PC Gaming
Valve’s wireless VR headset, the Steam Frame, doesn’t yet have a nailed down release date beyond the vague window of ‘later this year’. I’ve got a hunch it’ll drop soon though—and not because I put any stock in the Steam Frame subreddit’s wild release date rituals. No, I’m instead feeling optimistic because both Lepton and…
I played first-person co-op puzzle game Big Walk with strangers back in March and had an absolute gas. Naturally, it’s even better with friends: in two long sessions with my PC Gamer pals Tyler and Morgan, we’ve solved over a dozen puzzles, had twice as many laughs, and as you might expect, done a heck…
Noctua is one of the very best fan makers on the market, but introducing its fan into the Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition gaming mouse seemed to involve a truly horrible sequence of fan tests. Noctua has “custom-built torture-test rigs”, all designed to put fans through their paces to see if they can withstand how the…
If you’ve ever felt like your bike trainer has a disturbing lack of Rocket League or Forza Horizon, you are in luck. One app called Deck de France can let you use your bike as a controller for games, though it’s pretty limited so far. Shared on GitHub (via Hackaday), Deck de France is technically…
If Microsoft gutting its Xbox division, laying off staff, and struggling to give its console a real unique selling point hasn’t quite put you off the brand, you will now have to pay hundreds more for its devices if you live in Europe. As originally spotted over in a Resetera thread, the prices of Xbox…
Final Fantasy 14 isn’t any stranger to crossovers—but Evercold will be a first for the MMO, wherein both the raid series and the alliance raid series (8-man and 24-man raids, respectively) will be crossovers. With the latter being a whackadoodle Evangelion crossover, and the former being a far more reasonable FF7 one. This won’t be…
Last month I reported that replacement batteries for the original LCD version of the Steam Deck would return to the iFixIt store after a brief absence. Well, Valve sent more batteries, and you can purchase these replacements from iFixIt right now. Unfortunately, the replacement battery alone now costs $130. Purchasing a new L-shaped battery without…
Last week PC Gamer’s Andy Edser highlighted an article tracing a seeming massive drop in Steam Deck sales. I’m not entirely convinced by the maths involved—which was conducted by Boiling Steam—but whether the numbers are accurate or not, it does capture some of the anxiety around Valve’s hardware and what kind of future it might…
Remember the story about AI companies destroying millions of copies of books while scanning them to use as training data? In terms of bad optics, “destroying books” is right up there with kicking puppies, which is why the AI companies relied on third-party rebuyers to obfuscate what they were actually doing. It didn’t work, and…
In a new interview with PCGamesN to mark Owlcat’s 10th anniversary, studio co-founder and creative director Alexander Mishulin talked about Owlcat’s history and upcoming projects. Two things really caught my eye: Owlcat’s still got hardcore CRPG fans covered, and the studio’s bulked up to the heavyweight division. “We will continue to make CRPGs because we…