PC Gaming
When Valve introduced the Steam Deck, the company was adamant that its handheld gaming device was, at its core, a PC, with all the customizability and user freedom that entailed. “You shouldn’t do any of this,” Valve said in a teardown video, before proceeding to show everyone how to take apart the Steam Deck. So…
It might not be entirely sensible to refer to Kind Words—full name Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)— as a “game,” but we argued about that distinction enough in the 2010s that I think we can sideline it for the remainder of this decade. I only mention it as context for what…
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re doing so on Chrome. It’s the browser I’ve used daily for over a decade and makes up over 60% of overall browser usage. Trailing way behind is Safari with 18%, followed by Edge and Firefox. I can understand then, why longtime browser contestant Opera has been…
Starfield did not land with quite the positive thump that just about everyone expected, and lots of people have thoughts about why—and that has apparently inspired Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo to muse about how confident some of those critics are in their opinions, despite how “disconnected” they are from the process of actually making…
Extremely cool fan project alert: someone, or someones, has released a PC port of Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX, modernized to run fantastically on modern PCs. It adds widescreen and high framerate support, with a silky smooth camera that lets you explore Link’s Awakening as one large interconnected world instead of…
If you hate bards like Chris Livingston hates bards, you’ll be thrilled to hear that GOG is giving away the strategy dungeon-crawler Legend of Keepers to mark the start of its 2023 Winter Sale. “I hate bards, so I’m having a great time killing them in this reverse dungeon crawler,” PC Gamer’s resident music hater…
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Compile Released: 1997 Format: Windows 95 (Image credit: Compile) I honestly can’t remember exactly when I first decided to give this colourful slice of simian silliness…
Remember the big 4K update for Fallout 4 that was announced in 2022 as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the original Fallout? The good news is that it’s still happening, but the bad news is that it’s not happening until sometime in 2024. The Fallout 4 “next-gen update” for PC, Xbox Series X-S,…
Last week Rockstar sent gamers absolutely feral when it dropped the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, albeit a little earlier than planned. It was 90 seconds chock-full of prime GTA vibes—we were given a great look at a modern-day Vice City, a whole host of real Florida Man behaviour, and a first peep…
Earlier this week, Hasbro announced that it would be laying off approximately 1,100 employees two weeks before Christmas, as per an internal memo. At the time, I pointed out that the memo announced “the majority of the notifications will happen over the next six months, with the balance occurring over the next year.” While it…