PC Gaming
Let’s take a look at the scoreboard: A 1TB Steam Deck costs $1,000. A top-of-the-line gaming PC costs $7,000. A PS5 starts at $650, an over 50% increase from its launch six years ago. A modest hard drive goes for rent money. The RAMpocalypse continues unabated. The Steam Machine is a hard sell out of…
And now it’s official: Electronic Arts, one of the most storied publishers in videogame history, has been fully acquired by a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. EA said in a press release that the takeover “brings long-term capital, sector expertise, and strategic support”…
This Game Costs 200 Dollars is a game on Steam that, literally, costs $200. The listing describes it as a “psychological ‘comedic’ experience,” and promises it’s absolutely worth “every single cent” of its wildly inflated price. You might have doubts, but it was enough of a hook that for one brief, shining moment, developer Stolen…
Despite Valve warning them that matches will be “very rocky” to start, Deadlock players are struggling to adjust to the MOBA’s new ranked mode. Late last week, Deadlock finally got a proper ranked mode, replacing the rudimentary version that existed for the last couple of years. Valve reworked the matchmaking system behind it, added a…
This is Juniper (Image credit: NPC Studio) 🎂 Birthday: Fall 26đź’… Occupation: Bathhouse owner❤️ Loves: Rare artifacts and foodđź’˘ Dislikes: Bugs Somehow, Mistria’s most popular bachelorette is the one who doesn’t even want to be here. Are we all romancing Juniper due to chronic deficiencies in self-regard that can only be made worse fixed by…
Growing up in the ’90s, good joysticks were strangely hard to come by. The stiff sticks on my local arcade cabinets, already inferior to their Japanese counterparts, always seemed to be so worn down that I’d have to smash them from edge-to-edge just to register an input. And yet the sticks attached to my friend’s…
The island in co-op walking simulator Big Walk is home to lots of puzzles, and those puzzles can’t be completed by a single player. This is a co-op game in the truest sense of the word: you can’t get anywhere alone. Some puzzles involve flipping switches in unison, others require communicating over long distances or…
This is March (Image credit: NPC Studio) 🎂 Birthday: Spring 16🔨 Occupation: Blacksmith❤️ Loves: Perfect oresđź’˘ Dislikes: Flowers, forageables So you want a little rivals-to-lovers arc with the prickly blacksmith? No judgement, I too came of age at the height of the tsundere tsunami so I’m not surprised that March has become by far the…
Cinder City, the upcoming “open-world cinematic third-person shooter set in a fallen near-future Seoul,” popped some eyes earlier this year when it came to Steam recommending 64GB of RAM. That turned out to be a mistake, but the minimum requirement is still 32GB, which is a lot—more than the majority of respondents to the most…
Every few years or so I find myself idly wondering whatever happened to Midnight Club, Rockstar’s arcade street racing series. I quite liked Midnight Club 2 back in the day, although I fell away from the series after that because, in fine Rockstar fashion, subsequent games weren’t released on PC. The series as a whole…