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The PC gaming icon that is Half-Life 2 recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, and Valve pulled out all the stops with a major new update integrating the game with its episodes and adding a commentary track. The studio also released a two-hour documentary about the making of the game and what was going on at…
The Monster Hunter Wilds open beta didn’t exactly go off without a hitch. In fact, there was a lot of hitching. While I delighted in having new monsters to fight and new mechanics to fight with, the Wilds beta had serious performance issues on PC and console alike. Luckily, however, game director Yuya Tokuda says…
Just one day after layoffs at Ubisoft, Torn Banner, and Sweet Bandits put more than 300 people out of work, Friday the 13th developer Illfonic has announced that it too is making cuts to its staff. “Today we had to accept the harsh reality that the state of the industry has impacted us here at…
Just in time for Dragon Age Day—D4, DA, get it?—BioWare has rolled out a new patch for Dragon Age: The Veilguard that makes numerous bug fixes, tweaks the game’s photo mode, and adds Hawke’s “iconic outfit” from Dragon Age 2 as a new cosmetic. It’s also put out a new standalone character creator, enabling the…
I don’t want to remember what gaming was like before my PC was also a DVR. As soon as I got a rig powerful enough to play games and record video at the same time, I set Nvidia Shadowplay “on” and kept it that way. In all my years of clipping shareable moments of shooters…
If you’ve just bought a shiny new gaming PC or an ultra-fast SSD in the Black Friday sales, then you might be wondering just how well it can fling data between the storage and the graphics card. Well, it turns out that 3DMark has been wondering the same thing because it’s just released a new…
It’s another miserable day for the videogame industry, as the past 24 hours have seen hundreds of people put out of work at Ubisoft, Torn Banner, and Sweet Bandits. In terms of raw numbers, the Ubisoft layoffs are the deepest cuts. The decision to end development of the free-to-play shooter XDefiant, coming less than three…
Before release, Stalker 2 was hotly anticipated. So hotly anticipated, in fact, that we named it our number one most wanted game—the most wanted most wanted—at our PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted of 2023. Did you count that? That’s four repetitions of the words ‘most wanted’ in a single sentence. That’s how wanted it was….
You might have seen bike share schemes in some cities—you know, the ones you can unlock, ride around, and leave in a different location—but have you seen car share schemes? Maybe I’m too much of a small-town bumpkin, but I certainly hadn’t. Not until I heard about them causing all kinds of kerfuffle last week….