PC Gaming
Gaming website Polygon, which was launched by Vox Media in 2012, has been sold to Canadian publisher Valnet, owner of Game Rant, FextraLife, and TheGamer, among a number of other online entertainment, sports, and hobbyist publications. A substantial number of Polygon staff members have been laid off or quit, including site co-founder and editor-in-chief Chris…
I’ll be honest, before the release of Oblivion Remastered, I thought it and Skyblivion—the fan mod that rebuilds Oblivion in Skyrim Special Edition—were diametrically opposed. This was zero-sum game territory, surely? If one gets mega-popular it can only be to the detriment of the other. Winner takes all. Only one leaves alive. Well don’t I…
Back in 2006, Bethesda Softworks made a documentary about the making of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, capturing the scale of the effort behind what was then the studio’s biggest and most ambitious game. And now, to celebrate the recent (and tremendously successful) release of Oblivion Remastered, Bethesda got a whole bunch of the original…
Jack Black‘s meme song Steve’s Lava Chicken from A Minecraft Movie is now the shortest song ever to crack the Billboard Hot 100, which tracks the most popular current songs week-by-week. Steve’s Lava Chicken is 34 seconds long. The song debuts at No. 78 on the Hot 100 and, according to online data tracker Luminate…
The first Borderlands was a real innovation—probably more than it gets credit for. It carved out a new genre that’s gone on to be one of the most influential in the industry. After that, Borderlands 2 cleverly refined and expanded on the core formula, demonstrating quite how much of our time all that looting and…
The US tariff situation is a constantly developing story, but I think most would agree this is euphemistic at best; there’s only so much Warhammer miniatures can explain. Since their announcement in early April, these tariffs have created a logistical nightmare for both major players and smaller businesses alike. As a result of retaliatory tariffs…
League of Legends World Champion Maciej ‘Shushei’ Ratuszniak has died at the age of 36. The Polish national had been suffering from cancer for several years. Shushei was best known as a member of the Fnatic team that won the first-ever League of Legends World Championship, and was also the first player to win the…
Add together all the minutes of my life I’ve spent in loading screens and you could, well, send me into quite a grim depressive spiral, probably. And since I’m someone with several hundred hours invested across various Bethesda games, how many of those minutes were spent twiddling Daedric artifacts in Skyrim’s load screens or looking…
Huge news—Silksong now has an official release date, for, uh, a museum exhibit. It’ll be playable at a museum exhibit for sure at a specific date. We still don’t know when it’s actually coming out, and at this point I think the bit is funnier if we never know. That’s according to confirmation obtained by…
As we roll towards Computex, and hopefully a whole bunch of PC gaming hardware announcements, I can’t help but get excited about talk of entry-level components. Probably most of all, I’m excited about the prospect of an (as-yet uncertain) AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT announcement which will hopefully rock the entry-level graphics card segment. So…