PC Gaming
Something I love about videogames is the way that a single line of patch notes can have a disproportionate butterfly effect on millions of sessions. This little sentence, part of today’s Shrouded Sky update, will alter the fate and behavior of countless raiders: Wolfpack – Added Rocketeer Driver as a crafting cost. The Wolfpack is…
If you dig boomer shooters (or any kind of shooter, really), you might just dig the new Boomer Shooter Blueprint collection rolled out today by Digiphile. It’s a collection of seven old-school shooters, some of which I can attest are very good, for just $17, a portion of which will go to support the Whale…
The Shrouded Sky update has arrived in Arc Raiders, and Embark is throwing us a curveball. Today’s patch introduced a hurricane map condition, two new Arc enemies, and some meaningful balancing changes, but the masterminds in Sweden snuck something else in, too. Some players are spotting a UFO in the shrouded skies, a broad aircraft…
After drawing widespread criticism with the announcement of a new global age assurance policy earlier this month, Discord is now delaying the rollout of its age verification changes until the second half of 2026. In a blog post acknowledging that the company had “missed the mark,” Discord co-creator and CEO Stanislav Vishnevskiy said it’s revising…
The long-rumored co-op action game Horizon Hunters Gathering was finally made official earlier this month, along with a promise of a “small-scale closed playtest” set for the end of February. Today Sony announced that the test will run from February 27 to March 1, and if those dates feel oddly familiar to you, it might…
Easily the biggest influence on how I’ve run tabletop RPG campaigns over the last few years has been the OSR movement. Short for Old School Renaissance (or Old School Revival, depending on who you ask), it’s a subgenre of games that look back on the origins of D&D and bring forward ideas that had become…
The newly-independent classic game slingers at GOG would like you to know something: the whole business of keeping old games going only works if you give a damn about it, so please do so. GOG was responding to comments made by New Blood CEO Dave Oshry, who told RPG Site that GOG’s up against the…
I’ve never been particularly number-inclined, and apparently I’m in good company, as Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has a similar issue. In a post announcing Linux 7.0 rc1, Torvalds is quick to point out that the major number release version doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the most exciting version of the Linux kernel yet. “We have…
Locating a Firefly Burner in Arc Raiders is required for the final stage of the new Weather Monitor System project. Similar to the Comet Igniter, you’ll have to defeat a Firefly, one of the two new arc enemies added in the update, in order to collect it. These enemies aren’t too tough to kill, but…
Keeping up with all the megabucks deals going on right now in AI land is pretty much a full-time job. But for what it’s worth, here’s another doozy that involves silly amounts of money and a whiff of just the sort of cannibalistic circularity that makes the whole situation so unnerving. AMD and Meta have…