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August 16
- The new 3DMark benchmark lets you test the ray tracing performance of your Android phone
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #788: Wednesday, August 16
- Sex% is now an official Baldur's Gate 3 speedrun category and someone already did it in under 8 minutes
- What's next for Baldur's Gate 3: over 1,000 'fixes and tweaks,' official mod tools, requested features
August 15
- 4 ways to clean your bloody, muddy, disgusting face in Baldur's Gate 3 without long resting
- Bungie goes into damage control mode as game director admits the State of the Game update 'wasn't up to our standards for what you all expect'
- The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained
- LG just went ahead and put an entire smart TV in a briefcase, effectively ruining all of my future family vacations
- Diablo 3's final season adds a solo play mode that fans have wanted for years
- This Baldur's Gate 3 cheat mod delivers every weapon and armor in the game right to your camp
- You can change the look of your Baldur's Gate 3 dice with an easy-to-miss setting
- Armored Core 6 system requirements are pretty much the same as the Elden Ring system requirements
- Indie action RPG Hammerwatch 2 is more like A Link to the Past than Diablo 4, its developer says
- Sorry, how many chiplets were AMD trying to jam into that cancelled next-gen GPU?!
- Baldur's Gate 3 modders have added WASD controls, letting you jog around the Sword Coast like it's an MMO
- Activision quietly and permanently drops entire legal case against TikTok meme maker it previously alleged had tried to shake it down for an 'extortionate' fee
- Suspected thieves who stole $300,000 worth of TCG cards might've worn their own card game's merch during Gen Con heist
- Nvidia's allegedly cutting desktop GPU supply in favor of gaming laptop chips
- Diablo 4's trading system is suspended indefinitely while Blizzard tries to stop dupers exploiting it to clone ill-gotten fortunes
- This debuff in Remnant 2 keeps catching players off guard by making them rip out their friends' throats
- Australian Senate committee warns TikTok and WeChat could be the country's biggest security risks
- AI chatbots and large language models are little more than 'glorified tape recorders'
- Intel retakes some CPU market share from AMD as CPU shipments tick upwards
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #787: Tuesday, August 15
August 14
- Wondering where your drive space is going? Check your Baldur's Gate 3 save folder
- Baldur's Gate 3 modder haphazardly adds lone wolf mode inspired by Divinity 2: 'I have not playtested this mod for more than an hour'
- Larian boss says we should think of Baldur's Gate 3's entire first act as the tutorial
- Nab yourself a snow-white RTX 4070 Ti-powered gaming desktop for less than $2,000
- The events leading up to Starfield include a war, the founding of a space detective agency, and another war
- Ubisoft's exciting Assassin's Creed throwback game is launching a week early at just $50
- Thank God, Baldur's Gate 3 will eventually let you change your character's looks
- ULTRARAM may be a silly name but it's the holy grail for memory tech and means your PC could hibernate for over 1,000 years
- Gallowspire Survivors, a mash-up of Pathfinder and Vampire Survivors, comes to Steam Early Access on September 14
- Baldur's Gate 3 has a new Gale-centric speedrun category that lets you 'beat' the game in 10 minutes by blowing yourself up
- Intel's next-gen CPUs could deliver a 75% increase in L2 cache, which would be big news for gamers
- Hamilton Simulator in Roblox lets you sing enemies to death with characters from the musical
- Rumoured Nvidia Blackwell GPU codenames could skew the RTX 50-series more towards the mainstream
- This Owlbear orbital strike in Baldur's Gate 3 can deal 1,170 points of bludgeoning damage, which is enough to kill an adult red dragon four times
- Next gen Intel LGA1851 desktop CPU pictured
- Rainbow Six Siege is getting a new operator
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #786: Monday, August 14
- Writer of the best Saints Row games is now IP director of Far Cry
- Intel 'Downfall' CPU vulnerability exposes sensitive data
- The latest Windows 11 update kills Cortana
August 13
- PSA: You can trade with lots of Baldur's Gate 3 NPCs who aren't traders
- Here's a free shooter for fans of Vampire Survivors and Brotato
- There are remasters of the Strong Bad games from 2008 and you can play them now
- Get your speedrun marathon fix with Flame Fatales 2023
- Check out this goofy, heavy metal indie RPG
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #785: Sunday, August 13
- If you like the way D&D's eldritch blast works in Baldur's Gate 3, now you can blast away in Skyrim too
- That one FPS with the chainsaw leg dropped and people are loving it
- Shadowrun 2007 almost had a System Shock-style singleplayer campaign
- Here's the trailer for Titan Quest 2, a mythological action RPG sequel 17 years in the making
August 12
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #784: Saturday, August 12
August 11
- A single Diablo 4 dungeon is so stuffed with monsters you can gain 40 levels in under 2 hours
- After 25 years this strategy city builder series is finally getting official mod support
- A new South Park game is coming in 2024 and this time it's not an RPG
- Only a few hundred people finished Baldur's Gate 3 in its first weekend
- I can't believe 35% of Baldur's Gate 3 players already took the evil route
- Baldur's Gate 3's biggest hotfix yet addresses more than 200 issues and makes your dog a better digger
- Nice to smite you: Paladin is Baldur's Gate 3's most popular class
- PSA: You can improve DLSS in Baldur's Gate 3 with this easy 3 minute tweak
- Rockstar buys the makers of the GTA Online FiveM mod it banned 8 years ago
- Don't worry if you don't have a house big enough for LG's $30K 97-inch OLED TV—it's wireless so you can just stick it in the yard
- Zealous save scumming in Baldur's Gate 3 could wipe your saved games on GeForce Now
- AMD's answer to Nvidia's Frame Gen graphics tech will finally arrive in September according to report
- This 'Cooler Karlach' mod lets you make your big demon wife even better with added scars and demonic grit
- If you're stuck in the middle of Baldur's Gate 3's karmic dice debate, Larian says you should think of it like 'a friendly DM'
- AMD rolls out limited edition Starfield 7800X3D CPUs and 7900 XTX GPUs but you can't buy one
- Tekken director warns fans not to make 'silly threats' over their favourite characters even in a joking way, saying that everybody suffers for it
- The Lollipop Chainsaw remake finally has a name, just in time to get delayed a year
- How to connect 127 USB devices to your PC. Kinda...
- Roblox wants you to interview inside Roblox to work at Roblox
- Bionicle is so back, baby—this fan made game released a new trailer with its own banging soundtrack, and it's a complete nostalgia blast
- Larian's had to patch Baldur's Gate 3's save files to be infinite size, 'to account for the sheer amount of things you’re all doing on your journeys'
- Grab Nvidia's new Baldur's Gate 3 driver for your GeForce GPU
- Now's the time to remind everyone there's a Baldur's Gate board game and no I'm not talking about D&D
- PCIe 5.0 SSDs with 14GB/s speeds are coming, and more importantly, with lower power consumption too
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #783: Friday, August 11
- Overwatch 2's Steam release means players can finally review it, and it's an absolute mess
August 10
- Papers, Please celebrates 10th anniversary with a retro LCD demake, merch, and a big donation
- Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- Baldur's Gate 3 transmog mod won't make you choose between armor and drip
- Blizzard just dumped buckets of demons on Diablo 4 to make the endgame grind way less miserable
- Kai Cenat finally addresses New York City giveaway riot: 'I'm being hit with multiple charges'
- Apple books exclusive access to TSMC's 3nm chipmaking capacity for a whole year
- After battling server issues, cozy MMO Palia enters open beta today
- The 26-year-old Quake 2 just got the remaster of my dreams, plus a big expansion
- Escape Simulator gets official Portal DLC
- Bungie confirms Commander Zavala is staying in Destiny 2, with Keith David taking over the role from the late Lance Reddick
- Amazon joins Nvidia and Intel as it plans to spend billions on chip designer Arm once it goes public
- Furore over dodgy AI-enhanced D&D art sees book revised and WotC swear off AI art for now
- Darkwood studio releases new game's alpha then promptly says it's going on hiatus but may return 'in 5-10 years when we get our s*** together'
- Remnant 2's about to make it way easier to unlock its sneakily hidden archetypes on your alts
- Destiny 2's most overpowered ability is being nerfed because it was 'a skeleton key that solves combat problems against all combatant types'
- God help us: The Pope suits up to go to war on AI
- Huge respect to the creator of the EVO 2023 fightstick so unwieldy they had to carry it around on their back
- A quarterly uptick in CPU shipments provides a spark of optimism for the PC market
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #782: Thursday, August 10
August 9
- Larian founder responds to debate over Baldur's Gate 3 'raising the bar' for RPGs: 'this is videogames, standards just die every day'
- Electronic Arts is closing the servers for even more old games, including Dead Space 2, Crysis 3, and Mirror's Edge Catalyst
- Baldur's Gate 3 wizard accidentally breaks the game by learning too many spells
- Oops, a Diablo 4 bug fix just gave Barbarians the power to deal 1 billion damage in seconds
- It's taken more than 30 years, but Flashback 2 finally has a release date
- In the face of player backlash, Dark and Darker developers say they may stop selling character classes
- For the first time in Call of Duty history, everything you unlocked in last year's game will carry over to Modern Warfare 3
- Make your games truly look great with this fantastic 28-inch 4K gaming monitor for just $530
- Baldur's Gate 3 localization studio apologies for missing credits, says they'll be added 'in an upcoming patch'
- Author of Tetris book sues Apple and the Tetris Company for allegedly ripping off his work to make the Tetris movie
- GTA 5 AI mod lets you use voice chat to converse, arrest, and extort the NPCs of Los Santos
- Double your Steam Deck's RAM to 32GB with this (not very) simple soldering hack
- Avowed was going to be multiplayer till the devs realised they wanted to make 'an Obsidian game and not something different'
- The artist behind Fallout 3's Deathclaw is both awed and terrified by the 'sheer tonnage of Deathclaw porn out there'
- New research shows bots beat people at convincing computers they're not bots
- Harada says Tekken 8 won’t have Denuvo, tells whining fans to 'stop your tedious allergic reactions to every single thing and sit quietly'
- Remnant 2 dev tells players moaning about Apocalypse difficulty that the mode's not called 'I get 3 orange slices and a medal for participation'
- AMD's upcoming Zen 5 CPUs predicted to be the biggest upgrade since the original Zen chips
- Take-Two CEO says the $50 price tag on the multiplayer-free PS4 and Switch port of Red Dead Redemption 1 is 'commercially accurate' actually
- New Gigabyte RTX 4060 card is half the height but all the fun
- The most powerful 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is less than $65 right now
- ASRock RX 7700 XT confirmed via EEC listing
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #781: Wednesday, August 9
- Total War Warhammer 3's Changeling campaign sounds like a game-changer
August 8
- Don't expect a Red Dead Redemption movie anytime soon: Take-Two boss says the film industry is 'a really hard business' and he's not looking to rush into it
- Valve releases Dota 2 patch notes written entirely in emojis
- Consider getting this Baldur's Gate 3 mod that makes Wizarding less annoying early on
- 'Dad, people are sending me pictures of bears': Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke 'wasn't ready' for the bear sex scene to go so viral
- Overwatch 2's new healer has a giant railgun powered by the sun
- Baldur's Gate 3 patch fixes githyanki penises, gnome underwear, and some funky dialogue issues
- NASA discovers giant question mark where universe failed to render correctly
- Hitman's first elusive target in two years lets you drop the beat on an IRL DJ
- Not even Baldur's Gate 3 is safe from Final Fantasy 14 as fans spot a reference to one of its most heartbreaking moments
- Nvidia announces 'the most powerful single slot GPU on the planet' but it's a workstation card so naturally costs $1,250
- Pro wrestling RPG WrestleQuest delayed thanks to heel interference in the final minutes
- An RTX 4070-powered gaming laptop for less than most with an RTX 4060
- Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya sticks up for the term JRPG after controversy: 'These are RPG games that, in a sense, only Japanese creators can make'
- Your pixel perfect 4K OLED gaming monitor is coming in April
- MrBeast Burger bites back with $100M+ lawsuit against MrBeast
- Red Dead Redemption fans turn their ire against Rockstar after bewildering PS4 port choice: 'Rockstar is Dutch and we've all become Arthur'
- Valve confirms plan to sell 'certified refurbished' Steam Decks
- Colorful is set to launch the cutest little RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #780: Tuesday, August 8
August 7
- Baldur's Gate 3's first big penis mod makes you the 'pride of the orcs'
- Larian's boss worried Baldur's Gate 3 had peaked in early access, so its massive 800K concurrent player launch was 'way, way beyond' expectations
- The new Street Fighter 6 character is really into nail art
- Blizzard bans Diablo 4 exploiters for intentionally unplugging their internet
- 'We haven't started on an expansion' to Baldur's Gate 3, Larian says, but it's not completely off the table
- Modern Warfare 3 coming just a year after Modern Warfare 2 has me worried it's gonna be an awkward year for Call of Duty
- Surprise! PvP dungeon crawler Dark and Darker is out in early access now
- 'Unpatchable' vulnerability in Tesla's AMD chips allows free access to the cars' paywalled features
- Rockstar snubs PC with baffling Red Dead Redemption 1 port that's only coming to Switch and PS4
- BattleBit Remastered hits 2.0 with universal healing, community servers, and a nerf to the most fearsome gun in the game
- Opera GX assumes you're dead after 14 days 'or using a different browser. In that case, you'll just be dead to us'
- Mortal Kombat 1 is bringing back Havik, the guy who tears his own arm off and hits you with it
- Baldur's Gate 3 FSR 2.2 upgrade likely to drop 'closer to September 6'
- Hundreds sign up to ponder OpenAI founder's eye-scanning crypto orb despite data concerns
- You can get some free Baldur's Gate 3-themed goodies on D&D Beyond right now
- Baldur's Gate 3 is now fully ✅Verified for Steam Deck
- NASA shouts at space, reestablishes contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft
- Tekken 8's EVO trailers confirm entire roster leak is actually real
- This AI can steal your data by listening to your keystrokes with 95% accuracy
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #779: Monday, August 7
- AM5 motherboards are about to receive support for much faster memory
- Play the demo of this cyberpunk vampire RPG
August 6
- Valve cracks down on 'wild west' of 3rd party battle passes and other real-money transactions for custom Dota 2 game modes
- Draft up an autobattling army in the roguelike Tales & Tactics this week
- Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, and it's all thanks to the Steam Deck
- Build and defend a nice little kingdom in microstrategy game Thronefall
- Scope out some new stories, try a few demos, in Steam's visual novel fest
- Magic: The Gathering's next crossovers include Fallout and Final Fantasy
- On the off-chance anyone still cares, Overwatch 2 story missions begin soon
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #778: Sunday, August 6
- The Metal Gear series has sold 60 million copies
- Darktide promises shared wallets and other welcome quality-of-life changes in next patch
August 5
- Check out the demo for this 4X where killer robots fight eldritch aliens on apocalyptic earth
- Baldur's Gate 3 enters top 10 all-time peak Steam games, knocking Apex Legends out
- Broforce is 80% off to celebrate its inexplicable, free Broforce Forever update
- Remnant 2 update ditches some grinding and makes respecs easier
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #777: Saturday, August 5
- Narrative cooking game Venba may cause biryani cravings, tears
August 4
- You can get a 'happy' ending in the first minutes of Baldur's Gate 3, sort of
- Of course Baldur's Gate 3 lets you stack dozens of crates and stand on top of them so you can teleport over the wall of a keep
- New York City's Union Square overrun with fans, chaos ensues as 'King of Twitch' Kai Cenat announces impromptu giveaway
- Baldur's Gate 3 has a voice actor dedicated to making sex sounds and he has a message for players: 'you little horny perverts ... you think of me'
- This RTX 4060 Ti-powered desktop for $1,125 is the best gaming PC deal of the week
- Baldur's Gate 3's first hotfix addresses more than 150 issues including that nasty savegame bug
- Increase your Baldur's Gate 3 party size to 8 characters with this mod
- Baldur's Gate 3 smashes 500,000 concurrent users on Steam
- Larian slipped an Eldritch legal clause into Baldur's Gate 3's ToS
- Streamer deals himself so much psychic damage grinding Jedi: Survivor's tutorial for hours in a no-death run that he later declares defeat without actually dying
- Devilish Baldur's Gate 3 bug prevents players save scumming like god intended
- Fortnite's adding a museum about the Holocaust
- Microsoft accused of 'negligent cybersecurity practices' that 'enabled Chinese espionage against the US government'
- Baldur's Gate 3's first background mod lets you play a character that was trapped in a goat's body for a decade
- If you're done with Netflix's Witcher, Andrzej Sapkowski is writing the first new book in 10 years
- One of our favourite games of 2021 is free, so I just spent an hour playing it rather than writing this
- Someone's designing a gorgeous CPU cooling water block that lets you completely hide the tubes
- Next-gen AMD RDNA 4 GPUs reportedly won't compete with Nvidia at the high end
- D&D rival Paizo has no plans to follow in its virtual tabletop footsteps with Pathfinder and Starfinder, says they're prioritising 'the VTTs our fans choose'
- All Genshin Impact codes from the version 4.0 livestream
- Flush with the Baldur's Gate 3 vibes, Larian CEO tells acquisitive corporations to take a hike: 'I'm getting older, but I'm certainly not done yet'
- Alienware's new Aurora R16 desktop PC is a deeply disappointing square box
- PowerColor listing confirms the RX 7800 XT, complete with full specifications
- Get free World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes DLC to celebrate Wargaming's 25th birthday
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #776: Friday, August 4
August 3
- The top Baldur's Gate 3 Twitch clips are streamers discovering it features full nudity
- There's another Future Games Show this month, with '8 world premieres'
- If you're not on the Baldur's Gate 3 hype train, this new extraction shooter is having an open beta you can play instead
- Steam's newest showcase event is all about games that make me feel like an absolute dummy
- One of our best-reviewed NVMe SSDs is on sale just in time for Baldur's Gate 3
- Valve resets the rules on pro CS:GO tournaments: 'we've seen professional Counter-Strike drift away' from its ideals
- There's already a Baldur's Gate 3 mod that lets you multiclass on Explorer difficulty
- Baldur's Gate 3 launch slams into Steam like a rogue iceberg, but the servers refuse to sink
- Bungie's vast new State of the Game blog touches on every aspect of Destiny 2—but they had me at saving my favourite shaders
- After inflicting them with hallucinations, vanishing guns, and 'quicksand', Call of Duty will now name and shame banished cheaters mid-game
- Twitch bans 'promotion or sponsorship' of CS:GO skin gambling
- Musician organises a 200-person musical cover of Final Fantasy 14's greatest hits for its 10th anniversary, and yes, La Hee is in there
- Stop what you're doing and revel in the heavy chiptune virtuosity that is Master Boot Record
- Don't worry, your Baldur's Gate 3 sex scenes are hidden from co-op players by default
- YouTuber makes viral video about why Hades' hardest playthrough is basically impossible, then a speedrunner comes along a week later and beats it for the first time in history
- The best gaming laptop form factor gets another player in the Legion
- Potential Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 leak shows Plankton piloting a giant mech Ratatouille-style and I'm obsessed
- Baldur's Gate 3 issues a 6-step pre-launch to-do list for early access players, and is once again strongly recommending you put it on an SSD
- GameStop drops cryptocurrency wallet support due to the 'regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space'
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #775: Thursday, August 3
August 2
- Bungie warns Destiny 2 cheat makers: Your days of operating 'without fear of consequences are over'
- We're not sure what went wrong with Reddit, but it's fixed now (Updated)
- Diablo 4's next patch ignores what Sorcerers and Barbarians needed most and targets their weakest builds instead
- The Callisto Protocol studio lays off 32 employees
- The Witcher producer blames Americans and impatient young people for the Netflix show's simplified plot
- Skanky old DDR4 server chips reportedly sold in new RAM kits but really don't panic
- MrBeast Burger says MrBeast's a no-good bully who's 'elevated greed over his word and the truth', and it'll see him in court
- Modern Warfare 2 now canonically features an indestructible dog named Merlin who lives on your belt
- This completely submersible RTX 4090 PC is slightly silly but totally awesome
- Remnant 2 devs revealed a secret class only datamining could uncover, only for a guy with no coding experience to find it in less than a week with AI and 15 cans of Red Bull
- Starfield's sandwich-hoarding producer says she's building a big spaceship called The Griller
- Disco Elysium for $12 may be the best $12 you ever spend on games in your life
- Street Fighter 6 tournament accidentally broadcasts Chun Li nude mod to the world
- It looks like D&D 5th edition's worst subclass will be saved by Baldur's Gate 3
- RX 7900 XTX finally appears in new Steam hardware survey but AMD's overall market share is still horrible
- Post Malone succumbs to the lure of power, purchases one-of-a-kind Ring of Sauron Magic: The Gathering card valued at $2 million
- Sony and Microsoft really are propping up AMD's beleaguered GPU business right now
- AMD confirms imminent launch of 'new enthusiast-class Radeon 7000-series cards'
- That 4K 32-inch OLED gaming monitor you've been waiting for will finally arrive in summer 2024
- Our number one pick for best gaming laptop has a $600 discount
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #774: Wednesday, August 2
- Fallout 4's best mod is coming to a dramatic conclusion
August 1
- This intensely weird indie game can only be replayed once a year, and only if you beat a once-a-year challenge
- Strange Diablo 4 glitch has players unplugging their internet to create a portal between realms
- Baldur's Gate 3 may not have Golden Pantaloons, but you can get purple underwear by watching some Twitch streams
- Let the ear collecting begin: World of Warcraft Classic's Hardcore servers open soon
- Larian tells Baldur's Gate 3 players to delete early access saves and uninstall the game to avoid 'unintended conflicts' with the full launch
- Tekken director busts into seemingly illegitimate stream, threatens to 'SHOW my power' with a lifetime ban, then realises the dude's innocent
- Alien is coming to Dead by Daylight and fans are absolutely screaming in space and everywhere else
- It took the first Remnant months to sell a million copies, but Remnant 2 did it in 4 days
- It only takes 32 AMD GPUs and 33 hours to run a 40 billion cell simulation of the Concorde supersonic plane
- MrBeast is trying to sue his own 'raw' 'revolting' and 'inedible' burgers out of existence
- Elden Ring streamer collapses in joy after finally completing no-hit saxophone 'doot run' in apparent world first
- Lenovo reportedly reviving plans for a handheld PC after ditching the Android-based Legion Play
- Sin: Reloaded 'isn't dead' but sure sounds like it's on ice
- Path of Exile devs 'feel very bad' for their Diablo 4 counterparts, but that's live service for you and why they're 'going more in the Elden Ring sort of direction'
- NES inspired mechanical keyboards with massive matching A and B buttons are a vibe
- NASA mistakenly nudged Voyager 2 spacecraft's antenna causing the mother of all network connectivity issues [updated]
- Intel's next-next gen Lunar Lake architectural details surface
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #773: Tuesday, August 1