PC Gaming
In mid-February, the pretty dang buggy PC port of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 got upgraded to Verified status on the Steam Deck. It was a few weeks after its first major patch, which brought some badly-needed stability and UI fixes, as well as auto-save backups. Players were skeptical, to put it simply, because it just barely…
In March, SCS Software dropped a mysterious teaser for American Truck Simulator: the sound of a revving engine that didn’t quite have the full-throated roar of a big rig. It sounded more like what we call a ute in Australia and and New Zealand and the rest of the English-speaking world probably knows as a…
You want a sassy pitch for an upcoming game? Heroes of Valor is, per publisher Iceberg Interactive’s press release, “the Battlefield Heroes you can actually play.” Clearly, it kind of is: It wears its inspiration on its sleeve as a spiritual successor to the now decade-dead free-to-play shooter. It also has a (free) playtest running…
Take a look at today’s Wordle clue if you’d like to give your puzzle solving a bit of direction without spoiling all of your fun. Bring it out early to get your game off to a great start, or save it for later when those yellow letters might feel more like a problem than part…
As reported by AV Club, actor Nicky Katt has died at age 54 of an unspecified cause. While he’s better-known to most for a portfolio full of character actor roles, often as a jerk or bully or outright villain in movies like Dazed and Confused, Strange Days, SubUrbia, Boiler Room, School of Rock, The Limey,…
Apple TV’s comedy series about a videogame studio making an MMO has been canceled after four seasons and an expansion pack—the four-episode spin-off Side Quest—as reported by Variety. After spending so long parodying the videogame industry, the show will get a send-off that sounds like the equivalent of a Dota patch. “Endings are hard. But…
As reported by The Guardian, The Trump administration has announced, through the United States Customs and Border Patrol, that smartphones, computers, and other electronic devices/components will be exempt from the US’s chaotic and destabilizing new tariff regime. That even includes the steepest 125% tariffs on China. I’ve lost track whether we’re doing the tariffs, not…
Bungie’s taking a crack at the extraction shooter genre and so can you when the Marathon alpha test opens up later this month. Official launch day for Marathon isn’t until September this year, but it will be running an alpha and beta test before that. From what we’ve played so far, it’s all that Bungie…
Bungie is finally opening up about Marathon, its shiny new extraction shooter that’s been under wraps since 2023. This is the legendary FPS studio’s first new game in eight years, its first non-Destiny project since the Halo days, and a reimagining of a series that’s laid dormant since the ’90s, so the collective hobby is…
We all have that moment when our eyes are opened to the hijinks made possible by proximity chat. For me, it was the night some guy in DayZ drove a truck through the town I was looting while screaming at the top of his lungs, the volume gradually rising and falling as he disappeared over…