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Intel's new handheld gaming chip rumoured to be called 'Core G3 Extreme' and rocks a full-spec Xe3 iGPU with 12 graphics cores

It's the Panther Lake laptop chip, just slightly tweaked.

Meet Project Patchouli, an open-source drawing tablet project to 'build your own tablet from scratch'

You will need some electronics knowledge, though.

Jen-Hsun needs to up his game because we've run the numbers and AMD's CES keynote hit 1.8 mentions of AI per minute—even more than Nvidia

You don't want to know how many times they mentioned gaming.

AMD leaves the door open to an official 'beta' version of its latest AI-enhanced FSR upscaling tech for older RDNA 3 GPUs

Just don't expect anything terribly optimised.

Attacks on Kingdom Come: Deliverance for gay romance, representation 'only mattered to a handful of terminally online culture warriors,' reckons KCD2's exec producer, and probably didn't impact the games' reception

For all the noise, Martin Klíma reckons the result of KCD1 and 2's controversies was probably a whole lotta nothing.

I've just found a new cutesy Balatro, but instead of a deck of cards you get to tend to a garden and harvest flowers

Look at the mult on those wild flowers.

Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says 'There is not going to be any GenAI art in Divinity,' but it's still 'trying [AI] things out across departments'

Anyone else nervous?

9 big things Steam needs to improve in 2026

Hey Steam, we know you don't have much competition, but there's still a lot you should do.

My Arc Raiders 2026 wishlist consists of new mobs, modes, and map conditions

New Year, same wishes.

'There is zero point in talking about AI slop. That's just plain stupid': Linus Torvalds weighs in on AI debate in Linux kernel documentation

Seems there's no way to avoid the AI debate. Even when you think the debate shouldn't exist.

Hell is Us review

The haunting world of Hell is Us has a lot to offer when you're not fighting the same handful of enemies.

Divinity will officially wave goodbye to Original Sin 2's broken armour system

Now, Larian, are Action Points returning?

Gigabyte's new OLED gaming monitor debuts 'HyperNits' brightness tech, so are screens with regular nits now second best?

In a word, no.

Elder Scrolls fans are taking it well after Microsoft says it's a 'big year for games ending in 6' ahead of its upcoming Xbox Direct showcase: 'I'm practically living off hopium and copium at this point'

Grand Theft Auto 6 isn't the only big game people are waiting for.

'I wish Wyll had gotten more content' says the Baldur's Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads 'might have been a mistake in hindsight'

I like Wyll fine, but he never feels like he gets the airtime that, say, Astarion does.

Larian's given us a single-word spoiler for Divinity, its next game, and for some reason it's 'alligator'

Spoiler alert for the future.

Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros

Open all roads to open source software, I say.

Panther Lake's gaming chops look solid but the battery life is truly what interests me as a PC gamer on the go

Could Panther Lake be set to make a splash?

Unfortunately, all of that doomsaying last year was correct and SSD prices are surging as a result of the memory crisis

The best time to buy an SSD? Yesterday.

Tetris creator says the Rubik's cube is 'the symbol of modern civilisation' and we should send them into space

But Tetris would be "too complicated."

For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement

I can respect it.

You'll never guess what the 'Random Heart Attacks' mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 does

OK, maybe you will.

The PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive a huge stompy mechanical base across a ruined planet gets a Steam release window

Sand: Raiders of Sophie is stomping our way soon.

It's not the news we wanted but it's what we expected: EA has finally admitted Project Rene is a 'mobile-first' game

After over a year of leaks, getting some answers about the future of the series is better than more silence.

Divinity's reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian's writing director says: 'We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness'

But not in the way that those dudes who got burned alive in the trailer were lighting up the darkness, I suppose.

Over half of The Sims development team is working on The Sims 4 and 'the next evolution' so I guess it's time to start speculating again

Here we are again trying to divine the future of The Sims from an announcement about the future of The Sims.

Competitive demon slaying is about to take over Diablo 4 as its next update finally adds official leaderboards

Get your builds ready.

Arc Raiders player ranks 30 common outfits by how likely they are to shoot you in the back, and I have to admit it's right on the money

And not just because my go-to outfit is in the nicest tier.

Baldur's Gate 3 composer Borislav 'Bobby' Slavov is coming back for Divinity: 'We wouldn't be able to stop him even if we wanted to'

Slavov's return was confirmed, twice, during today's AMA.

Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games

Valve's futuristic MOBA has been figuring itself out on the fly, and I kind of prefer that to a carefully considered roadmap.

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