World of Warcraft: Midnight’s ‘stay a while and listen’ monologues might’ve just heavily hinted at a future big bad

I’m still plugging through World of Warcraft: Midnight‘s story campaign, and I can say for a fact that Blizzard’s continued to improve its storytelling—in particular, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the “stay a while and listen” conversations. Optional snippets which I’d absolutely encourage you to absorb whenever they come up. Carving my way through the…

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Top analyst firm Gartner predicts the ‘sub-$500 entry-level PC segment will disappear by 2028’, along with worldwide PC shipment decline of 10.4% in 2026

It wasn’t too long ago you could pick up a sub-$500 gaming PC or gaming laptop in the yearly sales. Sure, it’d almost certainly be reliant on an iGPU or older tech, and it wouldn’t be the most powerful machine in the world. But thanks to the ongoing memory crisis (and various other supply chain…

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The RAMpocalypse Strikes Again, As Retroid Reveals Changes To Pocket 6 Pricing, And The Discontinuation Of Its 12GB Model

Prepare to pay more. We have some bad news for people hoping to pick up the Retroid Pocket 6. Yesterday, Retroid announced on social media that significant changes are on the way to the handheld’s pricing and availability, citing “ongoing shortages and sharply rising costs for both RAM and storage.” This includes a price rise…

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I completely missed a new item being introduced to Minecraft in my excitement over its new baby mobs, and you bet I’m going to hoard thousands of them

Minecraft’s first drop of 2026 is bound to roll out any week now, unleashing an entire zoo of new baby skins for both passive and hostile mobs. But, while I’ve been getting far too excited over the new look for these beloved creatures, I’ve completely missed an integral item being added to the game, which…

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Talking Point: “Why Bother If You’re Not Going To Do It Properly?” – Why SEGAGAGA’s AI Translation Is Upsetting So Many People

“The game IS the writing”. Late last week, Sega fans got a welcome surprise thanks to the release of the English language patch for Segagaga, a Dreamcast RPG which had remained untranslated for decades. The work was undertaken by a team led by Exxistance, and finally gave fans the chance to play the game in…

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Resident Evil Requiem performance actor says they sometimes filmed in the dark ‘to make the situation feel as close to what it was without, you know, having a real-life zombie running at you’

Leon Kennedy is a veteran of the zombie apocalypse, and performed by a veteran too. Nick Apostolides returns to the role after voicing Leon in the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 4, as well as the animated series Infinite Darkness. Grace Ashcroft is the opposite—Resident Evil Requiem is very much her first rodeo, and…

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Why I love Diablo 2, Act 1

WHY I LOVE (Image credit: Blizzard) In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. This week, Jody remembers Diablo 2’s dark opening. It’s weird to feel affection for dreary bogs with names like Blood Moor, even if they do look like…

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