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I run a single SSD gaming PC, which I’m aware is giving me a wonderful case of ‘single-point-of-failure-itus.’ Which is why my ears (eyes?) perked up when I read about GigaWiper, a wonderfully-named malware that can potentially do terrible things to your storage drives. Microsoft has published an analysis into GigaWiper’s capabilities, and it looks…
Game of Thrones: War for Westeros—the upcoming RTS from PlaySide emerging from the blasted wreckage of HBO’s once-water-cooler-dominating fantasy TV series—would like you to know it still exists and is still coming out. Just, you know, a little later than it originally had planned. War for Westeros originally broke cover at last year’s Summer Game…
Sweet Hamster Days was initially rejected by Steam, perhaps because Valve is more restrictive of games that feature sexually explicit images of real people, or possibly for some other reason we’ll never know. As a designer called Oda told Automaton, “We still don’t know exactly how the platform saw things, but after revising details such…
Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer re-review provided by: Need to Know Release date January 31, 2013Expect to pay $20Developer Sumo DigitalPublisher SegaReviewed on Core i7-6700K, 16GB RAM, GTX 980 Steam Deck VerifiedLink Steam I’m not sure anybody has ever had more fun making a game than Sumo Digital did when it made Sonic…
Gears of War 2 featured a campaign you could blast through over the course of a weekend. The perfect length for the kind of story that strings together a bunch of setpiece spectacles that won’t tax your thinking muscles. At one point you end up inside a giant worm and have to fight your way…
When Valve launched Steam Direct in June 2017 it marked a huge shift in the storefront’s identity. Before Direct, Valve manually decided what did and did not release on Steam, or else it used initiatives like Steam Greenlight to have users decide what games would or would not enjoy placement. Before June 2017, the amount…
League of Legends Classic, the new mode which remixes the MOBA by deleting most of the roster and restoring all sorts of old builds and character kits from 2013 and prior, has hit Riot’s public test environment. It’s been met with mixed reception since then, in part due to its approach to old visuals—when the…
LawBreakers was, by many accounts, a great game. But the 2017 shooter was a commercial failure, and developer Boss Key shut it down just a year after release. There’s been much speculation about why it stumbled, including from Boss Key co-founder and Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski himself. In a new interview with 80.lv,…
Summer is officially here, and as a British person it is the law of this nation for me to say it’s a bit hot, init? My AC-less apartment is being held together by a box fan and a dream. I haven’t had a proper night’s sleep in weeks, and I fear I’ve forgotten how it…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” David Szymanski, creator of Dusk and one…