PC Gaming
We learned last week that a Cyberpunk 2077 movie is in the works, an announcement I used mainly to talk about a completely different cyberpunk movie starring Keanu Reeves as a guy named Johnny who’s having a bad week. Now we’ve got a bit more insight into what CD Projekt Red has in mind for…
What’s it take for a game to snare me? Over the Hill is a co-op (or singleplayer!) offroading adventure that launched on Steam this week, and even just playing a bit of it has made me determined not to just play more but to 100% it. That’s a feeling I haven’t had about a game…
One day into Wardogs Season 2, Bulkhead Interactive has decided to scrap the bribery plan it announced last week as a way to help convince players to join the Blue team. The problem isn’t that the plan didn’t work—it actually worked far too well. THE PLAN: “Lonestar cash and XP bonus. Season 2 only. New…
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. I’ll be honest, I…
As I watched the credits roll on Modern Warfare 4’s campaign, a sobering thought infiltrated: I’ve been playing Call of Duty for over 20 years—two-thirds of my life. While I consider it primarily a multiplayer game these days, what I loved about Call of Duty all that time ago was its campaigns. In 2006, as…
UPDATE: ASUS actually approved the white RTX 5080 I asked for in a RMA from r/ASUS The phrase ‘RMA’ is likely to send shivers down many a spine, especially when it concerns something like a graphics card. Returning a faulty component can often be a ‘cross your fingers and hope for the best’ kind of deal, so…
The Linux kernel has dropped a rule, implemented in January this year, that required contributors submitting code to the project to explicitly declare any usage of AI tools in that code’s creation. At the start of this year, the Linux project added lines to its documentation noting that “When AI tools contribute to kernel development,…
Microsoft has been maintaining two separate Windows options menus for generations now, but a new test project spotted and investigated by Windows Latest might pave the way for a single, discrete bit of software that can do it all. What looks like a new Windows Settings app has stealth dropped in on the Microsoft Store,…
Key deets 💀 If you preorder Modern Warfare 4 digitally, you’ll get early access to the campaign starting October 16 and DMZ on October 20. 💀 The full release is on October 23 at midnight local time. 💀 PC preload is already live. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is releasing soon, but also features…
In contrast, Epic’s store “always feels sterile to me—you can complain about the Steam comments all you want … but, what they also do is they give the player a place in that world. They give the player actual agency and import and power inside of that ecosystem.” Yeah, that tracks. The Steam forum is…