PC Gaming

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is doing very well. Incredibly well. You wouldn’t believe how well it’s doing. But despite it all, it’s not doing quite as well as AC Valhalla did back in November 2020—Shadows is the second-biggest launch in the series’ long history, not the first. But per an internal Ubisoft email seen by IGN,…

Usually, when I see the term ‘gaming desk’, I think whatever marketer has got their hands on the keyboard has maybe been a bit overzealous, yet the Thunder X2 Lab-X makes a decent argument for that in its many neat additions. The Lab-X has a mesh side plate (with crucial optional fan brackets) for cooling,…

While Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress, is technically a millionaire—he’s never quite minced his words like one, especially about the nonsense that goes on in the gaming industry. Last year at GDC, he came out swinging against a brutal year of industry layoffs. This year, while speaking to PC Gamer’s own Lincoln Carpenter, he…

Your standard RPG romantic interludes probably wouldn’t make much sense in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. You’re not some adventurer, hero, or even an anti-hero. You are Phyre, an old monster who spends their unlife drinking blood, killing without mercy and plotting until the sun comes up. But that doesn’t mean romance is completely…

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 won’t be appearing in the first half of 2025. After so many delays, I have a feeling prospective bloodsuckers will already be pretty used to this. At least its new release window is more appropriate than the summer; it’s now due out in October, the spookiest month of the…

AMD’s next-gen APU has apparently leaked. But don’t get too excited because “Gorgon Point”, as it’s known, looks very much like a refresh of AMD’s current Strix Point chip rather than a radical advance or really even a new chip at all. AMD was reportedly making a presentation to its commercial partners, likely including laptop…

As a former teenage goth and Anne Rice fanatic (dog collar, black nail polish, absurd prosthetic vampire fangs) who still pines for the days when Troika was designing RPGs, my excitement levels following the initial Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 announcement were off the chart. But that was six years ago, and since then…

Discord is getting a major update today that includes a “completely new version” of the chat app’s in-game overlay, as well as new themes and options for the desktop client. The overlay overhaul is the biggest news. Because it no longer attempts to hook directly into games—which can trigger anticheat software and sometimes just doesn’t…

Pentiment is a very, very good videogame, and one of the most interesting things Obsidian’s put out this decade (though I liked Avowed quite a lot). Now, we’re sufficiently far enough past its release that people like director Josh Sawyer—a name you’ll recognise from Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity, and an all-timer Dolly Parton…

It’s Minecraft Live time, and developer Mojang has announced the latest content coming to the perennially popular block builder: including, in the year of our lord 2025, fancy new shaders. One topic raised was the game’s business model. There are various deluxe editions, but the standard version of Minecraft is the “Java and Bedrock” edition…