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Videogames are 'losing in the War for Attention': Analyst says many of the industry's biggest markets are spending less time on gaming

Spooky visual novel The Mermaid's Curse is the best kind of sequel: a self-contained mystery

Todd Howard says there's no Starfield 2.0 coming: The next big update is for people who already love Starfield, and if you don't, 'I don't think this is going to change that'

DICE has 'heard the message very clear' and is now prioritizing larger maps for Battlefield 6, but 'it takes a really long time'

Poppy Playtime becomes Steam's global top seller and doubles its all-time peak player count record

Congrats, you played yourself, Arc Raiders' machines aren't actually learning: 'That's just the way we author them'

Black Ops 7 ad banned in the UK for 'trivializing sexual violence'

Microsoft's ties with ICE come under fire amidst allegations that the company's cloud and AI technology are being used to support mass surveillance of US citizens

Microsoft uses plagiarized AI slop flowchart to explain how Github works, removes it after original creator calls it out: 'Careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently'

Embark admits Arc Raiders’ bosses are dying too fast because 'they're not intended for the full server to go up against' and 'we gave players too effective abilities'

All the Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy cheats you need to attain a noble lifestyle without the effort

I didn't expect to kidnap alligators, save Woodstock or give people dysentery in a game called Transport Fever 3—but here we are

And I thought DDR5 prices were bad: Samsung is apparently charging $700 for its latest AI-empowering HBM product

Arc Raiders' matchmaking isn't 'binary', says design lead: 'There's no such thing as a friendly lobby or an aggressive lobby'

New research claims pretty much all headphones contain toxic chemicals that 'may be migrating' into our bodies

'The AI era is no longer a distant promise; it is a present reality,' Google declares in a report that also claims its AI principles are the 'north star standards'

Japanese toilet manufacturer reportedly 'most undervalued and overlooked' beneficiary of AI boom

Arc Raiders design director says players 'never worked together' in testing, but the emergence of care bear lobbies 'encourages us to lean toward giving opportunities to have friendly interactions'

Valve wins lawsuit against Rothschild and associated entities, with a jury agreeing they violated an anti-patent troll protection act

After a glitch botched Overwatch's first big post-reboot event, it's sending out the rewards—including 14 lootboxes—out to players anyway

DayZ creator calls to 'normalize delaying games,' that consumers can show Xbox and Sony 'that delays are okay' and, oh, 'Personally: don't preorder games, folks. Commercially: please preorder games'

Moza AB9 FFB Base + MH16 Flightstick + MTP Throttle review

Three of the biggest password managers are vulnerable to 'a cornucopia of practical attacks' say security researchers

NZXT's latest mini-ITX PC case looks seriously nifty, I'm just not sure how I'm going to afford the RAM for the build...

Yes, Chinese DRAM is fine for gaming but don't think for one moment that any of it is a bargain

Everyone should get into birdwatching, and as a birdwatching devotee, here are the 4 upcoming birding games on Steam I'm keeping tabs on

The demo of Sucker for Love: Crush Landing is the gentle reminder I needed that dating an eldritch god wouldn't be straightforward, actually

Deadlock's snazziest rich boy, Apollo, gets struck down by a bunch of nerfs after terrorising matches: 'Yoshi took him out back'

Windows 11 is getting a handy internet speed test built right into the taskbar

Minecraft has revealed its final batch of baby mobs ahead of the spring update, and they might be the cutest ones yet

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magic set includes a deck inspired by the videogames

YouTube was partially busted for a while, but it's fixed now

Original Witcher story lead says the surprise twist at the end 'was a mistake,' because instead of focusing on Geralt the sequel was forced into 'a story about witchers who are killing kings for some reason'

Steam Next Fest hasn't even started, and its first must-play demo is already here

Valheim's creative director is still 'dedicated on Valheim every day' in addition to his new co-op dungeon crawler: 'We love making games so much that we want to make more games'

Huge new Avowed update adds New Game Plus, playable dwarves and Orlans, and quarterstaffs

Thanks to Diablo 2, Blizzard might've found a way to fix Diablo 4's loot fatigue in its next expansion

US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms have complied

Unity boss who once called out the 'idiocy' of the metaverse now says his company's new AI tech 'will enable developers to prompt full casual games into existence with natural language only'

Mewgenics sells 1 million copies in just 1 week, far more than its creators expected: 'We both got a bit blindsided by this'

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

The best parts of my favorite World of Warcraft classes are being turned into new heroes for Fellowship's pre-season 2 update this week

'We’re going to make some horrendous mistakes,' Peter Molyneux says about his upcoming swan song Masters of Albion: 'Horrendous, horrendous mistakes'

How often do we see game sequels totally shift genres?

The White House is a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 because there were no quests there, so why build it? 'It is our version of [Indiana Jones] shooting the guy rather than pulling out his whip and going into a fight'

I've found a nifty gaming mouse comparison tool that's the next best thing for communicating hand-feel, beyond sticking my mitts straight through the monitor

Hytale is finally adding animal taming for its farming sim fans after its surprising absence at launch

Corsair Galleon 100 SD review

Newly announced action game Become lets you play as a sentient sperm trying to reach the egg, and yes I am just writing about it because of the name

'As DRAM prices continue to rise, protecting product authenticity has become increasingly important': Corsair changes Vengeance DDR5 packaging in bid to deter scams