Instead of wishlisting its game, the developer of my favorite Next Fest demo wants you to play anyone else's: 'There are some genuinely great creators in this fest who deserve the attention'

World of Warcraft players will never have to leave the MMO once Blizzard adds Discord chat for guilds in the next update

The director of all six Sharknado movies has a new film, and it's a Dave the Diver live-action short

A small band of Nightdive rebels united to make the System Shock remake after it 'ran out of money' midway through development

Snapdragon Reality Elite chip aims for 'up to 60% higher GPU performance, up to 30% increase in CPU performance' in VR gaming

Melgeek Real81 review

Apparently some of the best gaming mice aren't staying at the right DPI when moved slowly

My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it's probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under

Valve's latest SteamOS is out with 'initial support for upcoming Steam Machine hardware'

'Many people want to use VPNs for privacy—that is important—but we know that some children use them to get around restrictions': UK government considering VPN ban

SanDisk's latest Optimus gaming SSDs start at $799 MSRP for the 2 TB model and you don't even get Gen 5 speeds for that

Dave the Diver: In the Jungle's cutscenes are even hornier than they are in the base game

GTA 6 pre-orders open next week, and to celebrate Rockstar has revealed its official cover art

Gabe Newell buys $70.8 million mansion in Florida, and naturally it has a dock for his superyachts and a personal tunnel to the ocean

We now have teardown pics of the Steam Frame controller and it looks like it could be pretty repairable

D&D-inspired Critical Role's homegrown videogame is coming along well, says Laura Bailey: 'There's a lot of work being done'

Snap unveils AR glasses which CEO describes as 'highly wearable' in clip that visibly shows the chunky frames crushing his ears

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Valve upgrades AMD's 9070 XT GPU in the Steam Hardware Survey, finally allowing the credit it deserves

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'Price increases are unavoidable' says Tim Cook, proving even Apple isn't impervious to the global memory shortage

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Final Fantasy 14 will give players in Japan a dog for paying their taxes

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PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Planet Zoo 2

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How to get the fishing rod in Dave the Diver: In the Jungle

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Dave the Diver: In the Jungle review

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Xbox's latest tactics display 'a basic misunderstanding of how the interactive entertainment world moves', says former PlayStation exec

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Do you recognize these survival crafting games? Prove you're a real master of roughin' it with our latest quiz on base-building sandboxes

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PlayerUnknown's survival game becomes free-to-own and offers Steam refunds 'without restrictions on playtime or how long ago you bought the game'

Hours after announcing a collab with Fortnite, Vampire Survivors dev suggests it may back out over Epic's touting of generative AI

'[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made': Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6

Guild Wars 3 hopes to solve the problem that made me quit Guild Wars 2 after thousands of hours with the series

Capcom has heard feedback that Onimusha is too easy, says it's 'confident fans will be satisfied with difficulty' in the final game

Rockstar faces legal setback as UK tribunal allows its fired workers to bring every one of their union busting allegations to trial

'It feels to many like a tidal wave is sweeping over the AAA game business,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney in his diagnosis of the industry's woes

Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems

Windows 11 Search will soon see through your typos and actually find what you're looking for

All roads lead to philosophy, as this Wikipedia game proves

Stellaris' Nomads expansion finally lets me live out my Battlestar Galactica fantasies, though its Wayline system could definitely use some work

Intel's 18A-P chipmaking process has started risk production and promises 9% improved CPU performance for the same power

Warning all weebs: Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware via anime girl wallpapers on Steam Workshop's Wallpaper Engine

Don't Kill Them All make you keep orc calm so orc not smash resources—big smart, neat game, like demo much

Civilization is the most iconic turn-based series of all time, but Sid Meier considered making it an RTS: 'It could have easily gone in different directions'

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says we need to 'deal with social norms' surrounding AI but apparently that means 'just go engage it'

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales review

Forza Horizon 6's latest patch may have quelled Bowie Knife99's rage alongside making it easier for players to 100% regions

The DualSense can still drift, but Sony may be exploring magnetic tech for shape-shifting buttons in whatever comes next

It just keeps getting worse—Microsoft reportedly already had Ninja Theory in its crosshairs while pushing the announcement trailer for its next game

'Half-Life 2 RTX has shrunk from 80 GB to 50 GB': RTX Remix 1.5 update shrinks file sizes, and also starts letting in AI agents

There's no such thing as the Matt Mercer Effect

I ran 45 idle game demos from Steam Next Fest all at once for a desktop companion battle royale

I need you to play this unbelievably tense 2 hour horror about descending into hell with a grappling hook

Bungie will let Destiny 2 'near infinite damage' bug ride for a week: 'Do your thing'