PC Gaming
The humble point-and-click adventure game has gone through many iterations, with ups and downs year to year, but the genre has given up its relevance entirely. I know this because at least once a year I see one that’s just drop-dead interesting for some reason or other. Rauniot, out now from Finnish indie developer Act…
Asus has announced its next handheld gaming PC, but it’s not quite the ROG Ally 2. The new handheld will be called the ROG Ally X, and it’ll be a revised version of the original ROG Ally. We don’t know everything about the new device just yet, but we do know this time it comes…
One of the best-reviewed games of the year so far launched on Steam today. In his 90% Animal Well review for PC Gamer, Shaun said that the 2D metroidvania “may go down in history as one of the genre’s best,” and other critics agree. Here’s a smattering of the acclaim: GamesRadar+ (4.5/5): “an endlessly inventive…
In what has become an annual tradition, Games Workshop has announced an across-the-board price increase to its miniatures for the popular Warhammer tabletop games. Games like Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, and the recently launched Warhammer: The Old World are titans in tabletop miniatures, but are often lamented as some of the most expensive…
Since the moment Tiktok showed me a video of Super Mario 64 speedrunner CRZ’s “drum%” run, I haven’t looked at my MIDI compatible instruments in the same way. Why just drum, when I could speeddrum? Okay, I’m not going to commit my life to mastering Mario 64 with drumsticks, but that’s just one way to…
Diablo 4 is about to dramatically change as an action RPG, and you’ll be able to play this massive update early via Blizzard’s “PTR”, or public test realm, starting tomorrow. From April 2 to April 9, PC players using the Battle.net launcher (not Steam players, sadly) can get their hands dirty testing out Blizzard’s redesigned…
Over the years I’ve devolved from a fun-loving scamp into a crusty curmudgeon—practically a coot at this stage—when it comes to April Fools’ Day on the internet. Most April Fools’ jokes are… they’re lies, right? It’s just lying. We already get plenty of disinformation the other 364 days of the year, so a day dedicated…
Victory is ours… already? Just hours after Super Earth initiated a major order to finally, once and for all, liberate community-favorite planet Malevalon Creek, Helldivers 2 players have delivered. Our greatest defeat can now be celebrated as one of our greatest achievements. The news became official with an in-game dispatch, as well as a rare…
Extremely cool not-an-April-Fool’s-joke news alert: Armored Core 6 is co-op now. I loved the mech combat in Armored Core 6 when I reviewed it last year, and it was a strong enough singleplayer action game to run away with our best action game of the year award, just like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice in 2019….
Certain Affinity, which has worked as a support studio on games including Halo Infinite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, New World, and Hogwarts Legacy, has announced that it is laying off 25 employees, representing roughly 10% of the studio’s workforce. Word of the layoffs came in a message from founder and CEO Max Hoberman…