PC Gaming
Backblaze has published its latest HDD reliability report for 2025 (via Businesswire) and the good news is that old school hard drives are getting more reliable. The bad news? HDD maker WD has announced that it’s basically sold out for 2026, thanks to, oh yes, AI. Backblaze’s report analyses fully 344,196 hard drives across 30…
It’s rare for us Warhammer fans to have a really big 40k game on the horizon, so having two inbound at the same time, and both strategy games at that, is a pretty notable occurrence. Both Dawn of War 4 and Total War: Warhammer 40k are set to drop in the not too distant future—but…
German PC gamers might struggle to pick up Acer or Asus gaming laptops and desktops for the foreseeable future, as a court ruling out of Munich has put a pause on direct sales. This is the latest development in a patent suit filed by Nokia against the two companies, as well as Chinese electronics company…
Just a couple of days after announcing it was slashing the 2XKO team in half, Riot says it’s “still fully committed and working hard” on the game, and to prove that? Two new characters and the promise to iron out some of its more glaring issues. In a blog post titled “What’s Next + New…
There’s a good chance that, if you’re a certain age, you hold a soft spot in your heart for slightly yellow-tinged retro speakers. Well, that soft spot may melt when you see them towering over you, blasting Creed and Blink-182. Or at least that’s the vision put forward by artist Gwak, who built a huge…
Ever sat down with your TTRPG group and gone “alright, so what do we want to play for our next campaign?” What if the answer was “four systems at once?” Well, you’d have an excruciatingly bad time. Here’s where I’d usually say “unless you’re doing a wizard battle”, but a royale put together by YouTuber…
Thursday’s PlayStation State of Play brought the announcement of Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, and the headline news is undoubtedly the inclusion of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. There’s also the brilliant PSP game Peace Walker, a mainline entry in all but name, and then a surprising bonus: the excellent…
In March, Discord will be rolling out facial scanning and ID checks globally for users who don’t want to be locked into a “teen-appropriate experience”. Some of the stuff being restricted is fairly specific, and even if you were locked out of it because, say, you had privacy concerns and weren’t comfortable giving Discord your…
Werner “Wesp5” Spahl, author of the essential Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines Unofficial Patch, appears to have the inside scoop on the initial, canceled version of its sequel, pulled from Hardsuit Labs by publisher Paradox in 2021, as opposed to The Chinese Room-developed game we got last year. Over the past few days, Wesp5 has…
The GameDiscoverCo newsletter studies how people find the games they play. You may remember the time they analyzed the names of bestselling games on Steam to learn what they had in common. Their latest look at Steam is an in-depth study of keywords in capsule descriptions—the paragraph of summary under the icon on the top-right…