PC Gaming
As the games industry marches towards ever-higher game prices and $80 Mario Karts, you’d be hard pressed to find a better deal than getting a pile of games that’ll only cost you around 22 cents each. Over at Itch.io, you can pick up the Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle, which’ll get you 74 indie…
World of Warcraft senior game director Ion Hazzikostas dropped a bomb in a Blizzard broadcast today, one that many suspected would someday hit: At an undetermined point in the future, WoW will stop allowing add-ons to read combat events or auras. Currently, WoW’s most popular mods, including all damage meters, boss encounter information systems such…
Outrage on a Reddit forum is hardly a novel concept. Outrage at AI is likewise not exactly a major newsflash. But in a new twist, the latest unrest is a direct result of Redditors being subject to an AI-powered experiment without their knowledge (via New Scientist). Reportedly, researchers from the University of Zurich have been…
Game delays are a common part of life in videogames, but game advances—where a game’s release date is moved up instead of back? Not so much. It happens, but it’s a rarity—in most cases, developers are hammering away on games practically right up to the moment of their release. So eyebrows understandably went up yesterday…
Dear reader—and potentially, dear horse enthusiast—I want to clarify something. While I do like animals, I am nowhere near a ‘horse person’. The only experience I’ve had with one of humanity’s oldest animal friends is a very terrified stint on a farm in the rural south of England when I was very little. Which is…
Rockstar might have come down like a tonne of bricks on the personal blog of former Rockstar North dev Obbe Vermeij (who worked at the studio from 1995 to 2009), but apparently it can’t stop him from tweeting. To mark yesterday’s 17th anniversary of GTA 4’s release, Vermeij took to X to exposit on his…
In a recent campaign of TTRPG City of Mist, I played a world-weary lounge singer increasingly finding the watery despair captured in the poem Lorelei was sending unwelcome ripples through her life. Perhaps needless to say, the idea of a songstress who harbours a voice with devastating power is a creative idea I find extremely…
If there’s one thing about the AI boom that doesn’t make my eyes roll or make me feel a disquieting sense of impending doom and existential dread, it’s the fact that many of the computing improvements for that industry will hopefully (emphasis on ‘hopefully’) trickle down into the PC gaming sphere. In-package liquid cooling seems…
It’s been a couple of weeks since Blizzard launched Stadium in Overwatch 2, and since then, it’s been an enjoyable, albeit bumpy ride. Apparently, the new mode only uses internal MMR for matchmaking, but even still, players are encountering a bit of mismatch. “We were literally held hostage in Stadium,” one player says. “Got trapped…
PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon recently sat down with Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone to discuss everything from Jojamart to his next game, Haunted Chocolatier. One question was what Barone himself is playing, and the man is as old school as it comes. “Well recently I’ve been playing chess which is a great game,” says Barone….