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- August 6
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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'
- Australian Senate committee warns TikTok and WeChat could be the country's biggest security risks
- Today's Wordle hint and answer #775: Thursday, August 3
- August 2
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- 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
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- 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
