PC Gaming
Andy Edser, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been: Testing an extremely heavy keyboard while benchmarking many, many graphics cards. Also, a spot of overclocking. Nothing caught fire. Victory! When I first learned of the Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition, I was both intrigued and confused. On the one hand, I was aware…
Fortnite is back with yet another annual Star Wars celebration, and this year, three new Creative experiences. Droid Tycoon is one of the big three games added to Fortnite for this year’s celebration, and it’s basically Steal a Brainrot with an intergalactic twist. It’s less Ballerina Cappucina and more BB-8, but the usual progression systems…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
My deep-down reaction when I first heard about Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era was, “What’re ya doin’?” Does anybody really want a hex-based strategy game these days, particularly one whose glory days ended 20 years ago? Well, as it turns out, the answer is a resounding “yes,” as publisher Hooded Horse announced that…
The battle against Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred’s main villain Mephisto is finally over, but the battle against the villain that has haunted the game since it came out might never be over: Items that mysteriously break the game have reared their ugly heads again. In a hotfix earlier today, Blizzard disabled the Limitless Rage…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—probably better known to the world as the Oscars folks—have drawn a firm line in the sand against the use of generative AI, changing its eligibility rules to exclude AI-generated performances and scripts. The new rules, via The Wrap, state that in acting categories, only roles “demonstrably performed…
Steam’s latest indie breakout success is Far Far West, a co-op robot cowboy shooter that climbed to the top of Steam’s top seller list after its early access launch earlier this week. The first FPS project of French studio Evil Raptor, Far Far West racked up an impressive 250,000 sales in its first 48 hours,…
Earlier this week writer and director Noah Hawley, who’s previously been behind the Fargo series as well as Alien: Earth, spoke about his upcoming TV adaptation of Ubisoft’s Far Cry. Hawley made some comments that caused a bit of a stir while explaining why he wouldn’t be directly adapting any of the existing games. “I’m…
OpenAI is now one of the world’s most talked-about companies, and the ongoing legal spat between co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman has resulted in some truly juicy revelations around exactly what was going on in the firm’s earliest years. One example: it turns out Gabe Newell gave the company over $20 million, and was…
I always try to keep an open mind when playing unfinished games and ones that are slow to start: even when it’s just not clicking for me, I’m looking for how it could improve or what about it might be more to someone else’s tastes. Then I’ll play something like Metamorphosis, whose demo is available…