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I ditched my laptop charger for a day of travel, work and gaming with Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chip and still had 18% battery life left when I got home

Fast, feisty, fabulous: I've benchmarked Intel's new Panther Lake processor and it's dragging gaming laptop performance out of integrated graphics

Microsoft reports 'an issue in which devices are failing to boot' after downloading the latest update

I turned a human-hating mecha-hamster into the ultimate weapon of mass destruction who loves a pre-annihilation scritch

AMD's unannounced dual-CCD 3D V-Cache monster chip appears in official AMD docs

Highguard launch times and release date

The next Dead by Daylight chapter will feature character designs selected by the community, and voting is already open

Former Marathon art director says 'what I could control, I feel really good about' in the face of pre-release animosity: 'You can't take that away from me'

Final count for Stop Killing Games petition verifies 1.3 million of its 1.4 million signatures, well above the minimum to be formally considered by EU politicians

Doom has been ported to a pair of earbuds, and you can play remotely on the programmer's own pair in your browser

There's been an influx of players applying to the LSPD in GTA roleplay like it's a real police force—except the crimes are fake, the paperwork is real, and everyone appears to be shouting codes they found on Google into their headsets

I am a videogame music purist who cannot mute even the most diabolical tracks, help me

Modders just shadow dropped a PC port of the original Banjo-Kazooie with ultrawide support, improved controls, and quality-of-life features

From mugs to little trinkets, MadebyLottie is making my inner magpie sing with their ceramic gaming creations

'Brutally honest' city builder Microlandia gets brutally honest crime simulation: 'It's a spectrum of consequences that can become a death spiral every single day'

Lort devs reluctantly tweak the fantasy roguelike's difficulty after players complain the Risk of Rain 2 successor is too hard: 'You are meant to die and learn how to overcome the challenge'

Early access multiplayer shooter Out of Action is, ironically, full of action, with cyborg ninjas blasting each other in a mix of Titanfall and Max Payne

Dinner is served in Star Birds' latest early access update, adding bakeries and restaurants to the Dorfromantik devs' factory management sim: 'Ever fed an alien pizza?'

Finally, a comprehensive overhaul for third-person movement animations in Fallout: New Vegas

Cancelled Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake claimed to have been 'close to the finish line'

Fallout lead Tim Cain worked 70+ hours a week for 2 years to make the classic RPG: 'I'm glad things have changed, that was unsustainable⁠—but it was also absolutely amazing'

UK judge rules that RuneScape gold is fair game when suing for theft, at least in this case where an ex-developer stole $700,000 worth of it

In defense of XCOM: Chimera Squad

WoW's rough 2.0 transmog overhaul is mostly fixed, and I'm left wondering why Blizzard didn't just take the easy win

Deadlock's new Street Brawl mode is like a better version of the infamous MOBA 'All Random, All Mid,' but I think it could stand to be even more chaotic

From throwing bear traps with telekinesis to piledriving a zombie into a tree, this new roguelike is a brilliantly accessible gateway into the world of turn-based tactics

Ubisoft shares plummet to lowest price in over 14 years amid its recently announced 'restructuring' centered on cancellations, layoffs, and generative AI

This horror game built from the bones of an abandoned FPS server and an accidental ARPG might be one of the strangest puzzlers I've ever played

Our diabolical PC gaming dungeons quiz is harder than a level 1 Molten Core solo run

Inscryption-inspired card battler The Killing Stone gets a rad new trailer showing off voice talent from Critical Role and Baldur's Gate 3, and it's out next month

After debuting in Nightdive's second remaster, one of the best mods for classic FPS Blood just released its concluding episode for everyone to play

This side-scrolling metroidvania inspired by Bloodborne just got completely free DLC, and the base game is 50% off until February

No More Room in Hell 2 will add new ways to play in its upcoming 1.0 launch, one of which 'plays like your favourite classic game modes from the late 2000s'

It's hard to fault Highguard for giving the internet the silent treatment—wouldn't you?

Everything you can get from Arknights: Endfield Twitch Drops and how to link accounts

Building an optimized factory is so important in Arknights: Endfield that someone made a simulator tool for sharing your best blueprints

Fallout 4 feels like a brand new game now that it's forcing me to take naps, drink plenty of water, and not save scum

One of Steam's most wishlisted games announces it's launching next week with a song so unhinged you've got to hear it for yourself

Mass Effect boss Michael Gamble is looking for a production director for the next game in the series: 'They’ll report to me and it’s gonna be awesome'

Creator of DMCA'd Cyberpunk VR mod takes ball and goes home, removing access to all his VR mods after receiving a second DMCA takedown from 505 Games and a warning from Patreon

'Came for the combat, stayed to be a factory worker': Anime gacha game players are discovering they were born to be factory builders in Arknights: Endfield

That team-based shooter with phantom horses that debuted at The Game Awards and then promptly disappeared is not actually dead: A showcase featuring 'gameplay deep dive, year one plans, and much more' is coming next week

I asked Garry Newman if he really was going to rename s&box as Garry's mod 2 after an overwhelming poll and he joked 'people are d*ckheads'

How to remaster Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time yourself, since Ubisoft won't

More than 40 US Democrats call for a 'thorough investigation' of EA's Saudi-led buyout over risks of layoffs, studio closures, and 'coordinated anti-labor practices'

Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

Software engineer creates classic SimCity-style map of NYC—and argues that AI will be good for creatives, actually

Not even Microsoft is confident that Copilot is right for coding, as it's encouraging staff to try out Anthropic's AI model, according to one report

Minecraft's lead dev says Hytale is 'very polished' but he'd rather just play Minecraft, and Hytale boss says he's 'probably right'—for now

Spellcasters Chronicles is getting its second closed beta weekend with more spells, a ranked mode, and better optimisation: 'We want every player to be able to play our game'