PC Gaming
The trend of the last decade is alive and well: Soulslikes are still all the rage. Even among the limited selection of demos at Summer Game Fest 2025, I saw numerous games that were either Souls down to their toes or took some degree of inspiration from them. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, a self-described Soulslike action…
Nier: Automata producer Yosuke Saito and director Yoko Taro have both come out to deny a rumor about publisher Square Enix’s restrictions over the game’s character designs. A mistranslated English subtitle during a stream on Tuesday sparked news stories and social media posts suggesting that Nier: Automata had to adhere to Western standards to avoid…
Until now I couldn’t figure out why Hades, a game with 275,000 positive reviews piled up on Steam, didn’t grab me. Turns out it’s something fairly trivial: I dislike controlling a tiny character in an action game. Absolum takes the “die, retry” format of Hades—its own subgenre of roguelike at this point—and blends it with…
It has not been smooth sailing for Bungie’s Marathon reboot since it was revealed in March 2023 with a stylish but ultimately empty teaser. After two years of questions and uncertainty, PC Gamer’s resident Bungie whisperer Tim Clark declared it “definitely good” after getting hands-on time with it in April. But he had significant concerns…
Stellar Blade finally hit PC two days ago, giving everyone a chance to do whatever it is this game is actually about. Unfortunately, no one knows what that is, because the entirety of discourse surrounding it is about the main character’s butt. Well, now that butt is on PC, and you know what that means:…
No matter how advanced PCs become, nothing will ever beat the pure, intoxicating vibes of a late 1970s computer. The text-based interface, the sickly glow, the background hum… if I’d been one of the passengers on the Nostromo, it would have taken a facehugger to get me off one of those keyboards. Which isn’t far…
A new report on the Verge is claiming that the Xbox handheld console is toast. Or to quote directly, “it’s essentially canceled”. That initially seems confusing, after all hasn’t the first Xbox handheld only just been announced? There are plenty of caveats to cover off here, not least that this is a rumour about a…
With the news always full of stories about massive data breaches, whether they’re genuinely huge or just a false alarm, it should come as a surprise to learn that the risk of cybercrime affecting gaming has never been greater than at any time before. With billions of PCs, consoles, and phones being used around the…
Bilibili hardware channel 51972 has released a video detailing benchmarking comparisons of 22 different models of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT with a slightly troubling conclusion—the variants making use of Samsung GDDR6 memory chips appear to be slightly slower when compared to their SK Hynix-equipped cousins. How much slower? By, err, 2.6% on average….
To say that I had absolutely no idea what was going on the first time I played Mio: Memories in Orbit is probably an understatement. I was far too busy admiring and exploring the beautiful if slightly creepy landscape to pay much attention to any greater goal. But after getting smacked around by a couple…