PC Gaming

I’ve made cozy gaming most of my personality in the past several years, but even I sometimes feel numb to the aesthetically-mandated cotton candy color palette. Sometimes I want to play a cozy game while giving my eyes a little rest from the pastel apocalypse. I also just like trying to slip in some chill…

Five and a half years after its 2020 Game Awards reveal, Crimson Desert has remained something of a mystery. Developer Pearl Abyss has promised a growing collection of mechanics and playstyles so bafflingly dense that it’s still hard to picture how exactly it’s all meant to fit together. Thanks to a freshly announced release date,…

Well, Anthem is dead, and let’s be honest with ourselves: It’s fine. Most of us forgot Anthem even existed long before the final call, and we were genuinely surprised to discover last summer that the servers were still running. Which isn’t so much an indictment of the game but of the system that produced it….

After a mixed reception to Marathon‘s first public playtest last year (not helped by the whiplash of Arc Raiders‘ remarkably positive playtest), Bungie returned to the drawing board to overhaul some of the extraction shooter’s features. Now it’s back on the menu and almost time for round two, as a second public playtest will happen…

I spent my childhood as a Sega fanboy. Even though I loved Nintendo games I was fiercely loyal to my chosen console, in that daft way that kids are. I’d argue at school with mates about who would win in a fight between Mario and Sonic (Sonic would absolutely destroy him), extol the virtues of…

As if there aren’t enough gaming mice on the market, Be Quiet! has just announced a pair of rodents with professional and competitive gamers in mind. Named the Dark Perk Ergo and Dark Perk Sym, both mice sport a 110-hour battery life (at 1000 Hz), 55 g weight, 8000 Hz polling rate (even while wireless),…

After years of trying and failing to get it out the door, Ubisoft has finally pulled the plug on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. The game is one of six projects, four of them unannounced, that were cancelled as part of a “major reset” of Ubisoft’s internal structure that CEO Yves Guillemot…

Shockwave grenades, the king of movement items, Fortnite’s evergreen purple propellants, have been removed from battle royale, and I’ve been grieving them for the past week. I feel stodgy and static without them. The argument for vaulting them, as laid out by Epic’s design director Ted Timmins, is that Fortnite had a “combat fleeing issue”…