PC Gaming
Hello Kitty Island Adventure arrived this week as the newest and cutest in the genre of ‘games where you’re stuck on an island with those licensed property characters you love’ but hold your darn Turfys just a minute. HKIA has kicked off its PC launch with a warning that bringing your cheater-pants system date changing…
As an impressionable child in the Star Wars prequel era, I was perfectly positioned to be completely blown away by Jedi Power Battles when it first released back in 2000. Its cinematic lightsaber combat fueled my love of the franchise, and Plo Koon was permanently burned into my brain as the coolest possible answer to…
Do you have any of those games it feels like only you remember? For me, it’s Prisoner of War, a third-person stealth/adventure thing on the original Xbox that saw you play a captured WW2 pilot trying to break out of prisons like Stalag Luft and Colditz. It had some neat ideas for 2002: the prison…
Multiversus, the WB Games Smash Bros.-style brawler that was brave enough to explore what it would be like if Samurai Jack and LeBron James met on the field of battle, is approaching the end of its long, strange road. Earlier today, WB Games announced on X that the game’s fifth season, beginning next week on…
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launched on PC yesterday, the latest in the conveyor belt of PlayStation first-party games that now spend a year or two exclusively on console before coming to PC. Insomniac’s open-world sequel was generally well-received on console, and the quality of Sony’s PC ports has seemed to be improving over recent releases, but…
“Mythic Quest lost a lot of good people… when we fired them,” says David Bricklesbee (played by David Hornsby) in the first episode of Mythic Quest Season 4. The workplace comedy about a dysfunctional game development studio doesn’t waste any time referencing the biggest game industry trend of the past two years: mass layoffs. Bricklesbee,…
So, BioWare probably isn’t going to be making a new Dragon Age game any time soon—maybe ever, depending on how things go. After Dragon Age: The Veilguard underperformed, much of its team (including senior members who had been making Dragon Age games for a while) were shuffled around or laid off. This isn’t necessarily out…
After way too many leaks, theories, and teasers, the news is finally for-real official: The Sims and The Sims 2 are both being re-released. The Sims is continuing on in its celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary, which is officially on February 4 this year, by bringing back the first two games so those of…
Faceless AI-generated YouTube channels have become a problem as of late, so one tech YouTuber took it upon themselves to poison the data they are trained on. In her latest video (via Ars Technica), f4mi has shown off a way to mess with the data that AI is trained on, specifically the subtitles of YouTube…
DeepSeek has been the name on everyone’s lips this week, as the release of its R1 AI model spooked the tech market and caused significant financial losses for several major players. Concerns have been raised regarding the security of the Chinese AI startup and its models—and if reports regarding an open database are to be…