PC Gaming
The holidays may be over, but Game Pass is the gift that keeps on giving. So wrap up warm, hunker down, and place your cup of joe on the USB-powered coaster gizmo that mom panic bought you for Christmas, because it’s time to fend off the January blues with some mid-winter gaming. January is another…
Whatever help you need to solve today’s Wordle, you’ll find it right here. There are general tips that’ll give every guess a little lift, a brand new clue especially for the January 12 (937) game, and today’s answer if you need to turn a tough game around. After two guesses I was sure I was…
Esoteric Ebb seemed like a game tailor-made for me, and that left me nervous. An irreverent, dialogue-focused RPG proudly announcing its Disco Elysium inspirations—my mind jumped to all those soulslike games I’ve gotten my hopes up for that just don’t quite have the FromSoft magic. After trying the game’s second draft demo, I’m happy to…
Would you like a game controller that “can suggest button remaps and sensitivity adjustments” based on how you use it? What about a gaming mouse that “adjusts DPI settings in real-time, ensuring that your cursor movements are always accurate and fluid?” Or a keyboard that will “suggest key remaps and macros tailored to your gaming…
Valve has been pretty consistent about its attitude toward curating the games on Steam: It doesn’t wanna. Even Alex Jones, a guy banned by YouTube and Facebook, has a game on Steam, so it’s no surprise that Valve’s new generative AI policy avoids ethical judgments, sticking to the company’s 2018 declaration that it “shouldn’t be…
There was a time when game demos were standard. Developers gave away a chunk of their game and if you liked it, you handed over some cash for the rest of it. In fact, the original Prince of Persia was available in a “shareware” version that gave players the first two levels of the game,…
Embark Studios is clamping down on aim assist in The Finals in a new patch. It’s a rare move for an FPS to make in our crossplay climate, but Embark says the changes were informed by “an in-depth review of how aim assist works—something we’ve only been able to validate with a player base as…
Just one day after streaming service Twitch announced that it is laying off 500 employees, Discord has joined the parade: A report from The Verge says the company is cutting 170 employees, representing 17% of its workforce. A Discord representative confirmed with PC Gamer that The Verge’s report is accurate. Discord is an extremely popular…
Just a week after releasing an impressive “first slice” playable build, work on Portal 64, a fan-made effort to bring Valve’s beloved Portal to the 1996 Nintendo console, has been halted. Developer James Lambert said he was asked by Valve to take the project down, because it “depends on Nintendo’s proprietary libraries.” Lambert has been…
CES 2024 is winding down now and it’s been a frantic week of computing and gadget showcases. Intel launched its laptop-focused Core Ultra series of processors at the very end of 2023, so we expected to see a good number of the usual vendors releasing gaming laptops sporting the Meteor Lake chip. In the end,…