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- July 8
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- Elden Ring mod finally lets you wear Ranni as a demigod backpack like the true consort you are
- Sony's hero shooter Concord reveals PC system requirements ahead of two weekend beta tests
- Elden Ring players team up as 'let us duo her' to spin kick its most infamous boss so fast she can't move
- The First Descendant contains icons from Destiny 2, and one theory about how they got there is a reminder that not everything on the internet is what it purports to be
- Apex Legends announces 'improved' battle pass structure that actually sucks for players, removes option to pay with in-game currency
- Embracer has reportedly closed Elex developer Piranha Bytes as former creative director announces a new indie studio
- Google's AI visionary says we'll 'expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045' thanks to nanobots, the tech will resurrect the dead, and we're all going to live forever
- Parrying god defeats the hardest boss in Sekiro without moving, admits 'I really need a DLC'
- Multiple governments around the world have secretly agreed to restrict the export of quantum computers
- Helldivers 2 players realise you can survive ludicrous falls by doing a Hug emote while flying through the air
- 'The end is in sight'—Fallout: London, a DLC-sized mod plagued by delays, will arrive soon with its own installer to help slim the chances of Bethesda breaking it a 2nd time
- An infamous dataset of leaked login details, updated last week, now houses 9,948,575,739 passwords and poses the biggest threat to our online security ever
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty couldn't have been as good 'if the initial reception of the game wasn’t as negative', says lead quest designer
- Hooded Horse CEO hits back at claims that Manor Lords slipped up in early access: 'Not every game should be aimed at becoming some live service boom or bust'
- Rip the display off a laptop, snap its keyboard in the middle, and you've got this portable PC you can stick in a pocket
- 'Very few' people would play a Morrowind-style RPG with 'no compass, no map' and a reliance on quest text, says ESO director, 'which is kind of sad'
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 8
- July 7
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- Tend a cozy garden and stave off corruption, with the help of some cool gnomes, in Horticular
- Besiege's watery expansion will get a patch adding new missions, giant sharks, tentacled horrors of the deep
- Here's a game where you're a fantasy dungeon's put-upon janitor
- Nintendo becomes the biggest company in the games industry—and maybe the world—to say 'no, thank you' to using generative AI
- Witcher 3 mod restores cut boat-racing quests
- Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 7
- The next Transformers game will be a combat-racing roguelite
- July 6
- July 5
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- Oh no, Rust just added my least favorite item from DayZ: handcuffs
- Marvel Snap's new Deadpool trailer accidentally included a phone number leading to a fishy 'free medical alert device' promotion that I'm pretty sure is a scam
- Satisfactory 1.0 is finally out in September with two megaton changes: easier-to-manufacture computers and flushable toilets
- After a year of competitive dino survival, Capcom ends new updates for Exoprimal
- Factorio's big Space Age expansion arrives in October and it's going to be even bigger than we thought
- Peanut Butter the dog finishes Ken Griffey Jr speedrun at SGDQ with a walk-off home run in extra innings
- Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection
- Steamy 'Overwatch cabaret club' where you can pay to have women fall asleep on voice chat with you gets obliterated, is immediately replaced by even steamier Apex version
- 'It was so much of a cash cow': Former GTA 5 dev implies ill-fated Agent Trevor DLC was sacrificed at the altar of GTA Online
- Dataminer unearths 'cut' voicelines from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's stoic final boss
- Good SSD deals might be tough to find right now, but this 2 TB Nextorage drive is still a great buy at $136
- Here's your reminder how close AMD came to financial collapse and just how much we owe to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
- All Genshin Impact codes from the 4.8 livestream
- Microsoft patents a technique to display encrypted documents so only you can see them
- An ambitious Starfield mod that sought to bring Elder Scrolls to a single planet has been canned, but the modders insist that it wasn't a joke: 'The project was genuine'
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players are baffled by proposed changes to Viper, a job that's existed for less than week, and honestly so am I
- The Game Boy Camera can now be used as a webcam, providing 16,000 pixels of grainy black and white glory
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 5
- July 4
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- Summer Games Done Quick is restricting access to one of tonight's events 'to provide the most comfortable environment' for the speedrunner, because the speedrunner is a dog
- Escape From Tarkov studio Battlestate Games has put a bounty on cheaters
- Strap a gun to a giant bird and fly the fantasy skies in the latest free game from the Epic Store
- Brainiac was right: Freeze is coming to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League next week, but it may not be quite who you were expecting
- Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM
- Obsidian says Larian's experience let it knock Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer out of the park, but it wouldn't have been possible for Avowed
- This 1440p 165 Hz ASRock gaming monitor is now cheaper than many at 1080p
- Final Fantasy 14's director confirms that no, Pictomancers weren't meant to manually remove their own buffs for a 1% DPS increase—outlines other job changes for patch 7.01 of Dawntrail
- David Hasselhoff cracks out the old leather jacket and KITT from Knight Rider to tell gamers to 'grab your joysticks' and fight global warming
- Tekken director says that the fighters 'are all like my children' and if players keep pestering him about favourites he'll 'charge you tuition for lectures'
- Obsidian went back and made Avowed's combat 'more juicy' because we all collectively winced at its underwhelming first showcase
- I hope these July 4 SSD sales aren't a sign of things to come for Prime Day—they're pretty trash
- Excellent news—Apple Vision Pro headsets can no longer be filled with VR spiders
- FTC fires out warnings to ASRock, Gigabyte and Zotac over 'Warranty void if removed' stickers in violation of US law
- There's a new ray tracing benchmark in town and it paints an all-too-familiar picture of today's GPUs
- 'We have won the war on floppy disks!' Japan finally declares independence from floppy media
- The first Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree patch nerfs the boss-melting explosive perfumes into the ground
- The father of Final Fantasy loves FF14 so much, fellow devs at his studio have had to log on sometimes to say 'hey, the meeting's started'
- Someone has slowly been modding Naruto games to give a character his father's eyes—who knows why, but we're at 5 and counting
- Who wants a Watch Dogs film? Too bad, you're getting one anyway
- Go farruk yourself: Creator of the D&D setting used for Baldur's Gate 3 teaches us how to cuss
- Elden Ring's 1.12.3 patch notes blame third party mouse apps and unintentional ray tracing settings for performance issues
- Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, July 4
- July 3
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- The final Steam playtest for fantasy extraction game Dungeonborne attracts thousands of eager adventurers
- Attention former RuneScape preteens: You owe it to yourselves to hear this official metal cover of the RuneScape theme
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's difficulty options will let you turn off death entirely
- In this satirical city builder, your goal is to convert walkable cities into parking lots and use propaganda to convince everyone it's what they want
- After seeing this handheld pixel filter prism on Twitter, I'm haunted by an insatiable urge to pixelate everything in my home
- Temtem veterans are working on a Breath of the Wild-inspired narrative survival game for 1-4 players, set to arrive later this year
- Dead Space x Battlefield 2042 crossover event looks fun, even if it isn't quite what Dead Space fans have been hoping for
- Google's dumb AI answers increased its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 50% in the last 5 years
- The 'historical adventure' game that lets you ground pound an ogre is free on GOG
- With $550 off this might be the best value gaming PC for 1440p right now
- UK man imprisoned for 4 months after walking up to cops wielding 6-inch Master Sword
- Bethesda mistakenly rips art from Fallout: Nuka Break creator but manages to remedy the situation: 'So does this mean I'm officially a shill?'
- D&D's lead rules designer admits he changed some spells because of how 'painful' and 'excruciating to cast' they were in Baldur's Gate 3
- Helldivers 2's latest major order has everyone so curious about a mysterious interplanetary battle station, 4/5ths of all online players are handling it as I write this headline
- Beware: The latest Windows 11 update might just trap you in a boot loop of virtualised doom
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree robs one player as the final boss bugs into a wall and then just dies: 'I was enjoying it too'
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail players warn side-questers: don't solve these riddles for an NPC that blabs a big spoiler right before it happens
- Let Me Solo Her adds fashion icon to his resume as Star Wars showrunner credits 'Elden Bling' for the design of The Acolyte's villainous Sith
- Oh for goodness' sake—D&D has early access periods and pre-order bonuses now, like a 3D model of a dragon for a virtual tabletop that doesn't exist yet
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 3
- July 2
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- Just 3 months after launching Tales of Kenzera: Zau, developer Surgent Studios lays off 'just over a dozen' employees
- Polyamory is coming to The Sims 4 for free alongside the Lovestruck expansion pack this month
- Xbox Live's 'major outage' is fixed, but we still don't know what went wrong
- Stardew Valley players on Steam Deck can test out the new Nexus Mods app
- Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett explains why she signed up for the Borderlands film: 'A touch of Covid madness'
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree players are sleepwalking through bossfights with the DLC's silly, pointy shields
- Catholic Church prepares to canonise its first gamer saint—and yep, one of his favourites was Halo
- The BBC dons its game dev cap to combine 2 things I fear and don't understand: The UK General Election and Roblox
- Lethal Company's next update introduces monsters that'll kidnap you and cut you up as well as its first and only vehicle
- The most popular RTX 40-series GPU on Steam is in a gaming laptop, not a graphics card
- Don't sweat it—Zenless Zone Zero's system requirements demand nothing more than a ten-year old GPU and 8 GB of RAM
- Palia developer Singularity 6 is now part of the Daybreak Game Company
- Mortal Kombat player wins $565, celebrates by breaking a light fixture worth $3,000
- Capcom's somehow come up with the *deep breath* Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Digital Deluxe edition
- The Beyond Good and Evil remaster settles 20 years of debate over Jade's parentage in a new prequel tie-in sidequest
- Capcom announces the next mainline Resident Evil is in development, and the great news is it's being helmed by Resident Evil 7's director
- Nvidia could face antitrust charges in France as 'the risk of abuse by chip providers' scrutinised by competition authority
- This WoW player who clicks their skills is probably better than you—hunter Durendil solos yet another raid boss armed with a spreadsheet and raw grit
- Elden Ring maestro plays a saxophone to style on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, wins battle of the bands in 'a dozen attempts'
- Samsung was either feeling generous or someone messed up big time when it temporarily slashed £1,400 off a 49-inch 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 2
- It took me 7 hours to beat Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, and people are already demolishing it without getting hit a single time
- July 1
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- Guy who mapped Skyrim's rivers decides to follow Fallout characters home after dismissing them
- To combat torrent traffic, a South Korean ISP deployed a bold strategy: Infecting 600,000 of its own customers with malware
- Team Fortress 2's player count doubles after fan pressure sees Valve step in with a bot-demolishing banwave and a firm line on appeals: 'No'
- A Japanese company is making an adorable Elden Ring warrior jar mug just in time for everyone to get really freaked out by their new lore in the DLC
- Trust me, you should rewatch the Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree cinematic trailer after beating the expansion
- Valve's new top-played chart for the Steam Deck shows that people really, really like both Hades and Hades 2
- Team Fortress 2 players are not loving the announcement of TF2 DLC for Funko Fusion instead of, y'know, TF2: 'Genuinely would rather bots continue to overrun the game than this happen'
- Thanks to the Responsive NPCs mod, crowds in Cyberpunk 2077 can now react if you sprint nude through Night City's streets
- GTA Online adds a quality-of-life feature players have wanted for years then upsets everyone by paywalling it: 'One of the slimiest things they've done in a while'
- SSD storage is set to use 1,000 layer memory chips by 2027, potentially offering 20 TB NVMe drives for under $300
- One Elden Ring player made the mother of all Scadutree Blessing maps, 'You can get Scadutree Blessing level 12 without killing any bosses'
- This mighty Mac Mini-a-like from Geekom is packed to the gills with tech and is $120 off with our discount code
- 'Is this supposed to be rigged?' Helldivers 2 players fatigued as bugs leapfrog across supply lines like a bunch of dirty cheaters
- It's not often you find an RTX 4080 Super gaming PC for under $2,000. Well, today's your lucky day
- Internet speed record of 402,000,000 Mbps achieved using standard optic fibre cabling, fast enough to download Baldur's Gate 3 in less than four milliseconds
- Intel's Arrow Lake chips could be using a brand new core layout for the first time in years
- 'I know nothing, you never heard a peep from me': George RR Martin pens cryptic message about a potential Elden Ring TV show or film
- AMD's Ryzen 9000X3D-series chips reportedly gain full overclocking support, meaning simple tweaks would make them the all-round chips we always wished for
- Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 1
- Drop blocks to make your own maze in the demo for tower defense game Emberward