PC Gaming

China may be walking back a series of sweeping new restrictions on gaming that were announced in December 2023, as a Reuters report says the country’s gaming regulator has removed the proposed rule changes from the National Press and Publication Administration website entirely. The proposed changes, which apparently appeared without warning to gaming companies, included…

Rising Lords is just the sort of game I’m most vulnerable to: historical strategy with the simple setup of a tabletop wargame and the quality of life and large numbers that are only possible when a computer does the math and moves the pieces for you. What I especially like about it, though, is that…

What do vikings know about civic planning?  I pondered that question while I viewed my settlement, which stretched from the base of my flying ship to the shores of a river hanging in space. In that vast expanse I’d just placed a house right next to an iron mine, which would set me up to…

We mentioned a couple of weeks back that Nvidia had a new toy called RTX Video HDR coming. Well, it’s here as part of Nvidia’s latest driver release for the launch of the RTX 4070 TI Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.  Long story short, RTX Video HDR uses AI algorithms to convert SDR video to HDR and it’s part…

When a trailer for a new Five Nights at Freddy’s game called Into the Pit first surfaced, the Five Nights subreddit immediately clamped down on it, warning that “all discussions of said trailer will be removed until the trailer is officially released.” But then Five Nights creator Scott Cawthon jumped in and said it’s all…

The use of generative AI, machine learning algorithms that can produce images, text, or even sound, is rapidly spread across the software industry. The likes of Photoshop and Windows, plus countless others, all now sport a simple button that claims to magically do things that we simply couldn’t do before. And now it’s the turn…

As Sony continues to loosen its grip on its big library of exclusives, it looks like a classic PS4 horror game might be making its way over to PC: Until Dawn. Supermassive’s cinematic slasher romp launched on the console back in 2015, and its success spawned a whole bunch of similarly structured games from the…

The Apple Macintosh is 40 years old today. Far from the first home computer, the Macintosh has become one of the most well-known. Announced back in January of 1984, the Macintosh became famous as a personal computer that could compete with the IBM-compatible PCs that were so prevalent at the time. Or perhaps it was…

Back in December, Lawrence Sullivan—also known as Florida Joker—gave Rockstar an ultimatum. Having dyed his hair purple and donned an orange prison jumpsuit, he said the studio had three days to compensate him—to the tune of several million dollars—for supposedly using his likeness in the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer, before his “lawyers go crazy…

Final Fantasy 14’s announced its next Moogle Treasure Trove event—for the uninitiated, these events help occupy players between major patches by giving them tomestones for specific activities. They can then spend those on glamour items, mounts, emotes, hairstyles, that sort of thing. Unfortunately, this tends to result in players taking the path of least resistance—for…