PC Gaming
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…
Intel recently spilled the beans on its upcoming Panther Lake CPU architecture, which seems to be an iterative improvement over previous designs, plus the promise of being built on a new process node, 18A. But in case you’ve wondered about some of the broader design choices that went into the last couple of generations plus…
With so much of our personal and professional lives stored in the cloud, it’s easy to forget just how fragile these systems can be. Don’t misunderstand, I enjoy the convenience of my important files being accessible from almost anywhere—but I back up the really important stuff at least twice on physical media nowhere near the…
Josh Sawyer has been making games professionally for 26 years. What started as a hobby, making and playing tabletop RPGs, has grown into a storied career. Sawyer had his first position in 1999 working at Black Isle Studios, and now serves as studio design director at Obsidian, where he led development on games like Fallout:…
Classic RPGs make up some of the most formative examples of late ’90s to early 2000s PC gaming in my memory, but I also remember when they weirdly disappeared. If you loved games like the original Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, or Planescape, and also wondered why we stopped seeing these kinds of titles for a…
I thought I’d heard every bit of corpo-speak going at this point in my career, but apparently I was wrong. AI code review platform Graphite has published a blog detailing its use of “dogfooding” to help develop its onboarding process, a particularly ugly term that apparently equates to “being forced to eat your own dogfood”….
I don’t know why, but there’s nothing more tactical and cool than an MP5, and in Battlefield 6, that’s the PW5A3. Not to be confused with the much faster firing PW7A2, based on the MP7, the best BF6 PW5A3 loadout is just a tad slower and more methodical. The PW5A3 is certainly a strong early…
Battlefield 6 may have 45 weapons to unlock, but there’s only one you’ll ever need: the trusty M4A1 carbine you unlock at Rank 2. Just a few minutes into your first game, and you’ll be well on your way to having the best M4A1 loadout, dominating close range and often outmatching even assault rifles at…
Despite the M433 being the first assault rifle in Battlefield 6, and likely the very first weapon you’ll use, full stop—ARs are supposed to be simple, after all—it’s far from easy to use. I hated it at first, but after some trial and error, the best M433 loadout has grown on me immensely. The M433…
It’s been three years and 11 months since a Battlefield game came out, and if you ask me, that’s the sweet spot. It was long enough that DICE’s last entry, Battlefield 2042, had time to live up to its potential (eventually), and not so short a gap that the coming of a new Battlefield is…