PC Gaming

Activision-Blizzard’s transfer over to the growing empire of Microsoft has been a bit of a drama, to say the least—but it’s all over now, its curtains called with the departure of the company’s former CEO Bobby Kotick, exiting stage right. Kotick has been a controversial figure in gaming, quickly building up a reputation as a…

Ten years later the fantastic job that Crystal Dynamics’ did with its 2013 Tomb Raider reboot has become even more apparent to me. The mature, 18-rated game took the campy, bright and cartoonish Lara Croft of earlier games and, instead, delivered a dark, hyper violent and at times gripping coming of age origin story with…

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Happy new year, PC gamers. I hope you’ve finished that second or third playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 or Alan Wake 2 or one of our other 2023 GOTY Awards honorees, because it’s 2024 now and there are new games to play—no living in the past! Yeah, just kidding, everyone I know is still playing…

World of Warcraft soars triumphantly into its 20th anniversary year in 2024, but just two years ago, that milestone was hardly guaranteed. Blizzard’s modern MMO was on life support toward the end of the Shadowlands expansion. Players had dropped away in droves as complicated power systems, endless grinds for “fun” rewards, content droughts and unevenly…

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Baldur’s Gate 3 has claimed the Game of the Year award in the 2023 Steam Awards, along with the crown for Outstanding Story-Rich Game. It probably would have won even more, but the Steam Awards rules limit games to nominations in a maximum of two categories, presumably to…

For a brief period of time earlier today, it looked very much like Ubisoft’s open-world heist game Star Wars Outlaws would be out sometime near the end of 2024. The word came by way of a Disney Parks blog post, and while it’s not quite a specific date, it’s definitely more precise than what we…

After multiple changes to US law that kept it copyrighted for nearly 100 years, 1928 Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie—which contains the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse—is now in the public domain. And what do we do when a beloved children’s character becomes available to use in new creative works? We make them into…

Following a drawn-out legal dispute with original publisher Nacon, Ukrainian studio Frogwares has announced that it is now the one true publisher of the Lovecraft-inspired detective adventure The Sinking City, and that a new version of the game “with all the latest bug fixes and optimizations” is coming soon. “Frogwares is now the sole publisher…

2023 is a year I have deeply mixed feelings on. The games industry is long past the point of sustainability—studios are bleeding talent, whole press outlets are dying out and it’s clear that something has to change. And yet the games this flaming trainwreck gave us this year are overwhelmingly good and practically innumerable. So…