Some Chinese crypto miners are doing everything they can to offload their heavily used mining GPUs now that they’ve nothing left to mine. They are going to interesting lengths to sell their inventory, like repainting them and misleading buyers by listing them as new on some retail sites. 

Thanks to the Merge, which shifted crypto mining from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, the need for warehouses full of video cards has gone down dramatically nearly overnight. 

An investigation by Youtuber Iskandar Souza and Paulo Gomes (via Videocards) claims that some third-party retailers in China are selling GPUs that appear new but have been touched up to hide the fact that they were used for crypto mining.

The Brazilian duo shared some tell-tale signs that reveal wheth…

Madmind Studio, the developer behind horny, hell-based horror games like Agony, has had one of its upcoming releases removed from Steam. The page for Succubus: Hellish Orgy VR was removed, remaining visible only on SteamDB, despite the fact the 2D version of Succubus is still up for sale on Steam.

“Some features available in the VR version are too disturbing and immersive to be released on Steam”, Madmind’s press release reads. It doesn’t explicitly say what feature led to the banning, simply that, “Valve banned it for its drastic content” and “Steam has decided to ban the game without giving us the ability to make changes/patches/censorship”.

Madmind has previously danced around the edges of what’s allowed on Steam by releasing “unrated” versions of its games as free DLC. F…

Raja Koduri is one of the big names in PC hardware. It was massive news when he first joined Intel in 2017 to help the company’s burgeoning graphics division, not the least bit because he had only recently quit being AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group boss. What a steal. But now his time at Intel is coming to a close, as he announces he’s parting ways with the company to set up is own AI software start-up.

Koduri is leaving his role as executive vice president at Intel, where he was taking care of the company’s growing graphics division, and where he also served as a general manager. He was also Intel’s chief architect for a time, which just goes to show how much stock Intel put in Koduri’s technical know-how.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Koduri’s departure on Twitter, and…

One of the things I genuinely like about Palworld is how it’s created a weird intersection between classic Pokémon-style mechanics and harebrained survival game nonsense—as is the case with this recent kill by the Video Gamers Podcast on Twitter.

Spotted by GamesRadar, this kill of Mammorest—a huge boss-level pal that stomps around the game’s starting area—taps into something primal. There was a time where, to get a good meal, you had to gather a few of your mates with some spears and hunt something big and woolly. That’s exactly what’s happened here. 

The Video Gamers Podcast’s campfire trap works for two reasons—firstly, campfires are super cheap to make. Secondly, Mammorest is a grass-element pal which gives it a weakness to fire. Not j…

The Diablo 4 Server Slam beta is underway now. 

This is the final public playtest before the action RPG’s launch in June. It’s open to everyone—you can download the Diablo 4 beta in the Battle.net launcher to join in—and will run until Sunday at 12 pm PT.

At the moment, the servers aren’t actually slammed: I made a character and started playing right away, with no queue. Maybe a certain Zelda game has something to do with that, but if things go anything like they did during the last open beta period, we’ll probably see queues appear as more and more people get off of work in North America. If there is a big rush this evening (not everyone is playing Tears of the Kingdom, right?), things will likely ease up into the weekend. 

This test dif…

Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida has said the ongoing DDoS attacks on the MMO are the longest and “largest-scale” the game has seen in the last decade.

“With the DDoS attacks, I believe this is the largest-scale and length we’ve been seeing this sort of attack since the original Final Fantasy 14,” Yoshida revealed during the latest Letter from the Producer livestream. “Of course, although it is the largest and longest period we’ve been receiving these attacks, we do have a very talented infrastructure team in Square Enix, and those who are specifically assigned to Final Fantasy 14 working very hard to protect us on a 24-hour basis; they swap teams on a rotation.”

Yoshida continued to say that the team has been working both internally and externally to fig…

Upcoming post-apocalyptic survival strategy game Homeseek, set to release in the late summer or early fall of this year, has a demo out on Steam that’s surprisingly savage. You really just… don’t get to save everyone.

In the world of Homeseek your region of Earth, at least, has become a dried-up dusty wasteland where water is precious and food is scarce. What little water you can find is often tainted, radioactive, or poisonous, and your little settlement is always on the brink of collapse.

Where in other games that’s often just a thematic threat, Homeseek is broken up into missions, each of which has an objective, and resources are well and truly scarce. Just playing the demo gave me a sense of that: What little water we could pump from wells and food we could scavenge fr…

Who wants to play a survival game where you’re a grunting lummox who punches trees for wood when you could be playing a survival game where you’re an olde worlde dandy who picks flowers in a Tim Burton dreamscape? Klei’s Don’t Starve and its multiplayer-focused sequel/spin-off Don’t Starve Together remain some of the best survival games around, as a raft of new players are currently discovering.

Don’t Starve Together is on sale on Steam for 90% off until May 4. That makes it $1.50 in freedom eagle money, £1.10 in the King’s shillings, and $2.15 in Australian dollarydoos. What’s more, it comes with a free bonus copy to give to a friend. The original Don’t Starve is on sale for 75% off as well.

According to SteamDB’s charts, a record-setting 96,000 concurrent players too…

Disco Elysium begins with the mother of all hangovers. The game’s protagonist has drunk himself to oblivion on a three-day bender before sleeping it off, and events begin as he blearily re-joins the world in a small, dishevelled hotel room. If you’re anything like me, chances are the character didn’t even make it out of there alive the first time through.  

It’s an opening scene that creates a vivid impression of this odd world and messed-up character, and certainly made its mark on Rocksteady senior environment artist Jonjo Hemmens. Hemmens decided earlier this year to remake the scene after playing Disco Elysium—it becoming his “favorite game of all time.”

The goal was to adapt the game’s aesthetic into a semi-realistic style, with Hemmens referencing the best-i…

With two weeks to go before the arrival of Star Wars Outlaws—August 30 is the big day—Ubisoft has revealed the official PC system requirements, as well as a rundown of PC-specific features you’ll be able to take advantage of if you’ve got the hardware to handle it.

You’re going to need some pretty heavy hardware to run Star Wars Outlaws at its “ultra” setting, but it’s reasonably forgiving at the other end of the scale. Of course, one of the great things about PC gaming is that you can fiddle: Turn this up so you can turn that down, until you find a balance of eye-candy and performance that makes you happy—or, at the very least, that you can live with until you’re able to upgrade your rig.

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