PC Gaming

This week, the internet is flush with freshly self-appointed legal experts thanks to emerging news that Nintendo has added more patent weaponry to its ever-growing legal arsenal, including a patent on calling and battling companion characters that was seemingly rubber-stamped without pushback by US patent officials. Yesterday, we published the opinions of videogame IP lawyer…

The US Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into “AI chatbots acting as companions,” seeking to determine how companies including Google, Meta, OpenAI, and X “measure, test, and monitor potentially negative impacts of this technology on children and teens.” The rise of AI-powered chatbots has been accompanied by disturbing and sometimes horrific stories about…

Borderlands 4 just launched and, predictably, players on Steam are already criticizing its PC performance. Meanwhile, the just-released Hollow Knight: Silksong didn’t raise any performance concerns, but gamers in China were dismayed to discover that the Chinese translation was botched. Those are just a couple of the reasons some gamers have chosen to reject launch…

Borderlands 4 is out today, and it’s been very well received critically, at least by those sites who received pre-release code—a list that does not include PC Gamer. It’s a different situation over on Steam, however, where a whole lot of people are playing Borderlands 4, but the overall user rating is an ugly “mostly…

The United States Department of Justice has placed an $11 million bounty on Ukrainian national Volodymyr Viktorovich Tymoshchuk—who also goes by the aliases deadforz, Boba, msfv, and farnetwork—accusing him of being the mastermind behind ransomware that has been used to attack over 250 US companies, as well as others around the world. The DoJ says…

After playing the Easy Delivery Co. demo back in May, its lovable little kei truck had slalomed its way down an eerie, snowdrift-laden mountain road and skidded to a stop in my heart. I’m a simple man with a simple past as a simple delivery driver in a simply depressing town—when a game’s able to…

The finals of The International 2025, the annual Dota 2 world championship tournament, are now underway, and to get things started on the right foot Valve boss Gabe Newell shared a special message with fans: After all these years he still loves the game, even though a lot of you are pretty mean to him…

I’ve been hyping myself up for Elden Ring Nightreign’s Deep of Night mode ever since it was uncovered by dataminers a month ago. It’s not like I need an excuse to play, but running through Nightlords and Everdark Sovereigns was starting to get tedious. I wanted a new challenge, and what better than a ranked…

Finding the Apostate Key location in Hollow Knight: Silksong is surprisingly difficult. For those who didn’t get kidnapped by The Slab‘s jailers earlier in the game, you’ll first encounter this area heading left out of the Choral Chambers in Act 2. The only thing is, most of the region is locked behind a door that…

The contemporary football landscape has one thing in greater abundance than ever before: scrutiny. The sport is now covered 24 hours a day, every nugget of news sliced-and-diced across every platform there is, while things like the recent transfer deadline are the subject of countless live blogs and breathless studio coverage that often amounts to…