May 2025

PC Gamer’s Fraser Brown played a vile trick on me when he rekindled my formerly long-dead hope that Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 might actually be good. Before he went and did that preview, I’d reached a state of acceptance and inner peace—there simply wasn’t any way it could live up to my halcyon…

As I type these very words, and less than six months after its official launch on January 30, it is at last possible to buy an RTX 5090 for under Nvidia’s officially recommended retail price. Cue much rejoicing. There is, of course, a catch. It all depends on where you live. In the UK, the…

It’s my feeling that we live in a meaningless and random universe, at the whim of scattershot physical forces so varied we might as well not try to predict anything—but occasionally, some trick of mathematics forces me to consider whether I’m actually in a simulation, painting, or videogame. Such as the absolute mind-melter that is…

Cattle Country, a new addition to the farming sim space, has released on Steam. But to set it apart from what I’d say is a completely oversaturated genre, it strays from your standard routine as a farmer and puts you into the boots of a cowboy. If that’s not enough to convince you to check…

Archer is part of the Fate/Stay Night collaboration happening in version 3.4 of Honkai: Star Rail, and you can claim one free copy of him right up until the end of version 3.6. Dr Ratio sends his nod of approval, I’m sure. To make him the best he can be, you’ll need to collect all…

Among many other descriptors, we could arguably call the last year one of hardware being pushed to the point of failure—think Intel CPU crashes, melting RTX 50-series power cables, and dying AMD Ryzen 9000-series CPUs on certain motherboards. We already had explanations for the former two, and it now looks like we might have an…

Whispers of Lethal Company‘s first update in months have been circulating for a while now, but it seems like we are getting a lot closer to a release date after the dev shared some new information about its content. Developer Zeekerss has been hinting towards what to expect on social media, saying in April that…