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August 16
- AMD to unveil the "next generation of Ryzen processors" later this month
- House Flipper meets V Rising in this vampire hotel management sim
- Sony may be working on its own PC game launcher
- Samsung's 55-inch curved gaming monitor is going to swallow you whole
- Tinkerers rejoice! There's a new DLSS version to mess around with in your games
- Razer's excellent DeathAdder wireless gaming mouse is now even lighter
- Hacker jailbreaks control unit that stops farmers repairing their tractors, then runs Doom on it
- These new OLED gaming monitors from Asus are absolutely gorgeous
- Conflicting Ryzen 7000 price leaks tell very different stories
- One of last year's best city builders is getting free DLC
- Upcoming AI image generator will run on an RTX 3080
- Intel taps Microsoft to take care of older DX9 game support with its Arc GPUs
- Half-Life just smashed its concurrent players record thanks to a fan campaign
- It's time to go Super Saiyan in the Fortnite x Dragon Ball crossover event
- Weird FIFA Marvel crossover turns footballers into B-list superheroes
- Guild Wars 2 arrival on Steam next week means you can finally just buy the whole thing upfront
- The MultiVersus battle pass has no gleamium and that kinda sucks
- World of Warcraft's trade chat should have less spam after today's update
- Watch out: Crusader Kings 3 flavour packs are about to double in price
- Today's Wordle 423 answer and hint: Tuesday, August 16
August 15
- Owlboy devs unveil Vikings on Trampolines
- Innovative deckbuilder Nadir paints a beautiful portrait of Hell
- Prospective Starfield modders are organizing early to make a fan patch
- Here's a whole roguelike about inventory management
- Richard Garriott's NFT MMO entreats you to 'buy land in the realm of Lord British'
- Multiversus' new characters include DC's Black Adam and... Stripe from Gremlins
- Unity rejects proposed takeover by AppLovin
- A new Middle-earth game is in development by the studio behind the visual effects of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy
- FTL meets Don't Starve in cooperative seafaring caper Ship of Fools, launching November 22
- Insomniac Games worked on multiplayer modes for Marvel's Spider-Man, PC files suggest
- MultiVersus Season 1 patch notes confirm Morty release date, Batman and Arya as free playable characters
- Spider-Man mods are here, you can already play as Black Cat or Stan Lee and wear the symbiote suit
August 14
- Cosmic horror abounds in Doom 2 mod Divine Frequency
- Steam lets you add free stuff easily now and it is absolutely majestic
- Soccer Story is a fantastical RPG about playing that beautiful game
- Squirrel with a Gun is a game about exactly what it sounds like
- You can be Master Chief in Yakuza 0 because mods are magical
August 13
- Hogwarts Legacy delayed into 2023, but with a firm release date
- PUBG picks up 80,000 extra players daily now that it's free
- Here's Total War: Warhammer 3's shockingly large Immortal Empires map
- All Genshin Impact codes from the version 3.0 livestream
- Some of your old favs show up in a new Jagged Alliance 3 gameplay trailer
August 12
- TwitchCon about-face now requires masks and more for 2022 in San Diego
- Fortnite Creative is flexible enough to make a convincing tribute to Bioshock's Rapture
- Wreckreation looks like Trackmania with a Forge mode
- Alone in the Dark is coming back with a 'completely original story' from the writer of SOMA
- Goofy survival game Space for Sale makes you a real estate mogul
- Classic-style RTS Tempest Rising hits in 2023
- Final Fantasy 14's latest patch 'Buried Memory' arrives August 23
- Major League of Legends update makes jungling easier, adds pets
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is getting a new map inspired by Shoot House
- Microsoft claims Sony is keeping games off Game Pass by paying developers 'blocking rights'
- Game engine developer Unity signs lucrative contract with US Defense
- Destiny 2 cheat maker claims it hasn't harmed the game, says Bungie should work with it
August 11
- Mod makes Halo's Master Chief into a Yakuza enforcer
- Tower of Fantasy player discovers upsetting bug
- This Undertale mod adds local co-op, but playing online requires some extra work
- The FCC rejects Starlink's $885M internet proposal because its speeds are too slow
- Nightingale, the fantasy survival game from former BioWare developers, is delayed
- Bungie has announced a huge nerf to a big problem in Destiny 2, plus a bunch of exotic buffs
- Path of Exile's next quarterly expansion offers an early taste of the endgame
- FIFA 23 will bring back loot boxes, EA confirms as it defends the practice
- Meta chatbot claims Mark Zuckerberg is 'cooler than Dragon Age,' but can we trust it?
- Tower of Fantasy apologizes for long launch day server queues with freebies for all
- Save $260 on this GeForce RTX 3070 Omen laptop from HP
- Suffer in style with this mod that brings Devil May Cry combat to Dark Souls 3
- Texas paid this company to mine bitcoin during an ongoing energy crisis
- Here are 5 games you should grab in Fanatical's summer sale
- Will Intel kill its GPU business? I doubt it but I also don't like the odds
- Someone's selling a Steam Deck joint holder on Etsy
- Overwatch pro has no idea he's been fired, finds out at the same time as the rest of the world
- Doom and Quake are being cleaned up for newcomers in time for QuakeCon
- This is almost the sci-fi gaming desk of my dreams yet I am not worthy
- The best way to stress test a supercomputer is processing a supernova
- Is your TV mounted too high? This 80,000+ user subreddit will be the judge
- Your SSD is fast, but it's got a dirty side
- AMD's Zen 4 CPUs should perform well with DDR5-6000 memory
- The internet won't stop roasting this new Forspoken trailer
August 10
- Tower of Fantasy is a messy Genshin Impact with few ideas of its own
- With guns drawn, police raid home of trans Twitch streamer Clara 'Keffals' Sorrenti in latest swatting debacle
- He wanted faster internet, Comcast wanted $50,000, so he made his own ISP
- Stylish crime RPG Sunday Gold drops a free prologue and release date
- After nearly 30 years, Elite Dangerous and Planet Coaster studio CEO David Braben steps down
- Nvidia CEO reportedly hands staff a raise despite lackluster quarter for company
- Microsoft is bringing Minecraft Legends, Lies of P, and a whole bunch more to Gamescom
- Here are the graphics card deals actually worth checking out today
- A mobile ad tech company wants to buy Unity for $17.5B
- Surreal Apex Legends bug is doing a switcheroo on character abilities
- After years of 'development hell', the Half-Life 2 VR mod is finally getting a public beta
- Windows 11 used with modern CPUs could lead to encrypted data corruption
- Gigabyte begins seeding its X670E motherboards
- Spider-Man Remastered PC launch times are here
- Ukrainian refugee finally plays Elden Ring after funding a new PC with VTuber models
August 9
- Finally, mainstream esports acceptance: ESPN airs Microsoft Excel All-Star Battle
- The PC version of Madden 23 doesn't include its biggest new feature
- Battalion 1944 studio splits with Square Enix, announces free Legacy edition coming to Steam
- Save big on one of the best 240Hz gaming monitors out there
- Destiny 2 fans jump on leak as evidence that a new 'poison' subclass coming
- Subnautica studio will reveal its new sci-fi strategy game at Gamescom
- Overwatch will stop selling loot boxes this month
- They're making a live-action Pac-Man movie for some reason
- Researchers find way to shrink a VR headset down to normal glasses size
- Elite Dangerous has ended a 2-year story with a big disaster and an update
- Turtle Beach is in a race to find a buyer or else risk total upheaval
- Nightdive sheds light on why Blade Runner Enhanced Edition was such a disaster
- Elden Ring update makes summoning easier and finally lets you do the Varre quest solo
- This Skyrim bard magic mod lets you use your Spice Girls collection to smite enemies
- MultiVersus smashes 10 million player milestone in just 3 weeks
- Wait, you mean I can make a battery out of just paper and ink?
- Micron's investing $40B so your next SSD, RAM, or GPU memory chips might be made in the USA
- The X-COM itch 'never goes away', says X-COM creator Julian Gollop
- GTA 6 will set creative bars 'for all entertainment,' declares publisher
August 8
- Apex's newest character might finally help me not suck
- Stalker 2 studio celebrates International Cat Day with a horrifying new monster
- This Skyrim mod recreates the best part of Shadow of Mordor: the nemesis system
- My most anticipated shooter of 2022 just got delayed
- Marvel's Midnight Suns is delayed, Wolverine's claws retract slightly
- Intel gets serious with its Arc Pro A-series GPUs
- Final Fantasy 14 modder tries healing with an actual book and pencil, goes about as well as you'd expect
- Nvidia's gaming sales massively down but it's working to 'adjust channel prices'
- Modder shows how to transform the Framework laptop into a tablet
- Modern Warfare 2 beta is coming in September with a frustratingly complicated schedule
- An omnipresent AI runs Tencent's RGB-fueled nightmare esports hotel
- 'Epic has been great for many indies', says X-COM and Phoenix Point creator
- Faster GDDR6X memory likely headed to Nvidia RTX 40-series is now in production
- Street Fighter 6 shows off new fighter Kimberley and the return of Juri
- Another middle finger to our robot overlords as US court rules AIs are not 'individuals'
- EVGA slashes RTX 3090 Ti price by $1000 to just $1149
- Dragon Ball FighterZ and Samurai Shodown are getting rollback netcode
- Teaser shown at EVO suggests Tekken 8 may be on the way
August 7
- Go listen to the first-ever gaming concert at the BBC Proms, a landmark event
- First MultiVersus tournament ends in $10K upset as underdogs break Bugs/Velma meta
- Multiversus is getting a coop arcade mode "very soon" in Season 1
- An Elden Ring Wandering Mausoleum made of LEGO is glorious
- PC screenshots of Spider-Man Remastered have leaked
August 6
- Clever KBRD is a breakout where you bounce balls with your keyboard skills
- The Ascent's DLC adds glowing neon melee weapons
August 5
- GameStop's NFT marketplace sold stolen indie games
- Valorant dev tackles smurfing paranoia: 'smurfs are less common than players think'
- Tiny MMO Book of Travels lays out big plans for the future
- Zenless Zone Zero's first beta shows off its roguelike city
- Activision Blizzard earned more on mobile games last quarter than PC and consoles combined
- Steam finally adds support for Nintendo Joy-Con controllers
- I can't choose between these sweet Green Hill Zone and Dreamcast keyboards
- Far Cry 6 is free to play this weekend
- PUBG owner begins active development on lavish adaptation of Korea's biggest fantasy novels
- A leaked Stalker port is a strange new front in the war in Ukraine
- Vampire Survivors adds a bunch of OP cheat codes for the lulz
- One of the best roguelikes ever is getting a 3D remake with a rewind function
- Intel admits tuning DX11 support is going to be a 'labor of love for like forever'
- Nvidia RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 rumours suggest we're still a while away from a genuine launch
- The 'lost' Warcraft adventure game can now be played the way it was meant to be
- SK Hynix's first 238-layer memory boasts 50% faster SSD speeds, but c'mon it's not really 4D is it?
- Twitch streamers are making millions from crypto gambling sites while their audience goes bankrupt
- One of Razer's most desirable RTX 3080 gaming laptops is $500 cheaper right now
- Meteor Lake, Intel's first chiplet processor, may now be delayed until 2024
- AMD and partners show off premium AM5 motherboards for upcoming Ryzen 7000 CPUs
August 4
- Microsoft is rolling out a 5-person, family sharing Game Pass plan
- The Dead by Daylight dating sim has no business being this good
- 15 years into development, Beyond Good and Evil 2 gets a new lead writer
- The forlorn ghost of Internet Explorer continues to haunt Windows 11 systems
- No more Overwatch 2 betas, Blizzard confirms
- Crypt of the Necrodancer studio stealth-reveals a sequel
- I shot my nephew in this solo dev's love letter to Final Fantasy Tactics
- Ukrainian studio Frogwares crowdfunds full-scale Sherlock Holmes remake and gets off to a flier
- Flip the script on Elden Ring's toughest foes by playing as Sekiro's final boss
- Soon a car is going to have a better gaming PC than me
- QuakeCon 2022 will feature dirty keyboards and Skyrim sweet rolls
- Fromsoft CEO Hidetaka Miyazaki to receive the top gong from Japan's industry body
- Steam Deck preorders are finally available in parts of Asia
- Koch Media got so sick of the jokes it's changed its name
- The Future Games Show is coming to Gamescom 2022
- A CPU world record has been broken by dousing a $6,000+ AMD chip in liquid nitrogen
- This Doom modder is sending Max Payne to Mars in 'Doom Payne'
- You've got until 2025 to upgrade to Wi-Fi 6 before it's yesterday's news
- Tencent makes megabucks offer to buy majority stake in Ubisoft
- Intel's Arc GPU launch appears to have gone from headache to migraine
- Blizzard probably isn't going to charge you $45 for an Overwatch 2 skin
- After 27 years on console, Tactics Ogre is finally coming to PC
- Don't worry, the Multiversus delay has nothing to do with the Discovery exodus
- Discord bot AI image generator predicts the 'last selfie ever taken'
- An invasion of Taiwan would shut down global chip production as 'nobody can control TSMC by force.'
- Samsung's next-gen 990 Pro PCIe 5.0 SSD spotted
- MultiVersus season 1 has been delayed
- Someone finally beat the $20,000 Halo 2 challenge
August 3
- Dead by Daylight publisher reveals a new co-op puzzle game coming in 2023
- The Sims 4 patch reminds Sims they don't want to have sex with family members
- Court ruling reveals more details about death threats against Destiny 2 developers
- I know it's a bad idea, but I want this PC gaming fish tank
- This Zelda: Breath of the Wild mod for Minecraft totally Hyrules
- Steam service returns to Indonesia, Epic Games Store still blocked
- 'Malicious actor' drains $5.2 million in crypto assets from 8,000 digital wallets in one go
- Destiny 2 streamer finds galaxy-brained use for 11 Stadia accounts running simultaneously
- One of BoardGameGeek's top games now has a Steam version
- Dead by Daylight studio's new game is a 'building-and-raiding' FPS
- Blizzard reportedly cans WoW spinoff MMO that spent three years in development
- A World of Warcraft bug caused big nerfs to some classes in Fated raids
- Upscaling isn't only for buffing frame rates, it also 'reduces latency'
- PC-controlling brain implants are here and 'the reality is that people need this technology'
- Riot is releasing a 5-part documentary on the making of Arcane
- Games Workshop made £25 million from videogames last year, and a dozen more titles are on the way
- Alternative game engine The Machinery has been cancelled, with devs told to delete all trace of it
- This RTX 3060 gaming PC has a great spec for $1,050
- Multiversus will have a 50-tier battle pass when season 1 launches
- Soon you won't be able to watch a football match without seeing 'EA Sports FC' plastered everywhere
- Philippine police launch manhunt for Bren Esports owner after busting major meth smuggling operation
- The Steam Deck will now warn you when it is too hot or too cold to play
- AMD's record $6.6B revenue keeps 'high-end' RDNA 3 GPUs and Ryzen 7000 CPUs on track for launch this year
- It's wild that mobile game ripoffs this bad are allowed to exist
- This parody of Bo Burnham's 'Welcome to the internet' is better than it has any right to be
August 2
- The VRChat documentary gets VR right, but already feels old
- Malcolm McDowell announces Gloomwood delay: 'For God's sake, you can wait'
- Fallout 4 modder performs miracle, creates working ladders
- Elden Ring modder chops down giant Erdtree for a performance boost
- After popularizing self-revive in battle royale, Apex Legends is getting rid of it
- Suing abusers and cheaters is 'good business,' Bungie says
- Marvel's new card game is scrapping its unpopular monetization scheme
- After admitting their MMO 'sucks,' developer reworks the entire game
- Treat your butt right: Secretlab has a sale on some of its themed-chairs
- Embalm corpses, fill out forms, and battle for your soul in DreadXP's new horror game
- CS:GO players celebrate as matchmaking tweak leads to bonus rankings
- This PC in a toilet is the good shit
- Sabrent's new NVMe SSD raises plenty of questions about DirectStorage
- Crypto firm that promised security loses $200 million in 'frenzied free-for-all' hack
- This Skyrim mod turns all the dragons into the actual state of Ohio
- Unofficial drivers bring AMD AI Noise Suppression to older Radeon GPUs
- Marvel's Spider-Man preorder price was wrong in some countries, so Steam wants you to repurchase it
- Netflix's Cyberpunk 2077 anime has a very violent trailer
- Don't expect Mortal Kombat 12 to make an appearance at Evo
- Logitech and Tencent are building a streaming handheld for Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce Now
- There's already a distinct theme emerging for the Case Mod World Series 2022
- Winamp is back from the dead
- Intel's 13th Gen 13700K reaches 6GHz milestone
- Activision Blizzard's quarterly revenue steeply declines, but Call of Duty will come to the rescue
- MultiVersus already has millions of players
August 1
- Reminisce about all the places you sold 53 short swords at once with this Twitter account celebrating videogame stores
- You'll never guess what you can do at a funeral in Don't Ruin A Funeral
- Half-Life 2's gravity gun meets Stalker's exclusion zone in this sci-fi FPS
- The best MultiVersus players in the world are playing the same character
- Blizzard wants to know how much people will pay for Overwatch skins
- SEC charges 11 people in alleged $300 million crypto Ponzi scheme
- Terraria devs plan to tackle crossplay after next update
- Terraria devs still had 'unfinished business' that inspired latest update
- Riot's League of Legends fighting game will of course be free-to-play
- Play Stray like a dragon with this Spyro mod
- Word to the RTX 3060-powered Alienware laptop going for $980
- Counter-Strike on Nintendo DS slaps
- Diablo Immortal hits 30 million players, estimated to have raked in over $100 million
- Thank this man for making our gaming PCs spew rainbows
- Axie Infinity CEO pulled out $3 million of crypto before $600 million hack was announced
- A Red Dead Online bug is turning the game into a ghost town
- A Raspberry Pi is surprisingly handy if you want to build your own vending machine
- CHIPS act passes US Congress
- Fans are bringing back tactics card game Duelyst
- There are of course nude Sephiroth mods for Final Fantasy 7 Remake
- The internet's GTA 6 takes are so bad they brought Shitty Gamer Takes back from death