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Amidst yesterday’s yearly crop of April Fool’s japery, Marathon game director Joe Ziegler broke from seasonal convention on X by sharing an early, fool-free preview of balance adjustments Bungie has planned for upcoming patches in the weeks ahead. With tweaks planned for weapons, attachments, deployables, runner shells, and more, Ziegler said the wide-ranging slate of…

Watch the full interview video above on the PC Gamer YouTube channel, if you prefer. There are many goofy placeholders across Slay the Spire 2, MS Paint-style art pieces that stand in for the finished products that will come later as development progresses through Early Access, which Mega Crit says the game might take between…

In a somewhat ill-timed announcement (I promise it’s not an April Fools joke), the Jak & Daxter-porting OpenGOAL team revealed its complete PC port of Jak 3 yesterday, completing its years-long project to natively port the entire trilogy to PC. It still requires a legally-obtained copy of Jak 3 to run, similar to an emulator…

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked… Honestly, that’s what it feels like writing this review. Teamgroup’s MP44Q PCIe 4.0 SSD has finally landed with me for testing, and it’s a curious little QLC number that, once upon a time, would have offered itself up as a nice, affordable, tantalizing opportunity for any would-be budget…

The First Descendant’s launch hype went over like a bag of candy smuggled into a movie theater—exciting at first, but regrettably short-lived. While last July it was celebrating a screaming high of 10 million players in its first week alone, SteamDB shows the game has simmered to around 5,000 concurrent players as I write this….

Is it just me, or does everything feel pretty serious right now? With that in mind, a little whimsy is awfully welcome. Enter the Seasonic Focus ATX 3.1 Sakura Limited Edition. It’s basically an ATX 3.1 power supply with some cherry-blossom themed styling accoutrements, an aesthetic known as sakura in Japan, which is where Seasonic…

The AI industry is often seen as pushing the bleeding edge of hardware and tech, but not every AI server is running on the absolute latest accelerator chips. CoreWeave’s co-founder and chief development officer (CDO) Brannin McBee recently testified as much on tech and business talk show TBPN (via Ray Wang). The CDO explained that…