PC Gaming
Just over a week after announcing an October open beta for the Steam edition of Team Fortress 2 Classic, the throwback version of Valve’s famed team-based shooter, developer Eminoma has an update: Never mind. It turns out that an application on Steam can’t be both a mod, which Team Fortress 2 Classic is, and a…
Hideo Kojima has written an essay for the Japanese magazine An-An (spotted by Automaton) on one of his favourite topics: the 1970 World Expo held in Osaka, Japan. Kojima has often touched on this event in his writings, and the impact that his repeated visits had on his young mind. This time around, he’s even…
It’s Battlefield 6 day, and virtual warfighters are flocking to the front to dutifully ignore their squadmates’ cries for revives and crash the first helicopter they enter. But as all those hundreds of thousands of launch day players arrive, some who purchased the game through the EA app are being denied deployment. On the Battlefield…
One of the most valuable things you can do for the health of an FPS is let people mess with maps and assemble their own servers. Battlefield 6 is checking both of those boxes at launch with Portal, a web tool and SDK that lets people fire up persistent custom games and create new game…
The DRS-IAR straddles the line between an assault rifle and LMG in Battlefield 6, and it struggles to be the best of either at first. The default attachments, namely a 3.5x scope and nothing in the way of recoil control, really sell this weapon short. With the best BF6 DRS-IAR loadout, though, this LMG is…
Who doesn’t love a chocobo? Perhaps the most ever-present member of the Final Fantasy cast, these idealised chad chickens have been in the series since Final Fantasy 2, and are the true series icon. And now one enterprising player has proven that there is a chocobo god. Take a bow Saint Riot, a streamer who…
Former Riot Games vice president Greg Street, who left the company in 2023 and launched a new NetEase-backed studio called Fantastic Pixel Castle, says the partnership with NetEase is coming to an end, and that the studio will likely close if a new publisher can’t be found. Street delivered the bad news in a message…
Sick of Borderlands 4’s chatty characters? Just want to press ahead and get to the shooting? Wish you could hammer a button to speed through their dialogue like you can in most other games? Good news! A courageous modder has created a dialogue-skip mod. Whatever you do, don’t ever use it. That’s not me telling…
You ever thought the Rubik’s Cube needs a 21st-century iPad kid glow up? Me neither, and yet the $299 WowCube is now officially available to preorder. The Rubik’s WowCube comes with 24 LCD screens and an AI-based application that tracks the time you’ve spent playing with it, alongside the number of twists you’ve made. The…
War is hell. Also, war is irresistible. That’s if Battlefield 6’s launch concurrents, which smashed past GTA 5, Among Us, Starfield, and other heavy-hitters to become the 20th most-played game in SteamDB’s records about, uh, 25 minutes after launching. As I write this, the game sits at a current and all-time peak of 521,000 concurrent…