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• The new RPG from Rebel Wolves, a studio founded by Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 devs, asks a bold question: What if Geralt was a vampire?
• Zerg Rush! Blizzard drops first cards from its StarCraft x Hearthstone crossover mini-set
• High-flying RPG city builder Airborne Empire has launched on Steam, and it's testing my balancing skills in more ways than one
• Percy_Verence, Elon Musk's infamous Path of Exile 2 hardcore character, dead at level 97
• Despite the big Baldur's Gate 3 update in the works, Larian says its 'full attention' is now focused on its next game
• Powerwash Simulator studio ends VR development, but at least there are no layoffs happening
• Hyper Light Breaker has great combat, impeccable vibes, and its ambitious randomized open worlds actually work⁠—the real test is if it goes the distance in early access
• Corsair Virtuoso Max review
• Core i9 14900KF CPU hits a world record 9.12 GHz and proves Intel chips are still good at something
• Hatsune Miku is the icon for Fortnite Festival Season 7, and it might be the collab that finally convinces me to become a rockstar
• D&D's revised Monster Manual is aiming to provide oodles of plot hooks along with its stat blocks, and I'm already quietly stealing some for my own encounters
• After fabled RTX 4090 Ti was allegedly dug out of a bin last year, tech testing YouTuber puts Nvidia's prototype GPU through its paces
• Man on hopeless quest to recover $600 million of Bitcoin from landfill is finally told by the High Court to quit it, says he's 'very upset'
• To the dismay of my colleagues, I paid $15 for this Hatsune Miku desktop pet so you don't have to
• Nvidia denounces Biden administration's 'rigged' and 'misguided' new AI chip export restrictions
• Halls of Torment review
• Marvel Rivals starts 2025 by clobberin' the most played charts, hitting over 640,000 players on Steam alone
• Chris Roberts sallies forth to declare 'we are closer than ever to realizing a dream many have said is impossible' with Star Citizen, but I'm sure I've heard this record before
• Around 66 accounts in Path of Exile 2 were compromised, due to a one-two punch of an old unused Steam account and a backend bug
• Marvel Rivals players have found a workaround for mods, but it involves potentially frying your PC and sacrificing your framerates
• It's hard to believe but 22% of PC gaming monitors are now OLED panels
• Today's Wordle answer for Monday, January 13
• Players are still finding edge-case Baldur's Gate 3 scenes, like one where you play as a kidnapped Astarion even if you made your own player-character
• Path of Exile 2's first patch of 2025 is coming later this week, with 'more rewarding' endgame mapping and the rollout of respawns when fighting pinnacle bosses
• Speedrunning Crazy Taxi with a live band is an inventive way to dodge a DMCA takedown
• Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 13, 2025)
• An ambitious Counter-Strike mod to emulate the OG 1.6 experience in Global Offensive has been rejected by Valve after 8 years of development
• When 2K removed its annoying launcher it broke a bunch of XCOM 2 mods
• Cruel is a frantic run-and-gun shooter where you boot cultists out of windows in a cursed apartment block that wants you dead
• Valve's Steam page currently lists a second mystery game alongside Deadlock, sending Half-Life 3 theorists into another frenzy of speculation
• CD Projekt Red boss says 'around 100' Witcher 3 designers still work at the company, while the Witcher 4's story director is 'the same person since Witcher 1'
• Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, January 12
• Watching an all-romances speedrun of the legendarily janky Fallout: New Vegas is a delight
• Activision will send you alarmingly detailed data for every single Call of Duty match you've played in the last 4 years if you ask, and players are using it to figure out their mysterious SBMM rankings
• Here's a game about being a depressed, lonely maintenance robot on a long-haul space colony ship
• Civilization 7 has been Steam Deck Verified ahead of its launch next month
• 23-year-old D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights just got a new update thanks to the 'unpaid software engineers' of its unkillable community
• The 11 big FPS games of 2025
• Wormhole is an impeccable arcade revival of Snake that plays like it fell off the back of Derek Yu's van
• My Summer Car, the absurdly detailed Finnish life sim about vehicle maintenance and drinking in your underpants, smashes into 1.0 after nearly a decade in Steam early access
• The Junji Ito collection brings eight new outfits to Dead by Daylight, letting you dress up its killers as cannibalistic supermodels and nail-toothed children
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes a run at improving parkour, as Ubisoft strives to make the system less 'like a gas pedal'
• Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, January 11
• The Last of Us season 2 trailer is a brief look at a story you should probably just play yourself in April
• World of Warcraft's most recent patch soars with fun additions that last just long enough
• Lords of the Fallen publisher embraces fear of the DEI boogeyman, says it will not include 'any social or political agendas' in its games
• Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'
• If you're trying to convince me your 'companionship' robot is 'lifelike', maybe don't rip her face off in the demo video
• Square Enix launches new anti-harassment policy to protect its employees and partners from abusive fans
• The Sims begins its 25th anniversary celebration next week with a Behind The Sims episode of news and announcements