ConnexionDate Everything claims to be a dating sim, but it doesn't love or understand its own genre
I'd do anything for love (but I won't play this).
© Team17
© Jagex / Nerdycatgamer on Reddit
Vue lecture
RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'
Makes the Moon landing look like a walk in the park.
Intel has joined Nvidia with its own neural texture compression tech but it probably won't rescue your VRAM-starved 8 GB GPU any time soon
By the time games use this tech, you'll have a different graphics card.
© Intel / Compusemble
Elden Ring movie director reveals how he's getting through his 7th playthrough, 'It's like monkeys and typewriters—you just keep doing it'
It's a tough lesson to learn, but an important one.
© FromSoftware
Gamakay x NaughShark NS68 review
More than a surprising price tag.
© Future
Our favorite budget wireless gaming mouse has knocked almost $20 off, making it an even more wallet-friendly option
A solid wireless mouse for just over $30? Sign me up.
© Logitech
Survival game AETHUS sees you rebuilding a sci-fi colony after the ravages of galactic capitalism—and forging a new kind of future from the wreckage
Survival game AETHUS sees you rebuilding a sci-fi colony after the ravages of galactic capitalism—and forging a new kind of future from the wreckage
© CULT Games
Dune: Awakening patch fixes the ornithopter 'goomba stomp' problem in PvP, just not in the way I expected
Ornithopters still don't take damage from collisions—but now neither do players.
© Funcom
This is all the best PC gaming gear we recommend in one techie tier list
Here are PC Gamer's hardware picks, based on years of experience and expert knowledge, all in an easily digestible but admittedly big ol' list.
© Future
Google AI happens to be really bad at playing Pokémon, repeatedly 'panicking' and taking more than 800 hours to beat the Elite Four
Do AI agents dream of Mareep?
© The Pokémon Company
Das Keyboard DeltaForce 65 review
Das does different.
© Future
Doom: The Dark Ages gets path tracing for even better graphics but unless you've got an RTX 50 graphics card, it's not worth using
The new built-in benchmarks are pretty neat, though.
© Bethesda Softworks
'The winds of change are blowing': After 159 days Marvel Rivals has finally nerfed Storm, albeit not by much
At this point, I'll take anything.
© NetEase Games
This retro sleeper build hides one of the top mini PCs inside and I wish I had the tools and patience to game like it's the '90s
Someone bring me a Dremel.
© TME Retro @ YouTube
Microsoft's exciting multi-year silicon partnership with AMD doesn't actually make it clearer if there's an official Xbox handheld or next-gen console coming
Will next-gen Xbox hardware be made by Microsoft, by someone else, maybe both?
© Microsoft
I don't believe it, but this Digimon RPG really was the best game I saw at SGF
I was a non-believer, but Digimon Story: Time Stranger made me see the light.
© Bandai Namco
Dark day for humanity as Gex Trilogy achieves 'huge success,' patches in its cursed EU voices from Red Dwarf's Cat and the 'Ding dong' guy
Or Danny John-Jules and Leslie Philips, if you're a connoisseur.
© Limited Run Games
Elden Ring Nightreign's relic system could learn a lot from MMOs like World of Warcraft, which figured out pure RNG loot sucks years ago
We don't have to stay in gamba purgatory. There's a better way.
© Tyler C. / FromSoftware
Borderlands 4 hands-on: Yeah, it's just 'more Borderlands,' but Gearbox's consistency is respectable and there's a cool hoverbike
The next big Borderlands game isn't transformative, but on the flip side, it also isn't a live service extraction shooter with survival elements, so that's good.
© Gearbox
Microsoft announces new dream team partnership with AMD on a 'portfolio' of next-gen Xbox devices, all with backwards compatibility with existing games
Console, handheld and PC, all based on silicon co-engineered with AMD.
© Microsoft
Endgame Gear OP1w 4K review
A mean, lightweight mousing machine.
© Future
Endgame Gear XM2w 4K review
Comfortable and powerful!
© Future
It's time to update Asus Armoury Crate, folks—the latest vulnerability could allow hackers to compromise your Windows OS
In the club, we all care about system security.
© Asus
Become John Nightreign with a 1:1 5KG Wylder helmet which Bandai Namco is currently selling for $190
"Now you can feel what it's like to join his quest."
© FromSoftware
Steam turbo-charges its performance overlay, shows you how many real and framegen frames you're getting and, oh, Proton is enabled on Linux by default now
A buffet of stats awaits.
© Valve, YouTuber Mora Madness
An ex-Apple Vision Pro engineer turned a Steam Deck into an all-in-one keyboard for XR, and now you can too
Though I'd still be using it for gaming myself.
© michaelthatsit, at X and Reddit
Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 18
Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle.
© Future
No wonder it took so long to rerelease Final Fantasy Tactics—the source code was lost: 'Keeping that kind of data wasn't a normal thing to do at the time'
Creating a problem that had to be solved "by sheer force".
© Square Enix
Splitgate 2 review
It doesn't make FPS great again.
© 1047 Games
Ball hogs and 'wannabe Messis' are already the heels of the Rematch community: 'Coach should run out onto the field and beat them with a stick'
Captain Tsubasa would be disappointed.
© Sloclap
Ubisoft slows free currency gain in Rainbow Six Siege X to a pathetic crawl, then immediately drops its most expensive skin in 10 years
It didn't take long for "free-to-play" to also mean "more hostile to your time and wallet."
© Ubisoft
Just 1 year after raising $340,000 on Kickstarter to make a 'vibrant' new JPRG, Studio Camelia abruptly closes
The studio was taking "late pledges" as recently as February.
© Studio Camelia
Hades 2 adds nastier bosses and new weapon variants in its last major update before it leaves early access behind
The Unseen Update also finally gives us a look at Narcissus.
© Supergiant Games
Dark and Darker will be purged from Epic Games Store libraries later this year, but it's still available on Steam for now
Ironmace's dungeon crawler will be removed from Epic Store libraries on November 1.
© Ironmace
'I can't even hit anything': Path of Exile player watches helplessly as his mercenary wipes out screens of enemies before he can even reach them
Action RPG automation.
© Grinding Gear Games
Turns out that fantasy Factorio is a pretty good idea, and if you doubt me try the MoteMancer demo
Mix and match elemental motes as the raw ingredients for an interplanar factory.
© CyanAvatar Studios
Marathon is delayed, new release date will be announced in the fall: 'We need more time to craft Marathon into the game that truly reflects your passion'
Bungie has a lot of work to do.
© Bungie
Everything in GTA Online's Money Fronts update
Here's the full rundown of the new cars, money laundering businesses, and more.
© Rockstar Games
Stellar Blade sold a million units in 3 days on PC and you can mostly thank Chinese players
Stellar results.
© Shift Up