PC Gaming
It was only a couple of months ago that I bemoaned the fact that it had been a decade since the launch of Endless Legend, my favourite 4X, and there was still no word on a sequel. I needed my fix—more of that best-in-class faction design, more weird stories, more exotic maps to fight over….
We’re not doomed to fight the endless hordes of hell quite yet, but it’s going to be happening a whole lot sooner than you might’ve expected. id Software announced during today’s Xbox Developer Direct that Doom: The Dark Ages is nearly finished and just four months out from release: it’s landing on May 15, 2025….
Over a decade after Ninja Gaiden 3, which released in 2012, Ninja Gaiden 4 is coming this year as a collaboration between Team Ninja and PlatinumGames, the latter of which is known for over-the-top action games including Bayonetta and Nier: Automata. It’s being published by Xbox Game Studios, so you can expect it on Game…
They keep trying to make AI wearables happen. Halliday is the latest attempt to swing for the fences, offering comparatively lightweight glasses frames that house what is described as a “proactive AI agent.” I don’t know about you, but the term “proactive AI agent” inspires in me a visceral reaction, not unlike the one I…
A new announcement on The Witcher 3’s Steam page made me think “oh that’s nice” before my fingers suddenly started aching, the sky grew dark, and this wizened form crumbled into dust o’er the keyboard. As of May this year The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the finest PC action-RPGs there is, will be…
Thanks to a pretty stacked videogame release calendar, I haven’t had the opportunity to check out as many smaller games as I would’ve perhaps liked to. But despite my busy schedule, there’s one thing I always have time for: minigames. Best cozy games: Relaxed gamingBest anime games: Animation-inspiredBest JRPGs: Classics and beyondBest cyberpunk games: Techno…
In the wake of Elon Musk’s speech at Trump’s inauguration and its accompanying (ahem) hand gesture, the userbase of Reddit seems to have decided it’s simply done with Musk and his website. As we reported yesterday, r/pcgaming has now banned X links—and the same thing is happening across a huge number of subreddits, major and…
Last month, Google introduced the Android XR platform in partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm, which is “a new operating system built for this next generation of computing”. Now, Google has bought part of HTC Vive’s engineering team, HTC Vive of course having ample experience engineering VR headsets. Google says this handover of engineers is “subject…
OK Ubisoft, I’m excited for Assassin’s Creed Shadows. I honestly did not see that coming. When Shadows was announced three years ago as “Codename Red,” I was prepared to give it a big ol’ shrug. Back then it was billed as the next “RPG” Assassin’s Creed in the vein of Odyssey or Valhalla, which sounded…
Dishonored 2—one of the best immersive sims ever made—did not sell as well as a game of its pedigree or impressiveness really deserved. And if it wasn’t for the reputation of the series, which offered it a “seal-of-quality protection”, and Arkane’s history of arguably making Bethesda’s “most refined games”, the studio might not be around…