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Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon by describing the dev team as 'tiny' and working 'in the background' at Hello Games

'Child labor is unbeatable': Baldur's Gate 3 players discover how to build an army of unkillable kids through the power of polymorph and German media laws

For 33 years, a 'true story' about the 'resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity' written in an MS-DOS help file has fueled an urban legend that a certain sound wavelength will make chicken heads explode

The standout Steam Black Friday deal is undoubtedly Doom: The Dark Ages for 50% off

2 months after being acquired by private equity, Splash Damage is making major layoffs so it can 'remain agile,' even though it hasn't released a game since 2020

Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production'

Despite getting delayed, Paralives looks like it's avoiding Inzoi's biggest flaw

An outage briefly affected Fortnite, Arc Raiders, Battle.net, PSN, and more, but now appears to be resolved

Yes, Arc Raiders servers are down (Update: We're back)

World of Warcraft: Midnight might be the MMO's biggest expansion yet, and it's coming out in March

Galaxy Princess Zorana is like if you made BG3 passive checks into a whole game, a great tale of political intrigue, and will give you like 4,000 ways to die embarrassingly

Cyberpunk 2077 is now CD Projekt's 'main source of income,' and sales are outpacing The Witcher 3: Its latest milestone is 'a better result than The Witcher 3 was able to achieve in the same post-release time frame'

The fantasy RPG that started as a viral AI-made video is 'free of AI-generated content,' pledges its maker

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord gets free patch alongside War Sails DLC that's so big, the 17,000 word update run more than twice the length of Age of Empires 2's 'legendarily long' patch notes

The ROG Xbox Ally now has tailored per-game profiles and I never thought I'd say it but as a SteamOS user I'm quite jealous

I'm impatiently waiting for Fallout Season 2 by calculating the odds of my favorite New Vegas characters making an appearance

After seeing the science, I hereby vow to never underestimate or misuse Arc Raiders' attachments ever again

Overwatch 2 Vendetta hero trial release time in your region

After 17 years, Ubisoft is hiring up for Beyond Good and Evil 2, a definitely real videogame that exists

22 years since launch, a classic Dungeons & Dragons adventure from the developer of Bloodlines is finally coming to Steam

Sam Altman says the prototype AI 'thing' he's making with Jony Ive gives the 'vibe' of 'sitting in the most beautiful cabin by a lake in the mountains' and I'm left wondering if he's ever listened to the noises coming out of the hole under his nose

AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now down to £390 this Black Friday, making the champion of all gaming CPUs the cheapest it's ever been

Xenopurge turns Aliens into a stressful desk job and somehow manages to capture the movie perfectly

Fantatical's Capcom sale offers up two Resident Evil games you need to play before Requiem releases for just $12

The ESRB just leaked a Death Stranding 2 PC port, and I think we can say bye-bye to Jim Ryan's '2 or 3 year' wait for PlayStation games on PC

Call of Duty has been the biggest-selling shooter in the US since 2006, but that could soon change according to industry analyst: 'This part of the market hasn't been this competitive in 20 years'

How to beat this week's Trials in Arc Raiders

Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU pops up in Geekbench with decent but not exactly spectacular benchmark numbers

Embracer Group sells publisher Arc Games and Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios, but once again clings on to the publishing rights for Remnant 2

Despite Battlefield 6's server browser utterly failing at its one job, good things are happening in Portal

The circle is closed as Clair Obscur mocap actor Maxence Cazorla thanks Charlie Cox for his kind words: 'Bringing Gustave to life was a team effort, and I’m honored to have played my part in it'

The Battlefield 6 free trial is live, and if you're new to the scene EA has a detailed guide to get you started

Enormous mod Elden Ring Reforged refreshes and rebalances every inch of the game, works with Seamless Co-op, and even throws in a Crackdown orb-style scavenger hunt

Best X9 Maverick loadout in Black Ops 7

Despite Krafton ownership, Last Epoch dev won't charge for its first expansion and isn't pivoting to AI: 'To be clear, our development approach is not changing'

After its 'make FPS great again' controversy, Splitgate 2 is relaunching with a humbler tone: 'The goal is to grow over time, not aim for a massive splash on day 1'

Former Ghost of Yotei artist says she wasn't fired because of a Charlie Kirk joke, but 'because of a harassment campaign' that nobody at Sony or Sucker Punch bothered investigating

The first thing Bungie asked LucasFilm about its Star Wars-themed Destiny 2 expansion was: 'What is the bad version of this?'

The PC Gamer handheld gaming PC gift guide

Moonlighter 2 made me reckon with how 'cozy' a shopkeeping roguelite with a heavy helping of Hades can get

Finally some good buyout news: A writer just bought back the game she co-created from a blockchain company so it 'doesn’t end up being turned into AI slop'

After splurging on EA, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is reportedly tightening its pursestrings, due to 'financial distress' caused by numerous troubled projects

Hero modder who started the Thomas the Tank Engine meme with Skyrim thumbs his nose at 'legal threats' and 'black vans with the Mattel logo' by modding Thomas into Morrowind: 'I have issues with authority'

This fishing game awards bonus XP for no-scoping an airborne mackerel, and I think that's beautiful

Valve responds as indie horror studio accuses Steam of 'censorship' for banning its game about nude human 'Horses' (Update)

Quantic Dream's upcoming MOBA is opening its doors for a closed beta weekend in just a couple of weeks, but only a few players will make the cut

Another Fallout 4 update fixes performance issues while leaving modders angry, but it doesn't have to be this way

In a relatable bout of impostor syndrome, Clair Obscur actor Charlie Cox says please give all the credit to mocap actor Maxence Cazorla after he nabs a Game Awards nom

This sneaky malware variant has been caught using fake Windows Update screens to trick users into installing info-stealing software themselves

Spellcasters Chronicles is my kind of MOBA, where I can summon skyscraper-sized titans, create an army of lizards, and just live happily in the chaos