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Team Fortress 2 player cooks themselves by destroying a Golden Frying Pan worth $6,800—for the second time

Stalker 2 says to hell with it, let's just update our entire Unreal Engine implementation in new roadmap for the rest of the year

The Framework Desktop's small footprint is deceptively cute, as it's actually sequestering serious compute power that makes it the best mini AI PC

Cyberpower begins selling desktop PCs with carbon nanotube CPU cooling, possibly spelling the end of thermal paste catastrophes

Former DayZ lead thinks survival games should let players tinker with every variable: 'Here's the keys. Have fun'

Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon wants to reprise his role, but when people say 'this character's just like Astarion, would you like to play them?' he's 'like not really, no'

The Esports World Cup has marked one of Tekken's fiercest rivalries with a weirdly sticky poster

I've been on a quest to find a gaming keyboard media key replacement, and like an incredibly nerdy anti-Goldilocks, I've found none of them are just right

'You've got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI': Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming

Things I have (sort of) learned: Audio fades are one of the most CPU-intensive tasks you can possibly do, and my maths is too awful to properly explain why

Final Fantasy 14 wins my personal award for the Most Specific Bug Fix in a MMO 2025, and I'm astonished anyone even found it in the first place

Crimson Desert is being 'unavoidably delayed' for a second time, now set to release in early 2026

Controversial AI outfit Perplexity puts in speculative $34.5 billion bid for the Chrome browser, but Google never said it was selling

Monster Hunter Wilds director wants to reduce the game's strain on your CPU, but is worried about its impact on overall performance: 'We plan to proceed with caution'

Between pained cries, the YouTuber who made this 'neuromuscular aim assist' that shocks his muscles for fast Counter-Strike 2 reactions insists it's 'not cheats'

Gamescom 2025 schedule: All the showcases and events you can watch this year

The Battlefield 6 beta returns with yet another close-quarters map and two iconic modes for a four-day Weekend 2 trial, so I know what I'll be playing

Elden Ring Nightreign's next Everdark Sovereign is the GOAT. No, literally.

When CEO Lisa Su is finished making AMD the default choice for GPUs, she wants to use AI to help fix the 'travesty' that is modern healthcare

Assassin's Creed devs say they'll be getting around to the whole Assassins vs Templars and modern setting stuff 'at some point, in some fashion'

Scrubby is a top robot. Scrubby scrubs whiteboards. Scrubby un-scrubs whiteboards. Scrubby sleeps to scrub again

GameSir's G7 Pro has removable faceplates, TMR sticks, and 1000 Hz polling rate for under $80

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 13 (#1516)

The sequel to the best high-end Hall effect controller just dropped with Razer's esports focussed Wolverine V3 Pro 8k PC

This retro-styled programmable high-polling wireless mouse comes with a charging dock for under $60 USD

Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed

PlayerUnknown's new survival game makes building a simple campfire feel like a real accomplishment, and that's something a lot of survival games are lacking

Elon Musk and Sam Altman deploy each other's chatbots as proxies in public slapfight

Take-Two boss is really very confident that Grand Theft Auto 6 won't be delayed again: 'My level of conviction is very, very high'

Arkane employees demand Microsoft sever ties with Israeli military: 'We don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza'

Battlefield 6 lead producer says 'large maps exist,' confirming the full game will offer bigger battles than the beta's cramped, chaotic firefights

Krafton fires back at Unknown Worlds lawsuit, says Subnautica 2 was at risk of causing 'irreversible harm to the entire franchise' like Kerbal Space Program 2

Remedy is 'unsatisfied' by poor sales of FBC: Firebreak and a tiny PC playerbase, but says 'despite the rocky launch, we believe we have a solid game to build on'

Fae Farm announces the looming end of online play on Steam, and disappears entirely from Epic, but Phoenix Labs is still around

If you felt way too killable in the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend, you might not have imagined it: BF6 devs are investigating reports of instakill 'super bullets'

You might not have heard of Biwin but it's made the best value PCIe 4.0 SSD we've tested in some time

'Eager to move on from failure': Ex-producer Mark Darrah thinks BioWare suffered spinning plates for EA, starving itself for talent as it ate itself alive: 'We weren't getting the people'

Samsung's new Micro RGB tech is confusingly still an LCD panel with a backlight, but it could have the most precise local dimming yet

Marvel Rivals' bloated DPS roster won't be solved 'overnight', creative director says: 'The heroes we are currently deciding on are for a release slot next year'

Still using WinRAR? It might be time for an update, as a zero-day vulnerability is being 'exploited in the wild in the guise of job application documents'

How to unlock the Ultimate Badge in Peak

Mafia: The Old Country review

Former Google exec says AI's going to lead to a 'short-term dystopia' because the idea it will create new jobs for the ones it's replacing is '100% crap'

The first RX 9060 benchmarks show the non-XT AMD GPU going toe to toe with the RTX 5060

How to unlock the Astronomy Badge in Peak

I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops

League of Legends is getting its first major control scheme change in 16 years: the option to use WASD to 'get new players to the fun parts of League faster and with less friction'

OpenAI's performance charts in the GPT-5 launch video are such a mess you have to think GPT-5 itself probably made them, and the company's attempted fixes raise even more questions

Former BioWare exec Mark Darrah says the team working on the new Mass Effect game should 'scapegoat Veilguard as much as they need to to get what they need'

Overwatch 2 Wuyang: All the key details about the new hero