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TournifyPK Summer Championship Announced: PKR 500,000 Prize Pool!
Prepare your squads for the biggest esports tournament of the summer. TournifyPK is proud to announce the Summer Championship with tournament tracks for PUBG Mobile, Valorant, and Tekken 8.
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Top 5 Valorant Teams in Pakistan: 2026 Standings and Power Rankings
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June 4 is the End of an Era for Call of Duty: Warzone
Given the massive install bases of the Xbox One and (especially) the PlayStation 4, not to mention COVID derailing the start of the current console generation, it’s no surprise that they’ve remained relevant for nearly 13 years. Major games have continued to release and recieve support on PS4 and Xbox One despite their...
UK Government Considering Game Chat Ban For Under 16s
The UK was among the first countries to roll out new legislation that required social media sites to verify the ages of their users. This has proven controversial, with many seeing the age verification methods as an invasion into the privacy of adult users, and also ineffective at protecting children online.
Destiny 2 Was Not A Failure
Bungie's loot shooter achieved something most games never even attempt
AMD confirms that AM5 will continue to be supported by new processors through to 2029, and drop the deets on a forthcoming EXPO update
While AMD didn't have much in the way of brand-new PC gaming hardware for Computex 2026—just a cut-down GPU, plus a last-gen X3D CPU and a last-last-gen one—it has at least reminded us of something important for many rig builders. Its current desktop processor socket will still be supported by new chip releases for at...
Jobs digest: moves at Miniclip, Supercell, Scopely, Socialpoint, Ares and more
Our jobs digest has all the recruitment news you need from across the mobile games business, all in one spot. This column is sponsored by FastSpring. FastSpring: Global payments for your games from a partner you can trust with your players. Quickly launch a new web store, replace an existing D2C vendor, or add a...
Everything We Expect To See Announced At This Week's State Of Play
E3 season is here! Despite the fact this annual video game trade show died a slow yet inevitable death five long years ago, I still can’t help thinking of summer this way. All the sunshine means a bustling week when every major gaming company unleashes a flurry of exciting news and announcements to fill out the gaming...
Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets
Noctua has announced a long-term partnership with Carbice, "a U.S.-based expert in vertically-aligned carbon nanotube thermal interface materials." Noctua revealed during this year's Computex that it will become the exclusive retail distributor of Carbice's carbon nanotube thermal pads.A dedicated cooling pad for AMD R...
'Return of the king': AMD is bringing back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for DDR4 platforms, launching it alongside the mid-range AM5 Ryzen 7 7700X3D
After being rumoured to do so for a few weeks now, AMD has confirmed it is indeed bringing back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D with AM4 10-year anniversary packaging, as well as a mid-range AM5 Ryzen 7 7700X3D chip. From the top, the 5800X3D originally launched in 2022, but the updated model (celebrating 10 years of AM4) comes bu...
Factorio's next major update will be a swansong, as Wube Software "shift the focus onto long term support" and new projects
Clunk. Kachunk. Thunk. That's the sound of Factorio's last major update being smushed into shape, before the factory sim is left ticking away in the background while devs Wube Software turn their attention to new projects. Yep, following ages in early access and some chunky DLC following its full release in 2020, Facto...
A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning
Wizards of the Coast is returning to the Sword Coast, PC Gamer has learned. While Baldur's Gate 4 is inevitable, ahead of that it looks like we'll see the resurrection of BioWare's original games—specifically Baldur's Gate 2, though from what we've heard it's likely both games are getting the ol' remake treatment. Form...
Twitch Streamer Hasan Piker Banned From UK Because He’s Not ‘Conducive To The Public Good’
The political streamers had their entries revoked seemingly based on claims of 'antisemitism'
All June 2026 Free Games You Can Claim
Ready to pick up dozens of free games in June 2026? Well, get ready to be on your toes to make sure you don't miss any giveaways on Steam, Amazon Prime Gaming (aka Amazon Luna), Epic Games Store, Itch.io, and more. At any given moment, there should be an absurd number of free-to-keep PC games, including small indie rel...