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- June 5
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- 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 CPU cooler because why not? Also it actually works
- 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 users, 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
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 4
- 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
- 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 upcoming 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 users 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 France 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 support—making it play nice with Lua scripts
- Elden Ring Nightreign's first major patch sees FromSoft belatedly admit 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 download
- 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
