PC Gaming
In its first dozen hours, Monster Hunter Wilds felt like a new friend anxious about showing their true, weirder colors. Throughout Low Rank Wilds seemed convinced it had to curb its own character, throwing up guard rails in an effort to keep its dinosaur swordfights pleasantly agreeable. Even before selling eight million copies in three…
Microsoft is prepping a new handheld version of its Xbox console that could be launched later this year. Meanwhile, plans are afoot to replace the existing Xbox Series S and X consoles in 2027. If you’re wondering how Microsoft could be launching a handheld Xbox so soon, well, according to Windows Central the device is…
World of Warcraft’s new Delves system is, in my humble opinion, a net plus to the game—it’s nice to have something I can solo (or hop in with a buddy or two) that gives me gear. But that’s not to say it hasn’t had its own teething problems. Balance issues and damage bugs have pockmarked…
REPO is the latest co-op horror viral sensation, taking the template established by Lethal Company and adding wacky physics and googly-eyed robot protagonists. It’s a combination that has proved wildly popular, with REPO currently positioned as the fourth highest-selling game on Steam. Now, developer semiwork has posted its first community update since the game launched….
Disco Elysium-like “psychogeographic RPG” Hopetown has announced a Kickstarter campaign launch date of March 17, as well as the addition of new talent from the team that made Disco Elysium. But for a variety of reasons—including that the studio head is allegedly banned from the game’s subreddit—I would not recommend backing the project. The developer’s…
Nine months ago, in July 2024, AMD launched its Zen 5 CPU architecture and the Ryzen 9000-series of processors. Compared to the previous generation, there wasn’t a significant difference in performance, although subsequent Windows updates and motherboard BIOS revisions did improve matters a touch. For PC gamers, though, the real interest was elsewhere and we…
If you have signed up for the dev build of the latest Windows update, you should now have access to a smart new feature allowing you to pair apps together for easy access, alongside a few new additions. According to the latest Windows blog, in the recommended tab of the Start menu (which pops up…
Playdead, the Danish studio behind Limbo and Inside, is demanding compensation from former CEO and co-founder Dino Patti over alleged “infringement and unauthorized use of Playdead’s trademarks and copyrighted works in a commercial and marketing context.” In an email to Game Developer, Playdead confirmed it has “submitted demands” to Patti, claiming it has “found it…
Monster Hunter Wilds’ campaign is, in a sense, a bit of an extended tutorial—that’s not to say it isn’t a blast, but chewing through the second half of it myself, I get the distinct feeling I’m only just scraping the tip of the gear grinding iceberg before the endgame. And an endgame certainly exists—in the…
Some of my colleagues might poke fun at me for this, mouse-on-desk heathens that they are, but I used to be a bit of an obsessive freak over mouse pads—they’re important, okay? It’s been a long time since I fanned that flame, so it was with an almost audible ‘uh oh’ that I looked upon…