March 2024

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• • This year’s inevitable flood of April Fools Day joke visual novels begins with Palworld
• Tweak your crazy spells in this tough, traditional roguelike wizard simulator
• The next Magic: The Gathering set wants you to do crimes
• Bandai Namco drops three free games, including one where you’re a very messy dog ruining the house
• 73M AT&T customers have had their personal data, including passcodes, leaked online
• Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, March 31
• Get a free D&D adventure based on a classic dungeon crawl on DND Beyond
• March 30
• • Tekken director asks why Americans want Waffle House to be a stage in Tekken 8
• CD Projekt Red says the next Witcher game is ’not just repeating what was done before’ as the dev team ramps up to over 400
• Coffee Stain set to publish a stylishly strange-looking new deckbuilder
• Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, March 30
• March 29
• • Spectator rushes stage at CS2 tournament and gets tackled into trophy, smashing it to pieces
• I’m obsessed with the bizarre 16th century inspired creature design in roguelike deckbuilder Hermetica
• Actor Louis Gossett Jr, who voiced Half-Life 2’s vortigaunts, has died
• One of our favorite city builders has sold over a million copies on Steam, and there’s an expansion on the way
• They fly now too? Helldivers 2 warns players that Automatons are developing ‘aerial gunships,’ so Super Earth is countering with ‘our most effective anti-air weaponry’
• As restructuring ends with the sale of Gearbox, Embracer’s CEO has a new plan: ‘simply making better products and games’
• Dragon’s Dogma 2’s first proper patch adds a much-needed new game option and makes it easier to get a house
• Cyberpunk’s quest director says CD Projekt Red has experimented with generative AI, but there’s still a ‘gigantic, really long way to go’ before AI NPCs are as good as scripted characters
• A demo for Final Fantasy 16 is reportedly coming to PC soon, as producer Yoshi-P says work on the port is ‘going smoother than we thought it would’
• This home-brew GPU built by a lone enthusiast is a slightly labour-intensive way to avoid painful graphics card prices
• Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, March 29
• March 28
• • PSA: Diablo 4 is now on PC Game Pass, just in time to prepare for its biggest update ever
• Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: ‘I don’t get the luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business’
• Diablo 4’s 10K-word patch notes bless necromancers and curse barbarians for next week’s season 4 PTR
• ‘Such a democratic weapon it makes me cry’: Helldivers 2 players salute the Quasar Cannon, Super Earth’s new heavy armor god gun
• Former US senator and anti-videogame crusader Joe Lieberman has died at age 82
• Reports of World of Warcraft’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, as Blizzard’s GM proudly wheels out a graph showing it’s doing really well—but no hard numbers
• Skyrim mods fix its most glaring realism error: Your disturbingly immortal food
• Putin’s ordered his government to look into creating Russia’s own Steam Deck, SteamOS, and basically Steam itself
• ‘The gold rush is over:’ Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs
• Some of the biggest names in indie games are teaming up to put on a ’no fluff’ showcase of new game announcements
• Helldivers 2 fan Discord comes under fire for plugging a boosting site, alleged owner pokes their head up to say ’no one used the code, but we still got paid’ and it’s not gone down well
• Earthblade, the next game from the makers of Towerfall and Celeste, ‘ain’t coming out in 2024’
• Bungie rolls back controversial plan to time-gate Into the Light loot Updated
• 240 jobs gone and Relic sold off as Sega reckons with the hangover of ’the favorable winds of the early Covid-19 period’
• 3 days after Helldivers 2 dev’s CEO denied the existence of heavy machine guns, they now exist: Introducing the LAS-99 Quasar Cannon and the MG-101 Heavy Machine Gun
• ‘Nobody is born toxic’ says Journey’s creative director while preparing to launch the kindest MMO on PC
• ‘Farewell, battle brother’: Helldivers 2 players honour a late soldier with thousands of salutes, Arrowhead Games’ CEO says he’ll work with the dev team on a fitting tribute
• Remedy comms director says upcoming live-service Control spin-off is ‘for fans we don’t have yet’ as he muses on ‘how challenging the co-op multiplayer space is’
• After a bumpy entry, Capcom asks players for feedback on Dragon’s Dogma 2 (and if they’d like some proper DLC) via an online survey
• Arrowhead implores Helldivers 2 players to temporarily stop using its most destructive weapon yet: Snowballs
• PC Gamer magazine’s new issue is on sale now: Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail
• Flagging megacorp Embracer Group is now selling off Gearbox Entertainment to Take-Two for $460 million
• AI is poised to tackle some of the world’s most important issues, including making beer taste better
• Today’s Wordle answer for Thursday, March 28
• Economy class will be slightly less punishing if you fly on an aircraft with Panasonic’s Astrova in-flight entertainment system
• March 27
• • Stardew Valley gets another new patch that fixes the ‘creepy face’ bear and makes new cabins paintable
• You can’t sue us for making games ’too entertaining,’ say major game developers in response to addiction lawsuits
• Lawyer warns game developers about ‘unlawful game design’ as ‘dark patterns’ lawsuits rise
• Call of Duty’s latest crossover is somehow its most ridiculous yet: Cheech and Chong are coming to Warzone
• Twitch targets butt streams with new rule banning ‘content that focuses on intimate body parts for a prolonged period of time’
• The Taskmaster videogame has a creative mode so you can invent your own custom tasks and challenge your friends
• Europa, the gorgeous indie platformer about the only human awake on a terraformed moon, is delayed
• Overwatch 2’s first free hero will be playable this weekend ahead of their season 10 debut
• Ninja reveals skin cancer diagnosis: ‘Please take this as a PSA to get skin checkups’
• After buying Nightdive and Digital Eclipse last year, Atari CEO says the company has ‘already opened more doors and more opportunities’ for both studios
• Dragon’s Dogma 2 players figure out a way to convert mountains to pathways with the right attitude, a catapult, and a giant rock
• Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest hotfix declares ‘No more free lunches’ as it stops you bamboozling merchants with boxes, confusingly also makes it easier to literally give people free lunches
• 17 years after Hellgate: London fizzled out, one of the original creators is bringing the series back for an all-new ’triple-A’ game
• Beware gifts of counterfeit ‘ferristones’ in Dragon’s Dogma 2—nothing bad’ll happen if you use one, you’ll just look stupid in front of all your gossipy pawns
• Baldur’s Gate 3 has at least 24 ways Shadowheart can hurl the main MacGuffin at you as part of Larian’s New Vegas-Style ’n+1’ system for players who ignore the plot: ‘It might be even more’
• V Rising gets the crossover every self-respecting vampire wants: Castlevania’s Simon Belmont is coming to try and kill you
• Lae’zel’s voice actor says that ‘Baldur’s Gate 3 is definitely as good—if not miles better—than any film or TV show I’ve done’
• Marvel Rivals is a 6v6 hero shooter in development at NetEase, testing begins in May
• Survival MMO Dune: Awakening wants to ‘pull people away from competing and fighting over bases’ and have them battle over spice instead
• Why Funcom didn’t give Dune: Awakening an ’endowment slider’ like Conan Exiles
• No Man’s Sky finally has ship customization
• As BioShock successor Judas preps for release, I finally understand what its ’narrative Legos’ are
• Drinking mayo in Stardew Valley may stress out your loved ones and the NPCs, but it’s actually a great strat
• Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail is having server queue issues months before it’s even out, as Square Enix’s online store crashes under the weight of pre-orders
• A keyboard sticker can turn your new laptop into an AI PC. Probably…
• Larian Studios’ Swen Vincke does see potential uses for AI, but: ‘We’re hiring writers, not having ChatGPT write their dialogues’
• Snapdragon X Elite spotted running Baldur’s Gate 3 at around 30fps, supporting claims that Windows games ‘just work’ on ARM chip
• Today’s Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 27
• Midnight Suns devs ‘absolutely’ knew cards would be a controversial choice, but they were also ‘absolutely the right fit for this game and our design goals’
• March 26
• • Phil Spencer says he’s open to bringing stores like Epic and Itch.io to Xbox consoles
• The award for Dragon’s Dogma 2’s biggest jerks goes to the griffins
• Destiny 2 is bringing back 12 fan favorite guns, including monsters like The Recluse and Luna’s Howl, and a meme that could now be OP
• Ken Levine reveals why everyone hates you so much in Judas
• RuneScape creators’ new MMO has an unorthodox solution for the inevitable waves of bots: Giving you a ’legitimate way’ to bot the game yourself
• Mass Effect 5 exec producer re-emphasises to fans that all the game’s senior leads are trilogy veterans, and here’s who they are
• Man tries to smuggle seven-year-old AMD graphics cards through Chinese airport customs—all 44 of them
• Eric Barone says that Stardew Valley 1.6 has to be ‘bug-free and out to all platforms’ before work on Haunted Chocolatier can continue
• The latest Helldivers 2 order finally gives us a break from squashing bugs and turns us west to stop the Automatons enacting ’the reclamation’ and… oh, oh no
• Cities: Skylines 2’s first post-launch DLC, Beach Properties, is out now and players aren’t happy: ‘This is a disgrace’
• The first big Enshrouded update has ‘a brand new spooky NPC,’ also you can sit on toilets now
• Stardew Valley players have found yet another horrifying addition in 1.6, and this time, it could take the clothes right off your back
• Developer of survival MMO Last Oasis explains why they’re launching a new early access survival game before they finish their last one: ‘It was either that or shutting down’
• Phil Spencer, forever the optimist, hints that he’s interested in a Microsoft version of Big Picture Mode for handheld gaming PCs: ‘I want my Legion Go to feel like an Xbox’
• Dragon’s Dogma 2 players have found a way to cooperatively print money with pawns—it’s just impossible to explain without making it sound like a pyramid scheme
• Once upon a time Baldur’s Gate 3 let you recruit JK Simmons to your side, before Larian snipped it along with a visit to the series’ origins
• Intel’s future multi billion dollar mega-fab is set smack-bang on top of multiple neolithic burial sites
• ‘It’s got a fearlessness’: Tales of Kenzera: ZAU lead animator reveals how the cut ‘melee powerhouse’ African boxing style inspired its martial movelist
• Dead Space 2 players uncover easy money trick hidden right in front of them 13 years after release
• Free Dragon’s Dogma 2 mod hands RTX 40-series owners a much-needed performance bump
• Arc weapons shouldn’t crash your game anymore in Helldivers 2, so you can zap to your heart’s content
• Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 26
• I’ve been waiting 5 years for the MMO by Journey’s developers to launch on PC, and it’s finally happening in April
• March 25
• • Helldivers 2 CEO spills the beans on an unreleased ‘heavy machine gun’ with a tripod before immediately correcting himself: ‘Never mind. There’s so such thing as HMG’
• Ukraine recreates famous lost salt mine in Minecraft ’to tell the world about their history and struggle for freedom’
• Palia welcomes new players with a startlingly large stuffed frog for its Steam launch
• Don’t be fooled by a fake Joel: Helldivers 2’s game master probably didn’t drop an unreleased vehicle into a random player’s game, but someone did
• Remedy’s multiplayer Control spinoff won’t be free to play: expect a ’lower initial price’ followed by live service updates
• Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already ‘playing early builds’ and loving it
• Helldivers 2 CEO says they’ll ’never’ turn off friendly fire: ‘We would have to turn off bullet damage against enemies as well’
• Overwatch 2 has killed any remaining hope for its future PvE missions, with the mode being scrapped in favour of going all-in on PvP
• Dragon’s Dogma 2 players are hurling their pawns into the briny depths to purge Dragonsplague, a mechanic so deadly and unique I don’t want to spoil it in a headline
• After a leaker puts XDefiant delay down to chasing COD, the game’s producer can’t resist responding with a ‘major eye roll’
• ‘The Automaton front needs reinforcements’: Helldivers 2 players are pleading for help for a bot-threatened planet, but no one’s stepping up
• Elon Musk claims Tesla could build a silicon foundry and make its own chips, but says ‘I sure hope we don’t have to’
• Power-mad modder puts Sonic the Hedgehog at the heart of the most tedious game ever made, so you can speed boost to the end in 3 straight hours instead of 8
• The disk ‘Format’ dialog in Windows was only meant to be a temporary solution but it’s still chugging along, 30 years later
• Microsoft’s new patent promises more efficient ray tracing for the Xbox and that could be a real boon for AMD’s graphics cards too
• ‘I’ll give you one week!’ FF14’s director Yoshi-P wanted to start Dawntrail’s early access period earlier, but then that pesky Elden Ring DLC announcement happened
• Larian’s saying goodbye to Baldur’s Gate 3 by giving us some ‘really evil’ endings
• Larian CEO has been ‘reading the Reddit threads’ and wants us to remove our tinfoil hats, says Wizards of the Coast isn’t the reason Baldur’s Gate 3 is finished
• You’ll soon be able to start a new game in Dragon’s Dogma 2 without rooting around your files, as well as change your appearance all you’d like for in-game currency
• OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 is the champion of the Street Fighter III LLM Colosseum, beating Mistral on its home turf
• The Chinese government is phasing out Intel and AMD CPUs and Microsoft’s Windows OS because they don’t fit its new ‘safe and reliable’ guidelines
• Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, March 25
• Iceland’s prime minister favors farming over finance as Bitcoin miners feast on the island’s cheap power
• Here’s slice and dice, the roguelike RPG where each of your party members is a different die
• Nvidia’s RTX 4060, 4060 Ti, and 4070 are set to receive GPU updates, but sadly it looks like they won’t bring any improvements
• March 24
• • Larian originally wanted Baldur’s Gate 3 to have multiple narrators, also Astarion was a tiefling
• Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, March 24
• Helldivers 2 players find creative ways to punish toxic hosts: ‘I ran with your super samples to the edge of the mission area, and kept on running’
• How are CD Projekt’s side quests so good? Cyberpunk quest designer says they reject ‘over 90%’ of their pitches
• March 23
• • FF14 Dawntrail will release in July, with early access a few days earlier
• Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, March 23
• March 22
• • ‘Make a private hosted version of your game’: Knockout City dev’s top tip for studios shutting down a live service game is to give players the keys
• Industria 2 is ‘a narrative FPS to its core,’ but its first-ever trailer is giving me real Half-Life 2 vibes
• The new Windows update made me think I’d installed malware, but it was just Microsoft’s latest attempt to try and fool me into using Bing
• Against all odds, World of Warcraft’s subscription price hasn’t changed in 20 years: ‘I’d rather have a big, healthy, happy audience’ than risk driving players away with a price hike, Warcraft boss says
• ‘Is Dave The Diver an indie game? I would say no,’ says game director
• Preserving old games was seen as a non-commercial ‘art project’ until recently, says Nightdive director: ‘They were great then and they’re great now, and companies have begun to realize that’
• There’s already a Dragon’s Dogma 2 mod to get 99 copies of the ‘change appearance’ item Capcom is selling for real money
• Ark’s animated series surprise drops with a ludicrously stacked Hollywood cast ready to get chomped by dinos
• Baldur’s Gate 3 mod tools won’t be as extensive as Divinity’s: ‘We’re not a tools company,’ says Swen Vincke
• Helldivers 2 boss who proudly proclaimed ‘bugs can’t fly’ issues an important update: ‘I have always believed there to be a possibility of flying bugs’
• If working overtime on AAA games with giant budgets is the only way to succeed, ’then maybe the industry deserves to die,’ says RPG veteran David Gaider: ‘There is another way to be’
• Cyberpunk 2077 quest lead says early access wouldn’t work for CDPR the way it did for Larian, and the studio prefers ’to have a banging release where everything is as close to perfection as can be’ like Phantom Liberty’s
• Arkane founder teases his next project, a ‘retro sci-fi first-person’ game, and now I’m thinking a whole lot about the Prey sequel we never got
• Swen Vincke says your Baldur’s Gate 3 crushes ’now belong to Wizards of the Coast’ as the studio leaves D&D behind, prompting a collective nervous gulp
• Sorry, everyone, sex is temporarily banned in Helldivers 2 because you failed the major order, though some of your fellow soldiers are getting special treatment
• Dragon’s Dogma 2 is getting absolutely savaged on Steam, with a ‘Mostly Negative’ rating, but the game deserves better than a launch with such bad optics
• ‘We’re still evolving’: World of Warcraft’s new battle royale is part of Blizzard’s plan for ’re-envisioning what Warcraft means’
• PSA: If you’re using a controller like Dragon’s Dogma 2 wants you to, you can turn off ‘sprint’ and ‘interact’ being on the same button for some unholy reason
• AMD’s new budget APU with the graphics switched off gives you less cache for less cash
• Dragon’s Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno has revealed his Arisen’s class but suggests that newbies should probably pick something simpler
• UK police bust a fast food worker turned £3 billion bitcoin scam member on a £7.5 million money laundering charge
• ‘Let’s just have closure on Baldur’s Gate 3, it’s been great. We’ve done our job’: Larian CEO says he hit the brakes on DLC plans because the team’s heart wasn’t in it
• Forget your money and identities, hackers are now after your water, according to the White House
• Larian CEO Swen Vincke accepts Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest award by blasting corporate ‘greed’ devastating devs: ‘I’ve been fighting with publishers my whole life, and I keep on seeing the same mistakes’
• Qualcomm claims Windows games ‘just work’ on its new Arm laptop chip
• ‘It took a while, we know’: Epic Games is introducing a first-person camera to Fortnite, which I’ll probably just use to look at all the Peter Griffin skins
• The Dragon’s Dogma 2 microtransactions are real and bafflingly silly, since nearly all of them can be found in the game without too much trouble
• Music streamer that spent years streaming other artists’ work as their own gets convicted of fraud in Denmark
• PSA: Beware the ‘Load from Last Inn Rest’ option in Dragon’s Dogma 2 unless you want to risk permanently losing progress
• Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, March 22
• Path of Exile 2’s beta delayed from June ‘until later in the year’
• March 21
• • Russian nun simulator Indika, my most anticipated game this year, breaks out the dancing PVC fetish men to announce its May release date
• ‘Still Wakes the Deep is the game I joined The Chinese Room to make’: A new release date trailer gives us another look at the horrifying Beira D oil rig
• Bungie perma-bans Destiny 2 players who sent racist abuse to one of its developers during a livestream this week
• Path of Exile 2 is sticking to its ’ethical free-to-play’ model instead of chasing Diablo 4’s success
• Path of Exile 2’s developers ended up reworking the entire game’s combat around a new control scheme because of a single class
• Harold Halibut, the stop-motion-style story about life at the bottom of an alien ocean, gets a big new trailer and an April release date
• DeathSprint 66 is like Mario Kart, but ultraviolent and minus the carts: ‘It’s The Running Man as reimagined for a new generation’
• Bold new era of Helldivers 2 lightning combat short-circuits as Arc Throwers start crashing games
• Larian is finished with Baldur’s Gate: ‘We’re going to move away from D&D and we’re going to start making a new thing’
• Riot hits the development reset button for its League of Legends MMO: ‘The initial vision just wasn’t different enough from what you can play today’
• Margot Robbie’s production company is making a movie based on The Sims
• Neuralink demonstrates a patient using ‘Telepathy’ to play games with the power of the mind
• WoW’s new pirate battle royale ignites a baffling flame war between PvP and PvE players, meanwhile Blizzard’s ramping up the rewards to make the grind a touch kinder
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reckons we might see AI-generated games in less than 10 years
• Dragon’s Dogma 2 already has the file for DLSS Frame Generation, so where is the feature?
• Super Earth finally admits flying bugs exist in Helldivers 2, then blames galactic war map hiccups on dissidents that have been ‘identified, arrested, tried, and executed’
• Broken Roads will now mix Mad Max, Disco Elysium, and Baldur’s Gate in April release date after last year’s out-of-the-blue 5-month delay
• CDPR wanted to split players ‘in a way that’s almost 50/50’ with Phantom Liberty’s hardest choice, and drew on the toughest decision in Witcher 2 to do it
• Arise Arc owners and rejoice as Intel’s new drivers offer up to 36% more performance in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Maybe
• You can grab the legendary Terraria sword Meowmere in Stardew Valley 1.6, but there’ll be no wall of flesh, probably
• ‘You name it, we made it faster’—The State of Unreal keynote didn’t just show off Unreal Engine 5.4 graphical goodies, but major performance optimisations too
• Dragon’s Dogma 2 NPCs are making CPUs weep and tanking the frame rate, but Capcom is ’looking into ways to improve performance in the future’
• ‘Big Wait’s dead’: Dwarf Fortress creators are going to stop disappearing for months to get updates done in a post-Kitfox world
• Putting the roleplay back in the RPG was a huge reason for Cyberpunk 2077’s recent metro and romance updates, says associate game director: ‘It’s easy to overlook’
• AMD promises less fuzziness and flickering from improved FSR 3.1 upscaling algorithm
• Today’s Wordle answer for Thursday, March 21
• March 20
• • Blizzard just revived Diablo 4 with a list of changes so massive that it’s practically a new game
• ‘America’s hero, dancing around in red white and blue underwear’: Black Panther trash-talks the Cap in the first trailer for Amy Hennig’s WW2 Marvel game
• Helldivers 2 community’s ambitious plan to liberate 5 planets in 3 days in jeopardy as galactic war trackers catastrophically fail—but don’t worry, Joel is on it
• Teaser for the next Alien movie features a youthful cast and more facehuggers than you can shake an M41A Pulse Rifle at
• Dragon’s Dogma 2 review roundup: ‘An engine to create dynamic moments during every adventure’
• Watch a bunch of game developers screaming in a public park to protest the state of the industry: ‘It feels hard to be here and pretend like everything is fine’
• Diablo 4’s loot rework PTR begins on April 2, season 3 extended until mid-May ’to ensure that we get all the feedback’
• Here’s when Dragon’s Dogma 2 launches in your region
• Marathon reboot gets a surprise game director replacement as Bungie is once more denied a moment’s peace
• The Art of Rally developer is trying something different: An F1 management game set in the ‘golden era’ of 1970s excess
• Respawn finally comments on Apex cheating scandal that saw pro players’ games hijacked, basically says nothing at all
• Valve explains how it built an orb out of Steam Deck OLED prototypes rather than making Half-Life 3, vowing ‘we will construct an orb at any opportunity’
• The mastermind behind Baldur’s Gate 3’s popular TikTok account spills his secrets: The sooner you can ‘make a character look like Shrek and kick somebody off a cliff’ unsupervised, ’the better’
• Crusader Kings 2 modding peaks with ‘Leper Roulette,’ which gives members of your dynasty a chance of winning red, black and green all at once
• Stardew Valley 1.6 adds a creepy punishment for sequence breakers: A battering from the mysterious Mister Qi
• Starfield’s lead quest designer had ‘absolutely no time’ and had to hit the ‘panic button’ so the game would have a satisfying final quest
• Helldivers 2 player photographs two myths—flying bugs and blue lasers—at the same time, like getting a shot of Bigfoot next to a UFO
• Gaming PC and graphics card shipments will grow into 2025 ‘due to economic improvement as well as new GPUs’
• Fallen London studio says its latest game ‘didn’t sell particularly well’, but don’t worry—it’s been sensible enough with its cash to avoid layoffs: ‘We’ve had better years, but also much worse’
• 5 years after it was yanked off stores, GOG’s bringing underrated spy RPG Alpha Protocol in from the cold with fewer crashes and new achievements
• Red Dead Redemption 2 receives unexpected HDR10+ support, reminding us all that there are still cowboys moseying out there somewhere
• Metal Gear Delta’s producer says ‘we’re doing our best’ to create a ‘modern-style Metal Gear’ but the core design will remain unchanged
• Larian CEO Swen Vincke extols the ‘incredible achievement’ of Baldur’s Gate 3 influence Ultima 7, but confesses he hasn’t played since the ’90s ‘because I don’t want to spoil the memory’
• Just under 150K players flooded back to Stardew Valley for the 1.6 update, and hopefully, only a small number drank the mayo
• Helldivers 2 patch tackles patrols appearing out of thin air, over-the-top meteor swarms, and accidentally blowing yourself up with your own mech
• Today’s Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 20
• March 19
• • One of Wordle’s most requested features has nothing to do with words
• Roblox reveals new AI-powered 3D modeling tools to ’empower the creation of anything, anywhere, by anyone,’ which we’re probably not meant to read too closely
• Starfield’s latest update doesn’t add any new content, but it does fix a galaxy-sized list of bugs
• Ubisoft shows off AI-powered ‘Neo NPCs’ at GDC: ‘It could be the start of a fantastic paradigm shift,’ but let’s be honest, it probably won’t
• After 10 years, Destiny is getting a game mode that fans wanted from the start
• Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update is finally live, and Eric Barone wasn’t kidding: it is massive
• Overwatch 2’s Hacked Event Double Trouble is almost over, which is probably for the best
• Here’s a two-minute clip from the Fallout TV series: Walton Goggins terrorizes senior citizens and a Vault dweller gets in over her head
• The Twitch hot tub meta has reached new heights with a green-screen booty scene, and I’m mostly just upset by how inefficient it is
• Google researchers find novel way of turning a single photo of a human into AI-generated video good enough to make you think ’this might go badly’
• After a historically bad launch, Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection’s first patch has fans cautiously optimistic: ‘Faith is being restored’
• Playtron promises an alternative to SteamOS for handheld PCs: ‘Play all your games from every store, Steam, Epic and more’
• Lego goes all-out on a 3,745 piece D&D set with its own bespoke TTRPG adventure, but it’ll set you back a dragon’s ransom of $360
• Denuvo’s new feature can invisibly watermark your game footage so publishers can track down leakers
• The Riven remake, with new content and VR support in Unreal Engine 5, promises ‘an homage to its roots and a leap into the future’
• Here’s how to watch the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2024
• Overwatch 2’s redemption arc begins with free heroes for all as Blizzard lays out its plans to ‘give the game a regular heartbeat’ this year
• Nvidia had already sold tens of thousands of Blackwell GPUs before the next-gen architecture was announced
• The English actors behind FF14’s beloved twins acted in silos for 9 whole years before meeting in the real world, but became fast friends: ‘it’s become easier to bounce off each other’
• Halo co-creator that joined EA to work on Battlefield ‘gut punched’ as publisher lays off entire team: ‘I don’t have anything positive to say about EA’
• The best game design schools, ranked by the Princeton Review 2024
• Blizzard secretly made a battle royale game inside World of Warcraft to ‘break the rules’ it’s had for 20 years
• World of Warcraft’s battle royale mode won’t force you to PvP so everyone can ‘have an awesome pirate party with your friends and collect plunder’
• Blizzard’s World of Warcraft patch schedule suggests The War Within expansion will launch in August
• Nvidia CEO brings out a monster dual-GPU Blackwell chip at GTC: here’s what it tells us about the next GeForce graphics cards
• Stardew Valley creator releases a list of over 1000 mods compatible with today’s 1.6 patch, and yep, you can still call in an airstrike
• Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: ‘I think they’re horrible… greedy, greedy people’
• Astarion’s actor was deployed to replace the missing mocap of around 150 lines of Baldur’s Gate 3 dialogue: ‘I just had this dog’s breakfast’
• Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 19
• Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin? It’s not Craig Wright according to a UK judge
• March 18
• • Rainbow Six Siege rockets back up the Steam charts 8 years after release, proving why Ubisoft isn’t worried about making a Siege 2
• Valve is improving how Steam Family Sharing works—but if your brother gets banned for cheating, so do you
• Classic Marathon is coming to Steam well before the unclassic Marathon reboot
• Easy Anti-Cheat washes its hands of the Apex Legends hacking disaster that saw streamer accounts hijacked live: ‘There is no RCE vulnerability within EAC’
• Eric Barone drops the biggest Stardew Valley 1.6 update patch note yet: A new Meadowlands farm type with ‘chewy blue grass that animals love’ and some bonus chickens too
• Distant Horizons mod blows past Minecraft’s max render distance, pushing viewable terrain out to an unbelievable 512 chunks
• A year after being removed from Steam, Dark and Darker is coming to the Epic Games Store
• PlayStation 5 Pro hardware leak suggests its GPU is a RDNA 3/4-hybrid design, with some big improvements coming this way
• Top-tier deckbuilder Balatro hits 1 million sales in less than a month, which hopefully justifies all the hours we’ve collectively lost to it
• Sony’s reportedly stopped making any more PS VR2 headsets until it can figure out a way of shifting a pile of unsold VR goggles
• Stardew Valley’s dripfeed of 1.6 patch notes reaches artistic levels of absurdity: ‘You can now drink mayonnaise’
• Square Enix doesn’t do big Final Fantasy discounts often, but the exceptional XIII trilogy is less than half price for the next few days
• Elijah Wood is the Green crewmate in the Among Us TV show, and I can’t be the only one who finds that a bit sus
• OpenAI hopes to break AI’s reliance on Nvidia by using investment from UAE to make its own chips
• Konami releases David Hayter-fronted video series about Metal Gear’s incredible legacy, doesn’t mention Metal Gear creator, director, and writer Hideo Kojima once
• Helldivers 2 CEO becomes a blue beam denialist as mystery snipers allegedly take potshots at the playerbase: ‘Blue beams aren’t real, they can’t hurt you’
• Cities: Skylines 2 will finally start getting modding support, alongside some performance fixes and its first wave of paid DLC
• Billions from the CHIPS Act is soon to begin flowing with Samsung, Intel and TSMC set to benefit
• Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, March 18
• Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition
• Blood Bowl 3 gets Wood Elves, Resurrection mode, and a new roadmap
• The Asus ROG NUC is launching soon, and it ain’t cheap
• March 17
• • Here’s the demo for an adorable tower defense about green army men battling evil robots
• Automate bases to explore and terraform a huge open world in Eden Crafters
• Protect the world’s last tree from humanity in free tower defense From Ashes, Bloom
• There’s finally a picross game from legendary makers Jupiter on PC
• Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection incorporated a modder’s work after Aspyr promised it would not: ‘This release has been a total mess’
• Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, March 17
• Much-loved board game Dune: Imperium has a digital version now, and it’s getting rave responses
• Duck Game developer not fazed by potential publisher delisting: “I will never stop updating it as long as my hands and eyes work”
• Someone put a Breakout clone in Google Calendar that cancels your meetings after you bust them to bits
• March 16
• • Commonwealth ships sail into World of Warships
• There’s finally a demo for the Dark Souls 3 mod that transforms the whole game into a bizarro fan sequel to the series
• ‘You will not enjoy videogames anymore if you work in a big game studio:’ New Blood’s boss weighs in on what sets it apart amid an industry crisis
• Not only is Rainbow Six Siege free to play for the next week, it’s also just $4 to keep if you like it
• ‘10 years ago, we were just a couple of friends in my apartment trying to figure out what we wanted to do’: the studio at the heart of the boomer shooter boom reflects on its first decade
• Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, March 16
• Chris Roberts says Star Citizen is finally pushing for the 1.0 ‘finish line’
• March 15
• • Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update will add a 1-week honeymoon period for newly-married players that will keep their spouses ‘from laying in bed all day due to being upset’
• Baldur’s Gate 3 wins again: It was the most-played game on Steam Deck over the past 12 months
• Along with fixing a glitch that’s been bugging players for 8 years, Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update will also fix a glitch that’s been bugging Eric Barone for 8 years
• Wordle now requires a New York Times account to view your stats
• Nightingale devs are ’not happy’ with the current state of the game, fixes for disconnections are coming—but the offline mode still doesn’t have a timeline
• Amazon’s Fallout TV director says he’s not trying to please fans, legions get mad at him before realising he actually lost ‘a year’ of his life to Fallout 3 himself
• Palworld is getting its first raid battle soon, featuring a giant goth girl that I’m sure people will be very normal about
• Be careful updating Minecraft via the Xbox app, warns Microsoft, as it might accidentally obliterate all of your worlds
• Tekken 8 players are being tormented by cheaters weaponising absurdly massive fairy hats and metal cubes
• One of the biggest CS2 tournaments in the world has completely switched over to AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chips ’to ensure a smooth esports experience’
• Copilot and ChatGPT iterating ‘This is fine’ memes perfectly captures the current state of AI: faintly alarming hilarious madness
• Intel is still top dog: ships 3x more CPUs than AMD and Apple combined
• Palworld’s made so much money it’s ’too big for a studio with our size to handle’, but CEO says it’s not going to go public or sell up yet: ‘I want to make multiple small games’
• ‘I cannot get enough of this game’: the actor behind Super Earth’s most melodramatic spokesperson has been playing Helldivers 2 nonstop
• Palworld dev says ‘a game without a multiplayer mode just doesn’t feel right in the era we live today’
• We are once more informing you that the KOTOR remake is probably delayed for at least another year
• Stellaris just announced a new major expansion that will put your dad in the Matrix
• If you’re ‘worried about what AI will do’ AMD’s Dr. Lisa Su says ’the answer is not go slower, that is definitely not the answer’
• Meta’s insatiable appetite for Nvidia AI chips could add up to $7 billion worth of H100 GPUs by the end of the year
• Final Fantasy 14 will soon let players raid with their friends across the pond… well, as long as they’re in Oceania
• ‘I am surprised I’ve not gone grey!’: Satisfactory’s community is celebrating its 5th birthday with a grand tournament, and even the devs are joining in
• The leading man of Helldivers 2’s hilarious cinematic PSA had a blast filming it—also, there’s an improvised democratic ‘freestyle rap’ somewhere at Arrowhead HQ
• Aspyr makes Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection statement after crashing to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’ reviews, says it’s working on it, doesn’t apologise or explain why it needs 62.87GB of your disc space
• PS5 Pro leak allegedly reveals ‘PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution’ and up to four times the ray tracing performance of the regular ol’ PS5
• Intel’s new Core i9 14900KS CPU cracks 9.1GHz but still isn’t remotely relevant
• Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, March 15
• March 14
• • You won’t need to propose to Elden Ring’s heretical moon witch to wield her legendary sword—$500 will do just fine
• I can’t decide which new Helldivers 2 update rules harder—the wicked hot fire tornadoes on Hellmire or the full-auto laser rifle that melts everything
• Dark Souls 2 modders have finally managed to crank its framerate past 60 without borking the entire game
• Destiny 2: Into the Light, the two-month series of updates leading into The Final Shape, begins on April 9
• Epic is having a spring sale too, and to get things started it’s giving away Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for the first time
• The next big D&D videogame is a survival-life sim from the makers of Disney Dreamlight Valley
• As the Warner Bros suits begin to blame Suicide Squad for everything but the weather, the newly released game’s price is almost slashed in half
• Cyberpunk 2077 player stumbles across main menu easter egg hidden in plain sight, dev says ‘I started to doubt you chooms will ever find it’
• The Steam Spring Sale is live
• Got a laptop plugged in 24/7? You could be ruining your battery life, so prepare to do the charger dance
• RimWorld’s new expansion is introducing ‘IEDs that resurrect the dead,’ fleshbeasts, and a ‘beautiful golden cube’ that you will love, or else
• V Rising declares a 1.0 release date, climbing from the grave of a years-long early access to become your next time vampire
• Embracer Group sells off Space Marine maker Saber Interactive and most of its studios for $247M, but the price could go a lot higher
• This ‘photorealistic’ RTS about ants is the second RTS about ants to be based on a 1991 French novel about ants
• Fuel cell technology can be made much more efficient thanks to immersion in caffeine, much like myself and the rest of the planet
• Paradox says where we’re going, we don’t need no marketing plan as it just shows off and chats about the unannounced Europa Universalis 5
• ‘Balatro is the first deckbuilder I ever played,’ says developer who singlehandedly made Balatro
• In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there
• Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve ‘you assholes’ over Steam policies, to which Valve’s COO replied internally ‘you mad bro?’
• Uh oh: A single armour passive in the latest Helldivers 2 Warbond makes 4-person Arc Thrower squads viable, in case you’d like to unleash electric mayhem
• Oooh, shiny. Ray tracing is coming to Diablo 4 March 26
• Portal with RTX has been updated to include Nvidia’s latest load time accelerating GPU tech
• ‘Probably one of the worst launches of all time’: Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection players tear into Aspyr for bugs, crashes, and 3 64-player launch servers for nearly 10,000 users
• Demand for AMD CPUs surges as crypto mining rises from the ashes
• Google develops an AI that will actually play games with you
• Today’s Wordle answer for Thursday, March 14
• The US House passes a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban on TikTok
• Starship Troopers star Casper Van Dien is ready to do his part for Helldivers 2
• March 13
• • Summer Game Fest returns to fill the E3-shaped hole in our hearts on June 7
• 42 games from legendary British indie Jeff Minter’s psychedelic back catalogue are now bundled with an ‘interactive documentary’ on Steam
• Palworld is looking for beta testers for future updates, but warns that tests are ’not intended for free play or experiencing new content early’
• Helldivers 2 players are dousing planets in poison gas that Super Earth says will ‘permanently’ destroy the bugs, but we all know what Joel’s really up to
• RuneScape creator unveils new MMO after 10 years of development: ‘At times it has felt like an insurmountably ambitious task’
• Enshrouded’s new 2024 roadmap has dozens of features players have been clamoring for
• ‘We were in such dire need of talent’—Persona 3 Reload director explains why Episode Aigis was removed from the main game amid a tough development
• Critical Role’s homebrew TTRPG Daggerheart is now in open beta, and the good news is it’s nothing like D&D
• Veteran Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu believes settling for Hollywood-style scores means ‘game music cannot develop further’
• Deep Rock Galactic devs drill for a Helldivers 2 collab, stream the game just to say please, pretty please don’t leave us on read
• French Counter-Strike team re-sign star French player, celebrate by sticking him on a golden gun-throne in front of the Eiffel Tower because they’re French
• CCP reveals first details of survival game set on a single shard in the EVE universe, but wait: here comes the blockchain
• Resident Evil achieves complete global saturation, sells enough copies to make it the 8th biggest country on Earth
• Konami’s latest Metal Gear Solid masterstroke is releasing a patch to fix MGS1’s worst bug that doesn’t fix it at all (Update: It works now)
• One modder is bringing back Resident Evil 2’s classic style by adding over 1,700 camera angles to the Remake
• Yoshi-P reflects on Final Fantasy 14’s stress-free casual content: ’looking back over the past 10 years, I think we may have overdone it a little bit’
• Yes, the Steam Deck OLED is susceptible to burn-in if you really try, but it also really doesn’t matter
• PSA: The new Helldivers 2 Warbond isn’t replacing the old one—so don’t feel obliged to grind a bunch of super credits in a democracy-fuelled fugue
• Today’s Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 13
• March 12
• • Steam’s latest big hit is a little game about stuffing a huge backpack full of magic items
• Star Wars Jedi director who left Respawn in 2023 to ‘pursue other adventures’ reveals that his other adventure is a new game studio called Giant Skull
• Helldivers 2 players share videos of new flying bug enemy, Arrowhead boss immediately declares them ‘bug sympathizers’ and insists ‘bugs can’t fly’
• Eric Barone goes mad with power: He’s revealing a single Stardew Valley update patch note every day
• Helldivers 2’s friendly fire and killer bugs show ’the fragility of humans’ and are also just funny, creative director says
• Stardew Valley players finally learn the truth: Eric Barone confirms that for the past 8 years, left-to-right harvesting has been 100ms faster than right-to-left harvesting
• Six months after the disastrous launch of Payday 3, Starbreeze CEO is out as the company says it needs ‘different leadership’ for the future
• Shellshocked Helldivers 2 players so stunned by indiscriminate friendly fire from Stratagems they’ve begun to question if the Automatons are behind it
• Final Fantasy 14 won’t let you blast past its story for free anytime soon because Yoshi-P worried ’the value of the game itself will be diminished’
• Yoshi-P really wants Final Fantasy 14 to have more crossover content with Final Fantasy 7, but he’s waiting for the remakes to wrap up first
• The original artist behind Minecraft’s pixel art recalls Notch asking them to help out on his ‘weird indie hobby game’
• Helldivers 2’s latest major order gives players the chance to make a sector permanently bug-free with a planet-sized pesticide system
• Microsoft says AI data privacy lawsuit ‘devotes 198 pages to doomsday hyperbole about AI as a threat to civilization’
• An official Cult of the Lamb comic was funded in just 6 minutes, and I’m getting serious FOMO from the limited-time donator bonuses
• Final Fantasy 7 masterpiece mod turns Aerith Gainsborough into Aerith Gains Bro
• TF2’s voice cast is terrorising America’s small jazz bars to croon about sandwiches
• Elon Musk calls OpenAI ‘a lie’ after announcing plans to make his ‘spicy’ ChatGPT rival open-source this week
• WoW’s latest Hearthstone event crushed to death by a tide of roleplayers, as selectively-applied server sharding causes utter chaos
• Your sick kickflips were the reason why other players kept crashing in Destiny 2, but now everything’s been put right
• Helldivers 2 patch finally tackles its infamous tank infestation, tweaks chargers so players can aim for the head instead of busting kneecaps
• ‘£525 down, but for history and my collection, it’s worth it’: Free Radical’s cancelled version of TimeSplitters 4 was discovered on eBay and is now playable
• Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 12
• Former Xbox boss Peter Moore says Gen Z may reject new consoles in favor of smartphones and PCs
• Games industry should be ’less cautious,’ says maker of experimental game about exploring a swimming pool dimension
• March 11
• • Ghostbusters cosmetics are coming to Destiny 2 next week because Sony owns ’em both and that’s how these things work
• The perfect, simple, microtransaction-free throwback to CoD Zombies has finally launched in early access, and it’s $9
• Cheaters have spoiled Diablo 4’s new leaderboards and players are begging Blizzard to fix it quickly
• Nearly 2,000 Wordle clones targeted as NYT issues DMCA takedown
• Baldur’s Gate 3 ‘Torch Lord’ transforms a meager torch into a weapon of the gods and sets the hardest enemies in the game ablaze
• Stardew Valley creator teases a change coming in the 1.6 update, excited conversation about fruit trees immediately ensues
• Astralis belatedly backs up its womens’ Counter-Strike team’s request for default female skins, says it can’t understand the reaction to something ’that does not hurt others in any way or form’
• Final Fantasy 16 PC requirements are ’looking to be somewhat high,’ Yoshi-P says
• Seized by the spirit of democracy, Helldivers 2 CEO holds an impromptu workshop on how to improve the game’s host-based kick system: ’there’s always a better solution’
• Falling Frontier’s new trailer makes me want to hibernate until the RTS appears in 2025
• Multiversus has been ‘rebuilt’ in Unreal Engine 5 for a relaunch in May with new netcode, new characters, and a PvE mode
• PUBG announces continued crackdowns on cheaters, user-generated content, a move to Unreal Engine 5, and the possibility of digging a hole like a chicken-hungry moleman
• Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren’t going to be a cheap alternative to x86
• This jazzy roguelike puts your tiny painter in a canvas cage match and says go on then, 1v1 the Mona Lisa
• Hogwarts Legacy dev tries to cool the community’s excitement about the summer update, says it’s just a ‘small way of us showing appreciation’
• US government report reveals how Discord, Roblox, Reddit and others co-operate with the FBI and Homeland Security over content like ‘user-generated re-creations of mass shootings’
• Modern Warfare 3 has a new insta-kill sword that even cuts through Riot Shields
• Intel’s chief financial officer admits the company is ‘heavier than we want to be in terms of external wafer manufacturing’
• Former PlayStation boss calls exclusivity the industry’s ‘Achilles’ heel … Helldivers 2 has shown that’
• Nvidia is finding NeMo in hot water as the GPU giant and its LLM toolkit are being sued for copyright infringement in the latest in a long line of AI lawsuits
• Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, March 11
• Vermintide 2’s Versus mode is real, currently in open alpha
• Disgraced former WWE boss Vince McMahon has been largely scrubbed from WWE 2K24
• The Mass Effect board game will come with little guys and, dammit, now I want the thing
• March 10
• • Star Citizen’s first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to ‘bring the FPS combat to AAA standard’
• Run your team of fantasy gladiators to absolute dominance in Mortal Glory 2
• Watch Dogs might just get a movie adaptation after all, because it now has a lead and director
• I found everything I love—and none of what annoys me—about classic JRPGs in this upcoming game about a heartbroken knight combatting uncanny terrors
• Blast goblins in a cave in the demo for stylish, roguelike shooter Sulfur
• Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, March 10
• The developers of Unsighted are making a 3D metroidvania that looks anime as all get-out
• Arrange your items to optimize your fights in asynchronous autobattler Backpack Battles
• The company behind the Fallout and Dishonored tabletop RPGs is planning a new RPG based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
• Build a mobile fortress on the back of a walking tree in colony survival game Ark of Charon
• March 9
• • Elden Ring once had a different starting location, and while it makes more sense than the one we got, I’m glad they changed it
• 600 Activision QA workers just formed the biggest videogame union in the US
• Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, March 9
• March 8
• • Last Epoch players help judge what overpowered builds will be on the chopping block for its next major patch
• New Blood boss wanted Dusk to be as moddable as Doom and Skyrim: ‘If there’s not anime big tiddy waifus in Dusk by the time we’re done with the SDK, then we haven’t done it right’
• The sequel to Valiant Hearts has finally come to PC after more than as a year as a Netflix exclusive
• Fortnite remains offline as Epic struggles with unexpected issues: ‘This stuff is tricky!’ Tim Sweeney says
• Thousands of players gather online in Final Fantasy 14, Dragon Quest 10 and more to mourn legendary artist Akira Toriyama
• Helldivers 2 servers are getting crushed under the onslaught of mechs
• Even more Adult Swim games are being removed from sale by Warner Bros, as a total wipeout looks increasingly likely
• Chasing the Unseen is a delightfully strange and meditative take on Shadow of the Colossus, where the giant beasties can’t hurt you and your mission is to climb
• Researchers have developed yet another way to fool AI chatbots, this time with a good old-fashioned dose of ASCII art
• Mechs are here! Helldivers 2 players liberate Tien Kwan blisteringly fast to get their hands on the EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit
• Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball creator and one of the most influential manga artists of all time, dies aged 68
• Dragon’s Dogma 2’s character creator is available to use right now, and all I can say is, please stop scaring me
• Starfield’s new patch busts one of the best early exploits in the game and stops Sam Coe telling his daughter to tell jokes to a corpse
• If you keep getting your stuff stolen in DayZ and Rust, this 40% off bundle’s a great way to call in backup
• You can now install PC Gamer—okay fine, any website I suppose—as an app on your desktop with the latest Chrome Canary build
• Tribes 3: Rivals needs just 10GB of storage space and the rest of the system requirements look relatively undemanding too
• Helldivers 2 devs say they’re gonna tone down the heavily-armoured creeps: ‘We’re currently looking at changes to the spawn rates and health pools’
• Free GOG keys for the objectively 3rd-best Fallout game are on Twitch Prime right now
• LG’s new $1 billion investment should help make OLED gaming monitors cheaper
• Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, March 8
• How did beloved boomer shooter Dusk end up with a full art remaster just 5 years after its launch? ‘We all kind of agreed: F*** it, let’s go all the way with this’
• March 7
• • Overwatch 2 director admits the overwhelming power of DPS heroes ‘may be pushed a bit too far’, details new patch to fix that
• Now we know why those four Command and Conquer games got a price slash: EA just dropped a bundle of old-time classics on Steam, including virtually every C&C game ever made
• Discord Quests will reward you for forcing your friends to watch you stream games
• The next premium Helldivers 2 Warbond includes a new lightning shotgun, and of course more capes
• Poker roguelike sensation Balatro sells more than 500,000 copies in just 10 days
• Ambitious indie RPG Unforetold: Witchstone is halting development and laying off staff
• Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for ‘horrible’ dev comments, says Arrowhead has ’taken action internally to educate our developers’
• Helldivers 2’s latest order sure looks like a setup for players to liberate their own mech suits… for democracy!
• ‘All your save files will be fully intact’: Eric Barone confirms that Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update isn’t out to delete your progress
• Outward, the open-world RPG that forces you to live with your failures, is finally getting a sequel
• Cowboy Bebop is the second anime collab coming to Overwatch 2
• An AI worm has been developed to burrow its way into generative AI ecosystems, revealing sensitive data as it spreads
• The mystery meat in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is actually real food, not CG: ‘We decided to spend the same amount of money on better quality meat’
• EA CEO talks AI, says the usual stuff before the bong rip hits and he starts blabbing about a future where 3 billion people are creating EA’s games with it
• The kids’ MMO that got plagued by messages reading ‘The next world is my boss’s a**hole’ is now on European Steam
• Intel’s Pat Gelsinger will deliver a keynote at Computex 2024 introducing ’next-generation client computing products’, so maybe we’ll finally get an official look at Arrow Lake
• Tomb Raider: Underworld, the game where Crystal Dynamics really hit its stride, is now going for a dollar
• Watch Walton Goggins do a bunch of chems and blast a fist-sized hole in a dude in the new Fallout series trailer
• Ready to binge? Every episode of Amazon’s Fallout TV show will be available at once on April 11
• Persona 3 Reload is getting the DLC it needs, but not the one it deserves
• Mojang finally adds more than one type of dog to Minecraft, after over a decade of players struggling to tell their wolves apart
• TikTok is becoming swamped with AI-generated conspiracy theory content thanks to a new financial incentive program for creators
• Helldivers 2 players aren’t happy about the game’s first balance patch—here’s why
• The mid-range graphics card market heats up as AMD and Nvidia get aggressive
• Today’s Wordle answer for Thursday, March 7
• Nvidia’s next gen AI superchips will reportedly consume up to 1,000W
• While other gaming companies talk layoffs, Capcom is raising salaries
• The worst Helldivers 2 weapon has become one of the best overnight
• ‘I wasn’t mentally prepared for this’: The world’s fastest Diablo 4 player won’t tell you his secret because he’s still trying to figure it out too
• March 6
• • OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk lawsuit with ‘facts’ showing he ’told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress’
• After 21 years, Warner Bros is closing Rooster Teeth
• Helldivers 2 balancing guru explains why ‘Don’t Nerf, Only Buff’ is a bad idea: ‘I believe players are scared of nerfs because it will ruin the fantasy of a weapon, ruin their fun’
• Epic celebrates ‘a big win’ as Apple reverses course and promises to restore its iOS developer account: ‘We are moving forward as planned to launch the Epic Games Store and bring Fortnite back to iOS in Europe’
• Hold on, is Capcom pulling a Brutal Legend with its new action game?
• The Sinking City 2 ditches detective work for survival horror as Frogwares seeks to ‘reinvent’ itself
• The Frostpunk 2 release date trailer is here, along with two ways to play the survival city builder before launch
• Helldivers 2 studio is not getting acquired by Sony, confirms Arrowhead CEO
• Creatures of Ava is the cozier version of Palworld: A ‘creature saver’ co-written by Rhianna Pratchett
• Alan Wake 2’s out-of-the-blue system requirements change means you no longer need an RTX card to hit its minimum spec
• Indie developer makes his game free after Warner unceremoniously tells him they’re ‘retiring’ it from Steam and the PlayStation Store
• ‘I’ve been disappointed so many times’: Karlach from Baldur’s Gate 3 talks scrapping the lady stereotypes of RPG romances, says Larian just ’let me do what I wanted to do’
• Gorgeous Sony samurai sim Ghost of Tsushima is the latest game to break PlayStation containment for PC
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will let you become a super vampire by drinking vamp blood, taking their abilities and combining them ‘in hundreds of different ways’
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s Brujah are big drinkers who flip the bird to taunt enemies
• So long and thanks for all the pixels: Nvidia reportedly retiring the GTX brand for good
• While players are the main motive, Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail’s visual makeover is also meant to help devs ‘advance their careers’, says director Yoshi-P
• GPU sales are on the up but AMD’s RX 7000-series graphics cards are its least competitive in 20 years
• In an unexpected twist, ‘GTA 5 was quite a big inspiration’ for Dragon’s Dogma 2 and game director Hideaki Itsuno
• Helldivers 2 dev lays out Arrowhead’s strategy for buffing and nerfing the game’s guns: ‘Powerful weapons can’t be too versatile, versatile weapons can’t be too powerful’
• Crusader Kings 3 finally gets its most hotly demanded feature in years: an authentic male pattern baldness system
• JEDEC rubber stamps the GDDR7 spec, mega bandwidth VRAM is on its way for next-gen GPUs
• Microsoft’s new Surface laptops will be available with Arm CPUs in June
• Helldivers 2 just dropped a chunky balance patch that fixes heavy armour, adds meteor swarms, and deals a blow to eradication mission farmers
• Today’s Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 6
• Folks, I think I’ve worked out how Bungie plans to make up its 45% revenue shortfall
• March 5
• • Chivalry 2 pauses new skill-based team balancing because it was doing the opposite of balancing for some reason
• Helldivers 2 sales curve is ‘rare and amazing,’ says gobsmacked industry analyst: ‘I feel like Steve Irwin sighting a rare bird’
• Unreleased Helldivers 2 vehicles are leaking all over the place, but I’m not ruling out that Game Master Joel has something to do with it
• After focusing on Devil May Cry and Dragon’s Dogma for 20 years, Capcom’s Hideaki Itsuno says ‘it would be fun to create something new’
• After nine months of silence, the Multiversus Twitter account has come back to life with an ominous message: ‘It’s real’
• Warner Bros aims to increase focus on free-to-play and live service games because ‘disappointments’ like Suicide Squad make the big-budget business ‘very volatile’
• The PC Gaming Show returns this June
• Atlus has recreated the original Persona 3 trailer to celebrate 22 million copies, but now I can’t stop thinking about Door-kun
• In a suspicious act of generosity, EA quietly slashes the Steam price on 4 Command and Conquer games to nearly nothing
• This mashup of city builder and grand strategy will take you from building a capital city to achieving ’total global domination’
• Buckle up—Helldivers 2 is getting mechs real soon, courtesy of the Tien Kwan Factories
• WoW Classic Hardcore player decides the terrifying climb to 60 wasn’t hard enough, commits to using two DDR mats just to feel something
• Half-Life 2 patch tool Steam makes history for the 2nd time this year with a concurrent user count of nearly 35 million people
• Elden Ring players may well have found Miyazaki’s secret ‘small element’ and turns out it’s had a clue to the DLC since launch
• Oregon just passed the most powerful right to repair legislation yet in the US
• Baldur’s Gate 3 players can’t figure out why Astarion sometimes goes full Grinch-mode after patch 6, but there’s a mod that fixes it
• Horizon Forbidden West’s highest PC setting needs a GPU that didn’t even exist when the game first came out, along with 150GB of SSD space
• Helldivers 2 uses its game master to stop the live service side from being ‘just a calendar with automated events tied to major holidays’
• Destructive testing of six liquid cooling radiators reveals some don’t match the marketing
• NASA releases an official tabletop adventure that’s brave enough to ask: what would Earth be like if a dragon kidnapped a bunch of D&D wizards and stole the Hubble Space Telescope
• You can finally accept your mum’s friend request now Steam officially lets you hide your mountain of weird sex games
• Baldur’s Gate 3 is so meaty, our Xbox cousins will need to play the Digital Deluxe on 4 disks wrapped in ’little slips’ and stuffed into a single-disk box
• Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 5
• March 4
• • Group that claimed it stole data from Epic admits it didn’t happen, Epic says the whole thing was ‘a scam’
• The outstanding Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a 94%-rated game with over 22K ‘Very Positive’ reviews, is now cheaper than a cup of coffee
• The Joker joins Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League at the end of March
• ‘A lot of us are old school MMO players’: Dune: Awakening’s creative director on how Star Wars Galaxies was a ‘huge inspiration’ for the new survival game
• Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra taken offline as collateral damage in Yuzu lawsuit settlement
• Why survival MMO Dune: Awakening won’t have sandwalking: ‘It looked ridiculous and it made you walk really slowly’
• Temtem drops monetization as developer confirms that no new content is coming after the next update
• Steam’s latest big sale has Blasphemous at 75% off, which is enough to make me take the Lord’s name in metroidvania
• Tribes 3: Rivals hits early access next week promising ‘rebirth’ for the exquisite fusion of skiing fast with a flag and explosive frisbees
• Switch emulator Yuzu is dead: abruptly settles lawsuit with Nintendo for $2.4 million in an enormous blow to console emulation
• ‘Not to interrupt, but they just laid us all off’: Unionised YouTube workers in Texas are told in the middle of a live City Council meeting that they don’t have jobs anymore
• Get back in the war: Helldivers 2 daily orders have returned, and earlier than announced
• You can claim land for your base on Arrakis in survival MMO Dune: Awakening, but you’ll have to pay the Emperor for it
• Sponge made from a cheesy waste product can help recover the gold from your dumped circuit boards
• Dune: Awakening devs had to get permission from the Herberts to change a tiny piece of Dune lore so players wouldn’t constantly nuke each other
• It’s black, brown, and beige from here on out, as Noctua confirms it has ditched development on white fans and coolers
• You’re waking up to bad Galactic War news in Helldivers 2 because the bugs and bots don’t sleep, says developer Arrowhead’s CEO: ‘It’s a push and pull’
• Stardew Valley 1.6 ‘adds so much stuff to all the different aspects of the game’, teases creator
• Ex-Bungie composer Marty O’Donnell is running for Congress with ‘Marty’s army’ and says he’s voting Trump
• AMD’s Chief Technical Officer: ‘We’re enabling our gaming devices to upscale using AI’
• Palworld players turn to more honest work after a patch robs them of their nail grift: Dooming a merchant to a Greek mythology-tier punishment loop of burning to death forever
• The voice behind Final Fantasy 14’s G’raha Tia was so dedicated to the role, his tongue swelled up on the West End: ‘I had to record this in the day doing eight shows a night’
• AMD wanted to incorporate parts of the HDMI 2.1 spec into its open-source Linux drivers, but the HDMI Forum’s legal beagles shutdown the whole idea
• Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, March 4
• Helldivers 2 director explains how its freedom and wacky guns were inspired by tabletop: ‘Let the player do the action, and you’ll see what happens’
• Path of Achra is a bite-size, old-school, dungeon-crawling dark fantasy treat
• March 3
• • Old school co-op action RPG Secrets of Grindea releases after a decade of early access
• Spiritfall is an action roguelite with the combat of a platform fighter
• Skyrim remake of 24-year-old Vampire RPG shows off its modern London level, and the guns are way less janky than I expected
• Collect a stable of weird monsters, and dice, in roguelike Dicefolk
• One of the Assassin’s Creed cards coming to Magic: The Gathering is just a haystack
• Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, March 3
• Greedfall 2: The Dying World will launch in early access, ‘players will have access to the entire beginning of the game’
• Fallout TV show producer says, ‘It’s almost like we’re Fallout 5’
• March 2
• • Speaking at Stardew Valley soundtrack concert, creator Eric Barone quips about finding an audience for his music: ‘All I had to do was develop an entire videogame from scratch’
• Toothpaste turrets and deadly pillows keep people out of your house in this fusion of beat ’em up and tower defense
• Call of Duty has already thrown King Kong, Godzilla, and Nicki Minaj into its brand synergy blender, so a Warhammer 40,000 crossover is next
• Be a cat god in space and build planets by placing tiles in Nekokami
• Cartoon spaceship disaster sim Space Crew is free to keep on Steam for a limited time
• I wish I could actually play these PS1-style demakes of the latest Resident Evil games
• Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, March 2
• March 1
• • Star Wars: Dark Forces’ box art showed a level that wasn’t in the game: nearly 30 years later, we can finally play it thanks to the remaster
• Starfield’s next update will improve the photo mode so you can finally smile pretty for your pictures
• Diablo 4 finally recognizes necromancers just want a skeleton posse and sprinkles buffs on our boys in bone
• InXile’s upcoming steampunk RPG will contain bread, in case you were wondering about its grain content
• Poker-themed deckbuilder Balatro gets delisted from some stores after its PEGI rating absurdly jumps from 3 to 18+ over ‘gambling imagery’
• Sims 4 players hate its obtrusive new store button so much that a modder has already removed it
• Elon Musk sues OpenAI for abandoning its principles and says taking Microsoft’s billions has ‘set the founding agreement aflame’
• This indie ‘adventure flight’ game dares to ask, ‘What if Crimson Skies was about making beer?’
• Some Apple Vision Pro headsets are cracking up and Reddit’s already awash with theories about this costly ‘crack-gate’
• Tekken 8 boss Katsuhiro Harada helps bereaved fan preserve AI ‘ghost’ of their dead brother
• There’s an entire Skyrim mod dedicated to making you feel bad and weird about killing anybody, adding over 200 handwritten letters detailing their rich, inner lives
• Helldivers 2 has a balance patch coming, but ‘it mostly consists of simple stat changes’, says senior game designer
• Nightmarish WiFi toothbrush finally does some good after tech wizard hacks Doom onto it
• Borderlands studio Gearbox reportedly in the ’late stages’ of a sale, as Embracer Group continues to hack off parts of itself to keep the lights on
• Standalone webcams may become more of a luxury than a requirement as Microsoft tests out a Windows 11 feature that lets you use your Android phone instead
• Helldivers 2’s guns have 46 secret stats so just ‘use the one you like the most’
• Several Steam games changed names to Helldivers 2 and Palworld to scam players
• GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code
• Helldivers 2 boss finds Starship Troopers renaissance ‘humbling,’ says the game is that ‘without the plot armour’, and nothing captures that better than your frantic near-death videos
• All Genshin Impact codes from the 4.5 livestream
• Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, March 1
• We’re riding shotgun with Pacific Drive to give away a free copy of the game and a carload of great gear
• It is once again time to boot up Vampire Survivors thanks to a space-themed free update and a Final Fantasy parody trailer teasing more to come
• Diablo 4’s upcoming loot rework will be so massive Blizzard will let you playtest it early in its first PTR

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