PC Gaming
I’m not sure there’s any single figure in the games industry that people are more intrigued by than Gabe Newell. He has a fascinating air of mystery, which is weird, given you can sort of just email him and get a reply. But nevertheless, there’s a bit of a cult of personality around the man,…
Hey, did you know these Valve guys are doing pretty well for themselves? Handily going toe-to-toe with Amazon, making more money per employee than Apple, and having a center of gravity so huge that even Microsoft looks set to come crawling back to it. And I’m willing to bet that Monica Harrington, one of the…
Sound is a very strange thing. An echo-prone room can be fixed with a single bit of foam in a corner. Noise can be ‘cancelled’ by playing a reversed sound wave back at your ears. And now a new study has found that you can transmit sound across a room, even bending it around obstacles,…
I’ve always considered life sims as straddling the line between the niche and the mainstream, but I suppose it’s safe to say Inzoi is firmly rocketing the genre into the latter, as it’s officially pouted and peace-signed its way to the number one wishlisted game on Steam. Krafton’s more ultra-realistic take on The Sims has…
There’s a ton of new content coming to Minecraft over the next year. The Spring to Life update will add more ambient features and different mob variants. A new block and mob will be added alongside some A Minecraft Movie-inspired minigames. But one of the most exciting new additions is the new vibrant visuals features,…
Upgradeable and modular laptops aren’t a new invention but it’s perhaps fair to say that only Framework has really managed to do it well. And that’s possibly why one of the largest notebook manufacturers in the world has decided to get in on the action, with its own modular project called Adapt X. The company…
I am fashionably late to the TCG Card Shop Simulator party, having only begun building my Tetramon empire over the weekend. If you ask me though, I’ve chosen the perfect time to dive in, since the game’s just added perhaps its most crucial feature yet: The ability to slap fun posters all over my store….
Dune: Awakening, the upcoming Arrakis-set survival MMO based on Frank Herbert’s Dune series and the super-popular film franchise, is due for release on May 20. The good news for spice enthusiasts is that the system requirements look surprisingly light, although you’ll still need a decent chunk of storage space to contain all those bum-rumbling ornithopters….
Do you remember the moment that Sekiro forced you to start playing by its rules? For me, I was trundling through the game like I was playing Dark Souls when I hit the Lady Butterfly boss, and suddenly there was no room for doubt: if I didn’t properly learn these new combat mechanics, I wasn’t…
During the Game Developer’s Conference 2025, Monica Harrington—one of Valve’s founders and its first chief marketing officer, who once outright threatened Sierra over the rights to Half-Life—gave an illuminating talk on the company’s infancy. Before, of course, it became the goliath-felling company it is today. While this is interesting in itself—another fascinating snippet she shared…