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Discord, I love you, but oh boy do I hate you at the same time. I’ve been using the platform for eight years now, and in that time I’ve seen a lot of changes. A number of them have been pretty good, too: Video calls and screen sharing in 2017, threads in 2022, profile biographies…
After singing its fingers on the hot stove of NFTs, Square Enix has decided to go in for another cheeky touch with AI—as stated by the company’s new president Takashi Kiryu in a New Year’s letter to his employees. “I believe that generative AI has the potential not only to reshape what we create, but…
Well, it turns out I wasn’t the only person who had a hankering for returning to Monster Hunter: World for the first time in forever this holiday season. The game has seen a resurgence over the last couple of weeks, culminating in a peak concurrent count of 131,964 players on January 1 according to SteamDB….
Starfield isn’t having the happiest of new years. Bethesda’s landmark RPG (one designed to be played for a long time) has “Mostly Negative” recent Steam reviews at the time of writing, with only 29% of reviews scored positive in the last 30 days. Its overall rating is still “Mixed”, with 64% positive reviews. There’s a…
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Predicting the future of something as volatile and changeable as videogames truly is a mug’s game. Well, fill us up with coffee because we are apparently mugs. In 2023, the most talked-about game of the year was a CRPG with turn-based combat, and the most quickly forgotten one was a new Bethesda open world. While…
Alan Wake 2 is a worthy successor to the original, and dare I say, even outdoes it in many ways. But there is one thing that Remedy’s long-awaited sequel has in abundance that I wish there were less of—or none at all—and that is the jump scares. I get it: a well-placed jump scare can…
We’re just weeks away from the biggest tech jamboree of the year, the Consumer Electronics Show or CES. It’s expected that 130,000 attendees and 3,500 vendors will descend on the sprawling complex of exhibition centers and show floors across Las Vegas for the event, which opens on January 9. Among them will be our very…
It’s 2024, the beginning of a new year, and you know what? I’m gonna finally get my gaming life in order: Tackle my backlog, tame my cluttered library, and be free from my hoard of unfinished games. Wait, stop laughing at me. I know you’ve heard it all before—from yourself, your loved ones, or your…
We’re sticklers for tradition at PC Gamer so as a new year dawns, it’s time for us all to set ourselves ambitious goals, born from inspired dreams: Yes, we’re making resolutions and we’re determined to get them done! For some, it might be time to do that full PC upgrade we’ve been putting off for…