PC Gaming
It’s been a great few years for co-op horror games. We’ve collected trash and trinkets in Lethal Company and REPO, and we’ve made vlogs for millions of viewers while we trek through abandoned buildings in Content Warning. But between these japes and jests, we’ve also had the challenge of making our way around the Murkov…
Valve’s dedication to its portable PC SteamDeck has given us many surprising little side benefits in the PC gaming community. For couch lovers like myself, the improvements to big picture mode have been very welcome. However, by far the adaption with the biggest unintended effect has to be making Steam play better with Linux via…
The GDC 2025 highlight for me was a talk by Monica Harrington, Valve co-founder and the company’s first chief marketing officer, about her long and storied career in tech. And like many of Valve’s earliest employees, Harrington came there from Microsoft, where one of her major responsibilities was marketing Microsoft Word and later the Office…
One of this year’s GDC highlights was a talk by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company’s first chief marketing officer, who went over her history with the company that brought us Half-Life and Steam. There’s a whole bunch in Harrington’s recollections to pick out: like when she gave her nephew some…
The United States has come into 2025 swinging when it comes to foreign imports around technology. Not only has the Trump administration implemented new tariffs that have caused Japanese companies to stockpile on US soil, but has also talked about killing the CHIPs act entirely. Now it seems the US has turned its attention to…
Waiting for your baggage to cycle through a painfully slow conveyor belt at the airport. Staring at your cup noodles as the five-minute cook time seems to drag on for an eternity. Sitting in heavy traffic with nothing to do but hang fire until it clears. Life is a series of mundane, universally shared experiences…
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Obviously the dragons of Tarkir: Dragonstorm will get a lot of attention. They’re headliners, show-offs, they got their name in the title. But Magic’s next expansion isn’t just about fancy firebreathers. Since the Khans of Tarkir set in 2014, the plane’s five clans have also been an important part of its appeal. In Tarkir: Dragonstorm…
Realistic and physics-driven snowmobile simulator Shredders released out of early access last week, with developer Hanki Games saying that work on it will continue even as it hits full release and comes to consoles. Sledders is an open-world sandbox where you can move through authentic “deep-snow backcountry” terrain, sled custom courses, and play with others…
A new Civilization 7 update is coming tomorrow, and so today we get an early look at some of the highlights including the addition of a new “quick move” functionality, the ability to rename your settlements and commanders, and of course even more UI updates and polish. Civ 7 is doing fine, more or less,…