PC Gaming
Microsoft has something important to share with you: “88% of PC players use a browser while gaming to get help, track their progress, or even listen to music or chat with friends.” Absolute scenes. And now, for the crime of forgetting to close Chrome while you play Counter-Strike 2, Redmond has produced a solution: The…
All the Wordle help you need to breeze through the November 25 (1255) game is right here. Get Monday’s puzzle off to the best possible start with a fresh clue, or use it a little later on to turn those yellow letters into winning greens. Need more? Then a quick click through to today’s answer…
Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably…
The Steam Hardware Survey has become a critical resource for the games industry, allowing curious enthusiasts or practical-minded developers to get a sense of how the average PC gamer enjoys the hobby. To hear Valve senior engineer Jay Stelly tell it in Half-Life 2’s new 20th anniversary developer commentary, the Steam Hardware Survey first came…
A weird new roguelite on Steam blends the genres of tower defense autobattler and factory builder into a cute, if odd, synergy. In ShapeHero Factory you scrawl out little production lines on magical parchment to combine shapes to conjure heroes that then automatically defend a big crystal from hordes of little inkblot demons. The structure…
The YouTube algorithm keeps threatening me with videos about how the new Dragon Age is a crime against Gamers. I haven’t watched any of them, but my recommendations still overflow. Even people with less overheated opinions have been down on its relatively chill vibes and easygoing nature. Just quietly, I’ve enjoyed most of my time…
First reported by Tom’s Hardware, Icelandic strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson—who won the 2019 World’s Strongest Man competition and played Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in Game of Thrones—has completed a 996 lbs “deadlift of data,” hoisting thousands of next-generation, 128 terabyte SSDs at the SD24 computing conference. With each drive likely to command north of $10,000…
There’s not a lot to love about the aesthetics of Elden Ring’s hub area, the Roundtable Hold: Dull grey stone hallways lit by torches. The best bits of it are all furniture, like the roundtable itself, that you can barely appreciate due to tight camera angles from the claustrophobic walls. Lovers of the least-loved of…
Streamer Crayator‘s first shot at beating Red Dead Redemption 2, live, without a single death, ended nine-and-a-half hours in when Arthur Morgan somehow hit his head at top speed on horseback, chasing after a train in true old west movie fashion. Replays don’t really make clear what happened, but he died. The second attempt came…
First reported by Bleeping Computer, Microsoft is now preventing Windows 11’s 24H2 update from being sent out to machines that have a selection of recent Ubisoft games installed on them. A number of users have reported persistent, unworkable crashing, sometimes on startup, when trying to play the affected games. “After installing Windows 11, version 24H2,…