PC Gaming
Scramble the interceptors! Gather your squad! Start the deployment theme! The incredible, exceptional, possibly unbeatable XCOM 2 is 10 years old. To celebrate, publisher 2K is letting XCOM greenhorns play it free on Steam this weekend. And if you like what you see, Firaxis’ turn-based tactics sequel is also on a 95% discount for the…
It can be tough getting on with your neighbours. Sometimes you want to say things to them, like “Don’t let your adult children play bassy music until 2AM”, or “Don’t leave your dog alone at home all day so he spends the whole. Time. Barking.” But for the sake of a peaceful life, you don’t….
Humble is back with yet another bundle, and this one’s a doozy, the kind that makes me wish I could erase my memory so I could experience the joy of playing these games for the first time again. Sci-fi Shooters 2.0 loads a second clip of FPS action into its discount rifle, featuring some of…
Short of someone actually inventing a magical time-manipulating dagger, we now know that the long-awaited remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will never see the light of day. Developer and publisher Ubisoft revealed it killed the project, alleged to have been nearly complete, in the latter half of January, as part of…
I’m gonna show you two clips of walking in videogames: The first is from The Outer Worlds 2, and the second is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Here’s The Outer Worlds 2… …and here’s KCD2. You seeing what I’m seeing? The difference is small, but the effect is huge. In The Outer Worlds 2, which I…
I’m not sure when this became a thing, but AI firm Anthropic has released the ads it intends to show during the Super Bowl. Which is in two days, and obviously has as big a live audience as you get, which is why you’re paying up to $10 million per 30 seconds of airtime. Anthropic’s…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive has claimed yet another win, and as videogame trophies go, this one is pretty rare. The studio has been awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by France’s Ministry of Culture, an honor that acknowledges “people who have distinguished themselves through their creations in the artistic or literary…
Surprise, surprise—the Stardew Valley 1.7 update is making a ton of noise in the new year, and it just so happens the beloved farming sim celebrates its tenth anniversary soon. Try as he might, Stardew Valley creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone can’t stay away from the farm life for very long, and I can’t say that…
Hideo Kojima knows a thing or two about making videogames—he’s made a few you may have heard of, like the Metal Gear series and the Death Stranding games. That’s probably why he was set to headline this year’s Game Developers Conference as its keynote speaker. But with GDC now just a month away, there’s bad…
Despite being one of 2025’s biggest flops, MindsEye is one of the more fascinating failures in recent memory, largely because of the seemingly paranoid allegations of developer Build A Rocket Boy’s co-CEOs Mark Gerhard and former Rockstar executive Leslie Benzies. Both before and after MindsEye’s release, Benzies and Gerhard have insisted—without substantiation—that its middling reputation…