PC Gaming
Blizzard is about to take a sledgehammer to the way Overwatch 2 is played. The change will take effect when season 9 launches later this month. For the first time in the hero shooter’s history, every tank and DPS hero will heal themselves, loosening their reliance on support in a match. Through a new passive…
Discord’s experimental new Clips feature, which has been rolling out since last year, lets users who are streaming in a voice channel capture up to two-minute-long clips of their streams. It’s a nice little feature addition that has accidentally become mildly controversial. The fear is privacy. On social media, some posters have sounded the alarm…
For evil and benevolent overlords of RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress, Stranded: Alien Dawn, and other great colony simulation games, there’s some great news as we kick off 2024. I know it’s hard to pull yourself away from the intricacies and drama of managing your settlements, but there’s a wave of cool-looking colony sims headed our way…
Netflix announced today that Laurence Fishburne, the wise man Morpheus from the Matrix films, will be joining the cast of The Witcher as Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy—or as his friends know him, Regis. Regis is a powerful higher vampire who played a key role in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher novels. He had what could be described…
Bethesda announced on Twitter today that the “biggest Starfield update yet” is headed to beta testing on Steam next week. This isn’t the start of the big gameplay updates Bethesda promised in December, though: Instead it looks to be a pretty standard patch, making “more than 100 fixes and improvements” to graphics, gameplay issues, and…
Today’s mice have little eyeballs that stare unblinkingly at the textures of our grubby mousepads—a tragic life—but the first computer mice were delightfully simple mechanical contraptions. A little ball stuck out from a cage on the underside, and when you rolled it around, it spun two wheels, one to register forward and backward movement and…
Capcom is facing accusations from fans that it’s quietly adding new DRM to its older games on PC, in what appears to be an attempt to crack down on the use of mods. But the process went from “quiet” to “very noisy” after a recent update to Resident Evil Revelations caused slowdown and crashes, and…
The VESA organisation is a huge group of electronics and semiconductor manufacturers that work together to create various standards for the industry to follow. DisplayPort is perhaps its most well-known technology these days and VESA has just updated the specification to v2.1a with the main change replacing the DP40 cable spec with DP54, which allows…
Sony’s CES 2024 presentation might not have delivered in the way some might have hoped, with no news of the much-rumoured PS5 Pro, but that didn’t mean it didn’t have its moments of excitement. Enter, Sony Honda Mobility president and COO Izumi Kawanishi, who livened up proceedings by driving a car onstage with a Sony…
Earlier this week, a new special from stand-up comedian George Carlin was posted to YouTube—which is concerning, seeing as he died in 2008. Titled “I’m Glad I’m Dead“, the special was allegedly created, edited, and posted to the Dudesy YouTube channel by an AI. At least that’s what the core conceit of the Dudesy podcast…