PC Gaming
DMZ is coming back. The Call of Duty extraction mode, which debuted in Modern Warfare 2 (2022), will have another go-around when Modern Warfare 4 releases in October. DMZ was among the first big-budget attempts at the extraction genre—three years before Arc Raiders became a phenomenon. Activision is not talking in detail about the new…
Intel has just announced the Arc G3 and G3 Extreme, new Panther Lake-based chips for handheld gaming PCs that promise “seamless gaming experiences on the go.” A year or two ago, new handheld chips would have properly tickled my anticipation bone. But with the way 2026 is going, I’m not so sure. Will anyone be…
Computex 2026 hasn’t even begun yet, and Intel is already rolling out the big guns. Its long-awaited Panther Lake-based handheld gaming PC processors have just been officially announced, and they’re called the Intel Arc G3 and the Intel Arc G3 Extreme. We’ve long mooted the idea that Panther Lake‘s efficiency and overall performance seem perfectly…
According to reports, LG has flatly denied a report claiming that it plans to sell its TV business to China’s Hisense, much as Sony recently sold its own TV division to TCL. The original report was posted on South Korean website EBN and titled, “LG Electronics to shut down its ‘problematic’ TV business? Discusses sale…
Fangs of Asterkarn was already shaping up to be Grim Dawn’s biggest expansion last time I wrote about it, with designer Kamil ‘Zantai’ Marczewski boasting it would have “54 new bosses” and “cover approximately 3.55sq. km, which makes it roughly 110% as big as Ashes of Malmouth.” That had grown to “up to 170% as…
Sometimes someone does something that makes you think, ‘Why the hell had no one tried this before?’ That’s the question that crossed my mind when I learned about ‘Noah Doe’, a (presumably) placeholder name for a man who is trying to get the New York courts to officially recognise him (and the other plantiff companies)…
There’s a reason that we’re in 2026 and still see so few life sims on the market: they’re incredibly freakin’ hard to make. That’s not just me spouting my opinion, it’s something that the developers behind games like The Sims, Inzoi, and prematurely cancelled Life by You have said in the past. There are so…
As much as I enjoy a gacha pull as a little treat, I’m not overly jazzed about how inescapable gambling mechanics have become in games—or anywhere else, for that matter. So-called prediction markets are also becoming increasingly popular, and one Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly leveraging insider information to place bets on Polymarket,…
The 1,000 developers that Epic Games laid off in March were, in the words of CEO Tim Sweeney, of “once-in-a-lifetime” quality—and a website that compiles their resumes proves it. The ex-Epic Awesome People List comprises 545 entries and shows just how wide and deep the layoffs cut. It hit young developers learning their trade and…
As we march ever further into our bright AI future, it’s somehow reassuring to know the tech can still stumble at the first hurdle. Or concerning, one of the two. Google Search users will have noticed that the AI Overview feature has been upgraded recently as part of the company’s efforts to crowbar more AI…