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My favourite thing about Linux gaming will now automagically apply crucial fan patches to your Metal Gear installs, making it even easier than on Windows

At a mere 2 square micrometers in size, this is the world's smallest QR code and it's 'smaller than most bacteria'

WoW lead says they 'lost something along the way' by building dungeons for sweaty Mythic+ timers instead of 20-boss mazes like the good old days, but Labyrinths could be the solution

League of Legends might be adding public voice chat—and as someone with a combined 2,655 hours in Dota 2 and Deadlock, I can safely say: Oh no

Microsoft says its glass-based storage project now works with 'the same material found in kitchen cookware and oven doors' and can hold data for 10,000 years

Understandable AI paranoia has inspired a developer to change the handcrafted character art in its upcoming sim: 'They look a bit AI'

Nvidia dumps its $140 million stake in Arm but licensing deals remain and its new PC CPU is still go

Birdwatching Notebook is meant to be a relaxing idler, but it drove me to new depths of unlock-obsessed birdmania

The new game from Disco Elysium's studio feels like the first Christmas after your parents' divorce

I romanced a hunky British man with a shotgun for a head in a game that lets me have 'US government approved pronouns' like Jamestown, grits, and freedom

Dutch police have arrested a man for reportedly refusing to relinquish files they sent him: 'He would only comply if he received something in return'

Nvidia's DLSS upscaling beats AMD's FSR and plain old native rendering at 4K in a poll of over 1,000 gamers

New research suggests folks are relying on 'outdated visual cues' to identify AI-generated faces—but I did get 14/20 on the test

WoW's classes were pruned for Midnight because many were 'built in a world' where its devs assumed they'd be using addons

Obsidian was 'surprised' that Avowed players bounced off one of the RPG's most important systems: 'That frustration came through loud and clear'

Firefox is finally ending support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and urges users to upgrade or switch to Linux

Avowed's massive anniversary update adds new playable races, but they don't get any unique dialogue because there were 'no dedicated narrative people available'

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Jensen Huang teases reveal of 'a chip that will surprise the world' at next month's GTC

The 'LeBron James of spreadsheets' thought Excel becoming a popular esport was 'unlikely' before winning the grand prize in Las Vegas

Devil Daggers 2 is in development, as its creator confirms fewer than 1,500 people survived longer than 8 minutes in the original

The Killing Stone combines occult contract law with card-battling in an isolated 17th century mansion

Todd Howard says Bethesda will return to 'that classic style' for Elder Scrolls 6: 'Fallout 76 and Starfield are a little bit of a creative detour'

Surprise, surprise: The ROG Xbox Ally X just got a AU$200 price hike in Australia

Can you guess which videogame these zombies are from? Take our quiz and evaluate your mastery over the undead!

As Destiny 2's player count continues to tank, Bungie announces that the next major update is delayed until June and getting a new name

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...