PC Gaming
Despite its surprise announcement at BlizzCon earlier this month, Diablo 5 is a whole three years away. Blizzard’s brief teaser trailer had zero gameplay in it, which means the action RPG sequel is still mostly a mystery. But director Joe Shely helped paint a picture of what the real thing might look like during a…
You can play the first several hours of World of Warcraft: Forever and miss a lot of the changes Blizzard slipped into the early leveling experience. There are new quests and NPCs, but they barely stand out if you don’t have encyclopedic knowledge of the MMO. Now that players have had enough time to hit…
As a college student, Minh “Gooseman” Le had a substantial hand in shaping PC gaming history: He co-created Counter-Strike. When Le and his development partner later sold the IP to Valve, the purchase agreement stipulated that the studio would also hire the pair as employees once they completed their degrees. Hired in 2000, Le ultimately…
If you’ve ever wanted to play a cozy life sim where you craft, farm, build, cook, and complete quests for villagers, and also make products from human corpses, Graveyard Keeper 2 is out today. I’m only about 13 hours into it and it’s got that same immediately engrossing crafting loop as the original. Gotta chop…
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. Have you heard? Crazy…
I’m a thoroughly average gamer. And in first-person shooters, I reckon I am ever so slightly above average at aiming—If aim-tester software, Aimlabs, is anything to go by, at least (top 38%, baby). But as a hardware tester, I have access to all kinds of gaming gear, and that includes competitive-level specs. I wanted to…
Arkheron is an enigmatic blend of a fast PvP action game and a dungeon crawler that’s all about competing with other players to reach the top of an evolving tower. That enigma element is a key part of Arkheron’s core narrative, along with its wild mix of loot-driven action-RPG combat and competitive knockout action that…
What happened Xbox executive vice president and chief content officer Matt Booty has announced another round of layoffs and studio reorganizations as part of the continuing “reset” of Microsoft’s gaming division Xbox has cut an additional 268 employees “across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer,” which Booty says…
Crusader Kings 3 will finally let us play as the pope in the By God Alone expansion, launching on September 30. The power! The pageantry! The blood boys! Wait, what? OK, so history has given us a lot of weird pope stories. One of them relates to the declining health of Pope Innocent VIII. As…