PC Gaming
It’s that time again. Steam Sale time. The 2024 Steam Autumn Sale is live and there are loads of heavily discounted games to browse through, including some of our favorites from this year—Palworld is on the list and so is Helldivers 2. Meanwhile, some of our older favorites are discounted to within an inch of…
Cyberpunk 2077 is often held up as the greatest redemption arc in videogame history, but I think No Man’s Sky has a legitimate claim on the crown too. More than eight years after it landed with an ugly thud on Steam—a “supernova of negative backlash and disappointment,” as we put it at the time—Hello Games’…
NEED TO KNOW What is it? The latest in virtual aviation that includes the highest-fidelity recreation of our planet in any videogame to dateExpect to pay: $70/£70Developer: Asobo StudioPublisher: Xbox Game StudiosReviewed on: Ryzen 7 3700X, GeForce RTX 2070 Super, 32 GB RAM, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro JoystickSteam Deck: UnsupportedMultiplayer? LeaderboardsLink: Official site Presenting the…
X owner Elon Musk has taken a brief break from posting racism, transphobia, and conspiracy theory nonsense to say that gaming has become too “woke” because the industry is dominated by massive corporations, and so he is going to use his own massive corporation to start a new game studio powered by AI “to make…
Last week, we all learned that Grammy-nominated songwriter Post Malone’s favorite FPS is Hunt: Showdown 1896, telling Crytek in an interview that he’s logged 400 hours in the extraction shooter since he discovered the game this year. Now we know what Malone and Crytek’s new friendship was building to: a new season of Hunt called…
Minecraft is cramming in one more game update before closing out the year, Mojang announced today. The next Minecraft update, called The Garden Awakens, is coming next Tuesday, December 3. The update’s main feature is the new Pale Garden biome where the creepy new “creaking” enemy lives among the spooky greyish trees. “Venture into the…
I spent all of Diablo 4’s second season melting through monsters as a sorceress standing inside rotating orbs of lightning. Instead of casting spells at a safe distance, Ball Lightning sorcerers brought the magic with them. All it took was a little setup time to get the orbs flowing and then you could carve through…
World of Warcraft has changed players’ lives for 20 years, thanks to an engrossing story and incredible gameplay flexibility. By every estimate, it retains the largest subscription base of any MMO, just edging out its fiercest competition. The internet is awash with stories of couples who met and married after playing WoW, or credit WoW…
Caleb McAlpine, a terminally ill “die hard Borderlands fan” who asked in October for a chance to play Borderlands 4 while he still can, has confirmed on Reddit that Gearbox came through in a big way, saying his experience at the studio was “just awesome.” “Gearbox flew me and a friend down first class the…
When Larian said it was ready to “move on” from Baldur’s Gate 3 back in March, rather than continue to work on an expansion that had started to morph into Baldur’s Gate 4, I assumed that meant it would be winding down the updates, too. But since then we’ve seen a bunch of substantial patches,…