PC Gaming
Xbox Games Studios head Craig Duncan has stepped down after just over a year-and-a-half in the role, reports The Game Business. Duncan led Sea of Thieves developer Rare for nearly 13 years before being promoted to head of Xbox Game Studios in 2024, which put the rest of Microsoft’s studios under his stewardship, including Double…
Today marks the beginning of Steam Next Fest, the thrice-yearly, week-long smorgasbord of delectable demos served up by game creators of all sizes as samplers for their in-development delights. And unsurprisingly, as the Steam catalog adds tens of thousands of games every year, that translates into a lot of demos. To be precise: This season’s…
I’ve pretty much lapsed in my Wordle devotion. Once a fanatic who would crawl through broken glass to make sure I kept my daily streak alive, I now only remember to play Wordle maybe a few times a month. Hey, it happens. Five empty boxes can only remain appealing for so long. So I’m always…
Just days after signalling that large-scale layoffs at Xbox are imminent as part of its ongoing overhaul, Microsoft’s gaming division is reportedly planning to shutter Compulsion Games, the award-winning studio behind South of Midnight and We Happy Few (via Kotaku). Neither Xbox or Compulsion Games have yet made an official statement regarding the studio’s closure…
Overwatch’s next hero might carry twin pistols and has a quick dash, but she’s no Tracer. Tomorrow, when Shion makes her debut, Overwatch will have a hero who fights like a Devil May Cry character. In fact, the character action game series was so much of an inspiration that Blizzard originally gave Shion a Devil…
The latest entry in the wonderful genre of friendslop, Meccha Chameleon, launched onto the scene with an impressive 1,000,000 copies sold in just four days. The hype for this multiplayer game has been growing exponentially, and after watching countless videos of artistic skill I was eager to try it myself, even if I have zero…
E-waste is a massive environmental problem. So are current data center plans, if recent reports are to be believed. However, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have come up with an intriguing idea: They plan to use 2,000 Google Pixel smartphones to build a cloud computing data center with already-existing…
SteamOS, once the purview of the Steam Deck alone, eventually opened itself to other handhelds. Officially that extends only to the the Legion Go S, but beta versions of the operating system have since supported the Asus ROG Xbox Ally and “Other AMD powered handhelds.” The key term there being ‘AMD’, because until very recently,…
2026 seems to be the time of the open-back gaming headset. After years of not seeing much in this sector (bar the Corsair Virtuoso Pro), we’ve seen a return to form for this admittedly niche sector that I’m all for. First, it was the turn of Asus with the Hifiman-collab Asus ROG Kithara with its…
Why bring guns when you can throw motorbikes? Overwatch‘s Season 3 plans to answer that important question with the new hero Shion. She brings both, so guns and weaponised motorbikes must fill different, invaluable niches, I suppose. Below, I’ll explain when Overwatch Season 3: Into the Tiger’s Den releases in your time zone, as well…