PC Gaming
The Sims 4 is now well into its nostalgia-fueled “Motherlode season” celebrating the series’ 25th anniversary and also revealing the next Sims 4 expansion pack: Businesses & Hobbies. After the Life & Death pack at the end of last year we’re apparently in a double word plus ampersand expansion era—who do I have to pander…
Larian has published a blog post detailing an update to the Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8, which isn’t actually out yet and is still in stress testing. The update includes a few tweaks to the balance of new sub classes in addition to the expected bug fixes, but notably absent among them were any significant…
E3 died in 2023 but the Entertainment Software Association is still around, and it’s just unveiled its new idea: “a first-of-its-kind event designed to connect visionaries, thought leaders and innovators from across industries to harness the power of interactive entertainment” called iicon. Two things right off the start: No, this is not a reborn E3,…
Influence, which you may be familiar from past Civs’ expansions, has finally made the jump to being a base game currency out of the box in Civilization 7. Alongside Food, Gold, Culture, Science, and Production, it’s one of your main tools for achieving world domination. But unlike some of the others, it’s not tied to…
Haemimont Games has spent the last 25 years knocking out an impressive list of strategy and management romps, including corkers like Tropico 3-5, Surviving Mars and Jagged Alliance 3. It’s had a pretty great run, and now it’s the latest feather in publisher Paradox Interactive’s cap, which just snatched the studio up. Announced today, Paradox…
Nvidia RTX 50-series cards are about as ephemeral as Casper the ridiculously expensive ghost right now, with stocks having dipped to nigh-on zero within a few minutes of launching last week. One might even say they’re as rare as gold. So, Asus says, how about we add some more rarity to your rare so you…
Not two days ago I came to you with the befuddling news that ZA/UM—the studio whose name is still on Disco Elysium even though the game’s chief creative talent have all left—was selling a $165 carrier bag based on the one you can get in the game. This was confusing to me, conceptually. I wasn’t…
For years, we PC gamers have had it easy. No, really. Not quite as easy as console users, perhaps, but we could be reasonably sure that any software we tried to run was written for the processor architecture inside our box. And that’s because there was only one: x86, as championed by Intel and AMD….
It’s 2025 and somehow we’ve still yet to see a Twitch stream happening from space—until next week, that is. NASA has announced it’ll be doing a livestream a whole 250 miles from Earth aboard the International Space Station, on Wednesday 12 February. The stream will be happening on the official NASA Twitch and is set…
Let me set the scene for you: there I am, lounging around while playing the office Steam Deck when suddenly it happens. Maybe my replay of 1000xResist has shocked me anew, or maybe there’s just something in my eye, but my grip on Valve’s handheld loosens for just a moment and before I know it—WHAM!…