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- February 28
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- 15-year-old Cthulhu game Dark Corners of the Earth gets full mod support
- MSI Mag CH120 I gaming chair review
- Great moments in PC gaming: Queuing into a Competitive CS:GO match for the first time
- What did you play last week?
- There's a Skyrim board game coming, of course
- The magical mutant tactics of Urtuk: The Desolation combo attack into release
- Settle your Valheim disputes with Viking beer pong
- Dawn of War: Soulstorm mod Unification updates with 17 new factions
- Whispering Hills, the mod that brings Silent Hill to Fallout 4, gets its first episode
- Unsurprisingly, E3 2021's live event seems to have been cancelled
- February 27
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- Deep Rock Galactic outlines 2021 plans, including biggest update ever
- What's the most valuable cosmetic item you own?
- Confused by Deathloop? Here's a timelooping assassin explainer video
- Valorant's next agent, Astra, is a cosmic controller with an intimidating ability set
- 6 things VR is really good at now
- Steam Remote Play Together now works with people who don't have Steam
- Crapshoot: Star Trek: Judgment Rites was pretty good for a licensed adventure game
- Sources at Google's failed game studio say it should've just bought studios and left them alone like Microsoft
- February 26
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- Call of Duty: Warzone's latest patch might kill the infinite stim glitch forever
- Kung-fu game Sifu will be singleplayer only, all about 'mastery through practice'
- Terraria is coming to Stadia after all
- Valheim review: a challenging and rewarding Early Access survival adventure
- 343 Industries explains how Halo Infinite is a 'spiritual reboot' that will evoke the legacy of the original
- The Sinking City drama resumes: Frogwares warns fans not to buy it on Steam
- Outbreak is the Call of Duty Zombies mode we need right now
- Ghost Recon Breakpoint will get updates throughout 2021
- Black History Month: Why diversity is vital in AMD, 'we know that diverse workforces spur innovation'
- This huge badger from Baldur's Gate 3 belongs everywhere
- How to tame a boar in Valheim
- Baldur's Gate 3 is better when you're a very large badger
- Black History Month: Leading voices of Intel offer advice for future technologists
- We want to scoop Digital Combat Simulator World's fluffy clouds up and eat them
- Here's why you should try out Vulkan in Valheim
- Fortnite's unstoppable crossovers continue with a Batman comic series
- Gamers have a lot to thank Dr. Mark Dean for, and the world's first 1GHz chip is only the start
- To fight bugs, Stonefly demands you become a giant robot bug
- How to get bronze in Valheim
- How to get each Persona in Persona 5 Strikers
- Zombie Army 4: Dead War stalks its way to Steam
- Elite Dangerous: Odyssey will never leave you without a weapon
- Framework is reviving the DIY laptop form factor and I couldn't be happier
- Intel gaming GPU rumours suggest six Xe cards coming in 2021
- One German retailer already has the Intel Rocket Lake i7 up for sale
- Monster Hunter Rise will hit PC early next year
- Make your own Factorio-style automated machines with this incredible Minecraft mod
- EA has cancelled Motive's 'Gaia' after six years in development
- Watch Azeron's awesome monkey-hand gaming keypad get made, by human hands
- The Outriders demo is here to steal your weekend with hours of RPG shooter action
- In an early version of Bugsnax you had to dismember the creatures
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits gameplay trailer reveals an August release date
- Alien's xenomorph and Ripley come to Fortnite
- February 25
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- Deathloop gameplay trailer showcases an absolutely smashing '60s spy song
- Kung-fu brawler Sifu looks super cool, will be out on PC this fall
- New 3D platformer from Hyper Light Drifter developers is looking very cool
- Anthem's remaining diehard fans mourn its death
- Good luck finding Call of Duty: Warzone's three powerful new guns
- A decade in, Mega Ran is still chip-hop's humble king
- All the cards from Hearthstone's new Core set have been revealed
- Where to find Zero Point and crystal trees in Fortnite
- The Victorian Gothic naval adventure Sunless Sea is free on the Epic Store
- Dragon Age 4 will reportedly ditch 'live service' features and be singleplayer only
- Where to bathe in the purple pool at Steamy Stacks in Fortnite
- Where is Mave in Fortnite: How to get the Storm Scout rifle
- Destiny 2's Witch Queen expansion delayed, but weapon sunsetting is being scrapped
- Valheim players are killing bosses too quickly, so today's patch makes them tougher
- What is Tactical Rifle Charlie in Call of Duty: Cold War and Warzone?
- Apple has 'salted the Earth with subpoenas,' says judge, but orders Valve to hand over Steam data anyway
- Magic: The Gathering is adding Warhammer 40K and The Lord Of The Rings to its deck
- Subnautica: Below Zero gets a full release date
- Where to buy an Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics card - live updates
- State Of Decay 2 dev apologises for confusion surrounding the game's Nazi-punching trait
- David Bateson on 20 years of playing Hitman's Agent 47: 'He's my best friend!'
- Two besties go to war in Total War: Three Kingdoms' Fates Divided DLC
- Here's an oversized rumble motor obliterating a gaming PC playing Crysis. You're welcome
- What I want from Crusader Kings 3 DLC
- System Shock remake gets a final demo today ahead of summer launch
- Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB review Zotac Twin Edge
- Capcom will resolve Street Fighter V's audio issues next week
- Give this optional Windows 10 update a whirl if your games don’t look right
- Nvidia hints that further cryptocurrency mining blocks could be incoming
- The Halo TV show is coming to Paramount+ next year
- New AMD Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards to be announced on March 3
- World of Warcraft's community is grappling with allegations of widespread racism in its top-end raiding guilds
- Minecraft Dungeons 'Flames of the Nether' arrives alongside a free endgame update
- US politician pitches a fresh new idea: Ban Grand Theft Auto
- February 24
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- Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron is the orkiest 40K game
- Here we go again? GameStop's share price bounces back to $180
- How to scan a server at a Surface Hub in Fortnite
- Days Gone system requirements released, ultrawide support confirmed
- Behold, the greatest World of Warcraft cosplay ever
- Henry Cavill teases 'secret project' that might involve Mass Effect
- Leaked Rainbow Six Parasite gameplay appears online
- Anthem development is officially cancelled
- Everything about mining iron in Valheim straight-up sucks
- The state of The Elder Scrolls Online in 2021
- Valheim has now sold more than 4 million copies
- Winter is coming to Crusader Kings 3
- The best Terraria mods
- Beat the holy hell out of goons as a slick-suited agent in deckbuilder Fights in Tight Spaces
- How to get the Draugr fang bow in Valheim
- Bethesda sued because Fallout 4's all-inclusive Season Pass did not include everything
- Old School RuneScape review
- World-leading chip makers TSMC threatened by Taiwan water crisis
- Cyberpunk 2077's Patch 1.2 is delayed
- HP to acquire HyperX for $425m
- Cyberpunk 2077 is no GTA, but GTA 2 was a cyberpunk game
- Retail chain Fry's Electronics is shutting down all remaining stores
- New EA patent could get rid of waiting for games to install
- Intel Rocket Lake Core i9 11900K gets a funky new box
- Intel claims your PCIe 4.0 SSD will run faster on Rocket Lake than an AMD system
- This LED skirt is better than anything I wore in Cyberpunk 2077
- Gorgeous Moebius-inspired roguelike PixelJunk Raiders is a Stadia exclusive
- Valorant wants more women and 'minority genders' competing at its highest levels
- Cross-progression and crossplay are in the works for Rainbow Six Siege
- Bethesda is auctioning a Starfield design date with Todd Howard
- February 23
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- It Takes Two gameplay footage confirms wasps-versus-squirrels battles are in
- Konami is making a Frogger game show for people really good at crossing busy streets
- Stardew Valley: The Board Game is a real thing you can buy right now
- The development of Dying Light 2 has been 'total chaos,' according to report
- I spent way too much money on Call of Duty: Warzone's absurd tape deck gun
- Hitman 3's first major patch delivers gameplay tweaks and a Tactical Turtleneck
- Someone built Sauron's tower in Valheim and it's enormous
- Sony confirms next-gen VR for the PlayStation 5. That's great news for virtual reality on all fronts
- The games you didn't know your favourite developer made
- It sucks that World of Warcraft's next big update feels so far off
- What links Thomas Was Alone to an ancient solo card game?
- How EVE Online and Borderlands 3 merge citizen science and gaming
- The Sony DualSense controller's been given 417 hours to live. My gaming keyboard? 91 years
- This is how Persona 5 Strikers would look if everything was from Shutterstock
- More PlayStation games are coming to PC, starting with Days Gone this spring
- The Valheim community is trying to yeet themselves into orbit
- Nvidia RTX 3060 cards are listed with 8GB as well as 6GB configs
- DDR5 is really happening this year as another memory maker eyes up Intel Alder Lake
- Persona 5 Strikers guide: What series newcomers and veterans need to know
- Apple M1 Macs appear to be chewing through their SSDs
- Journey To The Savage Planet has been fixed on Stadia
- Nvidia RTX 3060 release date, specs, price, and performance
- Call of Duty: Cold War multiplayer is free for a week
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 'delayed indefinitely' as its developer is replaced
- Razer Naga X gaming mouse review
- eBay has a bunch of Dell and Alienware monitors going cheap
- February 22
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- Genshin Impact is teaming up with KFC for a bucket-and-glider deal in China
- Mythic Quest, the comedy about an MMO and the people who make it, returns in May
- Epic Games settles Fortnite loot box lawsuit with V-bucks
- How to summon and defeat The Elder in Valheim
- Dark Souls: Nightfall looks more like a sequel than a mod
- Activision details how Call of Duty: Cold War's Zombies Outbreak mode will actually work
- What did you play last week?
- Doom Eternal director has 'put a lot of thought' into adding a female Slayer
- Valheim has a first-person mod, and it works pretty darn well
- Destiny 2's secret missions set it apart from other live service games
- Watch Dogs: Legion's online mode is coming in March
- Chases, chaos, and co-op in Watch Dogs: Legion's online mode
- Hunt: Showdown's Quickplay is secretly the best battle royale game
- Want to stream Rock N' Roll Racing? Blizzard suggests turning off the rock 'n roll
- How to summon and defeat Bonemass in Valheim
- Cuphead skins are coming to Fall Guys, and they're only slightly terrifying
- Here's how Frontier rebuilt a galaxy's worth of planets for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
- Win a massive Razer prize pack by testing the Rogue State Revolution beta
- Give your storage a speed boost with this 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for just $145
- Win the Gayming Awards Indie Game Bundle over on the PC Gamer forums
- 3dfx never released a quad-GPU Voodoo 5 6000 so a modder built a custom one
- Stadia's 4K gaming claims come back to haunt it in class-action lawsuit
- Hogwarts Legacy lead designer criticised for reactionary YouTube videos
- This Valheim player built a rustic Millennium Falcon fit for a Viking
- Hackers release reverse-engineered versions of GTA III and Vice City, Rockstar busts them
- In this new horror game you are a cat, and your name is Biscuit
- People are already reselling Nvidia RTX 3060s for over $1,000
- AMD RX 6700 XT rumoured to launch March 18 in 'more than very limited' quantities
- Five game mechanics legally protected by the companies that made them
- AMD is analyzing USB disconnect issue in 500-series motherboards
- There's a price war on NBN 1000 and 250 plans at the moment
- Twitch Gaming replaced Metallica's BlizzCon performance with royalty-free plinky-plonk twinkling
- February 21
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 22, 2021)
- Mount and Blade 2 announces stunning update to how battle terrain is picked
- Great moments in PC gaming: When Sekiro's sword combat clicks
- Valheim second only to CS:GO as it breaks 500K peak players mark
- After 13 years, Half-Life RTS Lambda Wars releases
- Rainbow Six Siege is getting Rick and Morty and Resident Evil cosmetics, of all things
- Future Rainbow Six Siege operators will unlock in the Battle Pass
- Rainbow Six Siege's first gay operator is a master thief with a fleet of exploding drones
- Rogue Legacy 2 has a slick new Gunslinger class
- Hearthstone patch nerfs the top deck in Standard, brings changes to Battlegrounds
- Legendarily bad sex game BoneTown is returning to Steam
- There's going to be another Steam Game Festival in June
- Here's an absolutely gorgeous Doom map called Lullaby
- Hideo Kojima's book will be published in English this year
- February 20
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- The Everspace 2 roadmap has bombers, recon ships, and fast travel
- What delisted game deserves a comeback?
- Crapshoot: Sentient, the game where every NPC has independent AI, and they all hate you
- World of Warcraft might one day let Alliance and Horde players raid and do dungeons together
- You can turn off enemy glow in Diablo 4
- Evil Genius 2 is the silly, stylish game I was hoping for
- Lord Jaraxxus will be joining Hearthstone's Core Set as a Hero card
- World of Warcraft's roguelike dungeon is being overhauled so that failing to beat it won't ruin your night
- WoW's director talks about its endgame loot problem: 'Raiders, we hear you'
- Overwatch 2's roles may come with extra passive abilities
- Tanks may go by a very different name in Overwatch 2
- Check out Sojourn's devastating railgun in Overwatch 2
- February 19
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- How open world PvP works in Diablo 4
- Diablo 2's 'lost' assets weren't really a problem for Diablo 2: Resurrected
- Diablo 2: Resurrected won't affect Diablo 2 classic, unlike Warcraft 3: Reforged
- Diablo 2: Resurrected is coming this year
- Diablo 4 will include a Rogue class
- Hearthstone devs talk Core Set, Classic and Mercenaries mode, and why Duels isn't dead
- Hearthstone Mercenaries is a roguelike mode with teams of heroes and simultaneous combat
- Hearthstone's next expansion is Forged in the Barrens and it's very much for the Horde
- Hearthstone's new Core set gets reimagined versions of Malygos, Ysera, and Deathwing
- Will WoW Classic eventually add Wrath of the Lich King servers?
- WoW: Burning Crusade Classic will use its much harder pre-nerf raid bosses because you're all much better at the game now
- WoW: Burning Crusade Classic will let you level boost once so you can jump right in, but you'll have to pay for it
- World of Warcraft Classic is getting Burning Crusade servers this year
- WoW's 9.1 update will be big: Pirate dragons, evil Anduin, and an interdimensional heist
- World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' next big update, Chains of Domination, revealed
- Blizzard remasters three classic games as the Blizzard Arcade Collection
- CD Projekt Red is using DMCA takedowns to keep stolen Cyberpunk 2077 code from spreading
- Portal 2 gets co-op improvements and Vulkan support in a new update
- Games need more roles for players with disabilities
- Fortnite is getting Street Fighter skins in latest crossover
- Far Cry 6 beta emails are a phishing scam, Ubisoft warns
- Man credited with GameStop stock surge tells Congress 'even I barely understand these matters'
- Valheim dev says the game's success is 'quite incredible and very humbling'
- All the big announcements from BlizzCon 2021
- Nier Replicant system requirements appear on Steam
- Has the games industry lived up to its Black Lives Matter promises?
- Apex Legends needs to ditch level one attachments forever
- Bungie apologises for unintentionally including Nazi slogan in Destiny 2
- How do you make Silent Hill good again? Give it to Remedy
- Valheim sells three million in less than three weeks
- Final Fantasy 14 director says Endwalker's climax is what you don't get from other MMOs
- Shovel Knight is in For Honor, without a shovel
- Masslogger malware employs 'fileless' attack to steal Discord and other passwords
- This seven screen laptop is every new-age hackers dream and it's only $20,700
- Apple subpoenas Valve as part of its legal battle with Epic: Valve fights back
- Crusader Kings 2's wealth of DLC is now available as a monthly subscription
- Nvidia says its cryptocurrency mining limiter 'cannot be hacked'
- Electronic Arts completes the acquisition of Codemasters for $1.2 billion
- This ridiculous Valheim seed places every boss a short jog from the starting point
- In 2021, Overwatch's loot box obsession feels out of touch
- February 18
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- Outriders is getting a generous demo next week
- Roguebook is a roguelike deckbuilder you can win with an army of frogs
- Bungie wants to expand Destiny 2 into 'additional media'
- Black Mesa: Blue Shift aims to fully remake Barney's solo adventures
- Hellish Quart is the most authentic sword-fighting game in years
- '90s software pioneer John Henry Thompson talks Macromedia Director, the predecessor to Flash
- GDC is going digital in 2021 with online events running throughout the year
- Rage 2 and Absolute Drift are free on the Epic Games Store
- Where to find a family portrait from a shipwreck in Fortnite
- Nvidia is 'not limiting the performance of GPUs already sold' when it cuts RTX 3060 hash rate
- Valheim Plus mod adds shared map system, advanced building modes, and more
- Activision confirms 'large-scale' Zombies mode coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War
- Our favorite low-click PC games
- Where to find Scenic Spot, Gorgeous Gorge, and Mount Kay in Fortnite
- How to get the Saint George armor in Assassin's Creed Valhalla
- Dead by Daylight's graphical overhaul is halfway done, here's what's coming next
- What Diablo 4 can do to compete with Path of Exile
- The Mortal Kombat movie trailer is violent, silly, and lots of fun
- WoW: Burning Crusade Classic and the next Shadowlands update have leaked ahead of BlizzCon
- ROCCAT's ELO gaming headsets are an acoustic treat
- Legends of Runeterra's next expansion is Empires of the Ascended
- Turns out you can beat Hades by smashing apart a pomegranate
- Hitman 3 players can now import the first two games from Steam
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive fixes a bug that gave players the wrong footstep sounds
- Minit gets a sidescrolling racer offshoot with Minit Fun Racer
- Final Fantasy 14 expansions could keep coming for another five years
- HDMI 2.1 vs DisplayPort 2.0: What’s the best next-gen video interface for gamers?
- Ultimate ADOM is a modern-day Rogue, and it's out on Steam Early Access
- Nvidia is halving the hash rate of RTX 3060 to make it less desirable to cryptocurrency miners
- Nvidia's new cryptocurrency mining graphics cards 'don’t impact the availability of GeForce GPUs to gamers'
- Firewatch's audio commentary is now available as a free eBook
- PlayStation classic Ridge Racer was almost a PC game
- I’m hoping LG’s 48-inch OLED gaming TV drops in price as production goes into high gear
- Neon White's a deckbuilding FPS halfway between Doom Eternal and Mirror's Edge
- Activision accidentally announces 'large-scale' Call of Duty zombies mode, then pretends it hasn't
- I transformed Minecraft's hellish Nether into a pink kawaii paradise
- NZXT to begin shipping more permanent H1 PC case fire hazard fix this month
- Legend of Mana HD remaster is coming to Steam
- Valheim developer reveals new roadmap details, says mini-bosses may be added
- Starbreeze says its money troubles are over, Payday 3 development remains on track
- February 17
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- Valheim developer says Zelda and Skyrim were bigger influences than survival games
- 11 up-and-coming streamers to follow on Twitch
- The Ninja Gaiden series is finally coming to PC in June
- Knockout City is a 3v3 online dodgeball game coming this year
- Carmack says Oculus selling to Facebook was 'the correct thing for the company in hindsight'
- Magic: Legends gear system aims to avoid 'overbearing loot drops and inventory management'
- This mod turns Quake into a top-down shooter
- Epic Games files an antitrust complaint against Apple in Europe
- Baldur's Gate 3 update adds druids that turn into massive badgers, plus optional loaded dice
- How to reconstruct Ragnar's death in Assassin's Creed Valhalla
- Turn off these three graphics settings to make Valheim look way better
- Mess with people's brains in freaky psychiatry simulator Mind Scanners
- Josef Fares promises $1,000 to anyone who gets bored of It Takes Two
- Developer booted off Steam for putting its name as 'Very Positive'
- Everything you need to know about Logistics Stations in Dyson Sphere Program
- Secretlab Titan SoftWeave gaming chair review
- No Man's Sky is getting pets
- Valorant's next patch will kill a popular Yoru strategy
- TSMC might be producing all AMD and Apple's goodies, but Samsung still makes more chips
- Valheim patch solves the case of the missing tombstones
- LastPass password manager’s free tier is about to become a lot less useful
- Civilisation 6 will finally let you talk to Barbarians in this month's free update
- Microsoft is making one of the most positive moves for game accessibility in years
- Nebuchadnezzar review
- Lawsuit filed against Sony over alleged DualSense PS5 controller drift issue
- This Playstation-inspired dino-slaying FPS is straight outta 1998
- Report: Google told Stadia developers progress was great, began layoffs five days later
- PC gamers spent $4.5bn, equivalent to the defence budget of Denmark, on kit last year
- This Final Fantasy 14 anime short captures everything I love about the game
- Steelrising, the game about French Revolutionary robots, is looking for testers
- Dota: Dragon's Blood is a Netflix anime series premiering next month
- February 16
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- DayZ update 1.1 brings a raft of fixes and a server wipe
- This new tower defense game is basically cryptocurrency Plants vs Zombies
- This teaser for the next Hearthstone expansion looks very Horde flavored
- Britain gets a little greater in new Microsoft Flight Simulator update
- Halo 1's biggest mod adds a Firefight mode and Master Chief Collection support
- Fortnite 15.40 Patch Notes: Every new weapon, skins, bug fixes, and more
- Amazon's New World MMO will be out in August, closed beta in July
- Rainbow Six Siege's next season is called Crimson Heist
- Microsoft's new Xbox Wireless headset delivers matte black Bluetooth surround sound for $99
- Those little Intel Alder Lake cores could be what gives it the edge over AMD's Ryzen 9 5900X
- Blaseball returns for a new season of absurdist internet sports next month
- Red Dead Online gets three new solo missions, Rockstar says more to come
- Valheim is better because it rejects boring survival systems
- Fortnite is getting its own short film festival this weekend
- This internet café has begun cryptocurrency mining to turn a profit in the pandemic
- Here are the games coming to Game Pass for PC in February
- I lost all my hard-earned gear to Valheim's shockingly sharp difficulty curve
- The Black Iris is a trippy, mind-bending horror game that really got under my skin
- This software is the kick your AMD Ryzen CPU needs to reach 5GHz
- The best calculator to use in Dyson Sphere Program
- Peter Molyneux's 22cans hit with a round of layoffs
- Fun fact: SSDs outsold HDDs last year, but not in total capacity
- Windows Defender vulnerability finally patched after 12 years
- Remember when overclocking actually meant something?
- Logitech G Pro X Superlight gaming mouse review
- Here's some unsettling concept art from Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama's next game
- Rainbow Six Quarantine won't become Rainbow Six Parasite, Ubisoft clarify
- Source claims 'Resident Evil Outrage' is the third instalment in the Revelations series
- February 15
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- How perfect timing turned Titanic: Adventure Out of Time into a '90s FMV smash hit
- Imperator: Rome's 2.0 overhaul makes big changes to UI and warfare
- Valheim may well be Steam's biggest-ever viral hit, with 2M copies sold
- Overcooked! All You Can Eat is coming to PC after all
- Survive Minecraft's biggest dangers with this swords guide
- Neverwinter's Feywild has been 'fully rebuilt from the ground up' for Sharandar
- I played the worst Call of Duty in 2021 and deserved what I got
- How to tame a pig in Minecraft
- Get your Final Fantasy 7 Remake fix with this Tekken 7 Tifa mod
- Movo UM700 USB microphone review
- I'm glad Valheim has PvP, but thank god it isn't the focus
- New Intel CEO says its 'best days are in front of us' as it aims for CPU dominance
- Take a look at xCloud's browser client before a public preview this Spring
- Even if Intel launches a Core i9 10900KS tomorrow, you should wait for Rocket Lake
- Die shots of Sony's PS5 chip reveal that something's missing
- Nightline is a dreamy game about taking a subway train to nowhere
- Oculus Quest 2 120Hz update potential makes the Valve Index a far tougher sell
- How Treyarch escaped Infinity Ward's shadow
- Disc Room's nightmare future will always be 69 years away
- NZXT is recalling 32,000 H1 PC cases in the US
- Left 4 Dead wiki 'vandalised' with references to a lost fifth survivor
- Geralt takes a nice warm bath in this Witcher 3 PS1 demake
- Skyrim mod Wyrmstooth returns, years after being deleted
- Baldur's Gate 3 livestream will feature 'the biggest patch note ever forged in the fiery pits of Larian'
- February 14
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 15, 2021)
- King's Bounty 2 release delayed to August
- Lord of the Rings tabletop RPG The One Ring is getting a new life
- The Fall Guys Valentine's Day costume is an adorable red panda
- 6 things that VR still needs to get better at
- What did you play last week?
- Spiritfarer has three big, free updates coming
- Here's a look at Warframe's ghostly, groovy spring updates
- Enderal, the biggest Skyrim mod ever, is being made compatible with Skyrim Special Edition
- February 13
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- The new Call of Duty update makes teamkillers hurt themselves
- The Ace Attorney prequels have been rated for PC
- What did you play obsessively for a couple of weeks, then never again?
- This simple Valheim fix can increase your performance by up to 30 fps
- Great moments in PC gaming: Spotting your first environmental puzzle in The Witness
- In Valheim, the trees hit back
- Crapshoot: A teen dream that's more of a nightmare
- February 12
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- 343 Industries says a return to Halo Wars 2 isn't going to happen
- Ubisoft surprises The Division 2 players, confirms that new content is coming later this year
- This $4 app will update all your PC games while you sleep
- Valheim has a rare 'world-destroyer bug' so here's how to back up your world and characters
- Genshin Impact Iron Ingot Meets Ziwei guide
- Valheim players are building some gorgeous Viking homes, so we're reviewing them
- How to unlock stone buildings in Valheim
- Sorry, Destiny 2's Cosmodrome isn't getting any bigger
- Leaked Core i7 11700K results show AMD Ryzen is still the CPU to beat in 2021
- How to mine titanium in Dyson Sphere Program
- How to repair tools, items, and buildings in Valheim
- MSI Optix MAG274QRF-QD gaming monitor review
- Here's 9 minutes of new Nier: Replicant gameplay footage
- Escaping from Militsioner's mountain-sized cop is easier said than done
- Nvidia's RTX 3080 destroys AMD's RX 6800 XT in new 3DMark test
- AMD’s latest GPU driver quietly delivers a massive boost in Mesh Shader performance
- Intel is back to bashing Apple with aggressive anti-MacBook ads
- AMD, Nvidia, and Intel urge Biden to salvage the US chip industry
- AMD RX 6700 listed with 6GB, half the VRAM of RX 6700 XT cards
- Pigs can be taught to play games, but they keep hogging the controller
- A lot more games are about to get framerate-boosting Nvidia DLSS support
- Andaseat Dark Demon Series gaming chair review
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection is getting a server browser
- Where to start with Total War: Warhammer
- Disgaea 4 Complete+ on PC finally has online features
- Richard Garfield on Artifact's failed monetization model: 'We wanted to avoid manipulating people'
- Dell's End of Summer Sale has some big discounts on gaming laptops and monitors
- February 11
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- Lance Reddick reads a Destiny 2 meme as Zavala, and it's pretty fantastic
- Evil Genius 2 reveals some very not-evil system requirements
- Microsoft Flight Simulator's big UK update releases next week
- CD Projekt Red hackers have reportedly started leaking their stolen data
- How to help Lovely celebrate Wild Hearts in Fortnite
- Jack Black will play Claptrap in the Borderlands film
- Rage 2 is going free on the Epic Store next week
- Where to find a rose at Steel Farm or the Orchard
- Where to find chocolate boxes in Fortnite
- Chivalry 2 will release this June
- Axiom Verge 2 is officially coming to PC as an Epic Game Store exclusive
- Kingdom Hearts is coming to PC as an Epic Store exclusive
- The hardest decision in PC gaming today: when to play an Early Access game
- How to serve Fishstick and his date a fancy dinner in Fortnite
- I'm too attached to my house in Valheim to get anything done
- How to fast travel in Valheim with portals
- Unreleased AMD Ryzen 7 5700G chip listed on eBay for $500
- Controversial tactical shooter Six Days In Fallujah returns after 11-year hiatus
- Here's how to watch the Epic Store Spring Showcase today
- Where to find Grimble's love potion and how to deliver it in Fortnite
- The Steam Lunar New Year Sale 2021 is live
- Is $350 too much for an Intel CPU cooler? The answer is probably yes
- Over 20,000 Elite Dangerous pilots have organised against bot abusers
- How to plant seeds in Valheim
- SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless gaming mouse review
- Card Shark is a love letter to history's best tricksters, scammers, and cheats
- Fuel the fires of interstellar industry with this Dyson Sphere Program power guide
- These RTX 3080 gaming laptops get a 20% performance boost from a little GPU hacking
- Potion Craft has finally given me a crafting system I don't hate
- Earth Analog, a space exploration sim inspired by Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, is out now
- HDDs are not dead, they accounted for over 1ZB (a lot) of shipped capacity last year
- Even Intel's biggest critics are now on board with its new CEO
- Romantic Fallen London spin-off Mask Of The Rose has been crowdfunded
- How to get Palindrome, Shadow Price, and The Swarm in Destiny 2
- Cryptocurrency mining surge has this 1.3KW EVGA PSU on sale outside of China for the first time
- DICE LA is back on Battlefield, a year after making plans to break from the series
- Ahead of Steam's Lunar New Year sale, Green Man Gaming is having its own
- February 10
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- Blood Bowl 3 gets an August release date and a fake beer ad
- 3v3v3 tactical shooter Nine to Five is holding its first open beta this weekend
- After Cyberpunk 2077, it's harder than ever to guess which of these big games will meet expectations
- Fortnite item shop: Get rezzed with the Tron skin
- Tales From the Borderlands returns to stores next week
- How to find copper in Valheim
- The Witcher: Old World is a new board game coming next year
- BlizzCon 2021 schedule promises looks at Overwatch 2, the future of Diablo, and more
- How to get and upgrade the Hammer of Proving in Destiny 2
- World of Warcraft is bringing back Valor points to make it easier to get endgame gear
- How to install an SSD or hard drive in your gaming PC
- Either Intel's new Alder Lake CPU runs at over 27GHz or the latest benchmark leak is a little off
- I can't get enough of Slipways, a chill grand strategy space game you can play in an hour
- Co-op survival game Valheim sells a million copies in a week
- Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is free to keep until February 16th
- Epic's new MetaHuman tool is pure uncanny valley
- Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti goes from end of life to best seller in months
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Classic's first update in three years broke everything
- Valheim patch fixes portal exploit, makes deathsquitos more cuddly
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 to hit theatres April 2022
- Microsoft forms new subsidiary 'Vault' to handle its ZeniMax acquisition
- Gigabyte Aorus 15G XC gaming laptop review
- How to unlock the Aspect of Influence in Destiny 2
- Great, cryptocurrency miners appear to be buying up gaming laptops now
- Intel is already benchmarking its high-end gaming GPU in 3DMark
- There's no room for Fuse in Apex Legends' current Ranked meta
- EVGA launches 4K Hz keyboards and the first triple-sensor 8K Hz gaming mice
- Little Nightmares 2 review
- Epic Games finally settles a 2017 lawsuit against a teenage Fortnite cheater
- Rainbow Six Quarantine's title may be overdue a rethink
- Every one of RGB's 16.8M colours has a place in PC gaming hardware
- Breed a mob of mutating pups in strange virtual pet sim Wobbledogs
- Yes, you can cram every NPC in Hitman 3's Mendoza map into a grape press
- Here's a decent amount of Warhammer: 40,000 Battlesector gameplay footage
- Somehow, Call of Duty: Cold War pros are placing in the lowest bracket of the new ranked mode
- Get NBN 1000 for AU$119 a month with this new Aussie Broadband deal
- February 9
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- Dress up your plane like a pizza with this free, silly Microsoft Flight Simulator livery
- Crash Bandicoot 4 is 'coming soon' to Battle.net on PC
- Riot Games CEO sued for sexual harassment
- Evil Genius 2 continues to look promising in a new gameplay video
- Call of Duty: Cold War's new competitive mode bans over a third of its guns
- Steam's Chinese version is finally here, but it only has 53 games and no community features
- Hearthstone is getting a big shakeup with a new 'Core Set' and Classic Format
- Destiny 2: Season of the Chosen buffs rocket launchers and raises mouse recoil
- Ubisoft says we'll 'see more on The Division' coming later this year
- This new combo in Magic the Gathering: Arena is so devious it might earn a ban
- Fortnite's Hearts Wild Valentine's Day event: What you need to know
- Apex Legends celebrates its second birthday by handing everyone an awful shotgun
- The ultimate guide to getting into the Resident Evil games
- The Outer Worlds may get its next expansion surprisingly soon
- I hate spooky Sims 4 packs, but for Paranormal Stuff I've made an exception
- Tencent buys a piece of Arma developer Bohemia Interactive
- Black Myth: Wukong returns with a rat-smashing new trailer
- Persona 5 Strikers review
- We've figured out the most famous computer of all time. And no, its not an Apple device
- Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition review
- Solve puzzles in a recursive world where everything is simultaneously tiny and massive
- The Xbox Series X controller is superior to the Elite Series 2 in one crucial way
- UK politician's effort to outlaw PC component reselling gains steam
- EVE Online's new 'Fleet Up' tool makes it easier to jump into galactic battles
- Say goodbye to losing those ridiculously tiny M.2 screws
- Be careful with your Valve Index: UK VR headset returns on hold due to Brexit
- CD Projekt Red hackers threaten to release stolen Cyberpunk 2077 source code
- This stunning model of Genshin Impact's Liyue Harbor took 1,000 hours to build
- How to get the Cold War Zombies Firebase Z Easter egg
- Uphold the glory of the Blood Angels in this new Warhammer 40K strategy game
- This laptop has 7 screens, for when 6 isn't enough
- Valheim is making me love survival games again
- February 8
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- How to nuke Destiny 2 enemies with the ultimate 'Warmind Cell' build
- Anthem's days may be numbered as EA will reportedly decide on its fate this week
- Jamie Lee Curtis signs up for the Borderlands film
- Fights in Tight Spaces hits Steam Early Access later this month
- New Epic Store games will be announced this week
- E3 will return for 2021 as an online event
- A mysterious mythical figure is stalking Valheim players
- Nebuchadnezzar is a throwback to my favourite city builders of 1000 BC and 1999 AD
- The Flash is coming to Fortnite, here's how to get the skin
- Forza Horizon 4 is coming to Steam next month
- Everything we know about Genshin Impact's The Perfect Shot quest
- Staff picks: This is the hardware that PC Gamer swears by
- Holy crap, a new SATA SSD that's actually interesting
- Nvidia's RTX 3060 12GB looks set to launch on February 25
- How to complete Genshin Impact's Tianqui Treasure Trail quest
- Call Of Duty: Warzone disables Armored Royale following yet another invisibility glitch
- He Came From Beyond is a Doom 2 mod made out of post-it notes
- This week in PC gaming: Little Nightmares 2 releases, Final Fantasy 12 on Game Pass
- Terraria creator cancels Stadia port after being locked out of Google account
- Here's why Nvidia might have downgraded the RTX 3080 Ti
- Everything you need to know about trains in Factorio
- PSA: Not all 400-series motherboards will support Intel’s next-gen gaming CPUs
- Ninja threatens to quit Fortnite for good over stream sniping
- Final Fantasy 14 5.5 update detailed: will pave the way for Endwalker's story
- Nvidia sets new rules for gaming laptop makers to cut confusion
- How a remake of an obscure 1995 FPS led to a retro shooter revival
- Total War: Warhammer 3 preorders remain top of the charts in China
- Steam sets another record at 26.4M concurrent users
- Tomb Raider 2 fan remake gets a photomode, looks slick
- February 7
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- ZA/UM details extra quests and other content in Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
- What did you play last week? (February 1-6, 2021)
- XCOM 2012 was pitched as a real-time game
- Transport management classic OpenTTD is coming to Steam
- An expansion for Factorio is in development
- Great Moments in PC gaming: Escaping Little Nightmares' meat feast
- This 11GB Cyberpunk 2077 mod fixes the audio mix
- February 6
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- What videogame outfit would you wear in real life?
- XCOM 2 is on sale for less than $5
- The best Total War: Warhammer 2 mods
- Valheim tops best seller list as it enters the top 10 Steam games
- Major events in the Mass Effect timeline
- Crapshoot: Before Leisure Suit Larry, there was Softporn Adventure
- Do some tactical mech vs kaiju battles in Mech Armada
- Apex Legends' bunker pass is once again a deathtrap, thanks to Fuse
- Final Fantasy 14 update 5.5 is coming April 13
- Pretty soon Final Fantasy 14 will let you visit friends on different data centers
- Final Fantasy 14's next expansion will end its 10-year-story and start a whole new one
- Meet the Sage, a rad new healer coming with Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker
- Final Fantasy 14's next expansion is Endwalker, coming fall 2021
- February 5
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- Hitman 3's location import function will be live by the end of February
- There are more Epic Store exclusives coming over the next 2 years than have released so far
- HBO is making a movie about Reddit and GameStop too, because why not
- The indie Chinese RPG that suddenly became one of Steam's most popular games may get an English translation
- Valheim player discovers what's beyond the edge of its enormous map
- How tall is Lady Dimitrescu?
- Randy Pitchford says Gearbox acquisition will allow it to 'take a risk' on new things
- Call of Duty: Warzone's worst bugs and exploits, ranked by badness
- How to watch tonight's Final Fantasy 14 expansion reveal livestream
- Valheim patch adds more surtling cores for all you Viking smelters
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition will cut back on the butt shots
- We've got 20 copies of Fuser VIP Edition to give away
- This free murder mystery absolutely nails the feel of classic LucasArts adventures
- The Prince Of Persia remake has been delayed, again
- Where to find flint in Valheim
- Field of Glory 2: Medieval review
- Spelunky 2's creator says players know at least as much about the game as the devs
- Please, help me build an RGB-free PC
- What makes a great anime game?
- MSI GS66 Stealth RTX 3080 gaming laptop review
- Rust is adding a 'softcore' mode to make its opening hours less brutal
- Razer's new analog keyboard has launched, but it's not everything we hoped it would be
- How to photograph red creatures in Genshin Impact
- If two people land on a planet at the same time in Elite Odyssey... who gets the credit?
- What Brexit means for PC gamers: More delays and 'prices are going to increase'
- Warzone will carry on into this year's Call Of Duty
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War deserves a remaster
- Resident Evil Village locations have been mapped out thanks to a collector's edition bonus
- Raven Software says Call of Duty: Warzone's infinite stim glitch has been fixed, and maybe it has?
- Even virtual cycling has real cheating scandals
- Call of Duty maintained 100 million monthly players in 2020
- Why I love scanning planets in Mass Effect 2
- February 4
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- Congress wants infamous Reddit investor who kicked off the GameStop surge to testify
- Roguebook is a deckbuilder with a touch of Magic
- Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 won't be out this year, Blizzard says
- BioWare is working with the modding community on Mass Effect: Legendary Edition compatibility
- Top-ranked Valorant pro banned for cheating, tells Riot to prove it
- Moon Studios director apologises for rant about Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky
- Here's January's winner of the PC Gamer Best PC Build contest
- Hearthstone celebrates the Lunar New Year with some pricey Three Kingdoms hero skins and new quests
- Overwatch's Lunar New Year event adds five Epic skins and a Bounty Hunter brawl
- Burn the galaxy to the ground in the next Stellaris expansion
- Nuraphone headphone and gaming mic review
- Metro: Last Light Redux and For the King are free on the Epic Store
- Why Chinese developers are worried about Steam China launching next week
- ZeniMax CEO Robert A. Altman has died
- Forget Star Wars, where are the Alien games?
- How to answer Dainsleif's questions in Genshin Impact
- This fan-designed Sonic Mania Lego set is getting an official release
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Valorant move closer with every patch
- Barf grenades and ninja blades are coming to Hitman 3 this month
- Loop Hero launches in March, and there's a demo on Steam right now
- Beat Saber slashes VR sales records after shipping 4 million copies
- The untold Hackaday life of the guy who made FlightSim 1 for RadioShack's TRS-80 computer
- How to get the R.A.I. K-84 Wonder Weapon in Call of Duty: Cold War
- Boot failures prompt Corsair to issue a partial recall for some high wattage PSUs
- How to photograph a blue creature in Genshin Impact
- Call of Duty: Warzone's infinite stim glitch just keeps recurring
- Codemasters has approved EA's $1.2 billion acquisition bid
- AMD RX 6700 XT's rumoured March release looking likely as Gigabyte registers six cards
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood review
- Where to find Kit's Cantina in Fortnite
- The new Minecraft snapshot has cave vines, glow berries and drip leaves
- February 3
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- Valheim: How to build a campfire indoors
- Amazon's next CEO says they're going to keep trying to make a hit game
- Mass Effect's Pinnacle Station DLC won't be in the Legendary Edition because its source code was lost
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition system requirements aren't too demanding
- After banning 91K accounts in 2020, Rainbow Six Siege is taking more steps to dunk on cheaters
- Activision is being sued over the Modern Warfare character Mara
- What choices will you make differently in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition?
- Record of Lodoss War is a gorgeous metroidvania featuring a cool elf, her bow, and bullet hell
- It turns out making good videogames is hard even for trillion-dollar tech corporations
- Fortnite's 'Illegal Restart' Explained: The new rule players need to know
- Where to find exotic weapons in Fortnite
- Chinese open-world RPG rockets to the top of Steam with over 170,000 concurrent players
- Steam Game Festival goes live with more than 500 free demos, plus developer chats and livestreams
- Minecraft eye-tracking software EyeMine receives major V2 update
- Here's what's changed in Kings Canyon for Apex Legends Season 8
- This is why Intel is beating AMD Ryzen on price and availability
- A cancelled Xbox 360 remake of GoldenEye is now playable on PC
- Genshin Impact Five Flushes of Fortune guide: How to use the Kurious Kamera
- I want Grand Theft Auto 6 to be more like Red Dead Redemption 2
- Genshin Impact devs are so committed to gacha, they even used it for their staff giveaway
- Fresh AMD RX 6800 XT reference cards 'expected to be available in the first quarter of 2021'
- Blind Drive is a comedy thriller you can play with your eyes closed
- Nuts is the squirrel spy thriller I never knew I wanted
- Total War: Warhammer 3 is going to be absolutely massive
- Total War: Warhammer 3 is coming, and it's dragging us to the Realm of Chaos
- Red Dead Online will give you a horse, a hat, a coat, anything, if you'll please come back
- Give this optional Windows 10 update a whirl if playing games crashes your PC
- How to check if the Apex Legends servers are down
- Try not to panic but the world's largest chipmaker is booked up until 2024
- The Mass Effect Legendary Cache features a game case with no game
- The Mandalorian is coming to kill you in Fortnite's latest LTM
- AMD's supply issue is harming its best chance of gaining market share
- Gearbox has been bought by Embracer Group in $1.3 billion deal
- FemShep finally gets her due in Mass Effect Legendary Edition trailer, Jennifer Hale extremely stoked
- EA isn't slowing down on Star Wars games despite losing exclusivity, CEO says
- Valve to pay $4 million in Steam Controller patent infringement case
- February 2
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- EA boss 'very confident' in the future of BioWare despite recent bombs
- Activision confirms Call of Duty: Warzone uses 'internal anti-cheat software' as it reaches 300,000 bans to-date
- The next Battlefield game will be revealed this spring
- Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon CEO
- After GameStop's share price plummets, Reddit's WallStreetBets investors are hurting
- Morrowind console commands: Getting silly in The Elder Scrolls
- Call of Duty: Warzone bans 60,000 cheaters in one massive wave
- Valheim felt like a typical survival game until I summoned an angry heavy metal stag from Valhalla
- Cyberpunk 2077's security vulnerability is now fixed
- Rust crafting guide: 8 essential items you should craft right away
- Prepare to have a blast with Fuse's abilities in Apex Legends
- Here's what you need to know about the Call of Duty League 2021
- Forget WSAD, this robot claw-looking keypad is the perfect partner for your gaming mouse
- How the Mass Effect trilogy evolved
- Over a year after announcement, Final Fantasy XII is (almost) on Xbox Game Pass
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous beta test kicks off with a new trailer and screens
- Every modern Hitman level, ranked from worst to best
- Mass Effect finally getting 21:9 support has convinced me to play the Legendary Edition
- The Fall Guys mid-season update is here, penguins and all
- The Dark Souls inspired tarot deck is back with 100 cards worth of lore and horrifying art
- In Mass Effect: Legendary Edition the first game is a partial remake, the sequels are remasters
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition cuts Mass Effect 3 multiplayer entirely
- The best photography games on PC
- Garry's Mod successor S&box is coming along nicely
- Destiny 2's Season of the Chosen launches next week, with some classic Strikes and a new matchmade activity
- I'm tired of waiting for the next big MMO
- AMD's latest GPU driver promises up to a 9% performance bump in The Medium
- Galax RTX 3090 HOF tops 3GHz breaking 16 world records
- No, Tabletop Simulator, you can't outsource localisation to Google Translate
- Mods, combat and more are coming to Dyson Sphere Program's stellar factories
- NZXT H1 PC case review
- NZXT halts sale of H1 PC case for second time as long-term fire hazard fix is developed
- Starship Troopers: Terran Command propaganda vid showcases a victorious bug hunt
- Sonic Prime is an animated Sonic the Hedgehog series coming to Netflix
- Lady Dimitrescu is 9'6" and that's an official Capcom fact
- Tohu review
- February 1
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- The story of Herobrine, Minecraft's decade-old creepypasta mystery
- Apex Legends could get Fortnite-style game-changing live events someday
- Cyber Shadow review
- Prime Gaming adds eight new free games for February
- Google Stadia is closing its internal studios and Jade Raymond is leaving
- New info teased for BlizzCon, which will take place online later this month
- Disjunction review
- Plan the perfect factory with this Factorio blueprints guide
- Digital Storm Lynx gaming PC review
- Fashion-wrestling RPG Bravery Network Online releases in Early Access this month
- The Super Nintendo World theme park is under construction in Minecraft
- Fallout mod The Frontier returns after stripping out content from disgraced artist
- Battleborn servers shut down for good
- Wanting to build a new gaming PC right now? Intel's Core i5 10600K is down to $230
- Silverstone releases the only 1,000W power supply for small form factor gaming PCs
- How to spot Call of Duty: Warzone cheats and hacks
- Empire of Sin's next patch is taking aim at its biggest problems
- A four-year-old was referred to the UK's anti-extremism watchdog over Fortnite comments
- Hollywood's already bought the rights for a Gamestop/Reddit film
- EU to make preliminary ruling on Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of Zenimax by March 5
- Asus and Ikea have released the ultimate comfort item for real PC gamers
- Call Of Duty: Cold War's zombies shamble into Vietnam this week
- The Medium has already earned back its development and promotion costs
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 1, 2021)
