March 2025

While Microsoft’s Windows OS dominates the PC gaming market, the rampant success of the Steam Deck is doing sterling work at turning gamers towards Linux. The open-source operating system has been given a kernel update that contains at least one change that’s potentially great news for PC gamers—enough to forgive the fact that Torvalds himself…

The infamous Blue Screen of Death feels like it’s always there, waiting. The scourge of PC gamers and IT workers alike, it lurks in the distance, seemingly anticipating the right moment to ruin your day. Now Microsoft has announced that it’s previewing a “more streamlined UI for unexpected restarts” in the latest Windows Insider build—and…

Generative AI has shunted its great technological heft into all sorts of industries over the past few years—and videogames aren’t an exception, not by a long-shot. Voice actors in America are embroiled in a battle over rights to their own vocal likeness, studios with enough money to do better are bending over backwards to avoid…

Inzoi has been in the hands of life sim sickos for a few days now, and while there are pockets of criticism here and there—build mode being too obtuse and a lack of gameplay depth being two major callouts—it seems that folks are having a real good time playing something that isn’t The Sims for…

Last year saw the 25th anniversary of Half-Life, one of the most important games in PC history and a spectacular debut for Valve. But in another timeline, it could’ve been the studio’s second game. Valve co-founder and former chief marketing officer Monica Harrington was on a panel at the recent 2025 Game Developers Conference called…

Monster Hunter Wilds’ first month has been a right corker, as Capcom revealed it managed to shift over 10 million copies in the game’s opening weeks. Around eight million of those were just in the first three days of launch, making it the fastest-selling Capcom game in the developer’s history. So while things have slowed…