PC Gaming

Blizzard’s reputation has taken a pummelling over the last few years. In 2021, horrifying descriptions of the company’s toxic workplace culture spilled onto the Internet, after a lawsuit was filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment regarding “unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation”. Following the lawsuit, Blizzard made extensive promises about how they were going to…

Bandai Namco and Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada are readying the banhammers, with warnings of rank resets and account suspensions, after players quickly discovered that the leaderboard’s ‘top’ online ranked users were cheating or win trading to inflate their standing. Accusations of win trading to reach a high rank aren’t new to Tekken or fighting…

The point of Microsoft’s Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bitlocker, it shouldn’t matter if you lose your laptop or somebody pinches your SSD. Your data still can’t be accessed. Except it can and all that’s needed…

Following last year’s expensive Shadows of Change DLC, the Total War: Warhammer 3 community’s Public Order score dropped until it was only a few turns away from outright rebellion. Redditors and YouTubers folded in a bunch of perennial complaints about bugs and update cadence and communication and how they want one specific kind of beastmen…

Protect your Wordle win streak with our helpful range of hints and tips. Keep on scrolling and you’ll soon find general advice that’ll help make every game just that little bit easier. There’s also a clue for the February 9 (965) game and today’s Wordle answer in full if you need it. For a short…

Owners of non-K 14th Gen Intel processors have something interesting to look forward to. ASRock has released new BIOS’ for its range of Z790 motherboards that allow you to get some ‘free’ performance. ASRock says it will roll out the update to its other LGA 1700 motherboards with 600 and 700-series chipsets in the near…

Skull and Bones is finally coming out this month (or so we’re told), and this week’s open beta is Ubisoft’s last best chance to convince us that the long-delayed pirate game is worth $60. I played a few hours of it today, and I can’t say I’m convinced, though I won’t rule out that it…

Diablo 4’s Lunar New Year event doesn’t feel like an event at all. The promised cosmetic rewards take about an hour to earn and trying to find the XP-boosting Lunar Shrines is harder than trying to find an Uber Unique. It’s as if the event was designed for the Diablo 4 that existed before season…

Clue, or Cluedo for non-Americans, is my favorite family board game. (Great movie too.) It’s the kind of thing you can bring out when you’re not playing with people who know every Catan expansion front-to-back and are halfway through some giant legacy game and have like three Kickstarters they’re waiting on. Clue is a game…

Helldivers 2 launched on Steam today and unfortunately seems to have got off to a bit of a shaky start network-wise: the reviews are currently “mixed,” and the mood music is that people are enjoying the game but deeply frustrated by connection issues. The studio admits it’s in “crisis mode” and at the time of…