PC Gaming
Microsoft continued the rollout of its future Xbox plans at GDC today in a talk hosted by VP of next generation Jason Ronald. Titled “Building for the Future with Xbox”, the talk centered around Project Helix, the codename for the next Xbox console that will bridge the gap between a console and traditional PC. Ronald…
I’ve been writing about games for long enough that my threshold for a single piece of artwork grabbing me by the shoulders and screams “PLAY ME!!” in my face is pretty damn high. I did not attend an Xbox indie showcase at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco with a plan to play…
With the games we used to make [at Telltale], we were so conditioned to gameplay being a thing you had to do to check a box. Nick Herman I’ll admit, I didn’t expect much from Dispatch’s gameplay before I played it. After all, it’s more or less a Telltale game, which were always more concerned…
At this year’s GDC event in San Francisco, Valve gave a talk on its Steam hardware family (pdf warning), focusing on just what developers need to do to ensure that their games get verified. Not for the Steam Deck, but for the forthcoming Steam Machine and the highly anticipated Steam Frame VR headset. Starting with…
I like a 4K 32-inch OLED, I do. And MSI’s models have offered one of the most affordable options to achieve that 4K OLED experience. So, the good news is that MSI has updated its 32-inch 4K OLED offering with Samsung’s latest panel tech. So, it’s brighter and mostly fixes at least one weakness of…
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one a bit shocked by Apple using the worst memory crisis in recent history to put out the most affordable MacBook it has ever launched. The Asus CFO, Nick Wu, seems similarly surprised. In a recent earnings call, he was asked about the MacBook Neo and had quite a…
Like many of big tech’s major players, Meta has been interested in AI for some time—the Meta AI app’s social media integration springs to mind. Still, the company formerly known as Facebook’s latest acquisition may leave some scratching their carapace. Meta just bought Moltbook, a ‘social’ media platform for AI agents. Many of these agents…
In 2013, patron of the arts Disney killed two Star Wars games when it bought and subsequently shuttered LucasArts. Alongside the infamous cancellation of action adventure 1313 (“infamous” in that I thought it looked cool and extrapolated that to lots of people caring about it) was First Assault, a multiplayer FPS where you’d team up…
Composer Austin Wintory returned to the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to conduct his third annual concert of game music, this one paying homage to some of his favorite pieces of music from across the medium’s history while also nodding to 2025’s biggest hits. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, unsurprisingly, had several songs…
With one day left before Highguard is gone for good, the former developer who cut loose on critics of the game’s reveal trailer has walked things back a bit in a new post, saying his initial reaction “was a mistake” arising from stress, anger, and lack of sleep. Josh Sobel, formerly the lead technical artist…