PC Gaming
When I played six hours of Assassin’s Creed Shadows at Ubisoft Quebec last week, I knew it would be the only time I saw it looking this good. Global illumination, ray traced everything, super high framerate—I was test driving a Ferrari knowing I’d eventually have to climb back into my Nissan Versa and go home….
South of Midnight, the new game coming from We Happy Few developer Compulsion Games, made an appearance at today’s Xbox Direct showcase to reveal more about its “darkly magical world” set in the Deep South of the US. Also revealed is the release date: It’s set to come out on April 8. Hazel is a…
There are two key things to take away from Doom: The Dark Ages’ showing at today’s Xbox Developer Direct. The first: a release date. id Software’s prequel story will be with us in just a few months, on May 15. The second: a mission statement. “In Doom Eternal, you felt like a fighter jet. In…
It was only a couple of months ago that I bemoaned the fact that it had been a decade since the launch of Endless Legend, my favourite 4X, and there was still no word on a sequel. I needed my fix—more of that best-in-class faction design, more weird stories, more exotic maps to fight over….
We’re not doomed to fight the endless hordes of hell quite yet, but it’s going to be happening a whole lot sooner than you might’ve expected. id Software announced during today’s Xbox Developer Direct that Doom: The Dark Ages is nearly finished and just four months out from release: it’s landing on May 15, 2025….
Over a decade after Ninja Gaiden 3, which released in 2012, Ninja Gaiden 4 is coming this year as a collaboration between Team Ninja and PlatinumGames, the latter of which is known for over-the-top action games including Bayonetta and Nier: Automata. It’s being published by Xbox Game Studios, so you can expect it on Game…
They keep trying to make AI wearables happen. Halliday is the latest attempt to swing for the fences, offering comparatively lightweight glasses frames that house what is described as a “proactive AI agent.” I don’t know about you, but the term “proactive AI agent” inspires in me a visceral reaction, not unlike the one I…
A new announcement on The Witcher 3’s Steam page made me think “oh that’s nice” before my fingers suddenly started aching, the sky grew dark, and this wizened form crumbled into dust o’er the keyboard. As of May this year The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the finest PC action-RPGs there is, will be…
Thanks to a pretty stacked videogame release calendar, I haven’t had the opportunity to check out as many smaller games as I would’ve perhaps liked to. But despite my busy schedule, there’s one thing I always have time for: minigames. Best cozy games: Relaxed gamingBest anime games: Animation-inspiredBest JRPGs: Classics and beyondBest cyberpunk games: Techno…
In the wake of Elon Musk’s speech at Trump’s inauguration and its accompanying (ahem) hand gesture, the userbase of Reddit seems to have decided it’s simply done with Musk and his website. As we reported yesterday, r/pcgaming has now banned X links—and the same thing is happening across a huge number of subreddits, major and…