PC Gaming

Late last year, I played in a closed alpha playtest of Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, an upcoming extraction game pairing World of Warcraft-style high fantasy with third-person action combat. Over a couple of hours, I got an early taste of stringing together longbow headshots on skeletons, smashing wolves with maces, and panicked escapes as a…

As Benjamin Franklin famously wrote in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy in 1789, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes, and a bunch of Mortal Kombat reboots.” Benny Franks (as he was commonly called around the Continental Congress) wasn’t wrong: The Mortal Kombat game series has been rebooted…

The post-Disco Elysium world we live in is… complicated. Following the release of one of the biggest and most acclaimed RPGs to come along in years, developer ZA/UM imploded, and left its wake are splinters of the shell, each claiming they’re making a Disco Elysium “spiritual successor” and putting in some real effort to discredit…

Doug Cockle is your favorite Geralt’s favorite Geralt. He’s been Mr. Rivia’s voice in all three of CD Projekt Red’s Witcher games and some spinoffs, becoming iconic enough through the trilogy that when Netflix’s first live action show was getting ready to air, then star Henry Cavill said he’d accidentally imitated Cockle’s version of Geralt…

A year after laying off 25% of its workforce in what it called “a company reset,” engine maker Unity has reportedly put even more people out of work. The layoffs were reported by multiple Unity employees on LinkedIn (via Game Developer) and while the number of people let go is currently unknown, a post on…

As stories go, The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is one you’ve heard before. Which is for the best, really, because the short story it’s based on is one of The Witcher books‘ more aimless ones and wouldn’t work terribly well if a lighter hand had been taken to adapting it into a 90 minute…

Ubisoft’s return to Steam has continued slowly but surely since September 2024, when the company finally decided that enough was enough and it was time to start selling games where people actually want to buy them. That means day-one releases on Steam, which is a big deal in its own right, but Ubisoft has been…

During all of my initial review testing and overclocking of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards, I had no issues with the black screening problem that we’ve seen cropping up in various forums and Reddit threads. My Founders Edition cards have worked beautifully and not once set fire to the wooden cabin tinderbox…

WinRAR, the compression and encryption software known for having a paid version that many users deftly dodge, has put out flashy new merch including a messenger bag modelled after its iconic logo. For $150, you can get some of the geekiest (and most fun) merch I’ve seen this year. In an announcement tweet that has…

Valve has already cemented its name in the handheld PC market with the Steam Deck. All it had to do was show that handheld PCs are worth making and others would follow suit. Now, coming up to the Steam Deck’s third birthday and millions of units sold, I can say that Valve has won. I…