PC Gaming
UL Solutions, the makers of the ever popular 3DMark benchmarking software, has announced 3DMark Steel Nomad. It’s set to replace the now aging Time Spy benchmark, and it’s sure to bring even the best rigs to their knees, as any new 3Dmark software should! Steel Nomad is a heavy non-ray tracing cross-platform benchmark. It will…
Blizzard knew that its controversial new augmentation evokers—the first support class ever in World of Warcraft—were going to be overpowered. That choice was “deliberate,” the game’s director told us in a BlizzCon interview, although he added that “obviously they came out the gates too strong.” Augmentation evokers dropped like a bomb into WoW last summer,…
World of Warcraft: The War Within is the first WoW expansion where purchasing a more-expensive edition gets you into the new content more quickly. The announcement caused an immediate controversy, but the game’s director claims it will not ultimately affect players’ progression relative to each other. A standard version of the pack, coming out next…
People say a lot of things on the internet: They say they have screenshots of Half-Life 3. They say it was actually their little brother who said all those terrible things in Fortnite. They say there’s a magic Task Manager ritual you can perform to play Modern Warfare 3 early. You don’t expect them to…
It’s easy when playing a city builder to focus on the grander scale: electrical grids, traffic patterns, resource management, the economy. Even the happiness level of your citizens can be summarized with a simple, aggregate smiley face that prevents you from having to zoom in to see their actual faces. But the best city builders…
Activision’s rollout of the new “Call of Duty HQ” launcher has been anything but elegant. The HQ, which is really just a rebranded frontend for a single CoD game, is the only way to launch the new Modern Warfare 3, and until yesterday, that process was a real slog. To play MW3, you had to…
There‘s good news and bad news for fans of Arcane, the League of Legends animated show that knocked our socks off in 2021. The good news is that Arcane season 2, which was confirmed last year, now has a release window. The bad news, I’m sorry to say, is that it’s more than a year…
Like many in my millennial age cohort, I’ve got a sickening nostalgic obsession with clear plastic electronics: Game Boys, OG MacBooks, Discmen. It’s god’s own design language, I tell you, not just rosy memories of the late ’90s and early aughts! No doubt taking note of the many aftermarket solutions for giving the Steam Deck…
Do you remember Omegle? It launched in 2009 as a chat service with a twist: Instead of picking a server to join or people to talk to, users were randomly paired up for one-on-one chats with anonymous strangers from around the world. That sure sounds like a terrible idea, doesn’t it? And sure enough, racism…
At last year’s Game Awards, Warframe maker Digital Extremes revealed that it was publishing Wayfinder, an online action game from Airship Syndicate which released in early access this August. Today, PC Gamer has learned that Digital Extremes is now closing its publishing wing and handing control of Wayfinder over to Airship Syndicate. “We can confirm…