PC Gaming

Valorant, a competitive FPS that I’ve often criticized for being too conservative with character abilities, is cooking up something weird for its next agent. Iso, Valorant’s eleventh post-launch agent, is a Chinese mercenary who “reconfigures ambient energy into bulletproof protection.” Pretty useful skills for the aggressive pointman of the team, but pedestrian compared to his…

Diablo 4’s new season dumps so many rare items on you that I’m pretty sure it would’ve been deemed a game-breaking exploit around the game’s release. Season 2’s Blood Harvests are a revamp of Diablo 4’s Helltides, which are essentially limited time events that take over a portion of the map. Like Helltides, Blood Harvests…

After three years in early access, Second Extinction is over. Developer Systemic Reaction has announced that it is ending “active development” game, and has removed it from sale. “After thoughtful consideration and exploration of our best course of action, we have made the difficult decision to end active development of Second Extinction,” the studio wrote…

Where else but Bandcamp are you going to buy the Halo theme rendered on sitar on an album called SitarCraft? It must be protected. After years of chill profitability, one of our favorite websites—which is a great place to buy and listen to videogame and videogame-inspired music—has been dealt a crushing blow: Epic Games bought…

Cities: Skylines 2 could be headed for a rocky launch. As I said in my review, there are a lot of performance issues in the city builder sequel, and other reviews I’ve read mention a similar experience. That’s disappointing, and the fact that Colossal Order is actually warning players of performance issues ahead of launch…

PC gaming is so ubiquitous and inherently decentralized that there are entire games and communities that go unnoticed all the time. It’s a global hobby, and that means some games won’t get the same level of attention as others. But that doesn’t make them any less significant. Over on Steam, there are games that routinely…

Wizards of the Coast announced in August that a Fallout crossover was coming to Magic: The Gathering in the form of four preconstructed decks for Commander, the format in which players go head-to-head with decks of 100 cards, each led by a single legendary commander.  Today we got our first proper look at what’s in…

Gigabyte GS27QC | 27-inch | 170Hz OC | 1440p | VA | $229.99 $199.99 at Newegg (save $30) $200 for a decent 1440p 170Hz monitor from a proper brand like Gigabyte? What’s not to like? Some would argue the VA panel, but it is rated at 1ms, albeit MPRT not GtG. The 250 nits brightness…

Vampire Survivors has dropped a new patch—and you’d think, considering Halloween is fast approaching, that they might, oh, I don’t know, lean into their already-present spooky themes a little? You’d think. Instead, they’ve gone and swept the rug out from under just about everybody and released Patch 1.7.0, named “Whiteout“, which is coincidentally what’s happening…

You might raise your eyebrow at me posting about tabletop RPG bundles two days in a row, and I wouldn’t blame you. But I’m afraid I can’t just ignore a deal this good on not one but three great Warhammer RPGs.  Humble Bundle’s latest deal includes PDFs of the core books, as well as sourcebooks…