PC Gaming
Back in July 2024, former Piranha Bytes creative director Björn Pankratz and his wife, game designer Jennifer Pankratz, launched a new indie outfit called Pithead Studio, which they said would enable them to “keep doing what we love.” Today we got our first look at what that is, and I am—with all appropriate caution engaged—very…
Just a month after Warner Bros. Games chief David Haddad announced that he’s stepping down after 12 years in the role, the company is closing its Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego studios, and cancelling the Wonder Woman game first revealed in 2021. The closures, first reported by Bloomberg, were confirmed by…
I enjoy The Sims most when it’s ruining my day with random events and today The Sims 4 is bringing back one of the greats: the burglar. After a not-so-sneaky teaser this week The Sims 4 has dropped a base game update which, among a list of bug fixes, also adds a unique new thief…
What’s in an inch? We’ve already got the great Framework 13 laptop, so why does the company believe the world needs a Framework 12 laptop as well? Well, it’s not just a smaller version of its current machine, this is a new touchscreen convertible notebook, but one that’s been specifically created to be an entry…
I’m not sure which I’m most excited about, the idea of a whole new kind of Framework machine, or the fact the company is actually going to make available a Strix Halo motherboard for us to tinker with. On the one hand, a small form factor Framework Desktop is a cute idea, though it is…
Krafton has confirmed another round of layoffs at Callisto Protocol developer Striking Distance Studios, but says it remains operational and that the cuts will not impact any projects currently in the works. The layoffs were first reported late last week by multiple former employees on LinkedIn: One said “most of the devs were laid off,”…
Now that The Sims 2 is kinda-sorta playable again on modern machines, you might expect it to be perfect right out of the digital box; its rich simulation of the modern day-to-day (circa 2004, anyway) is among the best you can find. But let’s just lay it out there: these sims are a bunch of…
Just last week, it was discovered that Nvidia’s shiny new RTX 50 series cards had axed support entirely for 32-bit software, which hit old-school physics engine software PhysX. Now, in order to run some games better, gamers are taking to installing secondary graphics cards to get a healthy fps boost (and in one case, just…
Inzoi is looming ever closer, and with it the first real competition The Sims has had, well, ever. Krafton’s take on the life sim genre looks like it’ll be the closest we get to EA’s scope and scale for a good while. Despite that, director Hyungjun Kim doesn’t view his game as a rival. “We…
I’ve always had a hope, ever since I was little—that I would, someday, be able to run really fast and hit a rock and break all of my bones. Okay, that’s not the exact dream, but as a mentally hyperactive kid with a strong imagination, I did spend a lot of my car journeys running…