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Jason Momoa adopts bold marketing strat for A Minecraft Movie: Telling everyone he doesn't let his kids play games or have phones—'I just want them to use their creativity in a different way'

A wise choice, but bad advertising. Very large man Jason Momoa has been out and about promoting the so-close-you-can-taste-it Minecraft Movie...

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No one's making a new BattleTech videogame any time soon, so I'll console myself with this $ 18 bundle of stuff for the tabletop RPG

Alpha struck. Remember Harebrained Schemes' turn-based BattleTech game? That was great. 85% great if you listen to our BattleTech review from back...

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Nintendo got a Bloodborne spiritual sequel before PC even got the first game

The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct ended on a truly stunning reveal: FromSoftware is making a game called The Duskbloods, set to release in 2026, and it...

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Nintendo Switch 2 specs: $ 450 price tag, bigger 1080p LCD screen, 4K support, 256 GB storage, 'mouse' functionality and more

The specs of the console's new Nvidia chip, however, remain mysterious. Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 02.04.2025 - YouTube Watch On Nintendo has...

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The first Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU makes an appearance in the Steam hardware survey and it's the RTX 5080 that has the honour

AMD CPUs are up and Intel down, too. Yes, yes, Valve's Steam hardware surveys can be problematic and occasionally throw up anomalies that can't...

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Our favourite wireless soundbar just hit its lowest ever price in the latest Amazon deal, solving one of our biggest gripes

It's an all-rounder, and available in tons of colours. BlueAnt Soundblade | 120 W | 2x neodymium drivers, 80 mm neodymium subwoofer | USB Type-C,...

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Assassin's Creed Shadows didn't have yellow paint originally, but unfortunately players like me are stupid

My words, not Ubisoft's. Yellow paint: it's the scourge of our time . Or at least, that's what I've gathered from the approximately 4,000,000 online...

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Schedule 1 is my favourite co-op game of the year because it lets me bully my friends into doing the hard parts for me

This empire-builder lets everyone do the things they love. I didn't realise a criminal empire would lead to so many early mornings. Yet, here I am,...

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The Nintendo Switch 2 mouse controls are a great gimmick but they don't excite me at all

They don't spark Joy(Con). Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 02.04.2025 - YouTube Watch On When I first saw that the Nintendo Switch 2 would be...

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A 60 year old videogame just hit its highest player count ever on Steam and I'm pretty sure it's because people are pirating Schedule 1

Are 100,000 people playing something called Spacewar? Probably not. At time of writing, SteamDB's concurrent player ranking is led by the usual...

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A Minecraft Movie review

"It's harder to create than to destroy. That's why cowards tend to choose the deuce." You may be wondering where this quote is from. Could it be...

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The PC game releases we're most excited about in April

A much anticipated puzzle game, a big RPG with a strange premise, a return to the RTS golden age, and more. The PC game release schedule quiets down a...

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Nintendo is going to charge Switch 2 handheld console owners money for a glorified digital manual that doubles as a game

There's no actual price yet, but Switch 2 Welcome Tour is definitely a 'paid' game. Is it a game? Is it a manual? Maybe it's just a showcase. Whatever...

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'We were at war with our customers': Unity's new CEO talks about arriving to the 'insane' post-run time fee dumpster fire

"I wanted to be sure they understood that we were going to do things differently." Unity's been having a rough few years—mostly due to its own...

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Atomfall surpasses 1.5 million players to become Rebellion's most successful game launch in 32 years

Not bad for a company that's been that long. Rebellion's been around for a long time , and it's put out a lot of videogames—some of them pretty good!...

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You can get PC Gamer's longest-reigning Top 100 winner and enough branching narratives to keep you busy for the rest of the year for under $ 15

Thousands of hours of isometric point-and-click action for one ridiculously low price. Disco Elysium is a real special game at PC Gamer—we gave the...

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AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs

But AMD's statement doesn't quite square with Reddit reports... Day 97 (or something like that), the saga of the imploding AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs...

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The first Radeon was superior to Nvidia's GeForce2 in almost every way but it set the tone for how AMD would fair against the jolly green giant for the next 25 years

Futureproof features mean squat here and now. It only seems like yesterday when I got my hands on ATI Technologies' first and much-anticipated Radeon...

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Call of Duty will finally let console players turn off crossplay to dodge PC cheaters, which is potentially terrible news for all the legit PC players

Black Ops 6 Season 3 expands crossplay options to regular unranked multiplayer. In a win for console players fed up with Call of Duty's cheating...

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It's actually happening, everybody stay calm: Silksong properly confirmed for a 2025 release date at the Nintendo Direct with a whole 3 seconds of footage

Rattling the bars of my cage. Gnawing them, too. Dear reader, this is not a drill: Silksong's release year has officially been confirmed. While it's...

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Ambitious burrito-lover mods real-life Chipotle orders into Fallout 4, thrilling community who can 'Finally get the food poisoning perk!' in reality

"This is an extremely serious mod. Not for the faint of heart." Once upon a time , back when videogames were properly visionary, we had a command called...

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It's clear Hasbro, the custodians of D&D, have no idea what to do with Baldur's Gate 3's success—but that's nothing new, it's spent the past 10 years fumbling the bag

The instant collapse of Sigil is just the latest in a long line of missed opportunities and self-inflicted wounds. Dungeons & Dragons might be, if...

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It took nearly 20 years but one of the best PSP games is finally coming to PC

Pata- pon. Pata-pon. Pata-pata-pata-pon. PON PON PATA-PON. PATAPON 1+2 Replay – Announcement Trailer - YouTube Watch On I didn't have a PSP when the...

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Inzoi and The First Berserker Khazan devs suggest ditching the latest Nvidia drivers if you're running an RTX 40-series graphics card

RTX 50-series can still update their drivers though. If you aren't one of the lucky customers to get their hands on RTX 50-series graphics card, and...

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Oh, you tease—we don't know when exactly GTA 6 is coming out because Take-Two's CEO wants 'to maintain the anticipation'

"The anticipation for that title might be the greatest anticipation I've ever seen for an entertainment property". Unless Rockstar and Take-Two decide...

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This nearly budget gaming PC build made me realise availability is just as important as affordability when building a cheap machine

A budget part is only as good as its price on the shelf. There have been some excellent budget PC parts released over the past couple of years. I'm...

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Mecha Break competitor Steel Hunters releases in early access on Steam this week, offering a slower, more tactical free-to-play mech game

The World of Tanks developer's mech combat game is entering public beta. Steel Hunters takes the the spark-filled clashes between Megatron and Optimus...

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'I was surprised, because I loved the trailer': Jack Black didn't get all the hate for the first Minecraft movie teaser

The negative reaction to the trailer didn't just surprise Jack, it also apparently left him thoroughly shook. A Minecraft Movie | Teaser -...

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Schedule 1 cheats and console commands for infinite money and free ingredients

Every cheat and console command you need to change your wanted level, teleport, or stack up cash. Schedule 1 is all about slowly climbing your way to...

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It's tough to find a good price on a gaming laptop right now but this $ 900 RTX 4070 HP Victus is a tall glass of water in a desert of deals

Good prices on budget gaming laptops are still possible, if you know where to look. HP Victus | RTX 4070 | Ryzen 7 8845HS | 16.1-inch | 1080p | 144 Hz...

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Elon Musk's estranged daughter weighs in on his pro gamer claims: 'He was a Bronze Torbjörn main. He was f***ing dogsh**t'

"He would try to constantly get us to play ranked with him, and I'm 90% sure it was just because we could carry him." In a March 29 appearance on left...

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Screenshots have seemingly leaked of the new Star Wars game from a team of former XCOM developers, and surprise: it looks like a Star Wars XCOM game

Featuring Bo Katan and Ahsoka Tano. Developer BitReactor has been particularly coy about its upcoming Star Wars game. Though it was first announced in...

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Inzoi mods are here and unsurprisingly 'Remove Shower Blur' is ranking high

Back in my day there were cheat codes for this sort of thing. Given the popularity of the Wicked Whims mod for The Sims, and nude mods for almost...

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Turns out Inzoi's inhabitants wear towels in the shower because pixelating them Sims-style was too saucy: 'We actually tested this ourselves during development, so you can trust us'

There are dozens of them. Inzoi has been in the hands of life sim sickos for a few days now, and while there are pockets of criticism here and...

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Inzoi players are giving classic Sims townies a big ol' ultra-realistic makeover and I'm floored how good they are

From Bella Goth to Eliza Pancakes, here are some top-tier Sims-to-Inzoi character creations. It's only been a few days since Inzoi launched, but I'm...

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Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

The trick, it turns out, is to use an awful lot of clever and complicated math. Spell checking is such a ubiquitous feature of today's software that...

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Doom: The Dark Ages' melee-heavy, parry-focused gameplay was nothing like I expected, and now I'm more eager to play the full thing than ever

Doom Souls. Leave a videogame series in a covered, humid environment for long enough and it will, according to some inextricable and mysterious law of...

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Wizards of the Coast says it didn't mean to send a DMCA takedown notice to the Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew mod: 'We are in the process of fixing that now'

The mod has Swen Vincke's personal approval, and the legal threat didn't go over well with fans—now WotC says it was "issued mistakenly." Recent...

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Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming

And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver. While Microsoft's Windows OS dominates the PC gaming market, the rampant success of the Steam Deck is...

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European Commission orders Apple to finally open the gates of its walled garden and level the playing field for third-party developers

The Apple Watch and AirPods may finally have some competition from third-party accessories. The European Commission is stepping up its efforts to...

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Nordhold is out now, and one of the year's most interesting tower defense games

Send some bad monsters to Valhalla. Nordhold - Official Release Trailer - YouTube Watch On Any strategy fan likes to see a nice tower defense game, and...

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At one point, Avowed would have taught us to use magic with an explosive Elder Scrolls reference: 'How about we just have a guy on the road that blows himself up'

The Morrowind gag is, blessedly, still in the game in a different form. When I spoke to Obsidian region director Berto Ritger about Avowed earlier...

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Lovecraftian horror detective game The Sinking City's grand redemption arc continues, with a shiny new remaster coming free to all existing owners

The move to Unreal Engine 5 will bring visual upgrades and a photo mode. Back in 2023, I had a blast with developer Frogwares' remake of Sherlock...

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It still makes me uneasy that my hundreds of Steam games can't be passed on when I die, at least not without violating the EULA

(But can you really violate a EULA from beyond the grave?) As a teenager, I really enjoyed the game Shoot Many Robots. It wasn't amazing, but it was a...

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How to get a job in Inzoi

Everybody has to at some point. Knowing how to get a job in Inzoi is a pretty important part of the experience, especially since your Zoi's will be...

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Studio Ghibli AI image trend floods social media, cheered on by OpenAI and denounced by critics as an insult to Hayao Miyazaki

A heart's a heavy burden indeed. If you're on social media you've probably stumbled over some quote, clip, or screen grab from one of Studio Ghibli's...

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Inzoi lets you customize your entire house down to the last thread, which is great in theory but doesn't feel good in practice

It turns out I don't like being left to my own devices. When I started building my character, or Zoi, for the first time , Inzoi impressed me with the...

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Elden Ring mega-mod The Convergence redesigns legacy dungeons, improves tutorials and gives its new bosses their own theme music

Experience Mohgwyn Palace, Miquella’s Haligtree and Farum Azula as never before. Elden Ring is going to be one of those games that never dies. Sure,...

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Humanoid robot Neo Gamma gifts Nvidia CEO a studded leather jacket and may even be able to one day wash up a cup without dropping it

I'm not going to be asking AI for fashion advice. Ever. In a video announcing a collaboration between 1X's AI team and the Nvidia Gear Lab, the...

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OpenAI's GPT-4o model gets image generation update for all of your anime-style selfie needs

Copyright concerns continue. For my sins, I do occasionally scroll through TikTok. In between the usual suspects of ear worm music loops and memetic...

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'Ok, so dragon builds are a thing now': galaxy-brained Helldivers 2 player incinerates a bile titan with a hover pack and a flamethrower

Free fire. As a weary veteran of Helldivers 2's galactic war, I thought I'd seen it all. I've seen helldivers choke to death on infinite gas bombs....

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From pixels to pinot: The Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper hill was real and this is what it looks like now

Rolling grasses have given way to a vineyard in northern California. Windows XP was the most blissful iteration of Microsoft's ubiquitous operating...

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No Man’s Sky lets you unearth ancient, angry mechs in the astro-archaeology filled Relics update

Stone ghosts, skeletal companions and titanic boneworms. While October might have been a better time to introduce spooky scary skeletons to No Man’s...

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'World’s smallest LEDs' could lead to accurately lit screens with 127,000 pixels per inch and much more immersive VR

A stunning display. Some time s small is actually big—at least when it comes to advancements in LED technology. For a bright, clear picture, OLED screens...

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How to upgrade weapons in Atomfall

Remove that ugly rust from your trusty guns and buff their stats. Want to upgrade weapons in Atomfall? Though there's no way to improve your melee...

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7 things to find first in Atomfall

Get started on your countryside adventure by tracking down some good gear. Knowing what to find first in Atomfall can be a little tricky. Though the...

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Don't panic! The 'Do Not Send Voice Recordings' option Amazon just removed was only used by 0.03% of customers and they can still have it

The small percentage of affected users will be automatically opted into the remaining "Don’t save recordings" option. Take a deep breath. While we are...

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10 Atomfall tips to thrive in post-apocalyptic Cumbria

Brave the perils of Windscale's quarantine zone. If you're taking the plunge into the idyllic countryside of Cumbria and the post-apocalyptic Lake...

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I love the 8BitDo Retro C64 keyboard but I'd pick its cheaper NES-themed model near its lowest price ever during Amazon's Big Spring Sale

NES or C64. Which one are you picking? 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard (N Edition) | Hot swappable | 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth, and wired connection |...

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CD Projekt says it's not using generative AI on The Witcher 4 because it's 'quite tricky when it comes to legal IP ownership'

The studio may look into gen AI if and when the legal landscape becomes clearer, but for now it's staying away. CD Projekt said in January 2024 that...

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By the time Bethesda was on Starfield, you'd 'basically get in trouble' for breaking schedule, says former dev: 'A lot of the great stuff within Skyrim came from having the freedom to do what you want'

Fus by numbers. Starfield sort of came and went, huh? With a lukewarm reception on release, a DLC that didn't quite summon that bygone Bethesda magic,...

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How to unlock the blacksmith in The First Berserker: Khazan

Craft new weapons and armour using scrolls you find. Not sure how to unlock the blacksmith in The First Berserker: Khazan? If you're exploring each...

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How to claim The First Berserker: Khazan pre-order bonus and deluxe edition DLC

Collect your exclusive Fallen Star armour set for Khazan. You're likely looking to claim your pre-order bonus in The First Berserker: Khazan if you're...

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A unique aspect of Japanese architecture turned out to be a key reason the Like a Dragon games can reuse assets so effectively—and deliver more compact, memorable open worlds than western cities

It's all about the verticality. Spend enough time running errands and beating up thugs in the Like a Dragon (née Yakuza) series, and you'll likely be...

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Old armor continues to fall victim to Final Fantasy 14's bizarre two-channel dye system, unless you're super into changing the colour of teeny-tiny eyelets: 'Why even bother at this point?'

Mourning alongside my fellow Gryphoskin Breastguard enjoyers. It only took a decade, but Final Fantasy 14 finally added an extra dye channel to a...

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US pressures Malaysia to stop banned AI chips potentially entering China by monitoring 'every shipment that comes to Malaysia when it involves Nvidia chips'

The USA really doesn't want DeepSeek to have those chips. The United States has come into 2025 swinging when it comes to foreign imports around...

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Ubisoft says don't compare Assassin's Creed Shadows' success to Valhalla: The latter launched in Covid's 'perfect storm' and feedback on platforms 'less affected by review bombing' is stellar

And let's be honest, the second-biggest launch in AC history is still a very big launch. Assassin's Creed Shadows is doing very well. Incredibly well....

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Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box

"Okay, so you've done the game. Now what happens?" One of this year's GDC highlights was a talk by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and...

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'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties

iOS connectivity is going to need to get cool with a lot of things very quickly. Apple is well known for its closed ecosystem of tech, rather than its...

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The 2012 source code for AlexNet, the precursor to modern AI, is now on Github thanks to Google and the Computer History Museum

One of the first modern neural networks makes its way to Github. Watch On AI is one of the biggest and most all-consuming zeitgeists I've ever seen in...

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Dune: Awakening promises us a breath of fresh air, skipping early access for a full launch with no monthly subscription in May

Dune: Awakening is just two months away from launch—which won't be early access. Dune: Awakening is only a couple months away from release, and its...

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Noctua's pumpless 'thermosiphon' liquid cooling unit is expected to be released in 2026 and has already given me a free lesson in basic thermodynamics

Turns out you don't need a pump after all. Noctua is perhaps best known for its brown fans and conventional air coolers, but it might not be long...

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MSI has gone so heavy with 12V-2x6 power sockets in its latest high-end PSUs that many AMD and Intel graphics cards have no way of being powered

A sign of change in the PSU market or just a one-off for a specific market? Nvidia's 12VHPWR power connector, later updated to the 12V-2x6 format, has...

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I downloaded this bear-obsessed comedy FPS to kill time before Doom: The Dark Ages and discovered the most underrated shooter on Steam

Bears in Space offers far more than cosmic ursine adventures. You can probably guess what my expectations were for Bears in Space. I'll give you a...

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A beta of backyard FPS Neighbors: Suburban Warfare is out now, and the balance discussion is hysterical: nerf trash can lids and children

"Pls nerf kevin." Neighbors: Suburban Warfare - Official Early Access Release Date Trailer - YouTube Watch On Neighbors: Suburban Warfare was revealed...

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets a crumb of support as EA offers free weapon skins to coincide with a 50% discount

All Dragon Age games available for cheap until March 27. The Steam Spring Sale may be over but, like rain in Scotland, the discounts never truly end....

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'You’ve been asking, and we’ve been listening': Myst remake adds a whole new world to the classic adventure, one originally introduced in another overhaul from 25 years ago

Rime and reason. time is a flat circle, and Myst has new content. Developer Cyan Worlds had added another area to its modern remake of the classic...

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An FPS studio pulled its game from Steam after it got caught linking to malware disguised as a demo, but the dev insists it was actually the victim of a labyrinthine conspiracy

I thought this one was going to be simple when I first looked into it. First reported by TheGamer, a Steam listing for a game called Sniper: Phantom's...

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Another round of Baldur's Gate 3 unearthing reveals Minthara can end up living in a sewer, an unused beach ending, and more

Sorry, Minthy. BG3's Endgame Secrets And Cut Content Explained - YouTube Watch On YouTube Baldur's Gate 3 expert SlimX, who brought to our attention...

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A bizarre mod that adds human poop to Skyrim led me on an enlightening journey into Viking sanitation: 'Your world will certainly be more immersive, but it will also certainly smell worse'

Everyone Poops—Mihail's Shards of Immersion adds droppings for humans, falmer, and giants. I've played a few Skyrim mods that stank in my time , but...

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I played the lost videogame sequel to 1984, and came away more nostalgic than ever for gaming's awkward adolescence in 1999

What a time to be alive. The year is 1984. The game, also, is 1984. The book it's based on? 1984. The year it came out? 1999, but it might actually be...

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Microsoft announces DirectX Raytracing 1.2 claiming 'game changing' performance benefits but it looks like the important stuff is already in Nvidia's RTX GPUs, even the old ones

Is Microsoft tracing Nvidia's already-trodden path...? Microsoft has announced DirectX Raytracing 1.2 at the GDC conference with claims of "game...

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Former Age of Empires 2 dev claims Microsoft demanded its first expansion should have a Korean faction, because 'StarCraft sold 3 million copies in Korea'

"Once someone simply repeats a previous argument, it's clear they are no longer functioning from logic or intelligence." Age of Empires 2 fans are no...

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Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $ 500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'

"I knew he wasn't a bad kid, but there'd been this generational shift." One of this year's most interesting GDC talks was delivered by Monica...

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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s getting a new roguelite wave defense mode that sounds a whole lot like a souped-up take on Killing Floor

Mortis Trials will see players stack unique buffs over 12 waves of heretic-slaying carnage. Fatshark has done a fair bit of fooling around with...

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'Players don't explore': former Grand Theft Auto 6 and Red Dead Online designer lays out the perils of 'open world fatigue'

"They're wondering, 'Okay, how far away is the next thing? I really gotta run all the way across the map?'" said Cameron Williams of Absurd...

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Assassin's Creed Shadows immersive mode explained

Immersive yourself in Shadows' sixteenth-century Japan. One of the first choices you'll make when booting up a new save in Assassin's Creed Shadows is...

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Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich'

"Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games." It's the 2025 Game Developer's Conference, and one of this year's most interesting...

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Acer Predator Z57 gaming monitor review

There is no single display technology that does everything well. That's an objective fact and something the stupendous, incredible and delightful new...

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Ghoul players in Fallout 76 are starting to place their camps in the most radioactive areas of the map, and regular humans aren't happy: 'I had to inject 30+ radaway into my veins'

Only for the children of atoms. Ghouls made their way into Fallout 76 earlier this week, and since then it's mostly been positive. Regular players can...

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Dive into Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium's exhilarating new update [Aphelion]

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Friendship ended with human race: Boffins declare the 'meme Turing test' has been passed, and AI is now making funnier captions on average than you useless lumps

But it might also be something to do with people enjoying 'bad' memes. A new study has made the curious finding that memes with AI-generated captions...

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Wizards of the Coast gaming head says Baldur's Gate 3 'certainly raised the bar' and changed how they think about big budget D&D, but they still want 'different entry points' including smaller games

Not every D&D videogame going forward will be trying to replicate Baldur's Gate 3's dizzying depth. Earlier this week, Wizards of the Coast senior...

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After Ubi came crawlin' back to Steam, Assassin's Creed Shadows blasts past a million players in under 24 hours and has already smashed Valhalla's player record

Hana wa sakuragi, hito wa bushi. Bad news for Nobunaga and his ambitions: Assassin's Creed Shadows has parkoured past 1,000,000 players in under 24...

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The first non-Steam Deck SteamOS handheld is now available for preorder, and Lenovo may be aiming for the ROG Ally X's throne

The SteamOS model takes a price cut on the recent Windows one. If you want a more powerful handheld gaming PC but don't want to part with SteamOS,...

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X- Com creator Julian Gollop unexpectedly takes over sequel to sprawling board game adaptation, and you can try out the closed beta next week

Flaming Fowl step aside to make way for Snapshot Games, but it still looks lovely. As much as I like getting friends sat down around a table, I...

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CEO Jensen Huang reveals that Nvidia is now making chips in the USA but will that help with gaming GPU supplies?

Not just test chips, but 'production silicon'. "We are now running production silicon in Arizona." So says none other than Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang....

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Marketing guy invents the concept of 'Real Steam' to explain why 'magic' games, AKA good games, end up selling: 'Don't tell Valve'

The return of the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious. Charles Zukowski, a game marketing strategist, delivered a talk at Game Developers Conference 2025...

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Meet Luna, the new AI robot dog who teaches itself using a digital nervous system and software 'that allows any machine to learn like humans and animals do'

Wake up babe, a new self learning robot dog has dropped. Revolutionary AI: Luna the Robot Dog Learns on Its Own | AI15 - YouTube Watch On Move over...

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ChatGPT faces legal complaint after a user inputted their own name and found it accused them of made-up crimes

When AI ‘hallucinations’ are far from harmless. AI ‘hallucinations’ are a well-documented phenomenon. As Large Language Models are only making their...

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Monster Hunter Wilds' next set of event quests let you snag a snazzy earring, plus armor and weapon decorations

Getting an earful (of metal). Monster Hunter Wilds just released its next set of event quests—which'll give you a chance to snag some snazzy drip, and...

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My favourite rapid trigger keyboard is back at its lowest price and comes with a cute OLED screen to show game info (or a cat)

It's pricey but still an excellent keeb. SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL Gen 3 | OmniPoint 3.0 HyperMagnetic Switches | Wired | rapid trigger | $ 219.99...

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 17, 2025)

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REPO's first update will add a new map and a 'duck bucket' so we can finally give that pesky quacker a time out

Tired of dying to that duck in REPO? Its first update promises a fix, plus a new map and more. REPO is already getting its first update and it...

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92% of Nvidia users turn on DLSS... if they've been lucky enough to bag an RTX 50-series card at launch AND have the Nvidia App installed

60% of the time , it works, every time . The past few weeks have been pretty huge for PC gaming hardware releases, and seemingly for some rather dubious...

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The Day Before studio reportedly sues Russian website for calling infamous disaster-game a 'scam'

Well, it certainly wasn't game of the year 2023. First reported by 80 Level, The Day Before studio Fntastic has reportedly sued Russian news site...

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My new most anticipated RPG let me be a kleptomaniac gourmand set loose in a noir city on a quest to make 'the perfect sandwich'

Moves of the Diamond Hand has the right stuff. When I first fired up the demo for Moves of the Diamond Hand, I rolled a character specializing in...

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Grab the brilliant Doom 2016 for its lowest price ever

A mere $ 2 and it's yours. Doom 2016 is less than two dollars. Id's superb reboot of its own 1993 FPS is currently available at a 90% discount thanks...

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Dune Awakening's latest trailer offers a glimpse of its massive coriolis storms, which reshape swathes of the map each week for 'infinite exploration'

Shifting sands. Dune: Awakening | Exploring Arrakis — Secrets of the Desert - YouTube Watch On I felt like I knew a lot about Dune Awakening, having...

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Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have

This could be a little confusing—the new flick will apparently go back to the 1959 Robert Heinlein novel. Get ready to get confused, because Deadline...

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The hottest farming sim since Stardew Valley just got its second major update, adding lava caves and pets you unlock by having a 'pet dream'

Fields of Mistria is also 20% off until Thursday. Throwback farming sim Fields of Mistria proved pretty darn popular when it launched into Steam early...

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The best Battlefield game of the last decade is 95% off until Thursday

A discount so deep you could use it as a trench. Steam's spring sale has officially sprung, bringing an array of mighty discounts like Doom 2016 for...

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The latest Windows 11 dev build gives you the ability to snap together commonly paired apps for access in a single click, and I'm already sold

Now I can open Solitaire and Spotify even quicker. If you have signed up for the dev build of the latest Windows update, you should now have access to...

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How to get disruptive customers to leave in The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies

When rude retail customers turn up, show them the door. The Sims 4 really does reflect the best and worst parts of life, including the reality of...

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The best part of The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion is just coming up with fun small business ideas

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It launched upside down and on fire, but busted and brilliant Stalker 2 has attracted 6 million players to the Zone in the last 3 months

Love wins. The process of reviewing Stalker 2 will live forever in my memory—spending a solid week doing almost nothing but play it in order to get...

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Split Fiction review

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The unofficial Civilization 7 manual: everything Civ 7 doesn't tell you about its rules and systems

Civilization 7 doesn't explain many of the things you need to know to play it well. Here's how it all works. Editor's note: I was surprised the first...

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How to unlock Jasmine and Aladdin in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Let's visit a whole new world. Disney Dreamlight Valley loves to make you work for new characters, and unlocking Jasmine and Aladdin is no exception...

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review (Asus Prime OC)

AMD has gone big with the new Radeon RX 9070 XT, and I don't just mean because it's an absolutely monstrously large GPU. This is the first time in a...

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Best Buy outs a load of non-MSRP RTX 5070 cards and many are priced above $ 700 and up near RTX 5070 Ti levels. Ouch!

Are these the cards that will really be available? Best Buy has had a quintet of MSRP-priced RTX 5070 graphics cards listed for a while. Will those...

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We need a better name for AI, or we risk talking past each other until actually intelligent AGI comes home mooing

A-I can't believe it's not actually intelligent. When I say 'AI', what do you think of? Large Language Models saying something outrageous? Vaguely...

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Nvidia RTX 5070 launch day live: heaps of non-MSRP cards and a handful of MSRP ones for release today

And a big salute for the MSI RTX 5070 Gaming Trio OC, which is still in stock at Newegg for $ 650. This Gainward card is in-stock for £650 at...

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Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition review

There's a shadow hanging over the new Nvidia RTX 5070. It's a shadow that's dulling the glint off every one of the new RTX Blackwell card's edges...

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This Minecraft creation blots out the sun for the villagers below, they surely praise it as God, but we know it really to be a functioning 32-bit computer with 2 kB of RAM

This computer, built fully within Minecraft, ran the Fibonacci Sequence. Building a computer is one thing. Designing a computer from scratch is...

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Midnight Society, the studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect, is closing its doors the same day the disgraced streamer says his YouTube channel is being remonetized

The studio sold a ton of NFTs when it first opened, but never managed to release a game. Just months after laying off a "significant" number of...

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'On a pirate ship, they’d toss the captain overboard': Larian head of publishing tears into EA after BioWare layoffs waste 'institutional knowledge'

A profit drop doesn't have to mean a closed shop. So, BioWare probably isn't going to be making a new Dragon Age game any time soon—maybe ever,...

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Deep trouble: Infosec firm finds a DeepSeek database 'completely open and unauthenticated' exposing chat history, API keys, and operational details

Into the great wide open. DeepSeek has been the name on everyone's lips this week, as the release of its R1 AI model spooked the tech market and...

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eBay users are getting back at graphics card scalping bots by listing pictures of the RTX 5090 for $ 2000, occasionally framed

"I got the frame from Target." Another graphics card launch filled with bots, scalpers, and 300% markups. Nvidia's hotly anticipated GPUs, the RTX...

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The Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 release saw 'an 8-10x increase' in traffic to Newegg with the retailer claiming the cards sold out 'in record time '

Anecdotally we saw the cards vanish in under 5 minutes across the net. Nvidia's latest graphics cards have been called many things: "The most powerful...

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Nvidia's latest 572.16 driver isn't just for the RTX 50-series, as 20, 30 and 40-series cards are also gifted with significant updates

Free frames? Don't mind if I do. What a couple of days. The build-up, the sleeping in tents, the stock and pricing anticipation, then the actual RTX...

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Asus says its easy-peasy PCIe slot causes 'no damage that would affect functionality' following claims of excessive wear, but says it'll cover any damage

"...we have found no impact on the functionality of either the graphics card or the motherboard." Following last week's report of excessive wear on a...

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How towns and cities work in Civilization 7

The difference between towns and cities, where to put buildings, and how specializations work in Civ 7. Aside from Civilization 7's transformative...

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This fascinating Lovecraftian RPG has me determined to build an army of ghoul-slaying cats—and no I haven't been driven mad by forbidden knowledge, why do you ask?

Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a monochrome nightmare. I am lost in a nightmarish limbo. Everywhere I turn, bizarre creatures stalk me, rending my...

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Hello Kitty Island Adventure multiplayer: how to play together with friends

All the details about how to unlock multiplayer and what you can do together with pals. The prophecy is fulfilled at last and Hello Kitty Island...

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The cyberpunk immersive sim I've been itching to play finally has a release date

Peripeteia will be out in early access next month. Peripeteia is an upcoming indie immersive sim where you're an out-of-work cyborg mercenary living...

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That Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles roguelike I refuse to stop going on about is adding Casey Jones as a playable character and a junkyard full of frogs to goongala your way through

TMNT: Splintered Fate's first DLC arrives February 5th. One of my favourite surprises of 2024 was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, a...

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52- year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: 'He is Don Mario, he's my dad'

Nintendo —a company that's famously litigious when it comes to muscling down on fan projects, emulators, and some time s just straight-up other...

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Path of Exile's community is losing it over the news that the next expansion has been delayed because of Path of Exile 2: 'I need to make peace with myself and let go of this burden'

Like it shot Old Yeller. Hoo boy. Grinding Gear Games (GGG) has released a new update video, delivered by Path of Exile 2 director Jonathan Rogers,...

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Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition review

The Nvidia RTX 5080 is like the difficult second album for the RTX Blackwell GPU band. It's a card that comes in at fully half the price of its RTX...

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Today I learned I can run my very own DeepSeek R1 chatbot on just $ 6,000 of PC hardware and no megabucks Nvidia GPUs required

The catch is that it's only really fast enough to serve one user with semi-useful gibberish at a time . Got the impression that a bazillion dollar's...

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For COD’s sake: One player’s 763-day legal quest to make Activision unban their account ends in total success: ‘Worth the effort’

Now that's some serious dedication. I've never been banned from a videogame or even got a single warning before. But some time s, simply playing by the...

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Celeste developer starts 2025 with a 'huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure' as creative difficulties and internal conflict lead to the cancellation of Earthblade

"We gave it all we got, and life goes on". Celeste developer Extremely Ok Games has announced the "difficult decision" to cancel its follow-up project...

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The RTS genre might be in a bit of a state, but at least you can pick up these 10 classics for $ 30 in the Steam Real- time Strategy Fest before it ends soon

I can't think of a better way to spend the weekend. While the RTS genre is as busy as it's ever been, when it comes to big success stories, they have...

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'That's why they call me the Elden Ring sicko' proclaims streamer as he beats FromSoft's RPG at NG+1000 without taking a single hit

Skumnut's run is "first in the world" and "probably the last" of its kind. As someone who struggled to beat Elden Ring on its standard difficulty, I'm...

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While I'm trapped indoors by one of the UK's worst storms, I'm enjoying one of my favourite pas time s: trudging through gnarly weather in videogames

Bring a coat. Yesterday afternoon, my local medical centre sent me a text warning me that going outside the next day might prove to be fatal. A couple...

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I missed this co-op open world base-builder when it first came out, but it's got over 10,000 positive Steam reviews and it's free to play all weekend

It felt Necesse-ary to tell you about this freebie you can check out with your buddies. I know base-builder fans are always on the lookout for a new...

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'When the world ends, people just dance': As another MMO comes to an end, players come together for a final farewell rave

If you gotta go, go in style. Bandai Namco announced the end of the anime MMO Blue Protocol in August 2024, setting the date for its demise as January...

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Coder creates an 'infinite maze' to snare AI bots in an act of 'sheer unadulterated rage at how things are going' on the content-scraped web

"Suck down as much bullsh*t as they have diskspace for, and choke on it." I'm getting a little tired of our deep-learning future, folks. While...

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Scalpers are already trying to rip off gamers by flipping RTX 5090 graphics cards they don't actually have for up to $ 7,000

Ummm, think I'll wait and try for one at MSRP, thanks. Marginally less inevitable than the relentless march of cosmic entropy and ensuing heat death...

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Ascend through 'ten thousand meters of concrete and decay' in this horrifying 'first-person roguelite speed-climbing game'

I played White Knuckle and I can tell you this: Everything you need to know about it is right there in the title. White Knuckle - Announcement Trailer...

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By opting out of an open world for Avowed, Obsidian says it can give players more interesting choices to make: 'Pacing is really tough in open world games'

Constraints do foster creativity, after all. Earlier today, Xbox Wire published a lengthy interview with Obsidian, in which the studio laid out its...

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Doom: The Dark Ages system requirements have been revealed, and you'll need a ray tracing graphics card to run it on minimum

It's not the only recent game to do so. We're fast approaching five years since the launch of Doom Eternal, and while Doom: The Dark Ages is shaping...

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Film director clarifies that historical epic The Brutalist did use AI during production, but not how you think

Screaming from the rooftops. The Brutalist, the Adrien Brody-led historical fiction epic currently in theatres, has cinema sickos like me frothing at...

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I built the mullet of gaming PCs with MSI's Project Zero 'Back-Connect' parts

Business up front, party out back. I dream of a cable-free gaming PC—no more tangles, zip-ties, velcro, or fiddly connectors. Alas, a life without...

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Steam reviewers finally trolled me: I bought a game they called 'calm' and 'relaxing' before I noticed those were the 'funny' reviews

"Mini Motorways is a dystopian horror story disguised as a traffic sim," said a more helpful review that I didn't read. I've been looking for a new...

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If you thought PCIe Gen 5 SSDs were a little pointless, don't worry, here comes 32 GB's worth of Gen 6 technology

30 GB/s-plus of bandwidth, but for what? What with overheating issues and the reality that raw bandwidth only gets you so far, suffice to say that the...

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC performance analysis: Runs well and looks good, but the tight system requirements and dearth of PC-centric options spoil the show

Limited graphics options, capped frame rates, and a mediocre upscaling system. Gee, thanks Square Enix. Released to critical acclaim almost one year...

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How to complete the Poison in the Roots quest in Diablo 4

Help the Tree of Whispers' coven perform the ritual. Completing the Poison in the Roots quest is one of the necessary steps in Diablo 4's new seasonal...

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The Borderlands movie gets 6 'Razzie' nominations including Worst Picture, plus 2 separate nominations just for Jack Black's acting as Claptrap

2024's bomb continues to bomb. The annual Golden Raspberry Awards, probably better known as the Razzies, has announced its nominations for the worst...

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I'm enraptured by this Zelda maniac who worked out there are 1 quadrillion 83 trillion 414 billion and 90 million possible permutations for a dog race in Majora's Mask

The greatest underdog story in videogames. Yes it's a Zelda game, but bear with me because this is a story only possible on PC. The Legend of Zelda:...

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Now Nvidia's hardware blocks have been AI'd out of existence all it will take for Frame Generation support on RTX 20- and 30-series GPUs is 'further optimization and testing'

The pros and cons of backporting Frame Gen to RTX 20- and 30-series graphics cards. A lot of things are going to change when Nvidia's new RTX...

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'You're not supposed to say this out loud!': Baldur's Gate 3 dev reacts to analyst who says some game makers 'hope' Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost up to $ 100 at launch

Michael Douse says the fact that game prices haven't risen with inflation is "an uncomfortable truth." Larian head of publishing Michael Douse warned...

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Update: Despite the TikTok ban's reversal, Marvel Snap is still blocked in the US

Marvel Snap developer Second Dinner and publisher Nuverse say they were surprised by the development. Article sources Update 1/19/25, 13:54 CST: Well...

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Creator of horror game Poppy Play time sues Google for refusing to remove 'bait-and-switch scam' apps that pretend to be the real thing then charge users up to $ 95 for literally nothing

We aren't even talking like "Throne of Games: Click Here M'lord" stuff⁠—these apps actually call themselves "Poppy Play time " and crib official...

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As the LA fires raged, Riot Games provided a generator to a fire station that lost power and donated meals from its employee cafeteria

The League of Legends studio's CEO promised last week to "stand up for Los Angeles" as deadly wildfires destroyed homes and displaced residents. The...

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Call of Duty is getting a microtransaction nobody can get mad at: A unique premium skin whose proceeds will go to LA wildfire relief

In addition to 100% of the bundle's revenue, Activision is donating $ 1 million to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation and Direct...

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Wartorn is a top-down fantasy tactics game co-created by BioShock's lead designer, inspired by a forgotten Bungie title where you command dwarves to blow up zombies

Battle fantasy monsters with elemental powers in this spiritual successor to Myth: The Fallen Lords. When was the first time you noticed physics in a...

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This Path of Exile 2 build simply opts out of danger by keeping nearby enemies permanently frozen in time

Set movement to no. Path of Exile 2 can be punishing. Compared to PoE 1, player characters are more fragile. Monsters hit harder, and they've got...

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Sons of the Forest's first patch in 6 months is a doozy, adding buildable rafts, a procedural wall system, and fixing more than 100 bugs

Also improves weapon aiming and warms up the hell cave. Sons of The Forest's cannibal-infested woods have been quiet lately. After a wildly popular...

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Retired PlayStation exec reckons Bloodborne PC hasn't happened because Miyazaki 'cannot do it himself, but he doesn’t want anyone else to touch it'

"That’s my theory, and the PlayStation team respects his wish." What do we want? Bloodborne on PC! When do we want it? At some point in this life time...

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A not-so-subtle tease suggests Games Workshop is finally bringing Total War: Warhammer 3's Grand Cathay army to the tabletop wargame

Big news for fans of very long, thin dragons. One of the interesting quirks of 2022's Total War: Warhammer 3 is that it featured two major armies that...

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10 essential boomer shooters that every FPS fan should play

Welcome back to the realm of keycards, spinning powerups and gibs. Call them what you like: retro FPS games, your dad’s shooters, boomshoots, or 3D...

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The Witcher 3's director explains why he had to leave CDPR to make his dream vampire RPG: 'We had crazy ideas'

The leader of Rebel Wolves speaks For PC Gamer magazine's upcoming The Blood of Dawnwalker issue, I flew out to Warsaw to visit developer Rebel Wolves...

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The FBI used self-destruct on malware infecting over 4,000 US computers, it's super effective

Expelliarmus! Wait, wrong franchise. Doctor, heal thyself. Or, in this case, malware, self-destruct. A joint press release from the US Justice...

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After the catastrophe of Concord, Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

Two games in development at Bend Studio and Bluepoint have apparently been canned. There are flops, and then there was Concord. A first-party...

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The manufacturer of 90% of the world's consumer drones will no longer automatically stop its products flying over US airports, power plants and prisons

Instead, drone operators will receive a dismissible warning. If there's one sure sign we're living in some sort of cyberpunk future, it's the number...

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Turns out there's 'a big supercomputer at Nvidia… running 24/7, 365 days a year improving DLSS. And it's been doing that for six years'

It's all part of the process. Of course Nvidia was going to have at least one supercomputer; I mean it's been making data centre GPUs for a million...

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Chris Roberts sallies forth to declare 'we are closer than ever to realizing a dream many have said is impossible' with Star Citizen, but I'm sure I've heard this record before

"Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are two games that would never have been greenlit by any of the big publishers." It's been 12 years since the...

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To the dismay of my colleagues, I paid $ 15 for this Hatsune Miku desktop pet so you don't have to

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Even with a new generation of GPUs on the way this all-AMD Ryzen/Radeon 7900-series gaming PC is a great discounted machine

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Powerwash Simulator studio ends VR development, but at least there are no layoffs happening

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Halls of Torment review

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CD Projekt Red boss says 'around 100' Witcher 3 designers still work at the company, while the Witcher 4's story director is 'the same person since Witcher 1'

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Lords of the Fallen studio embraces fear of the DEI boogeyman, says it will not include 'any social or political agendas' in its games

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Piranha Games will lay off employees after Mechwarrior 5: Clans 'performed below projections'

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Palestinian developer raises more than $ 200,000 to make Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the horrors of the 1948 Nakba

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My Summer Car, the absurdly detailed Finnish life sim about vehicle maintenance and drinking in your underpants, smashes into 1.0 after nearly a decade in Steam early access

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The 11 big FPS games of 2025

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes a run at improving parkour, as Ubisoft strives to make the system less 'like a gas pedal'

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It's time for me to admit that AI-accelerated frame generation might actually be the way of the future and that's a good thing

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If you're trying to convince me your 'companionship' robot is 'lifelike', maybe don't rip her face off in the demo video

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The Last of Us season 2 trailer is a brief look at a story you should probably just play yourself in April

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Thermaltake's new 2000 W PSU is too powerful to be sold in the USA and comes with four PCIe 5.0 GPU power connectors

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20 hours in, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a mad, systems-driven sandbox that captures some of the best parts of games like Stalker

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MSI intros cheaper 'back connect' Project Zero Intel motherboards for super-clean PC builds you might actually be able to afford

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AMD is now reportedly making all-American Ryzen 9000 CPU dies at TSMC's Arizona fab

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Sorry everyone, Minecraft 2 is cancelled, and it might be our fault

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Alan Emrich, the game designer and writer who coined the term '4X,' has died

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Is the new RTX 5070 really as fast as Nvidia's previous flagship RTX 4090 GPU? Turns out the answer is yes. Kinda.

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WoW's finally upgrading its dreaded swirlies so players can actually tell where it's safe to stand

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'I created it, let me move on': Ex-Cloud 9 player, the Overwatch team whose blunder inspired the infamous 'C9' slang, watches in horror as the term moves onto Marvel Rivals

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Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES

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18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025

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The TDP of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 have been leaked, suggesting it's a little less power-hungry than we thought, though still massive

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Marvel Rivals admits that it accidentally banned some players for trying to run the game in a different operating system, which isn't cheating

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PC Gamer's Best City Builder of 2024 has sold over 2.5 million, but here's the big news: Now it has bridges

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A German retailer reports the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has outsold the entire non-X3D 9000 line

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8 bold gaming predictions for 2025

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Eternal Strands, the physics-heavy RPG being headed by Dragon Age veteran Mike Laidlaw, will roll out a playable demo a week ahead of its full release

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This upcoming Micro-OLED VR headset has absolutely everything and weighs less than 200 grams but of course it costs nearly 4x the Quest 3

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A debloating wizard has managed to get Windows 11 running on just 184 MB of RAM, and it looks like it can actually run apps

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 hits peak lack of awareness with its Squid Game skins which, unfortunately, look rad as hell

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The PC game releases we're most excited about in January

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PUBG creator Brendan Greene swears his infinite, mega-ambitious digital universe isn't like all the others: 'I want to build a metaverse because I don't think anyone else is'

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After a year in its company, I’ve done a complete 180 on my Steam Deck

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The 2024 Steam Awards give Game of the Year to Black Myth: Wukong

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With the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout games still years away, here are 6 upcoming total conversion mods for Skyrim and Fallout 4 to get excited about

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HeroQuest: First Light turns the classic board game into something I could actually imagine kids playing today

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PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024: The winners in every category of PC gaming greatness from the past 12 months of tech

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WD Black SN850X 8 TB NVMe SSD review

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Rule the talking movie industry in tycoon game Hollywood Animal

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Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords

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It's been a bumper year for PCs but my pick for the best new hardware in 2024 is a chassis, surprising even myself

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This co-op survival horror masterpiece is just $ 2 in the Steam Winter Sale, which could explain why it just hit an all- time high player count of nearly 100k a decade after it launched

10 years after it debuted in early access, The Forest keeps finding new fans. In 2014, survival horror game The Forest launched into early access on...

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Depersonalization is an RPG out of China that feels like it never stops getting deeper, once you figure out how to set it to English

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2024 felt like the year gaming laptops finally started to grow up, so roll on 2025 and the mega-smart lappys to come

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PC Gamer's highest review scores of 2024

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Dredge, the horror-fishing game with immaculate vibes, is free on the Epic Game Store

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How to get started with The Finals: 7 tips you need to know

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For all you mayors managing your budgets, here are 5 city builders from 2024 with great discounts in the Steam Winter Sale

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Final Fantasy 14's battle designer admits they went a little overboard on streamlining fights, especially for melee: 'Our policy of reducing gameplay-related frustrations was some time s taken too far'

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Corsair MP700 Elite 2 TB NVMe SSD review

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Playing Path of Exile 2 with WASD makes it feel like a true action game, and I'll never be able to go back to my mouse

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The OG creators pitched Dead Space 4 to EA this year, but the publisher gave a flat 'no' so 'we didn't take it any further'

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2024 was the year gamers really started pushing back on the erosion of game ownership

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Halls of Torment feels like the brilliant lovechild of Vampire Survivors and Diablo, and the absolute pinnacle of autobattlers

Cow level presence: undetermined. Personal Pick In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a...

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Here's 22 good games that cost $ 1 or less in the 2024 winter game sales

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AMD's next-gen RDNA 4 graphics cards are now rumoured to be called the RX 9000-series, and we might have already had a sneak peek at what they look like

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Against the Storm looks charming and cosy, but it's actually the best and most fiendish city builder I've played in years

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OneXPlayer OneXFly F1 Pro review

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How to use the Golden Idol and others in Path of Exile 2

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Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page

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The game director of Elden Ring: Nightreign has delivered an ultimatum to gaming couples everywhere: Find a third wheel or play by yourself

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Project Zomboid's new Build 42 update, 3 years in the making, is the biggest game release of 2024 for me—here's why

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Stalker 2 revives A-Life with a mondo-huge 110 GB Christmas patch that marks the game's first major update

Weight limit exceeded. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and the Christmas gift he's delivering is "the first major patch for Stalker 2." Patch...

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'Gooner 9/11' averted as Zenless Zone Zero's butt-obfuscation technology is rolled back in the face of horny outrage

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PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2024

From major releases to the games that perfectly captured their niche, these were the best games of the year. Welcome to PC Gamer's annual Game of the...

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Be happy, Black Myth: Wukong fans, because it is literally impossible for Astro Bot to win Game of the Year in the 2024 Steam Game Awards

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Exodus, the new game being led by BioWare veteran James Ohlen, finally reveals some gameplay, and boy it sure looks like Mass Effect

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Path of Exile 2 makes buildcrafting more approachable than ever—but I'm glad I can still sleepwalk through screenfuls of skeletons in the original

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One of Path of Exile 2’s toughest bosses gets patched to be less of a buzzkill

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How to use the Sacrificial Heart in Path of Exile 2

Make an offering to get two passive skill points. The Sacrificial Heart is just one of the many random items you'll have to find a use for in Path of...

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CD Projekt knows why we're all really here: Gwent is coming back in The Witcher 4, and the devs 'don't think anyone will be disappointed'

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'The guns weren't doing what it says on the box': Johan Pilestedt reflects on Helldivers 2 balance changes that disrupted the positive vibes

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain hasn't made sequels to his other cult classic RPGs because they didn't sell well: 'You should have bought it'

"Some time s gamers need to put their money where their mouth is." Tim Cain's storied career includes a bunch of what are likely some of your favourite...

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This RTX 4070 gaming PC just swatted aside all 4060 Ti rigs by somehow costing less than $ 1,000

Great news for those of you who missed some of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. iBuyPower Y40 | Ryzen 7 7700 | RTX 4070 | 16 GB DDR5-5200...

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Zotac website leak seemingly confirms monstrous 32GB Nvidia RTX 5090 but we're still concerned about how stingy Nvidia might be further down its new GPU range

Nvidia going big at the top end, but what about the rest of the range? This is more in line with existing rumors and expectations than qualifying as...

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Putty, not pads: Thermal Grizzly's new thermal materials might be the best thing for your graphics card just don't ask for any numbers

Do you want moderate, good, or excellent? Reapplying a fresh layer of thermal paste to a graphics card's GPU is quite easy but dealing with its...

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Path of Exile 2 passive skill respecs will no longer cost Scrooge McDuck levels of gold

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Ahead of its January launch, one of the best city builders around is getting a free demo that 'allows you to play endlessly' with some of the new features coming next year

The release will feature entirely remade game modes and a visual overhaul. Foundation | Release Date Announcement and Demo Trailer - YouTube Watch...

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We're (probably) doomed: Experts think the Sun may produce gigantic, electronics-destroying superflares much more often than we previously thought

Thanks for all the fish, etc. I've always wanted to write "We're doomed" with reasonable justification, and well, here we are. A study published by...

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Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is free on Epic and I bet you, like me, are suddenly much more interested in it

I've heard they have both rocks and stones in this game. The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is free to keep on the Epic Games Store this week and...

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Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 gets a really, really big patch adding full control of enabled content

Extreme weather during missions should be considerably less extreme now. Y'all ever settle in to read some patch notes and they just keep going and...

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What counts as an action RPG anyway?

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On the 'deathiversary' of Star Wars Galaxies, the fan team keeping the MMO alive is launching its biggest update yet, which includes five new playable species

Expanding Horizons also adds vehicle customization, a new profession, and more. Every update must be uniquely stressful for the people behind Star...

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In a sea of Game Awards announcements, you probably missed the debut trailer for Covenant, a gnarly 'FPS Soulslike' from veteran shooter devs looking to 'provide more than what seems possible for the price'

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'It’s a whole new kind of blerp': YouTube's AI-enhanced reply suggestions seem to be working as well as you might expect

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7 hardcore survival games that are great to play in peaceful mode

There are ways to enjoy great survival systems without constant combat. Imagine a hardcore survival game but it's peaceful? It sounds like a...

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Dustgrave: A Sandbox RPG splices Baldur's Gate 3 with Mount & Blade, and you can grab it in early access for less than $ 20

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My favorite little Elden Ring: Nightreign feature is the first evolution of FromSoftware's iconic 'bloodstains' since 2009's Demon's Souls, and has roots in a roguelike from way back in 1987

When you die, you can now leave a remnant of your sick loot behind for another player. There are a few things in FromSoftware's RPGs that just sear...

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'This is a gift': Baldur's Village mod maker says thanks to all (especially Swen) and promises more content including an 'Astarion's Ten Hearts event' is on the way

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The new game from the Blasphemous devs is like if Commandos was a metroidvania set in a Spanish monastery, and also the Green Beret kept losing his mind

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