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- June 7
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- PC finally has its own Breath of the Wild killer, and it's indistinguishable from the Nintendo game except that you are a boy who is also a tire
- I just discovered in Dune: Awakening that the only thing worse than seeing a sandworm coming right at you is being stuck in quicksand and seeing a sandworm coming right at you
- To be a master heister in Thick as Thieves, Warren Spector's 'player-powered' multiplayer Thief successor, the devs say you'll have to 'play with your ears'
- June 6
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- Untitled Goose Game studio unpacks its new open world co-op game Big Walk, and it looks like nothing else I've played before
- Relooted is a high-tech heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from Western collections, which are said to hold '90% of sub-Saharan African cultural heritage'
- A noir take on Yakuza is love at first sight: Stranger Than Heaven's reveal trailer is a head scratcher but I'm already in
- 'I grew up playing Halo, I'm tired of playing the same Call of Duty every year, and I wish we could have Titanfall 3!': Splitgate 2 boss slams the state of shooters as he surprise launches a battle royale mode
- The Summer Game Fest just rolled out what is very likely the most disturbing videogame trailer I have ever seen
- RE9 is real: Resident Evil Requiem just got a surprise SGF reveal, and it's launching in February
- Wildgate, the match-based Sea of Thieves in space from Mike Morhaime's new game company, launches this July
- Mads Mikkelsen is reprising his Casino Royale role to become Hitman's next elusive target
- The Jurassic World Evolution 3 trailer disappointingly doesn't show anyone being bitten in half by a T-Rex, but it does have Jeff Goldblum's dulcet tones and a release date
- The CTF shooter is making a comeback thanks to the manager and lead singer of Imagine Dragons, who 'grew up playing capture the flag in the woods at night with flashlights'
- There's a new Scott Pilgrim brawler coming from the makers of… the old Scott Pilgrim brawler (and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge)
- Atomic Heart 2 is coming and it looks like an open-world genre mashup of a bunch of other sci-fi dystopias
- After 3 years of waiting, Dying Light: The Beast will finally arrive in August
- It's a real game—Lies of P: Overture, the Sekiro-like's first major DLC, shadowdrops during Summer Game Fest and is available now
- The Shovel Knight dev's new gothic action game has a demo that has awakened the GBA kid in me
- Fight across the surface of a giant Rubik's Cube built from chunks of other planets in yet another unhinged shooter from the brains behind Atomic Heart
- Capcom continues its victory lap with killer new Onimusha: Way of the Sword trailer at Summer Game Fest
- Chronicles: Medieval is a stunning sandbox RPG coming in 2026—despite a past commitment to using generative AI, the studio now says the game is '100% handcrafted'
- Go to war for Westeros in a new Game of Thrones RTS coming in 2026
- Sonic Racing: Crossworlds just declared war on Mario Kart by becoming the true Smash Bros. of kart racers, bringing drivers from Minecraft, Persona, Yakuza—oh, and Hatsune Miku
- Square Enix just revealed a 'murder mystery action game' and as far as I can tell it's like Among Us in a spooky mansion full of hot people
- Arc Raiders sets release date for Fall 2025, just 37 days after Marathon
- Troy Baker becomes a mouse with a machine gun in Mouse: PI for Hire, coming later this year
- They put a revolver in Dark Souls—Mortal Shell 2 looks like it wandered out of an edgy teenager's heavy-metal fantasies, and I cannot wait to play it
- Elden Ring Nightreign no-hit prodigy finds new, exciting ways to make us feel bad about all the runs we've thrown, beats the final Nightlord solo without a scratch
- 'Forever cherished for who you were and what you helped achieve': 10 years after his death, Larian Studios pays tribute to composer Kirill Pokrovsky
- Summer Game Fest 2025 live: All the announcements in real time
- The Borderlands cup overfloweth with a huge sale—1-3, The Pre-Sequel, all their DLCs, and one very good Telltale game are available for $36
- Oblivion Remastered’s improvements have Oblivion’s meme king hopeful Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas will see similar glow-ups: ‘[It’s] so much better and exactly what I have wanted for years’
- 'John Nightreign doesn't have a face': YouTuber manages to uncover all but one of Elden Ring Nightreign's hidden Nightfarer faces, 'leaving his appearance a mystery'
- Ro-Souls 3 is 'a sharp and precise recreation' of Dark Souls 3 in Roblox, and it's training up a whole new generation of soulslike demons
- If you fondly the wonders of terrible graphics card box art like me, there's now a book available with a collection of some of the greatest hits
- Disney Dreamlight Valley has shared its new roap for the rest of 2025, and it looks like one character fans have been asking for since launch is finally coming to stay
- You could cut the tension with a needle—7 SteamDB changes in the past week have Silksong hopefuls wondering if the final hour is upon us
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is getting a fancy art book from Dark Horse that'll shed some light on its rebooted development
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's Peter Pan update is coming in two weeks, alongside a shiny new Star Path and the ability to level up your animal companions
- A new report indicates Intel's latest Battlemage GPUs are a total failure and AMD's gaming graphics market share fell to just 8% but overall graphics cards sales are up
- XDefiant is now ex-Defiant as the game closes and its executive producer leaves Ubisoft: 'We just didn't have the gas to go the distance'
- Trick venting solutions look like the hot new thing in PC case design and this low-vented Asus model has me more than a little intrigued
- The long-awaited successor to cult hit 'anti-RPG' Moon hits Steam later this year
- For only $20 more than a Nintendo Switch 2, you can get a more powerful gaming handheld with detachable controllers, and a bigger screen—that's also a PC
- A Gamestop store has reportedly been stapling customer receipts to Switch 2 boxes and puncturing holes in the screens
- Half-Life 2 becomes a loot-hoarding roguelike dungeon crawl in this Next Fest mod demo
- Dune: Awakening's Steam reviews have done a complete 180, climbing the ranks to Very Positive just a day after a player pile-on: 'This game is great with friends, and lets me live out my fantasy of getting eaten by a sandworm'
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney takes yet another victory lap after Apple's latest appeal fails: 'The long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended'
- All Genshin Impact 5.7 livestream codes
- Sneeze and this incredibly tiny postage-stamp-sized Atari computer recreation is a goner
- Elden Ring Nightreign servers shut down this morning 'to improve expedition matchmaking' but it's royally screwed some unprepared players
- A long-lost Duke Nukem prototype resurfaces after 24 years
- This camo-wrapped RTX 5060 has a real nostalgic flair, but I prefer the screen-integrated prototype GPU MSI showed me at Computex 2025
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 6
- June 5
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- Borderlands 2 is free to keep on Steam and it's getting review-bombed at the same time because of, uh, the EULA?
- Path of Exile's 31st expansion follows action RPG tradition and will let you hire mercenaries to fight by your side
- 'The last one wasn't the last one': CD Projekt has cyber punked us again, announcing another surprise update for Cyberpunk 2077
- Nightreign players have figured out a way to guarantee you'll be at max level when fighting a Nightlord, but unfortunately it's super boring
- The secret stand-out of Sony's State of Play was the bizarre resurrection of Deus Ex's PS2 version
- Dune: Awakening isn't even officially out yet and it already has almost 100,000 players
- Arkane's timewarp shooter Deathloop is free on the Epic Games Store for the first time ever
- The only good MOBA celebrates its 10th anniversary, so I booted up Heroes of the Storm again and was so bad one of my teammates called me an NPC
- Metal Gear Solid Delta's new trailer ends on a tease for the long-awaited return of Metal Gear Online
- Surf on a magic sword and kickflip over flying dolphins in Sword of the Sea, hitting Steam in August
- OpenAI removes incredibly grim, previously recommended chatbot suggesting invasive surgeries to men it deems 'subhuman'
- Dune: Awakening lives up to MMO tradition with server woes at launch, but with these simple fixes the spice shall flow
- Nvidia's research boss claims the company's Chinese AI researchers are now writing programs for Huawei instead and is blaming the US chip exports
- Goon it yourself with the new editor for pulp-noir immersive sim Fallen Aces, or just visit a '20s nightclub version of Doom's famed first level
- Russia says it won't arrest players after seizing the studio behind the Russian World of Tanks offshoot, accusing it of funnelling funds to Ukraine
- Fill the Marathon-shaped hole in your life with Supplice, the best prog-heavy boomer shooter you've never heard of
- Bethesda re it just released an Elder Scrolls game, announces gameplay-focused Oblivion patch that addresses about 5% of player complaints
- AMD claims 'regional market demand' is why we've seen few 8 GB RX 9060 XT reviews, implying low VRAM isn't really for the West
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the Switch 2 features 'the most advanced graphics ever in a mobile device' and I'm once again here to say 'um, actually'
- One bored GTA 6 fan managed to recreate Jason's house in Far Cry 5 Arcade, and it's almost a shot-for-shot recreation
- 'When's Marvel?' Next year, as Guilty Gear studio Arc System Works takes the classic superhero tag-team fighter for a ride with a new 4v4 format
- Apparently there's going to be a Sam Altman movie about his Lazarus-like career stumble, which I'm sure I'll reluctantly watch on a plane at some point
- Udon, publisher of Street Fighter, Mega Man, Elden Ring, and other videogame comics and art books, is the latest to cut ties with bankrupt distributor Diamond Comics
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 5
- 'The will to resist is in your hands': Final Fantasy Tactics director makes statement on the political backdrop of the original and the 'inequality and division' that persists today
- Bloodstained is back after 6 years with 3D cutscenes that look like they're from a different era of videogames
- June 4
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- If an NPC hates you in this adventure from the makers of Road 96, it's probably because another player was mean to them earlier
- An all-new Thief game was announced during State of Play, but it's a VR game so who cares
- Silent Hill f is coming in September, so here's a deeply disturbing new trailer to give you something to think about while you wait
- Our first look at 007 First Light is finally here, and oh no: I'm pretty sure this Bond was born in the year 2000
- Suda51 just announced a delightfully bizarre action game about a cyborg man with a chainsaw sword
- Oh hell yeah, that Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is real, and it's out later this year
- Nioh 3 stars legendary warlord Tokugawa (the inspiration for FX's Shogun), and it's coming to PC in early 2026
- Oh dang, we're getting an all-new Lumines, and this one's got 'over 30 stages of synesthetic sensory wonderlands'
- Almost exactly 5 years after it was announced, Capcom's astronaut action game Pragmata finally has a release date: 'It's real'
- A 'vast medieval sandbox' with a former Cyberpunk 2077 designer working on it may be revealed at Summer Game Fest, but there's a twist: the studio is really into generative AI
- Balatro doesn't have microtransactions for a very good reason: 'It makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots and pans," LocalThunk says
- Deltarune shoots to the top of the Steam best-seller chart as chapters 3 and 4 finally go live
- Bungie makes the (correct) decision to roll back Destiny 2's most severe Edge of Fate nerfs before they've even happened
- CDPR says the Kingdom Come style of systems-heavy RPG is 'super great' and, when it comes to The Witcher 4's direction of travel, 'these are our next steps for sure'
- No Man's Sky just got another mondo update and I think it's a management game now?
- CD Projekt Red and Epic claim Witcher 4 development 'ramped up dramatically' Unreal Engine's open world game capabilities
- Elden Ring Nightreign hits 3.5 million copies sold in just 5 days, with 7.5% of players already managing to beat all the Nightlords
- WoW developers step in to try and calm tensions between themselves and the UI addon community: 'We are embarking on this project with the aim of leveling the playing field'
- Skyrim's version of Radiant AI was developed from a drawing Todd Howard made on a napkin
- This tech DIYer swapped their graphics card's cooling for a U cooler because why not? Also it actually works
- Just two days after I said this is the only wireless gaming headset I'd buy on sale it's now $20 off
- I just found out there's a server tossing championship, and it makes me want to try yeeting my own PC down the road
- Google search's AI overviews are awful, but here's a browser extension that gets rid of them
- 'The problem isn't necessarily the yellow paint', says the Witcher 4 design lead, but its overuse: 'People see through the smoke and mirrors'
- I've been gaming with Razer's new wireless charging mouse pad and I'm glad there's finally serious competition for Logitech
- Epic cops to the Epic Games Store sucking for the 2nd time in a month as it proudly announces its money-hose has spaffed over $2 billion
- DeepMind boss 'would pay thousands of dollars per month' to get rid of his email, so Google is working on a next-gen Gmail AI that will answer them in 'your style—and maybe make some of the easier decisions' for you
- Spot the connector: Gigabyte's new graphics card design lets you hide your power cable even if you don't have a back-connect motherboard
- 'Why are they so greedy': Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players are in disbelief to find bundle ads but Activision claims it's simply a 'UI feature test' that was published 'in error'
- This incredible truly wireless desktop PC build even keeps your coffee hot forever
- 'You shall main Wylder Spooderman': An Elden Ring Nightreign player has found the best Wylder setup 55 hours in, letting them use their grappling hook every 4 seconds
- Linux enjoys a small usage uptick with Steam s, though at 2.69% it still has a long way to go to topple Windows
- 'I want you to have the confidence to give it a try': Elden Ring Nightreign's combat director politely tells you to git gud, says he's beat all the game's bosses, solo, without relics
- TSMC boss claims the chipmaker doesn't need to pick winners to work with, just wait patiently 'because they will all come to us in the end'
- 'Widespread theft': The UK government's fifth attempt to push through a bill allowing AI companies to scrape any data they like shut down by the House of Lords
- Spooky friend-time ghost-em-up Phasmophobia is the next videogame to get the movie treatment
- The new Arctis Nova 3 looks like SteelSeries is min-maxing the midranged headset with both hardware and software
- Remedy announces very friendly minimum specs for its co-op Control spinoff, FBC: Firebreak. You only need a GTX 1070 for 1080 60 fps play
- June 3
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- MindsEye is set to launch next week, so it's probably not great that the studio's chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both resigned
- Old School Runescape private server development is paused 'indefinitely' as Jagex says it has more important things to work on
- Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios cuts 'senior management positions' because after all the other layoffs, 'the company had a lot of senior management in relation to our current size'
- Here's when Dune: Awakening pre-loads and unlocks in your time zone
- RuneScape studio Jagex confirms layoffs 'to reduce complexity, increase agility, and ensure we are fully focused on the areas that matter most'
- This Russian fishing sim is bizarrely popular on Steam but players hate the monetisation, and to be fair it has a $2000 microtransaction
- This Final Fantasy Tactics-like RPG from former Octopath and Destiny devs lets you do the best thing a videogame can: Make a town look cooler while you rebuild it
- The Witcher 4's leafy glory is all down to Epic's Nanite Foliage, and largely so is the fact it can run ray-traced at 60 fps on a lowly PS5
- Dead Take is a first-person horror game out to expose 'the darkest secrets' of the entertainment industry: 'I want players to think, I can't believe they actually did this'
- The Elder Scrolls Online's subclassing feature shakes up the meta in its newest update, Seasons of the Worm Cult, as the devs set their sights on harder difficulties: 'It's in the works'
- Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate's new exotics include the most powerful primary weapon I've ever used and gloves that enable one of the coolest player-requested abilities
- Unreal's MetaHuman Animator can generate surprisingly lifelike animation with just your phone and it's now integrated directly into Unreal Engine 5.6
- The 'main goal' for Epic Games' new Unreal 5.6 engine is more performance on the PS5 and that should be good news for gaming on affordable PC hardware
- Penguins confront Lovecraftian cosmic horror in the next game from the developers of Umurangi Generation
- At just $23 the Razer DeathAdder Essential is virtually an impulse purchase, so surely it's time to replace your clattered old mouse
- SteamDB changes might finally herald the end of a long wait for Silksong (again), though with SGF on the horizon, I think Team Cherry has the potential to do the funniest thing of all time
- Pick up enough Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 comics to keep you going until The Witcher 4 comes out for $24 with this digital bundle
- You won't have to rely on co-ordinates to track down your friends in Minecraft thanks to its drop
- How to watch the PC Gaming Show 2025
- Elden Ring Nightreign has a BuzzFeed-like personality test to help you figure out which Nightfarer suits you best
- We just got a look at someone actually playing The Witcher 4 as CDPR promises 'the most immersive and ambitious open world Witcher game ever'
- Splitgate 2's official launch is just days away as devs tease 'a massive surprise' which will be unveiled at Summer Game Fest
- Microsoft agrees that USB is a mess and it's making changes to fix it: 'Manufacturers can implement ports that look identical but differ wildly in functionality'
- A glorious day: Microsoft finally gives up pestering EU s about Edge
- FF14 unofficial census finds what we were all pretty much feeling—before patch 7.25, Dawntrail's playerbase has likely been on the decline
- Elden Ring Nightreign is finally getting Duo Expeditions as FromSoftware caves into pleas from players who can only find one other friend to match with
- The world's biggest chip maker TSMC says it still can't keep up with demand for AI hardware despite tariff uncertainty
- Hell is Us system requirements require an RTX 4090 and upscaling for 4K at 30 fps, which sounds pretty hellish for my gaming PC
- Nvidia's new Arm-based APU rumoured to launch in an Alienware laptop later this year with RTX 4070 mobile performance and 'breakthrough' power efficiency
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 3
- June 2
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- Torchlight 3 studio Echtra Games, acquired by Zynga in 2021 to help it move into PC and console gaming, is being closed without doing that
- Jonathan Joss, who appeared in Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption, shot dead in Texas
- Former Ubisoft execs face trial in this week on charges of 'moral and sexual harassment'
- A new Dungeons and Dragons 'singleplayer action-adventure' game is coming from the former director of Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games
- Surprise! Dune: Awakening will have private servers at launch after all, where players can disable taxes and enable 'free-for-all' PvP
- IO's James Bond game is called 007 First Light, will be revealed later this week
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake is such a badly kept secret it's been leaked by a statue maker who just assumed we all knew it was coming
- Over $90,000 worth of RTX 5090 GPUs have been replaced in-box by crossbody backpacks at just one Silicon Valley Micro Center
- 'The complexity of mods we can make just shot up big time': Oblivion Remastered modders breach a new frontier even without Bethesda —making it play nice with Lua scripts
- I wouldn't up this gaming PC deal: the latest AMD components and 32 GB of RAM for way under $2000
- Elden Ring Nightreign's first major patch sees FromSoft belatedly it singleplayer is all sorts of unfair, adds an auto-resurrect and buffs the levelling curve
- American RuneScape players are recreating the Boston Tea Party after Jagex hiked taxes: 'They took a page from the British Empire, rather poetic from a British game'
- Lethal Company's biggest update for months is finally out, and with it comes the much awaited first look at a new monster
- 89-year-old Skyrim Grandma starts streaming Oblivion Remastered, has to deal with its mystifying lockpicking minigame and 'absolutely ugly movement' just like we did in 2006
- Someone's already completed a solo Elden Ring Nightreign run at level 1 and, as is tradition, the power of status effects pulled through
- Here's another terrifying trailer for that creepy retro survival horror game that's half FMV, half pixel-art
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, June 2
- D&D podcasters 3D printed a giant model of Castle Ravenloft, from Curse of Strahd, and it's truly beautiful
- XWVM, the X-Wing mod that lets you play the Star Wars classic remade in Unity, is finally available to
- June 1
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- Apple is reportedly creating its own Steam-like game launcher, but it's still missing the key to making gaming on Mac great
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Wylder can not only rocket jump with his explosive ultimate, he can grappling hook combo into it to fly around like an offstage Smash Bros. character
- 'We wish to express our deepest regret': Bulletstorm and Outriders dev People Can Fly suspends unannounced projects in yet another wave of gaming layoffs
- Elden Ring Nightreign artist wanted part of the game to feel 'more cozy, more welcoming, more at home,' so naturally she drew on Dark Souls for inspiration
- You get a unique relic for beating Elden Ring Nightreign's 'supposed to lose' tutorial boss, but don't worry: There's a buried menu option to fight him again
- 'The journey was long': 2 years later than planned, boomer shooter Project Warlock 2 blasts out of early access with a 50% discount and a request to submit your own loading screen tips
- PowerWash Simulator's last free update is out now, letting you scrub up a subway train and polish a sculpture park
- This gravity-defying dungeon crawler is basically Legend of Grimrock meets Portal, and while the trailer had me dizzy, the demo made me feel like a genius
- Atomfall is getting a spooky DLC set on an offshore island that also lets you blast pretend pirates with a blunderbuss
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 1
