PC Gaming
First reported by Gaming on Linux, Valve has added a new advertising page to its Steamworks developer documentation. The page outlines what kinds of advertising and promotion it will allow on Steam, while explicitly banning in-game ads as a revenue model on the ubiquitous PC gaming platform. Product placement is still in, so long as…
As the purveyor of ultimate dad games SCS Software explains on its blog, Euro Truck Simulator 2 isn’t just a fun exploration of the contrast between chill highway cruising and nightmarish reverse-parking situations. It’s also science. A researcher at Liberec Technical University’s Faculty of Textiles in Czechia called Mr Martinka has been using Euro Truck…
It’s a shame that Mimimi Games, the studio behind the Shadow Tactics games, closed down in 2023. But other studios have picked up the real-time stealth tactics slack, resulting in games like Sumerian Six, and the upcoming prequel to the Commandos series. Commandos: Origins is being developed by Claymore Game Studios and published by Kalypso….
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 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…
Some of the absolute best simulators recreate a hobby or career that you don’t have the money, time, space, or energy to pursue yourself, but which you definitely, 100% find incredibly rad and would love to do. Thus the enduring popularity of flight sims, or the delightful joy of ruining big trucks in SnowRunner. Well,…
It’s not quite out on PCs yet—unless you paid to play early—but it looks like a VR edition of Sid Meier’s Civilization 7 will be coming to Meta Quest with its own unique features later this Spring. Civilization 7 VR will set you around a command table with the leaders of the other civilizations you’re…
Review-bombing campaigns are often motivated by half-baked culture war “controversies” about trans characters, queer developers, or supposed mafias of liberal writing consultants bending multi-million dollar companies to their will. Last May, though, we saw a great example of the review bomb’s utility in pushing back on a genuine consumer grievance: Helldivers 2’s PlayStation Network sign-in…
Have you ever wanted your Discord client to look like it was made in the halcyon days of the mid-to-late 1990s? Complete with windows form buttons and gradient-blue topbar? Of course you have. One crew of programmers have cooked up just that as a cute project: They call it… Discord Messenger for Windows! It’s a…
Speaking to VideoGamer, Blizzard co-founder and Diablo programmer/designer David Brevik expressed a dim view of the current state of Diablo-like ARPGs, arguing that inflated enemy numbers and a deluge of loot and experience have robbed the genre of the friction and weight present in the first two Diablo games. “I think that ARPGs in general…
Yesterday evening, the Ask PlayStation support account on Twitter declared an end to this weekend’s strange PlayStation Network outage, almost 24 hours on the dot after the issues first began. Sony is offering five free days of PS Plus (the paid component of PlayStation Network) as recompense, while Capcom has said that it may offer…