PC Gaming
Activision Blizzard has laid off “a lot” of esports-related employees, according to Matt Morello, former associate director of Overwatch League, whose job was among the cuts. “Unfortunately today, along with a lot of other amazing esports folks, I’ve been let go from Blizzard,” Morello wrote on X today. A person close to the matter tells…
It’s always the best time for the best JRPGs. JRPG is a simple term for a complex genre that’s evolved across decades of Japanese RPGs. It encompasses everything from the expected spiky haired heroes politely taking turns to hit the local fantasy wildlife to twisted realism, cinematic action, dense political intrigue, and even RPGs that…
Farm life sims are one of my favorite genres, but they still don’t offer a great variety of settings and themes: They’re typically vaguely modern and set on sunny islands or in rural valleys. Immortal Life, a life and farming sim based on the xianxia genre of Chinese fantasy about immortal heroes, offers a refreshingly…
Highly-regarded third-person military shooter Spec Ops: The Line has been removed from sale on Steam and other digital storefronts, and nobody seems to know why—not even the game’s designer and director. Spec Ops: The Line came out in 2012. It didn’t sell especially well—it was a decent third-person military shooter dropped in among games like…
I was pretty excited about Helskate—though after trying its Steam Next Fest demo, I’m not sure it’s really pulled its disparate parts together in the way it needs to. Not yet, anyway—it’s a pre-early access glimpse at what its devs have been cooking, so there’s still room for improvement. I had a big soft spot…
You might not consider the best base locations in Palworld until you unlock the option to place a second Palbox. Of course, you can move your base before you reach that point, but a second home is handy, especially once you hit the stage where you start needing more and more ingots to keep progressing….
AI is obviously the topic of the moment and, while we seem to have gotten past the dichotomy of Terminator / saviour, a major source of concern remains the safety of this technology. This is not just about the machine uprising scenario but how bad actors will use AI, the security implications of automating so…
Whether you’re a Steam devotee or have a taskbar overflowing with different logos, launchers are a staple (and unavoidable) part of modern PC gaming. And because they’re so ubiquitous, it’s hard not to have strong feelings about them, adding to your book of grudges every time one of them bugs out on you, changes a…
The behemoth that is Tencent is one of the most dominant players in the game industry, but CEO and co-founder Pony Ma recently acknowledged that the competition is catching up and that recent game launches haven’t lived up to expectations. Chinese outlet Jiemian (via Reuters) reports that Ma spoke about the threat from other Chinese…
Blizzard has announced that Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Diablo, and Warcraft 2 are now available on Battle.net, though it was news to me that they weren’t on there already. The games have been available on GOG for the last 3-4 years, and it seems that when Blizzard committed to remastering certain of its older titles…