PC Gaming
Near the latter half of 2024, Microsoft boldly claimed nearly anything could be an Xbox. Your mobile phone, your gaming handheld, your smart TV, your car seat screen. Heck, maybe even a really smart, smart fridge could be your Xbox. Now, in the wake of announcing a new Xbox console-PC hybrid, Microsoft has not only…
If, like me, you’ve been watching the memory supply crisis escalate from between your fingers, then I don’t need to tell you just how expensive some key PC components have become. Well, it’s not just silicon wafers seeing runaway pricing these days, but even more foundational materials like copper foil. Mitsui Kinzoku is arguably the…
Fortnite announced this week that V-Bucks—the last remaining currency with any goddamn dependability around here—were about to get more expensive. “The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we’re raising prices to help pay the bills,” said Epic. I’m not a Fortniter (no reflexes at my age, you see), but given the…
It is the year 2026. You are in 25 Discord servers. Six of them are for your friends and family, one of them is so you can create custom emojis, one is just called “the chungle zone”, you do not remember how you joined it. The rest are all videogames you haven’t played in months….
“There are so many innovative games coming up that I can’t wait for,” Game Developers Choice Awards host Sam Maggs said Thursday night. That doesn’t sound like the setup for a spot of black comedy, but wait until you hear the names of the games Maggs rattled off. Perfect Dark? Canceled, as Microsoft shut down…
RPG developer ZA/UM has a difficult—maybe impossible—wire to walk with Zero Parades, its follow-up to Disco Elysium. The spy thriller wants to strike a different tone to one of the best RPGs ever made while still working in the same verbose style. And while parts of it indeed feel very similar, as PC Gamer’s Joshua…
Two former developers of EVE Online have been working with their studio Klang Games for over a decade to make an MMO where it isn’t just the world that’s persistent, your characters are too. Klang Games turned up at GDC this week to debut a new trailer with a song by Björk in the Future…
Shadowstone, the Sunderfolk spinoff announced in February by Secret Door and Dreamhaven, has kicked off a public playtest that’s set to run until the game launches into early access. Announced during today’s Future Games Show Spring Showcase, the playtest will give players a sample of the game ahead of release in either solo or multiplayer…
Today at GDC, San Francisco’s annual summit of games industry professionals, former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo delivered this year’s keynote address, sharing a lessons learned from a game development career spanning from his days as lead designer on Starcraft: Brood War and Warcraft 3 to founding his own studio at Bonfire, developers of…
Despite my almost 4,000 hours in Path of Exile, I’ve never had a raw Mirror of Kalandra drop—the single rarest item in the game. Part of this is probably because I tend to wander off every league before I start getting to turbo juicer strategies, but it remains on my bucket list for the game….