PC Gaming
The cold chill has arrived yet again in Forza Horizon 6 for Series 2’s Winter season, and that means another treasure chest. This week, it’s the Sotoyama region Treasure Hunt, sending you to find a small crate surrounded by snow when the entire map is snowy. Bit cruel if you ask me. Thankfully it’s not…
Microsoft is going through another big ‘reset’, which is a nice way of saying culling, as it reportedly prepares to cut major games and studios as part of reassessing its videogame investments. But amid all the carnage, Hideo Kojima’s OD is apparently unscathed. According to IGN, a source familiar with Microsoft’s plans implied the upcoming…
World of Warcraft caught some heat earlier this year for a messy patch that broke a whole lot of stuff. Patch 12.0.5 was a bit of a disaster, taking an accidental wrecking ball to multiple systems and allowing some long-flagged issues to sneak their way into the game. The takeaway that I—and many other players—had…
AMD’s latest line of GPUs barely followed MSRP at launch, and yet they may be set to get even pricier in the future. As reported by Sweclockers, a poster took to Board Channels, a forum for communicating between manufacturers and partners, to share news of an AMD price increase. Effectively, it claims that Sapphire, Asus,…
Having been playing games almost as long as I’ve been alive, I’ve fought and killed more goblins than I could ever hope to count. While MMOs, RPGs, RTSes, and all kinds of other acronyms have happily enabled my lifelong war with goblinkind, Flask—an autobattler that just released a demo on Steam—is the rare sort of…
As a Brit, I’ve been thinking a lot about the climate crisis since last month’s historic heatwave. With many buildings across the UK designed to retain heat, we’re simply not built for 37°C/98.6°F weather. Causes of climate change are numerous, and I know we didn’t get here solely due to the advent of AI, but…
One consequence of the AI boom is that tons of infrastructure is needed to power and run all the massive data centres, and naturally, all that infrastructure is worth a lot of money. And it seems like cargo thieves have caught on to this fact. As reported by Business Insider, investigators with Illinois’ Cook County…
We have unfortunately been barrelling towards a digitised future for some time now, but Sony’s latest news that PlayStation will be fully digital by 2028 has heightened fears that players have about ownership and the inability to preserve art. The fear is so palpable that even Hideo Kojima has commented on the situation now. “Eventually,…
Rockstar’s a big company—and while we’re excited for Grand Theft Auto 6, that doesn’t sideline the studio’s potential for cruddiness. Both from a consumer-facing point of view (like GTA 6 being fully digital) or an employee-facing one, with union-busting allegations in the UK still ongoing. It looks like, even outside of that dispute, there are…
Previously serving as the president of SIE Worldwide Studios for Sony and then becoming the head of PlayStation Indies in 2019, Shuhei Yoshida retired last year. He has since taken to giving industry analysis over on X. With the Steam Machine and its mighty price tag serving as a big discussion point, Yoshida has had…