PC Gaming
The Esports World Cup (EWC) has announced a surprising new addition to its lineup of games for the 2025 event: Chess. The game of kings, the origins of which can be traced back 1,500 years, will now be one of the crown jewels of a glitzy and extremely well-funded tournament that’s meant to show us…
I had made it this far in my life without knowing what “Skibidi Toilet” is, and I did my damnedest to keep it that way. But as of today my streak is flushed, because it seems that Epic Games is putting Skibidi Toilet in Fortnite. Word of the cursed collaboration came our way via a…
PC gaming is not what you might call a cheap hobby. A thousand of your local currency units doesn’t go far once the old red mist descends and you start on the path toward obsessive acquisition of processor cores, TFLOPS, and always, always bigger numbers. And if you’re looking at spending more than three thousand…
Shiren The Wanderer didn’t quite invent the traditional roguelike genre, but this long-running, rarely localized Japanese series sure as heck came to define it: Environments have to be grid-based Everything must be scavenged from monster-filled dungeons. And above all else, a true Shiren game (and thus a true old school roguelike) must be challenging, and…
“We’re back from the dead, rising like a phoenix,” says Alex Hutchinson, creative director of Revenge of the Savage Planet. Five years ago, the first—and unexpectedly last—game of Hutchinson’s former studio, Typhoon, Journey to the Savage Planet, was a bit of a cult hit. It was a fun first-person bop across an alien world, with…
Exodus didn’t do much for me when it was first revealed at the 2023 Game Awards, but my interest in it started to grow after Matthew McConaughey began dropping daily Exodus trailers like some kind of deep space David Attenborough. Today we got our first look at some actual Exodus gameplay, and I hate to…
The rumors that Grand Theft Auto 6 and Half-Life 3 were going to be at The Game Awards were obviously bogus (for reasons I’ll elaborate on below), but I admit that the serious ‘I heard this from industry sources’ tone of the social media posts briefly had me doubting my certainty. Of course, neither game…
It’s almost Christmas, which means Santa is coming to distribute presents to all the good little children—and, somewhat weirdly, put coal in the stockings of kids who have been “bad.” Look, Santa is an immortal Elflord, it is not for us to understand his motives. But there’s one place even naughty kids are rewarded by…
Despite the 500 hours of playtime I’ve accrued over the years, I’ve always been a pretty casual Path of Exile player. In PoE, 500 hours is rookie numbers: The infamous sprawl of its passive skill tree and labyrinthine gear crafting mechanics still border on the unfathomable to me. For players who aren’t instinctively horrified by…
Hot on the heels of apparent confirmation of a monstrous 32 GB RTX 5090 GPU from Nvidia comes news that the world’s most valuable company might be plotting a major AI-enhanced upgrade that brings in-game graphics a major step closer to fully AI-rendered graphics. In other words, games that are no longer rendered by a…