' later this year
- Money's good and life is cheap in Shell Runner, an isometric cyberpunk extraction shooter in a world ruled by corporations
- 'Not too cozy' farm sim Everholm has brought back its demo for more mysterious witch simming
- G.I. Joe is finally getting the side-scrolling beat 'em up that it deserves
- The moon's haunted and it's somehow become your problem in Moon Mystery, a sci-fi FPS exploration game that also has black holes and submarines
- Forgotten Seas is an ambitious co-op pirate RPG where you can seek danger or 'relax on a beach'
- Get a gig as a broom bike courier in this solarpunk adventure inspired by Kiki's Delivery Service
- Our second look at the Borderlands movie starts with Claptrap pooping bullets and goes downhill from there
- Drug Dealer Simulator 2 launches this month with co-op drug empire management and nostalgia for the early 2000s
- The Deadly Path is a roguelike basebuilder that's like Dungeon Keeper on a tile grid
- Deathsprint 66 looks like the best kind of racing game: one where you race murderous robot men instead of boring old cars
- Striden looks like a very serious multiplayer shooter until the irradiated bear shows up
- One of our favourite co-op survival games gets two new classes as it hits full release this summer
- Forget Mjolnir—Odinfall is a zany Viking bullet hell where you'll murder a mechanised pantheon of Norse gods
- Unbeatable is an exceedingly cool rhythm RPG 'where music is illegal' coming in 2025
- Space Station 14 is a modern reimagining of a cultish and richly complex online RPG
- Unrailed 2 will have a 'terrain conductor' level maker mode so you can terrorize your friends with custom challenges
- Demonschool is a promising occult turn-based tactics take on Persona that's finally coming out this year, and I think we've got another Into the Breach on our hands
- Tabletop-inspired RPG Citizen Sleeper 2 lets you command a ship and a crew in its sci-fi future early next year
- Battle Aces lets you play a full competitive RTS match in just 10 minutes
- This upcoming 'extraction horror' FPS has a big twist: 2 player-controlled 'alien monsters' that are hunting the human squads
- Survival RTS with a Lego-inspired building system Cataclismo launches next month
- I Am Your Beast looks sort of like a 3D Hotline Miami
- Explore a world on the body of a giant in this Zelda-esque RPG
- The Unpacking developer is swapping out wordless storytelling for musical numbers and 3D puzzling in Tempopo
- Copa City is the 'first football tycoon' game where you'll manage stadium logistics, fan foot traffic, and the chaos of game day
- Phantom Line is a 'paranormal SWAT' co-op FPS set in post-nuclear Europe, and there's a playtest happening soon
- You don't have to wait for the release of this solo extraction shooter, the demo just got a massive update
- Fumes is Mad Max meets Robot Wars and I am very much here for that
- You can dance, dance, and start a revolution in All Systems Dance: a grooving adventure game where you reprogram robots by shakin' it
- Sumerian Six is a WW2 stealth tactics game that summons up all my childhood memories of Desperados and Commandos, and also summons up literal demons
- Take back your swamp in Toads of the Bayou, a deckbuilding roguelike with a splash of turn-based-tactics for flavour
- Fight for freedom or corporate overlords in Mars Tactics, a scrappy cross between XCOM and Red Faction
- Sneak past, shoot through, or throw rats at your foes in Fallen Aces, a bloody and creative FPS that is coming out next week
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's new 'Omnimovement' could be CoD's best (or worst) idea of all time
- Sci-fi stealth action game Steel Seed teases some of the story underneath the bloody combat in a new trailer
- Silly simulator Southfield is releasing soon, so it's time to put on your overalls and fling yourself into farming
- Wander Stars is a fantastically weird mash-up of Pokémon, Dragon Ball, and the power of the English language
- Streets of Rogue 2's dizzying open world sandbox will debut in early access this August
- Bribe and brew your way to fame in boozy monastic management sim Ale Abbey
- Lorn Vale is a free-roaming apocalyptic RPG where 'interaction carries weight'—you also play as a naked dude wandering the desert
- The team behind Dorfromantik has announced Star Birds, a resource management production game about birds… in space
- I'm not sure if the creatures you collect in first-person farming sim Among The Wild are cute or disturbing, but I'm already in love with them
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's latest showcase almost makes it look like they forgot to put a game in there
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 may have the most convoluted villain story I've ever heard of, but at least the action looks cool
- Mixtape looks like it's going to do Life is Strange better than the new Life is Strange will
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' dual protagonists look ready to turn the series' recent identity crisis into a strength
- Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred new class is an "apex predator" and we're also getting what sounds suspiciously like a raid
- Doom's new gun is a ludicrous 'skull garbage disposal.' Finally, a gun that cares about sustainability
- Obsidian's next RPG Avowed gets a trailer hinting at a trio of factions—those who want to purge the Dream Scourge, those who want to tame it, and a secret third thing
- I didn't want to get my hopes up about Metal Gear Solid Delta, but Konami's somehow done it
- Gears of War is coming back with Marcus and Dom in an Emergence Day prequel: 'It’s going to feel like a new Gears game, because that’s what it is'
- I had less than zero expectations for the Perfect Dark reboot, but it looks like the 2020s answer to Deus Ex I've been waiting for
- World of Warcraft: The War Within gets a release date, marking the exact start of the MMO's new 3-expansion long era—as well as a shiny CG trailer
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming in November, and it's bringing blimps, balloons, and somehow even deer photography with it
- Is it just me, or do the newly revealed companions of Dragon Age: The Veilguard look like they're in a hero shooter?
- The Fable reboot is coming in 2025 and it looks more hilariously British than ever
- Fallout 76 is expanding to Shenandoah with its Skyline Valley update, which is just around the corner
- South of Midnight, a gorgeous action adventure game with weighty, Souls-adjacent combat and stylised cutscenes will be dodge-rolling onto PC next year
- State of Decay 3 reminds us that it's still in development with a sad new trailer that mostly just makes me think of Dead Island
- Starfield's Shattered Space DLC is finally going to shed light on the RPG's most interesting faction
- I'm not watching trailers this weekend, I'm playing this ridiculously good RTS about ants
- Fallout 76 is finally going to let us play as ghouls: 'It'll be a different play style, which we're really excited to see'
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is doing the '90s this October
- Doom Eternal's long-awaited follow-up is a medieval prequel called Doom: The Dark Ages
- When to watch the Xbox Games Showcase 2024
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 9
- A mod has finally given New Vegas the more cinematic VATS visuals of Fallout 3
- Horror-shooter The Thing is being remastered by Nightdive
- After Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, Tim Cain worked up a proposal for a Troika RPG based on Conan
- June 8
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- Here's the trailer for Abyss X Zero, a 3D metroidvania that goes full anime
- One of my favorite games from this year's summer showcases, a peaceful adventure where you explore a desert planet in a beat up van, has a demo available right now
- The official Starship Troopers co-op shooter has a full release date, Casper Van Dien, and a miraculous-sounding corpse pile-up system: 'No other game has been able to achieve persistent death at the scale we're doing'
- Everyone tries to crib Breath of the Wild's vibes and open world to no avail, but the former lead of Dragon Age is finally giving me what I really want: Zelda's wild physics and ability to climb anywhere
- This year's Access-Ability showcase featured exciting innovations like a blindness-friendly city builder
- Co-op base-building survival, floating sky islands, and a dwarf in a mech—do I need to go on?
- Bogdan's Cross is a game about a Templar knight struggling with his faith, only he's a literal giant teddy bear
- Take a mystery lover's holiday by solving crime on the Italian Riviera in On Your Tail
- Take a free 'slaycation' in the demo for an indie action RPG where you can fight monsters with a snowboard
- Destiny's decade-long saga is over after world's first raid team takes 19 hours to down the final boss, unlocking a wild 12-person climax for everyone to play
- Finally, a cozy life sim where not everyone in town is thrilled about you turning a cute little shop into a massive megastore
- The makers of Parkitect have a new construction game coming, and it's a froggy colony sim called Croakwood
- 'Did I make too big of a game?' Lead designer of sky-high city builder Airborne Empire on wanting to build a 'Skyrim or a Breath of the Wild'-sized world
- Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, June 8
- Ass-kicking FPS Anger Foot is coming in July: 'Shit City is a disease and your foot is the cure'
- Bodycam is out on Steam and feels more like a horror game than a competitive shooter
- What a killer year for roguelikes: Former Dead Cells developers are now competing against each other with 3 great-looking action games
- I was shocked to find out that not only is Hyper Light Drifter's studio working on a second new project, it's a return to 2D with action inspired by 'platform fighters' like Super Smash Bros
- The Talos Principle 2: Road to Elysium sends the robot family on a literal Caribbean vacation, and no I am not kidding
- Full campaign co-op soon arrives as a free bonus for one of Devolver's biggest hits
- When and where to watch the 2024 Future Games Show summer showcase
- June 7
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- Blumhouse Games reveals its first release: A PS1-style horror adventure that promises no jump scares
- Don't wait to play the demo for While Waiting, a game that gives you lots of stuff to do while you're waiting
- What year is it? Because the O.G. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is finally getting the arcade brawler tie-in it deserved in the '90s
- Palworld's first major update, Sakurajima, lands on June 27 with a new island and new Pals
- Monster Hunter Wilds is going all in on its chocobo-looking Seikret mounts by letting you go right into battle while you're on 'em
- The developers of Spelunky, Downwell, and other indie favorites are finally releasing their 50 games in 1 smorgasbord for a console that never existed in September
- Alan Wake 2's first expansion surprise releases this week, and hey, is that Jesse Faden?
- Thank you, Skate, for giving us a new I Think You Should Leave sketch
- Paul Atreides was never born in the alternate timeline of survival MMO Dune: Awakening
- If you're also desperate to pad out your Honkai: Star Rail funds after that livestream, Summer Game Fest has you covered with a little treat
- The Stanley Parable developer's next game is a cozy tea shop sim where you have some trauma to process, actually
- Dark and Darker is back on Steam
- I barely know what's going on in Slitterhead, the next game from Silent Hill's creator, but I love its rates of body horror and random passerby possession per minute
- New World: Aeternum is a slightly confusing mix of a remaster, update and 'spiritual successor' to New World that you can play entirely solo
- All is not well with The Finals, but I have hope Season 3 will be its best yet
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's trailer is bawdy, bloody and gives us a siege tease
- This upcoming co-op roguelike hack-and-slasher looks like Braveheart crossed with Heavy Metal
- I'm terrified of heights but Cairn makes me want to immediately grab my carabiner and scale a huge mountain
- Get ready to initiate maximum Goku in October
- Civilization 7 exists, but if you want to know more than that you're going to have to wait for its full reveal in August
- Choo-Choo Charles creator is back with bizarre joint-smoking, prison-breaking alien koalas and some slightly nauseating physics-based mayhem
- Quidditch Champions releases in September, will probably make an ungodly sum of money
- Co-op zombie horror sequel No More Room in Hell 2 claws its way into early access this Halloween
- Black Myth: Wu Kong, Steam's most-wishlisted game, finally has a release date in August
- Unprecedented memory, frame rate boosting eye tracking features, and an ambitious ethos: In a surprising twist Adata had the most interesting handheld gaming PC at Computex 2024
- Microsoft changes course on the controversial Windows 11 feature that constantly takes screenshots of your PC's screen: Now you'll have to opt in if you want to use it
- Civilization 7 leaks on 2K's own website ahead of the Summer Game Fest showcase
- Hogwarts Legacy has a director's cut coming, and it may well spell the end for Suicide Squad
- Bare bones Steam item generator Banana rakes in over 100,000 concurrents in the span of a few days—reaches top 10 on Steam's 'most played'
- 'We love you. We miss you. We hate money': Ultrakill and Gloomwood publisher New Blood Interactive turns a billboard into a grave marker for fallen studios including Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin
- Yoshi-P says that the Final Fantasy 14 team is taking aim at the game's same-y combat jobs and 2-minute-meta, but that'll come after Dawntrail tackles its encounter design
- Microsoft details how its Automatic Super Resolution upscaler will benefit gamers with Copilot+ AI PCs
- Oof: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League lost Warner Bros. $200 million—which is $25 million more than the original 2016 movie cost to make
- AMD is 'working actively on really cool differentiators' to make the next generation of 3D V-cache 'even better'
- PCIe 5.0 SSDs are yet to reach tipping point: 'The percentage of Gen5 shipping to the percentage of Gen 4 is very small' but Micron says that might change next year
- The new memory form factor expected to beat DDR5: 'the future really lies here... LPCAMM2 running on the PC' says Micron
- Micron says AI 'is really going to impact the supply demand balance' for PC as it's 'made memory sexy again'
- Gigabyte's been autograph hunting with signatures from Jen-Hsun, Pat, and Lisa for some of its GPUs and motherboards
- How to watch Summer Game Fest 2024 and what we know will be there
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 7
- A book about text adventures is the latest essential addition to your videogame history library
- June 6
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- MultiVersus developers say an in-game option to purchase more lives with real money was 'a bug'
- The interconnected world of unofficial Dark Souls sequel Nightfall was just about finalized a whole year ago, but advances in modding tools led its creators to rebuild the whole thing
- The Axis Unseen, a 'heavy metal horror game' about bowhunting monsters from ancient folklore, drops a new trailer that is very metal indeed
- Here's the trailer for Destiny 2's new raid, teasing The Final Shape's final showdown with The Witness
- Concord is skipping free-to-play and pulling a Helldivers 2 instead: $40 for the full game with all 16 heroes at launch
- Our 2022 game of the year runner-up, the criminally underrated Marvel's Midnight Suns, is free to keep on the Epic Game Store
- My favorite roguelike where you can grant a chair the gift of sentience just got a UI update that makes it far more approachable
- GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead
- Retro collection specialist Digital Eclipse's next game is an unlikely sequel to a brutally hard 2013 platformer
- Counter-Strike pro somehow gets banned for life twice after stealing other players' SSDs at IEM Dallas, blames the ganja
- Trackmania players have been trying to complete a challenge map so ludicrously hard there's a $30,000 prize for reaching the top, and over a month after release no-one's done it
- Creators of new Ubisoft shooter didn't have a 3D animator, so they made the characters spheres—and it works
- Yoshi-P will turn Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail around if players keep asking for a raise spell on Pictomancer, jokes: 'it'd be best to remove raise from all of those jobs' if they don't behave
- This RTX 4070 gaming PC is one of the cheapest I've seen, at a dollar shy of $1,150
- Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is now called Dragon Age: The Veilguard, first gameplay reveal is coming next week
- Helldivers 2 announces slower gear releases alongside its latest warbond, Viper Commandos—which brings the game's first vehicle skins (and a rad-looking throwing knife)
- Unofficial Pokémon fan event drags ill Make-A-Wish children in front of a crowd, suffers invasive camera crews, and is haunted by the Ravioli Man
- 'The baddest motherf***er in the room' is, unexpectedly, the cozy building game Tiny Glade—which is already ruling Steam Next Fest with over 800,000 wishlists
- ThunderX3 shows off two new gaming chairs, an update to one of the best gaming chairs you can buy and a funky-looking mesh model
- New Helldivers 2 CEO says dev-player relationships are more 'doctor/patient', reveals that Arrowhead's taking a stethoscope to your Reddit posts and YouTube rants
- You had one job FedEx: $400,000 worth of stolen Playdate consoles reappear at a random restaurant
- Thanks to billionaires and businesses going mad for AI, Nvidia's market cap rockets past $3 trillion, pushing Apple into third place
- FF14 director Yoshi-P says 'possibly 98%' of the team are inspired by Elden Ring, but assures players Dawntrail won't be as brutally hard
- 'Players don't need to worry about that': Final Fantasy 14 director says the team is well-armed for Dawntrail's launch rush, no repeat of the Endwalker queue fiasco or day-long DDoS attacks
- Final Fantasy 14 director doesn't have any plans to change 'the structure' of Dawntrail's patches, but its Bozja-like field exploration zone 'will be larger in scale than the content we've had in the past'
- Gigabyte's 'Next-gen' Intel motherboard shows off the new Arrow Lake CPU socket for the first time alongside AMD's X870E
- Qualcomm's new Windows PC chip supports AMD's FSR… and I'm not sure AMD had any idea about it
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 6
- This anti-meat industry horror game was inspired by the death of the dev's pet chicken, and it's basically Abe's Oddysee plus Resident Evil but you're poultry
- The next season of actual play TTRPG series Dimension 20 is based on action movies, and looks like it's about ordinary people who get Jumanjied into Die Hard
- June 5
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- How to watch the 2024 PC Gaming Show: our 10th annual summer showcase
- Russian Twitch streamer sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for criticizing the invasion of Ukraine
- Gray Zone Warfare dev rolls back patch and admits 'we didn't trust our community when they reported performance issues'
- Hitman is finally bringing back dual wielding, but it's coming in a new VR game that's exclusive to the Meta Quest 3
- Baldur's Gate 3 player gits gouda, beats game as wheel of cheese
- Indie dev baffled after acquaintance clones his game, puts it on Steam, and acts like it's no big deal: 'Happens every day homie'
- Huge Enshrouded update delivers the community's most-requested feature, plus musical instruments for jam sessions
- GOG is going to start deleting oversized cloud saves at the end of August
- NZXT's doing something that makes so much damned sense I don't know why it's not been done before
- Aerocool's budget CPU cooler looks like it was inspired by running a Founders Edition through a bandsaw
- HAVN's new 'Unisheet' glass case is the totally panoramic PC you've been waiting for
- Power your laptop, while capturing its video output, with Avermedia's new 100W GaN charger
- Fractal Design goes all touchy-feely with a fabric-covered PC case, a plushy headset, and a swish gaming chair
- Capture up to 4K gaming footage from your Steam Deck with Avermedia's new X'Tra Go docking station
- Destiny 2: The Final Shape has had a rough start with some disgruntled reviews, but things are already beginning to even out
- Palit has created a part-air, part-liquid, all-monster RTX 4090 graphics card
- This Frostpunk 2 RX 7700 XT from Sapphire is a promotional card that actually captures the game's vibe
- Corsair's new cases at Computex include its biggest ever beast and a cut-price contender with full wrap-around glass
- Intel's new Lunar Lake CPU is simultaneously wonderful, weird and worrisome, but has the makings of an awesome handheld gaming chip
- Ditch the messy controller and cables inside your PC with Lian Li's wireless RGB dongle
- Ducky's 'world's first' analog keyboard offers Cherry inductive switches and wireless—but is it better than Hall effect?
- As players struggle to sign in, miss cutscenes, and are kicked from activities, Bungie apologizes for Destiny 2: The Final Shape launch issues and begins rolling restart
- Drop wins the most satisfying sound of Computex 2024 award with its 24 carat brass keeb frame
- Elden Ring's lovable living pots are pure body horror in Shadow of the Erdtree
- This Intel and ASRock collaboration says screw it, put the whole PC in an immersion tank and call it a day
- Ducky's year of the dragon limited edition is a drool face emoji in keyboard form
- Aerocool reckons its new power supply will last you at least 15 years and it's providing the warranty to prove it
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 5
- June 4
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- Hades 2's latest patch drops the nerf hammer on everyone's favorite overpowered build, but players are surprisingly cool with it
- Ultrakill dev says it's fine to pirate his game if you don't have money to spare: 'Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it'
- After two years of silence, Metal Slug Tactics returns with a new trailer and a promise that it's coming this fall
- Hot on the heels of its hit Fallout show, Amazon is releasing a 'gritty' series based on the Yakuza games later this year
- Team Fortress 2 plummets to 'Overwhelmingly Negative' on Steam as its biggest fans stoke the righteous flames of anti-bot outrage
- Less than 6 months after laying off 40 employees, Dead by Daylight studio Behaviour Interactive drops another 95
- The reason Framework laptops just keep getting better: 'We're blind to none of the feedback and we absorb it all'
- I was feeling a little needy so I sought reassurance from Jen-Hsun Huang and he told me it's all okay: 'I love PC gamers'
- This is not a drill: Noctua's best fan yet is actually coming out this June
- Nvidia's CEO reckons that millions of AI GPUs will reduce power consumption, not increase it
- Qualcomm's CEO on AI performance in laptops: 'People talk about TOPS but they should be talking watts'
- 'It's our way of making a statement in the face of targeted harassment': Tales of Kenzera: Zau director lowers the price of the game on Switch
- Guild Wars 2's next expansion will add its first new raid in five years, as well as 'the most player-friendly housing system in an MMORPG'
- World of Warcraft's latest The War Within trailer has players simping hard for big baddie Xal'atath—and I'm not exactly surprised
- A flood of reported privacy incidents from Google confirms, incidentally, that a Nintendo game leak from 2017 happened thanks to a YouTube contractor
- A liquid cooler with no pump: Noctua is working on a prototype targeting 'AIO level performance'
- Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang reflects on how AI already creates pixels and entire frames, before saying that 'games will be generated with AI'
- Ikea is hiring workers for its online Roblox store for £13.15 per hour, and you can even serve virtual meatballs
- Hidetaka Miyazaki says Shadow of the Erdtree had to be big, because he wanted Elden Ring players 'to experience that sense of discovery and that sense of wonder' all over again
- MrBeast is now Mr Has The Most YouTube Subscribers
- Hyte is claiming its new AIO CPU cooler to be the quietest and coolest ever made
- Pax Dei, the new MMO from EVE alumni, is attempting a magic system where 'you might be the only one' who's discovered a new spell
- Hyte's updated Y70 PC case range, with more colours and a better touchscreen, looks pretty darn lovely
- Tactical Breach Wizards, a turn-based strategy game about spec-ops casters with a habit of throwing people out of windows, has a free demo after years in the cauldron
- Developer of the latest anime gacha hit apologises 5 times for launch issues in a single letter and doles out in-game treats like candy
- 'The Flame is lit': Dark Souls is getting a new manga and all I'm hoping for is something more horrifying than Elden Ring's one
- Intel says it's happy to make the very Arm chips that threaten its x86 hegemony
- Sony's PSVR 2 virtual reality headset will get an adaptor for PCs this summer but its best features will remain exclusive to PlayStation
- Qualcomm CEO says 'you should expect to see Qualcomm in every PC form factor: From desktop to mini PCs, to tablets'
- This irritating robot yelled at me repeatedly at Computex, forcing me to resist the urge to kick it over
- Team Group showed me some blazingly fast Gen 5 SSDs, pink DDR5, and a host of wacky cooling solutions to keep it all in check
- D&D's Wizards of the Coast come under fire for AI (again) after advertising for a 'principal AI engineer', but insists 'our stance on AI hasn't changed' since videogames don't count
- Witness the mighty Noctua power supply
- Intel's latest processor is mostly made by its biggest manufacturing rival because it had 'a better process technology at that point in time'
- Kingston gave me my first glimpse of CAMM2 DDR5 desktop RAM at Computex 2024, along with some AI-gen race drivers and a very heavy F1 theme
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 4
- It's on: our first look at Intel Battlemage comes from Lunar Lake's new graphics silicon with its redesigned Xe2 architecture
- One thread per core: 'we can deliver better than Hyper-Threading performance without Hyper-Threading' claims Intel for Lunar Lake
- Intel talks shop about next-gen Lunar Lake processors: 'We will win in performance, we will win in graphics, we will win in AI'
- Intel has made 'a tremendous amount of fixes for compatibility' in its Battlemage GPU architecture to ensure games run as they should
- June 3
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- AMD's broken Computex AI demo again proves you can't trust everything an AI tells you
- OTK Expo will show over 30 indie games on Tuesday as the June showcases kick off
- Summer Game Fest will focus on existing games, so don't hype yourself up for 'games that are years and years out,' says Geoff Keighley
- Ubisoft adds another studio to what seems like an increasingly desperate effort to finally get Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake finished
- Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios Group is closing the Montreal studio it acquired just 8 months ago
- Team Fortress 2 players gather over 140,000 petition signatures in the latest campaign against the ongoing aimbot menace
- The remake of Riven, the sequel to the remake of Myst, is coming out later this month
- Dell's new XPS 13 laptop running a Snapdragon X Elite CPU has 27 hours of battery life, 9 more than the Intel version
- Crusader Kings 3's next expansion is the one we've all been waiting for, and it's only a few months away
- Qualcomm says it's tested 1,200 x86 Windows games on its new X Elite Arm chip but won't say how well they actually run
- Asus has ROG-ified its monstrous BE19000 Wi-Fi 7 router to be more Thargoid than ever before
- Fan-made Fallout 2 first-person remake now has over 100 developers working on it, and is targeting a Steam release while making 'fast progress'
- We've got our hands on AMD Strix Point and Granite Ridge, and they're both so pretty
- After the supposedly final flourish of 1.6, Stardew Valley creator says 'I could keep working on the game forever' and is 'not going to say the book is closed'
- Are 16 cores in the new Ryzen 9950X sufficient for gaming? 'There's no physical reason we couldn't do more than 16 cores,' says AMD
- Patch 7 of Baldur's Gate 3 heralds the arrival of mod support in September, with a closed beta starting next month
- Competitive Tekken 8 match causes a frenzy after a rogue controller 'robbed' pro player of a game-winning combo
- Starfield players reckon 'something big is going on behind the scenes,' but it's probably just the upcoming Shattered Space expansion
- Helldivers 2 players save democracy by turning a planet into an ominous black hole that makes whale noises: Which is fine and normal and not a wormhole to the Illuminate, stop asking
- 'Gigabyte is an AI company' now—and the gaming hardware seems to have taken a back seat
- AMD's Dr. Lisa Su on the role of artificial intelligence in gaming: 'Not everything has to be rendered'
- AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 APU looks super exciting for handheld gaming but what about the battery life?
- Forget stickers on your laptop, Asus put a customisable e-ink display on the lid instead
- This new carbon fiber ROG gaming mouse is absurd and awesome in equal measure
- You thought your keyboard was over the top: You can adjust the typing feel on the new ROG Azoth Extreme while enjoying its color OLED
- Silent Hill 2 remake gets a 14-minute gameplay trailer that actually looks pretty OK
- AMD extends 3.5-year-old Ryzen 5000 CPU family with two new-but-old Zen 3 chips
- AMD promises AM5 socket life support through to 2027 and beyond
- Peeking under the hood of AMD's Zen 5: Here's what has been changed and improved in the new CPU architecture
- AMD launches killer new 12-core Zen 5 APU for laptops and handhelds
- AMD announces Zen 5 and the Ryzen 9000 series, with a 16% IPC uplift shipping in July
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 3
- Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner asks the important question: How many people can you bang in a single playthrough?
- June 2
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- Frostpunk's lead designer was 'dumbstruck' at the insanely difficult self-imposed challenges players managed in the brutal settlement sim: 'I was like, that's not possible'
- UBOAT looks to be the best WW2 submarine simulator in a long time
- One Fallout 3 fan investigated how many bombs actually landed on the Capital Wasteland: it turns out, not that many
- Microsoft is releasing a preview build of Windows that offers more personalised AI running on Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
- Nvidia's launching a new and... er... very generous small form factor GPU/chassis standard to simplify building your new mini rig
- Nvidia's Project G-Assist is the first AI assistant I actually can't wait to have running on my gaming PC
- Nvidia is open sourcing the RTX Remix Toolkit and releasing the Runtime SDK to 'empower developers' in 'virtually any game'
- Hands on with the $799 ROG Ally X: comfy to hold despite bigger battery and SSD than the original
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 2
- Diablo 4 plans to celebrate its first birthday with a festival of free stuff
- A new mod aims to remaster 5500 voice lines from cult classic RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, cleaning up the audio and fixing volume levels 'with extreme care for the source material'
- June 1
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- Here's a little psych-horror game set on a running subway train that never ends
- Animated Tomb Raider series gets a teaser trailer, release date
- Everyone's excited for Skyblivion, but one dedicated dev has been working for years to go in the opposite direction: cramming Oblivion into a version of Morrowind's engine—and they've got a good reason for it too
- Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem ends development, with multiplayer to shut down in September
