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03-08-26 (05:54)   Steam Week in Review: Once positioned as mainstream-friendly PC gaming solutions, can Valve's hardware survive the memory crisis?
03-08-26 (02:25)   Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: 'no such service was ever brought to life'
03-08-26 (00:25)   Owlcat co-founder says the studio won't turn its back on hardcore RPGs as it hits 600 employees and preps its own Mass Effect killer
02-08-26 (22:39)   One day Owlcat will make an RPG that's perfect out of the box, but 3 years after launch, it's time to get disgustingly into Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader
02-08-26 (21:39)   American Truck Simulator is headed to North Dakota in its latest DLC
02-08-26 (19:39)   Champion modder ports the OG 'Father' Nier back into the PC remaster, original voiceovers and all
02-08-26 (19:08)   Stellar Blade: Blood Rain's AI slop music video is terrible for us all
02-08-26 (18:25)   Baldur's Gate 3 is the cheapest it's ever been to celebrate its third anniversary
02-08-26 (17:08)   One of Kerbal Space Program's biggest inspirations was a promotional Flash game for Top Gear: 'That was the most similar game to KSP that I could find back then'
02-08-26 (15:08)   Perennial early access game Project Zomboid hit a new concurrent player record after a huge map update added reworked towns, a spooky orphanage and '400 procedural basements'
02-08-26 (14:08)   Space Marine 2's latest updates add Terminator Sorcerers and Steam Workshop support, so you can now play co-op with 9 other players if you want
02-08-26 (13:08)   I enjoyed this video of Oblivion Remastered actor Wes Johnson goofing around in a sound booth dressed as Sheogorath, but a patch for the PC version would be nice too, Bethesda
02-08-26 (08:39)   The maker of the Baldur's Gate 3 over-the-shoulder camera mod has gone to great lengths to demonstrate it's not like other third-person viewpoint solutions
02-08-26 (00:25)   Developer of 'Spanking Exorcist' game held up by Steam content moderation releases free 'apology game' where you spank him as punishment: 'We would be delighted if you enjoy it'
01-08-26 (23:54)   10 expansions that were better than the actual game
01-08-26 (23:08)   Dead Cells studio thanks Guillermo del Toro for playing its game, gently suggests he try the easy mode
01-08-26 (21:54)   The voice of Shinji in Evangelion says AI voice cloning is 'heartbreaking,' calls for Japanese government to intervene
01-08-26 (20:08)   Former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida is 'a huge fan' of Bloodborne, says it's 'a complete mystery' why it was never put on PC
01-08-26 (19:25)   OpenAI CEO suggests parents make AI-generated podcasts to remember their children's lives for them
01-08-26 (19:08)   My new favourite Tolkien game is free, has over 40 years of history, and would run on a toaster
01-08-26 (18:08)   The great RPG debate: Do RPGs really need romanceable companions?
01-08-26 (17:39)   Crimson Desert adds 133 new trading posts and overhauls the in-game economy with supply and demand
01-08-26 (17:08)   Question time: What makes a 'good' grind in an MMO?
01-08-26 (16:08)   The games industry's 'fear of risk is currently the largest risk it faces' according to Nuclear Throne's producer
01-08-26 (15:08)   Dragon Age's former producer had envisioned a 'Champions Edition' equivalent to Mass Effect's Legendary Edition, but he doesn't think it will happen anymore: 'There are basically no companies that could help you'
01-08-26 (14:08)   We haven't needed motion blur in games for a long time, so I wish it would stop being the default
01-08-26 (13:08)   I was excited for this Quake port of Half-Life until I discovered the creator's wild AI conspiracy theories
01-08-26 (08:54)   Palworld 1.0 review
01-08-26 (02:39)   In happier times, Sony was courting PC gamers with lavish magazine ads for its 'most popular CD-ROM titles'
01-08-26 (01:25)   We've seen a lot of malfunctioning robots this year, but this is my favorite fail yet
31-07-26 (23:25)   Ubisoft's NFT tactics game, a thing that still exists, is shutting down in October
31-07-26 (22:54)   After a year and a half of rigorous testing, Path of Exile 2 devs finally convinced Nvidia to fix a driver bug by sending it an entire PC
31-07-26 (22:39)   Get more than 100 games for just $10 in a new bundle supporting laid-off game devs
31-07-26 (22:08)   Bulletstorm is the stupidest game ever made, and also one of the cleverest shooters ever
31-07-26 (21:54)   Anthropic sees OpenAI cybersecurity disaster and says 'hold my beer,' reveals it accidentally hacked 3 companies in as many months without noticing
31-07-26 (21:54)   Sony exec says killing discs won't make the PlayStation 6 too much like a PC: 'Going forward, we can coexist peacefully with PC games'
31-07-26 (20:39)   Former WoW designer says Blizzard had no way to measure maximum player DPS while building early raids—so the studio enlisted its strongest sickos to grind target dummies
31-07-26 (20:08)   Google Earth let me turn my hometown into a warzone with AI prompts, and the disinformation possibilities are disturbing
31-07-26 (18:54)   Silent Hill producer believes shaking up the series was necessary to win over players because 'at best, only about half of the original users will return with a remake'
31-07-26 (18:39)   I am obsessed with The Weeknd's slow descent into Persona-addled madness, including Photoshopping a tattoo of Persona 5's biggest baddie on his arm
31-07-26 (18:39)   It seems like AMD's Zen 6 LP CPU cores will be a mixture of architectures going all the way back to Zen 2
31-07-26 (18:39)   I made a hyper organised plant shop in Leafy Corner because the people want order not whimsy
31-07-26 (18:39)   Facepunch director Alistair McFarlane, who once offered to buy New World from Amazon and faked us out about Rust 2, has left the company
31-07-26 (17:54)   Nexus Mods finally tightens the screws on AI, though it's still playing softball with the tide of slop
31-07-26 (17:08)   First AMD RX 9050 8 GB review suggests RTX 3060-like performance but with some strange spec discrepancies
31-07-26 (15:25)   Filming has wrapped on Garland's Elden Ring movie just 6 months after it started, according to a now deleted instagram post
31-07-26 (15:25)   Total War: Warhammer 40k's siege reset is one of the things I'm looking forward to most
31-07-26 (14:25)   Report shows 34% of physical PS5 games and 50% of Xbox Series X games do not work fully without a download first
31-07-26 (14:25)   All Genshin Impact 7.0 livestream codes
31-07-26 (13:39)   Remakes are the backbone to Capcom's success as they provide 'financial resources' for new Resident Evil games or standalone ideas like Pragmata
31-07-26 (13:25)   Star Wars will also be coming to D&D, and I'm worried Hasbro's trying to turn a TTRPG into Magic: The Gathering again
31-07-26 (13:25)   Mchose K7 V2 Ultra+ review
31-07-26 (12:39)   AMD is reportedly raising graphics card prices—it was just waiting for Nvidia to do it first
31-07-26 (05:54)   The voice of Lady D and Orin the Red will be back for the next D&D videogame
31-07-26 (02:54)   Dark Sun, D&D's most heavy metal setting, will be back in 2027
31-07-26 (02:25)   The mod we called 'the best Fallout game you'll play this year' back in 2018 just launched on GOG
31-07-26 (02:08)   The rumors were true, Dungeons & Dragons' first 'Universes Beyond' crossover will be with World of Warcraft
31-07-26 (00:25)   Saudi Arabia's $55 billion takeover of Electronic Arts will happen next week
31-07-26 (00:25)   Godot natively supports coding in Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, if you needed another reason to switch game engines
31-07-26 (00:08)   Xbox revenues dipped $1.7 billion last year, but Asha Sharma predicts a 'return to growth' by mid-2027
31-07-26 (00:08)   There's a timeline where Dark Souls was a PlayStation exclusive, but Sony lost out on the chance because it wouldn't publish Demon's Souls in North America
30-07-26 (23:54)   Has 'Xbox 360 brown' nostalgia finally arrived?
30-07-26 (23:54)   Valve finally gives Deadlock a proper ranked mode, warns that matches will be 'very rocky' to start
30-07-26 (23:25)   Blizzard is keeping secrets about Diablo 4's next season until BlizzCon, but you can still try some of it out next week
30-07-26 (21:25)   This upcoming Steam game is pioneering the accursed trucking genre, and as a former delivery guy I could not be more thrilled
30-07-26 (21:08)   'A new version of Amnesia: The Dark Descent' may be coming later this year
30-07-26 (20:25)   Gears of War: E-Day devs are embracing 'old-school' multiplayer in 2026: 'No battle pass, no tour of duty, no gimmicks, no bullsh*t'
30-07-26 (19:08)   'We are not looking to just maintain' Elder Scrolls Online, new ZeniMax boss says, but a bunch of updates have been delayed into 2027 and possibly beyond
30-07-26 (18:39)   Dbrand unveils Steam Machine customization 'backup plan' after its Companion Cube got confined to the test chamber
30-07-26 (17:39)   Thimbleweed Park 2 is 'not really a sequel, not really a prequel,' but it is finally happening
30-07-26 (17:39)   Meta continues to insist AI spend is totally justified, potentially blowing over $8 billion on data centers
30-07-26 (17:25)   Where to find Hirosaki Castle in Forza Horizon 6
30-07-26 (17:08)   Where to find the Hokubu region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6
30-07-26 (16:39)   Guillermo del Toro is asking for a slightly more forgiving Dead Cells, checkpoints and all, 'for the elderly players'
30-07-26 (16:25)   Meta is still flinging the equivalent of a small country's annual GDP down the Reality Labs money pit each and every quarter
30-07-26 (15:54)   Old School RuneScape players are getting their boats stuck Suez Canal-style thanks to a narrow river in its new island: 'Helmp mee'
30-07-26 (15:54)   The memory crisis keeps getting worse: Nvidia graphics card prices now rumoured to increase by as much as 30%
30-07-26 (15:25)   The Helldivers 2 x Warhammer 40k Warbond arrives on August 12, bringing three of its most iconic weapons and two Imperial Guard armour sets
30-07-26 (15:08)   Gears of War: E-Day multiplayer is so old, it feels new again
30-07-26 (13:25)   Roblox and ChatGPT will reportedly have to suck less thanks to the EU's Digital Services Act
30-07-26 (13:08)   Gleefully counting its billions, Samsung cries warning of a 'severe' memory supply crisis next year
30-07-26 (13:08)   Arc Raiders rats are cheating the matchmaking system by throwing themselves in front of friendly fire
30-07-26 (13:08)   Final Fantasy 7 remake director says he hopes Revelation will get 'some kind of physical edition' despite the industry and Sony's 'shift away' from discs
30-07-26 (11:39)   PSA: Don't execute PowerShell commands proffered by Steam forum randos, because it could infect your rig with a cryptominer
30-07-26 (05:25)   BeamNG.drive just had a graphics overhaul so we can finally watch a family hatchback navigate a speedbump at 100mph with dynamic ambient lighting
30-07-26 (02:25)   Proving Doom can actually run on anything, one programmer has made a working build for Commodore 64
30-07-26 (01:25)   An innocent man spent 18 months in prison because police misread his Skyrim user name
30-07-26 (01:08)   Hololive vtuber says new rhythm game on Steam is surprisingly true to their personas for a reason: 'We had tons of involvement with the script and dialogue'
30-07-26 (00:08)   'What is it?' We snooped around in our favorite gaming characters' inventories: can you identify the weird stuff they're carrying?
29-07-26 (22:08)   Latest Palworld patch keeps Victor & Shadowbeak from accidentally teleporting out of existence, prevents Panthalus from breaking everything
29-07-26 (21:39)   Steam Machine reservation queue should be caught up by the end of 2026, Valve says
29-07-26 (20:39)   Mod activates split-screen support in Halo: Campaign Evolved PC that's just sitting there, unused
29-07-26 (19:08)   After laying off Battlefield 6 developers, EA pays its CEO $38 million because Battlefield 6 did so well
29-07-26 (18:54)   WoW Classic's latest patch is terrorizing hardcore players with bugged piles of underground enemies, and it's likely due to a decades-old quirk of Blizzard programming
29-07-26 (18:54)   Silent Hill: Townfall takes place in 'the perfect storm'—a remote Scottish town that stands on the edge of the age of the internet
29-07-26 (18:25)   The next game on GOG's preservation list would be your favourite ARPG if it hadn't released the same year as Diablo 2, and it's on sale now
29-07-26 (18:25)   The Last of Us multiplayer mod has hit a 'big milestone' as it prepares for launch in September
29-07-26 (18:08)   One Redditor spent four months building a 'Turkish kebab PC' with working spinning components
29-07-26 (17:25)   AMD launches the RX 9050, and it's even more entry-level than expected - update: it's $279 and limited to certain regions
29-07-26 (17:08)   RAM prices be damned, SK hynix's record-breaking $55.6 billion quarter still failed to meet investors' wild AI expectations