PC Gaming

One of the best things about PC gaming is mods. They let people do things with their games that developers, for whatever reason, couldn’t, didn’t, and/or really wish you wouldn’t. Sometimes they’re practical things, like the recently-released Dying Light: the Beast mod that reduces annoying zombie grabs—and sometimes, well, they’re not. A good example of…

Though I did notice traversal stuttering when I played Silent Hill F, the biggest technical issue I had was unrelated to the framerate. On a semi-regular basis I’d see everything suddenly shrink to fit the top-left quarter of the screen, except for the UI, with a flickering smear of colors filling the rest of my…

It’s true: If you squint at the gameplay footage of ZA/UM’s Zero Parades, all you’ll see is Disco Elysium with a different coat of paint. It’s set in an isometric city covered in rust and filth, is intensely detailed with surreal art, and sticks all its dialogue on the right side of the screen. However,…

I’m no prude, I promise—but I was honestly a bit surprised the new trailer for Wolverine is so, like, bloody. Wow. I realize Logan has razor-sharp claws that snikt out of his hands, and his whole deal is using them to cut people up into multiple pieces. I also know a couple of the Marvel…

The story of Battlefield 6 so far has been one pleasant surprise after another: Surprise that leaked playtests looked really fun, surprise that Battlefield Studios committed to grounded cosmetics early on, surprise that the open beta was so popular it eclipsed Call of Duty on Steam, surprise that it actually runs well on PC without…

At Sony’s State of Play today, Eidos-Montréal and developer Aspyr announced that a remaster of classic immersive sim Deus Ex is coming to PlayStation 5 next year. There’s no mention of a PC version in the trailer, and the official website, deusexremastered.com, currently doesn’t work, but a representative for the game has separately confirmed to…

A month after the actor who provided the French voice of Lara Croft issued a cease-and-desist to Aspyr over its use of AI-generated voice lines in Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered, the studio has confirmed that the “unauthorized AI generated content” has now been removed. The change was acknowledged in a message posted on Aspyr’s support…

World of Warcraft: Midnight is on the horizon, and you know what that means: the time to throw money at an ostentatious collector’s edition is almost upon us. Conveniently, Blizzard has just revealed what Midnight’s fanciest edition contains, and while I’m not vibing with it as much as I did with The War Within’s, there’s…

In 2023, our Morgan Park wrote about the phenomenon of Cosmetic Uglification, in which shooters of the modern era are inevitably swallowed by a rancid mire of crossover skins until they’ve lost all semblance of a cohesive visual identity. In the years since, things have only become more dire, culminating in Black Ops 6 reaching…

The Pokémon Company says the US government did not have permission to use Pikachu and other Pokémon content promotional videos for the Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection agencies posted to X—but what it’s going to do about it, if anything, remains to be seen. The first video, a montage of ICE agents and…