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Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card

How to complete A Symbol of Unification in Arc Raiders

Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming CPU

Right after 'saving' Hytale from 7 years of development limbo, its new owner releases 16 minutes of 'raw and broken' gameplay footage to 'break the curse once and for all'

Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming PC

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming mouse

Cloudflare apologises for 'the pain we caused the Internet' and admits a file size error brought down large parts of the web yesterday, not a malicious cyberattack

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming headset

This $150 controller from Honeycomb Aeronautical has not one, not two, not three, but four integrated Throttle Levers for the flight sim sickos

AMD is the hardware of choice for France's first 'AI factory' supercomputer

Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted adds a great quality-of-life feature from the console port: a sun vacuum

Darktide's second new class is the Hive Scum, its first dual-wielder and drug fiend

Half-Life fans are in a frenzy over the prospect of a Half-Life 3 announcement that there's (almost) no good reason to believe is happening

Despite 'Mixed' Steam reviews and a touch of AI slop, strategy city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana has the best launch in series history

Overwatch fans are desperately trying to solve a mystery with its newest hero, but Blizzard already revealed the answer

Apple's 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should've stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick 'almost too crazy to be true' miraculously made it work

Rust's 'Pivot or Die' update was meant to shake up the meta, but it's a nightmare for solo survivors that leaves me no choice but to die

Monster Hunter is getting a Magic: The Gathering collab, and I think I speak for all fans of cool lizard art when I say: Hell yeah

Megabonk developer withdraws from 'Best Debut Indie Game' nomination at The Game Awards for a pretty good reason: 'It's not my debut game'

Valve accidentally steps on the make-up deal it offered to the indie game whose 2024 release was ruined by a Steam bug: 'I really get the feeling that Planet Centauri is cursed'

Counter-Strike 2 modders surprise drop an excellent Halo 3 multiplayer pack, accidentally proving how badly Valve has squandered Source 2

Over 20 hours of Elden Ring lore videos are being crammed into one big book by Souls YouTuber VaatiVidya

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games suffer from trying 'to be everything for everyone' when they should be learning from '80s games: 'These games were really focused, because they had to be'

Larian Studios responds to 2025 Game Awards nomination for Baldur's Gate 3, which came out more than 2 years ago: 'honestly, what the f**k'

Everyone knows the AI business model is steal first, ask permission later, and Google's CEO is clinging to the notion of opt-outs as justifying it: 'We do give people those rights'

Delta Force devs apologise after Facepunch Studios exec accuses them of stealing assets from Rust: 'If you wanted to collab, you should have reached out'

Here's how to watch Clair Obscur, KCD2 and others jostle for GOTY at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025

Stella Montis condenses everything I love about Arc Raiders by cramming it all into a cramped facility of pure chaos

How to find and kill a Matriarch in Arc Raiders

Mass Effect 3 redeemed to glory as modder puts its ME1-style elevator back in

Anthropic reports the first 80-90% 'AI-orchestrated' cyber espionage campaign, but cybersecurity critics are sceptical

A UK trial scheme is attempting to cut heating costs for households with shed-sized mini data centres

PC and smartphone markets forecast to shrink in 2026 due to higher prices as memory supply crisis escalates and threatens to spoil Black Friday for PC fans

Battlefield 6 is putting on a week-long free trial to celebrate the latest seasonal content, which brings the warzone to an affluent Californian neighbourhood

The developer of 80 Days was once invited to pitch a Doctor Who game, but never heard back from the BBC afterward: 'Technically, we're still waiting for a reply'

'Elon [Musk] truly would be the best owner of any game company,' claims former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick with a completely straight face

Thermaltake View 390 Air review

Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick wanted to buy Minecraft until he found out Notch was leaving and Microsoft was offering a billion dollars more: 'I'll go airplane shopping with you, but you've gotta take that offer'

This speedrunner has been making a glorious multi-handheld gaming PC body harness rig for IRL game streaming on the move

Demonschool review

Overwatch 2's newest hero has roots in one of the best PvE missions I played 7 years ago

When Assassin's Creed's infamously dull main character was finally killed off, voice actor Nolan North didn't find out until a fan told him about it on Twitter

Russia just added Stalker dev GSC to its no-no list of 'undesirable organisations', sobs that Stalker 2 promoted 'Ukrainian narratives' and 'aggressive Russophobic content'

Staring down the barrel of a rough 2026, Ubisoft's UK arm says we're less interested in 'one time purchase' games and all about that live service dripfeed

You might want to crack open Armoury Crate as Asus has some 'BIG' updates for the ROG Xbox Ally X and non-X, plus some smaller ones for the older ROG handhelds

I might just play more News Tower instead of going to therapy

Arc Raiders' new Deadline mine is so effective that it can one-shot a Bastion, tear a Leaper apart, and help destroy a Queen arc in just 10 minutes

State-level crackdowns in the US threaten to 'break VPN access for the entire internet,' claims online privacy nonprofit

OLED PC monitor sales are booming, up 65% on last year with Asus leading the charge

Cloudflare goes down, but a fix is in and ChatGPT and X are back online again