PC Gaming

World of Warcraft‘s had another brush with a digital plague—on the Moon Guard US server, capital cities were overcome with waves of toxic activity that saw vitriol line the streets. But enough about trade chat—there was also a debuff spreading around and killing people. The incident occurred late last week, when Stormwind was suddenly assailed…

As a manufacturing hub, China sees plenty of unique hardware projects—like this gaming Megazord. But there’s plenty of innovation to be found beyond one-and-done projects like this. For instance, back when the US Department of Commerce restricted the export of Nvidia’s RTX 4090 cards, Chinese manufacturers got creative. The so-called RTX 4080M card was one…

Seven years ago, a user of the Steam Controller subreddit found a prototype of the original Steam Controller at a local Goodwill. Recently, in a strange bit of luck, a second prototype has been found at Goodwill. If one more pops up at the same chain, one must assume that Gabe Newell is simply dropping…

We’ve watched the slow death of physical games media for a decade now, whether it be discs costing more, digital-only consoles, or the recent revelation from PlayStation that come 2028 it will cease productions of videogame discs. It’s nerve-wracking for videogame conservationists, player’s rights advocates, fans of the hobby, and even Hideo Kojima himself. Kojima…

As of a few days ago, Anthropic deployed its Claude Fable 5 AI model after the US temporarily restricted access. Now it has already been used to port the 2003 video game Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour to iOS. It seemingly needed the source code, previous ports, and some human tweaking to get…

Isla de las Muñecas, the Mexican island that holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of haunted dolls, served as the inspiration for Where Dolls Hang, a survival horror game where you play a detective searching for people who’ve gone missing in a particularly cursed location. “Players must investigate missing person cases by examining…

Watch Dogs 2 is currently $2.50 on Steam. It’s hardly a classic, but it’s not terrible either. At one cent per 10 minutes of content, how can you resist? It’s only five pleasantly tactile mouse clicks away. Maybe you can’t resist. During Steam’s seasonal sales it’s possible to scoop up dozens of games for less…

Remember how Sony sneakily added a PSN account requirement to Helldivers 2 after launch, thereby making it unplayable in the long list countries PSN still hasn’t been rolled out to? And then Sony region-restricted a bunch of PC ports in those same countries, like God of War Ragnarok, Spider-Man 2, Ghost of Tsushima, and The…

Last year Spike Chunsoft announced a remaster of divisive visual novel sequel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair to be called Danganronpa 2×2. Intriguingly, said remaster will also include an alternate storyline, so if you don’t want to suffer through the original story again you can experience a different version of events playing out on its murder…

The cult classic Half-Life 2 mod series Entropy: Zero has another entry in the works, and speaking as a fan of Thief, Deus Ex, and all things immersive sim, Entropy: Zero 2 – Progenitors may be the most exciting one yet. Entropy: Zero has always presented the bad guys’ side of things in Half-Life, but…