January 26, 2025

First spotted by TheGamer, in a recent thread on X, “The Everything App,” Obsidian showed off the character creator for its upcoming first person RPG, Avowed. In addition to demonstrating the gamut of appearance options like rainbow hair or mushroom frills, Obsidian also revealed all five potential character backgrounds coming to the game: Arcane Scholar…

Gaming handhelds are probably getting too big⁠—the massive lad that is the Acer Nitro Blaze 2 being a perfect example⁠—but how far would you be willing to go to make one fit in your backpack? DIYer crastinator-pro created the Steam Brick, a Steam Deck that has no mouth and it must scream, but I’m weirdly…

First reported by Tom’s Hardware, the patch notes for the latest update to Nvidia’s CUDA Toolkit state that support for the Maxwell and Pascall architectures⁠—GTX 9 and 10-series cards⁠—will be deprecated in an upcoming update. Those cards will still be getting GeForce driver updates, and while Nvidia has not yet announced for how long, we…

We’re weeks away from the launch of Civilization VII, officially PC Gamer’s Most Wanted game of 2025. We all intend to celebrate the game’s release in our own way. Personally, I’m thinking about conquering a small nation. Luxembourg perhaps, or possibly Andorra. Firaxis’ own plans for marking the occasion are less megalomaniacal, though conquest will…

Hyper Light Breaker, Heart Machine’s 3D follow-up to moody action-adventure Hyper Light Drifter, smashed into Steam early access earlier this month. But the initial response to it has been less than stellar, with players complaining about specific issues like frame rate drops, lack of keybinding, and problems with the parry system, while generally being divided…