PC Gaming
Amazon Prime Day 2026 is nearly here, and it’s the perfect time to start shopping for your new gaming headset. The event officially kicks off on June 23 and runs through to June 26, but I’m already finding some great headsets at very reasonable prices. While the price of most things PC gaming has been…
For reasons I can’t quite explain—except to admit that San Andreas was very good—the entire Earth has become one big millenarian cult awaiting the arrival of Grand Theft Auto 6, which will purge us of our sins and deliver us to apocatastasis. It will also make four hundred quintillion dollars. No wonder, then, that its…
Tracking down Caine in Gothic Remake took me longer than I’d like to admit. This missing mole is apparently somewhere in the Swamp Camp, but if you’re ever been to that sprawling mess of ramshackle huts and walkways, you’ll understand the issue. If you recall that Caine is Cor Kalom’s apprentice, then speaking to him…
Back in 2020, Senua studio Ninja Theory announced a new game, Project Mara, that aimed to “recreate the horrors of the mind” with a “real-world and grounded representation of mental terror.” A year later we got a look at the game’s absurdly photorealistic apartment, but beyond that it pretty much fell off the radar until…
We knew when we gave the original Half-Life a 97% way back in 1998 that it was something special that gamers would be playing years from then. But I don’t think we ever thought someone would play it on a Nokia phone at 30 FPS, with mouse and keyboard support. Oh, technology can be a…
I’ve played a few theme park sims in my day, which means I’ve accidentally—and occasionally on purpose—killed some of my guests. Maybe it was a faulty roller coaster, or maybe it was a roller coaster I’d deliberately removed a few lengths of track from just to see what would happen. Sorry (or not sorry) valued…
I was pleasantly surprised by the Xbox Showcase overall this year. Seeing Marcus in normal clothes was rather funny, but Gears of War E-Day looks as gnarly as ever. Clockwork Revolution is a very promising time-bending steampunk RPG, and a hit of Bioshock nostalgia. I’m already sold on Vivarium, the most charming Ghibli-esque life sim…
Hideo Kojima got to live out his well-documented dream of visiting space recently, but don’t get too excited, it was only via an appearance in an AI-generated Prada ad. It was tremendously bleak and no one liked it. Including, I suppose, Hideo Kojima himself? In a recent chat with The Washington Post, Kojima said that—ignore…
Now that the Summer Game Fest weekend is over and the buffering video’s caught up to the audio feed at last, we can look back over the festival of trailers and announcements and say, hey, what about that one thing we were expecting to hear about (or in some cases—cough, Destiny 3, cough—are just trying…
The same thing happens every summer—the jaded, cynical monster inside me mopes around and pretends he’s not going to get excited about SGF (and before it, E3) announcements. There are too many of them, and I’ve been around too long to become a victim of hype. And every summer, the hype starts bubbling away anyway,…