In a year marked by severe component price hikes and shortages, Valve is still determined to release Steam Machine and Steam Frame by the end of summer. The company confirmed as much as it announced the expansion of its Verified program, which goes into effect today despite neither Steam Machine or Steam Frame having a…
In Junes 20 years apart, PC Gamer was writing about monitors, and what you could get for $600-700. In 1996, that was a CRT with something in the 800×600 pixel range at 17 inches. “That’s not bad, but it isn’t exactly cheap, either,” we said at the time. In 2016, standards had changed a wee…
Got a pinch of salt ready? An employee of a “small specialist electronics manufacturer” has posted on Reddit that they suspect Sega might be looking to release a low-cost handheld games console. SeraphHS reveals that the company they work for received a quotation request from “a company that’s done licensed Sega hardware before,” citing the…
Last month, a game called Shrimp Game: Krill Confirmed launched on Steam. It’s a self-contained demo for the upcoming shrimp game, Shrimp Game, and as a game about shrimp it has all the features you’d expect: You can pilot one of 11 weaponized combat shrimp-forms, imbue them with a cocktail of violent elemental powers, and…
The end of Destiny 2 development came as a surprise to everyone: players, streamers, casual observers, and even the development team at Bungie, most of whom reportedly had no idea it was happening until it happened. It was such an outrageous move that even Rebb Ford, the creative director of Warframe—the other Destiny—called it “unthinkable.”…
It’s far from a sure thing, but there are reasons to believe that we’ll see a Persona 6 announcement in the near future. Recently, images purported to show the rumored game’s main characters and the RPG’s logo appeared on social media. Anyone can draw a few anime characters (or generate them with AI), take slightly-tilted…
Rust’s character customization options have always been a bit unusual in that… well, you don’t get any. Your character’s looks are generated by a random seed and you don’t have any say over them. Whatever you get, you get, from face to race to gender to the size of your dong or boobs. But your…
I was a bit surprised yesterday when Amazon Gaming general manager Jeff Gattis said that following the success of 007 First Light, sequels will be “done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios,” suggesting that First Light developer IO Interactive may find itself relieved of its Bond burden. The game is pretty good, and…
I don’t know what to say anymore, man. In the two weeks since announcing that Destiny 2 will soon be entering maintenance mode, Bungie has been gradually unveiling a massive slate of changes for its final Monument of Triumph update. Those additions and quality-of-life reworks have been so well-received that D2’s daily peak player counts…
If there’s one thing I respect in this fallen world anymore, it’s commitment to a bit. Jim’s Music Dungeon on YouTube is Knee Deep in the Bit, having taken hundreds of classic metal songs and made them sound like Doom level music—and he isn’t slowing down. His Doom midi cover of Schism by Tool definitely…