PC Gaming
Far be it from me to presume a state of play for technology in 2025, but I don’t tend to assume a need to tape up expensive circuitry to get our precious PC components working. So what a fool I looked when I discovered that’s exactly what some PC gamers are having to resort to…
Don’t worry if today’s Wordle has left you scratching your head, we’ve got a wide range of help ready to go. Take a look at our tips—a general refresh is never a bad thing. Faced with a generous helping of yellow letters but no real idea what to do with them? Our clue for the…
A whole decade is a solid run for an RPG ruleset, but the success of Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, released in 2014, was such that replacing it would be an obviously terrible idea. Instead, Wizards of the Coast did something more akin to 4th edition’s Essentials line—a refresh that’s compatible with the previous rules,…
As if Elden Ring character stats weren’t confusing enough, FromSoftware further obfuscated their purpose in Elden Ring Nightreign. Each Nightfarer has letter ratings instead of numbers to denote their relative proficiency with each stat, but the real values are hidden. You just have to trust they’re going up a meaningful amount each time you level…
After an ugly launch that saw its Steam rating crater to “mostly negative,” briefly climb to “mixed,” and then biff it back to “mostly negative,” MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy says it’s working “around the clock” on performance improvements, and that the first in a series of planned patches is slated to arrive on…
A day after reaching a tentative agreement with major game companies over “critical AI protections” for voice actors, the SAG-AFTRA union has suspended the strike that’s been ongoing since July 2024 and given its members the green light to return to work. That the strike is “suspended” and not ended is meaningful, as the new…
Mecha Break hit some turbulence when its open beta period started earlier this year. The mecha battler’s online beta dropped in late February and thousands of Chinese players couldn’t access the game due to server issues. Their response was a Steam review bomb. Hundreds of reviews trashed developer Amazing Seasun for not being more prepared…
Space is the final frontier, and for Supermassive Games, it’s also a new one. With Directive 8020, the latest entry in The Dark Pictures anthology, the studio finally takes to the stars. But even as it grapples with a shape-shifting alien and the constant, imposing doom posed by the void of space, Supermassive is finding…
This past Summer Game Fest weekend was so turgid with reveal trailers I had trouble keeping track of it all. Earlier this week, we took stock of what we saw with a list of our favorite games at Summer Game Fest 2025, and now here’s a list of the biggest games that weren’t at Summer…
Squeezed in between his controversial appearance at the Summer Game Fest wearing a MAGA-style “Make FPS Great Again” hat and his subsequent apology for it, Splitgate 2 boss Ian Proulx couldn’t help himself from slipping a quick knock against a former Call of Duty developer—and former Splitgate 2 developer—in a video on X. It was…