PC Gaming
Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Defending Hades 2’s honour in the Game of the Year awards, failing. Last week I was: Appreciating player housing in MMORPGs. So—the Steam replay for 2025 debuted recently, giving every Steam user a more granular look at their gaming habits. And I, being a…
If you have an Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, or ASRock motherboard, you need to update the BIOS if you want to continue playing Valorant. That’s because a critical flaw was recently found that allows cheaters to bypass hardware-based security checks and potentially inject code before Riot’s Vanguard anti-cheat can wake up. As laid out in the…
In the late summer of 2014, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be rolled out to PC users around the world in the following year. At the same time, it also revealed that the new operating system would be home to another major software release: DirectX 12. It’s been a decade since both were officially…
In the late summer of 2014, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be rolled out to PC users around the world in the following year. At the same time, it also revealed that the new operating system would be home to another major software release: DirectX 12. It’s been a decade since both were officially…
During its first iteration, PowerWash Simulator had some of the best collaborations in videogames. Seriously, it’s up there with Fortnite, or at least it is in my opinion. But with its sequel comes new chances for crossovers, and it looks like the first stop in 2026 will be in the Land of Ooo, aka Adventure…
Critical Role’s fourth campaign is a banger—and while I haven’t kept up with it as much as I’d like (it’s Christmas, you’ll have to forgive me for not having four extra hours to put aside every week) I have still been tuning in and keeping up with secondary news when I can. Thus it reached…
Chris Stair, one of the creators of action platformer Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus, was in Kyoto celebrating the game’s launch at indie festival BitSummit when he got the news: The publisher he’d trusted with all of the launch logistics was effectively gone. All 36 employees had been laid off. “We had a Slack…
There comes a point in every cool new and/or retro revival indie genre where there are just way too many to play all of them, even if you love the style: Metroidvanias, boomer shooters, and Vampire Survivors-alikes (bullet heavens?) all spring to mind for me. As a big fan of the genre, I can confidently…
After years of being accepted as just how things are done, crunch—working horrifically long hours for weeks or months at a stretch in order to meet an arbitrary deadline set by an executive who’s probably still going home on time every night—is now widely frowned upon in the videogame industry. But it also seems to…
As it did to many in my generation, Pokémon Snap left an indelible imprint on my childhood psyche. Even at a young, tender age, I admired the rarity of a game that celebrated the simple act of observing creatures in their natural habitat instead of attacking them on sight. I’m all for fighting fake creatures,…