I’m starting to wish Ubisoft worked as quickly as Netflix. Here we are a mere one day after Netflix’s new animated series Splinter Cell: Deathwatch dropped, and it’s already been picked up for a second season. That’s fast and, I assume, a good sign that the show’s multivision goggles are drawing a lot of eyeballs….
The $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts by a consortium that includes Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners investment firm has resulted in no small amount of consternation among observers. Much of that arises from the perceived likelihood of a less-than-ideal long-term outcome for EA, its creative output, and its staff—but…
It didn’t take me long to get into the Everwind demo at Steam Next Fest. I was skeptical: I feel like I’ve had my fill of games that kinda sorta look like Minecraft but aren’t actually Minecraft, y’know? But my skepticism evaporated roughly 35 seconds into the demo. I spawned on top of a small…
There are few videogame pastimes as treasured as trying to stand on a flying object. Sadly, while it’s possible to land on an enemy player’s flying fighter jet—you should see that clip if you haven’t already—Battlefield 6 won’t let you take to the skies on a teammate’s recon drone. Unless you hit it with a…
Grand Theft Auto Online’s Halloween event is here for the year, and ghastly ghouls have taken over the streets of Los Santos yet again with new limited-time rewards. All the Halloween favorites from past years are returning, and there are new playlists and modes with boo-sted rewards in celebration of spooky season. Rumors of UFOs…
The 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart, a fictionalized retelling of the battles of Scottish knight William Wallace during the First War of Scottish Independence, was full of blatant historical inaccuracies: Its dates were wrong, its dress was anachronistic, and—worst of all—it didn’t even cover the period in Wallace’s life when a demonic meteor fell into…
Rockstar Games has shared a touching tribute to legendary R&B artist D’Angelo, who died of pancreatic cancer on October 14, calling him “a true titan of soul” in a message posted to Instagram. D’Angelo—real name Michael Eugene Archer—released three albums over a career that spanned 30 years, beginning with the Grammy-nominated Brown Sugar in 1995….
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Okay, PC Gamer test takers, I’m through messing around. Today I’m going to put your brains and fingers to the…
As if you needed any more reason to feel constantly on edge in The Outlast Trials, its upcoming update will turn even your closest friends against you in the game’s first PvP mode. That’s right, Mother Gooseberry and the various other horrors waiting to take you down in each of the game’s trials are no…
Just as we’re deep in thought pondering the true character of the Xe3 iGPU in Intel’s new Panther Lake laptop chip and what the heck the “Xe3P” thing is that popped up in the marketing slides, here comes a left-field announcement. Intel will launch a new GPU later next year that’s purpose built for AI…